Monthly Archives: November 2018

Primary 5, School News

Primary 5b

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Happy St Andrew’s Day! This week we have been learning about St Andrew.

Ellie – St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, Rope, Fisherman and Fishmongers.

Paula – St Andrew was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus.

Christy – St Andrew was born in 5 BC

Cerys – St Andrew was 62  when he died.

Szymon – He was killed by the Romans in Greece.

Alexander – Some of St Andrew’s remains are in Scotland.

Sam – He said that he was not worthy to be crucified on a  cross like Jesus so he was crucified on a x-shaped cross.

Ciaran – The x shape was adopted as our national flag of Scotland (the saltire).

Matthew – He had a brother called Simon Peter.

Mirin – St Andrew appeared in a dream and told the Pictus people that they would be victorious in battle.

Phoebe – he followed Jesus and spread the good news.

Happy St Andrew’s Day!

We have also been learning about multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000 in numeracy and using subtraction strategies in number talks. We have worked very hard this week in all areas.

P5b

Primary 6

Tricky Tessellation

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Primary 6 have been learning about 2D shapes and putting them together to make tessellations. We also learnt that the artist, M.C. Escher used tesselation to create his art works. We have some feedback from our classmates and they said:

Molly said “It was fun but challenging.”

Rebbecca said “To try to tessellate a cross is really hard.”

Beth said “You can see tesselation in everyday life including slabs,tiles,fabric design,pineapples and many more things.”

This week’s bloggers are Isla G and Ruby

Primary 6

Primary 6 are using their logic !

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Primary 6 were having fun using our new ‘Logic Cards’ to complete some tricky problem solving tasks.

Ethan said “It was challenging but really fun. My task involved finding the solution to a drawing problem with shapes where I couldn’t take the pen of the page or repeat drawing a line.”

Harris continued, ” The advantage of working with a partner on this task was that we could share ideas and piggy back to find a better solution.”

Primary 4

Primary 4a’s Week of Learning

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Primary 4 have had a busy week!

In Writing we had to describe a picture. The picture was a setting for a story. We had to include adjectives, nouns and adverbs. Next week we will begin to write character descriptions.

On Tuesday we walked to Broxburn Academy for the Benchball Festival. We were sorted into teams and we played some rounds of Benchball against other schools. We really enjoyed this even though we had to use mats instead of benches!

In Numeracy we have been learning about Money. We can convert pence into pounds and pounds into pence. We can also add sums of money together to make totals. Some children brought in different currencies for us to look at. Cole brought coins from the Czech Republic, Michael showed us some euros, Adam brought in Algerian money and Kyle introduced us to the Indian rupee.

In Health and Wellbeing we have begun to learn about the importance of keeping ourselves clean and healthy. Miss Doolan brought in two pieces of bread for us to use in an experiment. We all touched one piece without washing our hands, and Cole touched another piece AFTER washing his hands. We put the bread in separate bags, labelled them and hung them up in our classroom. Our aim is to see which piece gets more mouldy in the next week or two.

Primary 4

Twelve Disciples

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In P4, in preparation for our assembly we learnt all about the 1twelve disciples.  In no particular order, they were : Peter, Andrew, James, John , Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James, (son of Alphaeus), Thaddeus, Simon and Judas.  However, we learnt that Judas betrayed Jesus so he was replaced by Mattheus.

We learnt that these men followed Jesus and continued his good work here on Earth.  We too are being followers of Jesus and following their good example by : praying for others, helping one another, reading the Bible and by looking after our world.