This week we have (once again) been very, very busy. We have taken part in many healthy activities, including Sports Day. Yesterday we were very lucky to have a fun day at Xcite.  Rather than write about it we have made a video of the activities we took part in. We used a special technique to make the video called Time Lapse. Time Lapse is when a camera is set to take photos automatically (every second in our case). The photos are then put together to make a film. We hope you enjoy it.

We also met our new teacher today!

Miss Anderson and P5a

This week we have played different sports such as golf, boccia and curling.  We particularly enjoyed trying to putt the golf ball into the net and hole.  It was so much fun!

 Sports day also took place on Wednesday.  Well done to all children for taking part!  Here are some of our sports day highlights:

-Leia enjoyed taking part in the sack race. 

-Grace liked the potato and spoon race.

-Sam liked the relay race around the park.

– ‘I liked the mum and dad’s race’. Aidan

-‘I liked it when Mr Welsh gave out the medals.’  Rachael

We’ve just come back from a morning of fun at the leisure centre. We had a great time playing games together in the swimming pool. After that we headed to the park to meet up with P5a for our snack. Then we had some more fun on a bouncy castle and played football, tennis and badminton. We walked home very tired, but happy.

On Wednesday we had a curling tournament where the Curling Crystals impressed us with their outstanding performance.

We were very proud of everybody’s performance at Sports Day, particularly our winners Antonia, Flyn, Lauren C and Declan. You truly were megastars!

As well as all this we have been learning about what makes an effective advert. Tomorrow we will be working on our final part of our Home Team Challenge – creating adverts for the opening day of our conservation parks.

Log in later to find out the winning Home Team.

*UPDATE*

After reviewing a number of excellent adverts from all teams, the Happy Hippos were crowned the overall winnners of the the Design a Conservation Park Challenge. Well done Hippos – you sure looked happy about your victory!

From the Blog Post Box

I think the best thing about P5 was…

…the teamwork.     Paul

…learning about Chocolate Geology.     Callum

…learning about hills and mountains in the Slice of Scotland project.   Nathan

…having two wonderful teachers.  Lauren C

…teaching such enthusiastic, fun-loving children. Mrs Sutherland and Mrs Mackenzie

This has been an extremely busy week.

On Monday we had a special treat as Hibs Football Players Alan Maybury and Andy Kirk came along to teach us football skills. We had great fun even though the weather decided it was going to be cold and dull!

Our bowling was cancelled but we got to go on the ‘Giant Walking bus’ instead. We had to come up with a logo very quickly and we all decided that Cameron’s logo was fantastic – ‘You Speed, We Bleed!’

This week we learnt about the digestive system and on Thursday we did an experiment to see how the digestive system works. It was  ‘gross’, ‘disgusting’, ‘cool’, ‘sick’ ‘amazing’ and ‘minted’ depending on who’s view you listened to ! We all had great fun though. We had to make the best poo in our groups but Mrs. Ghafoor couldn’t decide on a winning entry so there were five joint first places!

Can you decide?!

This week we have been building our Eco Houses in class.  We remembered all the things that make a house Eco friendly and put some of these ideas into our houses.  We drew and made roof gardens for vegetables, showers instead of baths, solar panels and made lots of windows to conserve energy in the home.  Drew low flush toilets, composting toilets, rainwater barrels and compost heaps.  They were great Eco Houses!

In our writing we have been creating stories about the Mountain that appeared at the bottom of our gardens.  These were great and we like writing imaginitive stories, so much so that some of us are now writing our own little books and sharing these as Show and Tell.

We continued learning about Friendships through stories.  We listened to Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper and found out about our feelings when we get upset and fall out with friends.  We also started to make a ‘friendship mat’ which we can use to when we are trying to work out problems with others.

Well done P2pg for another good week.

This week p7s visited Bathgate Academy for two days on Wednesday and Thursday as preparation for after the summer. Here are some of their thoughts…

Ramie: “I enjoyed the cafeteria because the hot dogs and donuts were really nice!”

Adrian: “In maths we had a teacher who could predict our numbers even though we hid them in sums.”

Abbie Madd.: “Science was great because we got to set our hand on fire! We dipped our hand in bubbly water so that the fire couldn’t harm us though.”

Sian: “I did my clarinet exam up at the high school and I’m proud of myself because I was very nervous before it. I get the results in two weeks.”

Dylan: “I liked science because we got to make custard bouncy balls and we learned about bunsen burners and how to stay safe.”

Ross: “In art we designed our names in graffiti style, it was fun.”

Ali: “We also learned how to do perspective drawing in the art class.”

Rhona: “I enjoyed CDT because we made little candle holders out of hardwood.”

Murray: “Music was really good and we were playing a South American song on the keyboards.”

Nathan: “I enjoyed science because we added hydrogen to the flames and made it pop!”

Kirstie: “Home Economics was good and I enjoyed making fairy cakes.”

Aisha: “Also in science we managed to suck an egg through the neck of a beaker using heat. It was cool!”

Amber: “I enjoyed the art lesson because we did still life drawings of plants.”

This week our conservation parks were given a pre-opening inspection. We had to make sure that, as well as providing for the needs of our animals, our guests were well looked after too. We are pleased to report that all 4 parks passed the inspection.

Two parks received special awards.

The Best Park award went to The Happy Hippos’ 4 Mountain Zoo who impressed the inspector with their well stocked gift shop and cafe.

 The runner up award went to the Jolly Jaguars’ Conservation Park with their stunning park entrance and fantastic logo design.

 From the Blog Post Box:

This week I felt confident when……

…I was participating in the Rugby Festival.       Callum

…I was teaching my wee sister, Emma, about reading and numbers.       Lauren C

…I was doing my homework. I was working on my third sub-topic and was really getting to grips with it.    Lauren K

…I was doing my Maths Assessment.          Emily

We had fun making a diorama with our P6 buddies! The buddies prepared a fact poster about the Chelsea Flower Show. We learned that the chelsea flower show gardens take 25 days to build and it is 500 London buses long. Also the winning flower was a Geranium.  We then had the challenge of making a garden diorama of our dream garden that could be entered into the show.  We had a variety of media to choose from, we made ponds, washing lines, apple trees, picnics and much more! It was so much fun working with the buddies! Some of our gardens even had moveable parts like see saws and windmills. Lastly,we had to write a ‘Did you know?’ caption to attach to our diorama. Look at the fun we had! Please feel free to look at our work on the school gallery! 

Here are some of the things we have enjoyed so far this week:

“Learning halfway between two numbers, for example, halfway between 40 and 60 is 50” (valerija).

“Working with numbers within 1000” (Zoe).

 “Making handprint hens in art” (Mahad).

 “Everything!” (Aidan).

“Making muddy pigs!” (Rebecca).

“Spending time with my friends” (Evie).

“Doing SRA cards in reading” (Emma).

“Learning new words in spelling” (Callum D).

Hello Everyone

We had great fun yesterday when Alan Maybury from Hibs Football Club came to give us a football skills session.  It was a bit cooler outside but we soon warmed up with lots of running around and games.  A big thank you to Mr Maybury and his colleague Andy for coming in.

More hard work was on the cards today when we became gardeners.  The whole class was involved in tidying the playground and spreading out wood chips in the garden area at the side of the school.  With the nice weather we have been using the area for Golden Time so it was good to be able to give it a spruce up.  We were rewarded with delicious ice lollies from Mrs Jamieson.  The ice lollies were great because they helped us think extra hard during our writing planning session about a flashback story about being stuck in a bottle.

Bye for now P4l

What have we learned this week?

Ross; it was fun going outside doing PE. I played basketball and it was energetic!

John; I enjoyed PE when I was playing castles because we haven’t played it in a while.

Shannon; I enjoyed maths. 

Who has impressed us this week?

Abbie Madden: My whole table has impressed me this week because we won table of the week!

Sophie: Sian and Henry have impressed me by working hard on their high school profiles!