Note to parents:

• **This Friday (9^th November) we will begin an Xcite programme within the school running for 4 Fridays from 11am to 12pm. For this, the children will require sports clothing. They can either wear their P.E. kit or they can bring in something else on the day. However, due to the timing, the children will not be able to change back into their school uniform before being collected at 12.10pm. Therefore, if they choose to wear their P.E. kit, please ensure they return it on the following Monday, thank you. Also, for these 4 weeks we will have our golden time on Thursday. **

Here are some of our highlights from the week:

Shannon: I liked our homework because we got to do Halloween maths.

Holly: I enjoyed Halloween because I got some sweets and I ate some at my Nana’s.

Ethan: I enjoyed mental maths and maths.

Alex: I enjoyed writing about Halloween because I think I drew a good picture.

Mia: I enjoyed learning about Diwali.

Amber: I enjoyed writing about Halloween because I went guising with my friend Charlotte.

Megan: I enjoyed ERIC time.

Aileigh: I enjoyed making the houses out of bags because it was fun.

James: I enjoyed dooking for apples.

Carley: I enjoyed writing about Halloween because my writing is getting neater. I also enjoyed Art and learning about Diwali.

Jude: I enjoyed learning about Diwali because it taught me lots of new things.

Aaron: I enjoyed Big Writing because it gives me a growth mindset.

Scott B: I enjoyed learning about Diwali because I like how they celebrate it.

Jack: I enjoyed learning about Rangoli patterns because they are cool.

Ellis: I enjoyed learning about Diwali and I also enjoyed making our houses.

Leila: I enjoyed doing the houses because I got to make lots of cool things; my favourite was the post box.

Mac: I enjoyed Big Writing because we were writing about Halloween.

Max: I enjoyed making my cinema because it looked very cool.

Millie: I enjoyed learning about Diwali and the Rangoli patterns.

Teigan: I liked learning about Diwali.

River: I enjoyed learning about Diwali because I liked how they made candles.

Oliver: I enjoyed making a semi-detached house.

P3A

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.

It has been another busy week in P6A, here are some of our highlights…

Murray- I enjoyed learning my spelling words by putting them into a Halloween picture.

Ranna- I loved learning about angles in Maths.

Connor- I enjoyed completing my angles assessment.

Islay- I enjoyed writing about Space.

Mia- I really enjoyed P.E. this week.

Megan- I enjoyed writing my information text about Space.

Catriona- I enjoyed outdoor P.E.

James- I enjoyed the Maths assessment.

Suvi- I really enjoyed P.E. this week.

What a wonderful week we have had in P6A.

This week we finished our percentages topic in Maths by assessing our learning.  We are looking forward to starting our learning of angles next week.

In literacy we wrote a recount about our October holiday and enjoyed completing a comprehension activity in which we peer assessed each others work.  We enjoyed our stations for spelling this week too where we learned how to spell our words using sign language, wordsearches, writing sentences and choosing random spelling challenges.  We also enjoyed our weekly visit to the library.

For our learning across the curriculum this term, our context is Space.  We are extremely excited about this and have already been enjoying learning about our Solar System and how we orbit the Sun and how the Moon orbits the Earth.  We have learned about how planets orbit and how long its takes to orbit the Sun.  We also found out how Pluto is no longer classed as a planet of our Solar System but instead, classed as a dwarf planet.

In outdoor P.E. we joined the other P6 class and played a range of games together, building our skills for working as a team.

We were very impressed with the P7’s assembly about ‘Inspirational People’, we particularly liked the Nelson Mandela song!

*** Please remember to bring P.E. kits Mondays and Tuesdays***

***Dress Down Day- Friday 2nd November***

Here are some of our highlights from the week:

Mac and Megan: I enjoyed assembly.

Oliver: I enjoyed counting in fives.

Ethan: I enjoyed reading.

Ellis: I enjoyed Art because I like doing crafty things.

Leila: I enjoyed watching my brother in his assembly.

Mia: I enjoyed reading because I got a new book called ‘Save the animals!’

Carley: I enjoyed Big Writing because it is fun.

Holly: I enjoyed ‘Everyone Reading In Class’ because it’s fun.

Alex: I enjoyed the P7 assembly because it taught us about interesting things.

Jack: I enjoyed learning how to collect data.

Amber: I enjoyed Art because we got to make little houses for our community.

Aileigh: I enjoyed reading because I got to read with my best friend.

James and Shannon: I enjoyed Big Maths Beat That because I beat my score.

Emily: I enjoyed getting my new reading book.

Aaron: I enjoyed maths because we were learning about collecting and interpreting data.

Scott B – I enjoyed making the arcade for our community.

Jude – I enjoyed Art because I am making a semi-detached house with Olivia.

River: I enjoyed making our buildings for our community because I called my restaurant River’s Restaurant.

Ada: I enjoyed making the houses for the community because I got to make a semi-detached house with one of my best friends.

Millie: I enjoyed making our houses for our community because I got to make a semi-detached house with Leila.

Breaghannon: I enjoyed outdoor P.E.

Max: I enjoyed making a cinema for our community because I thought it was fun.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

P3A

*If you haven’t already returned your child’s review jotter, please do so as soon as possible, thank you. *

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.