Primary 6

February 29, 2016 K Gardinier 1 Comment

Greenrigg Primary Six pupils went up to Stoneyburn Primary today to do some more work on our transition project- Bridges.

We spent the day looking at Scottish bridges and where they are in Scotland, how they are built, what they look like and finally we created some bridges of our own- inspired by the bridges we had looked at in the morning.

The children all worked together very well, in mixed groups and all had a lot of fun.

Take a look at our Twitter pages for more pictures of our activities from today @greenriggps @stoneyburnps

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Developing the Young Workforce

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http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/Images/CareerEducationStandard0915_tcm4-869208.pdf

Monday 29th February 2016

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This week in Greenrigg…

Monday 29th

– P5,6,7 Transition Day – P5s and P7s will all be at Greenrigg

P6 Children (and Miss Cook) will be at Stoneyburn

Tuesday 1st March – St David’s Day

– P7s off to West Lothian College for Dragons Den

– Mrs Malloch will be in school teaching Music

– 3.15 – 4.15 Netball ASC

Wednesday 2nd March

– Mr Henry will be in school teaching Art

– P3/4 Roots of Empathy (and baby Allie is in this week)

– Netball Festival

– 3.15 – 4.15 Football ASC

Thursday 3rd March

– Mr Henry in school

– 1.30 Travel Action Group Meeting

– Football Festival

– 3.15 – 4.15 Dance ASC

Friday 4th March

– World Book Day at Greenrigg – come dressed in pyjamas, bring bedtime story book and a cuddly toy

– 9am Assembly as always parents welcome to join us for assembly (our new Acting Principal Teacher – Miss Magali Tuke – will be with us for Assembly in advance of her official start on Monday 14th March)

12.20 – 1.20 Multi Sports ASC

Primary 3, Primary 4

P3/4 Problem Solving

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The triominoes were popular again at Smart Start this week. Alexander & Jaxon worked as a team to make a full hexagon using the triangles. They said it was quite a challenge but they enjoyed it. They plan to tackle it again and see if they can make a bigger shape!

As part of our “Homes” project, we have been looking a tiling patterns. Many of us have tiles in our homes in either bathrooms or kitchens and we talked about the patterns we see in these. We went on to make our own tiling patterns using Mrs Gibson’s large carpet tiles. We made lots of different patterns. Some were simple and others were much more complex. We enjoyed doing it and used our knowledge to then go on and create tiling patterns of our own, using a maximum of three colours on ready made tiling designs. We could make the designs our own by choosing the patterns we wanted to create. It was quite tricky and took a while but we all enjoyed it.

One of the criteria for the homes we will be building is that we need to have some section of our home floor tiled- this gave us time to practice some ideas!

A successful, quite complicated pattern!

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This week in Greenrigg – 22nd – 26th February

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Monday 22nd February

– Tempest Photographers will be in school

Tuesday 23rd February

– Visitors in school – Will Ogg (Educational Psychologist), Amy Gilroy (Speech and Language Therapist)

– 3.15 – 4.15 Netball ASC

Wednesday 24th February

– Music in Action for P1 pupils

– 3.15 – 4.15 Football ASC

Thursday 25th February

– 6.30pm Parent Council Meeting

– 3.15 – 4.15 Dance ASC (P1 – 7)

Friday 26th February

12.20 – 1.20 Multi Sports ASC (P1 – 3)

Primary 5, Primary 6

Basketball festival

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On Thursday we went to the cluster Basketball festival at Whitburn community centre.

We formed 3 teams and we were called France 1, 2 and 3. We each got different coloured bibs. Each team played 5 games against other schools. Some of the schools were Stoneyburn Primary, Fall Hill, Polkemmet Primary and Whitdale.

Each game was 3 minutes and we had to try and score a basket.

We used different skills to help us play – defending, attacking, passing, communicating, dribbling and team work.

Even though we didn’t win we had fun and enjoyed it.

Primary 3, Primary 4

Primary 4/3 Learning in Maths

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After our SmartStart we moved on to our number work. We began by counting up in tens on and off the decade. We realised that the most challenging part of counting up and back in tens was when we went over 100 because the pattern changed- so this was the bit we practiced the most so we could get better at it. eg 79,89,99,109,119,129,139,129,119,109,99,89,79 We still need a bit more practice but it was getting easier!

We then went on to adding numbers together. Some of us were using ten frames, some of us made bundling sticks to help us add big numbers together and some of us used empty number lines to show our thinking when we add big numbers together. We all worked in pairs so we could discuss our thinking. All of our tasks were challenging at the start but by talking it through with a friend and asking questions, it soon got easier and we were all successful!

Primary 3, Primary 4

Problem Solving SmartStart

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This morning we worked together in groups, in pairs or individually to solve different problems in class. The thing that got us most excited was a large foam jigsaw puzzle of a World Map. We worked together in quite a big group on different parts of the puzzle and put the pieces together to make the full map. We then talked about different places we had been, what we saw or did there and why we went and we also talked about the places we would like to go! We found out where Scandinavia and Africa were too – we had been reading stories from these countries this week and wanted to know where in the world they were.