In maths this week we have been learning about division and we also discovered that not all dividing sums equally divide and that means you get a remainder. Remainders are what is left over.

For spelling we have been doing telephone spelling and we challenged each other by trying to decode each others spelling words! We enjoyed it!

For story writing we did Writer’s Craft where we had to create our own chapter of George’s Marvellous Medicine. We were challenged to write an alternative plot of what happened to Grandma when she ate George’s Medicine! It was very fun!

We learned how to use the new netbooks to research famous inventors.  We learned that John logie baird invented the television for home entertainment and Alexander Flemming invented Penicillin which is an antibiotic that fights off infections.

Our five class ipads were delivered yesterday and we are very excited to use them to support our learning next week.

This week’s Special Person is Jane because:

• She is very kind
• She is beautiful
• She is a kind friend
• She has fun sleepovers!
• She always smiles
• She produces outstanding and amazing work!
• She is lovely
• She is not fussy
• She works very hard in school
• She always pays attention to the teacher
• She is very friendly
• Even though she is shy, she always tries to be confident (Jane agrees!)
• She is helpful to others during maths time
• You will hardly ever see her involved in an argument
• She has lovely blues eyes
• She is greater than great!

Enjoy your September weekend!

Louise and Geo

This week in Primary 6a we have been learning about stars. Did you know that our sun is really a star? We are going to learn more about the stars and planets that make up our universe.

On Monday we had a visit from Childline, which was really interesting and we learned a lot about how Childline can help. We also memorised the phone number for Childline 0800 1111

We shared our Home Learning on Tuesday and we also learned more about remembering types of questions. This type of questions tests what you can remember from your home reading. We can remember a lot and are going to work on understanding questions next week.

We have had many achievements this week, both in and out of school

Callum was signed by Murieston Whites FC and will now play alongside Nathan.

Flyn drew in his muay thai fight (against a more experienced opponent)

Adam did NINE backflips on his trampoline

Chloe achieved grade 2 in tap, ballet and jazz

Finlay was asked to join Linlithgow Rugby Club

Harry and Jay both passed the pre-grading black belt

Isla is our Class Dojo champion with 11 points. The class total for positive points is 179.

*****Antonia is our Pupil of the Week!*****

Hope you all enjoy your long weekend (and remember that Home Learning should be handed in on Wednesday next week).

Miss Anderson and P6a 8)

What have we been learning?

Rabeea: I enjoyed doing Big Maths Beat That and I got my best ever score (50)

Callum: I enjoyed beginning our America topic and completing the challenge to name all of the states.

Jane: I enjoyed our What A Day focus in writing because it let our imagination run wild.

Rebecca: I enjoyed learning about grammar this week as we focused on there, their and they’re…

We use there when we are talking about a place or an event.

We use their when something belongs to someone.

We use they’re  as a short version of they are.

Louise: I also enjoyed our writing this week because I got to choose to write about meeting One Direction!

Dean: I enjoyed playing team dodgeball at P.E. with Mr Jeffries.  It helped us get better at teamwork.

Fraser: I enjoyed doing the USA challenge, it was interesting trying to match up the states. I also enjoyed the Childline workshop.

Isla: I also enjoyed dodgeball in P.E. and we were learning to work together. Writing was great because I loved the topic we were writing about.

Who has impressed?

Christopher A: Rabeea impressed me by getting her best ever score in Big maths Beat That.

Eve: I think Sophie L impressed by getting pupil of the week for showing good teamwork by helping a classmate.

Jane: I think Abbie has impressed because she also got a new high score on Big Maths Beat That. (45)

Rabeea: The whole class impressed me by showing really good teamwork in the USA states challenge.

Tom: Mr Berginis has impressed me by really helping us to learn this week.

Emma: I think Sophie L and Alexander have impressed me by being good friends.

Louise: Rebecca has impressed because she wrote a really good story because she combined her two favourite things in it.

Isla: I have been impressed by our P1 buddies because they have managed to settle in so well.

Mr Berginis: I was very impressed with the imagination and creativity shown by the class in writing this week. Myself and Mrs Waddell really enjoyed reading them.

On Monday we received a letter from the dragon who lives in Fairyland.  Dennis the Dragon told us that he bumped into a little girl with blonde hair in the woods.  She was crying and mumbling something about porridge.  Dennis asked us to find out about the little girl.  So, this week we have been completing lots of activities about Goldilocks. This includes writing a sorry letter to the three bears, sequencing pictures to tell the story and sorting objects by size.  We are hoping to receive another letter from the dragon next week!

 Have a lovely long weekend,

From Miss Bollen and P1b

This week we have been on a cruise ship adventure. We made passports, designed and named our ships and then set sail. Our first port was Bible World where we took part in all sorts of interactive activities to learn more about this interesting book. We played deck games with Mr Jeffries, held an on board talent show and even had a cinema trip. We all relaxed during Mocktail Hour with our delicious drink creations!

Next stop – Lowport. We can’t wait!

This week in maths we have been learning about division and times tables. We learned that multiplication and division are linked by rearranging the three numbers around.

 In story writing we have been learning about punctuation. This included full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, speech marks, commas and new one we learned was ellipsis. We used ellipsis in our writing to create suspense and make our stories exciting. We had to write an imaginative story about ‘The Invention’ to link in with our class novel ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’. Some inventions we invented was time machines, food that made people shrink and a multi-gadget rocket… (ellipsis haha!)

 We also would like to thank Mrs Jamieson for coming into our class with her Knex boxes and setting us a challenge to make a useful invention for the future. It was lots of fun! Next time she comes in she is going to bring motor so our creations can have moving parts.

This week’s special person is Geo because:

• He is the Greatest Friend ever!
• He always listens to the teacher
• He is funny!
• He is a fantastic best friend (Scott)
• He is very good a playing Minecraft on his tablet
• He is the Greatest Cousin in the World!
• He is cute
• He is more excellent than excellent at being a good friend
• He is sometimes cheeky (but in a funny way!, Geo agrees!)
• He is a very fast runner
• He is awesome
• He is supportive
• He is a lovely friend
• He is helpful
• He is a very good friend
• He is super
• He is a good big brother!

Enjoy your weekend

lexis and Cameron M

The first full week in primary 1 and no one fell asleep!  P1l have had a super first full week in school and everyone has coped really well.

The children have started to learn their sounds and this week we looked at m and c paying particular attention to how they make the sound with their mouth.  We use our lips for m so it is a red sound and the back of our mouth for c so it is yellow.

On Tuesday we looked at why we come to school and the children worked really well together thinking by themselves, then with a partner and finally sharing their ideas.  Lots of ideas came through but my two favourites were:

‘Becasue we get too big for Nursery so they have to build a school.’

‘So we can learn to read so that when we have our own boys and girls we can read them stories.’

On Wednesday we had Mrs Spence and we made some monsters for our ‘Monster Maths’ and owls for our ‘Tree of Knowledge.

On Thursday it was a big day getting our first reading book and l have heard a few very proud children talking about their reading and great claims of “I can read now”.

A wee reminder that reading books and reading records are to come to school everyday please.

Have a great weekend.

Bye Mrs Leamy

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.

Well we are shocked to learn there are so many children who don’t go to school around the world.  BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT WE NEED 1.7 MILLION TEACHERS IN THE WORLD, we learnt this when we were looking at our Rights and Actions.  We have been looking at our rights:

*the right to a good education

*health care

*food and water

*play and rest

We have also been discussion when it is important to think about our actions like listening and sharing.

Bye!

What have we been learning?

Hannah – I enjoyed designing our cars in art as it helped me improve my shading skills.

Dean – I liked doing our table topper marathon because it was fun playing a game together as a team.

Louise – I enjoyed learning about road safety videos. They really affect your emotions and that makes you follow the rules like wear your seatbelt.

Christopher A – It was fun learning about how to shade properly in art this week. It was also great working as a pair for the lesson.

Rabeea – It was great learning about times tables. We did times table toppers and it made learning them fun!

Sophie M – I liked redrafting my story called The Race. When redrafting you need to check your capital letters and spelling and update and add new things.

Fraser – I enjoyed doing the football trials this week and also art because I found it really fun.

Jane – I liked the Childline presentation on Monday. I learned how to keep myself safe and that if I have worries I can contact Childline. The number is 0800 1111.

Who has impressed?

Zenaib – I think everyone in the class has impressed me this week because they have been well behaved and hard working.

Louise – I was impressed by the Porsches table this week as they finished as table of the week ahead of the BMWs.

Sam – I think Fraser has impressed me because he managed to do loads more in maths than he did in p6.

Rebecca – Isla impressed me because she got our pupil of the week for making a great start to p7.

Taylor – I was impressed by Sophie M this week because she got captain of the football team.

Rabeea – Mr Welsh impressed me because he got a certificate for being a good head teacher.

Dean – The Primary 1 pupils impressed me becase they managed to eat lunch by themselves yesterday.

Mr Berginis – I was extremely impressed by everyone who took place in the football trials and they all deserved their place in the squad.