Our school fantasy league is well under way and after four weeks the top ten looks like this…
Check out the website at schoolsfl.com for the full league table or look at our wall display near the p5,6,7 exit.
The primary 4 and primary 5 choir began last Tuesday. We have twenty five choir members, and we are beginning to learn our songs for Christmas time.
We are hoping to visit the community during December and entertain others.
The primary 6 and 7 choir continues on a Friday after school. As of Friday 21st December, the choir time will be 12.15 until 1.00p.m. as I, Mrs. Innes, will be involved in my professional development on a number of Friday afternoons from 1.30p.m. – 4.00p.m.
Dates for the diary so far:
Thursday 11th December – both choirs will be recorded for West Lothian Council, All choir members should wear shirt and tie uniform.
Hopefully 11th December – Junior Choir to the Partnership Centre at 11.00 a.m.
Monday 22nd December – Senior Choir to Tesco at 1.45p.m.
Tuesday 23rd December – Junior, Senior and Staff Choirs to sing at the Church Service!
More dates to follow.
Emily: I enjoyed learning about Dunkirk this week and it was really interesting. I thought it was a success because they rescued a lot more soldiers off the beach than they thought they would.
William: I liked talking and learning about Remembrance Day. We also learned that VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) was in 1945 after Germany surrendered.
Isla: I enjoyed writing our Remembrance poems because I thought I wouldn’t be able to do very many verses but I did and I felt proud.
Kai: I enjoyed writing my poem about Remembrance because I liked using the rhyming words and also because I liked writing about the soldiers.
Lauren U: This week we started our Maths Wall of Fame. We’ve been using different numeracy games on the iPad and DS and we have to try and beat each other’s best scores. I like doing it because it’s fun!
Lauren C – I enjoyed learning more about Dunkirk because I know that some of my family were involved. Unfortunately they were killed in the battle.
Finlay: I enjoyed starting off doing Literature Circles and seeing who was in my group. My book is really good so far and is all about football and it’s called Kick-Off. Nobody believes that the main character can get into the team and do what he thinks he can.
Jay: I enjoyed doing Literature Circles because I got a new book called Lord Loss and it has lots of gore and is a bit disgusting it’s still really good!
Chloe: My whole table (the Home Guard) has impressed me because we won table of the week for the second week in a row.
William: Callum has impressed me because he hasn’t swung on his chair again this week!
Adam: Declan has impressed me because in maths he did really well and he had good accuracy.
Kendal: I’m proud of Ellie this week because she got a new high score for Big Maths Beat That and she improved her score on the Wall of fame.
Lauren K: I was proud of Paul this week because he worked as hard as he could this week and concentrated well this week.
Emily: I’m proud of Isla because in music she played a new piece and she done excellently.
Isla: Emily has impressed me because she was brave in music and kept going on her own.
Ellie: Olivia has impressed me because her poem about remembering the fallen soldiers was amazing.
Lauren U: My table impressed me by trying their very best to win table of the week even though we ended up second.
Declan: Adam has impressed me because in his maths he only got two wrong which means he had good accuracy.
Finlay: Nathan has impressed me because he bought his Big Maths best score. Well done to everybody else who beat their best.
Lauren C: Antonia has impressed me because her name appears so many times on the Wall of Fame!
Antonia: Lauren C impressed me with how well she did in music and she kept going on the correct bit even when I got it wrong.
Taylor: Lauren K has impressed me because she got the top score for Twinoo and got onto the Wall of Fame.
Mr Berginis: I was extremely proud of the Remembrance poems the class wrote this week and I can’t wait to get them on display so the rest of the school can see how fantastic they are!
We had a great week back after our relaxing October holidays. On Wednesday Ray’s Grandad came in to school to do a K’NEX challenge with us. We had to work with a partner to design and make a moon buggy which could hold a shoe and a rubber. Once we had made our models we had to test them on the ramp and modify them to make them better if anything fell off. At the end of the session we all took our models in to the corridor and tested them. Our designs were all very unique and most of us managed to keep the shoe and rubber on the buggy. Abby and Erin’s moon buggy travelled the furthest so they both won a prize. It was a super morning and we all had great fun! Here are some of the pictures from the day…
Flyn – I enjoyed learning about World War 1 because there were a lot of interesting facts which I didn’t already know. I’ve also been researching some things at home.
Kai – I enjoyed learning about World War 1 as well because I knew things about WW2 but not WW1.
Lauren U – I enjoyed writing our spooky stories that we did this week. I found it really fun because I enjoy writing stories.
Chloe – I enjoyed my spooky story because I found it quite challenging to find a way of making it spooky.
Paul – I enjoyed the Halloween team challenges we did for Halloween, some were quite hard.
Lauren C – I enjoyed to the spooky story called The Man With The Yellow Face because it painted a really good picture in my head.
Kieran – I enjoyed assembly today because it was funny seeing Mr Jeffries dressed as Mr Welsh and Mr Welsh dressed as Mr Jeffries.
Lauren K – I enjoyed starting our own personal projects about WW2 because I get to choose what I want to learn about.
Flyn – Jay impressed me because he got the MVP award for P.E. and I was very proud of him.
Lauren U – Lauren C impressed me by winning the drama pupil of the month.
Callum – Lauren U impressed me by getting pupil of the week for always trying her best and being proud of her work.
Harry – Mr Berginis has impressed me by the way he taught us about all the things from WW1 and made them really clear.
Antonia – Olivia has impressed me this week because she got her best ever score on Big Maths Beat That.
Lauren C – Callum has impressed me by breaking his habit of swinging on his chair.
Kieran – I’m impressed with Mrs Innes because she has always been there for me when I need her and I just want to say thank you.
Emily – I’m impressed with Mrs Innes and Mrs Haddifon because their costumes are very cool and they’ve put a lot of effort in to them.
Mr Berginis – I was really impressed this week with all the different spooky ideas that the class came up with for their scary stories and I enjoyed reading them.
Callum – China has been a great topic this term because we have been learning a bit of Mandarin, for example how to say the numbers and family members.
Jack – My highlight of this term was getting into the school football team.
Adam – My highlight is the art work that we have done because it has been fun. My favourite has been the Heaven and Hell artwork we did this week.
Lauren C – I have enjoyed working with my buddy Kailyn this term as she is a pleasure to work with and she listens really well.
Chloe – I have enjoyed going to church with my p1 buddy because she was really good at singing the songs.
Lauren U – I have enjoyed the team challenges that we have done. My favourite was the one where we had to build a tower one metre high using limited resources.
Kai – My highlight is the art we did, especially the sketching lesson on cars. I also enjoyed using the chopsticks because I can now eat my dinner with them!
Emily – I have enjoyed team challenge and my favourite challenge was the chopstick challenge because it was fun and interesting to learn how to use chopsticks.
Taylor – I’ve enjoyed the Manga art because it was fun using your imagination to create a Manga character.
Kyra – My favourite thing about this term has been doing maths this term. I liked it because it is fun.
Olivia – I enjoyed learning about Confucius because he had good sayings which are helpful for life.
Isla – My favourite thing this term has been the Big Start challenges in the mornings. We’ve done things like jigsaws, riddles and puzzles.
Mr Berginis – My highlight of this term has been getting to know all of the pupils in the class and it has been a pleasure to teach them.
Robert, Ben and Demi-Leigh enjoyed learning to tell the time, quarter to and quarter past the hour. Sam and Sophia liked maths learning about fractions.
Megan, Isla, Alfie and Aaron really liked Big Maths Beat That – doing hard addition sums in their head against the clock.
Jason, Emma and Mia enjoyed learning about moving and balancing in PE.
Sophie, Erin and Lauren enjoyed the blowing down of the great oak in drama.
David has really enjoyed story writing this week he wrote about the Gruffalo.
Ava, Connor and Liam have really been enjoying our class novel “Charlotte’s Web”.
Suvi and Oliver both liked the p. 6 assembly about space. So did Mr Stewart.
This week we have been learning about the famous Chinese philosopher, Confucius.
Paul: “Confucius lived thousands of years ago and is famous because he invented Confucianism and a lot of people follow it to help them have a better life.”
Kai: “He taught children to respect of their parents and their older brothers and sisters.”
Jack: “He was one of the most intelligent people in China and a group of people wrote down every thing he said in books called analects.”
Chloe: “If people had a problem or falling out they would go to Confucius and he would help them sort it out.”
We have looked at some of his most famous sayings and we picked out our favourites:
Ellie: “I liked the saying don’t use a cannonball to kill a mosquito because I found it helpful not to use up all my energy on small things.”
Paul: “I liked forget injuries, never forget kindnesses because it tells us that we should think about who cares for us and all the things they do for us.”
Antonia: “Confucius say fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. I like this because it is true that it’s what’s on the inside that counts more than the outside.”
Lauren U: “I liked the real fault is to have faults and not amend them because everybody makes mistakes and we should learn from them.”
Lauren C: “I liked be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes because it means if you do something just try and learn from it instead of giving yourself a hard time.”
Declan: “My favourite was success depends upon previous preparations because it tells us we need to plan properly for things to do them well.”
Who has impressed?
Jay: “I have been impressed with Jack because he got 64 in his Big Maths. Well done to everybody else who beat their best score!”
Lauren C: “Flyn and Harry have impressed me with the way they have taken on the roles of Wishy and Washy with enthusiasm.”
Ellie: “Antonia impressed me by being selected as captain of the school football team.”
Paul: “I’m impressed with my p1 buddy Jay because he was doing well with his storybook and trying to read it himself.”
Lauren U: “Kyra has impressed me by getting onto step 3 this week.”
Adam: “Declan has impressed me in the chopstick challenge because he never gave up even though he found it tough.”
Harry: “Jay has impressed because he was fantastic at using the chopsticks during the chopstick challenge.”
Declan: Adam impressed me this week as he has been a great friend by being helpful.”
Emily: “I impressed myself because even though I couldn’t use them before I tried hard and got better at chopsticks.”
Antonia: “Finlay impressed me this week because he has been really kind to me.”
Mr Berginis: “I was very impressed with how well the class understood the sayings of Confucius and they were able to pick out the ones which they thought could help them in their lives. My favourite is forget injuries because it is important to forgive people so that they can forgive themselves as well.”
On Wednesday Mr Welsh and Miss Henderson took part in the water bucket challenge and helped raise over £300 for McMillan Cancer Research. Check out the video below…
On Wednesday morning we had shared start with our parents and carers. It was very busy and the time passed really quickly. The children had great fun presenting their learning to the adults.
Demi-Leigh and Isla both enjoyed learning about quarter past and quarter to the hour when we were learning about time in maths this week.
Robert enjoyed doing subtraction bingo during shared start.
Jason enjoyed reading in class and Erin liked story writing this week, writing about a magical forest.
Liam liked shared start when his mum and his little sister came to see him work out the properties of shapes. Sophie also liked learning about the properties of shapes with her granny during shared start.
Suvi liked making maths shapes out of nets during shared start. Oliver enjoyed shared start with his mummy. He also liked making shapes out of nets.
David has really enjoyed story writing this week and he wrote and described a beautiful bird.
Charlie M. liked the P. 7 assembly about China. He though it was really good and so did Mr. Stewart!
Ben enjoyed drama which involved lots of fun activities. Aaron and Mia also liked learning about being a storm in drama.
Megan enjoyed doing the hundred square jigsaw with her dad during shared start.
Sophia enjoyed story writing and drawing to illustrate her story.
Sam enjoyed learning about fractions – halves and quarters.
Alfie and Connor both enjoyed mental maths doing addition and subtractions in their heads.
Emma liked making shapes out of nets to show her mummy during shared start.
Lauren liked practicing the harvest song this week.
Ava enjoyed getting a fireball in gym this week.
Charlie Davidson liked learning about pond habitats and all the animals and plants that live in ponds this week.
Jake enjoyed winning a cup in cushion club this week.
Ben and Charlie Davidson have really enjoyed writing this week.
Ben liked the silent yellow book video clip stimulus for writing and liked writing about a magic bag. Aaron has also enjoyed story writing this week.
Alfie and Mia had fun in P.E. They really liked working in teams as did Lauren.
Erin liked learning new words in Spanish – how to say good morning.
Emma and Megan thought learning about the different types of animals – mammals, reptiles, fish, birds and amphibians was great.
Oliver liked learning about herbivores, omnivores, carnivores and top carnivores.
Isla and Charlie McDowell have enjoyed learning about the properties of shapes in maths this week – faces, edges and corners.
Ava also liked Spanish this week learning how to say good morning.
Sophie has enjoyed the ‘Great Oak’ in drama this week.
Liam really liked mental maths this week – doing subtractions in his head. Suvi enjoyed the challenge of all the hard sums in mental maths.
Sophia liked drama this week learning about storms and the ‘Great Oak’.
Jason and Connor enjoyed reading stories this week.
Robert also liked Spanish and learning new words like hello.
P6s have been really busy this week developing our understanding of Space. We have started to use our note taking skills to gather research for our fact files which are really taking shape! In Writing we were working on using connectives to extend our sentences and wrote diary entries pretending we were on a mission to the moon. In Art we created space themed wax resist pictures which are looking fabulous!
This week we have started collecting golden tickets in class, Drama and in PE. We receive these for working super hard and trying our best. By the end of the week we even had our first prize box winner!
We are all looking forward to a lovely long weekend and another busy week next week.
Another busy week here in P6H. We have been working on our writing this week and all travelled to Space on a mission. We used a variety of connectives to join our sentences and all landed back safely. Phew!
We started building our Rocket this week and can’t wait until we have built it. You might even get to see it at our Assembly, but only if we can move it because it is turning into a huge structure!
Maths saw us working on 24 hour time and we did lots of activities to develop our understanding.
A huge well done to Charlie who is our Pupil of the Week this week. Have a great few days off everyone. This is P6H over and out.
Declan: “We have been learning how to talk Mandarin this week. For example how to say hello and good bye. Ni hao is for hello and zai jian for goodbye.”
Kendal: “This week we’ve been learning how to draw Manga. Manga is a Chinese art form which has characters with big shiny eyes, small mouths, small noses and big heads. Check out our display at the top of the stairs.”
Jack: “We’ve been learning about how to use place value and adding skills to solve problems with calculating bills and costs of car deals.”
Lauren U: “We made hens with our p1 buddies this week. We painted our buddy’s hand red and pressed it down on paper then we added all the feathers and tail.”
Paul: “We did our third week of Big Maths Beat That and I beat my best score. Antonia set a new class record of 62.”
Flyn: “We did P.E. with Mr Jeffries and played Castles. Antonia and Kieran got a new record of knocking both castles down in six seconds.”
Kai: “For team challenge we had to make a picture with coloured shapes with our whole team. The person who saw the solution had to remember it and give clear instructions and the placers had to listen carefully about where to put the shapes.”
Ellie: “In writing we were writing an imaginative story called What A Day! We focused on emotions and we had to write about an amazing day we had had the day before.”
Chloe: “In grammar we learned when to use apostrophes and when not to. We use them to show that something belongs to someone and to shorten words like don’t. We never use them to say more than one of something like dogs or pencils.”
Kieran: “Mr Welsh has impressed me this week beacuse he helped me with my work by helping explain it. I’ve also been impressed by myself because I’m controlling my behaviour a bit better.”
Kendal: “Lauren K has impressed by being a good role model because she has been setting a good example for younger pupils.”
Kai: “Lauren C and Adam have impressed me because they managed to learn their Mandarin phrases without using their jotter.”
Chloe: “My p1 buddy Niamh has impressed by getting a certifictate at assembly.”
Ellie: “Antonia has impressed me by beating the class score on Big Maths.”
Lauren U: “My buddy from last year, Gemma, impressed me by getting pupil of the week.”
Jay: “Kendal has impressed me by bringing in tasty cupcakes for the whole class!”
Callum: “Declan has really impressed me because he has been a good friend this week.”
Flyn: “Kieran has impressed me because he has been working hard on his classwork.”
Emily: “I’ve impressed myself because I got my maths fully accurate.”
Taylor: “Emily has impressed me because her Manga art character met all the success criteria.”
Adam: “Harry has impressed me by being a great friend this week and he is improving his classwork.”
William: “Paul has impressed me by behaving well and getting pupil of the week.”
Mr Berginis: “I’m proud of how superb the class have been with their p1 buddies again this week. They have been caring and helpful. Keep it up.”
We had a visit from the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals this week (Scottish SPCA) which all the children enjoyed.
David has enjoying drawing this week and has drawn some super pictures in his review jotter.
Robert, Liam and Sam have enjoyed Mental Maths this week calculating lots of sums in their heads.
Isla has enjoyed Spanish and playing with Sophie and Ava this week.
Charlie has enjoyed ‘show and tell’, and playing with his friends this week.
Sophie also enjoyed ‘show and tell ‘, letting everyone see the treasure that she found in her garden a five shilling coin (a Crown) from 1953. She has also enjoyed playing with Ava, Isla, and Charlie.
Ava has been enjoying working on the maths number line this week and playing with her friends.
Ben and Alfie enjoyed getting fireballs in P. E. this week.
Connor has enjoyed playing on the iPad at Golden time.
Demi-Leigh thought mental maths was great and has been having super fun playing with her friends at break. Jason has also enjoyed maths this week and playing with his friend Sophia.
The activity that Erin has most enjoyed this week was listening to the class story. We have been reading “Charlie and the Chocolate factory”.
Jake has enjoyed learning to play dominos with David this week.
Emma has enjoyed problem solving in Maths this week.
Lauren has enjoyed playing with her friends at Golden Time this week.
Megan enjoyed working in partnership with Lauren in Spanish and Drama.
Oliver and Robert have both enjoyed Golden Time in school.
Charlie Davidson has really been enjoying the new play areas in the classroom, particularly the construction area.
Sophia enjoyed Kung Fu punctuation this week and thinks it is a great way to learn punctuation.
Suvi has been enjoying everything in school this week!
It has been another busy week in P6s! This week we had a visit from the SSPCA where we had a workshop on ‘Wildlife Welfare’. We learned loads of new facts about animals, got to know more about the SSPCA’s job and learned what we should do if we come across an injured animal.
In Maths and Numeracy we have been continuing to learn about time. This week we have been focussing on calculating durations of time and reading digital time which we are going to keep on practising at home and in school. We have also been learning more about Space and have done some imaginary writing where we wrote letters pretending we were going on a mission to space.
On Thursday we went to visit our buddies where we helped them to make a bowl for the Three Little Bears with papier mache. It was really messy but we had a great time and love spending time helping the P1s.
Mrs Stutt would like to thank everyone who made it along to our ‘Meet the Teacher’ on Wednesday. It was great to see so many people and lovely to meet you all.
Thank you to all those who came along to our ‘Meet The Teacher Evening’. It was great to see so many Parents/Carers , and it was lovely to meet you all. Mrs Haddifon.
P6H are thoroughly enjoying our Space topic. We researched lots of facts and wrote letters as Astronauts leaving on a space mission. We also used wax resistancy methods to create space scenes, and created some fantastic pictures. As we go forward with our space mission we are going to build a six foot model of a Space Shuttle, looking at all the different parts it has. So if you have any spare newspapers we would really appreciate you sending them in for our papier mache.
We also had our first try at Countdown Spelling this week, which went well. We all enjoyed it and not even Mrs Haddifon’s dancing put us off!
One of the things p7b have enjoyed most about p7 so far is being able to help our p1 buddies from Miss Holwill’s class. We’ve been helping them out at lunchtimes to get used to the school system and we’ve been spending Buddy Time helping them with their learning. Last week we helped them design peg people which looked like themselves and this week we helped them with some painting as they made bears for their Goldilocks and the Three Bears display. Check out some pictures below…
The senior choir, primary 6 and primary 7, begins on Friday 6th September. Pupils have been given letters seeking permission for attendance, also whether they are walking home or being collected from school. It’s important that I have this information before Friday.
I’m very much looking forward to working with the choir members!
The junior choir, primary 4 and primary 5 pupils, begins after the October holiday – Tuesday 28th October. Those who have shown an interest in being part of this choir were issued with letters on Friday of last week.
Declan – “We’ve been learning about road safety this week and creating posters to persuade drivers, passengers and pedestrians to stay safe.”
Jack – “We had fun going to lunch with our p1 buddies this week because we were able to help them out.”
Emily – “We had our first full circle this week. We played circle time games like Killer 12, Super Splat, Killer 12 Revenge and Silent Ball.”
Kai – “We’ve learned how to sketch properly in art this week. We learned to do light strokes and how to shade in the same direction.”
William – “We’ve had a very fun week because sketching was awesome even though it was quite hard.”
Paul – “We’ve been practising our grammar this week. We learned the difference between there, their and they’re.”
Isla – “We use there when we are talking about a place.”
Lauren U – “We use their when we are talking about something belonging to someone.”
Kieran – “We use they’re as short for they are.”
Jay – “We’ve been having lots of fun in PE because we’ve been trying to earn games of fireball with Mr Jeffries.”
Paul – “The Lamborghinis table have impressed me by winning table of the week two weeks in a row.”
Antonia – “Olivia has impressed me because her sketch was amazing and she shaded it really well.”
Flyn – “Jack has impresed me because he has been a really good friend to me this week.”
Emily – “Isla has impressed me because she did really well in music. She made no mistakes.”
Kieran – “I’m impressed with my dad because he took me an my mum to a lovely Indian restaurant.”
Kendal – “Antonia and Paul have impressed me because they were voted in as our class JRSO reps.
Harry – “Chloe impressed me because she got 35 in her Big Maths Beat That this week.”
Adam – “Kieran has impressed me because he is getting really close to getting on step 3.”
Mr Berginis – “I am so impressed with how fantastic the whole class has been as buddies to p1h. They have been very supportive and caring.”
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