This week we have been busy practising our assembly with the microphone.  We have been busy making fish, stars and snowplanes. Thank you to all the parents/carers that were able to join us.  We had a great time, we hope you did too.

Next week we will be busy looking at our Scotland topic and watching parts of Brave.

Achievements this week

Farrah has been horseriding and was given a rosette

Arran has been helping his Dad set up his train set

Pupil of the week for 15th January

Cameron

Pupil of the week for 22nd January

All of P2A for a great assembly, I am proud of you all

This week has been a busy week in P2M.  We had our Celebrating Success Assembly yesterday and we sang our song ‘I’m a Miracle’.  Well done to our 4 certificate people Louie, Jaime-Lee, Ailah and Dani. Miss McDougall is proud of her whole class 🙂

In drama this week we learned how to use a sword and a shield and we played a dragon footstep game and made a maths dragon.

In P.E. we have been learning how to use a basketball correctly and practising how to bounce a ball correctly.

Achievements this week

Pupil of the week & Rights Respecting Schools certificates-Summer

Guy-In running club Guy was first in the race

Jay-In Karate Jay moved onto level 9

Lucy-At Rainbows Lucy got her Roundabout Healthy badge

Ailah learned how to do a split jump

Isaac got his red stripe on yellow belt in Tae Kwon Do

Jaime-Lee learned to do the splits

We are very excited because our class assembly words were handed out this week-We will be busy practising them next week and look forward to seeing you on Friday 22nd May at 9.20am 🙂

P2m have been really busy preparing for The Art Exhibition to be held in our new extension on the 26th February 3.30-6pm.  We have been busy creating wonderful Caribbean Sunsets using the technique of Pointillism.  We think they look fantastic! 🙂 Please come along if you can to view and/or purchase our artwork.

In maths this week we have been busy learning about adding coins up to £1 and learning digital and analogue clock times.  We have been using out ‘Time’ games of ‘Race the clock’ and ‘Stop the clock’ to challenge us with getting a best time and score.  We have also been trying to improve our mental maths scores with ‘Big maths…beat that’ challenges.  We are getting faster at adding our numbers together!

We have been learning about the Pet Shop in our topic work and Miss McDougall is very impressed with the homelearning task of making a pet shop animal this week.

Achievements this week:-)

Jaime-lee has moved up a swimming level

Charlotte is on a new level in her gymnastics

Rose has moved up a level in swimming lessons

Maisey has gained a new tab in her Judo/Karate school

Isaac has gained 2 stripes in Tae Kwon Do

Well done to everyone who has managed to get onto step 4 this week!

We have had a busy P.E week! We started the week with Streetdance, had basketball mid-week and ended the week with Destination Judo!

In our reading groups we were learning about EVALUATING questions.  The Astronauts made a character profile and had to judge which ones were most suitable to comment on.  The Stars reading group created illustrations which would be suitable for a younger audience and assess which ones would be most important.  The Planets and the Moons were using our Bloom’s Bakery evaluation questions to discuss our reading books and give our opinion of them.  We found that it is quite hard to EVALUATE our work but we are going to enjoy practising 🙂

In art this week we created autumn trees using pastels and paper.  We had a little walk around the playground to look at the differences between the trees and we used this information to help us with the pictures.

This week in maths the Hexagons have been working on the i-pads and learning to subtract 4-digit numbers.

We learned about the ‘Curiosity Rover’ and its mission to Mars.  We found out that this rover is collecting rock samples and looking for ‘life on Mars!’…( not aliens!)

Achievements

Liam won a Bronze (patterns), Gold (sparring) and gold (high kick) in Tae Kwon Do!

Kieran T is practising to become a Rookie Lifeguard!

Kieran S has moved up a level in piping!

Katelyn moved up a swimming level!

3 more people achieved step 3!

This week in maths the Hexagons have been learning about addition and subtraction of 3 and 4 digit numbers.  The Pyramids group have been using our new i-pad minis to practise our mental maths skills 🙂 The Spheres have been learning about time and have been using smartboard games to help.  We learned about what constellations are and we learned that they are like dot-dot pictures in the sky.  The stars are not connected but appear to be so in the sky.  Some constellation names are Leo the lion, Hercules, Pegasus and Andromeda.  We also found out what our astrological signs are!  We made our own telescopes and we chose a constellation to view through it.  We wrote constellation stories where we chose our heroes and villians.  In French this week we learned about flags from different countries and we helped to make them for our Day of European languages.

Achievements this week-

Melissa and Rachel are starting Orchestra!

Findlay has moved up a level in golf!

Millie is going to hold back the tears….she is starting at a new school 🙂

Jamie is joining a pipe band!

Katelyn has nearly completed level 2 in baking!

Have a great weekend!

We were very excited to start back at school this week but we did have a few sleepy heads by Friday morning!  This week we have been busy creating our Class Charters and have been looking at our rights and actions.  We have been busy creating dioramas about our first week in P6 and have been busy making comic strips for our summer holiday snapshots 🙂  We have been busy earning house points and creating new house point posters for our new classroom.  We discovered that we have a very democratic class and we work well together in groups.  Miss McDougall thinks we are fab at this!  🙂 We are also looking forward to using our new I-pad minis and using our own devices in our class work.  Have a brilliant weekend !

On Friday we had a V.E. Day party as an end to our World War 2 topic.  V.E (Victory in Europe) Day is celebrated on May 8th each year and signifies the end of WW2 in Europe.  As a class we looked at WW2 songs which were sung at that particular time and we noted that one was about the white cliffs of Dover 🙂 We made table centrepieces, hats out newspaper and V.E Day posters.  Thank you to Mrs Jamieson who made WW2 cookies with us using an authentic wartime recipe…not as sweet as we are used to but they tasted very nice.  We also had  meat paste, cucumber and jam sandwiches and we tasted SPAM meat…We decided that we quite like the taste!

Both Primary 7 classes went to Bathgate Academy to learn about and try some seafood. At the academy there were three stations. There was one where you taste seafood, another one where you learn where seafood comes from and how it gets from the sea to your plate and the last one was where you learned how to make different fish recipes.  At the first one a lady called Cat explained that it was like Come Dine With Me because she was a complete stranger that was cooking us things to eat.  At the second station we saw a couple of fish such as cod, haddock and even a live lobster and crab. Some were still alive!! I thought it was really fun and I tried some fish that I probably would have just said I don’t like without even trying it.

By Lucas Bryce P7m