This week in Primary One we have been exploring the sounds ‘m’ and ‘c’.  We have been learning where these sounds are made in our mouths.  We associate ‘m’ with the colour red because we make that sound with our lips.  ‘C’ is yellow because it comes from our throat and we need a torch to see!  We have been practising forming these letters in lots of different ways.  This includes using paint, plasticine, pipe cleaners and whiteboards.

We have enjoyed eating our lunch in the dinner and have quickly learned the routine.  Here are some of the things we have learned:

 James-eat all your lunch.

 Jaime-Lee- After you have eaten all of your lunch you can go out to play.

 Mia- You need to line up to get a coloured band.

 Denholm-You get coloured trays and you can eat a packed lunch there too.

We have really settled into school this week, and are making lots of new friends.

We have enjoyed singing phonics songs and following the actions.

We have practised writing the numbers 2 and 3 and have played counting and adding maths games.

We have met some of the other adults in the school and have found out about their jobs.  We have also investigated why people wear uniforms to work and school and designed some uniforms of our own.

We have visited the dinner hall in advance of starting school lunches next week, and are really looking forward to ordering school dinners and trying out our new lunch-boxes!

We are looking forward to full days in school next week.  🙂

It’s been a great first week in P1m.

We have enjoyed wearing our brand new school uniforms, and being able to find our own coat-pegs and trays!

We have met new friends and our new teachers.  We will work with Miss McAllister on Mondays and Tuesdays, and Mrs Mooney on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.  We also met our gym teacher, Mr Jeffries, who will take us for gym lessons on Thursdays.

We have been busy in our new classroom, singing songs, writing the numbers 0 and 1 and starting our My New School topic.

We are looking forward to another fun fill week next week.  🙂

It has been a very exciting week as the children in P1l started school!  Mrs Leamy and Mrs Spence have really enjoyed getting to know everyone and help them settle into school.  Everyone is getting to know the classroom and we have been on a tour of the school, taking photos of people as we go.  Break time has been lots of fun playing with our buddies outside.  Here our some of the things we liked this week;

I have liked making new friends – Alfie.

I saw Miss Bollen – Megan.

I loved playing with everything – Catriona and Alex.

I like playing in the sand and kitchen – Enci.

I like playing with the cars – Miles, Maisey, Joshua, Jay, Jacob and Callum.

I like playing outside – Lucas.

Next week, gym will be on Monday.

Bye for now P1l.

–    Isla M ‘I enjoyed painting flowers during our Gardener’s World topic.’

–    Sam ‘I liked using charcoal to sketch a penny farthing.’

–    Rachael ‘I enjoyed making symmetrical butterflies for a maths activity.’

–    Leia ‘I learned about pollination.’

–    Aidan ‘I learned how to add and take away.’

–    Isla B ‘I liked using charcoal to draw an old tenement buildings in our Time Machine topic.’

–    Grace ‘I learned what pirates eat.  They eat baked turtles!’

–    Annabelle ‘I learned about pirate drink.  They drink rum!’

–    Reece ‘I liked making pirate biscuits using digestives and icing pens.’

–    Gemma ‘I liked the challenge to make Little Red Riding Hood baskets.’

–    Daniel ‘I liked getting into the Golden Club.  I liked the magician.’

–    Molly ‘I liked reading Chip and Kipper stories.’

–    Freya ‘I learned about Scottish animals in our Katie Morag topic.’

–    Caitlin ‘I learned that pirates didn’t have fridges.’

–    Lotte ‘I liked writing stories.’

–    Kayleigh ‘I liked getting pupil of the week.’

–    Keira ‘I liked learning about tartan kilts.’

–    McKenzie ‘I liked doing my number work.’

–    Evan ‘I enjoyed making a pirate puppet with my buddy.’

–    Arran ‘I liked making a spider using plasticine.’

–    Kaitlin ‘I enjoyed the race at sports day.’

Wow-look how much you have learned P1b! I’m very proud of you all.  Have a fantastic summer break and I’ll see you in August when you are big P2s!

Miss Bollen

This week we have played different sports such as golf, boccia and curling.  We particularly enjoyed trying to putt the golf ball into the net and hole.  It was so much fun!

 Sports day also took place on Wednesday.  Well done to all children for taking part!  Here are some of our sports day highlights:

-Leia enjoyed taking part in the sack race. 

-Grace liked the potato and spoon race.

-Sam liked the relay race around the park.

– ‘I liked the mum and dad’s race’. Aidan

-‘I liked it when Mr Welsh gave out the medals.’  Rachael

We had fun making a diorama with our P6 buddies! The buddies prepared a fact poster about the Chelsea Flower Show. We learned that the chelsea flower show gardens take 25 days to build and it is 500 London buses long. Also the winning flower was a Geranium.  We then had the challenge of making a garden diorama of our dream garden that could be entered into the show.  We had a variety of media to choose from, we made ponds, washing lines, apple trees, picnics and much more! It was so much fun working with the buddies! Some of our gardens even had moveable parts like see saws and windmills. Lastly,we had to write a ‘Did you know?’ caption to attach to our diorama. Look at the fun we had! Please feel free to look at our work on the school gallery! 

We visited Babardie Park of Peace this week to draw the beautiful scenary. We had to draw a landscape picture of our environment taking scale and postion into account. We also had fun playing in the park afterwards!

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Today we had great fun performing during our class assembly.   We did really well to remember our lines and sing the minibeast songs.  Miss Bollen is really proud of us.  Thank you to everyone who managed to come along-we hope you enjoyed it!

P1b

On Tuesday morning P1b went a walk to the local police station.  PC Arnott walked us through Bathgate town centre.  Ben saw his mummy and Leia saw her dad!  PC Arnott asked us to look out for all the police cameras.  We spotted eight!  When we arrived at the police station, we had a chance to look at a police van and go inside one!  We had fun pretending we were locked up in the back.  Rachael thought the day was ‘awesome!’

We LOVED Ground Awareness Day! Here are some of our highlights:

Kai – I had fun buying toys at the stalls.

Grace – I enjoyed eating my ice cream, it was yummy!

Daniel – The best part was buying toys.

Alfie – I liked looking at the flower stall. I bought one and I am going to look after at home.

Finn – I like everything! I liked buying cars, eating ice cream, seeing my gran to buy a plant and the story at the teddy bears picnic!

Emily – I liked having teddy bear crisps at the teddy bears picnic.

Sophie B – I loved reading ‘Going on a Bear Hunt’ at the teddy bears picnic.

Have a lovely weekend!

P1g

On Tuesday, Primary 1g worked with Miss Henderson on extending their skills in being book illustrators.  They started with a discussion about the Percy the Park Keeper stories and what the front cover picture told you about the title of each of the books.  They were given a blank book front cover with the title, The Hedgehog’s Balloon by Nick Bitterworth and had to become the illustrator of the front cover.  Everyone did really well and produced some lovely front covers.  Here are some examples of our work:

We have had a busy afternoon with the Primary 1 to make models and masks of mini-beasts for their assembly.  Some of the models using junk, plasticine and drew pictures.  We used lots of different to decorate out models.  We helped the primary 1 to use non-fiction books to find out facts, we read and the primary 1’s had to summarise.  This is what they said….

• We learned how many legs a spider has.
• Butterflies have lots of colours.
• Caterpillars turn into butterflies.
• We wrote questions about mini-beasts on a big leaf.
• We learned facts about the mini-beasts so we can tell people at our assembly.  Our P6 buddies helped us.

Daniel M and Jessica were very impressed with Jake’s bumble bee.

What a busy week we have had! We have been learning about the weather. We discussed wind direction and ways to record its movements and made fabulous wind socks. We then experimented with our wind socks out in the playground.

We also were pretending to be illustrators and illustrated our story predictions. We had to draw in the style of the book’s illustrator and make our picture look eye catching and detailed.

Have a lovely weekend!

p1g

We had fun going on a minibeast hunt in the school gardens! We found slugs, spiders, snails, worms, ants, butterflies,millipedes and woodlouse. We looked at these minibeasts under a magnifying glass as we learned it makes objects look bigger then we recorded our findings on a checklist.

We also perfomed  the song ‘Reach for the Stars’ for our Celebrating Success assembly. Well done to Charlie, Grace, Findlay and Emma who got a certificate. We enjoyed our family and friends coming to see us and Miss Goff said she was very proud of us!

We have been very responsible showing the new primary 1 children around our classroom and telling them what primary 1 is like.

Lastly, we have finished tranforming our role play area into treehouse. Thanks to Jim our janitor for building us a platform to make it more realistic!

 By P1g

We loved our trip to the Five Sisters Zoo on Tuesday. We were very lucky the sun was shining! Here are our highlights:

– I loved seeing the monkeys (Ava C)

– I enjoyed playing in the Pirate Ship! (Daniel and James)

– The bears were interesting (Alfie)

– I liked the turtles (Aidan)

– I liked having lunch outside in the sunshine (Breanna)

– The monkeys were funny (Findlay)

– I loved the wild cats! (Jessica)

Have a lovely long weekend!

P1g

We had a fantastic day at the Five Sisters Zoo on Tuesday.  We received interesting talks about the bears and tropical birds, viewed a range of other animals in the zoo and had great fun playing on the pirate ship.  At lunch time we ate in the picnic area as the sun was shining and afterwards we played in the park.  Here are some of our highlights:

 Caitlin- ‘I liked seeing the bears. Carmen was swimming in the water and playing with a log.’

 Kayleigh and Leia liked playing in the dungeon on the pirate ship.

 Annabelle- ‘I liked walking across the wobbly bridge on the pirate ship.’

 Ben- ‘I liked playing with Evan and Reece on the pirate ship.’

Rachael- ‘I liked looking at the wallabies-they look like kangaroos!’

Aidan- ‘Parrots can talk.  They were squawking really loud!’

Last week, to conclude our Treasure island topic, we had a pirate party! During this we used icing pens to make bug biscuits and had the opportunity to taste a pirate drink.  We also dressed up and played pin the eye patch on the pirate.  Aaron and Arran both won ten points for their house!  In the gym hall, we played corners, completed a pirate obstacle course and played port and starboard. We really enjoyed our topic this term and look forward to beginning our Gardener’s World topic.