On Tuesday pupils in P3 and P4 spent the day at Polkemmet Country Park. We walked there and met the boys and girls from Stoneyburn there as they had to get the bus. The P3 pupils started the morning with the Park Ranger. They learnt about the different trees in the park. The P4s started with den building and creating nature cocktails. For the dens they could use any materials they could find. They had a play at the park over lunch and then the groups swapped over.

Primary 7 have had many opportunities this term to learn in a variety of environments. Here are some of our highlights.

We took part in a Dragons’ Den project with West Lothian College. This involved us designing our own products, making prototypes and designing business plans. We also developed our teamwork and presentation skills.

We have also been learning lots of interesting facts about space and our solar system and having interesting debates about the moon landing and life on other planets. Primary 7 also put lots of effort into their homework projects. We had model rockets, planet factfiles, posters, stories and Angeline even made a planet-themed cake! We all really enjoyed eating it! We also had a fantastic trip to Dynamic Earth to learn more about the evolution of our planet.

Lots of P7s also had a fantastic week at camp. They learnt to be more independent and challenge themselves to take part in lots of activities! Some of their favourite activities included rock climbing, abseiling, archery, giant swing and trapeze. The children were very mature and behaved very well for the entire week. They enjoyed eating new foods and sharing rooms with their friends. It was a fantastic week.

Primary 7 have had a great term and we are looking forward to our final term after Easter! Have a lovely holiday!

We had a fantastic day at Polkemmet Park on Tuesday.  We made dens in the woods and ate our lunch in them; we played in the park and experienced Polkemmet Park and its grounds with the help of the ranger. It was great and we want to go back!

The children can’t wait to go back!

Happy Easter to all.  Maybe you could go to Polkemmet Park and do some den building of your own!

P5/4 has been learning about electricity this term.

We have learned that electricity is made of atoms and that atoms are made up of protons (+ charge), electrons (- charge) and neutrons which have a neutral charge.  We made our own atoms from marshmallows.  Have a look.

We have also been learning about static electricity and participated in experiments to investigate what can cause it.

We have also learned about the many inventors and scientists who helped to invent electricity and the electrical gadgets we have today.  We have learned how they persevered and never gave up and we are building resilience in this area as well.  This was a great project to help pupils learn that you have to make a lot of mistakes in order to learn!

Happy Easter from P5/4!

We spent a brilliant day yesterday at Polkemmet Country Park learning about trees and building dens.

We walked from school to the park and split in to 2 groups- Primary 3 and Primary 4.  We spent one half of the day with a ranger who taught us about different kinds of trees, how they spread their seeds and the names of different types of trees we can find in Polkemmet Park.  We also looked at different types of animals that would live in the woods, where they  might live and the types of things they would eat.

We spent some time at the park during lunchtime- we were all starving after spending a busy morning out in the fresh air and we had lots of fun playing with our friends from Stoneyburn at the play park.

In the afternoon, we swapped over and we went den building with Mrs Gibson.  First we made forest cocktails using lots of different leaves, sticks and things we found on the forest floor.  After this, we spent time in teams building some amazing dens!  We had a really great time and were sorry to have to stop building our dens as we were having such a great time.  We hope that we can come back at another time to build dens again next term.

Kaitlin, Ellie and Natalie won a recent dance competition with their dance group Wild Kaous (we think that is how it is spelt). Well done girls!