On the 14 and 15 of  June our class and many more primary 7s went up to Charleston Acadamy for our 2 day visit. Here are some  people’s opinions of Charleston.

“Charleston is beast. I liked break time because the cake is cheap.”-Alex                                                                    

“I really enjoyed Charleston because I got to meet new people and I made new friends .” – Leah K       

“I really liked to hear about the new opportunities that Charleston has to offer,  I just can’t wait.”- Ross O

” I really enjoyed Charleston because most of the subjects were ones I liked. Also I am looking forward to the after school clubs.” Leah G

“I really enjoyed chalston i made lots of new friends and i am looking foward to joining the football and hocky club.Charlie C

 I loved Charleston because the teachers are great. I made more friends than I hoped for .The lunches are  great. I  loved the French most and I cant wait for hocky and handball clubs .-Mark H.

I loved Charleston because the teachers were nice and I liked most of  the subjects. Also I made lots of new friends.-Coral A.

I really enjoyed Charleston beacause I made lots of new friends. Also the teachers were sound and I enjoyed all the subjects but science was most of all my favourite subject.-Arran M

I loved Charleston because I had space to walk about and talk to my friends. I liked how the teachers were nice and the subjects were GREAT!!!!!!!!! Kayleigh M

I loved Charleston so much. I liked most classes and most teachers.I met so many new friends. My favourite subject was home E.c.It was Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!! By Shaun D:)!!

I really liked Charleston. My favourite subject was Technology and my worst one was French because we just did a small questionnaire  and she was wondering what we already knew !! Jess xx

 

I realy loved Charleston. It was wicked and cool. I can’t wait to go back!!!!!!!!!!!!  Macaulay !!!!!!!!!!

 

I really liked Charleston. It was really fun and it was a great experience. I can’t wait to go back!!!!!!!!!!! :):):):):):):):):) Aaron

I  really liked going to Charleston. I thought it was going to be scary but it wasn’t. My favourite class was science because we got to mix chemicals.  I can’t wait to go back, but I’m still nervous.- Leanne M.

I do a form of Kung Fu called Wing Tsjun which  is a form of martial arts .I have three grandfather teachers and one father teacher. They are called Si-ti gung Yip Man, Si-jo Leung Ting, Si-gung Allan Fong and Si-fu Tommy Luke Boelig .I train at the Spectrum Centre in the theatre hall. There are two classes for kids and then after, one for adults. We have diffrent kinds of kicks,punches and  self- defence techniques. Here are some of the kicks- snap kick, head height kick, round house kick, side kick and axe kick.We have three gradings a year, one in January, one in May and the last one in July. I started to do Wing Tsjun in October time last year. I really enjoy it and I am on my second belt which is the yellow but also I have my white belt that I got in January. Right now I am training for my orange belt. If I get it I will have my third belt.

By Leah Gibson

Last Saturday, 31st May, Kinmylies Athletics team went to Inter School Sports to do lots of different sports.In our section there were seven schools.In the morning there was long jump first. Coral came 1st Charlie came 4th.Then it was the high jump. Emily came 3rd and Shaun came 5th.In the afternoon we did 80 metres. It was the p7 boys first and again it was Shaun. He came 4th. Coral came 2nd in her race. Then it was the p6 races. David came 3rd and for the girls Charlotte-May came 3rd.We would like to thank Mrs Macleod and Mrs Innes for training us twice a week.

By Charlie and Coral  

The next act that came on was Girls Can’t Catch. ( I was offended by their name.) Then PACE Drama Group came on. They put on a play about moving up to high school and how it can change people. One of the people played someone called Chantel, who always wanted to be an athlete, quit her athletics group just to hang out with her so called friend Jessica, who got her into alcohol. And the other person Robbie who played football started hanging out with his older brother to fit in, but while doing that started to copy his brother and also started taking drugs. The last one, Rachel, stayed the same and didn’t get into drugs or alcohol. In the end Chantel either died or became unconscious because she to drunk. After PACE Stevie Hoang came on and sung two songs then Fortrose Academy Choir came on to finish the event.

Last Tuesday my class and I went to Abriachan up near Loch Ness. It was nice. There was no noise at all. There was a park. It had a big climbing frame, tyre swing and a tight rope. The first thing we did was a card guessing game because we had to pretend that we were all on a mountian and we had to put creature cards where we thought they lived. Then we had our snack after the big  journey. After that happend we went on a walk to plant our trees. There were lots of trees, bugs and flowers. We planted our own trees. It was fun. I picked an oak tree.We also went into a burn to collect little creatures to see what there was.

 For lunch we went to a writing centre in the middle of nowhere. It smelt really bad but as soon as we had finished the whole class had a good game of tig. In the writing centre we all had to write a poem about a creature,bug or something we had seen in the day. I personaly picked the hills/view. No-one guessed what it was. The whole day was an extremely good laugh.

Writen By Jess

For the last few weeks we have had drumming lessons  from Mike Simpson. There are two groups and he takes one at a time.The first week we did the basics of drumming.We use an electronic drum kit.The first week we just learnt how to play two drum pads one called the side drum and the hi-hat. It was hard at first but now it is easy peasylemon squeasy.The second week we learned how to play along to a tune and learnt another pad.Last week we practised doing our  8 beat note. We could only do 4 at the start so we all thought the 8 beat would be really hard but it was easy.Next week we are getting a free week so we can do what we want from what we have learnt. It will be good fun we cant wait! 

                                                     By Shaun D & Alex M!!!

On the 6/05/2010  we went to Cameron Barracks for Safe Highlanders.We had lots of fun and learned so much. We will tell you some of the things that we did.

 There was nine stations that we had to go to with a group leader.Our station number was 4  and there we learned about how dangerous a farm can be.First the lady told us to press 5  red buttons on a model  farm  at a time and there was 1 green button which was the safe zone the red ones were non playareas.The lady’s  assistant showed us a video of how easily you could die on a farm, the most interesting death was when a boy fell in a pile of cow and pig manure and drowned.there was other deaths like when a pile of scaffolding fell on a little boy.A stupid kid runs over his own friend with a tractor and a girl goes  into a grain silo when the farmer just shuts the door and presses the button.

                        SO DONT PLAY IN FARMS!!!!!!!!!!

                                                          By Jake Y and Alex M

                                             At safe highlander  we learned alot of things to keep safe  

This week we had American Football on Wednesday and we are getting it for two more weeks.The people who are coaching us are Inverness Blitz there are three coaches.This week we were doing some games of flag  tig which is everyone gets two flags on a belt on your waist and you have to run about and steal the others flags but not let people get your flags.Then we practised some short passing for a bit then moved on to long passes we were pretty good.Another game we played was the coaches threw the balls over our heads then we had to run and catch the ball. The last game we played was a race there was four teams we lined up about five meters apart then when the coach blow his whistle. When we  stated first you passed the ball to the first person then they ran back and give it to you then you throw the ball to the second person then they run back to you then you throw to the last person then they run to you as guick as possible then the first team back wins!!!                                                  

                                                      By Shaun D & Aaron G!!

Kinmylies Cross Country team were competing in a  race at Kirkhill on Thursday  22nd April 2010.The track was a bit of everything there was grass,road,stones,forest,uphill and down hill.We all did very well and we got good places the top eight places were 3rd,4th,7th,9th,10th,15th,22nd,27th.The p4/5 boys over all came 3rd.The p6/7 girls and boys also came 3rd over all.We would like to thank Mrs Macleod and Mrs Innes for training us up for this event.       by Emily and Charlie

                        BY ROSS AND TRISTIN