'Taiko Drummers'Workshop

A group of twenty P5 and P6 children were invited to KGS to attend a Japanese Taiko Drummers workshop.  They had a great time learning some of the the traditional techniques and were puit through there paces on the Orkney Theatre stage. 

Netball Teams 2019-20

This years primary Netball is underway with 5 teams representing Papdale.

All five teams were involved last weekend in two long days of  competition to determine which league they play in for the rest of the season.  The teams played very well and did Papdale proud.  

 Papdale Lightning

Papdale Wasps

Papdale Sharks

Papdale Wildcats

Papdale Narwals

End of Term Assembly

Click on the Assembly on the last day 

P6 and P7 Inter House

This years Inter House took place this week with some keenly contested games.
In the P6 netball competition 6E came out on top winning both their games with 6M runners up and 5/6S third. In the football 6M won both their games, 5/6S were second and 6E third .

6E Netball Team

6M Netball Team

5/6S Netball Team 

6E Football Team

6M Football Team

5/6S Football Team

The closest contest was in the P7 netball where 7M and 7S finished level on points with 7E in third. 7M just edged it by scoring more goals than 7S in their two games. 7E took the football with 7M in second place and 7S third.

7E Football Team

7M Football Team

7S Football Team

7E Netball Tteam

7M Netball Team

7S Netball Team

Papdale books go to Zimbabwe

Gogo Olive families will be able to enjoy the reading books we no longer use. Ruth Green will send a pack of books to Zimbabwe for the families to enjoy, which should arrive in about a month’s time. A huge thanks to everyone who contributed to our Easter Service collection, raising a total of £105.00 to help the work of the charity.  Gogo Olive provides employment to women who knit their animal toys.  The unicorn is one of our favourites!  If you would like more information about the charity you can click on this link:

http://www.gogo-olive.com/

Eco Action Day

We had a successful Eco Action Day 2019 focusing on Global Goal #7 Clean and Affordable Energy.  No paper was used in the challenges during the day.  The Eco Club met this morning and chose some winning photos for the year group art competition and smartboard activities.  Well done everyone - as a reward for all their excellent work the children will have a bonus 10 minutes of extra play!

Numeracy Day Success for 5/6S

5/6S went to the National Numeracy Day event at the Town Hall on 15th May.  They were able to take part in lots of numeracy activities and learned more about numeracy in everyday life.

This week we were lucky to learn that two of the people in the class had won a prize in the prize draw!  Chrissie Matthews from the Learning Link came in to school to present these prizes to Josh and Eva.

Well done to all involved!

Netball Knockout

The P6 and P7 teams took part in the Primary Knockout Tournament at Picky this weekend. 
All the teams played really well winning lots of games and showing huge improvement in their play from last August.  They represented Papdale well and had lots of fun!

  

Papdale Wildcats

Papdale Pandas

Papdale Puffins

Papdale Sharks

Cycle Shelters open for business

Our new cycle shelters were officially opened this morning by Tanya Blowfield, chair person of our Parent Council. These shelters were made possible thanks to 50% grant funding from Sustrans Scotland and additional help from our Parent Council towards the total cost.
The shelters provide much better and safer facilities for those cycling or travelling by scooter to and from school. Hopefully this will encourage more of our children to choose this very healthy way to travel. 

The ribbon is cut

Nearly a full house on day one!

Earth Hour Panda checks in on the classes for Earth Hour

All our classes were busy saving energy last week by switching off everything unnecessary in the classrooms between 2-3pm each day. Earth Hour Panda did his own spot checks by visiting the classes. Click on the video below to see how he got on (pictures are a bit grainy as they were taken with the lights off!). 

P5/6S Eco Project

"5/6S were horrified to learn that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish.  This is only 31 years away when we will be about 41 years old.  As a part of Earth Hour 2019, we are looking at single-use plastics.  For homework this week, we are going to record how many single-use plastics we use each day.  Next week we will look at these and discuss ways we could cut this down."

Strider Visits to promote healthy home school transport options

Strider made a visit to Papdale on 7th March to promote walking to school. It started with the pop star treatment in the playground before school started with the children very excited to see him.
An assembly followed where it was revealed that Papdale was in the top ten schools in Scotland at promoting walking and other healthy home school trip options.
Strider was out at the front of the school again at the end of the school day to say goodbye to the children.

Eco Club Litter Pick

The Eco Club were busy last week completing the Annual Litter Pick Survey. 

The survey involves Eco Club members going out to record the amount of re-cycleable and non re-cycleable litter found in the playground at a set time of day each day for a week.  

This helps us to measure how well we are picking up litter by comparing survey results for previous years and hopefully encourages us all to make sure all our litter ends up in the correct bin. 

P4/5 Netball Festival

20 girls, 10 each from P4 and P5, took part in the Orkney Netball P4/5 Festival on Saturday.  Along with around 100 bairns from other schools they participated in a hectic day with netball from 11.00am - 3.30pm including coaching stations and games.  They all did fantastic representing Papdale very well and went home happy and very tired!!!