In writing this week we continued to write in the style of a biography.  We used our imagination to create a biography about our future selves.  This links in with our future aspirations context for learning as we wrote about things we had achieved in our lives.

On Wednesday a maths teacher from Bathgate Academy came into our class to carry out some place value and addition activities.  One activity we completed was an addition puzzle that joined together to form a hexagon.  We had the option of choosing mild, spicy or hot addition sums that meant we could challenge ourselves appropriately.

For Golden Time this week we chose from different activities in the P6 and P7 classes.  The options included; baking, games from home, free art, hama beads, outside games, ipads and Wii.  We all had great fun and are looking forward to trying different activities.

Class Dojo Winner- Meadow Friel

Table Winners- Mysterious Six

Pupil of the Week- Viggo Savage

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Thanks to everyone who came along to meet the teacher – we had lots of positive feed back and just a wee reminder on Class Dojo – we are not using it at the moment, but are instead using our peg system which the children came up with.  Everyone starts the week with 5 minutes Golden Time and earns a further five minutes each day. When a pupil’s behaviour choice is deemed inappropriate they are given a warning and move their peg to challenge that choice. They are given support in class to improve.  If they choose not to improve then they move another peg and don’t earn that days Golden Time.  Everyone with complete Golden Times earns a sticker for our Golden Club.

We have had a busy week with getting our photos taken, attending p7 assembly and welcoming Mrs Dunbar who came into our class to get to know us. We also found out about a man called William Wallace and how he became involved in the SWOI.

NB PLEASE REMEMBER TO RETURN THE GREEN FORM AND THE BEHAVIOUR CONTRACT IF YOUR CHILD IS GOING TO LOWPORT.

This week in P2 we started our new topic of Mr Potato Head and his senses.  We had fun making our Mr and Mrs Potato Heads and they will help us with our challenges!

In writing this week we wrote about Mr Potato Head losing his eye sight and who would help him.  Well done to the Star Writers Luke, Hollie and Elena who wrote lovely sentences about his adventure.

We have been busy practising our mental maths with adding our numbers up to 20 and we are getting faster at the answers.

Miss McDougall is delighted that some people are nearly on Step 2! Excellent news 🙂

Achievements this week…

Pupil of the week-Luke

Emily has been learning to ride her bike without stabilisers

Archie went up to level 4 in swimming

Kyle is moving up to a red belt in Tae Kwon Do

Eva is nearly on level 4 swimming

Luke is getting his level 5 test for swimming

Teigan is moving onto level 3 in swimming

Hollie is trying hard at her dancing

Emma is on level 3 in dancing

We can’t believe how fast our days are flying in. One minute it’s big start and the next it’s home time, that’s how it feels anyway!

Literacy

This week we have been learning to write a letter. We pretended to be the young Mary Queen of Scots, who had been sent to live in France, writing a letter home to her mother. We used a writing planner to help structure our work. Here is an example of the opening paragraph of  one of our letters-

Maths

We have been continuing to practice our recall of the times tables and feel we are getting better. On Monday we were consolidating what we have learned about rounding numbers. We have also been learning how to tell the time in 5 minute increments.

Mia – I am finding it easier to tell the time

Connor – I am enjoying rounding numbers

Suvi – I feel more confident with telling time

Campbell – I am enjoying rounding number to 100

LATC

We have been learning about the time when Mary Queen of Scots was sent to France to live so that she would be safe from King Henry.

Jason – the four Marys’ went with her but got sent to live with nuns

Denholm – in France she liked horse riding and she learned to play the harp

Euan – she played with her cousin Elizabeth and the king’s son Francis

Amy – she learned to play the Lute

Music

We had a great time learning rhythms…

Have a great weekend!

We have had a very busy week in P1A.  We have been learning the sounds ‘m’ and ‘c’ and tricky words ‘I’ and ‘the’.  In numeracy we have been counting to 10, ordering numbers to 10 and writing numbers to 10.  We have been learning about friendship and read the story Room on a Broom.  We wrote stories about who we would have on our broomsticks!

Pupil of the week: Jude for always doing the right thing, working hard and always having a smile on his face.

Playground certificate: Ellis for being a kind friend in the playground.

Here are some pictures of us working hard!

This week has been a week of weather and has certainly helped us with our French! We’ve had rain, sunshine, warmth, clouds and wind!
This has been our first full week and we have started learning lots of new things.

In literacy we are learning about Mary Queen of Scots, who was born nearby at Linlithgow Palace. She was the third child of Mary of Guise and James V of Scotland.

In maths, we have been learning about place value and adding numbers. We have also been revising our knowledge of telling the time. We played time bingo using analogue times and clocks. We are all really good at using o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to and are moving onto using 5 minute intervals which will mean we are never late!
In Music with Mrs Drummond, we learnt about rhythm and beat. We had a lot of fun clapping and clicking.
Have a lovely weekend and we hope the weather is nice for the Kirkston Park festival.

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Pupil of week – Maisey for contributing to class discussions.
Table of the week – Yellow

We have had a busy full week in P2. We have been busy making our class charter and making up our class charter rules to help us this year.

We started off our reading groups this week and were very excited to find out our new reading books and what groups we would be in.

In maths work this week we have been busy writing and practising our numbers up to 100 using our new maths games.  We love using Ant picnic to help us to sequence our numbers.

We are looking forward to starting our senses topic next week and Mr Potato Head is going to help us learn about them.

We look forward to seeing you at Meet the Teacher on Wednesday 7Th September at 6pm.

Achievements this week

Well done to Elena for Pupil of the week and Kyle for getting a Tae Kwon Do trophy

It has been a busy first full week in Primary 7.   Here are some of the things we learned/enjoyed this week in class:

For writing this week, we completed a biography about a person who inspires us.  First of all, we researched facts about our idol and then took notes on a planning template.  We then used our notes to form a biography in our own words.  We learned that features of a biography includes;  written in 3rd person, past tense, chronological order, headings and key events and dates.

In art, we chose inspirational quotes to encourage other pupils.  We turned this into pop art.  We looked at the colour wheel and chose contrasting colours for our backgrounds to make our quotes stand out.  Here is an example of one of the quotes we used:

‘success comes in cans, not in cannots.’

In maths we learned about different properties of 3D shapes.  We learned how to identify the number of faces, edges and vertices on 3D shapes.  Today we learned a special rule- to calculate the number of edges, you can add the number of faces and vertices then subtract two.  We also learned some new shape names such as octahedrons and  tetrahedrons.  We also learned the definition of a prism.

P7b

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