Monday, June 21, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Welcome to our region- East Lothian!
This is a map of our region, East Lothian. East Lothian is found to the east of Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh. It's a beautiful region, with many lovely fields of farmland, rolling hills and a very attractive coastline. We have many beaches here in East Lothian- but the sea is not warm. Even in summer, the temperature of the water is only around 12- 13C, so if you want to swim here, you need to be able to get in and out of the water quickly!
There are several towns in East Lothian. Haddington is the largest town in the centre of the region, and other main towns include North Berwick, Musselburgh Tranent and Dunbar. We hope you can see our village of Gifford on the map! Welcome to East Lothian...
Gifford village
Our school is in the village of Gifford. About 700 people live in the village. 
This is Gifford's beautiful church.
The village is in a valley in the Lammermuir hills. The Lammermuirs are known even in Savonlinna- where at Olavinlinna each year, an opera called Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor takes place! It's a small world!
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Film making in class!
Last week we had a French film-maker in our class, called Pascal. He was filming us as we came to the end of a mini-project we did with a class in France and another class in Latvia.
We all prepared a three course European meal, and ate it live during a video-conference with the other classes. We also sung songs we had learned in the other two languages to each other. It was great fun!
Friday, February 26, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Our Burns Supper
Today in school our class hosted the annual Burns Supper. We have this every year, to remember Robert Burns, Scotland's most famous poet, who lived from 1759, to 1796.
In the video, you can see:
1) The most important guest, the haggis, being brought into the hall.
2) Burns' poem "The Address to a Haggis"
3) Three of the class telling a bit about Burns' life.
4) Burns poem "To a louse".
If you'd like to find out a bit more about Robert Burns, please have a look at this website.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Rock climbing at Tranent Indoor Wall
Earlier today, some of us went with some of Mr Darling's class to learn how to rock climb, at Tranent Indoor Climbing Wall.
There, we learned some very important skills from our Outdoor Education specialist, Andy Duff:-
1) How to use the correct safety equipment when rock climbing.
2) How important it is to work safely.
3) How to work together well and support each other.
4) How to have fun!
And, it was great fun! Mr Purves, who did most of the filming, also had a go himself, and he enjoyed it too!
The rest of the Primary 5 class will have plenty to look forward to when they go rock climbing in February.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
The Big Freeze in Scotland!
Happy New Year to everyone in Denmark and Finland!
We were supposed to start back at school yesterday, but it has been VERY cold in Scotland over the holidays, and we have had lots of snow.
On the TV, they are saying that it has been the coldest winter for almost 30 years here!
Although the children were off school today, some of the teachers got to school, and Mr Purves took these pictures of the playground and around the village. The temperature this morning in Gifford was -13C at 9am.
The parking area for the staff's cars.
The entrance to the playground!
Our janitor Alan had cleared a path through the snow in the playground. The snow is more than 40cm deep here!
Looking back to the car park from the school.
You can see how deep it is here!
In the village, there are lots of icicles like these.
A snowy scene at the church.
Danger of falling icicles!
This man was digging his car out of the snow at 3pm this afternoon!
More icicles.
You have seen this photo before, in the spring time. It's certainly different now!
Watch your head!
The road out of Gifford village.
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