St Joseph's PS Whitburn

Playground Improvements – School Traffic

Our playground at the rear and side of the school will be resurfaced this week. As a result we will be closing the bottom staff car park for use as a playground. For the safety of pupils during this time there will be no access to the top of Gateside Road for non-essential vehicles. We ask that you please walk to school if you are able.

In the interest of traffic flow, if you need to travel by car, please approach the school via Gateside Road and turn right near the top of the hill onto Taylor Road. Please deposit children safely on the pavement side, thereafter leaving the area via Ireland Avenue. Alternatively, please park at the bottom of the hill and walk up to school.

We thank you for your co-operation in keeping our children safe and maintaining traffic flow.

This week in P3…

We have been learning:

to spell words with ‘o’ and ‘au’ (e.g. because and some)
to solve money word-problems
to be kind and helpful towards others in our class and school

Primary 2 Star Writers

Well done to Cora and Priya for writing excellent instructions. Miss McLachlan now knows how to weave Tartan!

Well done girls 🙂

P7M Parents Evening Times

P7M have had their individual parents evening times handed out today- they are in this week’s homework diary page.

I look forward to seeing you all on Thursday.

Miss McCullagh

Weather Update

All West Lothian schools will remain closed tomorrow (Thursday 1st March) due to ongoing severe weather. Further updates will be made through the council website and via Groupcall when necessary.

As tomorrow is World Book Day, you might want to do some of the related activities at home:

http://www.worldbookday.com/resources/primary/

Alternatively you can log in to some online resources using the login details from your homework diary. Some other ideas for activities can be found on our Twitter feed: @StJosephspswhit

The list below gives some other websites you may want to look at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04yy4wy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/home/?tab=primary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/

http://www.readwritecount.scot/

http://playtalkread.scot/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Home Learning Activities

West Lothian schools are closed today due to severe weather. Remember you can use your login details from your homework diary to access resources for learning at home. Or try some of the activities in the post from Mrs Wards. Check our twitter feed for some ideas Retweeted too. Check the West Lothian council page for future updates.

Hey P6W! It’s a snow day!!!

If you’re bored (lol) how about trying some of these activities:

1. Build a snowman.

Tomorrow is World Book Day, you could dress him/her up as your favourite character.

You could choose your favourite character.

2. Decorate a hard boiled egg. Post a picture and share your design.

3. Login to Sumdog and play against your classmates. Who can get the highest score?

4. Play some Literacy and Numeracy games on Education city. Can you get 10/10?

5. Practice your tables with a pack of cards. Challenge your family.

6. …and lastly

Very important!

Hope this stops you getting bored!

Mrs Wards

Lights, Camera, Action!

Primary 4 have been learning to create our own comic strips. We also have had great fun role playing and videoing these!

The Science of Making Bread

Yesterday P6W made bread.

We’ve been learning about microorganisms in science and decided to put our learning to the test.

We mixed flour, yeast (the magical ingredient), water, salt and vegetable oil to make a dough. We kneaded it, proved it (twice), formed it into rolls and then baked it. Finally we got to taste it in class. It was delicious!!

In literacy, we’ve also been learning about the important of writing a clear set of instructions. We were able to evaluate the recipe we had and discuss what aspects of the instructions made it easy for us to follow.

Mixing all our ingredients together. This is very messy!

Proving. The microorganisms are now doing their job.

… and finally eating. This was the best bit!

Well done boys and girls!

Primary 6W welcome Furball Bear to their class.

Primary 6 are very happy to announce that Furball Bear is now a member of our class.

This week we nominated people who made ‘Random Acts of Kindness’, kept a Kindness Diary and invited pupils into our class for free hugs from ACE Bear.

Well done everyone.

Let’s keep it up!