Good Morning,
A little reminder, the Nursery will be open as normal on the 21st of October 2019. Please note, this is an In-Service day for all other children in Primaries, 1-7.
Regards
Mrs Mooney
This Week in P7/6
This week in P7/6 we:
- Learned about rationing during World War Two and how our modern day diet differs to that of the early 1940’s.
- Wrote the final draft of our evacuee letters.
- Discussed clothing in French and designed our own piece.
- Looked at various strategies for addition in Numeracy.
- Played the Shannon Switching Game in Maths, looking to find a winning strategy and to identify if one of the players had an advantage over the other.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs Lauder.
Some recent Maths learning in P1…
Over the past few weeks, P1 have become more and more confident in their Maths learning. The children have been identifying, naming and writing numbers. They have also been using lots of different materials to improve their 1:1 correspondence when counting objects.
P1 Science
P1 continued their learning in their Science topic today: Our Incredible Body. This week, they were learning about the heart, its position in our body, its important job and what happens to it when we exercise.
To start our lesson, we explored what we already knew about our hearts:
Kalvin – “It bleeds!”
Aimee-Leigh – “It beats!”
Flynn – “It is near the lungs!”
The children had fun throughout the lesson listening to their own hearts beat through a stethoscope and comparing how our heart felt before and after a short burst of exercise. We even played with some pretend blood and droppers to simulate how the heart works as a pump . Great work P1!
Who’s the tallest and smallest?
P5.4 braved the elements earlier to work in teams to estimate, measure and record each other’s height using centimetres and metres. They then compared their answers with other teams to order our class from tallest to smallest. 
Parent Council Race Night
Good evening.We are delighted to announce that the Parent Council will be holding a Race Night on Friday 1st November 2019. The money raised at these events goes towards providing invaluable resources and experiences for our children across the school and nursery.To help support this wonderful event, the Parent Council are looking for donations from our school community, namely; bottles, sweets, gift sets, vouchers etc. If you are able to support this fund raising event, donations can be delivered to the school office. Please don’t give children bottles or valuable items to bring to the school.As always, thank you for your continued support.Mrs Mooney
Great Learning in P1
Today in P1, the children had fun learning another new sound: ‘t’.
They learned what this sound looks like, sounds like, how to write it and where in the mouth this sound is made. They explored the formation of this sound through play-dough and tracing boards, followed by sorting pictures on the Smartboard. Successful Learners all round!
WEST LOTHIAN SCHOOLS AREA SWIMMING MEET 2019
Dear Parents/Carers
The annual West Lothian Schools Area Swimming Heats 2019 will take place on, Sunday 10th November 2019 at Deans Community High School, Livingston.
If your child is a Club swimmer and would like to enter the West Lothian Swimming Trials then please inform the school by Friday, 27th September, providing the following information;
Child’s Name
Class and stage
Date of Birth
Consideration Times.
Events Entered
Please refer to the attached copies of the events programme and qualifying times guide before considering.
Information from Active Schools
The Meet will run over two sessions; session 1 – warm up 9.15 start 10.00 and session 2 – warm up 13.00 starts 13.45.
As these act as the qualifying heats for the 2019 Scottish Schools Swimming Championships to be held in January 2019(TBC), the entry age for swimmers will be calculated as at the 31st December 2020. This means that, a swimmer born in 2005 is classed as 15 years old not 14 years and will therefore swim in the 15/16 years age category at the heats.
Once again, the Scottish School’s sponsor, Brodies Solicitors, will provide medals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
In order to comply with time constraints and Health & Safety requirements, it will be necessary to limit the number of competitors in each event. To enable this to be done fairly, there are consideration times for this event and therefore entry times must be submitted with entries.
Entries:
12 and under swimmers may enter a maximum of two events.
13 and over swimmers may enter a maximum of four events, two of which MUST be 200m or over. Swimmers can only enter a maximum of two 100m events.
The first three swimmers from each event will be put forward to the Scottish Schools finals as long as they have achieved the qualifying time. Unfortunately, this does not always guarantee them a swim at the finals as three swimmers from all areas in Scotland are put forward and only the fastest 12 are selected (fastest 6 in open events and 17/19 age group). Information on finalists will be relayed to the schools as soon as possible. Swimmers will be asked to select entry for final. Entry forms should be completed before leaving the meet.
Please note: There will be a Boys and Girls 12 & under relay events this year
There will be no cost of entry this year.
Dear Parents/Carers
The annual West Lothian Schools Area Swimming Heats 2019 will take place on, Sunday 10th November 2019 at Deans Community High School, Livingston.
If your child is a Club swimmer and would like to enter the West Lothian Swimming Trials then please inform the school by Friday, 27th September, providing the following information;
Child’s Name
Class and stage
Date of Birth
Consideration Times.
Events Entered
Please refer to the attached copies of the events programme and qualifying times guide before considering.
Information from Active Schools
The Meet will run over two sessions; session 1 – warm up 9.15 start 10.00 and session 2 – warm up 13.00 starts 13.45.
As these act as the qualifying heats for the 2019 Scottish Schools Swimming Championships to be held in January 2019(TBC), the entry age for swimmers will be calculated as at the 31st December 2020. This means that, a swimmer born in 2005 is classed as 15 years old not 14 years and will therefore swim in the 15/16 years age category at the heats.
Once again, the Scottish School’s sponsor, Brodies Solicitors, will provide medals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.
In order to comply with time constraints and Health & Safety requirements, it will be necessary to limit the number of competitors in each event. To enable this to be done fairly, there are consideration times for this event and therefore entry times must be submitted with entries.
Entries:
12 and under swimmers may enter a maximum of two events.
13 and over swimmers may enter a maximum of four events, two of which MUST be 200m or over. Swimmers can only enter a maximum of two 100m events.
The first three swimmers from each event will be put forward to the Scottish Schools finals as long as they have achieved the qualifying time. Unfortunately, this does not always guarantee them a swim at the finals as three swimmers from all areas in Scotland are put forward and only the fastest 12 are selected (fastest 6 in open events and 17/19 age group). Information on finalists will be relayed to the schools as soon as possible. Swimmers will be asked to select entry for final. Entry forms should be completed before leaving the meet.
Please note: There will be a Boys and Girls 12 & under relay events this year
There will be no cost of entry this year.
It’s the responsibility of the parents/carers to attend with their child on the day.
West Lothian Notification 2019 (1)
Mrs Mooney
P1 & P1/2 Homework
P1 and P1/2 children will be bringing home a homework folder today, with some homework activities to be returned on Friday of each week.
If you have any questions regarding this, please do not hesitate to discuss this with your child’s class teacher.
Miss Smith & Mrs Warner
P1 – Water Bottles
A reminder to parent and carers of P1 children to pack a water bottle for your child to drink from in the classroom please.
Many thanks!
Miss Smith
