Dragon League Chess Competition Final

On Sunday the 3rd of March at the chess competition, we came home with two gold medals and a bronze. We won two glass trophies and a MASSIVE big cup for winning the 5th League Gold. Well done to Woodhill C team! I think the best part was that the A team never lost a match, but there were many other good players from Holy Family, St Helens and many more. It was held in Milngavie Town Hall. The hall was great, so big! We went outside to play. We played tig and had fun. A great way to spend your Sunday, amazing! Anyway if you are ever offered a chance to go to a competition I would recommend it.

By Andrew

I Swam for Cancer Research

On the17th of April I raised £105 for cancer cure and swam 10 lengths . My two aunties swam 62 lengths, my mum swam 56 and my friend swam 10 lengths .

Our Easter Assembly - Primary 6

Click To Play

For our Easter Service our teachers came up with a brilliant idea.

They decided to make a short film about the Easter story. Even though it was a lot of hard work, it was definitely worth it!

It was a big success with teachers, parents and pupils. The teachers and pupils put in a huge effort and in the end the hard effort really paid off. Everyone really enjoyed the service. It was so good, parents even came to the teachers to ask if they could get a copy of the film. Everyone wanted to see the film again and again! We hope you also enjoy our short film.

Our Award Winning "Woodhill Made IT Happen" Powerpoint Presentation

Click To Play

Nous avons rencontré un tel succes avec nos cours de français et nos échanges internationaux que nous avons été choisi par Learning and Teaching Scotland pour démarrer le pilotage du projet Passeport Santé et Citoyenneté. Aussi comme le niveau d’ICT dans notre école est extremement élevé, nous avons pris la décision d’utiliser les blogs et podcasts comme une platforme d’échange avec la France. Même si Passeport Santé n’est réellement éffectif que depuis 2007, nous avons commencé à faire des blogs et podcasts depuis 2005 pendant les cours de français avec les enfants agés de 9 et 10 ans. Pendant cette période nous avons recherché differents moyens pour illustrer le travail des enfants sur les blogs, c’est à dire à travers des films , des diaporamas et des bandes dessinées. Nous avons récemment reçu deux prix, récomponsant nos efforts dans l’établissement des rélations internationales avec notre école. Tout d’abord en juin, le Scottish Education International Award et en octobre, le prix “Woodhill Made IT Happen”. Pour ceci nous sommes allés avec deux enfants du projet Passeport Santé au Parlement de Westminster à Londres. C’était une journée extraordinaire!

We hope you enjoy our award winning powerpoint presentation.

Our Chinese Dancers

Click To Play

Woodhill Primary were once again invited to St George's School in Edinburgh to participate in their day of celebrating links with China.

Seven children were invited to learn and present a Chinese Ribbon Dance, taught by a Chinese dance teacher called Annie Au.

The children learned the dance over five sessions and then presented it to the guests visiting the school in Edinburgh.

Our pupils enjoyed participating in this event and meeting children from other schools.

Merry Christmas from Primary 1

Our Primary 1 children would like to wish all our International friends around the world a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
To do this they have recorded several of the Nativity songs they sang at their Christmas Assembly. We hope you enjoy listening to them.

Knock, knock ( Mary and Joseph)

Knock, knock, knock at the door
Knock, knock, is anyone there?
Knock, knock, knock at the door,
We need a place to stay. (Repeat)

Three rooms left,
All the other rooms are full.
Three rooms left,
Sorry that is all!(Repeat)

Two rooms left,
All the other rooms are full
Two rooms left,
Sorry that is all!

One room left,
All the other rooms are full
One room left
Sorry that is all!

No rooms left,
There's no rooms for you at all.
No rooms left
We're completely full!

We also sang another song called Hallelujah .
We hope you like it too.

Tonight

Tonight

Little town of Bethlehem
Watch the starry sky.
You will see amazing things
On this special night.

Tonight, tonight,
Wonderful things will happen.
Tonight, tonight,
Wonderful things you'll see.

Little town of Bethlehem
Hear the joyful news.
God has planned a great event,
he has chosen you.

The Innkeeper's Song

The Innkeeper

My life is getting very very busy.
My house is very,very full.
We've all been getting in a 'tizzy',
We've not got any room at all.

Everywhere around me
Visitors surround me,
Happy to have found a place to stay.
All the girls and boys are
Making such a noise
They're getting in my way! ( Hey!)

Woodhill Made IT Happen

Click To Play

Woodhill Primary Wins Technology Challenge

We are delighted not only to have won the Scottish award for the prestigious UK- wide technology competition" Make IT Happen", but also won first prize for the United Kingdom.
The competion recognises primary school technology projects led by nine - eleven year olds which are helping the school or local community.
We at Woodhill wanted to integrate technology across the curriculum and use it to establish links with other schools in Scotland and abroad.
We encouraged students to develop podcasts and blogs which could be used as learning materials.
Material was created to support French and English lessons as well as wider issues such as health and globalisation. Parents were given information about the blogs and encouraged to view the information online.
This was also shared with partner schools in Scotland , England, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic and China.
We were invited to London in October to receive our £3500 prize from the Speaker of the House of Commons at a special awards ceremony with MPs in Westminster.

Do click on our movie above to see what an exciting day we had in London.

Tourism in Scotland by Primary 6

We were doing a project about Scotland and we explored tourism in Scotland.
These are some posters we made to encourage tourists to visit Scotland.
Would these make you want to visit our beautiful country?

Primary Seven's Assembly by Caitlin (P5)

Today was our Primary Seven's last assembly. We are really sad to see them go. They talked about their week in Paris and made a power point presentation about their trip! Here are two of the songs that they sang at their assembly. We really liked them, we hope you do too!

(Positive) Attitude, positive attitude.

Attitude, positive attitude.

What helped Columbus cross the sea?
Attitude.
What helped Ford build the Model T?
Attitude.
What helped Beethoven write a tune?
Attitude.
What helped Armstrong walk on the moon?
Attitude.

When you know something that has to be done,
You've gotta go out and do it.
And when you have a positive attitude,
You'll find there's nothing to it.

What helped the Wright Brother's fly their plane?
Attitude.
What helped Gene Kelly sing in the rain?
Attitude.
What helped Doctor King have a dream?
Attitude.
What helped inspire ev'ry winning team?
Attitude.

When you know something that has to be done,
You've gotta go out and do it.
And when you have a positive attitude,
You'll find there's nothing to it.

Attitude, positive attitude.
Attitude, positive attitude.

Song 2
We are the future. We are the now.

People always say, " The children are our future;
The leaders of tomorrow, not today."
But we can make a difference in the here and now
If you listen close to what we have to say.
Chorus:

We are the future.
We are the now.
We are the reason why.
We are the way how.
We have dreams to dream and lives to live.
We have love to share and love to give.
We can do whatever this world will allow.
We are the future.
We are the now.

Children of the world,
we all must work together.
There's no time to hesitate.
Together we can make this world
a brighter place.
We must start right now.
Tomorrow is too late.
(To Chorus)

We are people just like you,
With important things to do.
We don't want to sit and watch the time go by.
We feel sunshine; we feel rain.
We feel happiness and pain.
We can feel success if we're allowed to try.
(To Chorus)

We hope you enjoyed Primary Seven's songs.
We are now looking foward to our summer holidays and we in Woodhill hope that you, all our friends around the world , enjoy your holidays too.

Scottish Education Awards 2007

Click To Play

Sponsored Run

Becky Templeton, P5, completed a sponsored run round Hogganfield Loch.
She raised £124.40 for Marie Curie. Well done Becky.

Visit to Italy

In March 2007 Mrs Buchanan, Mrs Brown and Miss Young went to Italy as part of a Comenius visit. They met with Comenius partners from Italy, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Everyone had a fantastic trip and spent time visiting Italian schools, meeting pupils and staff, sightseeing in Rome, Assisi and Perugia and taking part in some local traditions such as cheese throwing!

Here are a few photographs from our trip.

Our Comenius Partners

Visiting Italian Partner Schools

Local Traditions - Cheese Throwing and Italian Dancing

You can view more photographs by clicking on the link to the Italian blog in the right hand column of this webpage.

Citizenship Poem

Here is a poem written by the children in Italy. It was read to the teachers who visited during the Comenius trip in March 2007.

In English
We are Italian and you are Czech
We are Italian and you are Austrian
We are Italian and you are Scottish
We are Italian and you are German
But we are
ALL EUROPEAN
We are European and you are African
We are European and you are Asian
We are European and you are Australian
But we are all CITIZENS
of the same WORLD


In Italian
Ode al COMENIUS
Noi siamo Italiani e voi siete Cechi
Noi siamo Italiani e voi siete Austriaci
Noi siamo Italiani e voi siete Scozzesi
Noi siamo Italiani e voi siete Tedeschi
Ma
noi siamo
TUTTI EUROPEI
Noi siamo Europei e voi siete Africani
Noi siamo Europei e voi siete Asiatici
Noi siamo Europei e voi siete Australiani
Noi siamo Europei e voi siete Americani
Ma
noi siamo tutti
CITTADINI
Dello stesso
MONDO

I Am Special by Primary 1

Primary One talked about how they were special. Listen to some of the children saying why they are special.

Ross

Marc

Abby

Devoney

Emma

Chun-Wei

Look After Our Earth

Primary 5 have been learning a song about how pollution has damaged our Earth.
Please look after our World.

Listen to our song.

The captain of the rocket ship said, "Come over here
I’ve got a little job for you there’s nothing to fear.
I want you out in space, please do it for me,
And come back in and tell me what you see, what you see, what you see, what you see".

I started to put on my suit, I pulled up the zip
To tell the truth I didn’t want to jump from that ship.
I swung a cylinder of air behind like a sack
I jumped out into outer space without looking back, looking back, looking back.

The first thing there below me was my own spinning world,
Surrounded by polluted smoke that billowed and curled.
And I could see the blackened place where the forests had been.
I cried out, "This is dreadful! Tell me what does it mean, does it mean, does it mean".

The captain of rocket said, “for what it is worth,
I think you may have learnt a lot concerning your Earth.
You simply can’t go on this way just year after year.
Now let’s go back and shout our message out loud and clear, loud and clear, loud and clear".
Hey wake up!

Raising Money for Childline

We ran the Forth & Clyde Canal on the 3rd of February 2007 to raise money for the charity Childline. We ran from Kirkintilloch to the Leisuredrome in Bishopbriggs. We raised £147 and it was fantastic that we raised this amount of money.

by Harry and Jordan

Show Racism the Red Card Art Competition

Woodhill took place in the 'Show Racism The Red Card' competition. These are the winning art entries from our school which went forward to the national competition.

Well done Jennifer, P7 and Martha, P4.

Here are some of the runners up.

Park Safely Please

Primary 5 took part in a competition to encourage people to park safely in our school.
Look at our designs.