Primary 4 and 3 enjoying a very energetic futsal session. This is the first of 8 sessions that Primary 4 will be having this term!
Category Archives: Primary 4
“Right of the Month”
As a school we are working towards Level 2 for Rights respecting Schools. We have decided to introduce a “right” to focus on each month.
Article 12
You have the right to give your opinion, and for your adults to take it seriously
 This article says we have the right to have our say and help make decisions.
In school we watch Newsround and share our opinions and discuss recent news. We make sure we listen to others opinions, take them on board and respect them.
Learning to give our opinions now will help us to be more confident making decisions in the near future.
There are a lot of things in our school that lots of pupils agree and disagree on so we let every pupil say what they think.
Things you can do at home:
* Watch CBBC Newsround
* Look at newspapers with your parents
* Discuss news with your family and give your opinions
By James and Scott, P7
Rights Respecting Schools Pupil Voice Group
P1-7 Literacy Open Morning
This morning parents and carers were invited in to see what we have been doing in literacy. Mrs Gibson shared the school’s approaches to literacy with a short presentation in the hall. This looked at different ways we learn about literacy and how they can help their children at home. Parents and carers were then able to go and visit their child or children’s classrooms to take part and share in what they are doing for literacy, with reading as the main focus. This gave a little taster of the kinds of things we do and how they can continue this at home too. Please have a look at some of the photos. There was also a leaflet given out about ways to help your child with reading at home. There are extra copies outside the office.
National Youth Choir
Primary 4 enjoying music and singing lessons from Miss Mulholland of the National Youth Choir of Scotland.
 
Primary 4 Futsal!
Primary 4 enjoying an exciting game and learning new skills during their futsal sessions!
STEM Challenge Bins
Each class have a selection of 4 STEM bins. There are 8 different bins altogether. These bins are tubs that contain 1-2 materials such as lolly sticks or cubes. They also have some starter challenge cards like ‘can you build a maze’ and ‘can you create a bridge to cross a 10cm gap’. The children can then work on their own, in pairs or in small groups to use the materials to build, lay out and create something to solve their challenge. The feedback from the children is that they love these and enjoy making their own challenges. It is great to see how different children will tackle a problem in such different ways and really show off their ideas and creativity. Next time you have a few empty boxes or tubes at home, set your child a challenge to use them to make something to solve a problem. Â 
Greenrigg Reporter’s Club
Happy New to everyone from the GRC. Please check out the news wall next to the dinning hall for all the updated news.
P5/4 benchball festival
Primary 5/4 had a great time at the West Lothian Benchball festival. We worked well in a team, passed to each other and encouraged everyone to do their best. Thank you to Ben Boatman and the Sports Leaders.
Christmas party
P4/5, p5/6 and P7/6 had their Christmas party on Monday afternoon. We had a disco and strutted our dance moves for all to see. We did the Macarena and the cha cha slide.
We played different party games too. We played musical arms. It’s similar to musical chairs but you link arms when the music stops. It’s great fun.
After all of our dancing we stopped for a snack. We had juice and crisps and a chance to chat.
To end our party we danced the gay Gordon’s and the dashing white sergeant.
We all had a great time at our Christmas party.
Greenrigg Reporter’s Club (GRC)
Today we started the Greenrigg Reporter’s Club in school. We now have a news wall near the lunch hall. This has all the lastest Greenrigg News, read it now and keep up to date with what is happening in our school. Read as much as you can!
