We are so excited! The Fitness Crew (a mix of P5a and P5ms pupils) scored the most points today at the Sky Community Challenge. Look at our shiny new trophy.

We hope that Mr Welsh will let us display it in our trophy cabinet.

On Tuesday, Primary 1g worked with Miss Henderson on extending their skills in being book illustrators.  They started with a discussion about the Percy the Park Keeper stories and what the front cover picture told you about the title of each of the books.  They were given a blank book front cover with the title, The Hedgehog’s Balloon by Nick Bitterworth and had to become the illustrator of the front cover.  Everyone did really well and produced some lovely front covers.  Here are some examples of our work:

We have had a busy afternoon with the Primary 1 to make models and masks of mini-beasts for their assembly.  Some of the models using junk, plasticine and drew pictures.  We used lots of different to decorate out models.  We helped the primary 1 to use non-fiction books to find out facts, we read and the primary 1’s had to summarise.  This is what they said….

• We learned how many legs a spider has.
• Butterflies have lots of colours.
• Caterpillars turn into butterflies.
• We wrote questions about mini-beasts on a big leaf.
• We learned facts about the mini-beasts so we can tell people at our assembly.  Our P6 buddies helped us.

Daniel M and Jessica were very impressed with Jake’s bumble bee.

On Monday evening, a team of primary 7 pupils represented the school at the annual Potted Sports competition at Bathgate Sports Centre.

They took part in a range of different challenges such as dribbling, shooting, and passing across twelve different events.

The girls team was: Aisha Adam, Amber Jackson, Abbie Megaughin, Abbie Madden, Shannon Butler and Sophie McMichael.

The boys team was: Cameron Arnott, Cameron Bowsfield. Craig Cherry, Adam Cherry, Henry Forehand and Kyle Morrison.

Mr Welsh, Miss McDougall and I all attended the event and were very proud of the excellent teamwork, effort and behaviour shown by all of our team members. Well done!

Congratulations go to Windyknowe Primary who were the winning school.

We are all really proud of ourselves….we have made our lighthouses!  Miss Holwill challenged us to include a switch in our design using our conductor knowledge.  We weren’t very sure how to do it at first but we all managed in the end!  This meant we could make our lighthouse’s light flash. 

Here is a video for you to look at….

http://youtu.be/8i470fnxqM8

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Don’t worry – it wasn’t as messy as it sounds!

P5ms participated in a great game where we had to create a food web which would support our chosen species. We played in teams and had to try and sabotage our opponents species while at the same time keeping our animal population healthy. We found several ways to cut down the population of our opponents. One team hunted for python skin to turn them into handbags while the others began a fur trade which reduced the size of the lion population. How cruel! Both teams were affected when a deadly virus swept the landscape, destroying our food sources.

The game really demonstrated to us how dangerous and exciting the circle of life can be.

Who’s raving about reading this week?

This week at our Reading Rave Kai and Kyra enjoyed reading an e-book. It had lots of interactive features which they think will really help them develop their key skills for reading.

Happy reading Kai and Kyra!

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Something I am going to put extra effort into next week is...

…the story I am working on with Flyn and Jay. Jack

…practising my 2, 5 and 10 times tables. Ellie

…my handwriting and presentation. Isla

Our new topic is The Three Little Pigs, with the children learning about all different houses and homes.  We started by reading the story and the children were really excited.  They got involved in the story by being the big, bad wolf trying to blow the houses down.  Then we made some of the houses and found how these stood up to the ‘wolf’!  The children have lots of ideas, some of these include making the different areas in the classroom into the three pig’s houses.  Well we’ll give it a go.

The children enjoyed writing the story of The Three Little Pigs in their own words and using lots of adjectives.  Well done to Holly who is our Pupil of the Week for her super Three Little Pigs story.

We also used adjectives, nouns and verbs this week to make some silly sentences, including:

‘The clever pig met a frog in the supermarket.’  Harry.

‘A fat, pink pig thought about his green and white pants.’  Ciaran.

‘A witch fought a fat, angry giant.’ Jack.

‘A pink wolf wanted a bouncy trampoline he could jump on.’ Jennie.

‘The grumpy witch chased the angry wolf.’ Zoe.

Well done P2pg!

Hello Everyone

First of all a big well done to Becky Houston who was our class winner for the in school Park Smart t-shirt design competition. Becky created a fabulous design and we were very proud of her  when PC Arnott and Mrs Madden came in to award her with a goodie bag.

Lots going on this week.  In maths we have all been focusing on division and it  has been great to see so many people using their excellent times tables knowledge to help them.  In writing we tried something a bit different and worked with a partner to create a playscript based on a picture.  We were focusing on question making  in reading and watched a short film called the Happy Duckling to practise our prediciting and questioning skills before moving onto working on our group novels.

Now it is over to you at home.  It would be great if people could add to our blog at home.  At some point over the weekend or next week please can you add a comment to our blog.  You click on the box at the top of the post that says responses and type away.  It could be something you have enjoyed in school, something you have learned or something that went really well.  It would be great to see lots of people commenting on our blog.

We look forward to seeing some comments soon.

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What a week! We have been very busy this week and a few of us have been busy learning on our own devices!

On Wednesday we were joined by two teachers from Eastertoun Primary, who were very impressed with our use of iPads to support our learning. We learned more about the Earth and created lessons to show to the rest of the class. Here are a few photos of us at work.

In preparation for our Sky Community Games day next week, we created teams and banners. Miss Anderson and Mrs Mackenzie decided to split the classes so half P5ms joined half of P5a in our classroom. Some of us made pompoms.

Miss Anderson and P5a 🙂

We have been learning about ‘onomatopoeia’ and its use in comics. This is how we ‘hear’ sound on a page, in a book or comic. We have found lots of different ones and have created an art version of onomatopoeia! We have also created ‘frames’ for a comic using our reading books.

In maths we have been learning about time and it is tricky! We are also trying to do our times tables very quickly for Big Maths.

This week we learnt about our heart – the cardiovascular system. We learnt how to take our pulse and then checked it after different activities to see if that made an impact on our heart rate. The more we excercise and run around, the faster our heart beats. We could hear it thumping after running around!

 Have a great weekend

P.S next week we go bowling on Wednesday, so remeber to bring a waterproof jacket. (Just in case it rains!)

What a busy week we have had! We have been learning about the weather. We discussed wind direction and ways to record its movements and made fabulous wind socks. We then experimented with our wind socks out in the playground.

We also were pretending to be illustrators and illustrated our story predictions. We had to draw in the style of the book’s illustrator and make our picture look eye catching and detailed.

Have a lovely weekend!

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We have had another excellent week in primary 3! Our art was topic linked and we made a farming picture with moving parts. We were allowed to use anything we wanted and we used our creative skills – said Gemma. Isla said this was the best part of her week.

The best part of the week for many of 3b was our visit to Almond Valley Heritage Centre. We saw and did lots of interesting things like saw pigs, stroked  a cow and touched a goose egg. We learned that a baby turkey is a poult and we know a baby goose is a gosling. We are enjoying our farming topic.

We have learned that there are different kinds of triangles like isosceles, right-angled and equilateral. We talked about lines of symmetry and discovered how many each of these triangles had. We also discovered a parallelogram has no lines of symmetry!

We were all reading and trying to work out words that filled in the blanks but fitted in the story. We have to think carefully about this but we are becoming proficent!

This week’s book recommendations:

Jessie is looking forward to reading Rusty.

Sarah is enjoying Never Kiss Frogs.

Cameron Brown says Rusty is very worth while to read.

Lexis has read a Laura book before and is looking forward to reading another in the series.

Primary three had a brilliant time at Almond Valley Heritage Centre today.  We got to see lots of different animals; the massive pig and donkeys were definite favourites!  We also got to touch a gosling which was only three days old.  Different words used to describe it were; soft, fluffy, bony, tickly and cuddly.  It made lovely cheep cheep noises and we learned a lot about it.  Aaron McNicol asked if it was a boy or girl and interestingly it was too early to tell.  It depends on the shape of the wings and they were too small and fluffy to work it out.

We had fun on the tractor ride and playing in the Adventure Zone with our friends.  Luckily the weather stayed dry so we got to burn off all our energy on the trampolines! 

It was a wonderful day out, Primary three would definitely recommend it!

In the Air Rade Shelter.