Miss Cochlan and Primary 6C

Happy New Year everyone! Our enterprise activity(selling stamps) went very well last year. We raised an Amazing amount of money. We raised one hundred and fourty four pounds and five pence!

We’ve started on our new project. This term it is the Jacobites. Some of the interesting active learning activities that we will be doing are…  

• Making targes (Jacobite shields.) 
• Designing and weaving our own tartans.
• Making black houses from modroc.
• Doing another one of Ms Cochlan’s challenges: designing and building bridges and carts.
• Also (if we have time) we will be experimenting with vegetable dyes!

       We hope you all had super holidays, and enjoy 2008!

We have all been really excited lately because it is coming up to Christmas.

 We have had 2 visitors lately, both parents, to come into class and they talked to us about what they do to help the Environment. Mr Patterson (Holly’s dad) came in and has happy to talk about his very Eco-Friendly house in Culter. It was very interesting because we got to see what it was like living in a Zero Heating House. Holly, one of our School class mates was a bit embarrassed at first because Mr Patterson was her Dad! But she soon got over that when even she learned a lot from his talk. Thanks Mr Patterson!  It was a really good talk and we all hope to see him again in a few years time and see if he has improved  their house even more. He’s got a lot of ideas on how to have an even more eco-friendly house.

Ms Arif (Lea’s mum) came in to talk to us about her oil technology business. She supplies oil companies with plastic parts for their drilling.  She told us how she reclaims and recycles her products by breaking them down in to chips before shipping them off to China for free, to be made into chairs, furniture and doors etc. It was very nice to have her in with us and we learned a lot too. Thank you Ms Arif!

We wish you all  a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and look forward to telling you all about our new project next term: The Jacobites.   On behalf of 6C, Sophie and Aimee

And we want you all to know about it! So ‘big it up’ for our new blog page, ‘6C’s Success and Achievement’ page. We all achieve everyday in one way or another but from time to time, someone will do something extra special that we want to shout about. If you want to know about it, then check this blog page regularly. Maybe it’ll inspire you to achieve success too!

On Monday the 10th of December, we performed at the school concert. We sang Christmas songs. The little ones performed a little play called the Disgruntled Snowman! They had ace costumes. Most of them were made by Mrs Forbes. We sang 5 different songs. We have nearly finished our Eco houses! They look very bonny (hopefully the pics will come soon. We’re still learning how to put them on our blog page). They contain energy saving lightbulbs, compost bins, wind turbines, loft insulation, cavity wall insulation and double glazing windows/doors! THEY ARE SOOO COOL!!! And we learned a lot about how to save energy.

On Wednesday 12th of December, we are having our x-mas party in school. We get to come to school in casual/party clothes. At the party, we will be playing a lot of different gamesincluding musical statues, corners, dancing competition, musical chairs and lots more!

keep a look out for our latest exciting addition to our Eco page, the Sharpener Family - coming soon!!! By Lea and Katya.