We are getting music lessons from NYCOS. We are really enjoying these as we are learning about rhythm and beat while having fun.

Our Topic of Mary Queen of Scots is now complete, (almost!), and we have really enjoyed it. We were really shocked to receive a letter from the Director of the Museum to ask where we were at a given time as the Tomb of Mary Queen of Scots had been damaged. We had an airtight alibi though and wrote back to the Director telling him where we were at that time.

In maths we have been learning about directions and how a compass can help us with directions. We impressed Mrs. Ghafoor with how quickly we understood turning in different degrees and clockwise and anticlockwise directions. (I will have a challenge next week for you P4a!)

Snow early on in the week meant that we had to go home, not that we complained! It did mean that we didn’t get to make our Palm Crosses.

Bye for now, P4a.

A couple of weeks ago we made these fantastic Chinese kites with Mr Chen and we took them out for a test flight. Check out the video below…

or Click here for video…

It wasn’t a very windy day so we had to run with them but we’re looking forward to the next really windy (but not snowy!) day so we can give them a proper test!

This week we have been learning more about life in a castle.  We learned about the clothes they wore and found out that the wealthy Lords and Ladies were the ones that had all the fine silks and furs, whilst other people had to make do with what they had.  As for the children they just wore hand me downs from the adults!  We also learned how they cleaned their teach and kept clean in the medieval times and about how they didn’t have bathrooms or toilets!  The children were very unimpressed by these facts!  However, we  were impressed making our flags for the classroom and describing castles in our writing sessions.

We also had a look at the Easter story and learned all about this celebration and how it came about.  We were amazed by the way in which Jesus was treated and didn’t feel it was very ‘Cool in School’!

We are looking forward to our Shared start next week and seeing everyone at the Easter Service.

See you then.

This week our Home Teams presented their pitches to the Dragons.

There were four great inventions:

The Do-It Bathroom – a luxury bathroom equipped with drinks machine, music at the click of your fingers and lots more!

The Comfy Collar – a clever collar designed to keep your pet warm in winter and cool in summer.

The Cutlery Plate – a plate with built in cutlery, including a pizza slicer.

The Egg Bed – a snug place for your eggs to rest safely.

In the end it was the Balbardie Stars who, having persuaded the Dragons to invest the most in their Comfy Collar, walked away with £800!

The Happy Hippos came up smiling too, with the Dragons from their team being commended for excellent business sense.

Who’s raving about reading this week?

This week Lauren C and Isla used our Reading Rave to read books about Flanimals.  They designed their own Flanimals which they will use to present a puppet show! It is great to see you using what you are reading to help you in other areas of the Curriculum. 🙂

From the Blog Post Box:

This term I have enjoyed….

“…learning about Victorian Inventions.”                   Declan

“…using the iPads.”          Antonia

“…Miss Clark being here.”                   Ellie

“…our Victorian assembly.”                  Jack

Hello Everyone

This week we had a chance to work on the laptops.  We were looking at the life of John Logie Baird and researching a part of his life.  We worked with a partner to identify key information then shared it with the rest of the class.  We are all very pleased that this famous Scot helped to invent the television as it is hard to imagine what life would be like now without it.  We had our third session working with the National Youth Choir of Scotland.  Mrs Leamy is very impressed with how we are all picking up on the idea of bet and rhythm and it is good fun playing all the singing games.  On Friday we took part in the schools Earth Hour and to help us remember we painted giant flourescent pandas as it is the WWF that organise the Earth Hour event.

Bye for now.

P4l

This week at school we looked at coins to £2.  We can recognise these coins and add 1p, 2p and 5p coins up to 10p.  We enjoyed playing using these coins to play shops!

Rachael enjoyed making a pirate ship from a selection of materials.  Our challenge was to include a sail, mast, flag, cannon and portholes.  Next week we are going to test to see if our ship floats in water.  Thank you for your kind donations of junk materials.

This week P5a have been learning how to create animations. We started off by participating in a Glow Meet with Bruce Husband (an OOGLIE animator). This was great fun and Miss Anderson downloaded an animation app for our iPads. Using our new app, and iMovie, we were able to create stop motion animations with music and sound effects. Click here and here for a few examples.We used this learning later in the week when we worked with P2lg pupils to create stories on the iPads.

It has also been profile week and we have all written a choose story for our profile jotters. We have all used possessive apostrophes in our writing this week.

Most of the class think that this week has flown by. Alex thinks this is because of all the snow.

We also had our last Club Golf session. We have really enjoyed Club Golf and we think that Mr Welsh has too…

P3 were given an Ancient Egyptian project task for homework, which has been a huge success.  On Thursday the boys and girls shared their personal projects with the class and all learned something new from them.

We were all blown away by the fantastic models and interesting information booklets; they were to such a high standard.

The children had a wonderful time sharing their learning and showing off their creativity! 

I would like to say a massive well done to the children for all their hard work and effort with this task and also to parents and carers for their input. 

Below are a few pictures of Rebecca, Aidan and Valerija presenting their projects to the class with pride.

Mrs Laidlaw

Well, it’s been another busy week in Ancient Egypt for P3b!

We have written some wonderful stories about our lives as Egyptian gods and goddesses – we really put our imaginations to good use.

We learned more about mummification and designed our own canopic jars to store the liver, intestines, stomach and lungs. The designs were beautiful but you probably wouldn’t want to look inside!

We even practised our times tables by loading up a camel.

Our personal projects on Ancient Egypt have been handed in and we’re looking forward to sharing our learning with one another – it’s one of the best ways to learn!

What a jam packed week this has been!

On Tuesday we went to the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. We had two challenges to complete after our visit with Mary Queen of Scots. She was very impressed with how much we knew about her life!

On Thursday we walked to Bathgate academy to see the P6’s show called ‘Alice’. What a fantastic show. We walked back just in time for lunch and then had our own dress rehearsal for our asembly!

Today was our assembly and Mrs Ghafoor was very proud of us as we did a fantastic job! We had lots of fun and then also got a chance to see our parents afterwards. Our assembly was on Mary Queenof Scots.

Some of our comments about our assembly:

My favourite part was telling people what to do (as a queen)- Emma C

My favourite part was getting my head chopped off! – Ava

I was a prompter. My job was to tell people when to go on stage – Abby C

It is so, so fun with the class – Adam.

My favourite part was when my mummy came to watch me – Taylor

My favourite part was ‘Rizzio’ getting murdered because it looked real – Erin H

Good job P4a!

A highlight from our week was watching the Primary 6’s performance of ‘Alice’.  We travelled by bus to Bathgate Academy on Thursday to watch the fabulous show!  Ava mentioned that she enjoyed listening to the boys and girls singing and dancing.  

In number work this week, Sam enjoyed learning more about take away sums.  This week we have been focusing on the subtraction story of 5.  Rachael was then able to state that 5-0=5!

We have also been busy learning information about food allergies.  Leia explained that eating food you are allergic to can make people feel sick and itchy.  We learned that we can keep people with allergies safe by checking labels on food, washing our hands after eating, not sharing food and telling an adult if someone does not feel well.

The boys are girls also looked great dressed in their costumes to support Red Nose Day.   Thank you for your kind donations,

P1b