Primary 1 have been so busy today! The whole school took part in a ‘no pen day!’ It was so exciting and it gave us the opportunity to work on our Fairyland. We decided to plant our own ‘magic beans’. Hopefully beanstalks will grow and we will be able to rescue Jack from the giants!
Keep up the good work.
Miss Toner
Primary 4 had a busy day on no pen day. We still completed lots of work. This morning after P.E we worked on Maths games to deepen our knowledge.
After playtime, we had NYCOS then we played VCOP games and made an oral story by adding a sentence each to the opener. It was a funny story.
After lunchtime, we had a turn on Sumdog then we did some drama freeze framing images from Harry Potter. Look at us in action.
Finlay – No pen day was fun , we did lot of educational things without writing.
Finn – It was fun and I really liked Maths and the drama was awesome.
Hana – I had fun doing the drama about Harry Potter.
Fraser – I enjoyed lots of tasks on no pen day.
Sterling and Karolina – I enjoyed playing maths games.
Ollie – I enjoyed no pen day as it was good not doing any writing.
Callum – I liked doing drama as it was fun doing the freeze frames.
Primary 2a were looking at the signs of spring and then wrote an acrostic poem together on our laptop on no pen day!
Spring is the season when baby animals are born.
Prickly hedgehogs come out of their deep sleep.
Rabbit babies are called kittens.
Insects crawl out of their hiding places and butterflies flutter their wings.
Now the weather is starting to get nicer.
Green buds and leaves start to grow on the trees.
By Primary 2a
This morning we have been creating stories in groups which we are going to present.
Emily has enjoyed it. Kayleigh thinks it was better than having to write on paper. Alexander was a bit annoyed as he needed to use a pen for props but couldn’t. Ben thought it was quicker.
We made up a poem as a class on ‘No Pen Day’. This is what we came up with…….
P2/1 Acrostic Poem about Spring
Spring is the season when cute, little baby lambs and chicks are born.
People come out to play when it’s sunny and mild.
Rabbits are soft and warm.
Insects like caterpillars and ladybirds come out of hiding.
Nests are cosy for birds’ eggs to hatch.
Grass starts growing big and green.
Super ideas- P2/1!
Well done to Natasha for receiving this medal as part of the Azomi karate Club’s 20th anniversary.
Primary 5 are learning about telling the time using analogue and digital clocks. As part of a homework challenge, Miss Crease asked us to design and construct either an analogue or digital clock or a watch.
Aaron – I made a digital clock using lego. It was really easy to make and my friends thought it was a good idea.
Ben – My clock is an analogue clock and I used things around the house to make it.
Erin – I made a huge watch and I used a paper fastener so that the hands can move. It’s big enough for a giant to
wear!
Please see the letter from Mrs Brown about parking in and around St. Nicholas Primary School.
Unfortunately there has been a nasty bug going around which has caused children to be absent from school due to sickness and diarrhea. We kindly ask that you adhere to the NHS guidleines of waiting 48 hours AFTER THE LAST BOUT OF SYMPTOMS before returning your child to school.
Please click on the link for further information..
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Yourchildatschool/Pages/Illness.aspx
Primary 1 received a letter from a very sad, sad dragon. He needs help! Fairyland is gone and the dragon and his friends have nowhere to live anymore. Jack doesn’t have his beanstalk, Miss Muffet has lost her tuffet and the three bears have lost their cottage! The dragon has asked Primary 1 to help bring back Fairyland…
Today we found dragon footprints in our classroom! They belong to the dragon and his family. We decided to measure these footprints to find out what size the dragon is.
Well done Primary 1. Keep working hard!
Miss Toner
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We have a right to learn new and interesting things at school
Primary 6 have been learning all about light and shadows. We have looked at different light sources, white light, reflection and shadows.
We made small characters and observed how the sun’s position changes the shape and length of their shadow. You can see our results below…
Congratulations to Finlay who succeeded in being granted 6th Kup (green belt) in his recent kick-boxing exam.
Well done, Finlay. We are all very proud of you.
Well done to Megan Hay in Primary 2/1 for winning a dancing award for ‘Most Improved Dancer’. We think you’re a star!
Click on the link below then copy and paste into your browser if you would like to learn more Spanish.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/spanish/our_world/weather/
Reluctantly, I woke up from my humble deep sleep.
Until my heart was filled with content as I remembered today was transition day! Would my excitement turn into nerves! I was really elated but felt anxious as I knew no-one at the school. Although my nerves started to kick in, I enjoy learning new languages so that put me off my nerves a bit, As I was getting ready to leave school ,I started to wonder what languages we would be learning “Probably French or Spanish ” I said Cautiously I walked onto the creaky grey floor of the luminous yellow bus to begin our excursion.
Finally we arrived at St Margaret’s the big walls looked very frightening but I loved the entrance because it looked old fashioned. As I entered the huge grounds of St Margaret’s I was astonished. I knew it was big but I never noticed the atrium was colossal. Soon our Spanish teacher accompanied us up to the Spanish classroom. I knew it was Spanish straight away as my classmate Alejandro is fluent in Spanish and talked to Senora Wallace and Senora Murphy like it was English. The unusual classroom had tables and chairs in rows which is very different than what we have. Their smart board is also much bigger than ours which I prefer because it is much easier to present power point presentations. Soon we got spilt up into two groups and my group went into a different classroom. Our first assignment was to learn some Spanish weather phrases which I really enjoyed. While I was writing down some phrases, I heard a peculiar noise and was soon told that it was the bell for next period. Curiously I walked to the dinner hall to find two tables waiting for us to have lunch.”Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” Previously that buzzer rang for a new period, but was it for that time? I took back my words as a mob of starving wolves (or so that’s what they looked like) ran down the stairs as if a huge piece of raw meat was wanting for them. Overall lunch was a brand new experience which was not to enjoyable but had its likes and dislikes. After our lunch, we played some cool Spanish weather phrases games and then it was time for us to leave the colossal, majestic building. I really enjoyed the first day but it was very weird…
“Ahhhh” another transition day was ahead of the bright blue sky and I was filled with glee. This time I felt very confident as I got to know the school a lot last time. Instead of my excitement turning into nerves this time my nerves turned into excitement. (Which I think is much better) Curiously I entered St. Margaret’s for the second time and I was wondering what assignment we would get, not noticing just how big that ‘assignment ’ was. We had to create a Spanish forecast. I got in a group with Lewis and Kayleigh (who didn’t show up) which made me very nervous. Lewis and I agreed that we would be able to do the presentation just the two of us, which we managed very well. Our country was Valencia so we had to do a lot of research for Valencia. After we got all our information it was our lunch and I was very hungry. When the buzzer buzzed I knew that the “wolves” were coming so I was not bothered at the slightest. After our lunch Lewis and I started to make our script and planned out how we would present our forecast. It was as if an hour flew by because I felt I started when we had to go. After another day of transition I felt almost like I had stayed at St Margaret’s for a month!
“Yippeeee!” It was the last day of transition and I felt distraught that it was the final day but filled with joy and nerves as Lewis and I were presenting our forecast. For once I quite enjoyed the bus journey because I had our presentation to look forward to. Senorita Wallace and Senorita Murphy led us up to the Spanish room for the last time and taught us some tongue twisting vocabulary. Vocabulary work really helped me as I really had to read quite a lot for the forecast. After practising our vocabulary I had a tasty lunch (so did the wolves) and went back to the Spanish room. After watching other groups perform it was our turn. I felt very nervous as we were being filmed but kept my confidence going and completed our forecast! Lewis and I were very pleased and we felt like we just climbed Ben Nevis. Soon all the groups were finished a…. Please walk to the closest fire exit in orderly fashion beep!” it was a huge shock and I could not believe my eyes when there was a fire as we were about to leave!”
What a way to end my transition …..
Sohaib
As soon as I stepped on that bus I started to think would I like Spanish? I had heard that we were going to do Spanish because Gregor had told me at football training. Suddenly, we were there.
While everyone was thinking what it would be like inside, I already knew because I had been to a basketball transition and a meeting. When we walked in the doors Mrs Wallace and Mrs Murphy were there to greet us.
Alejandro, my friend came from Spain so he was having a conversation in Spanish with Mrs Wallace. Then Mrs Wallace showed us to the classrooms then we got split into groups. I went with Mrs Wallace. Then we sat down and Mrs Wallace told us to write our names on a piece of card like this, me llamo…..
Mrs Wallace explained what we were going to do over the next three weeks and that we were going to learn Spanish. On the last week we were going to be doing a weather forecast. We started learning some of the weather phrases and we started learning how to pronounce some of the basic words in weather like “hace” is said “athe” instead of “hathe” as the “h” is silent. In Spanish “v” is pronounced “b”
The next thing we learnt was the basic weather phrases like hace sol- sunny, hace frio – cold, hace calor – hot and hace fresco – cool.
Once we had learnt the weather phrases we learnt chicos and chicas were boys and girls as we were about to do a competition. Mrs Wallace picked Ben to go out of the classroom then she told us how to play. One of us had to do a signal then we would change weather phrases because there were weather phrases on the board and each time they signalled we would move to the next weather phrase. Then Ben came back in and Alejandro had been chosen to do the signal. Alejandro’s signal was to nod his head. Ben had to work out why we were changing to the next weather phrase. So we started.
After we had said every weather phrase Mrs Wallace stopped and asked Ben if he knew why we were changing it. Ben didn’t know so we started again. After we had said all of them again Mrs Wallace asked Ben if he knew it yet, and Ben thought it was Alejandro but he didn’t know what the signal was. Mrs Wallace told Ben that it was Alejandro and the signal was him nodding his head.
After that we went for lunch. We went down to lunch 10 minutes before the year 1 and 2’s came so we could get tables together and we weren’t spread out. The after 10 minutes the year 1 and year 2’s arrived. When the year 3 and 4’s came down the year 1 and 2’s went. It was hard to hear each other as everyone was making so much noise. Next Mrs Wallace came to take us back to the Spanish room.
We played a game with boys versus girls. There were pictures on the smartboard and when Mrs Wallace said a phrase in Spanish you had to tap the right picture first. If you tapped it first you would get a point. After Alejandro and Rebecca played me and Iman played. Then we went to Mrs Murphy’s room and we were told that next week we would be split into groups and make the scripts for our weather forecast. We then went back to the bus to go back to St Nicholas.
It was the day again, they day we had to go back to St Margaret’s. I was a bit nervous and excited about who would be in my group. We got on the bus again to got to St Margaret’s. When we got there Mrs Wallace and Mrs Murphy were there to greet us again. We went to Mrs Murphy’s room at the beginning again. We were split into groups. I was with Alejandro and Aimee then we were told where we were to do the weather forecast for. Everyone else was told where to go but Mrs Wallace thought it would be nice if Alejandro picked somewhere his family was so Alejandro picked Majorca. Then we all went into Mrs Wallace’s room and searched for weather in the places we were given. We researched and took notes until lunchtime. We went down for lunch at the same time as last time. It was noisy again. Mrs Wallace came to get us again. We started writing our scripts and drawing maps and making stuff for our forecast. I was drawing the map because Alejandro was writing the script and Aimee drew weather symbols. Then it was time to go so we got back on the bus and before I knew it we were going to St Margaret’s again. I was so nervous this time because we were going to do our presentation. Aimee and I were trying to persuade Alejandro not to go first the nafter 5 groups had gone, it was us. I was a bit stutter on my words but I think I did alright. When we were about to end the fire alarm went off so we quickly got everything and went out. Euan and I were saying it would be terrible if you were in PE because it was freezing. After a few minutes we went on the bus. When we got back Lewis and Sohaib won.
Alexander
Is is that time of year again and we have various fun activities planned for the children to raise lots of money for the 2015 Lenten Appeal.
The children raised £68.50 from the silver snail trail on Wednesday…. well done everyone! This is a great start!
Please click on the link below to see a calendar of events.
Primary 2 and 2/1 celebrated Shrove Tuesday by using healthy fruits to make pancake faces. We used strawberries, blueberries and raisins to create our faces. The best part was getting to eat them at the end…yum!
Today we, P7A, greatly impressed Mrs Heather, Mrs Brown and Mrs Deas with our amazing models of Japanese Houses, Pods, Temples, Samurai Swords and Parasols.
We presented our fabulous models to the class. We explained how we planned them and what materials we used. 
As part of our Scotland Topic, Primary 2 have been learning about famous Scottish inventors. We found out that John Logie Baird invented the television and Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. We decided to make our own telephone using paper cups and string and we were able to hear and speak to each other through these! We then worked in pairs to make televisions out of cereal boxes and drew our favourite television show on the screen. After we had finished making our televisions we presented them to the rest of the class. Take a look at our pictures!
Primary 2 have been learning about Scotland and they found out about two famous inventors, James Logie Baird who invented the television and Alexander Graham Bell who invented the telephone. We are very thankful to these two clever men! We designed our own telephones from past and present.
In Language and Literacy we have been reading the story “A Tale of Two Robots” by Roy Apps.
We have been creating our own new chapter to the story where the Robots, Robert and Nita, decide they are tired of cleaning and go for a day out. However, they face a few problems. Here are a few examples of the problems they faced:
After writing our new chapter we acted it out in a group. Look at some pictures of us in action.
After studying for the last 2 months, four of our Primary 6 pupils attended the Regional round of this year’s Euroquiz. Georgia, Jasiu, Alexander and Finlay had prepared extremely well and managed to get full marks in the first round on languages! Against 20 teams from schools all over West Lothian, our team came in 4th overall and should all be very proud of themselves – we certainly are! Here they are showing off their certificates. Well done.
After a bit of a delay (of just over a month), the second St Nicholas Movie night took place last week. With ice-cream, a bottle of metled ice and a build a snowman kit being handed out on arrival, I;m sure you have guessed the theme – it was ‘Frozen’, but with a little twist – the words appeared at the bottom on the screen so everyone could sing a long. It was another roaring success with a £300 being made by the end of the event. Everyone had a fantastic evening and as well as coming dressed for the occasion, were in great singing voice. A huge thank you to the Filmclub for organising the night and congratulations to the winners of our raffle.
Our task is to research the climate in a Spanish-speaking city or region, then write and prepare a weather report for that particular area.
Regions/Cities
Asturias (Northern Spain)
Andalucia (Southern Spain)
Bogota (Columbia)
Mexico City (Mexico)
Santiago de Chile (Chile)
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Quito (Ecuador)
Valencia (Eastern Spain)
Majorca (Balearic Islands)
I experiment with new language, working out the meaning of words and phrases using vocabulary I have learned so far.
MLAN 2-11c
Autobiography-Areha
L.I I can write an autobiography
S.C. chronological order, past tense, First person, emotive languageAnyone ever dreamt of being a doctor? Ever thought of helping others solve their problems? Has anyone had a memorable childhood? Anyone done something they should not have done? Anyone made a fool of themselves? Well
I was born on the 28th of June 2003 6 am Saturday morning St John’s hospital Livingston. My due date was the 2nd of July as you can see I was a week early. My mum and dad had me 2 years after their wedding. Most people expected me to be a boy but I turned out to be a girl. Some people were happy like my big cousin but others were not, like my uncle. When I was born my weight was 6 pounds 8 ounces, my chosen names were Areha and Areeba. Anyway my birth name was Areha Aslam.
I took my first step on the 23 of July late at night 2004. My first word was dada, my favourite baby food was broccoli and cauliflower. My first birthday rocked! I got a gigantic winnie the pooh teddy bear from my dad I was a geek about Winnie the pooh when I was small. I was a fussy little eater and I would only eat from my aunty and if I did eat, I would only eat white chocolate and wotsits crisps.
I was a chubby little baby. My favourite outfit was a red velvet dress and my very first shoes were a pair of purple Velcro flip on’s. It was on a cold winters day I was about 2 years I had nothing better to do than have a laugh with my dad. Well we were playing and he was spinning me round in circles. At first I thought I was enjoying it but and then within seconds I gave my dad an unpleasant surprise. I threw up in his mouth at first he was raging at me ready to scream then after about a mili second the room was full of laughter.
About a year later at the age of three I was walking back from nursery in a very unusual way I was cheeky at that time. I walked into a shop singing the Bob the builder song I went in and pinched a lady’s bottom, she screamed and her face went bright red but once she realized I was only a little girl she gave me a big cheesy grin.
When I was little my favourite cartoons were Lazy town ,64 zoo lane, Balamory and Bob the builder. I would only go to bed when my dad was at home because for some reason I would feel more safe with my dad around the house.
When I was just turning four my little brother Aayan was born on the 3rd of September 2006 every day when I came back from nursery I would try and be helpful and help feed my baby brother so that at the end of the week I would get a toy or some sort of treat. Well instead of feeding my brother I would eat the food myself and then say that I had fed him but as soon I would leave he would start crying, say to my mum he was hungry and carry his milk bottle to me.
Then after when I was in primary 1 and 2 I would make up excuses not to go to school but I would fail every time. Every time I would come back from school I wouldn’t do what my dad told me to do but and then as soon as he would say I’m not talking to you I would do that thing straight away.
When I went to the middle area in p3 I had the teacher I had in p1 Miss Woods (well she was then) now I am in p7 and she is Mrs Dymock ,she got married in 2014. Those days and times were funny they bring back . Me and my friend would try to be like her by asking her if we could wear her jewellery, we would ask every day because we knew her answer would always be yes.
P3 was also a very sad year for us because Mr Kelly our old deputy teacher left. He got a job as a head teacher in a school in Glasgow. For many years he has been missed.
Primary 4 was exciting we had a wonderful teacher Miss brown and along with Mrs McGuire who now is an acting deputy teacher
Now primary 5 was wow amazing primary 5 was one my best years well until p7 I had the world’s most coolest teacher Mrs Buchanan Coutts, she had the world’s most weird and wacky imagination. We had a topic on Kenya it was so interesting. We had a homework project we had to make, design, draw and create a Kenya book and the person that worked over and beyond their expectations would get 5 floating stars and I got the 5 stars out of the whole class. In primary 6 my teacher was Mrs Heather she was really nice. The best part of having her has a teacher was that every time we would do something like maths she would put music on, she rocked at that !
Now this is me now age 11 primary 7b my teacher is called Mrs Bell she is funny and not too shouty. This is my best year because our topic was WW2 and now it is Japan. I feel so grown up because it feels like I can just do anything. I am at the top of the school.
When I graduate I want to be a doctor, I want to help people get better. My hopes and dreams are to have a successful life and try my very best in everything.
P7 are learning about responsible and respectful use of the internet for “Proclaiming the joy of the Gospel.”
Mrs Meikleham has been coming in to teach us how to do origami. It is great fun and we have also enjoyed teaching each other. Alexander, Emilka and Reece made fantastic models at home too!
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We can meet with friends and join clubs
Primary 1a have been learning their number stories to 10. Today we were using elephants and putting them inside two different zoos, Edinburgh and West Calder. We discovered that we can do this in lots of different ways!
Keep up the good work!
Miss Toner
This morning P5/4 and P5 went to Broxburn Academy for a Hanball Festival. We were all spilt into different teams and played against teams from other schools in the local area.
Jamie: “I liked playing against children from other schools”.
Isobel: “It was good to compete in an event in Broxburn Acadmeny”.
Ben: “In our team, we tried hard to defend against our oppposition”.
Isla: “The game was quite difficult because at the start it was hard to get the ball from the other team”.
Caitlin: “I had so much fun and I scored lots of goals”.
Adrian: “It was a great morning and I tried to enocurage my team”.
Grace: “My teams scored lots of goals and we won most of our games”.
Haidyn: “I would love to go back again next year”.
Primaries 2 and 2/1 have been learning about Scotland. We looked at Edinburgh Castle and learned that it was built on top of a dormant volcano. There is also a canon called Mons Meg that is fired at 1 o’clock every day from the castle. There is a Great Hall in the castle which was used for dancing and entertaining. We saw a photo of the crown jewels too.
We then learned about the features of a castle. We know that the keep is the tallest part of the castle so that the guards can keep watch. We also know that above the main door there is a murder hole where guards would drop things like boiling water to stop enemies from attacking them. Some castles have a drawbridge that can be opened and closed to stop enemies from entering. Some castles have a moat which is water surrounding the castle which makes it difficult for enemies to attack.
We used different construction materials including clay, lego, mega blocks and Knex to create our own castles and tried to recreate some of these features.
Primary 2 and 2/1 have been learning some Scottish songs! Here are P2/1 singing ‘Three Craws’.
Mandipa loves dancing and she was keen to show her certificates and trophies from her graded examination in tap dance. She was proud to tell us that and she was given a distinction in freestyle. Mandipa attends JHM Dance Academy in Broxburn. Well done Mandipa… Keeeeeeep dancing! 
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Congratulations to Sophie, who came 2nd, and Rachael who achieved successes at Broxburn Swimming Championships. Rachael also gained high recommendation for her Highland Dancing. Well done both of you.
Kirsten completed Junior Parkruns in Falkirk on Sunday, and is now a proud member of The Marathon Club. Well done Kirsten!
Congratulations to Niamh for coming in third place at Broxburn Club Championships, and was presented with this trophy at the weekend.
Congratulations to both Emily Cook and Katie Hay for achieving certificates in their dancing. Emily received her Certificate of Merit and medal for demonstrating proficiency in Theatre Craft. Katie received her certificates after performing in her dance show and she was awarded a Certificate of Distinction for dedication and excellence in all dance styles and a Certificate of Merit for most improved dancer!
Well done girls!
