Hi everyone,

As promised, I've uploaded a photo of the new additions to my family.  Oliver (on the left) and Kitty (on the right) were born on Friday the 22nd of January, more than 4 weeks early and weighing a healthy 7lb 5oz and 6lb 9oz.  We all spent a week in the hospital but they are now home and giving their mummy, daddy and sister Daisy an opportunity to see what life is like in the wee small hours of the morning.   Thank you very much for all of your good wishes.  I hope to visit you all soon.

Miss McGregor

As it is Burn's Night today we have begun our topic by looking at Scottish food.  We started by thinking about what we thought Traditional Scottish food was.  We had lots a varied answers from Olives to Spagetti Bolognaise to Lemons.  However, we then looked at some traditional Scottish food that I had brought in and discussed why it was eaten by Scots long ago and why we eat different types of food today.

Here is the food that I brought in -

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Today we started some new areas.  Most are something to do with food as our current topic is Food Around the World. 

In our Water tray we put ice that we gathered from the playground.  We tried to guess how long it would take to melt.  We took a photo first thing in the morning and just before we went home to record our findings.

This was first thing in the morning just after we brought it in.  We also put a little bit of food coulouring in to see if it would spread as the ice melted.

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Ednam will be closed Thursday and Friday as the snow keeps falling and we are in for very cold days ahead, which will keep the snow around for a while yet.

Children (maybe staff too!!) will have the rest of the week to enjoy playing in the snow!

                                     Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

Schools across Scottish Borders have been closed due to the prolonged spell of winter weather.

Schools were closed yesterday and today because of snow, with even more heavy snow falling overnight.

It has been announced that schools will also be closed tomorrow, Thursday, with a decision about Friday being made soon.

The Nativity was done by Primary 3-5 children this year, although everyone took part with the Nativity and class songs.  It was held in the Village Hall on Thursday afternoon and many parents, relatives and friends enjoyed a lovely Christmas atmosphere.

The afternoon began with guitars, recorders and class songs.  Then Rock Around the Flock Nativity, which had some foot tapping songs.  The Nursery joined in and more class songs at the Nativity scene, finishing with a medley from Rock Around the Flock.

Read on to see some clips from the day!

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On Wednesday the Primary 4-7 pupils had their Christmas Party in the village Hall as usual, and the party began with a visit from Santa!

He spoke to the children to make sure that they had all been good, and he looked froward to visiting their houses with some of the presents on their Christmas list!

After Santa left there was dancing, games and food to enjoy.  Read on to see how everyone enjoyed the afternoon. 

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Well, we've reached the end of term, have eaten our yummy Christmas lunch, have made some more Christmas gifts and P1/2 have even managed to do some hard work on our Reading Skills this morning, so this afternoon we are going to relax, play with toys and read some more Christmas stories.

I (Miss McGregor) would like to say a big, big thank you to all the children and parents who have wished me well on the impending birth of my twins.  It has been a pleasure to teach the P1/2 class again and I look forward to bringing in my little bundles of joy to visit the school as soon as I can work out how to carry two wriggling babies at the same time!  

Primary 6/7 had another Skype session on Friday and they followed up from where they left off last time in exchanging information.

The previous session had some technical difficulties, but this time things went very well.  A pupil from the French school  asked questions in English and our pupil replied in French.  Then one of our pupils asked questions in French and the French school answered in English.

We hadn't fully understood that we could make all the information didn't have to be true, so we could have some fun with names, ages and places that we live.  Some pupils changed their replies quickly and Tara did well with a bit of quick thinking, which turned out to be quite funny.

 See how she got on below........!   

We Skype again next Friday to finish the exchange of information and sing songsbefore the Christmas break.

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