Monthly Archives: December 2013

Primary 6

Arty Art Attack

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Messy (but productive) was the key word in p6 this week!  Everyone loved creating their centre of the earth artwork using pastels and managed to smudge their pastels everywhere!  Chloe thought it started off as being tricky but when she got into it, it was easier.  A lot of us weren’t keen to smudge and blend colours but as Katie said, “it turned out really well when I did”.  Look out for these pieces of art when you come to visit us on our points homework sharing day on Thursday.  Sean really enjoyed painting the rovers on his Mars landscape.  We learned how to blend colours, create shine and a 3D effect.  Our festive crafts started this week when we attended the ‘Bubblegum and Fluff’ event at the Lanthorn.  We made tiles to represent images of Christmas.  If you’re wondering what bubblegum and fluff has to do with Christmas, it was a story about a piece of bubblegum with fluff all over it.  Although it was icky on the outside, it was still a good piece of bubblegum on the inside.  The little piece of bubblegum on the inside represented Christmas and the fluff is all the things that are added on like chocolate, lights, presents, trees etc.  Overall, P6 enjoyed their week and still have the bubblegum and fluff story stuck in their heads.

Primary 6, Primary 7

P6/7 News of the Week

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It has been another busy week in P6/7. The Christmas post is now underway and P7’s from both classes are enjoying collecting, organising and delivering the Christmas cards to all of the classes in school.

Social dance is coming on very well, with everyone now becoming quite familiar with the steps for a number of the Scottish dances. Mrs Stewart and Mrs Ferguson came along and joined in the practice and Mrs Stewart said that she can’t wait to get her dance card filled. Not long to wait now to put all that practice into action!

P7s have started working in their groups to create travel brochures for different countries who will be taking part in the Commonwealth Games next year. This event is part of the transition project  which was launched just a week ago at James Young High School.

In class, we have been finding out about the structure of the Earth. We have done our research using books and the internet and can’t wait to make our models showing all of the different layers of our planet and the facts we’ve learned.

We have been trying to make sure that we can all get on Glow and everyone who managed to e-mail Mrs Balfour got 50 house points. Some people have still got to try it out.

Congratulations to Mark and Hannah-Beth who were voted this week’s buddies of the week. Congratulations also to our new class champions- Rachel (language) and Jack (maths).

P6s are looking forward to a Bubblegum and Fluff event at the Lanthorn next week and are looking forward to it.

Primary 6

Our first week in December paraphrased by P6 (this will make sense if you read on!)

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In P.E we have been working on basketball skills such as passing, dribbling, shooting and tackling.  We finished off with a big match which was fun!  We were hoping to finish our time at West Lothian College with some athletics on Thursday but we couldn’t because of the bad weather.  We look forward to catching up with that in January.

This week we have been continuing our work using Bloom’s Taxonomy. Dylan explained this as a ladder of skills. The first rung of the ladder is for ‘remembering skills’.  The second rung of the ladder is for ‘understanding skills’.  Abby says these skills are very handy in reading.  We learned that paraphrasing means putting things into your own words, much easier than we thought!

Miss Kennedy’s maths group have been learning how to use compass directions so now, we won’t get lost!

In science, we discovered that igneous rocks come from inside the earth, sedimentary rocks have layers or fossils in them and metamorphic rocks are rocks which have been changed by heat or pressure.  Next week we are going to teach the rest of the class about the kinds of rocks we have been researching…we thought we would give Miss Kennedy a rest!

There was much excitement on Tuesday as it was the Christmas lunch.  Shonee had turkey and ice cream (not at the same time) and said it was yummy.  Rian liked the steak pie with the jelly and ice cream and chocolate.

On Thursday the choir sang at the Lanthorn for the Good Neighbourhood Group.

With only 2 weeks to go until the holidays, we are now looking forward to the P6/7 Christmas party, Christmas art and craft activities, the P1-3 show and the Christmas enterprises from other classes.   Ho, ho ho from P6!

Primary 7

P7a News

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Here is a selection of P7a’s highlights this week.

The Christmas postbox has been put out and pupils can post cards to their friends which P7’s will sort and deliver.  Please remember to write on the class which the card is to be delivered too!

We have been using VCOP to help improve our writing.  V is for vocabulary, C is for connectives, O is for openers and P is for punctuation. 

P7 have been busy practising our social dance skills and are looking forward to the party on 17th December. 

We have been using Blooms Taxonomy to help our thinking skills in reading. 

On the 3rd December we had our Christmas lunch and it was delicious! Thank you to all the dinner staff for feeding us well! 

We have started working on our travel leaflets for our Commonwealth transition project.  We began designing front cover ideas and researching facts about our country. 

We have been working on creative dance with Ms Barr in music and are working on a movement dance to Jingle Bells. 

Our topic is based on ‘Our World’ and we are enjoying learning about why we have day and night and the seasons.  We have found out some interesting facts that we didn’t know and have learned about the structure of the earth. 

Last week our 3 star writers were Holly, Bethany and Reece.  Well done!

FACT OF THE WEEK (As suggested by Natalie!)

Did you know that it take 365.24 days for the earth to orbit the sun?

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December has arrived!

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This week in primary four we have been working hard to get organised for our Christmas Fair. We received our order of all the materials we will need to make some more wonderful things to sell. We have started to think about the different prices each item will cost. We had a vote with P3/4 to  organise the item that we would like to make.

In maths we have been learning about rounding to the nearest ten and the nearest hundred. We have also been using our rounding skills to estimate the answers to some addition calculations. We sang a little song to help us to remember whether we round up or down. Kian really enjoyed mental maths and the new game we played this week.

In our writing lesson we were looking at Roald Dahl and thinking about all of the wonderful adjectives and verbs that he uses in ‘The Twits.’ We wrote about a disgusting meal that Mr Twit could cook for Mrs Twit, as revenge for the wormy spaghetti. Sophie thinks the Twits are absolutely disgusting.

In health we have been looking at where different food comes from. Ciara is confused about where  jelly comes from and is going to research this at the weekend. We are going to be label checkers and try to find where all of our food has come from.

Mrs Lough & Primary 4

Primary 5

Christmas Craft Calamity

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In the last couple of weeks we have been learning about Divali and Hanukkah. 

Emma enjoyed making her rangoli pattern very colourful.  Rebecca really liked acting out the story of Rama and Sita in drama. 

Robbie enjoyed making a Jewish candle holder and putting lots of information about Hanukkah on the candles.  Ryan liked reading about the traditions of Hanukkah.

This week we have also been working hard to prepare our enterprise crafts with P5A.  Kai enjoyed working in groups with the other class.  We have produced high quality Christmas decorations.

You can purchase our christmas craft items at the Infant Nativity shows and the carol service at the end of term.  You can also order through family members.  A leaflet will be coming home soon!