This week was health week. On Monday, we took part in lots of workshops with lots of different teachers. We looked at healthy lunch boxes with Mrs Croser, friendships with Mrs Campbell, rounders with Mrs Bradley, relaxation with Miss Cooke, football with Mrs Monahan and yoga with Miss Loughton. On Tuesday, whe did food tasting with the pupil support workers. We tried mango, tuna, ham, cheese, broccoli, carrots, cucumber and sweet chilli. On Wednesday, it was sports day. We had races in the morning – egg and spoon, sack race and sprint race, then we had potted sports in the playground. After lunch we had an award ceremony where the winners of all the races got certificates and the winning house for the potted sports was announced. Bailie came first – well done to all the winners! On Thursday, we practised skipping with the P7/6’s. We learned about our bodies and how to stay safe around medicine. On Friday we had football with Chris and did our skipathon! What a busy week!

Today, we had the final transition day of the year with the P1 boys and girls from Stoneyburn. We had talks from the SSPCA about the effects of litter on wildlife, and from West Lothian Waste Aware about the importance of recycling. We now know what can be recycled and why. We know where rubbish goes if we do or do not recycle and that if we do recycle, new things can be made from our rubbish!

The children enjoyed a kickboxing taster session last week. We spoke about the importance of only practising kickboxing as part of an organised class, not outside in the playground or anywhere else.

Thank you to all who came along to the primary one class assembly this afternoon. The children have worked extremely hard over the past week to prepare for today and we hope that you enjoyed finding out about what we have learned this year!

Last week, we were learning about dairy farms. We learned that ‘dairy’ products are products that are made from milk. We had great fun being scientists and experimenting with cream to try to make butter! Unfortunately, after a LOT of shaking, our butter did not quite turn out as planned. Luckily, there was some ‘pre-made’ butter in the school kitchen, so we were still able to have our crackers and biscuits with butter, even if it wasn’t butter we had made ourselves! We had great fun being scientists and trying though!