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Easter holidays here we come !

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Congratulations to Lily for winning the Drama award for Primary 2

Pupil of the week-Whole of P2 got award for an excellent performance of The Caterpillar Boogie

Busy week performing The Gingerbreid mannie to P2/1 and being filmed for Education Scotland.Well done everyone- you were amazing ! Thank you Mrs Innes we loved doing it all with you especially The Rap !

We made Easter cards and nests. We completed wordsearches and Easter maze sheets.

We were amazed by our performance of Caterpillar Boogie when we saw ourselves on the dvd ! It was so much fun to do …

Here are our comments this week:-

Isla- I ‘m going on holiday to Florida

Florence,Sophie S.- We liked making the Easter nests today

Niamh- I liked making my nest today.I had a pink and a purple egg in it

Rory- I liked making my nest. I had two yellow eggs in it

Ellie- I liked watching The Gingerbreid mannie today

Dylan- I liked being Tod in The Gingerbreid mannie.A tod is a fox !

Nina- I liked taking a grumphie onto stage today. A grumphie is a pig

Lily-I liked being a tyke in The Gingerbreid mannie.A tyke is a dog

Sophie M.- I liked being a frog in The Gingerbreid mannie

Ross- I am going on holiday to Berwick

Kaycee-I liked being a narrator in The Gingerbreid mannie

Luis- I liked The Gingerbreid mannie we performed today and we were filmed and I was a person

Jess- In the holidays Nina and I might have a sleepover

Eva- I can’t wait to have a sleepover with Niamh

Eden- I liked dressing in blue today for Autism Awareness Day

Katie-I liked being the gingerbreid mannie in The Gingerbreid mannie P3/2 Show

Archie,Harris-We liked watching the dvd of The P2 show

Max- I liked being Mr Albert  Moore in The Ginger breid mannie

DIARY DATES

Holidays begin Friday 31st March

Holidays end and return to school Tuesday 18th April

Happy Easter everyone !

 

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P3B

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Last week we were very busy.
In French, we were learning how to hold a conversation and ask questions! It was not as easy as it sounds. If somebody had already asked a question, we could say ‘et toi?’and it would be the same as us asking the same question!

On Thursday, P4B and P3B swapped teachers for a lesson! Mrs Collings came to P3B to make Mothers Day cards and Mrs Ghafoor went to P4b to Make Mothers Day cards but in French. The cards we made were lovely as we told Mummy or Granny why they were special. We then also made a flower bookmark with Mrs Ghafoor to put inside the cards.

In maths, we have been learning about how adding and subtracting are linked and how to find missing parts of the question using this knowledge. We also started revising about time and were very good with showing the time to O’clock and half past.

In writing, we have been writing a three part story and we are making it into a book. This means lots of hard work, but, the books are beginning to look very good.

Over the weekend, Rory won two medals! They were for winning all the games and scoring 10 tries in Rugby! Well done Rory!

P3, Whole School News

Assembly week

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Last week we were so busy with the final assembly practices before we presented it to the school on Friday.

 

For our assembly we shared all our learning from our topic Ancient Egypt.  For our assembly we had to make a lot of the props ourselves like the heart which was weighed against a feather to see if the god would enter the afterlife.  We also coloured pictures of different gods which helped us tell a story.

Most of all we enjoyed learning and sharing our songs with everyone, especially the mummy song!

 

Maths

In maths we have been working on our times tables.  We have been revising our 3 times tables and also learning our 6 times tables.

With Miss Holwill we have been working out change from certain amounts of money.

Literacy

We have been working on our handwriting in class to make it the best so people can read all our lovely work.

We also had lots of fun writing a newspaper report all about the finding of Tutankhamun’s tomb.  We enjoyed this because we got to write about the explorer Howard Carter and what he found in Tutankhamun’s tomb.

 

We also looked at internet safety and watched a Hector’s world episode which looked at keeping your personal information safe.

 

Achievements

Pupil of week last week- Kai

Star of the month in drama- Ellis

Star of the month in P.E. – Murray

Table of the week- Callum, Brooke, Ammie-Leigh and Murray

Tamsyn won a football medal

Charlie is now super at his karate!

Evan received his red belt Tae kwon Do

Ellis is playing piano in a concert!

Lily finally managed to swim in the big pool!

P1a, Whole School News

A dynamic week in P1a

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This week we went to Dynamic Earth. Mia

We saw some dinosaur footprints. Mac

The ice was cold. Megan

We went in a time machine. Olivia S

We listened to a dinosaur story. Ada

We had fun. Shannon

We touched dinosaur poo! Amber

We saw all the planets. Oliver

We went on a school bus. Holly & Emily

We got into groups and got taken away in a time machine and were being palaeontologists. Ellis

We went to see the different types of stones. Max

We went into a rainforest and watched a 3D movie! River

We saw a big brontosaurus foot! Aaron

We were being palaeontologists by cleaning the sand of the fossils. Jude

We watched a 3D show with lots of crashing. Ed

It was a great day and the children were fantastic!

 

We were taking away numbers in maths. Aileigh & James

We coloured in Easter pictures. Alex

We designed our own red noses. Jack

Pupil of the week:  Aileigh Brown for working really hard in numeracy especially at taking away.

 

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P2B – What a wonderful week!

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P2B have had a super week performing our wonderful show ‘Caterpillar Boogie.’ We had a really successful dress rehearsal on Tuesday when pupils from Bathgate West, Bathgate Early Years and Rainbow nursery came to watch us perform. We then did 2 super performances on Thursday for our parents and special people. We even had a lovely surprise for them at the end.

Some of the things we enjoyed this week are:

Grace Q – I liked our costumes in the show.

Orlaith – I enjoyed learning about the story of Easter.

Ryan – I liked the show.

Alex – I liked learning about castles.

Alysheeya – I liked learning about castles.

Dionne – I liked learning about Arrow Loops on castles.

Esther – I liked being a butterfly in the show. I liked giving the flowers to my gran and saying my lines.

Grace M – I liked everything about the show.

Eilidh – I enjoyed learning about castles.

Lilyrose – I enjoyed learning about all the different parts on the outside of a castle.

Keira – I enjoyed giving the flowers to my gran.

Rhianna – I enjoyed giving my flowers to Nana.

Scott – I liked ordering numbers to 100.

Evie – I liked looking at hard numbers.

Freya – I enjoyed being a butterfly in the show.

Ehan – I enjoyed spotting the signs of Spring.

Ava – I enjoyed counting up to 100.

Joseph – I enjoyed being a caterpillar in the show. I liked the facepaint.

Fearne – I liked being a Butterfly.

Kayden – I enjoyed counting to 100.

Elise – I enjoyed everybody smiling.

Sara – I liked learning about the different parts of a castle.

Pupil of the Week – Rhianna

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Class M’s Busy Week

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This week we have been doing lots of different learning activities in Class M.  We decided to all share our favourite.

Yolie – I lake doing the swimming lessons.  The instructors are Jamie and Ross.  I put my face in the water and I jumped into the pool.

Charlie – I like PE.  I liked climbing the monkey bars.  I got to the top.

David – We were writing on the paper that we made for Mother’s Day.

Adam – I enjoyed making colourful paper with Mrs McNeill.  It was very fun.  Next week we are making new clothes out of old clothes.

We are looking forward to the last week of school before the holidays.

P5, Whole School News

5B

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This week we worked together in small groups to create our own news reports based on our finished kidnapping stories. To do this we had different roles. In groups we assigned the roles which best suited our abilities there was a reporter, presenter, editor, director, victim and witnesses, camera person and script writer.

Evie: I liked getting interviewed.

Erin: we chose one person’s out of our group and based the report on that.

Emma: I liked being the editor for my group because I also produced the artwork for our studio.

Olivia: I liked being the cameraperson because I like filming.

Grace: I liked cameraperson because I had fun doing it.

Kayleigh: I liked signing the jingle for our report “K news now”. It stands for kids news.

Leia: I liked getting interviewed.

Next week is the last week of term. It is also our trip to New Lanark and Victorian Day on Thursday.

Leia: I am looking forward to seeing the first ever infant school.

Robyn: I am looking forward to our trip.

David: I am looking forward to PE next week.

Demi – Leigh: I am looking forward to sleeping on the bus. Also in the Easter holidays I am going to see Ed Sheeran.

Evie: I am looking forward to Victorian day.

Grace: I am looking to seeing Mr Cunningham putting making us wear dunces hat and dressing up as a Victorian teacher.

Annabelle: I am looking forward to Victorian day.

Aaron: I am looking forward to seeing the cotton.

Dadirayi: I am excited for my trip and Victorian day.

Olivia: I am looking forward to Victorian day and maybe dressing up as a Victorian.

Emma: I am looking forward to Victorian day.

James: I am looking forward to New Lanark.

 

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Primary 2/1 Blog – Week Beginning 20.3.17

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This has been a particularly busy week for P2/1.

On Monday we had our P1 photograph, then on Tuesday the P2s had the dress rehearsal for their show ‘Caterpillar Boogie’ – the P1s were very lucky and got to go and watch the rehearsal and thought they were fabulous. After that, on Wednesday, was our class trip to Dynamic Earth followed by the P2s show on Thursday! Today we are having lots of fun for red nose day!  We are all very tired after a busy week but can’t believe we only have one week left of school before the holidays!

Here are the best bits from our trip on Wednesday:

Cameron – “I liked seeing the magic time travel bit”

Regan – “I liked the time machine as well, it was a bit scary”

Rio – “I liked touching the cold ice”

Breaghannon – “The time machine was my favourite bit”

Rory – “I liked the bus journey because I liked the adventure”

Griffin – “I liked the earthquake bit and the 4D film”

Leila – “I liked when we got to wear special glasses to watch the film.  A giant scorpion jumped out the film”

Teigan – “I liked when I had the glasses on”

Emily – “I liked the ice bit, it was very cold”

Millie – “I liked the volcano bit, it gave me a fright”

Leah – “I liked the bus bit the best”

Poppy – “I liked everything!!”

Keegan – “I liked when we went on the aircraft and the giant rhino came”

Brandon – “I liked the bus journey because it was fun”

Max – “I liked the ice bit and when we got to see the jumpy film”

Liam – “I want to go back to Dynamic Earth, it was lots of fun”

Ellie – “I liked the rainforest bit with the animals that moved”

Jonah – “I liked the ice bit and learning about  the animals that live in the cold”

Marley – “I liked going on the bus, and the ice bit and I really want to go back there”

 

P5, Whole School News

5B

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This in primary 5 our highlights were.

Maths

We have revised our addition strategies.

Robyn: we used column method.

Emma: we looked at partitioning and I enjoyed word mayhem.

Evie:I learned how to compensate, I liked that, it makes it easy.

Caitlin: I liked counting on.

Sophie: I liked doing the word mayhem because it was fun.

Evan: I liked making my own strategy for compensation by subtracting from one number and adding to the other.

English

We finished out kidnapping stories this week.

Grace: I liked ending my story about how we escaped.

All the stories were fantastic and we had 8 star writers. Lotte, Erin, Annabelle, Sophie, Logan, Freddie, Jessica and Harry. The class voted Sophie’s and Annabelle’s as the best stories.

LAC

Demi Leigh: we watched Oliver and I liked doing my Victorian poster.

Dadirayi: I liked the movie and I enjoyed everything about it.

Leia: I liked watching Oliver and I liked the character Bullseye.

Erin: I liked PE because we voted for the three games we got to play. We played football, hockey and basketball.

Kayleigh: I enjoyed watching Oliver, I liked Oliver.

Olivia: I liked everything this week.

 

Happy 10th Birthday to Dadirayi this week.

 

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P3B

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What an exciting week this has been!
This week we learned about road safety, especially related to safe parking. We talked about parking safely away from the school, not parking in front of other people’s driveways and also about parking further away and walking to school as this is also a way to get extra exercise in! We then designed posters for the competition.
We also designed stamps for the Royal Mail competition based on what Christmas means to us.
On Wednesday we went to Deans Community High School for the Dance Festival. It was really fun because we got to watch lots of other children perform their dances. They were very good. We performed our dance as well and got lots of compliments! We received a certificate of participation and got a trophy to bring back to school. Mrs Ghafoor is very proud of us!

We also started to research about the gods and goddesses found in Ancient Egypt – They had over 2000!

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P2B

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We have had another busy week in P2B.

We have been practising lots and lots for our Caterpillar Boogie show and we can’t wait to perform it next week! Butterflies should remember their skin-coloured tights if they haven’t already brought them in and Caterpillars should remember their face paint permission slips.

In maths we have been partitioning 2 digit numbers into tens and units. We particularly enjoyed sharing this learning with our parents and carers at our Numeracy Shared Start. It was lovely to see so many parents/carers on Wednesday morning.

We have been finding out about life in a castle this week and have explored some of the jobs people had. Lots of pupils in our class would liked to have been a brave knight who rode on a horse and protected the King and Queen. Some others would have liked to have been the King or Queen wearing luxurious clothes and eating lovely food. Funnily enough, not many were interested in being a servant once we found out that servants had to sleep on the cold, stone floors huddled by the fire to keep warm.

In French, we have been learning the names of the colours and have been learning a song called ‘Arc en Ciel.’ It is about all the colours of the rainbow.

This week’s achievements:

Well done to Elise who was our Pupil of the Week for working well with others.

Tiana and Grace Q have been working very hard on their solo singing part in our show.

Esther moved up swimming level.

 

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Viking Feast ?!

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This week our class talks were completed with Hayley and Callum telling the class about Viking Gods and a general talk about the Vikings.
Dani –I liked Callum’s talk because it didn’t give us too much information all at once. His information was well separated out.
Elliot – Hayley had a really good, loud voice.
On Tuesday we went to a Benchball Festival at the Sports Centre. We were put into 4 teams and played a lot of other schools. It was fun. We won a lot of our games and got a certificate to show that we had taken part in a fair and sporting manner.
On Thursday we made Viking bread and Viking mead (non-alcoholic!). The bread was made with two different types of flour, water, salt and butter but no yeast so it was a bit more like an oatcake. The mead was made with water, apples and honey.

Jack – The mead was nice.
Luke – The bread had a weird texture and tasted of nothing.
Maisey – I liked the bread because I liked the taste of it.
Elliot – I liked the bread because it was different to normal bread.
Jason – I liked the drink because they added honey into it. The bread tasted a bit like porridge.
Jacob – warning do not smell the bread!
Dani – I might try and make it at home.
Luke – I liked the drink because it tasted of apple juice.
Pupil of the week
Isaac for his enthusiastic approach to our Viking context for learning.

Table of the week – with 790 points (it was very close this week with blues winning by 10 points!)

Other Achievements
Elliot got his orange belt in kick boxing.
Jaime – Lee is going to a dance competition on Sunday.
Guy achieved his red belt in karate.
Ela, Aryan and Dani reached the Golden Club.
Callum achieved his black belt in karate.

Article 28 – the right to an education

P1a, Whole School News

Better late than never……

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Here is all our learning from last week………another dinotastic week.

We were learning about the Stegosaurus.  Shannon

We have been learning about the Velociraptor.  Jude

We were learning different ways to travel around the room.  Holly

We were learning how to skip in outdoor PE.  Ellis

We were learning to cut out dinosaurs and put them together.  Alex

We were learning the tricky words love and once.  Jack

In phonics we were learning the sound ‘th’.  Ada

We were labelling the different parts of the dinosaurs.  Aileigh

We used clues to guess the different dinosaurs. River

Pupil of the week:  Aaron Swan for his enthusiasm in our dinosaur topic…..he is an expert!!! He says he going to make a real dinosaur come alive!!!

 

 

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The Easter Eggstravaganza

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This is our first house challenge! We are so eggcited! We are not yolking about this.

We would like you to decorate an eggcelent hard boiled egg with an eggy name e.g Eggward Scissorhands, Eggo Batman (Thanks to Mrs spence for those names.) The eggs and their eggy names need to be in school by the 27th of March and we will collect them from your teacher. 1st place will receive 1,000 house points, 2nd will receive 500 and 3rd will receive 250.

Good duck (because ducks lay eggs!) Let the fun begin, we hope you don’t get scrambled about this!

From the House Captain Team-Clara McCallum, Louise Kirk, Scott Aitchison, Polina Derugina, Rebecca Notman, Aaron McNicol and Mrs Spence 🙂 Get cracking!

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P6 Basketball Festival – Reminder

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Image result for basketball P6A and P6B will attend a Basketball Festival at Bathgate Academy on the morning of Tuesday 21st March.

We expect this to be a valuable experience for our P6 pupils who will have the opportunity to have fun and compete against teams from schools in our cluster. With the festival less than a week away, please can we ask you, if you have not already done so, to return your child’s permission slip, EE2 form and £1 towards our transport to their class teacher, asap?

Thank you for your co-operation – we look forward to sharing our experience here on the school blog!

 

P3, Whole School News

P3a

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Last week was a very exciting week in P3a…

 

Maths

In maths we were all working on estimating and rounding numbers on a number line.

We know now that estimating is like having a rough guess.  We carried out activities when we had to guess how many glue sticks, pencils etc we could fit in a bag and then actually count how many we did fit in.  Some of us had the opportunity to go around the school and find more objects to estimate.

 

Literacy

We have been learning our lines for our assembly and have been practising our singing and acting during this.  We have also been doing more work on analysing texts by answering questions about a passage.  We are getting really good at this!

 

LAC

In groups last week we worked really well together to make pyramids out of sugar cubes.  Some cubes were really tricky to stick but we did our best and they look really good.

 

Achievements

Murray received a trophy for P.E.

Pupil of week last week was Charlie and this week is Lily.

Callum reached Step 4 and Lucas made it into the Golden club!

Charlie is now a white belt in Karate.

Luke has reached the last level in swimming.

Donna is now on step 3 in swimming.

Ellis has a yellow belt in Tae Kwon Do.

Evan received his grading in Tae Kwon Do and is now a red belt.

Maisie received 1st place in a golf competition.

Ruby won a drawing competition.

Kai is also a yellow belt in Taw Kwon Do.

Sophie is now on level 5 in swimming.

Callum won a medal at football.

 

 

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5B

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Maths this week we have been exploring decimals. We have found this hard to start with but by the end of the week we knew how to turn fractions into decimals and what tenths and hundredths are.

Evie,Caitlin and Sophie: I liked doing decimals and turning fractions into decimals

Cameron and Annabelle: I liked the decimal song.

 

English

This week we have written then flashback part of our adventure story. These were excellent Mr Cunningham was very impressed and had 7 star writers this week, with the class voting Evie’s story as their favourite.

Grace: I liked listening to other people’s stories.

Evan: I liked writing because we got kidnapped in our story.

Freddie: I enjoyed writing our kidnapped stories.

Ava: I enjoyed writing about where I was kidnapped and getting taken hostage in a pub.

Kaitlin: I liked listening to other people’s stories.

Ellis: I enjoyed writing this week.

 

LAC

This week we also looked at Victorian food. We learned the difference between what the different classes of people ate and how only rich people had low tea and middle class people had high tea. Then we got to try some poor people food… GREUL!!!

Erin: I liked learning about Victorian food.

Demi – Leigh: I liked tasting the disgusting gruel.

Dadirayi: I liked learning about the rich and poor people.

David, Aaron, Lotte, Jessica and Leia: I liked tasting the food. (Leia gave it 10/10)

Olivia: I didn’t like the gruel.