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.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Merry Christmas Denmark and Finland!
Hello! We have been very busy in the last few weeks, as Christmas is drawing near.
We'd like to say to you all in Skaelskor and Kuvansi- have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We have been busy yesterday and today learning how to draw 3D type perspective pictures. Some of them are shown below. We hope you like them!
Can you see Hannele's flags on her back wall?
Ilpo has tiled his floor and his ceiling!
Here is Riina, with her room. Can you see her TV and TV unit?
Irja's room has a nice rug on her tiled floor.
Mika has a nice picture on his faraway wall to look at while sitting on his sofa!
Miia's room is very colourful, and she has black and white tiles on her floor!
Juha has a coffee table in the middle of his room.Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Denmark says hello!
Hello Gifford and Kuvansi.
Sorry we have not written for a while, but the teacher had the flu and has been away for 3 weeks. Now we are back and yesterday we went on photosafari in our town. We are not able to ship the pictures until tomorrow. But we are enjoying your new posts.
Greetings from Denmark
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
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