P4 have been reading The Twits translated into Scots. It’s called the Eejits and Mrs Hocknull is finding it very hard to read!!
We are going to be reading a variety of Scottish books this month….
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Learning about Length
P4 and P4/5 have been learning about length in Maths. We have been measuring using rulers, metre sticks and trundle wheels. We have been measuring in metres, centimetres and millimetres.
GRIT Poems
We wrote acrostic poems using the word GRIT as our inspiration. This was a great word to use for our discussion on how we learn and how to get out of the Learning Pit.
Jack’s Animation Movies
We have been watching Jack’s You Tube channel in class! He has been making mini animation movies using an animation kit he got during the holidays. He uploads these to his very own You Tube channel!
P4 Pupil goes the Extra Mile!
Carlos went the extra mile at home and designed his own Learning Pit and acrostic poem. We love your enthusiasm Carlos!
Update on P6 learning this Week…
We were learning flags from countries around the world. We had had to answer a fun quiz. Amy
We made a 3D hand in our Science Pupil Voice group. Ellie
We were making characters for animations in our Pupil Voice group. Jaime
We had a visit from the West Lothian Council tobacco team. We learned a song, played games and learnt facts like there are 4000-5000 chemicals in a cigarette. Jamie.G and Amy
We are translating the Twits into Scots words. Daryl
The Busiest 3 Days Ever!
Peer mediators (PMs) carried out some training on how to listen and solve problems in the playground. We will be starting up soon. Euan
This week we worked on identifying different types of maps. An ordinance map is used by cyclists and people who like to walk. Amy
Today we were learning about the Eatwell Plate. We made a power point about it. Jaime
We have been learning about the countries in Europe. Our new topic is Europe! Daryl
P4 Go Electric!
P4 have been busy learning about different types of electricity. We carried out experiments and wrote up the results.
We used lemon clocks, balloons, a marble run and even had an experiment where we pinged elastic bands!!
Watch out Alan Sugar!
We have two entrepreneurs in the school! Jack from P4 and Mael from P4/5 decided to make a comic book selling business to raise money for Jak’s Den and the school.
They worked very hard to make the comics at home and sell them at lunch time in the small hall. The comic was about a minion called Indiana Bobby who thought he was Indiana Jones! They decided to charge £1 for large comics and 50p for smaller ones.
We are all very proud of Jack and Mael and Mrs Stewart can’t wait to put her feet up and read her comic during the Christmas holidays!
P6 Write About the Learning Pit
P6 have been busy learning about the learning pit. We wrote a description of what the learning pit means to us, then we voted on the best description. We chose Beth.K, Arran and Kalanah’s. Here it is……
The learning pit is a place where it helps you learn and gets you out of a hard situation. When you are stuck in the learning pit you might feel frustrated, confused, annoyed, sad, angry, miserable or depressed. You may have a feeling that you have hit rock bottom and you can’t do it, but all you have to think is “I can’t do it…YET!”
You can use strategies to get out of the learning pit. Things like asking a friend, using surroundings, WAGOLL (what a good one looks like), us the 4Bs (brain, boards/boxes/books, buddy, boss), thinking or asking a teacher.
You need to use a growth mindset to think, not a fixed one because you need to keep trying and trying. There are lots of sayings to help you get out of the pit. For example, “the learning pit will lead you to success” and “it’s ok not to know but it’s not ok not to try.”
