We had fun painting our clay fish that we made last week. We used various coloured paints to create colour patterns.

We had lots of fun at the handball festival. It was great scoring goals and playing against other schools. Thank you to all the parent and grandparents for coming along to support us!

We also went on the LIDL health bus to make delicious fruit smoothies. We then played healthy exercise games in the playground including banana tig and Get the Fruit. Thank you to the LIDL staff!

This week we had fun visiting the library again and getting new books.

A 6^th year pupil called Grant from Bathgate Academy visited our class to teach us all about animations. He showed us some animations that he created himself. It was very interesting! You can find his animations on the internet: youtube, Bionicle the release and Google, The Tail of the Lobster Tail Helmet. We are looking forward to making our own animations after the October holidays!

This week’s Special Person is Louise because:

• She is really kind
• She doesn’t cause a fuss
• She is a really good friend
• She works hard
• She is gentle
• She is very clever
• She has excellent behaviour
• She is always ready to learn
• She speaks in a kind way
• She is very pretty
• She is fantastic role model to others
• She is the funniest friend ever!
• When people are sad she always makes them feel better
• She likes having a laugh
• She is very creative
• She is super!
• She is an excellent partner

We have had an outstanding week!

Enjoy your holidays!

P4g

Yesterday we had a fairy tale ball to celebrate the end of our class topic.  We dressed up in fancy clothes, ate some party food and played games including musical bumps and sleeping piggies.  It was great fun!

 After a busy first term, we thought about some of our highlights so far. 

–   Isaac enjoyed learning different letters.

–   Mia and Skye liked learning about Cinderella during our fairy tale topic.

–   Campbell’s favourite memory was when he had party food at the ball.

–   ‘I liked it when we started gym.’  Jaime- Lee

Thank you to everyone who made a model scene from your favourite fairy tale.  They look fabulous!  Have a look at your wonderful work.

 Enjoy a well deserved break,

Miss Bollen.

Josh: “The thing that I have enjoyed this term is learning about America. I’ve learned that it wasn’t actually Christopher Columbus who discovered the USA and that he was looking for India when he found the continents of North and South America.”

Sophie M: I’ve enjoyed doing PE this term. I enjoyed doing the dodge ball tournament where we are learning about travelling, object control and balance. I also liked doing grammar this term because sometimes I got muddled up with THEIR, THERE and THEY’RE and it has helped me with joining words and punctuation as well.”

Dean: My highlight of this term is getting into the school football team. I felt happy playing in the first match.”

Isla: “I really enjoyed doing drama and our USA topic this term. I really liked the video which looked at how America was formed.”

Tom: “My highlight was getting into the school football team for this term. I also liked learning about the USA and how it was formed.”

Rabeea: “This term I enjoyed doing the Maths Challenge. Before I didn’t do much working so it has helped me to show all my working because I have to show them to get as many points as possible.”

Nicky: “I have liked the topic we have been learning and I liked discovering about Christopher Columbus.”

Freya: “I really liked the Big Starts in the morning because I like the challenge of solving riddles and puzzles. It helps wake me up in the morning too!”

Declan: “I liked doing the Big Maths Beat That because it has helped me get quicker at my maths skills.”

Sophie L: “My best thing was reading the book Undead Pets because it has helped me with my reading skills and doing the different questions has helped me to understand the book.”

Sam: ” My favoutire thing about this term has been playing table toppers. It is a fun game but it also helps you improve your knowledge.”

Callum: “My favourite part was watching the USA video because it showed the first ever town in America which was Jamestown and it showed the first big war which was the War of Independence.”

Abbie: “I enjoyed doing basketball because it is my favourite thing to do and I enjoyed it.”

Taylor: “I enjoyed working with our p1 buddies, showing them around the school and helping them understand what to do at school and what to look forward to.”

My favourite thing about Term 1 has been….

• Sophie – I liked making the milkshakes in the Lidl health bus today! It was lots of fun. I also really enjoyed making my hotel for our miniature community.
• Eva – I liked doing printing in Art! I have really enjoyed doing Big Maths too.
• Tom – I really enjoyed today because I moved up to Step 2 🙂
• Abbie – I really enjoyed doing the leaf rubbings and then cutting them out for our display
• Ty – I enjoyed when I got back from my holiday to see all my friends.
• Megan – I have enjoyed our topic this term (Building our community) and talking about my favourite places, things, people and activities.
• Cole – I enjoyed the Lidl Health Bus visit and playing games with our new friend Kez!
• Rowan – I really liked seeing P7’s assembly and what they have been learning about the USA.
• Yasmin – I really liked doing judo.
• Noah – I liked going on our community walk.
• Samantha – I have liked doing outdoor PE each week.

Who has impressed you in our class this term?

• Lennox – Sophie has impressed me this term. She has been doing a lot better in her reading.
• Rhia – Abbie has impressed me because she’s been doing well in her Maths.
• Caitlin – Kirsten has been doing well in her reading.
• Kirsten – Brooklyn has been doing well in her spelling.
• Kate – Samantha has been doing well in her writing.
• Liam – Megan has been getting better at her Big Maths.
• Harvey – Eva has also been doing well in her Big Maths.
• Sam – Tom has impressed me because he did good in his topic work today.
• Rory – Lennox has impressed me also because he hasn’t been shouting out in class as much! (This has been great!)
• Jennie – Rowan has been doing well in her writing

I am very impressed with the boys and girls in P3W this term and I have really enjoyed getting to know you all 🙂 Have a great holiday during the October break! – Miss Wilson

This week we fought the Battle of Bannockburn, alongside King Robert, and won freedom for our country!

We worked in our Home Teams to create interactive maps of Bannockburn. We used our maps to describe the events of the battle. Well done Sour Lemons and Freak Out for presenting such detailed recounts of the battle. Congratulations to the Minions who were the overall winners of the Home Team Challenge.

From the Blog Post Box:               

I had a/an                        term because…

good            …I got better at Maths.           Aaron

excellent      …I enjoyed writing with Mrs Mackenzie and I really liked the science with Mrs McClafferty.                   Lisa

fantastic     …we have the nicest teachers.  Josh (Thank you, Josh.)

brilliant       …of the Bloom’s Buttons.           Liam

awesome      …we did the trebuchets. Thanks for letting us do them!   Abigale

This week we were lucky even to have a Judo taster session.  We all got to wear a special judo jacket, before we tried lots of different judo moves with our partner.  We all had lots of fun!  Thank you to everyone for organising this.

I liked doing the judo throw – Archie & Callum

It is a fun way to keep fit – Noah

I liked playing the different games because it was fun – Lewis

I thought the ‘bear hug’ was the best bit – Cameron R

It was tricky trying to block people – Amber

I liked the game when you had to get your partner out of the mat! – Harry

Kameron would like to know when we will get to do it again as it was fun…..

We have had a very busy week in primary two. We really enjoyed our visit to the library this week. We enjoyed looking at different books and sharing the stories with our friends. We were very well behaved and the librarian is looking forward to us visiting again soon! We also enjoyed having a go at judo this week and lots of us now want to join a judo club.

In reading we have been learning about rhyme, but it didn’t take us alot of time. We had fun spotting words that were the same and turned our learning into a game!

In our topic this week we have been learning about animals and their homes. We can name lots of diferent types of houses animals live in. We also worked with a partner to create animals homes in shoe boxes. Kaitlin and Gemma decided we should call them shoe box zoos! We used materials to make the animal homes very realistic. Some children children made jungles and others made oceans and the grasslands of Africa.

Here are some examples. Don’t they look great?!

This week we for story writing we had free choice and got to make up our own story. It was fun having the freedom to choose our own titles. We had the choice of personal, imaginative and functional writing.

On Thursday we did problem solving related to money week. In our trios we had to find at least 10 ways of making up money totals e.g. 10 ways to make up 67p using 1p, 2p, 5p, 10, 20p and 50p coins. It was easy at first but hard to find the 8^th, 9^th and 10^th way as we were running out of options!

We went to judo and had lots of fun. The instructor was really funny! Ramsay brought in his Judo medals to share as he goes to the same judo club. Well done Ramsay!

On Wednesday at art time we made clay fish. We learned to sculpt and imprint patterns. Next week we are looking forward to painting them once they have set.

At gym this week we learnt more about handball in preparation for the handball festival next Wednesday. It was really, really fun!

Lastly, we were testing lots of different solids’s solubility in science this week. Solubility means it dissolves and disappears in water. We learned that stirring and using hot water speeds up this process. We learned a new word; hypothesis, it means tohave a guess/predict. We discovered that sugar, salt, flour and certain medicine tablets are soluble. This linked in with Alexander Flemming inventing penicillin, very interesting!

This week’s special person is……. Cameron Muir because:

• He is my bestest friend in the world (Scott)
• He is really helpful
• He gives really really really really tight hugs
• He is really funny
• He works hard
• He is nice to talk to
• He is kind
• He is beautiful
• He likes having a laugh
• He is a cool dude!
• He likes to play nicely with everyone
• He is very laid back
• He is a clever boy
• He is crazy (Cameron agrees!)
• He is very sporty and is good at sport
• He is very thoughtful
• He is a cheeky monkey (Cameron also agrees!)

We had a very fun week!!!

Annie and Madeleine

It’s Friday again!

We have put a lot of effort into learning our times tables this week. We have lots of different activities we can choose from. Sam Davies made up a times table song at home and now we sing it every morning!

Jamie Nisbet- I like the times table song that Sam made up.

Lewis Millen – It’s fun learning the times table using the four in a row game. We have to know our times table quite well to win and it makes me practice my times tables at home.

Carter Wilson – I like the loop cards best. This week we have beaten our best time by three seconds.

Our writing this week has been focussed on recalling the facts of the Creation Story and the Big Bang theory. We linked our learning by using our diaramas to help us recall the facts of the Creation Story for our writing.

We have also learned the difference between a food chain and a food web this week. Sam said he really enjoyed making a shark food web.

Judo ! What a great time we all had.   Emma Thomson – We learned some basic judo moves. It was great fun!

This morning we invited Miss Elliott’s P2 class to join us for a harvest festival singing practice. They were very well behaved and seemed to enjoy their visit.

This is us singing the harvest rock ‘n’ roll with P2e.

This week P6a have been very busy preparing for our assembly. We have been making props, learning our lines and learning the songs.

My Favourite Assembly Activity

Jack – I enjoyed making the props

William -I learned other people’s lines as well!

Lauren U -I liked singing the songs

Kendal – I enjoyed our parents vising for a cup of tea!

Olivia – I enjoyed performing

Miss Anderson is very proud, especially because we wrote the script ourselves!

Numeracy

As it is money focus week we learned more about money.

Jack – We played money games on the Smartboard

William – I learned more about money

Lauren U – I’m now better at counting up with money

Kendal -I liked playing the games on the Smartboard

Olivia – I liked making moneyboxes from 3D shape nets

*****Paul is our Pupil of the Week – well done Paul!*****

 Yesterday Primary 1 headed over to Balbardie Park for an Autumn Walk.  The children had a great time and everyone was very proud of how well they behaved.  The children were armed with plastic bags and collected lots of lovely leaves to make things with back at school. After some leaf collecting we all sat down for a well deserved biscuit before collecting some more things before heading back to school. Thank you to all the mums and grannies who came to help us, we really appreciated it. 

 Primary 1