In Scotland, the 30th November is a very special day as it is St Andrew's Day. All the pupils in the school stood outside this morning in the playground, forming the shape of the Scottish flag, the Saltire.
In class, we made our own tartan designs, using white card, and different colours of wool. This is one of the designs we made!
We are doing a project about electricity. Today, we had a very special visitor who came from Torness Power Station. His name is Oscar- and he is a robot! The whole school sat, amazed, as Oscar gave a presentation about electricity. Click on the play button to hear Oscar talking to the class!
Mr Purves sent a parcel to Kuvansi. We got Scottish flag, pens, pins and booklets. Pupils were very happy. Thank you very much!
Girls made this of snow, eyes and nose are stones. It's not living even if it looks like it.
The squirrel with a snowman. Isabel, Jane, Kitty and Suzy are proud of their sculptures.
Today, some of the class have been dressing up as their favourite book character. We have done this to finish off our Book Week. Here, you can see the following characters:
Back row: Jenna from Magyk
Mr Twit, from The Twits
Tom from Beast Quest
and Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit
Front row: Fern, from Charlotte's Web
Jamie B from The Secret Life of Jamie B
and Pippi Longstocking from the book of the same name!
This morning, we worked in the hall with Mrs Jones (our gym teacher) on our gymnastics skills. Lang Syne demonstrates how to make a "tuck jump" shape in the air.
As part of our Health Fortnight, we had a visit from the local community policeman, PC Gunn. We listened very carefully as PC Gunn explained some of the ways to keep ourselves safe at all times. It was a very interesting talk and we asked lots of questions.
Today, Tristan from the Ecolab company came to talk to us. We learned about how important recycling is. We talked about what things we use can be recycled.
At the end of our talk, we saw a natural recycler- a millipede. It was great fun letting it crawl over our hands!
We are in the middle of our two week Health Fortnight. We have been enjoying lots of different activities, all which are designed to raise our awareness of Health. We think it is very important to stay healthy. Here, the whole school started the day by enjoying a 20 minute aerobics session outside!
Recently, we decided to be authors, and we wrote our own storybooks suitable for the youngest children in the school. The stories were short, with lots of colourful pictures. We will shortly go and read them to the primary 1 class. (5 year olds)
My name is Julie. I have two brothers. I have a dog. I like football. I live in Tahkoranta next to Kuvansi. I like chips and meatballs.
I`m Suzy. I have blue eyes and brown hair. I love pets. I am 8 years old. I have a dog and two cats. I live in Kuvansi. I have three sisters and one brother. My hobby is needlework.
My name is Jake. I am 9 years old. I have blond hair and blue eyes. I have a dog and I live in Kuvansi.
My name is Jack. I am nine years old. I have many animals like chickens and some roosters and four rabbits. I have two sisters. I like crisps.
My name is Michael. My favourite sport is football and floorball. I like to play Playstation. I live in Kuvansi next to our school.
My name is Teddy. I live in Kuvansi. I have 2 dogs, Sergei and Andy. I have many horses. My hobby is boxing.
My name is Lucy. I am nine years old. I live in Kuvansi. I have three sisters. My life is wonderful. I like ice cream, sweets and hamburgers. I like to sing.
My name is Kitty. I am nine years old. I have one sister and one brother. I live outside Kuvansi. I have no pets. My hobby is riding and track and field. I like ponies. I like chips and frankfurters.
My name is Isabel. I have no cats or dogs. I have blond hair and brown eyes. My favourite TV show is Idols. I live in a little village called Kuvansi with my two brothers and our parents.
My name is James. My hobby is orienteering. I like spaghetti. I have one brother. I am nine years old. I live in Kuvansi.
My name is Jane. I am nine years old. I live in Kuvansi. I have one brother and one sister. I have one dog. My hobby is icehockey.
My name is Jasmine. I live in Kuvansi. I like music. I like dogs, rabbits, cats and hamsters. I have one sister and one brother. I have red hair, green eyes and I have freckles. I like winters and summers. I love pets. Best regards Jasmine.
My name is Mary. I have one brother. I have blond, short hair. I`m nine years old. My hobby is needlework. I like to make food.
My name is Victor. I have no brothers or sisters. I have two cats and a dog. I live in a village close to Kuvansi. My favourite food is spaghetti. I don`t like cabbage. I like mathematics.
Class 6 from Kuvansi school was spending a few days in Tanhuvaara school of sports in Savonlinna.
We went to Tanhuvaara on the 27th and left on the 29th of August.
Some parents came with us in order to guide us and spend some time with us.
We had a meal time four times a day. The food was really good. The accommodation was fine: there were two or three pupils in one room. The rooms were spacious and fine.
Here is a small portray in words and pictures from our excursion.
Climbing down the cliff was very scary, but I tried that anyway. The start was the most scary because I was afraid that the rope would break. When the start was over then began the next step: the cliff was very steep. I thought I wouldn’t succeed in climbing down but I went anyway. When it was over I felt unbelievable great.
At first we chose teams. After that we started building “cities”. We had only five minutes time. After five minutes we weren’t allowed to touch anything. We tried to hit each other with balls. If someone hit you, you had to go aside. The red team won.
The wallclimbing was the funniest. The easy lane was very easy. Two boys reached the ceiling like monkeys. The next wall was little harder. Five girls reached the ceiling. It was very exciting to sway by the ceiling after climbing.
There were "monkey’s rings". It was very hard because my hands were sweating and the rings were slippery.
The cable sliding was funny. At first we had to climb along the ladders to the plateau which was near the ceiling. There we had to wear some kind of harness. The harness was hooked to the cable. From there we fell down and slid along a long cable. It stopped and I left.
Playing ballgames
In gymnasium we played all kinds of ballgames. We played on our own time for example tennis, badminton, football, basketball, volleyball and we jumped with kangarooballs. Every game was nice and the best game was tennis. At the end we climbed resting on a high pile of mattresses.
Our town was going to celebrate the anniversary of 525 years as market town and we set out to find out more about the day. Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to hold markets and in Denmark there were other privileges:
· Sole right to perform handcrafts and trade within a certain area
· Right of administration other than state
· Own court of law
· Free of some taxes
· No army duty
The privileges were given by the king of the territory and distinguished the market towns from villages and cities. A town may be still described as a market town even if it no longer holds a market, provided the right to do so still exists.
To our surprise we found that the first privileges for certain were given already in 1240 by King Valdemar the Second and it was applied that privileges might have been given even earlier.
1414 King Erik of Pommern confirms the rights and privileges
1441 King Christopher the Third confirms the rights.
1472 King Christian the First confirms and makes rights more specific.
1483 King Hans confirms the rights.
So as you see it was really only the confirmation of rights by King Hans that we were celebrating. It made a bit of a stir in the papers, but the celebrating, thank god, was still on.
So we send you a little Power Point to show you some of the event.
