This week we have enjoyed learning about skeletons and muscles. We learnt the function of them and also the names of some of them. The funniest muscle name we found was ‘Gluteus Maximus’ and it sent us into fits of laughter everytime it was mentioned!

We had the opportunity to go bowling. Some of us were not sure if we would enjoy it but we all did. It was great fun. The trickiest part was trying to control the ball as it wouldn’t roll the way we wanted it to! We will have another four sessions to hone our skills!

We also had our Celebrating Success assembly. We loved the performances of the other classes and also enjoyed performing our song.

Enjoy your weekend!

P.S Come along tomorrow morning, 10:00am – 1:00 pm, to help with tidying up the playground. See you there!

This week we all enjoyed performing Scots Wha’ Hae at our Celebrating Success assembly. We made shields and some of us made swords. Five of us won awards.

We have started a new set of class novels – we are reading Shakespeare stories that have been adapted for children. So far we have read King Lear and are currently reading Richard III.

Next week we are going to learn more about William Wallace. We are also going to be able to read all the Young Writer entries from our class – fingers crossed one us wins!

Miss Anderson and P5a 🙂

Hello Everyone

On Wednesday this week P4 were invited to try out bowling at Bathgate High Bowling Club.  Everyone had a great time and the coaches even laid on drinks and snacks.  We are going to go for 6 weeks and learn how to be good bowlers.  Here are some of our thoughts,

It was good because we got a snack and they taught us the basic things we need to know. Shaun B

I like it because it was fun.  I didn’t know there was another type of bowling other than ten pin. Rachel

I liked it because we got to have lots of turns, we put the mat down and throw the jack. Catherine

We had a think and lots of us thought that Joe was showing signs of being a really good bowler.

Everyone is looking forward to going again on the 22nd May.

Bye

P4l

On Friday we had a V.E. Day party as an end to our World War 2 topic.  V.E (Victory in Europe) Day is celebrated on May 8th each year and signifies the end of WW2 in Europe.  As a class we looked at WW2 songs which were sung at that particular time and we noted that one was about the white cliffs of Dover 🙂 We made table centrepieces, hats out newspaper and V.E Day posters.  Thank you to Mrs Jamieson who made WW2 cookies with us using an authentic wartime recipe…not as sweet as we are used to but they tasted very nice.  We also had  meat paste, cucumber and jam sandwiches and we tasted SPAM meat…We decided that we quite like the taste!

 P5ms have been investigating the scientific theories on how life on Earth began. Did you know these fascinating facts?

• The entire universe used to be squeezed together so tightly that it could fit on a pinhead.     Amy

• Then there was a BIG BANG!  Antonia

• Earth was a ball of lava. No life could survive the poisonous gases in the atmosphere.  Lauren K

 • Earth cooled down and water formed in the craters.   Jack

• The first living things were single cell creatures that formed in the tidal pools.   Adam

• These cells produced oxygen which helped create more complex creatures.   Kendal

• Natural Selection decided how the plants and animals would develop.  Finlay

Who’s raving about reading this week?

This week Chloe and Kyra used our Reading Rave to find out more about our new caterpillars. They read about the life cycle of a butterfly as it develops from an egg to a caterpillar, then from a chrysalis to a butterfly. We are looking forward to observing our caterpillars through the different stages and investigating what we need to do to care for them as they grow and develop. Thanks girls!

From the Blog Post Box:

 We are so proud of Jay, Emily, Chloe and Kyra for achieving their Celebrating Success certificates. Well done!

Somebody else I am proud of this week…..

 …is William for working hard on his positive behaviour.    Adam

…is Adam for having a good attitude.    Isla

 …is Declan for shaving one minute off his Beat the Clock record.   Kyra

…is Kendal because she had stage fright but got up and performed anyway.  Ellie

 Finally, we would like to say “Goodbye” to Amy and wish her well in her new school. Keep in touch Amy, we will miss you!

Our learning this week:

Ramie: I enjoyed learning about and drawing Aztec gods this week.

Kyle: I enjoyed my week in school learning with Mr Stewart.

Murray:  I enjoyed P.E. this week playing football and netball with Mr Jeffries.

Sian: I enjoyed reading my book in class called “Diary of a wimpy Kid”.

Henry: I enjoyed P.E. this week because it was outdoors and it was fun!

Connor:  I enjoyed P.E. this week because I was good at netball.

Shannon:  I enjoyed drawing an Aztec god this week.

Ross:  Ramie has impressed me this week because he got his highest ever score on Big Maths Beat That.

Mr Berginis: Lyndsay has impressed me this week with her work on decimal fractions and keeping the team score correct on the board.

Katie: Sian has impressed me this week because she achieved her highest ever score in Big Maths Beat That.

Connor: Murray impresed me because he was the only person to score a goal in football this week.

Lyndsay: Shannon impressed me this week getting her highest ever score in Big Maths Beat That. 

We had fun going on a minibeast hunt in the school gardens! We found slugs, spiders, snails, worms, ants, butterflies,millipedes and woodlouse. We looked at these minibeasts under a magnifying glass as we learned it makes objects look bigger then we recorded our findings on a checklist.

We also perfomed  the song ‘Reach for the Stars’ for our Celebrating Success assembly. Well done to Charlie, Grace, Findlay and Emma who got a certificate. We enjoyed our family and friends coming to see us and Miss Goff said she was very proud of us!

We have been very responsible showing the new primary 1 children around our classroom and telling them what primary 1 is like.

Lastly, we have finished tranforming our role play area into treehouse. Thanks to Jim our janitor for building us a platform to make it more realistic!

 By P1g

..our Celebrating Success song ‘Feeling Groovy’. We hope visitors enjoyed it!

We have chosen our best writing for the Young Writer’s competetion.

In PE, we have been learning about stamina.

We have been reminding ourselves about fractions and comparing them.

Our learning about farms has included dairy farms and we have drawn an aerial view of the farm we designed.  We are looking forward to our farm visit next week!

We loved our trip to the Five Sisters Zoo on Tuesday. We were very lucky the sun was shining! Here are our highlights:

– I loved seeing the monkeys (Ava C)

– I enjoyed playing in the Pirate Ship! (Daniel and James)

– The bears were interesting (Alfie)

– I liked the turtles (Aidan)

– I liked having lunch outside in the sunshine (Breanna)

– The monkeys were funny (Findlay)

– I loved the wild cats! (Jessica)

Have a lovely long weekend!

P1g

We had a fantastic day at the Five Sisters Zoo on Tuesday.  We received interesting talks about the bears and tropical birds, viewed a range of other animals in the zoo and had great fun playing on the pirate ship.  At lunch time we ate in the picnic area as the sun was shining and afterwards we played in the park.  Here are some of our highlights:

 Caitlin- ‘I liked seeing the bears. Carmen was swimming in the water and playing with a log.’

 Kayleigh and Leia liked playing in the dungeon on the pirate ship.

 Annabelle- ‘I liked walking across the wobbly bridge on the pirate ship.’

 Ben- ‘I liked playing with Evan and Reece on the pirate ship.’

Rachael- ‘I liked looking at the wallabies-they look like kangaroos!’

Aidan- ‘Parrots can talk.  They were squawking really loud!’

Our sea-monkeys hatched! We have 7 sea-monkey hatchlings. They are each only 1mm long. We look forward to seeing them grow. We love watching them play with one another. It looks like they’re playing tig!

We have created a log book to record our observations.

Many of us are so fascinated by our new pets that we’re saving up to buy our own!

We’ll keep you informed on their progress.

P5ms

 Who’s raving about reading this week?

This week Amy and Lauren were reading an Art Attack book. They carefully followed the instructions to make a beautiful photo frame.

Well done girls.

From the Blog Post Box:

Something interesting I learned this week was….

…that the whole universe used to fit on a pin head!          Lauren U

…that Matt Cardle used to have cancer. I found this out as I carried out personal research for my project.       Lauren C

… that the Earth was created from a Big Bang.                Declan

What a busy day!

We went shopping this morning before heading off to Passchendaele to visit the Tyne Cot cemetery. It is the biggest Commonwealth cemetery in central Europe and contains the names of 30,000 fallen soldiers and almost 2000 graves.

Next we visited the memorial museum and learned about the battles of Ypres and ventured through a reconstruction of an underground trench system.

Out next stop was the German Langemark cemetery followed by our visit to the Bayernwald trenches. We had an hour to run around here and explore the various trench systems and bunkers. We had a massive game of tig which even Mr Welsh joined in!

Our final stop of the day was at the Menin Gate where we took part in the daily Last Post ceremony. Kirstie and Ross represented the school as head boy and girl and laid our school wreath amongst the others.

It has been a very interesting and moving day.

One more sleep left then it is time for Plopsaland and the journey back home…