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Primary 3’s news

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Primary 3 have had a great first week of school. We were all glad to be back in school and it was exciting to hear about all the fancy places that some of us had been.

We have been learning lots of exciting new things like WOW words which we practiced by writing our very own spooky stories!!! They made Mr Cunningham very frightened reading them. Some of the classes stories were so good that they even went to show Mrs Aitken, well done Katie, Lucy, Charlotte and Hope.

In maths we started learning all about shapes by playing shape bingo and shape pairs. Unfortunately the weather was not nice on our outdoor PE day this week so P3 had a Just Dance musical statues game in the classroom instead some of the moves were fantastic.

To finish off the week we had special Golden Time. We looked at the different sense and our fine motor skills, we tried really hard not to get green and purple spaghetti all over the room.

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Highlights of the week !

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Highlights of the week:
Connor – I have loved storywriting as we had to write a spooky Hallowe’en story
Suvi – I really liked doing Tae Kwon Do. It was fun to learn how to do the kicks and punches
Mia – I loved climbing on the climbing frame in PE and Queenie Quennie was a fun game to play. I also did the splits on the mats and a cartwheel off the horse!
Sophia – I had fun this week at Tae Kwon Do. I enjoyed doing the round house kick!
Sam – My favourite part of the week was Tae Kwon Do too. I enjoyed running up and punching the punch bag
Kiara – I liked creating the Hallowe’en poster. I drew lots of pumpkins and wrote the heading ‘Trick or Treat’
Gemma – I liked doing PE this week because we got to choose our lesson as we collected the 5 fireballs! I choose the climbing frame!
Emma – My highlight of the week was Tae Kwon Do as it was really fun and I have never done it before
Megan – I learned new things at Tae Kwon Do this week, it was fun!
Lauren – I enjoyed PE this week we got to play lots of games
Euan – I enjoyed absolutely everything this week!
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Holidays are here :)

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We have had a very busy first term and we are now looking forward to the October holidays…

We are looking forward to playing with friends-Sophie, Sam, Alfie G.

We can’t wait to play with friends-Oliver, Euan, Robert, Alfie B.

I m looking forward to going to Lego Land-Sophia

I m going to England. I m looking forward to that-Megan

I can’t wait to go to Egypt- Connor

We’re looking forward to having a break !- Jason, Emma

I ‘m looking forward to going horse riding and dancing- Kiara

I ‘m looking forward to going to my friend’s house -Ava

I ‘m looking forward to going to my daddy’s tonight- Teighan

I ‘m looking forward to my gymnastics-Suvi

I’m looking forward to going to my nanna’s house in England-Lauren

I ‘m looking forward to seeing my little sister all day :)- Gemma

I ‘m looking forward to my birthday-Jess

I ‘m looking forward to going away in the caravan-Denholm

Have a fantastic holiday everyone !

See you back in school on Tuesday 27th October 2015

DIARY DATE

Wednesday 28th Taster session of Tae Kwan Do 10am

 

 

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Visitors in P4/3

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As our context for learning draws to a close we ‘d like to share our visitors with you…

Mr Welsh came in from the Bathgate Heritage group and showed us slides of old Bathgate and Caitlin Jamieson came in and told us of being Princess Marjory in this year’s Procession… She showed us her cape and two tiaras.

We liked trying on Caitlin’s cape- Jason, Alfie B., Robert, Connor, Kay

We liked looking at Caitlin’s photo album-Ava, Suvi

I liked holding the back of the cape for the others- I was pretending to be a Page boy-Liam

We liked copying the picture of Highland Mary and Robert Burns- Kiara, Emma

We liked having Mr Welsh in our class and seeing the old pictures of Bathgate- Sophia, Sophie, Erin, Lauren

I enjoyed looking at the pictures of Old Bathgate- Gemma

We liked Mr Welsh being a visitor in our classroom- Denholm, Jess, Alfie G., Euan

I liked trying on Caitlin’s tiara-Teighan

We enjoyed Caitlin coming in and sharing all about being Princess Marjory- Oliver, Megan

I liked learning about Bathgate from Mr Welsh-Sam

diary dates

Wednesday 14th October-Parents consulations 4-6.30pm Appointments are all out.

Thursday 15th October- as above

Friday 16th October- 9.30am.. Please join us for our Harvest service at the High Church

October Holidays begin today !

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Welcome to October in P4/3

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We have been working hard all week…

We liked story writing this week. It was about Autumn. We had to plan then write. For Home Learning we had to bring in evidence that summer is leaving us !- Erin, Suvi, Sophia

I loved getting the Drama Star from Mrs Innes today at the Assembly-Mia

I liked walking to the Regal theatre yesterday.We even took pictures of the McClagen fountain beside the Clydesdale Bank-Robert

I enjoyed taking the pictures on our walk around Bathgate-Emma

We liked PE this week. We were racing- Connor, Lauren

We enjoyed having the tasting session for French foods-Sophie, Ava, Kiara

We liked Drama this week-Teighan, Megan

We enjoyed Dress down day-Gemma, Jess

We liked hearing about Food Banks-Liam, Denholm

We enjoyed Maths this week- Oliver, Alfie B.

I enjoyed the visitor from the Food bank and I brought in coffee, teabags and long life milk as a donation- Euan

I enjoyed being Secret Student- Jason

I liked writing the letter with other children about the Food bank- Alfie G.

I liked looking at the buildings all around Bathgate when we were out walking-Sam

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Remember it is Shared start on Wednesday morning…please come in and enjoy it with us….

Have a super weekend

Mrs Aitken

 

 

 

 

 

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P4/3 ‘s short week…

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What a busy short week…

We ve had PE with Mr Jeffries. Mrs Innes gave out Golden tickets to Ben, Mia, Sophie and Emma. Well done !

Our Learning Across the curriculum is the local area. Our plans were to go to the Regal this week. It is a listed building in Bathgate. However it was so rainy and windy we had to stay in our classroom. Hopefully next week will be better weather.

Here are our comments….

I liked Maths this week. I was adding hundreds, tens and units-Oliver

We like place value in Maths working on numbers to 10 000-Erin,Sam

We liked doing Art. It was about Bathgate in the rain-Sophie, Ava, Emma and Sophia

I liked Drama with Sophia this week we were making an old map-Alfie G.

I was finishing off my map in drama working alongside Erin.I liked doing that-Suvi

I was using tens and units for addition-Teighan

I liked making tens and units addition to 100 in my jotter rather than on the worksheet-Jason and Liam

I enjoyed designing a welly as part of our story writing display-Denholm and Ben

I liked adding 100s, tens and units-Megan and Euan

We liked using the netbooks for Learning across the curriculum. We played compass games-Connor and Mia

I liked Maths this week. We are working on numbers to 1000- Gemma

We  liked the workbook on compass directions-Kiara and Jess

I liked Drama. I liked doing the map with Ava and Sophie- Lauren

Secret students this week were -Denholm and Sam

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Have a super weekend everyone

Mrs Aitken

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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P4/3 are learning across the curriculum

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Our Learning across the curriculum is Our Local Area which is Bathgate. Bathgate is a town in West Lothian. It has a population of over 21 000.

We had a really fun time going out on the streets of Bathgate using our directions-Kiara,Robert

I liked being special student- Teighan

I liked doing map making at Drama with Kiara-Megan

I enjoyed map making with Erin at Drama. We put fields and houses everywhere. It was a very old map of Bathgate-Suvi

I like the ibooks with Erin. We were playing the map game- Mia

I liked being secret student -Ben

I was doing mapping with Ava at Drama. That was good-Lauren

We liked everything this week-Alfie G., Gemma

I liked story writing about my wellies in Bathgate-Oliver

I liked working with Robert on maps this week-Emma

I was working with Denholm at Drama .We were drawing a map of Bathgate and colouring it in-Euan

SRA is fun- Sophie,Ava

Story writing was fun. We were writing about where we go in our wellies- Erin,Denholm

I liked PE .It was fun this week-Connor

I liked Home Learning this week-Alfie B.

I liked working with Jess on map making-Liam

We listened to the story called Where my wellies take me and this week our story writing was all about places in Bathgate.I loved this -Sophia

The new book”How many jelly beans” has a huge picture at the end …there are  one million jelly beans on it- I like this book-Jess

Enjoy the holiday weekend everyone. See you back here safe on Wednesday.

Mrs Aitken

 

 

 

 

 

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Lots of learning in P4/3

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Erin, Kiara, Ava, Alfie- We liked being Special Student this week..It was fun wondering who Mrs Aitken had chosen !

Ben, Robert, Connor, Denholm, Gemma, Teighan, Euan-We liked learning using minions

Jason, Sophia and Mia-It is great being Star writer. Our stories are put up on the wall for others to read

Emma,Kay- We liked making the compass rose. Never eat shredded wheat helps you remember the compass directions !

Sam, Oliver- Everything has been good this week

Sophie,Lauren, Megan-Drama with Mrs Innes is great on a Thursday. We were all great…Mrs Innes said 🙂

Suvi- I got a Golden Ticket at PE this week..I felt great

Jess- I loved being Pupil of the Week today. I got my certificate for my very good story about The Key !

Alfie G.- I got my Pupil of the Week this week at The Gathering. It was for always giving 100% in all areas of the curriculum

Well done everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friends, fun and finishing our work in P4/3

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We are very busy in our class every day and we are learning so much…

Our friends are nice -some are in this class and some are in other classes. We see them at break and lunch-Kay, Robert, Gemma

My best friend is in my class.We play together and work together most times….Sophie, Ava

My best friend is in class…We mostly play and join in together. When we set our work tables we sit together-Alfie

We liked playing with our friends on maths games..it is fun! Alfie, Kiara, Mia

PE was fun with Mrs McClafferty outdoors and Mr Jeffries indoors- Connor, Emma

I liked being the Special student- Lauren

We liked being the star writer with our Fantastic Mr Fox stories-Megan, Euan

Drama was different this week- We listened to musicians playing in our Upper Hall- Suvi, Erin, Sam

We liked everything this week, especially playing and working with our friends- Oliver, Teighan, Jess, Denholm, Ben

I liked finishing my badger story this week using my plan-Liam

I liked sketching our school for our new learning Our Local Area-Sophia

I like Maths when we are using the postits for large numbers- Jason

 

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Have a super weekend !

Mrs Aitken

Remember Home Learning due in on Monday

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Busy week in Primary 4/3

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Article 13 We have the right to find out things and share by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way.

This week we have been very busy learning about lots of new things….

We have had Mrs McClafferty in all day on a Tuesday. We enjoyed our light and shade art work. We also were using lots of weights and scales in Practical Maths. Mrs McClafferty took us outside for Outdoor PE and just as we were coming back inside the fire alarm went off and we had to stay outside…exciting ! We know where we come out the school and stand in our new classes. We also did Tools for Writing. This helped us when we planned and then wrote our Fantastic Mr Fox adventure stories.We are looking forward to finding out who are our Star Writers next Wednesday. We started our lunch order in French …a little bit tricky but we are getting better every day 🙂

Well done to Sophia who was our first Pupil of the week !

dates for the diary !

Photographer is in school Monday

Meet the teacher Wednesday evening 6-7pm

Dress down day Friday

Have a super weekend …Mrs Aitken

 

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Welcome to Primary 4/3

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Everyone arrived excited about being in Primary 4/3…We have been very busy and learned lots already !

We have enjoyed our first week at school….Sophie, Erin, Ava, Lauren, Teighan and Emma

We had a great holiday and we are glad to be back at school….Alfie G. and Jess

We are enjoying the minions in the class…Sam, Megan, Denholm and Euan

We have liked everything …Ben, Robert, Oliver and Suvi

We liked drama…Mia and Liam

We enjoyed making the figures with our targets…Kiara, Gemma and Jason

We liked Golden Time as we brought  spy stuff and everyone played with it…Sophia and Connor

We liked playing with lego  for Golden Time..Alfie B. and Kay

 

ARTICLE 31 I HAVE THE RIGHT TO PLAY

 

Have a super weekend ! See you all on Monday…Remember to return the forms and pay  your milk money …Thank you

Mrs. C. Aitken

 

 

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Au revoir de P3/2

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Busy last week from P3/2….

We have had memories and book talks and PE and singing and some special pupils of the day and a great sunny Sports day and fantastic sports boys and girls and an amazing Talent Show….

Ava- I loved the Sports yesterday. I was the P3  girl overall winner

Ben M- I m looking forward to the summer holidays. I m going to Sherwood Forest next week…

Charlie, Sophia-  We are looking forward to hearing the judges comments after the Talent show

Oliver, Connor, Robert- We liked Charlie and Ben W ‘s  talent show performances

Mia- I liked getting my trophy from Sports Day. I was the P2 girl’s champion

Erin, Lauren- We can’t wait to go into P4/3

Alfie, Sam- We are excited about the holidays because it is our birthdays as well

Jason- I hope my talent performance goes well. I am called The 4 2 5 Singer

Isla- I am looking forward to P4a with Miss Macintyre and seeing my friends

Liam- I am looking forward to the summer holidays

Suvi- I am looking forward to celebrating my brother’s birthday in the holidays

Emma- My talent was drawing and I liked drawing a fox on the board

Megan- I am looking forward to my talent performance with Erin

Aaron- I am looking forward to the summer holidays as I am going to Spain

David- I am excited about going to Spain for the summer holidays

Ben W- I am looking forward to going to the caravan for the summer holidays

Sophie- I am looking forward to going to the Black Isle for one week of the summer holidays

 

Have a fantastic summer P3/2

Mrs Aitken

 

Reminder-Church service Friday 9.30am

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hello from P3/2

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What a busy second last week we have had….

Demi Leigh, Ben M, Connor, Aaron, Erin, -Our favourite thing this week has been the Golden Club event

Sam-I enjoyed throwing the wet sponge at the head boy Liam at the Golden Club event

Isla, Suvi, Charlie, Megan, Oliver, Robert- We liked everything this week

Mia- I liked Road Safety today with Mrs Hay

David- I liked making the ice cream sundae at cooking this week and I loved eating it

Ben W-My favourite thing was getting to the Golden Club for the last 5 minutes

Emma- I had fun on the bouncy castle at the Golden Club event today

Lauren, Ava, Sophie- We enjoyed the Golden Club event when we were playing on the slide

Sophia- I liked having a strawberry ice lolly at the Golden Club event

Liam – I liked the terror slide and the bouncy castle at the Golden Club event

Alfie- This week I enjoyed being at PE with Mr Jeffries. We got our fireballs and we are a great class for remembering our PE kit 🙂

Jason-I liked doing the work about favourite times in P3/2

 

What fun at the Golden Club event we all had.

Well done P3/2

Enjoy your weekend

Remember to return your Review jotters with the highlights page filled in, thank you

Mrs Aitken

 

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All children have a right to play and join in a wide range of activities

 

 

 

 

 

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It’s June at last… ( p3/2)

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We have been learning so much this week. Who are you proud of ?

Sophie- I am proud of Ben being star writer.

Isla-I am proud of Sam’ s art. He called it “Flowers of beauty ”

Mia- I am proud of Ava’s art. She called it ” Pink and white roses”

Jason-   I am proud of Megan for being a good friend.

Alfie- I am proud of Aaron because he plays with me in the playground at break and lunch.

Sophia- I am proud of Suvi for her reading ” Greyfriars Bobby.”

Oliver- I am proud of Lauren when she was special person.

Demi Leigh- I am proud of Emma’s art work this week. It was called ” Fantastic flower fun.”

Liam- I am proud of my own art work this week. It was called “Roses in a vase.”

Megan – I am proud of my art work this week. It was called  “Magic flowers. ”

Sam- I was proud of Isla’s volcano work this week.

Connor- I am proud of Alfie for being an excellent friend to have at school.

Erin- I am proud of Oliver for being special person.

Suvi- I am proud of art work. I called it ” The rainbow colours in the flowers”

Charlie- I am proud of Sophie ‘s art work. It was called ” Pink and white flowers.”

Emma- I am proud of Jason’s art work ” Flower fun.”

Robert- I am proud of my art work this week-” A  rainbowy bunch ”

Lauren- I am proud of Erin’s art work “Flowers”

Aaron- I am proud of Ben Marr and Robert ‘s maths work.

Ben Marr- I am proud of Sophia and Mia  for being fast runners at PE.

David – I am proud of Charlie and Connor for their good work.

Mrs Aitken- I am very proud of everyone for their hard work in all areas of the curriculum. I am also very proud of Home learning activities completed so well.

ARTICLE 31 ALL CHILDREN HAVE A RIGHT TO PLAY AND JOIN IN A WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES

Special Persons this week are Lauren, Sam and Jason

Star writers are Ben Wilson, Megan and Erin

Rainbow girls  are Mia and Lauren

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What stayed with you this week in P3/2 ?

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We have been very busy in class this week. Here are our comments :

Oliver, David- We liked when our mum came in to Shared start. We were working on the symmetry area and Where in the world food activity.

Charlie, Alfie, Ben W. Connor, Ben M. Robert, Lauren, Aaron- We enjoyed the new game in PE ” Time bomb tig ”

Sophia- I liked my mum and dad coming to Shared start. I was on the scrambled words. I got stuck on grapefruit, sunflower and orchid !

Sophie- I enjoyed playing dodgeball at PE today with Mr Jeffries.

Ava- I enjoyed my mum coming in to class for Shared Start. I did the Symmetry activity. I did the cat face picture.

Emma, Isla- We enjoyed the symmetry work where we had to colour the butterfly in to show symmetry in nature.

Suvi, Erin- We like doing the story plan for A day as a volcanologist, taking a robot to help gather samples sounds fun.

Megan – I like learning about the food pyramid and making a healthy packed lunch.

Jason- I like the class talks. Megan’s and Lauren’s stood out.

Mia- I like being star writer for the apple story.

Demi Leigh- I liked Shared start and I was completing the scrambled words.

 

Congratulations to Mia, Ava and Alfie for being our Star Writers this week.

Well done Oliver for being our Special Person yesterday and Charlie for being today’s Special Person.

 

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You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way.

 

 

 

 

 

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How do we learn in P3/2 ?

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We learn in lots of different ways by reading, talking, writing and by presenting and making….Let’s here about our Learning this week.

Charlie- I ‘ve enjoyed learning about the fruit from different places.

Ben M., Megan, Erin, Alfie, Oliver, Aaron-We like learning at PE with Mr. Jeffries and we got our last fire ball.

Sophie- I liked doing my class talk in dance.

David, Emma- We are looking forward to doing our class talks.

Connor, Robert- We are enjoying learning about volcanoes.

Ben W., Mia, Lauren, Demi Leigh, Isla- We are enjoying Mathilda…because it is dramatic. She is smart and can do magic.

Sophia, Liam- We liked writing my Apple story.

Suvi-I liked doing my class talk on holidays.

Ava- I liked helping Sophie at her class talk when we danced to ” a star is born.”

Sam- I liked doing the volcano pictures, where we had to use hot colours, with Mrs Clark.

Jason- I liked doing symbols in my maths.

Have a great weekend.

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we have the right to find out things and share what you think with others by talking , drawing, writing or in any other way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Celebrating Success in everything ! (P3/2)

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It was our Celebrating Success Assembly this morning and we were delighted to see so many family members and friends there to watch us sing together and some of us received certificates too.

Well done Ben Marr,  Jason, Megan,  Robert and Erin …

We all can celebrate success for lots of learning that we do in our class. Here are our comments ….

Connor and Emma- We want to celebrate my work on the class walls.

Alfie, Aaron, Robert, Sophia, Oliver, Demi-Leigh and Sam-We want to celebrate my volcano knowledge

Lauren, Suvi and Isla – We would like to celebrate us singing ‘Here Comes the Sun’ at Celebrating Success.

Ben Marr- I would like to celebrate my  learning in drama using scripts.

Jason, David, Ava, Mia, Ben Wilson , Megan, Charlie, Sophie and Erin – We would like to celebrate all our learning in P3/2.

 

 

 

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Welcome back everyone from P3/2 !

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This morning we returned to school after the Easter Holidays….We had lots of fun during them.

Here are our comments today :

Aaron-Ben came over to my house and we played with Skylander figures and the xbox 360. It is good to be back at school.

Mia-During the holidays my mamo and muffer ( danish for gran and grandad) came to visit me from Denmark.

Demi Leigh- I went to my gran’s and my aunt’s and played with my cousin.

Connor, Liam- We played on our Xbox 360.

Suvi- I liked going to a posh hotel in Glasgow and watching a concert.

Robert- I was seven in the holidays !

Megan-I went horse riding on Sparky.

Erin-I met new cousins and we went to Landmark in Aviemore for the day.

David- I played with my cousin.

Oliver-I went to Linlithgow and had a huge ice cream !

Sam-I went to London by aeroplane and stayed for five nights. I went up on the London eye.

Sophie-Ava and Erin came to my house for the afternoon…We had an awesome lunch !

Charlie- I went to Blackpool and I stayed at my aunty Lana’s friends house. I went to the Pleasure Beach and I got to go on all the rides.

Ava- For my brother’s birthday we went to Pirate Golf.

Ben W-  I went to my dad’s house and I played my i pad.

Ben M- I went to St Andrew’s and had a really good time and went to a great swimming pool which had flumes and three different diving boards !

Emma- I went to Portugal and went swimming every day. I had a lot of fun !

Sophia-I went to a hotel in Malta. There was a mini disco every night. I went swimming every day.

Isla-We went to Ireland by the ferry and  the car.

Alfie- I went to a hotel in Crieff and in the hotel was a cinema and swimming pool. The rooms were really  nice.

Jason- I got a present sent from my Aunty Fiona who lives in New Zealand. It is across the world !

Holidays are now over and we are looking forward to lots of new learning in class especially Volcanoes  and our class novel Invisible Stanley.

ARTICLE 13

We have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way.

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Shared Start was fun in Primary 3/2

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Thank you everyone for making our Shared Start a success this morning. We loved singing the song  Just like a Roman …. We loved being dressed up in our Roman costumes too. The food was interesting…olives, soft cheese, tomatoes, dates and crusty bread with honey as well as brown bread…a fun feast ! Orange juice was the drink on offer…

Activities to choose from were:_

Margana-the phrase was” Vesuvius has erupted ”

Use chalks to make  a volcano picture

or

Design a menu for a Roman feast on a scroll

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You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way.

 

Reminder:- Honey Performances Friday 27th March for Primary 2s- 9.45am or 11.00am

Next week:-  Parents Evening Tuesday  6-8.30pm and Wednesday 4-6.30pm

Trip to Callendar House Wednesday

Church service Thursday am -wear blue for Autism