A Huge thank you to everyone who came along to our assembly, we have been getting great feedback and we are very proud of ourselves!  Our challenge for next week is to upload our photos and video for you all to see…….

We hope you enjoyed seeing our mythical clay creatures that we brought home this week, and that you haven’t had a spell cast on you with our wands!

We had a great time at our Christmas disco and loved our ‘class circle’ dance at the end. We have Breakfast with Santa, a pantomime and church next week – what a busy time!

This term we have been developing our imaginative writing skills and writing fantastic stories – Alien Adventures in Scotland. We have focused on our use of interesting vocabulary, worked hard to vary our sentence openers and have learned how to use direct speech effectively.

This week 9 of our wonderful adventures were converted into animations using the Animate It app. We worked in our animation crews to recreate the stories using words, pictures and props.

We look forward to Monday’s Cinema Experience when we will all sit down to enjoy our hard work. Bet there won’t be a dry eye in the classroom as we watch our aliens soar off to their home planets!

Congratulations to Murray for being November’s MVP and well done to Lauryn who was our Pupil of the Week.

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Last Saturday was the school’s Christmas Fayre. We are very pleased that we managed to sell all of our advent calendars, bracelets and key-rings. Here are some of our thoughts on the day:

‘It was fun and a lot bigger than last year. I bought sweets, a snow cone and a DVD.’ – Leon

‘It was very busy.’- Robbie

‘The snow cones were good.’- Sasha

This week during story writing we started to write a children’s story book for our P1 buddies. Our stories had to include a character which was described in detail. We used adjectives and adverbs to describe our main character. To up level our writing, we also tried to show how our characters were feeling without stating it. E.g. instead of the boy was happy we said things like the boy had a huge smile on his face. We will redraft our work next week to make our books and include colourful illustrations.

Today we watched the P1 Nativity dress rehearsal. The show was really good and we are proud of our buddies and all of their hard work. Good luck for the real shows next Tuesday and Wednesday!

Pupil of the week- Robbie
Class Dojo winner- Leon
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This week we have shown Mrs D that we can remember what we have been learning! We had a big strip of paper on our desks and we were given time to record some of the skills we have picked up along the way in P5 so far. Here are some pictures …..

We will continue over the next two terms to develop our ability to demonstrate the skills we have learned and record them in this way.

Have a great weekend!

We have a classroom full of mythical creatures that are looking great after being painted. We have had a great time watching our creatures ‘come alive’ and are so proud of ourselves for creating them from our writing.

In maths this week we have been learning about division and although it looked pretty hard, when you know how to do it, it is easy!

We are looking forward to performing our assembly for you next week and are busy practising it.

-This week I liked doing my diary entry – Zoe

-I liked doing the work on description – Lucy

-I liked my harry Potter diary – Valerija

Looking forward to seeing you next week at our assembly!

Only two weeks until the holidays -HO HO HO!

What we have been learning this week:

• Drama – We have been auditioning for the P7 panto. We will find out out parts next week. Cinders will be performed in January.
• Writing – We have been learning how to write a good ending to a story. We read a story about a young child who lived in London during the war. We had to write an interesting ending to the story. A good ending must link back to the opening, describe the thoughts and feelings of the character and solve all the problems. Also, to make it interesting we had to either end with a cliffhanger, a twist or a sequel.
• Modern Languages – In French this week we have been learning the days of the week and months of the year. We can now tell Miss Elliot the date in French. We have also been learning different the names for different colours. As we have been learning about WW2, we wanted to learn some German. Miss Elliot has taught us how to count to 10 and say our name.
• Reading – We are continuing to read the Boy in Striped Pyjamas. This week we have been focussing on describing the characters in the story based on what we have read so far and discussing how the author creates different atmospheres in the story.
• Maths – This week the pentagons have been continuing to mental multiplication strategies including adjusting numbers. The Hexagons and Octagons have worked hard the last two weeks to subtract three and four digit numbers mentally. The Decahedrons have worked hard on adding 3 digit numbers.

Awards:

Class Dojo: Carter and Jamie

Pupil of the Week: Sophie W

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Week beg. 16.11.15
This week we made products for the Christmas fayre. The boys made santa and snowmen beaded keyrings and the girls made Christmas themed charm bracelets. Everyone also designed advent calendars to sell at our stall.

At Buddy time, we helped our buddies design posters to advertise the Christmas Fayre. It was important to include information such as the date, location and eye catching pictures. Reminder- School Christmas Fayre will take place next Saturday the 28th of November.

This week, as part of our context for learning, we started a class novel called The Boy in Striped Pyjamas. We read chapter one together then worked with a partner to write a summary of what we read and find the meaning of tricky words. We also discussed the character in the story so far. We are looking forward to reading chapter two next week.
Pupil of the week- Ross McPhee
Class dojo winner- Josh Cunningham
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Week beg. 23.11.15
Last week in P.E we earned our five fireballs for achieving our targets. This week we got a free game of choice. We chose dodgeball and enjoyed this game.

‘I made some good catches to put people out.’ – Leon

On Thursday Mr Welsh came into our class to explain didbook. This is an online educational profile which is used at Bathgate Academy. This is a good way to let the teacher’s know information about us in advance. In class we updated our personal profiles. Over the next few months we will also add to the enrichment diary and skills section. We are very excited about this and have been logging on at home!

This week we learned about rotational symmetry. This is how many times a shape can fit into itself. For example, a square has the order of rotational symmetry of 4. We completed a table to show this information for a range of 2D shapes.

Have a nice weekend. We hope you can come along to our Christmas Fayre tomorrow.

Pupil of the week- Abby
Class dojo winners- Eva & Josh
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This week in P4b:

Brodie enjoyed  writing

Arran enjoyed gathering

Karys,Ava,Keria,Lucy R,Sophie,Eva Robbie and Freya enjoyed making the Christmas Fayre craft

Rachael and Liam Liked learning more about Mary Queen of Scots’ life

Demi, Cameron and Isla enjoyed learning in maths

Grace enjoyed making a Mary Queen of Scots crown

Lucy M enjoyed learning a Scottish song in music

Olivia enjoyed outdoor P.E

Kelsey, Breanna and Emma enjoyed P.E with Mr Jeffries

This blog post was written by Demi and Olivia

Primary 6A

Throughout the week we had to design and create a parachute that would ensure an egg would survive a 2 metre drop. We were carrying out this investigation because we have been learning about friction. Unfortunately our parachutes weren’t very reliable and no egg survived!! We did however, have a cracking time!!! We also wrote newspaper articles about Harry Potter coming to Hogwarts and we stained them with tea to make them look like old scrolls. We designed our own front covers for the story Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone. The class had fun looking at the designs of the front cover for the book in other countries around the world.