Ms Laing and P7s last day at Forthview.

Goodbye Forthview!

Mr Wright and Mrs Jenkinson are going to miss us...


Ms Laing thanks Mrs Ash for being so kind to the children,
so patient with the parents
and such a great school administrator.



Ms Laing thanks Ruby Duby for being her friend for 29 years
and for running such a brilliant Breakfast Club
for 100 bairns.



P7s come into the hall that is packed with parents, friends and children
all here to celebrate their Forthview days
and to wish them well in their future.


At P7 and Ms Laing's last assembly,
our good friend, Tim Gellaitry, pipes P7s in.

Ms Laing's last week at Forthview...

P1a gave Ms Laing a 'Mini Me' card!

Thanks P1. I'll put this up in my office at Campie!

We had a disco for Ms Laing leaving.

We know how to PARTY!!

Ms Dolly Laing visits Forthview from time to time.
She came to the disco.
When Ms Laing took her wig off,
we realised she'd been Ms Dolly Laing all the time.
She'd tricked us for 6 years!!




The Nursery said goodbye to Ms Laing at their Garden Party.
They made her lovely hat too.

Ms Laing gave us lovely new candles for our Feeling Table.

Ms Laing was greetin when John came to say goodbye

because John was her neighbour in the 1980s

when she lived in Pilton.

Robot Wars......

Robot Club - The Final ReckoningThis term two teams of lego robot builders have been hard at work building two robots to compete in our own little robot war. The idea was that each robot would be put in the same arena and would have to find its own way out using only the programming that the teams wrote for their robot. The P7 boys had the new NXT Robot set, the P6 boys had the old Lego Mindstorms Robot set. After a short battle, the P7's were victorious, but personally, I liked the wee yellow P6 robot's style. Watch the video and cheer your favourite on.
Mr Stobie

P7 Qualie - a perfect night

How smart are these young people?

Girls off the Boogie Bus.... (it's juice!)

Gorgeous girls

Great dancing....

The nursery provided a lovely spread of food.

Great to have Mrs Ewing and Mrs Chapman back.

They used to teach P7.

What a brilliant night with an outstanding P7.

Thank you P7.

P7 Presentation

P7s did a great presentation of what Forthview means to them this week. This involved them showing what they think about important parts of Forthview's life as a school. For example, buddying.....

Every day at Forthview, we have CALM DOWN AFTER LUNCH when P7 play a track of music which is meant to calm us all down and get us ready for the afternoon's learning like this......

....but sometimes the music seems to wind us up instead of calming us down

and we look like this.....

Since P4 these pupils have been singing and dancing to CHOC-O-LADA. Today some boys were in the front row dressed up as our lovely dinner ladies. Unfortunately Harry had some trouble with part of his lady's bits!

Garden Club - Summer Harvest

The garden club finished the summer term by harvesting some of the food we have grown. We dug up lettuces, radishes, potatoes and shallots.

We were all amazed at how much we’d grown in such a small space.

Mr Nolan was there too and he had brought

some young leeks that he had grown from seed for us to plant.

We took the vegetables in to show the nursery children in the Rainbow room.

They had been out to see us work a few weeks before.

After that, we went into the Sunshine room, where we washed and prepared our food. Elke had made gorgeous brown rolls for us to eat with it,

Ms Campbell had brought in bread, olives and mayonnaise (to make potato salad), while Mr Stobie had brought

some butter, cheddar cheese and French brie cheese to have with the vegetables.

We sat down and had a very delicious lunch.

All of the children said it was the best garden club ever!
Just as well really, because it’s going to continue over part of the summer holidays, and the volunteer list is growing.

Mr Stobie

The best Garden Club ever!

Goody bags by Mary.... mmmmm.....


Nursery eat our cheese and lettuce sandwiches.

hmmmm.....potatoes.......

Elkie's lovely nursery rolls.

Preparation.

Showing the nursery.

Harvesting our crops.

Tucking in.

Washed lettuce.

Washed onions.

What's next?

Nursery Graduation 2009

Today the nursery children who are going to school were presented with a certificate at their Nursery Graduation. It was a lovely event with lots and lots of parents and carers there to cheer the children on. The children sang happily - well most of them did! Ms Laing was happy to present the certificates, even though it was her last time!