In Mrs McKerron's group, pupils played a game of "Consequences" and made humorous pictures of Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster.
With Mrs Thomas, pupils made a clay model of their own choice. This looks like Nessie in the making!
Using her favourite Itchy-coo books, Mrs Edwards read Scottish stories and poems to her group.
In Mr Purves' group, pupils used brightly coloured wool to weave their own tartan.
Mr Darling taught his group some Scottish country dances.
Mrs Hilsley, our head teacher, played skipping games with a group in our school playground.
Mr Devereux, with the help of Miss Currie, our student teacher, led a group of pupils who were "Hunting for Nessie". Did they find her? Don't think so!
We had a demonstration of Highland Dancing from two of our pupils - one from Primary 4 and one from Primary 7. They wore their beautiful Highland dance costumes too.
Mr Tim Simons from the Scottish Government was invited to be the Chieftain of our Highland Games. He was pleased to meet us all and we were very privileged to have Mr Simons with us.
We held our own Highland Games in the summer. We competed in "Clans". We all took part in a variety of potted sports with a Scottish theme.
Pipers from Haddington Pipe Band led all the children and their teachers onto the sports field.
Primary 4 performed their version of Thomas the Rhymer for Primary 5.
Here are Thomas and The Fairy Queen.
Shonagh came back to help Primary 4 complete the story of The Seal-Wife. It was a fantastic story and everyone worked really hard to act it out. The story is quite sad at the end and Mrs Edwards and Shonagh were both very pleased with the mature way that Primary 4 gave their thoughts and opinions about it.
Dave, who is the father of one of the pupils in Primary 4, visited us to help us learn the tune which accompanies the Border Ballad of Thomas the Rhymer. We are hoping to dramatise the story, accompany it with dance and music, and perform it to an audience.
Shonagh, a drama teacher, is helping Primary 4 to understand and act out the story of the Seal-Wife, a story from the North of Scotland.
Primary 4 are enjoying reading and listening to stories from Scotland.
Primary 4 visited the National Archives in Edinburgh to participate in a workshop about the Mystery of the Flannen Isles Lighthouse. We looked at genuine documents and evidence, played the parts of the people involved, and, with the help of the ladies there, solved the mystery.
When we returned to school we were able to use what we had learned to try to solve the Mystery of the ship called the Marie Celeste.
We sometimes have traditional Scottish food for lunch in our dinner hall. Once every four weeks, we have haggis, neeps and tatties. Also, once every four weeks, we have vegetarian stovies.
These photos show the ingredients for stovies - potatoes, onions and sausages - and the finished dish.
Primary 4 worked hard with Mrs Murray, a student teacher, on a topic called Scottish Landscapes, Natural Features, Flora and Fauna. They produced these collaborative collages with lots of different items of interest.
Each pupil designed a "Loch Yester Monster" and the winning design was given pride of place in the middle of the loch!
We have a special Homecoming 2009 map.
Every child was given a postcard of Gifford and asked to send it to family or friends who have left Scotland and are living somewhere else in the world. They were asked to send back a postcard or photo to show where they live now. These are being displayed on our special map so that we can all see the Scottish diaspora.
This is the left hand side of the map.
Primary 5 made a super display about the famous Scottish environmentalist, John Muir, who is one of East Lothian's most important "sons".
Primary 5 drew super Scottish-themed pictures showing great perspective.
Primary 3 found places in Scotland and pinpointed them on a map.
Primary 3 made a 3D map of East Lothian from papier mache.
Primary 7 studied the Robert Burns poem "My love is like a red, red rose" in their Shared Reading lesson. Then they used a variety of media to make beautiful sketches of real red roses.
These drawings were done by Primary 6 who used coloured pencils to recreate some of Scotland's beautiful castles.
Here are the rest of the beautiful collage thistles created by Primary 5.
Here are the final pictures made by Primary 4.
Primary 4 made drawings and collages of beasties from poems written by the late J.K. Annand.
Every term there is a theme for the corridor displays in our school. In the spring term the theme was Scotland. Each class had a lovely display of artwork.
Primary 1 made pen and ink drawings of Scottish beasties and wrote Scots words beside them.
We have all the great Itchy coo books in our classroom library and we enjoy reading them because we love the illustrations and we think that the Scots words are really funny!
Primary 4 love listening to stories and Mrs Edwards enjoys reading stories to the class. Over the past few months, we have heard these three Roald Dahl stories which have been translated into Scots. Mrs Edwards reads them very well and the class are in agreement that the Scots versions sound much, much better than the original English versions because some of the Scots words are very funny indeed!
All the pupils in Primary 4 thought of a "Big Question" about Robert Burns. This was a question which we had to research to find the answer. There was a display of information about Robert Burns on the classroom wall and we had lots of reference books to use too. We also made good use of the Internet to help us find our answers. Most of the 22 children in the class managed to find the answer to their "Big Question".