What a big week !

Topic – we have begun learning about Florence Nightingale. We were really surprised at how bad the conditions were for soldiers during the Crimean war. Wounded soldiers would have to sleep on dirty floors with rats running around. Thanks to Florence we have much better conditions in hospitals today.

Writing – this week we focussed on poetry. The theme for our poem was PC Arnott. We had a competition and the class voted for their favourite poem which was read out at assembly and then presented to PC Arnott. Eve’s poem received the most votes. Well done Eve!!

Rachel Q – I really liked writing a poem. I think Eve’s was really good.

Ava C – It was hard to make the poem rhyme. I found it easier to write the poem using rhythm, I did this by tapping on the table while I was saying the poem.

Maths – We have been learning how to subtract with money and some of us have been changing pence to pounds and vice versa. It has been tricky but we are getting better!

On Monday afternoon we were lucky enough to be able to go along to Bathgate Academy to watch the P6 show, The Wizard of Oz. We walked all the way there and all the way back! We were very impressed with the acting and singing and can’t wait until we are in P6 and it’s our turn to do the show.

As if we didn’t get enough exercise on Monday we did our sports mile on Thursday and we have been raising money for Sports Relief with a bake sale on Friday morning and lots of us have bought Sports Relief wrist bands.

Have a great weekend!

This week we handed in our personal projects! We had to complete these at home as a Home Learning task and some of the projects were astonishing. Everybody received a certificate for their super interesting personal projects. There were 3 winners who stood out as making an extra effort. These were: Sophie, Noah and Liam.

A few of the projects were:

Caitlin – My project was a scroll made out of papyrus paper. I made it by putting tea bags on it and then putting it in the oven to make it look real.

Sam – My project was an Egyptian book. On the front cover was Tutankhamun’s sarchophagus.

Rowan – My project was a very big 3D wooden pyramid! I made it by putting six planks of woods and cut them into triangles and stuck them together. We then painted it with glue and tipped a bag of sand over it.

Jennie – My project was a booklet. Inside the booklet was lots of different facts and pictures of things I researched.

Noah – My personal project was a book of lots of facts and pictures inside of pictures of me at Edinburgh museum. I also made a canopic jar with a jackel head on top and it had a mummy stomach inside. I won a prize for my efforts.

Sophie – My project was The Book of the Dead and I made a death mask and a model of Ancient Egypt. I had lots of interesting facts and I made the death mask look like it had been burnt. Also, I won a prize for my efforts!

Liam – My personal project was a booklet with facts and I won a bookmark prize for my great efforts also!

Well done Primary 3! Your efforts were outstanding 🙂

This week in class we’ve been learning about technology used by tribes in the Rainforest. First of all we discussed what technology means…

Isla: “Technology is the solution to a need or a want. For example, humans wanted to communicate over long distances so invented mobile phones.”

Dean: “Another example is the hoover. We wanted to be able to keep our houses clean so someone invented a hoover.”

Declan W: “We wanted to be able to play our games on the move so mobile devices like tablets were invented.”

Alistair: “The Egyptians wanted massive pyramids and needed to move the huge blocks so invented a system of using logs to roll the blocks.”

The tribes in the Rainforest have three main sets of needs:

Alexander: “One of their main needs is food and water.”

Luke: “The others are shelter, warmth and health.”

Here are some examples of tribal technology:

Sophie M: “They need to communicate quietly so they use hand signals and bird whistles.”

Dean: “To meet their need for food they go hunting and use blowpipes because they are quiet so don’t startle the animals.”

Declan S: “To meet their need for food they use a drug from a plant called Barbasco which makes fish dizzy and easier to catch.”

Rabeea: “To meet their need to clean or drink water they use bromeliads because they are huge and collect lots of rainwater.”

Zenaib: “To meet their need for fire to keep warm and cook they use a fire drill. They make holes in a log and rub a stick to create friction which creates fire.”

Hannah: “To enable them to stay away from the floods, some tribes build treehouses. Some of these are as tall as 35 metres tall!”

Jane: “They use coca leafs and chew them to get rid of headaches and this meets their need for health.”

Taylor: “They use hammocks so they can stay off the forest floor to avoid being eaten in their sleep by driver ants.”

Sophie L: “They put poison from frogs on their arrows because it makes the monkeys slower and easier to catch.”

Who has impressed this week?

Dean: “Sam impressed me by overtaking Mr Berginis for a few seconds during the Sports Relief Mile.”

Rabeea: “PC Arnott impressed me with being able to cope with keeping all of us safe!”

Zenaib: “PC Arnott has impressed me by keeping us safe over the years and talking to us about internet safety and road safety.”

Sam: “Jason Bonnar in p1 impressed me by winning the dance competition we held at wet lunch!”

Christopher S: “Declan S impressed me at sports elective by saving all of the penalties in the Penalty King competition.”

Amber: “Rebecca impressed me by finally finding her pulse during the Sports Relief mile!”

Hannah: “Taylor impressed me because she done well at sports elective by keeping in time with the music.”

Sophie M: “Both the Laurens impressed me by doing excellently as Dorothy during the Wizard of Oz.”

Mr Berginis: “I loved attending the p6 show on Wednesday night and everybody did fantastically, I was very impressed!”

Yesterday we ran ten laps around the gym hall for Sports Relief.  We learned that this is a charity that can help other people have better lives.  We looked at a Powerpoint of a boy in Ghana who worked all day and did not have the right to an education or play.  We thought about how lucky we were and discussed ways we have the right to play and drew matching pictures. Today we got to go the bake sale!  We bought lots of yummy cakes to raise money for Sport Relief.  Thank you to all the boys and girls for taking part.

Lots of success again this week, with five new entrants into the Golden Club and four pupils reaching stage 4.  We have been working really hard on listening and putting our hand up to ask questions.

We completed our Sport Relief challenge in record time, and learned about what Sport Relief is about and how we are helping other children.  We also got lots of yummy cakes at the Bake Sale. A great effort by all children, we are all very proud of ourselves!

We read Zog this week and used the story to write about him.  We worked hard to describe Zog and remember our beginning, middle and end.  We are going to be practising a lot of this so that we can get our work onto our ‘Super Story Wall’.

A huge thank you to all our families who helped us with our Castle challenge.  The Castles are all fabulous and we love playing with them.  We will have our photographs for next week.

See you at Mr Skellybones!!

We researched Florence Nightingale and I learned about her childhood.  Sophie

I learned that the first car ever made only had 3 wheels! Craig

I learned that the sewer system was invented during the Victorian era and because the poor people had to drink dirty water they contracted cholera. Emma C

I enjoyed learning about flexibility in PE. Charlie

Taylor learned that yoga can calm you down a lot!

I enjoyed running 10 laps of the hall for Sports Relief. Josh, Erin M and Ross

Drew enjoyed giving his class talk on the invention of the train.   It was invented by George Stevenson.

I enjoyed watching the Wizard of Oz.  Leon and all of P5m!

This week the following people did their class talks on Victorian Inventions:

Nadia did her talk on the sewer system.

Katie did her talk on the electric light bulb.

Emma B did her talk on the telephone.

Megan did her talk on toys during the Victorian era.

Robbie did his talk on the telephone.

Mirren did her talk on oil refining.

Drew did his class talk on the train.

Cameron did his class talk on the camera.

Craig did his class talk on the car.

Well done to all those people that gave a class talk.

Finally, a huge well done to both P6 classes and all the staff involved for putting on a wonderful production of the Wizard of Oz!

The children in Primary 1b today made colourful Easter Egg patterns with lots of different materials.  They had great fun using the stampers to cut out shapes to stick on their eggs.  Once they had finished they cut out the eggs ready to go home nearer to Easter time.  The children were able to recognise that Christians celebrate Easter to show the stone which the angel rolled away from Jesus’ tomb when he came alive again.

Last week the children in Primary 1l watched a film all about the Easter Story.  This week we dicussed that Christians beleive that Easter Eggs show the stone that was rolled away from Jesus’ tomb to show his mother that he had risen from the dead.  Everyone decorated their own Easter Eggs with lots of different materials.  They had great fun doing this activity and are looking forward to bringing them home nearer to Easter.

Our learning –

Isla – I enjoyed writing the story of My Day With Yarima. I had to pretend I had spent a day in the Yanomami tribe with her and had woken up the next day and written about it. I don’t know why I enjoyed it but I really did!

Rabeea – I enjoyed learning how to simplify fractions because it helped us if we had a really big fraction and it made it smaller and simpler to use.

Christopher A – I really enjoyed the p3h assembly as it was my care class and I know they have been working really hard on it and I’ve seen them rehearsing and helped them learn the songs. It was really inspirational how all the class came together and worked as a team to get it done.

Jane – I enjoyed my sports elective which was Musical Theatre. We were dancing to Greased Lightning and it was fun to learn. In the future we will be performing a show…

 Sam – I enjoyed my sports elective which was badminton. We began by playing a couple of games gainst each other then we did a warm up and at the end we did a challenge called King of the Court. The winners were Tom and Ewan (p6).

Luke – I enjoyed doing the sports elective. I also did badminton. I enjoyed it even though it wasn’t the one we were supposed to do this week.

Zenaib – I liked doing Keeping Myself Safe because I learned that if a situation like that ever happened in the future I would know what to do. For example, Share It means if something bad happens you must share it with someone you trust like a teacher, parent or Childline.

Who has impressed?

Christopher A – I think p3h impressed me because as I said above they worked as a team and came together to make a wonderful assembly.

Jane – Alexander got pupil of the week and this impressed me because he helped another person in the class with her fraction work and he worked hard to understand his own fraction work.

Taylor – Everybody at Musical Theatre impressed me because we did Greased Lightning and everybody enjoyed it and worked hard to learn the dance.

Fraser – Sam impressed me by coming second in the King of the Court challenge at badminton.

Rabeea – My table impressed me by winning table of the week.

Sam – Fraser impressed me by coming second in King of the Court because he was up against some really good players.

Sophie M – Declan S impressed me at football elective by being a great goalkeeper and making some superb saves.

Mr Berginis – I was impressed by everybody on the football elective because they worked hard, followed instructions and we had lots of fun.

We have had a very strange week in P2e. On Thursday morning Miss Elliot found a dirty piece of paper in our castle. It was a letter from a knight called Eric. We think Eric might have been a ghost who died in battle. We are really excited but also confused about how he got here. We decided to try and catch him on camera. We have left a camera on in the castle to see if he comes back. We also wrote letters back to Eric to find out more about him and to find out more about knights. We will let you know what we find out!

This week we have been busy creating lots of art work . We have designed pictures of the main characters from the Wizard of Oz for the float. The winner will get to have their picture used on the float. We all hope our picture gets chosen. We have also been working on our sketching skills and sketched pictures of Stirling Castle. We found out about jousting and create moving jousting pictures.

Awards:

Pupil of the Week: Karys

Class Dojo: Caitlin

Table of the Week: Brights Sparks

See you all next week!

This week we have been studying India as part of our topic ‘Around the World in 80 Days’. The best part of the week was when we joined up with P4b and rotated around three exciting tasks. These included dress up in children’s traditional Indian clothing, art picture of the Taj Mahal, making and tasting chapatti and dahl curry and lastly designing our own henna tattoos and having them painted on the palm of our hands! We also learned that the most common form of transport in India is rickshaws and there is no legal limits of the number of people on public transport so people can just jump on anywhere at their own risk and not even wear a seatbelt! Also, there are certain areas and certain times of the days where electricity has to be shared so not everyone across the whole country gets electricity at the same time. This is called shed loading. Another fun task was learning how to Bollywood dance to a song Chaiyya Chaiyya.

Look at our amazing henna tattoos:

This week’s Special Person is Kiera because:

• She is the bestest and most greatest friend I could ever have (Gemma).
• She is very funny!
• She is nice and caring to all of her friends.
• She is cool in school!
• She is pretty.
• She is cute.
• She works hard in class.
• She is a good person to talk to when you have a problem.
• She always has a smile on her face and makes us smile.
• She is kind to everyone.
• She is very helpful.
• She is interesting to talk to.
• She is a fast runner and shares during sport games.
• She is fun to play with because she has a good imagination and invents fun games!
• She is always gives 100%.

Question of the Week: Do you know any interesting facts to share with us about a foreign country?

Have a blast this weekend!

P4g

Hello Everyone

Lots happening this week, Mrs Leamy was sure she actually saw smoke coming out of someones ears because their brains were working so hard.  We have all moved on in maths, some of us have been looking at number facts for 5 and some have been looking at subtraction.  We have been using cubes to help us with take away sums and we learned the take away sign. 

In our Superheroes topic we looked at villains, we looked at how they look and thought of words we could use to describe them. We all created our own villain and described them.  We followed this up by looking at how sometimes in real life people can not be very nice and how this makes other people feel.  We then got rid of our worries by drawing them on a ‘worry bag’ and let go of them with everyone elses.

We also started to look at the alphabet and have started to practise writing some capital letters.  We know that names and days of the week have a capital letter.

Next week we are going to the library on Monday and doing the Sport Relief Mile on Thursday.

Bye for now from P1l

We have worked really hard to learn our lines, songs and actions for our Ancient Egyptian Assembly.  We really enjoyed sharing this with our family and friends too.  Here are some of our thoughts:

* Callum was proud that he was able to use the microphone and talk clearly.

*Robyn was a little nervous (but we couldn’t tell) but gave it her best shot.

*Lots of us are proud and had fun!

*We loved getting into character and dressing up.

*Miss Holwill thinks we are all stars!

Gary really enjoyed it and can’t wait to watch the next one…..