Gymnastics

Class 4 have been working very hard with Miss Elson on their gymnastic skills this term.  This is a small snippet of the routines the the children created themselves in their groups.

Jump Rope for Heart

*Update* At final count, p4 have raised an amazing
£610! 
£122 of this will be put in school fund towards playground resources for the children.  

Glaitness primary school p4 skipathon

By Jamie Rorie,Charlie Mcconnachie,Peyton Dunnett and Joe

Herdman (p4).

In Glaitness School p4 had the chance to do a sponserd skipthon.We got people to sponser us with money.We

practised for weeks.From jumping jacks

to the  helicopter game. We raised £610 the money went

to the British heart foundation.  P4 did it for two hours nearly nonstop.  P4 had so much fun, they’d probably want to do it again.

    

  P4 Glaitness School Skipathon

P4 did a jump off for the British Heart Foundation and p4 got £610 to go to people that heart problems. It was fun. We did it at the dinner hall at Glaitness. We did it on Thursday and we played jump the river. It was our favourite game.

                       By Ewan, Cara, Ethan, Johnny                                                              

The Great Jump Off

The jump off was magnificent.

And it was tow hour’s long

 We did a worm up 

Then we did our targets.

 By Christopher.

P4’s big jump off

P4 were doing a sponsored skip to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.  P4 were skipping for two hours.  P4 did it on Thursday 30 November. It was really fun.  We did it at Glaitness School in the dinner hall. We raised £610. We did lots of challenges like slalom, forward backwards, long rope skipping (2 ropes/2 friends) and cross the river.

Thank you to all those people that raised money for p4.

by Sienna Freya and Olivia

P4s skip off

We were doing our sponsored skipping.  We did it for two hours.

It was for raising money for the British Heart Foundation

It was very fun.  We did fun activities like throwing the dice to choose a skipping skills but we did not get to do helicopter. We enjoyed skipping.  The teacher videoed us. We used red, black, blue and green ropes. 

By Charlotte, Karla and Kymberleigh. 

The Jump Off

We did the jump off for 2 hours. Class 4 did it. We did it at Glaitness School in the dinner hall. 27 people did the jump off. I think p4 enjoyed the jump off. We raised over 500 pounds and 75 pence. We did backwards skipping, scissor skipping and we did cross the river. We did it for the British Heart Foundation. Cross the river was our favourite part. It was really fun doing the jump off.

By Sam and Niall

Skipathon

We did a Skipathon to raise money for the British Heart Foundation .

We raised over £500 .

All term we have been skipping, trying new skills.

We were skipping for 2 hours on our skipathon day.

We stared at 1:50 pm.

We did jump the river near the end.

At the start we played a game to warm up.

We did it at the dinner hall

Every one was tired and sweaty.

By Archie and Cody

Our   class  did  some  skipping  for  the  heart foundation  for two hours!   First we did  a warm  up  and  what  we did  was we made a circle  with  our  skipping  ropes  then  we  jumped  in   them.  We started in the afternoon and we did it in the dinner hall.  We learned xits ,twister ,jumping jacks and loads more.

First we started to learn how to skip. Then we learned some tricks we  practised for ages.  Until it was the jump off.

By Maja, Tamsin and Daniel.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

THE BIG SKIP off!!!!!!

BY Robert Aiden & Charlie

The warm up was when the music turns off we jump in the circle what we made with the skipping rope.

Second off, all we did the challenges.

The challenges were scissors cross overs &four wards and back wards and Jumping Jacks. Third off we did jump the river. THE END

We done a Skipathon at Glaitness primary school p4 in the dinner Hall . It was about raising money for people with Heart conditions . We had to do 6 tasks such as slalom , x-its , scissors , front to back, double skipping and twister . We also did cross the river . We donated £507.75p . Great thanks to our teacher mrs Lee-Anne Gray . We wish you merry Christmas and a happy new year . all the best for 2018. By Dean and Jamie M

Children in Need

Rocket Challenges

We split up into three groups to explore forces through creating rockets.  Group 1 were given a quiz and independently did some research on the NASA children's clubhouse website.  

Group two created Air Powered Rockets - using paper rockets, toothpicks and straws.  We had to investigate how far we could get our rocket to fly and consider what impacted on the flight distance and speed.  

Group three explored balloon powered rockets  using balloons, rope, tape and straws. Again we were investigating what changes we could make to make the rockets fly faster/smoother/further etc.  

We rotated through our groups so that we had a chance to investigate all three areas.  

Firework Safety

In p4, we love doing science experiments and when thinking about firework safety, came across this experiment about creating fireworks in a jar.  We had to add some water to a container, then in a separate container, we add some food colouring to oil.  We then poured the oil onto the water.  

Our thoughts/reactions: 

'At first the oil and colours stayed on top.  Then the colours started moving to the bottom of the container.'

'It was like silent mini explosions in the cup.'

'Only some of the colours worked, but they popped in the water'.

'When we mixed them after a while, it created a whirlpool in the water.'

Our Solar System

We kick started this term off exploring a talking tub.  This was a box which was full of a variety of resources all relating to our theme this term of Space.  There were objects such as newspaper articles, photographs, posters, DVDs, toys.  As a class we discussed the objects that we came across, noting down facts and information that we already know about our topic and creating a list of questions that we wanted to find out more about.  We already knew an amazing amount of information about space which we shared and we also have a wall in our classroom dedicated to all the questions that we would like to try and answer!  We have started our topic off with a group project to create a power point presentation about a planet of our own choosing as finding our more about each of the planets was one of the most common questions that cropped up.  

Roots of Empathy

At the end of p3, we had a small party with Mr Tulloch to celebrate the work we had done through the Roots of Empathy.  Unfortunately, Baby Spencer was unwell and not able to attend the party.  However, last month Spencer (not such a baby now!) and his mum Andrina popped in to see us at Glaitness and we were able to see how much he had grown, share our good wishes for his future and give him a small gift.  We were all amazed to see that he is now walking and can even say a few words!  It was lovely to have him in.  A big thank you to Mr Tulloch for organising this for us and to Andrina and Spencer for coming in to see us.