Thank you to the boys and girls of St Nicholas for showcasing their talent with us today. What a wonderful way to end the term! Have a lovely Easter everyone and see you all back bright eyed and bushy tailed on Tuesday the 18th of April!
Monthly Archives: March 2017
P6b’s Got Talent
Well done Molly and Shaelyn for your outstanding singing in the school’s talent show.
We really enjoyed it! 🙂
DOJO prizes in p2b
Well done to the children who chose Lunch with the Teacher this week. Thank you for working hard and earning lots of DOJO points. Miss Miller is very proud of you. We had a lovely lunch!
Eco Team aka Park Designers.
Today, some of our Eco Team met with Christine Lee from Sutcliffe Play as a new park is going to be built in the Badger’s Brook area of Broxburn. She gave us free reign to design what we think the park should look like. As you can imagine, this was very exciting, after all, it is not every day that you get to do this.
To do this, we worked in groups to choose themes for the park. Popular themes included, animals, the zoo and nature. We drew a plan of the park and then used our imaginations to draw what we think the park should look like. Our designs are fantastic ! Christine will now take these away and will choose the best parts from each in her final design. We will keep you all posted as to what the park will look like when we see the final plan.
Fantastic Football Tournament
Well done to the St Nics school football team for another fantastic tournament! You all played very well and did our school proud. Great effort everyone. 🏅⚽️😄
Netball, Oliver, perimeter…
This week in Maths P6 have applied their knowledge of how to calculate perimeter and area to design a zoo. They had to design the enclosures for each species, making sure all the animals had enough space to live and it was within the budget.
Primary 6 is working hard on their mental maths: excellent effort with this week’s tables challenge! We have also been working on multiply decimals in Number Talks.
In language we have learnt about colons and semi-colons and we also helped our buddies to spell common words correctly.
We learnt to tell the time in Spanish. You can practise at home using this website
P6 have also been busy auditioning for Oliver and rehearsing the songs. We are so excited about our production!
It was also an important week for our Language Ambassadors Ieuan and Shaelyn; who have been teaching the children in St Nicholas the feelings in Spanish. You did a fantsatic job. Well done!
Finally, we had a delicious Cake and Candy on Friday and a pupil v. teachers netball. Well done pupils for winning most matches!
P1’s Adventures at Edinburgh Castle.
P1 had a fantastic time at Edinburgh Castle earlier on today . We saw lots of the things that we have been learning all about including , the ‘Crown Jewels’ , ‘Mons Meg’ and the ‘One o’ clock Gun. We also looked at ‘The Great Hall’ , the ‘Castle Jail’, ( this was a favourite) and spent some quiet time in ‘St Margaret’s Chapel’. Special thanks to our lovely helpers who came along today. We hope that you all had as much fun as we did!
P3 Dynamic Earth Trip! 🌏
P3 have had a fantastic day at Dynamic Earth! We really enjoyed the tour, showdome and workshop and we learned lots of interesting new facts about our planet. Big thanks to all our adult helpers who came along too!
Thinking Outside The Cube In Primary 6
This week, primary 6 have been revising the properties of a variety of 3D shapes. We tried to make as many as possible using the building sticks. We then counted the vertices, faces and edges. The dodecahedron has an awful lot! We also learned a catchy song about the properties of different triangles… ask a primary 6 pupil to sing it to you tomorrow!
Broxburn Cluster P7 Football Festival
Primary 7 spent a very wet and windy morning at the Broxburn Cluster Football Festival.
Primary 7 Cake and Candy Friday 24th March 2017
Primary 7 Cake and Candy. Friday 24th March 2017 in P7 area from 9-10am. Any donations would be gratefully received. Proceeds going to our Lenten Fund. Many thanks for your continued support.
St Nicholas in the news
See the latest press coverage of Archbishop Leo Cushley’s recent visit to P4. The article appeared in the Catholic Observer 17.3.17
P3 Class Party
On Friday, P3a enjoyed a class party as they had earned a whopping 6000 class Dojo points! They enjoyed some party games, music, dancing and tasty treats!
Well done P3!
P6b’s fun week
This week we started learning about orienteering. We have learned how to use a compass and understanding scale on maps.
In Literacy we have revised how to use full stops and commas and designed an activity for our buddies on capital letters.
In Spanish we are designing a healthy lunch meal to learn the names of different foods. We also learned how to say ‘it’s healthy’ (es sano) and ‘it’s not healthy’ (no es sano).
We have done some Helping hands artwork because Lent isn’t just about giving up things, it’s also about helping others.
Finally, congratulations to the St Nicholas dance club girls that performed at Deans Community High School. Everyone was very impressed with your choreography!
Here’s a picture of the girls dancing for the school and a picture of our mad hair styles!
Malawi, Malawi, Malawi!
This week Primary 2 have been very busy! We were lucky enough to visit the library for a talk about Malawi, have a talk about Mrs Renshaw’s trip to Malawi and began to sort all of the items for our Malawi Appeal.
Primary 2 want to share what they have learned:
Lara – the water in lake Malawi is dirty and if you swam in it it could make you ill.
Liam – Moni means hello in Chichewa.
Flynn – Bambo means father in Chichewa.
Catherine – Mayi means mother in Chichewa.
Leon – The weather is boiling hot!
Mya – There is a big mountain.
Thomas – People live until they are around 55 in Malawi.
Safaa – The ladies wear a Chitenji which is a nice dress.
Lucas Curran – The people are poor but they are very happy.
Lucia – The school in Malawi doesn’t have much stuff but they will get some stuff from our Malawi Wee Bag Appeal.
Michael – Malawi is a land locked country.
Oliver – Malawi is known as the ‘Warm Heart of Africa’.
Santiago – Zikomo means thank you.
Martyna – They don’t have walls in their schools.
Adam – The stars in Malawi are really bright.
Freyja – It took Mrs Renshaw 2 days to climb the mountain in Malawi.
Matthew – There is over 17 million people living in Malawi.
We have had lots of fun learning all about Malawi!
P3b Presentations!
Well done to P3b on their amazing climate zone presentations. Here are some pictures of us presenting!
P7 Tobacco Education Showcase
Primary 7 would like to say a massive THANK YOU to everyone who came along to support this event. We really enjoyed sharing our learning with you.
Special thanks to NEIL GORMAN from PIGGY PRINT who made our banner for us and MICHELLE SUTHERLAND from WLDAS for all her help. Thanks also to RAB SNEDDON who came along from NHS SCOTLAND.
Book day dress up in P3!
P3 have had lots of fun taking part in the book week activities this week! It has been great learning about one another’s favourite books. Here we are dressed as our favourite characters! 📚 
Continue reading Book day dress up in P3!
Curriculum Cafe
Our hall was packed today with families talking about learning with their children. The purpose of the cafe was to encourage children to talk with parents – in an informal way over tea and a biscuit – about their school work. This gives our children the opportunity to talk about their learning and achievements so that they can be challenged, motivated and supported.
Some comments from parents:
“A great way to take time to have this discussion with your child – I never seem to get much time to do this normally.”
“It was a good opportunity to have a 1-1 with my child. It was a good in depth conversation!”
“Great to be involved so you can keep up with child’s development as they progress through the school.”
” It was useful for me to know where to help my child to improve.”
“Great idea. Nice to calmly discuss learning with children and see their work. Thank you.”
We hope to see you at our next cafe on 21st of April (drop in between 10.40 and 12noon)
“Stickman Production”
****Video will follow soon!!! (Problems uploading)
Primary 6a worked really hard to produce their “Stickman” puppet show to perform to the younger classes during book week. Every child had a part to play in this show whether it was narration, puppet mastery, lights or ICT. Primaries 1, 2 and 3 thoroughly enjoyed the show. Excellent work Primary 6, a great example of creative, independent work!
Primary 6b will be completing and performing their performance very soon. We are very excited to see it!
Wonderful Costumes
What a great variety of outfits today, Primary 4. I have been taking notes to give me ideas for next year.
Primary 7 visit to the Forth Bridges
Primary 7 had a fantastic day at the Forth Replacement Crossing learning lots about the Rail bridge, The Road bridge and the new Queensferry Crossing. They also took part in an engineering challenge where they built a giant tetrahedron bridge. 
Primary 6’s busy week
This week we have continued with data handling in Maths. This time we carried out surveys to find out what people’s favourite holiday was and we did this in Spanish! In maths we also did a carousel where we go into groups and do some activities. This week we focused on Venn Diagrams and decimals.
In Language we have practised using a wide range of openers and played a game to practise this.
We have had a really busy week with our lent activities and celebrating Book week too! Well done Grace for winning the ‘Book Worm Competition’, Finlay for winning the Easter bonnet competition and also Sophie Reid for winning the costume competition. It was so hard to choose a winner!
Today we took part in a few activities for book week: we dressed up , played a fun game of Cluedo, decorated our door as if it was a book and also went to an assembly to announce the winners. Yesterday we got to come to school in our onesies and Miss Mckeown came into our classroom and read us Harry Potter!
Finally, thank you very much for your donations and your effort with the costumes, activities, etc!
Special Visitor
Primary 2 were very excited to have a visitor in their classroom today. Mr Hay (Michael’s Dad) lived in Africa for a while, so came in to share his experiences with us. He took us on an amazing safari where we saw lots of different animals including; hippos, antelopes, elephants and leopards.
Mr Hay told us lots of interesting facts about the animals that he had saw on the safari. He told us that elephants walk on their tip toes, elephants in Africa have big ears to keep them cool and many many more!
P2 all loved going on our safari adventure and thought that Mr Hay was fantastic!
Primary 1’s Book Week
Primary 1 have been having a great Book Week so far.
We have been reading lots of books in class, with our teacher, with our friends, with nursery children and with our primary 7 buddies. We also took some of our favourite books outside to read in the sunshine today.
We’ve had lots of fun book related activities, including painting and other art activities related to some of our favourite stories.
We have been decorating our door like a book too – we are trying to win a ‘Dress Your Door’ competition against the rest of the school (of course, ours are by far the best!).
We helped write the first chapter of a ‘School Story’ – the rest of the school will continue and finish the story.
We have also been doing lots of fab writing related to and inspired by some of our favourite books.
We’ve also been bringing in some fab photos of our ‘extreme reading’ for the competition – the winner will be announced on Friday.
There’s still lots more to come, including a school carousel (where we will hear some stories from other teachers in the school, and finally, we are really looking forward to dressing up as our favourite book character on Friday.
Primary 4 visit to the library
Primary 4 have made good use of the fact that the library is now located in the Strathbrock. They enjoyed visiting the library today for a chat about The Rainforest.
Special Visitor
On Tuesday they had a very important visitor, Archbishop Cushley. The children made him a lovely prayer book and also had a sweet treat for him to enjoy after Lent.
STEM at University
Yesterday, Primary 6 received a visitor from Edinburgh University who is studying Biomedical Sciences. Ms Johnstone came in to ask us some questions about our experience at the zoo. We also got the opportunity to put her in the “hot seat” and ask questions about studying science at university such as what subjects we would need to study at high school and what lectures are like! It was really interesting!
We can handle it…
This week Primary 6 have been working in handling data in a variety of ways. We used, bar graphs, pictograms, line graphs, pie charts, Venn diagrams and ,Carroll Diagrams to record data that we had obtained from class mates and other sources. We realised that the way you display information can be misleading.
Primary 5 Presentations
Primary 5 will be preparing presentations on a topic of their choice to share with their classmates. To help them improve in their presentation skills they will be peer assessed and given tips to move forward. We are looking for presenters to engage with their audience, speak clearly, have good body language and be confident in their subject choice.
Our first group of presenters provided us with fascinating facts on Taekwondo, Doug the Pug, Dance and Scotland. After reading their feedback each presenter was able to identify a next step for their development.
P2 Assembly
Thank you to everyone who attended our assembly. We were so excited to share our wonderful work and learning with you. For anyone who missed it here are a few videos of us in action!
Contemporary Art at St Nicholas
Today, Primaries 4 to 7 enjoyed a fantastic visit from the travelling art gallery. The exhibits were all about work and routine which made us think about our own routines in a new way. We loved the people-sized sculptures dressed in bright prints and the ‘workers’ happiness’ graphs. Thank you once again to the travelling gallery for giving us the opportunity to think differently about things!
Spanish phrase of the week
The Spanish phrase of the week is
– ¿Qué hora es? – What time is it?
– Son las (dos) – It’s two o’clock
– Es la una – It’s one o’clock
Hasta luego 🙂
P6’s big litter pick and more!
In Maths we have continued to practise our number with lots concrete-visual-abstract games and activities.
As part of our P6 Eco responsibilities we have carried out a litter pick and recorded everything. Then, we used the data to make graphs in Excel and interpreted our results. We will continue to encourage everyone to pick up their rubbish, be eco-friendly and we will do more litter picks and see if the litter decreases!
Primary 6 have also been working collaboratively to practise using connectives and some children have even made up their own connectives questions to test a friend. We also worked collaborately with our P2 buddies helping them to adjectives to describe a character.
In Spanish we have been learning how to tell the time (o’clock)
– ¿Qué hora es? – What time is it?
– Son las (dos) – It’s two o’clock
– Es la una – It’s one o’clock
On Friday we had our Number talks assessment on multiplying decimals and we also made a prayer chain with links for people that need God’s help. Also thank you so much for your lent donations on Friday!
We also learned many things about Fair trade by watching the P2 assembly. Well done to all the P2s for their hard work!
JRSO Update by Grace and Hana
On Wednesday we went to Broxburn and we took a survey of different vehicles we saw around us. Most people drove cars around and only two people were on their bikes. Now we are going to talk about how many different vehicles we saw. We saw over 100 cars and only 9 lorries, 6 buses, 20 vans, 7 motercycles, 2 bicycles, 1 emergency vehicles, 5 taxis and no farm vehicles. We are going to study our results and think of ways to minimise traffic around our school and make sure the public are slowing down near schools.
We have seen people wearing headphones while crossing the road twice! At Broxburn Primary school they have double yellow lines, which is good. We also seen a slowdown sign made by children at the entry of JHM dance!
Remember Stop Look Listen Think !!!!
P6 Litter Pick
It is our responsibility to minimise litter in our playground. Please support us by not dropping any litter boys and girls. Let’s take care of our school! We managed to collected 8 black bags yesterday!!!
JRSO Photographs
JRSO UPDATE- Ben and Ollie
Hello, the JRSO’s have been on a traffic survey around Broxburn and we tally marked every Car, Lorrie, Bus, Van, Motorcycle, Bicycle, Emergency Vehicle, Farm Vehicles and Other .We calculated the traffic. We would also thank everyone for not parking on the yellow zig zag lines. Here the traffic results. We are going to be studying these and finding ways of minimising traffic around our school.
P1 and P7 ‘s library visit.
Today we had a wee wander over to Broxburn Library with some of our P7 buddies. For some of us, it was our first visit to the library since it moved from the Main Street. We all agreed that the new library is lovely !
What did we do ?
We met one of the lovely librarians who read us a story called ‘ Wee Granny and the Ceilidh’ by Elizabeth Walker. This was chosen specially for us as the librarian had heard that we had been learing about Scotland. After the story, the librarian spoke to us about library and what we can do whilst we were there. We didn’t realise that we can visit any library with our card and even pop along on a Saturday between 10.00 and 12.00 for fun craft activities.
It was a very enjoyable visit ! Special thanks to Diane for having us over .
Pancake Fun in Primary 1.
We had great fun learning all about ‘Shrove Tuesday’. We also got the chance to taste some delicious pancakes. Yum yum!
