Today, Primary one have been learning about money. They have had lots of fun investigating what the different coins look and feel like. Please encourage the children to continue investigating money at home and discuss different coins with them. They are excited about helping to pay for items when out and about!
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!
Welcome back after the Easter holidays!
Today, we had a Judo Taster session. Look out for the leaflet about Judo club in your school bag!
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” –Â Callum
” I was proud of Jenna as she kept on going” –Â 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.
This week Ryan won most improved player at his football club. He plays for Shotts YMC 2007.
Each week he plays different drills for two hours – passing a ball, dribbling and shooting.
Well done Ryan. Keep it up.
Article 29
The right to develop talents and abilities.Â
Please check out our SWAY of our trip to the museum.
To celebrate Comic Relief and raise money we have been doing lots of activities through the week. We have had a penny challenge for each class; selling red noses; guess the number of sweeties in the jar; dress down day; hair gel; face painting and nail painting.
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. Â We will continue them next time we meet.
Article 29
The right to develop talents and abilities.
Today we went to a cluster handball festival at Whitburn community centre. We joined Whitdale, Longridge and St Josephs.
We formed 3 teams. We were called Canada A, B and C. Each team played 3 matches. Each match lasted 4 minutes.
We had to make 3 passes before we were allowed to shoot and could only take 3 steps if we had the ball. It was very competitive.
We used our teamwork, attacking and defending skills to try and score in each match.
Canada A won the matches on court 1.
We are hoping to start a handball club in school as we really enjoyed it.
Article 24Â
The right to good health, food, water and a clean environment
