Greenrigg Primary was visited by Hong Lok last Friday to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The children were given the opportunity to try on the lion costume and also practice keeping a beat with the big drum and the cymbals.
Thank you so much for all your amazing donations for Day for Change. Your spare change has really made a difference and will help children in Syria and the Philippines whose lives have been effected by war and natural disasters. A massive congratulations to the whole school for raising a huge £264.33, although the pupils did bag up the coins so we are probably a few pennies out (this will be a fun trip to the bank)
So, huge congratulations to Primary 2 for being the class winners. You will get your treat out of class with Mrs Monahan next week!
Thank you to the Rights Respecting Group who came up with the ideas and helped to make the day a success.
We are all very proud of our school football club who have took part in round two of the Whitburn Primary Schools Football League. Out of 6 games we won 4, lost 1 and drew 1. Keep up the hard work and training. Football club is finished for now until after Easter. We will be having another fun night on Wednesday 4th March, parents are welcome along to join in.
Big well done from Mrs Monahan, you all represented your school so proudly. You all had great team spirit and played excellently. I was so nervous for you all and loved cheering you on. I was very impressed they way you spoke to the other teams and were making new friends.
Primary 6/5 had a fun filled afternoon attending the Whitburn Cluster Basketball Festival. As usual all pupils attending showed a high standard of behaviour and sportsmanship! Well done Primary 6/5, you are credit to the school!
Watch our amazing ukulele playing.
Thank you to West Lothian for coming in to film us. You can see us on their facebook site.
Watch us on the link below
well done girls and boys you were great!
We enjoyed a fantastic day working with all the Primary 5s at Stoneyburn. Adam said he really enjoyed and made some new friends. The boys and girls really enjoyed working with other children. We had a very interesting day all food related. First we tried some porridge with lots of toppings. Next we researched some of our favourite foods and where they came from in the world. We then enjoyed a trip to Asda where we were shown the bakery and we got to talk about and try lots of fruit and vegetables. Thank you to Sharon in Asda who was wonderful with the children. We then bought some ingredients to take back to school to try cutting up and making our own healthy wraps.
Fantastic day everyone. We’ll done boys and girls and a big thank you to Stoneyburn for welcoming us to your school today.
We have been busy learning all about an artist called Yvonne Coomber this week, this is her painting called Dancing Hearts
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We spent time looking at her work and discussing the different feelings we could see in the paintings. Then we created our own unique pictures. We used a variety of colours of paint and paint of different textures. First we chose the backdrop colours and blended the paints. then we created the green stems and finally the flowers. We hope you like them. They will be displayed in school for a while before they can go home.
We have been training hard and looking forward to our second Football Festival which is on the 26th of February.
Primary 6/5 were working in partners this week to solve some mathematical problems involving magic squares. We were using the strategy – Guess, Check and Improve to work out the answers to some tricky problems. The rows, columns and diagonals in a magic square must add up to the same number. Try the one below and see if you can figure out the missing numbers!
This week we have been enjoying learning about Robert Burns. For our Burns assembly we have been learning to sing the beautiful song ‘My love is like a red, red rose’ the lyrics are below if you would like to have a sing along.
In art this week we have painted pictures of the red rose by learning about the artistic style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
The boys and girls have really enjoyed music this week with Mrs Malloch and are looking forward to next week.
Library Van – Andrew visited us this week in class, P5/4 will be going to the library van every second Thursday. Have fun reading at home.
Oh, my love is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June
Oh, my love is like a melody
That’s sweetly played in tune
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till all the seas gang dry.
Till all the seas gang dry, my dear,
‘Til all the seas gang dry my, my dear
And the rocks melt with the sun
And I will love thee still, my dear
While the sands of life shall run
But faretheewell, my only love
Oh, faretheewell a while
And I will come again, my love
Tho’ ‘t were ten thousand mile
Tho’ ‘t were ten thousand mile, my love
Tho’ ‘t were ten thousand mile
And I will come again, my love
Tho’ ‘t were ten thousand mile.
