Category Archives: Primary 6

Primary 6, Primary 7

Healthy eating healthy minset

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Primary 7/6 experienced food tasting in our Health Week. Thank you to Mrs Irvine, Mrs Hendry, Mrs Woodhouse and Miss Benson for preparing a variety of treats for us to try. We commend Primary 7/6 for their positive  mindset to this task and for trying most things. Some foods were very popular like mango and some not so popular like rhubarb, although the faces pulled when eating it were the best! Lots of pupils discovered a new love for muscles and smoked mackerel and re kindled their love of some fruits and vegetables. Well done boys and girls.

Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7

Sports day 2017

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What a beautiful day for Sports Day. Well done to our amazing Mrs Crow for organizing such a fun and active day. We started out with whole school races and finished with potted sports. Everyone got involved including our teachers and amazing parents. Well done to house Ballie for the most house points today. I wonder if it will put you in the lead now?

Extra well done to the pupils who were all cheering each other on and encouraging each other to try their best in all activities.

Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7

Jump for Joy

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Primary 7/6 organised and ran a whole school Jump for Joy day. We raised money for the British Heart Foundation buy having a jump-a-thon. Each class in our generous school tagged in for a half hour jump. Thank you to the parents who came along and also has a go. We have raised a tremendous amount, over £700 so far and still counting. We will tally up the final amount this week and send off your amazing donations. We love our Greenrigg community.

 

Primary 6

P6 Cross Country

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On Thursday 30th March all P6s went to a cross country event to compete with other P6s from the Whitburn Cluster.

First of all we walked around part of the course to warm up as well as to know where we were going. We had to make sure that the tape was on the left side of us at all times.

The P6 girls ran first. The boys cheered them on.

” I was proud of Karis as she was the first Greenrigg girl back” – Callum

” I was proud of Jenna as she kept on going” – Ewan

Once the girls had got their medals, it was the boys turn. There was lots of excitement to get started.

” I was proud of all the boys that they kept on going and Ryan helped someone get back up when they fell” – Leah

” I was proud of Tyler as he kept on going even though it was hard” – Mia S

At the end we found out that Whitdale Primary had won the schools competition for both boys and girls but we’re super glad that we did it.

The Primary 5s can get training now so we can do even better next year.

By Tyler and Ryan, P6.

 

Primary 6

P6 bridge building

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Today P6 from Stoneyburn came to join us for our transition project – bridges.

First we looked at different Scottish bridges. We had to find where they were using a map of Scotland and an atlas. We also looked at the different design features each one had. We discussed why certain shapes are better than others.

“The arches have blocks at the bottom to make them more stable” – Karis

“The Tay bridge has a design similar to a saltire flag – a cross inside a square” – Emma

Next we designed our own bridges  we had to include one design feature we had found and had to span across 2 school chairs, about 6 feet apart. We could use lego or Knex.  We had time to plan before we built.

“We could make it like a staircase but overlapping the bricks” – Erin.

“We had to build together so we could be successful” – Tyler and Arron

We decided that we need more time to complete our bridges to meet the design criteria.  We will continue them next time we meet.

Article 29

The right to develop talents and abilities.

Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7

“Right of the Month”

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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.

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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

Primary 6

P6 Den Building at Polkemmet Country Park

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To finish off our P6 focus week all the P6 pupils and Carla from P7 spent the morning at Polkemmet Country Park. It was a clear and bright day but very cold and frosty so we had to wrap up warm. Our main part of the morning was spent building dens. We had to be creative in using the materials that we could find which were things like logs, branches and leaves. We had to use existing trees to help us to create our dens. We worked in our groups to collect materials and then find ways to assemble them to make a den like structure. The success we had varied but we all worked together and had lots of fun. We then got to finish off the morning with a play in the play park which was also great fun.