We have been busy in P6a this week.

We have enjoyed reading our class novel, Maltilda.

We also have been working hard to get our Space projects finished.

In maths we learned about measuring in cm and mm with a partner.

We enjoyed typing fact cards to demonstrate our learning of a new planet that has discovered- Proxima b.

Special person: Sophie

This week there was an open evening at Bathgate Academy. Some people went to the academy to find out more about the school.

Gemma M – On Wednesday I went to the academy. We went to the maths department and I went on the computer to play some maths games.

Ben- At the academy I went to the CDT department and looked at all the tools. It was fun. I think I will like CDT when I go to high school.

Annie and Olivia  – We went to the P.E hall and met the gymnastics team and the P.E teacher. you can go a trip to Italy to watch a football game and play football.

Sarah-I went to the art department and watched some people do press printing.

Ramsay- I went to the science lab and put powder into the  burner to see how it would react. I’m looking forward to science when I go to high school.

We will be visiting the Academy throughout the year and we are all excited about our transitioning to secondary school.

by Zoe and Ellie

We have had a busy first term in Primary Seven.  Here are some of our highlights:

‘I liked recapping 2D and 3D shapes.’- Lucy

‘I liked writing the ending to the crime story.’- Callum D

‘I liked doing all the CSI activities.’- Valerija

‘I liked learning the days of the week in French.’- Meadow

‘I enjoyed all the writing.  I liked the CSI writing most of all because you can write what you want.’- Christopher

‘I enjoyed doing the pop art.’ Polina

‘I liked drawing the suspects using tone and shade.’- Meadow

‘I enjoyed using shade and tone to draw images of the lungs and heart.’- Lucy

‘I liked creating the perspective art.’- Jamie

‘I liked writing the newspaper article on the crime about the stolen laptop.’- Kari

‘I liked doing the auditions in drama for our P7 panto.’- Meadow

‘I enjoyed writing the explanation text on how the lungs work.’- Millie

‘I was exciting finding out our roles for the panto.’- Kari

Class dojo- Christopher

Pupil of the Week- Lucy

Table of the Week- MI6

Primary 3a have had a fantastic term and have worked really hard.  Here are some of the things we have been learning this week.

LAC

In our learning across the curriculum we created a collage picture of different landscapes.  We also used the ‘birds eye view’ technique to show how our school would look from above.

Literacy

In spelling we have been learning the u-e, cl, and sp sounds this week.

We made our very own postcards in writing all about a special holiday we have been on.

In reading the Lions have been reading all about Nesta and Ned the dragons.

P.E

We played a turtle game with Mr Jeffries- it was really good fun!

Achievements

Pupil of the week – Shelbi

Step 2- Arran, Ellis, Mia, Samuel, Shelbi, Kai, Brooke, Donna, Lucas, Farrah, Lucas, Murray, Cameron, Ammie-Leigh, Lily, Jodie, Ruby and Blaire.

Ellis has started a new song in Piano!

Lucas won a football medal!

We hope you have a great October break 🙂

P1a have really enjoyed their first term being in P1a.

We have learned lots of sounds: s, a, t, p, i, n, b, f, o, m, c, k, ck and

Tricky words: she, he, I, do, to, the, he, me, we, be

Here are some of our favourite things at school….

Jude & Olivia’s  favourite thing in school is Golden Time and playing with his toys.

We have learned the sound, ‘b’ and I love Golden Time. Holly

I like when we go outside and play with each other.  Ellis

I enjoy playing with my buddy, Jamie.  Mac

I like buddy time because we can play games in my buddies classroom and do the dot-to-dot.  Carley

I liked going to the church with my buddy Aaron.  Justin

I like playing with my buddy and having Golden Time. Amber

Playing at Golden Time with my Shopkins.  Aileigh

Playing with the iPad at Golden Time.  Jack

Playing at Golden Time and playing with the iPads.  James

This week we learned or enjoyed…

The sound, ‘f”.  Aaron

The sound, ‘b’.  Justin

Jude’s daddy came in. Shannon

Olivia’s daddy came in to talk about his job.  Ada

Jude’s daddy teaches football. Oliver

Mrs Dunbar came in to read us a story.  Mia

Alex enjoyed going to the church for the Harvest service.  Alex

Hope you all have a lovely holiday!

Writing

We wrote a recount of the execution of Mary Queen of Scots with Mrs Aitken this week. This time we worked without a writing planner which is tricky but we did very well! We had to write using time connectives to sequence the recount and make sure it was in chronological order.

Maths

We were learning to time an event using a stopwatch. It was good fun. We had to see what we could manage in 60 seconds. We had to estimate first then time the activity to see if our estimation was correct. Some of the activities were- hopping, writing our name, taking our jumper off and putting it back on, standing on one leg, try to build a tower of 30 cubes. We also did a fun activity to consolidate what we had learned about telling the time, we had to make the time on a paper clock and write the digital time then match it to times on the board.

Expressive Arts

We enjoyed making ‘autumn windows’ this week with Mrs Spence and Mrs Aitken. We folded our paper in half then cut a window in one half and painted an autumn picture on the other. When the paper was folded over it looked like a window. we really enjoyed this! Here is some of our work – oops we will load pictures another time as we are having difficulty uploading images..

Teamwork

We have been working hard to support each other in class. This week we did a really tricky activity to help us learn more about working together and supporting each other. We worked in pairs and had to use only one hand each to tie a shoelace, it was very good fun. Apologies again as we can’t upload pictures at this time.

Have a great October break everyone!

We have been working very hard learning Handball for our upcoming tournament.

Demi – I think Handball is really good because you have to work in a team.

Sam – It’s good because it gets your muscles stronger.

Ava – It’s really fun practicing.

Aidan – It’s very challenging because you are against your friends.

In Maths we finished Time – yes it was time for it to go!! We can now all use an analogue clock and five minute intervals, not to mention calculating periods of time.

In writing we were learning about comic strips and ran a competition to find the best one.  Congratulations to Rachael Muir and Cameron Notman.

And finally we are just back from a lovely church service to celebrate Harvest, and we can’t stop singing Big Red Combine  Harvester!!

Happy Holidays everyone!

We have really enjoyed this week in P2/1.  There have been lots of good bits but these have been our favourite:

Millie – “making the owl by cutting out shapes and sticking them onto black card”

Rio – “I liked going to church”

Breghannon – “I liked church too!”

Cameron – “I liked singing songs at th echurch”

Poppy – “Making a jigsaw with our P7 buddy”

Ellie – “Reading a story with Mrs Dunbar and telling her about our apple experiment”

Marley – “Mummy coming to the church.  I waved to Mrs Aitchison and my mummy and I loved maths this week.  I’ve had a good week!”

Emily – “I liked church because I liked the singing”

Rocco – “The best bit was making a jigsaw”

Romeo – “I liked making and cutting a jigsaw too”

Regan – “Coming out of the church and giving my papa a cuddle”

Teigan – “I liked church with Marley”

Jonah – “I loved going to church”

Keegan – “I liked the church”

Leah – “I liked making a puzzle”

Rory – “Church was really good fun”

Max – “My favourite bit was learning sign language, we learned the colours”

Liam – “Singing the rainbow song in our sign language lesson with P2s”

Leila – “I liked going to church, it was exciting!”

We started work on our P1 show this week, we learned the song Tapping Away and we even got the chance to be on the stage.  We were excited to hear what parts we are in the show.

Narrators  – Rory, Cameron, Poppy, Rocco, Millie, Romeo, Leah

Santa – Regan

Reindeer – Emily, Leila, Rio, Breghannon, Teigan

Ralph the Reindeer – Ellie

From,

Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – could all pink review jotters please be returned asap after the holidays.  These were due to be returned on Thursday, please let me know if there are any problems.  I hope you all have a lovely holiday and can’t wait to hear all of your child’s adventures from the October week!)

Last week was very busy for Primary 3A and we can’t believe it is our last week before the holidays!

Here are some of the things we have been learning this week…

Literacy

In writing we made our very own postcards all about a Highland Cow.

We also learned how to summarise a text.  We did this for our class novel The BFG and for our very own reading books.

Maths & Numeracy

We have been revising 10 less and 10 more in maths with numbers up to 100 and 1000.

We also played a game where we had to guess which 3d shape we were had by sticking it on our back and asking for clues.

We are looking forward to learning about directions in class this week.

P.E. 

We played with the parachute last week and played a game of fruit salad where we had to use our listening and movement skills to swap with another pupil under the parachute.  We were also working on our throwing and catching technique with Mr Jeffries.

Achievements and extra news! 

Shelbi received Pupil of the week today for a continuous great effort in her home learning!

Charlie is just back from sunny Corfu and he had a great time!

Ellis’ teacher at Tae Kwon Do was really proud of him last week- well done!

Mia can now ride her bike without her stabilisers!

This week some of the things we did are:

We auditioned for our p7 panto (Jack and the Beanstalk)

In art we used our knowledge of shape and perspective to create 3D pictures.

In P.E we played extreme tunnel tig, we did an obstacle course, elimination tig and body part balances.

In maths the Decahedrons were practicing adding and taking away mentally. The Pentagons and Hexagons also worked on adding mentally.

With Mrs Waddell we shared our paintings of heaven and hell and measured angles.

In writing we wrote an explanation text about the lungs and how we breathe.

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Have a good weekend!