Its been great to welcome the children back and we hope you’ve all had a lovely break.

We’ve been working hard this week learning all sorts of new things.
With Mrs Laidlaw we started talking about the seasons and the sort of weather we can expect during the year.

We have been learning the days of the week in French. This is the song we used to listen to the names of the days.

We have done a bit more work learnig about subtraction and how we can work out subtraction sums. We can use our fingers, counters or number lines.

We also started thinking about being Nature Detectives. We thought about what we can see, smell, hear, taste and touch in our natural environment.

Mr Jeffries came along with a brilliant surprise for us – the MVP award for March was given to Grace.

Article 28 – the right to an education.

What a great week. We are really happy to be back together again after a great holiday!!

This term we will be learning about different theories of how the world came to be. We have begun by looking at the Christian creation story and we will also learn about the Hindu and Jewish creation stories. From this we will then look at the Big Bang theory and Darwin’s theory of Evolution and adaptation.

Maths

This week we have been learning to simplify fractions. Before we could be successful with this we had to learn about number factors.

Lennox- I am really enjoying learning how to simplify fractions.

Tom – simplifying fractions is easy now that I know how to find number factors.

Megan – We have learned that you need to find the highest common denominator to simplify fractions.

Writing

We have had great fun writing for the young writer competion. Almost all of us wrote short stories and one of us wrote a poem.

Caitlin – writing is easier now because I can use all the things I have been learning about like speech marks.

Music

We are taking part in a world record attempt in June for the largest Djembe drumming ensemble. Chris from Infectious Grooves came in this week to give us our first lesson.

Sam – we are learning ‘fills’ and ‘polyrythms’

Lucie T – we were clapping and chanting the rhythms before we used the instruments.

That’s all for now folks, have a great weekend!

James – We have been learning about magnets
Kayleigh – We know that there is a magnetic field
Ben – In a magnet there is a north and south pole. If there is a south and south pole they go apart which is called repel. If they are the opposite they stick together which is called attract.
Reece – We learned that there is a magnetic force on earth
Leia – We learned by watching a video which taught us about magnets
Demi Leigh – We then went around the room and then tested what was magnetic and what wasn’t
Isla – We then had to work with our talking partner to design and make a game that used magnets

James – We have been learning about measuring
Demi Leigh – We learned to measure length and we measured our heights
Ben – We had a task to measure different objects
Aaron – Me and Olivia measured the teacher!
Freddie – In my maths group we are beginning to learn the 6 timestable
Leia – We have had talks to do on famous inventors that I enjoyed!

Literacy

In literacy this week we have learning more about determining importance in our ‘Reading Detective Mission’.  We listened to a story about a beach and then had to select items that we think would be important for a visit to a beach. We worked in groups and were surprised to find that every group had a different ‘most important item’.  This made us realise that everyone might have different ideas about what is important in a book – we just need to be able to justify our answers!

We have also been redrafting some our writing for the Young Writer Competition.  We really enjoyed trying our best to check our spelling and write using our neatest handwriting.  Our stories are now with Mr Welsh and we are excited to see if anyone in our class is a winner for West Lothian!

Maths

We have been symmetry wizards this week and have amazed Mrs Mansfield by how quickly we have managed to learn about different lines of symmetry.  We have been creating symmetrical patterns, completing pictures and sorting shapes to practise our skills.

We also have been adding new actions to our counting games to make them more exciting and are getting much better at skip counting as well as counting backwards and forwards.  We even learned a new game this week called ‘Fizz’ which we really liked playing!!

Tadpole Rag

The class have all been practising their parts for Tadpole Rag and are really looking forward to sharing their songs and dances with an audience.  A letter will be going out shortly with details about getting tickets for the show on the 29th of April (we are performing at the 11.00am show).

Thanks,

Primary 2b

Caitlin – I enjoyed doing PE with mr jeffries and i enjoyed eating carys star wars cake but wish i could have a big bit of cake because it is very very tasty and mrs mcCulloch came to visit to see what our class looks like and mrs welsh came to visit on monday to see us all and i am learning how to do tuck shop with p7s

Aiden – i enjoyed PARTYING in class M the sad thing is I MISED P.E :[  i liked playing with the wii and went to A LOT!!!of intergration i enjoyed it at least and plus a really LOVED my Spring onion crips and OREOS.

Joe – I liked  star wars rebels. my favourite is the droid  army. i enjoyed the party, adam and i had fun in the soft play.

Adam – i liked carys party it was really cool and i had lots of fun playing with joe in the soft play and the party food was good and it was really cool when me and cary and caitlin played with the bouncy ball and it was fun playing with the orbees.

Dylan – I enjoyed painting the five pillars of Islam. I painted the Salah pillar. I had fun at Cary’s party. I went into the soft play with Callum it was good.

Cary – I liked the hot wheels cars that class M gave me for my birthday. I like  Star Wars technology. I enjoyed the new topic with Mrs Innes ‘ Star Wars Rebel’.

The Junior Choir is busy learning songs about the human body. We will also be using percussion instruments during the first block of work.

The Senior Choir – Today, we will begin working on an adaptation of ‘We Will Rock You’. Pamela Logan, choreographer, will begin teaching us our first dance routine, and we will be auditioning for different roles. This block will rely heavily on children working on scripts and solo singing at home. We may need to rehearse scenes after school on a Thursday too. However, when this happens a letter will go home a week in advance. I understand that not everyone will be able to attend extra rehearsals – as we all have very busy lives!

First week back after the Easter break, and we’re all smiling happily!
Cameron B is so pleased as we have begun to learn about Space – ‘The final frontier’.
Ella – Mr Berginis is teaching us about internet safety.
Isla was telling Mrs Innes about the game the class played with Mr Berginni. It was a bit like ‘Face-off’. We had to say an animal beginning with the letter Mr Berginis said – the letter was P and Isla said pineapple… someone tell Isla that a pineapple is a fruit, please.
Jessie – We have begun learning our Celebrating Success song – strangely enough it’s called ‘Celebration’.
Louise – We also started discussing our class assembly which is on Friday 3rd June.
Scott – We have all been learning how to calculate perimeter and area of shapes.
Ellie – We have moved seats in and have changed our table names. We have a group of aliens, plutopians(?) and two chocolate groups – the galaxies and milky ways!
Keira B – In space we learned about the four gas giants and the rocky planets…. test us!
Louisa – In maths I counted up in tens and twenties – it was tricky!
Another good week in primary 6A.

It has been confirmed that all pupils requiring school transport next session will need to apply before 6th May 2016. This includes new pupils as well as pupils already receiving transport in buses and taxis. Please be aware that new bus passes and information will be required for next session so it is essential that applications are submitted prior to the deadline as previous passes will not be accepted.

In order to improve the application process a new feature has been created which allows pupils and parents to complete and submit transport applications online through the council website making it quicker and easier to apply. The form can be found at the following web address:

http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/article/10045/Free-School-Transport-Application-Form

Should you require any further information or have any queries please contact school transport on 01506 282322. 

Liam: I couldn’t believe it when we had a soft play! I like playing with the toys in there – red cube, trampoline, soft bricks and the roller. My favourite thing is the roller! I like rolling in it.

Cameron: I really like the look of the new soft play. It is great fun to play in and relax. It is so much better than our old one. It is a good place to chill in.

Yolie: I like the soft play. When I jump on the trampoline I can jump high. Inside the tunnel there are mirrors because you can make lots of funny faces.

Cody: The soft play is an amazing space to play and express yourself. The tunnel cube is super.

Callum: Wow! The soft play is great. There is so much to do. I really like building things to be adventurous on. This week I built a slide.

This term has been incredibly busy in P1c. These are our ‘best bits’

Harris – I like playing with Noah at playtime.
Skye – I like playing on the ipad when I’ve done my work.
Dionne – I liked listening to the Easter songs with my buddy.
Alysheeya – I liked visiting the library for World Book Day.
Alex – I liked going to church to sing the songs
Marley – I like learning on pocket phonics.
Nina – I liked going to the church to sing about Easter.
Daniel – I enjoyed learning why stone age people killed animals to make clothes.
Evie – I enjoyed making the stoneage jewellery with Mrs Laidlaw.
Elise – I liked learning about adding in maths.
Grace – I enjoyed learning about dinosaurs.
Ava – I have enjoyed learning the new sounds with Miss Wilson.
Isla – I liked learning about stone age clothes.
Emma – I have enjoyed learning about dinosaurs.
Sarah – I liked making my dinosaur project.
Keira – I liked learning about stone age people, especially what they ate.
Noah – I liked playing with the playdough.
Isla – I liked doing gym with Mr Jeffries.
Liam – I liked learning about dinosaurs.
Esther – I have learning about cave people and what they ate and how they lived.

Article 28 – the right to an education.

Dojo winners – Nina and Grace

This week we made Easter egg baskets with our primary 1 buddies – this was great fun.
In PE we played Castles – we were trying to knock down the structure with balls. This helps our co-ordination and directional throwing.
On Tuesday we watched the Tuesday cast’s performance of ‘The Rocky Monster Show’, on the big screen in the drama hall. It was fabulous watching ourselves – we even applauded ourselves at the curtain call! Today we will watch the Wednesday night cast’s performance.
This morning we attended Church. The singing was super! The whole service was very interesting and we enjoyed it.
This afternoon we also have our Golden Club event – the Easter egg hunt.
It’s been a busy term for us! We have so much else to learn next term – and our class assembly and Celebrating Success too!

Have a wonderful Easter break.