Happy New Year Everyone! P5A have had a lovely and busy first week back. For literacy we have been continuing to develop our reading comprehension skills and have been writing a recount of our Christmas holidays. In numeracy we have started two new topics – time and money. We are looking forward to developing our skills. We have also been thinking about our assembly which will be on Scotland! We have enjoyed talking finding out different facts about Scotland and singing some funny Scottish songs. We also made oil pastel drawings of thistles, which are the national flower of Scotland. Here are some of our favourite bits this week:

Blaire – I enjoyed the thistle drawing & art with Mr Bennett.

Ammie-Leigh – I really enjoyed P.E. and practicing our assembly.

Murray – P.E was really good.

Zara – I loved drawing the thistle.

Donna – I enjoyed writing my Christmas Day recount.

Erin – The thistle drawing was my favourite part.

Jodie – I liked writing my New Years Resolutions.

Ellis – I liked doing the time assessment!

Ross – The thistle drawing was really fun.

Brooke – I enjoyed P.E. and the maths mystery work.

Farrah – I enjoyed maths this week.

Maisie – P.E was really good.

Katie – Maths was really good this week.

Enjoy the weekend.

Reminder-

Home Learning due in on Monday 14th January

Please try to remember to bring your Outdoor PE kit every week !

Parts for our Assembly will be given out on Monday 14th January

Welcome back Primary 5b ! Hope you had a super time off…

Our first week back has been very busy with Scottish poems and our Assembly taking up lots of time. We have been reciting poetry, singing Scottish songs and learning about different famous people who were born in Scotland….

here are our comments:-

Max, Aaron and Holly-We enjoyed Outdoor PE this week-Tennis was fun

Jamie,Alfie L., Jackie,Florence, Jay and Kaycee-  We enjoyed Rounders at Outdoor PE this week

Brandon- I enjoyed PE on Monday with Mr Jeffries

Leah- It has been lovely coming back and seeing all my friends

Bryce- I am enjoying learning the songs for our Assembly-especially Donald where’s your troosers!

Eva- I enjoyed learning about Scottish facts for our Assembly

Olivia, Charlotte and  Aaran-We enjoyed getting our parts for the Assembly

Owen and Dylan – We enjoyed learning the poem A dug, a dug by Bill Keys as part of the Scottish focus

Lewis- I enjoyed choosing and practising Nessie by JK Annand for our Scots Assembly

Alistair- I enjoyed learning A voodoo for Miss Maverick by Sandy Thomas Ross. I need a cushion as a prop

Kyle- I enjoyed making the poster for Donald where’s your troosers -for our Assembly

Alfie B., Brooke,Ellie Rose and Ellie – We enjoyed Baking for Golden Time this week

Rory and Shaun-We enjoyed Symmetry work with Mrs Rodger

Noami- I enjoyed using tissue to colour the highland cow as part of our Scottish Assembly work

Orla,Liam and Annie- We enjoyed learning  about Greyfriars Bobby this week as part of our Scottish focus work

Have a great weekend , everyone

Reminder-

Home Learning due in on Monday 14th January

Please try to remember to bring your Outdoor PE kit every week !

Parts for our Assembly will be given out on Monday 14th January

We have had a lovely last week of school. Here are some of our highlights and things that we are looking forward to this Christmas.

Donna – I enjoyed art this week!

Callum – I am excited for the Christmas Holidays!

Katie – I can’t wait until Christmas Eve where I get to shout up the chimney for Santa! I loved the panto!

Blaire – I enjoyed making the Christmas tree baubles and I’m looking forward to getting my Christmas Eve Box.

Erin – I enjoyed P.E this week. I’m really looking forward to Christmas!

Zara – I enjoyed watching our movie in our PJs and  being in charge of the computer at church service!

Shelbi – I enjoyed P.E this week.

Mia – I loved the fun spelling activities.

Tamsyn – I can’t wait to sing One More Day on Christmas Eve.

Maisie – I enjoyed the church service.

Ross – I can’t wait till Christmas Day!

Kai – I enjoyed making the Christmas Baubles.

Ammie-Leigh – I’m excited for my cousins to visit.

Murray and Brooke – We enjoyed making the Christmas Baubles.

We hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and New Year!

We have had a very busy last week of 2018.

Here are our comments-

Orla, Kyle, Alfie B, Aaron, Dylan, Annie, Olivia, Alfie L.-We enjoyed the Pantomime Dick Whittington

Eva- I have enjoyed Mrs Aitken in class for the last two weeks

Ellie, Lewis, Liam, Brooke, Bryce, Ellie Rose, Shaun, Rory, Aaran- We enjoyed commenting on and watching A Christmas Carol. The character we would have been was Scrooge !

Kaycee- I enjoyed A Christmas Carol. The character I would have wanted to be was Fran

Max- I enjoyed PE this week with Mr Jeffries

Florence- I enjoyed my last violin lesson this week

Jay- I enjoyed my Nurture party this week

Alistair- I enjoyed working with the Pentagons in Maths this week

Owen- I enjoyed Art with Mrs Rodger

Holly- I have enjoyed Charlotte as my friend in 2018

Jackie- I enjoyed watching A Christmas Carol also. I would have wanted to be Jacob Marley

Charlotte- I have enjoyed having Holly as a friend in 2018

Leah- I enjoyed being the table winner for the presents picture

Church service tomorrow at 9.30am-All welcome

Happy Christmas everyone and have a super New Year

Holidays begin tomorrow at 12.10

We have had a great week in P5. On Monday we walked to the library and got the chance to listen to great stories by Lea Taylor. We also made up some of our own. On Tuesday we had so much fun at our Christmas Party with P5b. We played lots of fun party games and got to show off our dance moves. For our Caribbean topic we have been thinking about persuasive writing and have been working on creating persuasive holiday brochures for different Caribbean Islands. We are focusing on mental maths and times tables too. In French we are learning lots of Christmas vocabulary.

Here are some other highlights:

Ammie-Leigh – I really enjoyed making the holiday brochure.

Blaire – The Christmas Party was so much fun.

Katie – I enjoyed the library visit and making our stories.

Zara – I really liked creating the holiday brochure.

Mia – I liked making the holiday brochure.

Tamsyn – I enjoyed the library visit.

Shelbi – I had a lot of fun at the Christmas Party.

Maisie – I liked learning new French words.

Farrah – My elves did a few naughty things in the classroom!

Murray – I liked listening to the stories by the author.

Erin and Brooke – We loved the Christmas Party.

Primary 5b had such fun at Destination Judo this morning…it was fast paced and exciting for all who took part.

Partner work was great and learning was 100% especially when practical sessions were happening.

What a fantastic taster session-flyers given out showed all the venues from Bathgate to Armadale or Livingston…

First session at these venues is free…why don’t you give it a try ?

This week we have been thinking and planning for the Christmas Fayre. We discussed advertising and made colourful posters to attract customers. We have also been learning about instructional writing and we wrote instructions for how to make our reindeer hot chocolate jars. In maths we have been learning about perimeter and area – we can even work out the area of a triangle! We also got to listen to some amazing bassoon music from the Genovia Quartet and we talked about the magic of music. We also had another session of handball and are really developing our skills.

Well done to Ross Gibson who was awarded a certificate at our assembly for always showing our school values.

Here are some of our best bits:

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Ammie-Leigh: I enjoyed finding out our new story that we are reading in class – we chose Awful Auntie by David Walliams.

Shelbi: I enjoyed playing Around the Class.

Zara:  I loved making our painting sunsets for art.

Farrah: I enjoyed maths this week.

Blaire: I liked singing the happy song and thinking about what makes us happy.

Murray: I liked writing instructions for our enterprise.

Luke: I liked Handball.

Rory: Handball was fun this week.

Mia: I really liked music.

Jodie: I enjoyed doing the Mystery maths activity with my learning partner.

Katie: I enjoyed writing instructions.

Enjoy the weekend!

Our highlights this week:

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Murray: I enjoyed literacy boxes.

Samuel: I liked P.E.

Ross: P.E was really fun.

Kai: I liked using the Going for Gold booklets to help me learn the times tables.

Callum: I liked learning about Big Deal Little Deal with Mrs Aitken.

Evan: Handball was really good this week.

Lily: I enjoyed learning about perimeter.

Lucas He: I liked drawing shapes and working out the perimeter.

Zara: I liked drawing poppies in art

Katie: I liked French this week.

Blaire: I enjoyed handball.

Donna: Learning about pulse and rhythm was really fun with Danielle and Lloyd.

Jodie: I liked the around the class multiplication game.

Farrah: Around the class was really fun.

Shelbi: I liked Handball.

Maisie: Music was so much fun!

**Remember to wear odd socks for Anti-Bullying week on Monday.**

We have had a great week with lots of fantastic learning taking place. In literacy we focused on building up tension and suspense for our spooky Halloween stories and we had great fun writing them. On Wednesday we also had fun dookin’ for apples! In numeracy we are learning how to calculate the perimeter of a shape and have been challenging ourselves with our times table knowledge. We also loved getting outside for Outdoor Learning Day, where we played the alphabet challenge and created raps about the playground. We also had our first session of Handball which we really enjoyed!

*Remember P.E. kits for Handball on Wednesdays and P.E. on Thursdays.

We have had a lovely first week back! We got a special visit from Mrs McGregor from Bathgate Academy who did some fun place value work with us. We have also been learning about measuring length and we played a fun loop game that showed equivalent measurements. In literacy we have been thinking about Autumn and we wrote a senses poem. We used our senses to describe a story about jumping into a pile of leaves and ending up in a magical land! We also started our new topic which is the Caribbean. Here are some of our highlights:

Jodie – I enjoyed using maths boxes.

Arran – I enjoyed Mrs McGregor’s maths lesson.

Luke – I enjoyed P.E where we did different fitness activities.

Lucas K – I liked the Caribbean lessons!

Samuel – I liked PE this week.

Mia – I enjoyed using the literacy boxes.

Ammie – Leigh – I liked using my senses to describe my Autumn story.

Tamsyn – Literacy Boxes are good!

Maisie – I liked writing the Autumn story.

Donna – I enjoyed maths this week.

Erin – I liked Show Me boards in maths.

Blaire – I enjoyed Maths this week.

Katie – I really liked writing my story.

Brooke – I liked learning about the Caribbean.

Things we enjoyed this week:

Ruby – I enjoyed doing the maths assessment.

Lucas H – I liked the maths assessment.

Jodie – I enjoyed the three stages of dribbling in PE.

Blaire – I enjoyed literacy boxes and P.E.

Katie – I enjoyed the writing lessons this week.

Zara – I enjoyed reading with my reading group.

Shelbi – I liked maths assessment.

Donna – I enjoyed writing the start of the story using my senses.

Ellis – I liked the maths assessment

Maisie – I enjoyed spelling this week.

Luke – P.E was fun!

Murray – I enjoyed the writing lesson.

Mia and Tamsyn – We enjoyed P.E. this week.

We have had a busy week with lots of great learning taking place.

Literacy: This week we have been using Literacy Boxes which we really enjoy! We also learned about synonyms and played a fun game with our learning partner. We have been writing story settings, describing them in as much detail as possible using our five senses. We also really enjoyed making up a short funny story in our groups.

Numeracy: We have been focusing on multiplication and have learned the strategy for multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. We had loads of fun doing Multiplication Stations, where each station had a different activity. We also played Big Maths Beat That and used Maths Boxes too.

Here are some of our other highlights:

Blaire: I really enjoyed the Literacy and Maths Boxes.

Katie: I liked learning about synonyms and the learning partner activity.

Tamsyn: I liked writing the descriptions about settings.

Murray: I liked synonyms and maths boxes.

Donna: I really enjoyed using the Maths Boxes.

Jodie: The multiplication stations were really fun.

Lucas He: I liked playing Killer 12 in French.

Maisie: I enjoyed making my own codebreaker.

Brooke: I liked learning how to multiply by 10, 100 and 1000.

Ammie-Leigh and Erin: We enjoyed playing French Chinese Whispers.

Ruby: I found the maths boxes really fun.

Luke: I really enjoyed P.E this week.