P6s wrote some poems as part of their home learning and the theme  was ‘Doors’ which seemed appropriate as we are in lockdown, shut behind doors for our own safety and the safety of everyone else. Covid-19 has closed schools, closed shops and temporarily closed some of the things we take for granted, like playing in the park and being with our friends.

P6 previously learned about the author Kit Wright and his poem The Frozen Man and used his poem ‘The Magic Box’ to think about what could be behind a magical door. Where might it lead? What might be hiding behind it? They explored the potential that a door offers as inspiration to write a poem about what someone might see once you open the door….

First, the classes brainstormed their ideas about what might be behind the door. They shared their ideas at one of their team meet sessions to help get them started with the planning stage of being a writer.  The children used their imaginations and thought about the things, people and places they are currently missing.

Some of the poems used the repeating opener:

I opened the door and …

Some of P6 used their senses to group their ideas as you will read. Some of the children illustrated their poems as well. We hope you enjoy reading them.

We have left some school resources  – jotters, writing pencils and coloured pencils in a couple of the local shops in case anyone is running out of supplies and needs more while school is closed – please help yourselves to what you need. Boxes are available at Scotmid, 7 Pentland View and Co-op Food Store 8-9 Corslet Place. We are very grateful to staff at Scotmid and the Co-op for helping us to make supplies available to you. A huge thank you to Mrs Johnson for organising this for us.

Thanks to Charlotte and Olivia for sharing this video (see link below) of the first of our daily challenges – looks like great fun! You did a great job!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YIRTuVKVyzPqAp0SJ4ei5DSFY9I0l8Ra/view?usp=drivesdk

Thank you to Kyle, Kieran, Cerys and Rhys for creating the Currie Primary Rainbow of Hope outside our school gate at the weekend. Next time you are passing take a pen and add your names to the rainbow ribbons.

We are loving see the imaginative ways everyone is tackling the work coming home and the additional activities the children are involved in. Please keep sending in the photos!

Many thanks for the lovely painted stone that was left by our nursery gate I think maybe by Orla and Lewis?! It was such a  lovely thought. Thank you Austin and Blair for explaining to me all about these painted stones and for sending in the pictures of yours too. They look beautiful.

Congratulations to Freya & Amelia who too part in the 2.6/26 challenge on Sunday! They set up an obstacle course & did 26 laps of the garden with their mum & dad trying to keep up with them!  The girls designed the course and Freya led the warm up.  They raised raised £340 for Maggie’s centres, an amazing amount of money for a fantastic charity. We are all very proud of your efforts Freya and Amelia!

We are delighted to share this lovely video with you all by 2 of our pupils, Ruairi and Eilidh, who made it with their cousins, Ben, Noah, Molly, Hannah, Cara, Conor, Eoin, Grace and Fionn in Ireland, as they have learned to sign the NHS anthem using British Sign language. You may have read about the success of this video in the Evening News a few days ago.  We are all very proud of Ruairi and Eilidh and all their cousins for making and would like to thank them for allowing us to share it  with you all, here on our website.  We hope you enjoy watching it.

Thank you once more for the lovely photos being sent in of everything our children are up to with their home learning. We really miss seeing  the children every day so love seeing these photos!