Well done to Harris in Primary 3 for receiving this certificate and badge for swimming 600 metres. Keep swimming Harris!
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Racing driver
Well done to Monde-Jnr in Primary 3 for receiving this trophy for taking part in a go kart competition at the weekend. Keep driving!
Egyptian Pyramid game
Today Primary 3 were learning about pyramids. We played this game to build our own pyramid. It was fun.
Can you build a pyramid? Have a go!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/launch_gms_pyramid_builder.shtml
Yucky Germs in Primary 1b
Primary 1b have been learning all about hand washing, and why this is important.
We watched a video showing germs on our hands. They are so small, that we can’t see them, but apparently they can be spread really easily. We weren’t sure if we believed this or not.
So, we decided to play with glitter! The glitter is the pretend germs (just a bit bigger so we can see them). We went around the classroom, touching everything. They spread so easily! The classroom ended up covered in germs!
When we tried to wash them off, it was quite hard, we had to use soap to help make sure our hands were very clean.
Primary 1b’s Stain Glass Windows
This week Primary 1b have been learning about churches. Our favourite part of churches are the beautiful stain glass windows. They are so colourful!
We decided to make our own to decorate our classroom. We drew a huge squiggle with a pencil on the tracing paper, and then coloured in each section with a different colour, using felt tips. We are very impressed with them.
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Primary 1bs super smart children
On Friday, we were all wearing our own clothes, as part of the Syrian Appeal.
Mrs Baty was very impressed with 1 child in particular. Hamza was by far the smartest dressed pupil in the whole school!
Primary 1b’s super star!
This week our super star of the week is Freyja.
Freyja has been working very hard this week. She is always very helpful, always trying her best, and has been a lovely friend to everyone in the class.
Well done Freyja!
Primary 1b weekly evaluation
Primary 1b had a very busy week last week.
Here are some of the things we learned.
Mya – ‘We learned about germs’
Safaa – ‘The germs were all over the table!’
Lucas C – ‘They spread easily’
Liam – ‘We have learned 26 sounds!’
Gabrielle – ‘We learned the letter z’
Mia – ‘We wrote some fab sentences’
Shay – ‘We made lots of words’
Lucas C – ‘We made stain glass windows’
Gabriel – ‘We go to church on Sundays’
Oliver – ‘The windows are very colourful, and are found in chaples’
Freyja – ‘They are also in churches’
Lucas T – ‘Rory’s mum came to visit!’
Grace – ‘She had really big feet!’
Mrs Baty thinks we are all super stars and is very proud of us all!
Primary 1a’s Weekly Evaluation.
What have we learnt this week ?
What have we enjoyed ?
Grady – I have learnt how to write z. I enjoyed going to the hall.
Anum – I have learnt a new sound – y. I have enjoyed painting my autumn tree.
Tavia – I have learnt how to read. I liked getting a dinosaur sticker.
Haroon – I have learnt all ablout the poor children. I have enjoyed watching P6 in assembly.
Umaima – I have learnt sounds. I enjoyed playing with my sister at school.
Primary 1a’ ‘Star Pupil of the Week’
Well done to Ciara for being our ‘Star Pupil of the Week’. Ciara has been chosen this week for working hard and for having lovely manners. Well done Ciara, you are a star !
Egyptians
This week Primary 3 had a design challenge to design then create their own Egyptian collar using paper plates, paint and pasta. Look at our fabulous creations.
What P5b thought of this week…
We looked back at our week and these are our weekly reflections …
I enjoyed the big maths beat that challenge this week because I noticed that I have to try hard to beat my score (Finn).
In PE, I learned that you have to learn the basics of a game rather than dive straight in to the full game (Abbie).
Even if you have answered all the questions in BMBT, you still have to revisit and check them because you might have got some wrong (Piotr).
In Maths, I learned that you can’t always just add on a zero when multiplying by 10, 100, 1000 because it won’t work when you multiply with decimals (Alex).
It doesn’t matter who does what in a group as long as it get done to the best quality (Rosie).
I like PE because I scored 4 goals and learned that you can shoot from lots of different angles and work with my team to get closer (Molly).
We linked our literacy using persuasive writing to our social subjects because we had to write an advert to persuade people to buy clothes from us (Ieuan).
Money Week
This week primary 3 have been learning all about money. We have looked at lots of different coins and we have been working out the total value of the coins. We have played lots of games and completed interactive activities to practice using the coins. Next week we will be learning about finding the change.
Here are some interesting facts we have learned.
Molly – I know that if you have zero pounds and just pennies you write it like this £0.24
Monde Jnr – There are one hundred pennies in one pound.
Freya – Coins only go up to £2.
Harris – There are fifty two pences in £1.
Callum – There are two hundred one pences in £2.
Luke – There are two fifty pences in £1. There are twenty two pences in £1.
Here are some photographs of us working hard.
Primary 1b’s wonderful workers!
Primary 1b have been so busy this week!
We have been working really hard to count and write our numbers perfectly. We have also been ordering numbers forwards and backwards, working out missing numbers and even building our own numberline (with people holding numbers).
We have been working just as hard with our sounds as well. This week we have been focusing on finding the initial sound or the middle sound in a word, as well as building words of our very own. We will be reading and writing entire stories before you know it!
Wednesday’s World in P1.
For today’s ‘Wednesday’s World’ we learnt all about hedgehogs. Mrs Macdonald has one living in her garden. She is going to see if she can take a picture of it.
What did we learn ?
Catherine – They curl into a ball because they get scared.
Thomas – A baby hedgehog is called a hoglet.
Ollie – They like to use leaves to keep warm.
Grady – They like to eat berries.
Lucas C – They like to eat worms.
Tavia – Hedgehogs hibernate in Winter. Hibernate means you go for a long sleep.
We also learnt that hedgehogs eat frogs ! Wow, we never knew that !
Primary 1b’s star swimmer
At the weekend, Gabrielle worked so hard at her swimming that she moved up to a new level. She is now swimming at level 3! She brought in her certificate to show the class.
Well done Gabrielle!
Primary 1b’s Vicious Visitor
On Monday, primary 1 had a surprise when we came in the classroom. We found enormous footprints on the floor all around the classroom! They went straight into the dinosaur tent. We had a chat to Rory, our class dinosaur, who told us that his mum had been in to visit! She must be huge as her feet were so big!
Rory told us that she’d had a look at our dinosaur sleepover sheets, and was pleased with how well we have been looking after him.
We then wanted to measure these footprints (using cubes), and we then compared them to the size of our feet. The dinosaur footprints were so much bigger!
We’re glad she had gone by the time we came back into class!
Super Spanish in P1.
This week we have been practising how to ask, ‘How are you ?’ in Spanish and answer back.
How are you ? – que tal ?
We have also been practising our bodies parts. We can sing ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’. Fantástico !
Primary 1 Magic Moves
Primary 1 had great fun in their joint gym lesson yesterday.
We began by learning how to move like different animals.
Lions – crawling and roaring!
Kangaroos – jumping with 2 feet together
Snakes – slithering along the floor and hissing
Horses – galloping with one foot in front of the other, neighing
We then had lots of fun dancing to just dance on the whiteboard. We loved the songs and even made up some fab moves of our own. We were all sweating and breathing heavily by the end, which meant we’d been exercising well. Even Mrs Baty and Mrs Macdonald were worn out!
Primary 5 Create Sets of Seven
Today Primary 5 worked on understanding their seven times table by getting very messy! Their task was to quickly show the meaning of several seven times table sums by creating an array of dots using a variety of media (the clock was ticking!). This also helped us demonstrate exactly how multiplication sums could be turned around so that 3 x 7 became 7 x 3 and 6 x 7 became 7 x 6 and so on. Speedy work Primary 5!
Autumn Adventure in P2 and P2/1
Primaries 2 and 2/1 went on an autumn walk today. We used our five senses to look out for the signs of autumn. We have a new topic called ‘The Hodgeheg’ which will involve learning about the season of autumn. In Maths we have also been learning about time – looking at the months of the year and sorting these into seasons. We know that the autumn months are September, October and November. Here are our thoughts on our autumn walk:
I heard a squeaky noise outside and Mrs Gibson thought that it could be a little animal. – Kaylan
I saw some leaves falling from the trees. – Alex
I enjoyed going on the walk as it was nice to get some fresh air. – Justin
I heard a bird tweeting. – Zach
We recorded all of our observations and look forward to writing all about this tomorrow!
Super Sorters Succeed in Primary 5A…
Working hard to put our place-value learning into action: Primary 5A worked in groups to sort hundreds of numbers – all done in a matter of minutes thanks to our 3-stage process and some place-value inside knowledge!
Dinosaur Measuring fun in Primary 1.
We got a big surprise after lunch today to find lots of dinosaur footprints leading from Mrs Macdonald’s class into Mrs Baty’s class. The footprints were all different sizes but had one thing in common, three claws ! This could only mean one thing, they belonged to a T-Rex. We asked our baby dinosaurs, Georgosaurus and Rory (the baby T-Rexes who hatched out of the eggs in our class a few weeks ago) if they had seen anything. It turned out that their mummies had paid them a quick visit during our lunch break to check up on them. Phew !!! We were so glad that we didn’t see them, they are carnivores !
We put the footprints to good use, measuring them with cubes. Some measured 27 cubes, others were 13 cubes long. We also measured our own footprints and compared sizes. We also participated in lots of other dinosaur activities. Here we are busy at work and play.
Great work today everyone !
Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty.
A week in the life of P5
Article 28 – we have a right to an education
What a busy week we’ve had in p5b. We have been using our artistic skills and knowledge to design a logo for our fashion house (huge thanks to Mr Gorman for converting them into stickers for us :-)) creating mood boards to show off our 1960s clothing designs, using persuasive language to make adverts, learning all about the Great Wall of China, the Cold War and Vietnam War and much, much more.
RERC
– We were learning about religious symbols and looked at the Celtic Cross and Pictish Stones. They were hand carved with pictures of animals to do with the creation and patterns of shapes. No-one really knows what they all stood for. Next week we are going to design our own using our God given talents as symbols. Some places in Scotland are named after religious saints or things to do with the Bible.
Social Studies
– This started in the 1950s. Vietnam split into 2 (North and South) and began to fight each other. China and Russia were friends with the North and America thought this was dangerous because of the Cold War between them and Russia so they sent soldiers to help South Vietnam. They dropped lots of chemicals on innocent people and woman and children were forced to fight in North Vietnam. Mohammed Ali, the boxer, refused to go to war.
Maths
– We have been learning about place value and multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000. We are organising a 1960s music festival and had to work within a budget to find 7 acts that would perform at a choice of venue. We are now going to see how much profit we make with ticket sales but had to know how to multiply by units of 10 first. You can’t just add a zero!!! You have to move ALL the digits 1 place (x10), 2 places (x100) or 3 places (x1000) to the left and then put zeros in to hold the value of the place. We think to divide, you do the same but move to the right…
Wonderous Wednesday
– all about the Great Wall of China. An Emperor in China forced people (including prisoners) to build a wall around his land to protect them from invaders. A lot of them died and were just left to rot in the fields. The wall is about 20ft high and is over 1300 miles long – it looks like a snake on the map and you can walk along with wall. It has towers quite often so there was always a view or place for the soldiers to see and fight oncoming invaders.
Literacy
– We have been trying to use descriptive language, rhetorical questions, strong verbs and play on words to write an advert for our fashion houses. AFOREST helped us to remember what to include and became our success criteria for this task.
Here’s what some of us enjoyed the most..
Finlay – “The war in Vietnam was really interesting, I didn’t know America and Russia were against each other at the time”.
Grace – “I really enjoyed Maths this week because I had to challenge myself”.
Cole – “Watching the video about the Great Wall of China was good because it had loads of interesting information in it. It was sad that so many people died and were just left to rot in a field”.
Shaelyn – “I liked using lots of descriptive words in our writing this week”.
Alex – “I can’t believe that the Celtic Crosses were all hand carved – that’s awesome!”
Primary 6 Appeal for YOUR Support!
As you know, Primary 6 are running a charity appeal as part of our assembly, we are sending a lorry of donations to refugee children in Calais!
Please watch our appeal advert, we hope we can persuade you to help!!!
URGENT APPEAL FROM PRIMARY 6!!!
As you know, Primary 6 are running a charity appeal as part of our assembly, we are sending a lorry of donations to refugee children in Calais!
Please watch our appeal advert, we hope we can persuade you to help!!!
Primary 1b’s star of the week
This week our star of the week is Brooke. Brooke is always helping others, and is always very smiley. She is a lovely friend and always tries her best.
Well done Brooke!
Primary 1b’s terrific Thursday
Thursday was a very busy day for primary 1b.
We learned all about St Nicholas. He is our school saint.
‘He left pennies for all the people in his village’ – Holly
‘ He saw a poor man who had to sell his daughters, so he gave them money’ – Gabrielle and Freyja
‘He was good as a child too’ Gabriel
‘When he died, he became a saint’ – Liam
We had a fun art lesson, making St Nicholas. We think he looks a bit like Santa.
We then went outside to practice our numbers. We had fun counting out actions (ie 5 star jumps). We then sat it groups of 2, 3 etc.
We played ‘what’s the time Mr Wolf?’ We really enjoyed this.
Finally we practiced writing our numbers in chalk.
Primary 1a’s ‘Star Pupil of the Week’ is …
Flynn is Primary 1a’s ‘Star Pupil of the Week’. Flynn is this week’s choice for lots of reasons ! He is kind and helpful, he listens well, he has magic manners and he has been working hard. Well done Flynn, I am proud of you ! Picture to follow on Monday.
Mrs Macdonald.
Technology challenge!
Primary 3 and 3/2 have been learning about what a sarcophagus is and what the Egyptians used them for. We learned that after the mummification process, the body is placed in a sarcophagus and then put in a tomb.
We then decided to make our own sarcophagus. First we thought about what design we would like on the top of our sarcophagus and drew them on our sarcophagus design sheet. Next we copied the design onto a template of a sarcophagus. Then we cut out our sarcophagus templates and scored along the dotted lines. Finally we stuck all the parts together.
We think they look amazing 🙂
Swimming Champion
Well done to Harris in primary 3 for receiving a certificate and badge for swimming 400 metres at his swimming club. We are very proud of you. Keep swimming!
1970’s Groovy Disco!
Today Primaries 2 and 2/1 had a 1970’s disco to mark the end of their topic! Even Mrs Brown joined in with our disco and showed us her moves. We were all dressed up and we looked FANTASTIC!
Lucas- We used lots of different dancemoves from the 1970s.
Emily- We played the corners game with a disco ball, flares, platforms and a record.
Adam- We played 1970s musical statues.
Ciaran- We did interesting dance moves from the 1970s!
Connor C- We had party snacks and juice.
We would like to share everything we have learned about the 1970s:
Matthew- We learnt that the first video game ever invented was called Pong.
Justin- People wore platforms and flares.
Harry- The names of the ABBA members are Bjorn, Benny, Anni-Frid and Agnetha.
Zac- We know that Camberwick Green and The Wombles are 1970s children’s T.V programmes.
Neve W- We learnt the dance from Saturday Night Fever.
Kaylan- John Travolta is the star!
Aoibhe- You can change the record player to different speeds. You can set it very fast and the voices sound funny and squeaky. When you set it very slow, the voices slow time and it takes a long time for the record to finish.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs Hesketh. She brought in lots of different things from the 1970s including a record player, 1970s toys, Camberwick Green discs, lots of records, a disco ball and books from the 1970s.
We also want to thank all the mums, dads, grannies and grandads for helping us look super for our disco and for handing in 1970s memorabilia.
Mrs Dymock and Mrs Gibson
Super Saint Nicholas.
We had fun today in P1a learning all about our school’s Patron Saint, St. Nicholas. We learnt that :
When he was a little boy he was kind – Kyle.
He became a priest when he was 19 – Grady.
He left people presents and gold – Ciara.
He had to go to jail but he wasn’t bad it was because he believed in God – Michael.
He is Santa – Lara.
We also made a craft St.Nicholas. Aren’t they lovely ?
Magnificent Maths!
Primary 5 are working on extending their understanding of place value. They especially enjoyed making their own place value games and competing against each other to create the number with the greatest value. You concentrated well Primary 5 and you included everyone – Good work!
Primary 1b’s super sounds!
Primary 1b had lots of fun this week learning our new sounds.
We did some lovely rainbow writing on the blackboard, we practiced writing them with pens and pencils, but the most fun we had was making bubbles using washing up liquid and water on the desk! We then wrote our sounds in the bubbles.
Wednesday’s World in Primary 1
On Wednesdays, Primary 1 will be learning about something different in the world. We have called it Wednesdays World.
This week we learned all about Lego.
Here are some of the things we have learned.
Before the man made Lego, he used to make ‘trains’ out of ‘wood’ – Leonard and Gabriel
‘It used to be made out of wood’ – Shay
‘Lego means play well’ – Oliver and Lucas C
‘It has little circles on it so it sticks together’ – Gabrielle
‘If it didn’t have the circles on it, it wouldn’t stick’ – Holly
‘The man got a machine to make it out of plastic instead of wood’ – Holly and Liam
Primary 5 Perfect Persuasion
Primary 5 have been concentrating on honing their powers of persuasion and perfected them by producing them in print! Great word-processing skills Primary 5A.
Dance Floor Divas in Primary 5
Primary 5 have been getting fit whilst having fun learning some dances from the 1960s. Primary 5 parents – keep an eye out for your invitation to a special event where we will showcase our “moves” near the end of term!
P1a and P1b ‘Dinosaur Showcase’.
Dear Primary 1a/1b parents and carers,
We are all looking forward to sharing our learning with you on Wednesday, 14th of October, at 2:00pm in our classrooms. Please come along if you can. There will be lots to see and do , all dinosaur related of course !
Please keep an eye out for your special invitation in your child’s bag.
Many thanks,
Primary 1.
Super Spanish in P1.
We have been learning how to count in Spanish. We are really good at it now. We are learning how to say lots of the colours in Spanish too. Today we learnt Spanish for blue, yellow, green and red.
Here is what you say :
Green is ‘verde’.
Blue is ‘azul’.
Yellow is ‘amarillo’.
Red is ‘rojo’.
Well done everyone !
Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty.
Judo star
Well done to Callum in Primary 3a for receiving this medal for Judo at the weekend. Congratulations Callum! We are very proud of you.
Reflection Time
Primary 5b evaluated their learning from the week. This is what they had to say…
We had a great time learning all about 1960s fashion this week. We know that there were 3 periods (early, mid & late) and that there were mods and rockers. We are working in groups to design our own clothing line and make a mood board to show our ideas. Our group are looking at early/mid clothes where the men had no collars on their jackets and woman wore woolen suits with matching hats. (Molly)
Our Thinking Thursday challenge this week was really good fun and a great laugh. We were connected to a partner with a piece of string and had to get disconnected – it took ages! We were going through each other’s legs, arms and wrapped up in some very unusual positions. Mrs B-C eventually showed us how to escape by putting a loop of string from our partner through our opposite wrist and twiddling it out. I had to help Grace because she couldn’t get it – she did eventually. (Shaelyn)
We were practicing our passing skills in handball this week. We were in teams and had to play against each other to score a goal. Finlay, Piotr and Blake were great goalies for us! I found it great fun and fairly easy, but if you didn’t spread out and pass quickly, the other team would block you. (Adrian)
P2’s Super Stars
Congratulations to Aoibhe Toner who moved up a belt in Tae-Kwon-Do, and well done to Zach Rova and Matthew Roxburgh for receiving a certificate and medal in Judo. They even got their photograph taken with two ladies who competed in the Commonwealth Games!
What super stars you all are!
Well done Cerys!
Cerys has achieved the next level in her Swimming lessons! Isn’t she a star? A huge well done from all the boys and girls.
Mrs Gibson
International Languages Day 2015
Primaries 2 and 2/1 had a fantastic day on Friday. We celebrated International Languages Day, with a focus on Spanish, as we are learning this language in our school. We were lucky enough to have a visit from P5b, who taught us the ‘Hokey Cokey’ in Spanish! Primary 2 sang their Spanish number song to the nursery boys and girls and Primary 2/1 sang their number song to Primary 5b. We were FANTASTICO! 🙂
Meanwhile, the super Primary 1 boys and girls were taking part in their Macmillan coffee morning. A huge well done to boys, girls, mums and dads for raising money for this great cause.
1970s car
Charlie’s mum very kindly sent us some photos of his dad’s 1970s car. The children were very excited to look at these pictures and discussed the similarities and differences between this car and cars nowadays. Thank you for your support!
P3 and P3/2 visit to the Library
Today Primary 3 and 3/2 went to Broxburn Library to learn more about Egypt. Diane in the library dressed up as Tutankhamen and told us lots of interesting facts.
Here are some of the amazing facts she told us.
Isla M – Tutankhamen died when he was 19 years old.
Millie – they but cone on a ladies head then burst it to get perfume on the lady.
Molly – ladies wore a tunic and man wore a kind if kilt.
Hubert – Tutankhamen was a pharaoh when he was only 8 years old.
Emily – the rich drank beer and the poor people drank wine.
Harris – Narmer the pharaoh united upper and lower Egypt.
Marta – Cleopatra died when she got bitten buy a snake.
Luke – poor people had house with one room, rich people had houses with up to 70 rooms.
Callum – Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of Egypt.
Kordian – Osiris brother killed him.
Nicola – Tutankhamun died because he had an infection in his leg.
Clara – Egypt was split into two different kingdoms – upper and lower Egypt.
Freya – Egyptians removed their brain through their nose when they died.
Isla G – Isis’s husband was the first mummy.
Thank you to all our helpers for coming with us. We had a great afternoon and learned lots of interesting facts.
Primary 1b Star of the Week
This weeks star of the week is for a lovely boy, who is always very smiley, happy to be at school, is very helpful, is kind to others and always is eager to work his hardest.
Well done Shay!!!
Primary 1a’s ‘Star Pupil of the Week’ is …
Here is Luca ! Primary 1a’s ‘Star Pupil of the Week’. Luca was given this week’s award for listening well, working hard and being kind and helpful in class. Well done Luca, you are a star !
Primary 1a’s Weekly Evaluation.
What have we learnt this week ?
What have we enjoyed doing ?
Leon – I learnt how to write the sound l . I liked seeing mummy at the coffee morning.
Michael – I learnt learning l. I liked doing the cake and candy.
Anya – I learnt more about dinosaurs. I liked hearing a dinosaur story.
Luca – I learnt more sounds. I enjoyed making tickets.
Fynn – I learnt about the Bible, it has stories in it. I enjoy Golden Time.
Well done everyone ! Have a good weekend.
Mrs Macdonald.
P7 Anderson Bomb Shelter Homework
For the past two weeks primary 7 a have been busy at home building their Anderson Bomb shelters.
We learned that the Anderson Bomb Shelter was designed in 1938 by William Paterson and Oscar Carl Kerrison. The shelter was named after Sir John Anderson, the man responsible for preparing Britain to withstand German air raids.
Have a look below to see our models of an Anderson Bomb Shelter.
Home-Made Dinosaur!
Mia in primary 1b has enjoyed our dinosaur topic so much, that she made her very own dinosaur at home!
It looks lovely! It has numbers all over its body, and it has buttons for spikes, so it looks like a Stegasaurus!
We all thought this was sooo amazing!
Well done Mia!
Primary 1bs Super Star
Whoops, Mrs Baty accidently didn’t ‘post’ this blog page.
Last week our super star of the week was Martyna! She has been working so hard, has got lovely manners, is always helping others and always has a smile on her face. Well done Martyna!
Primary 1b’s Super Sounds
Primary 1b have had lots of fun learning their new sounds this week.
We made some sound art today – we made our new sound ‘h’ with tissue paper. We also wrote our favourite sounds on whiteboards, and we practiced reading some really tricky words! Mrs Baty says we are doing fab!!
Primary 1b’s Fantastic Numbers
Today Primary 1b have been having lots of fun practicing our numbers.
We have been ordering the numbers to 10, jumping on numbers before and after, counting forwards, counting backwards, singing number songs, and going on number hunts in the classroom.
Here are some pictures of us using the large number line on the floor to work out the answers to the number before / after. How clever are we?!
Well Done Girls
Alex, Abbie and Grace brought in their medals to share their successes in recent dancing exams with the rest of Primary 5. Congratulations Girls
Well Done Sophie!
Sophie R in Primary 5A won “Performer of the Week” at her weekend drama class. Well done – a super achievement!
Sew Professional!
Primary 5 added some more details to their 1960s fashion design project and learned how to programme the sewing machine to sew the names of their fashion brands into labels too! Great concentration and well done following the operating instructions Primary 5.
A wonderful Wednesday in P1.
We have had a very, very busy day today.
What did we do ?
We learnt a new sound, ‘ l’.
We blended our sounds together to read and write words.
We practised forming our numbers on the smartboard.
Mrs Macdonald’s class had music.
Mrs Baty’s class had P.E.
During R.E we learnt that it is nice to help people and do kind things.
We made bunting, coloured in posters and made a table decoration for our coffee morning.
We learnt two new songs that we are going to sing at our coffee morning.
Busy bees ! Thank you everyone for working hard.
Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty.
Gymanastics Star
Well done to Beth for taking part in a gymnastics competition at the weekend. What a star!
Macmillan Coffee Morning, Friday 25th of September.
Just a reminder to you all that P1 are hosting their first ever coffee morning on Friday, 25th of September at 11.00 in our school. Tickets cost £2 for adults at the door, children go free. The ticket price includes a tea/coffee and cake. There will be additional cakes for sale on the day too. We will also have a donation box and a raffle. Thanks for the support shown so far. We have lots of lovely raffle prizes !
Thank you everyone,
from P1.
Primary 1a’s Weekly Evaluation.
What have we learnt this week ?
What have we enjoyed doing ?
Tavia – I learnt that some dinosaurs have plates on their back. I enjoyed making a fossil picture.
Macs – I have learnt new sounds. I like gym.
Haroon – I learnt how to write ‘e’. I liked playing in the dinosaur corner.
Kacper – I learnt how to write new numbers.
Grady – I learnt how to write a ‘f’. I enjoyed finding the dinosaur fossils in the mud.
Anum – I learnt all about dinosaur fossils. I enjoyed playing in our dinosaur den.
Well done to everyone for having another good week. Have a lovely long weekend and I will see you all on Wednesday, 23rd of September.
Mrs Macdonald.
Primary 1a’s ‘Star Pupil of the Week’.
Well done to Raqab for being P1a’s ‘Star Pupil of the Week’. I really did have to think for a while this week as all of the boys and girls are working hard, remembering their magic manners and trying really hard to listen to instructions. However , Raqab receives this week’s award for being a super team player. He is always helpful around the class and caught my eye this week as he helped a friend to tidy up. Well done Raqab !
Wonderful Egyptian God Homework
Well done to the children in Primary 3 for completing excellent homework on Egyptian Gods. Miss Boyd and Mrs Canning were very impressed. Look at their hard work – the children created power point presentations, posters, leaflets and fact files. Well done!
Primary Six are SHAPING up to have a super year!
This week primary 6 have been working on shape in maths! Some of us have been looking at properties of 3D shapes and some have been focussing on how 3D objects can be made up of 2D shapes. We’ve been embracing active maths in the classroom and choosing our own learning tasks to make sure we are all being challenged in the areas we are confident in and supported further in areas we’re not!
Have a look at some of the great things we’ve been getting up to…
Gold, Silver and Bronze for Saint Nicholas in Broxburn Cross Country
On Wednesday the children of primary six took part in a cross country race against Holy Family PS, Uphall PS, Broxburn PS and Kirkhill PS.
We raced around the back of Kirkhill, the track was about 1 kilometre long. First all the girls raced and we were so pleased to see them all trying their hardest and keeping on going! The first girl from our school to cross the finish line was Madison Clarkson, she just missed out on a medal position but finished in the top 10 of around 100 girls in total! Well done Madison and all the girls who did us proud!
In the boys race Saint Nicholas had a ‘clean sweep’ of the medals winning Gold, Silver and Bronze!!! First to cross the line out of all 100 boys AND taking the gold medal was our very own Logan Beagley, he was closely followed by his brother Michael Beagley in 2nd place and Eoin Sword in 3rd!
We are extremely proud of all the children who took part and represented our school in our local community!
Fossils found at St Nicholas!
Primary 1a and 1b have had a couple of very exciting afternoons ! Prof. D. Inosaur left us all a note saying that there were dinosaur fossils buried somewhere in our school ! Well, as you can imagine this caused great excitement amongst the children. Where could they be ? And what is a fossil ? Luckily for us, our kind professor told us in his letter all about fossils and he left us clues to find the fossils.
Our clues led us outside. We found a spade in our playground and started digging. Just as he had said, we found lots and lots of dinosaur fossils ! These were so cool. We had a good look at them, guessing the name of each dinosaur from the print on the fossil. It was great fun.
To help us to develop our understanding more, we then played a matching game. We had to match the picture of the dinosaur to its fossil. Thes dinosaur pictures were hidden all around our room, so we had to have a good look for them. We also made a start making our very own dinosaur fossil picture out of cotton buds. We cannot wait until they are finished.
Well done everyone for working hard !
Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty.
Outdoor fun in Primary 1.
We were very busy this morning writing our numbers in chalk. It was fun !
T-Rex’s were ENORMOUS!!!
Primary 1b have been learning all about the T-rex today.
We found out that it was over 12 meters tall! We measured this out and decided it was about 12 of us! That’s bigger than the entire classroom!!
We also found out lots of other interesting facts about these huge dinosaurs:
‘They are carnivores’ – Lucas T
‘They are meat eaters’ – Freyja
‘They eat other dinosaurs’ – Oliver
‘They have huge, sharp teeth’ – Gabrielle
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Well done Zofia !
Here is Zofia proudly showing off her swimming certificate. She has moved up a level ! Well done to you Zofia, you must be a super swimmer.
P1’s Macmillan Coffee Morning on Friday, 25th of September.
Primary 1 are hosting their first ever enterprise event on Friday, 25th of September for Macmillan Cancer.
What are going to do ?
We are going to sell cakes to the boys and girls in each of the classes. These will be available before break time.Cakes will vary in price from 10p – 50p.
We are going to organise a non – uniform day. We would like everyone to wear green and donate £1.00
We are going to have a cake and coffee morning for all St Nicholas mummies, daddies, grandparents and friends. This will be in the hall from 11.00 – 12.00. Entry for this will be £2.00 for adults. Kids go free. The adult ticket will provide you with a refreshment and a cake. There will be additional cakes for you to purchase on the day. There will also be a raffle too.
There will be a donation box. We are hoping to raise as much money as we can for a fantastic cause. Please support us if you can. More details to follow this week in a letter.
Many thanks,
Primary 1 teachers.
Primary 1a’s Monday.
Today we learnt another new sound, ‘u’. We learnt how to write it properly and the sound that it makes in a words. So far we have all learnt thirteen sounds. Well done to all of the boys and girls for working hard.
We are also working very hard with our numbers. We worked with number 9 today. We learnt that a cat has nine lives and lots of the boys and girls in P5 will be 9 years old. We played a guessing game using the numicon and had fun with this too.
Borisaurus has gone home with Luca. We are looking forward to hearing all about his adventures tomorrow. Pterodactyls were the dinosaur of the day. We learnt lots of cool facts about these dinosaurs and have started to make them. To finish our day off we danced, sang and exercised to Boogie Beebies. A great day in all !
See you tomorrow everyone.
Mrs Macdonald.
Go Kart Champion
Well done to Monde-Jnr in Primary 3 for receiving two gold medals for taking part in a go-kart competition in South Yorkshire at the weekend. What a star!
70’s memorabilia
Primaries 2 and 2/1 have been learning all about the 70’s era. So far we have been looking at the fashion and listening to some music. Thank you to these boys for bringing in some memorabilia from this decade to share with the class!
P5B Reflect their learning for the week.
Each week, we look back on what we have been learning. This week we carried out a round robin to find out what we felt about the skills we have used, perimeter and area, the pop art culture and our daily inputs of Newsday Tuesday, Wonderous Wednesday, Thinking Thursday and Famous Friday. Here’s what we said…
Primary 7 Library Visit
Today Primary 7 took a trip to the local library to learn about the history of WW2. During our visit Diane gave us a detailed talk about WW2. We learned lots of interesting information and even got to see and hold a helmet that the soldiers might have worn.
Lewis learned that American solider worn camouflage helmets and the British soldiers had plain green helmets.
Sophie learned lots about children during WW2. Children had to be evacuated to the countryside; Devon and Cornwall were the most common places to be evacuated to. Often it was the children’s teachers who took them to the countryside.
Ryan learned that children who were evacuated only got to take one suitcase, had to wear a placard and carry a gas mask at all times.
Rosie learned that all people in Britain had to carry an identity card so that they could be identified if a bomb dropped.
Lewis B learned that some people had Morrison Shelters in their homes. These looked like a cage and would be used if the family could not get to the Air Raid shelter.
Ellie learned that in London people used Tube Stations as an Air Raid shelter.
Matthew learned that during the Blitz there were wardens that went round the houses to check everyone had their lights outs.
Hannah learned that the British flew large silver balloons shaped like airplanes to distract the German bombers.
Primary 1a’s Star Pupil of the Week.
Well done to Anum for being Mrs Macdonald’s ‘Star Pupil of the Week’ this week. Anum has used her magic manners all week and worked very hard too. Keep up the good work Anum !
Primary 1b’s Weekly Evaulation
This week, primary 1b have been SUPER busy!
Here are some of the things we have learned:
We learned lots of new sounds, like ‘o’ and ‘k’ – Lucas T
We have learned lots of new numbers like ‘8’ and ‘7’ – Liam and Catherine
We have made patterns using dinosaurs ‘Lucas T’
We have been learning how to be good friends – Freyja
Dinosaurs eat plants – Gabrielle
Plant eating dinosaurs are called Herbivores – Shay
Dinosaurs eat plants and meat – Freyja
Meat eaters are called Carnivores – Liam
We really enjoyed:
I enjoyed playing duck duck goose with Mia – Oliver
I enjoyed watching the Roald Dahl show – Holly
I enjoyed making our friendship tree – Gabrielle
I’ve enjoyed singing new number songs – Brooke
Mrs Baty
Primary 1a’s Weekly Evaluation
What have we learnt in class this week?
What have we enjoyed?
Here is what some of us had to say.
Kyle – I learnt how to write a kicking k. This sound is in my name. I really enjoyed writing my letters this week.
Zofia – I learnt how to do a new dance and I enjoyed dancing to Boogie Beebies.
Lara – I learnt all about dinosaurs. I learnt that some dinosaurs have wings. I enjoyed taking Borisaurus for a sleepover.
Thomas – I learnt that some dinosaurs have two legs. I have enjoyed going to music.
Flynn – I learnt how to do neat colouring in. I have enjoyed playing in the area.
Santiago – I learnt how to draw a dinoasur. I have enjoyed painting dinosaurs this week.
Raqab – I have learnt how to draw. I have enjoyed playing in our dinosaur corner.
P3 Pharaohs
This week Primary 3 have been very busy learning about Pharaohs. We made our own Egyptian Pharaoh death mask. We also completed a fact file of information about Tutankhamen.
Did you know:
Tutankhamen was the most famous pharaoh – Freya
Tutankhamen was a pharaoh when he was only 9. He died at 18 years old. Beth
He was a pharaoh for 10 years – Hubert
He married his sister – Warren
Look at all our hard work.
Super swimming Santiago !
Here is Santiago proudly showing off his swimming certificate. He has been moved up a new level. Well done Santiago we are proud of you !
Super Judo
Well done to Matthew for being a star at Judo and receiving this super trophy!
What have we been up to???
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We have a right to an education
Today, P5 have been revisiting the spelling rules that have been taught over the last couple of weeks. We tried to make words with the suffix -ing or -ed on the end or plural words in lots of different ways, including blind spelling, dot words, word searches, playdough, squiggle spelling and writing the words in silly sentences.
We have also been looking at other patterns – in Maths. We became spies and tried to crack a secret code! It was really complicated and took a few of us a while to work it out. Tommorow we have big maths that challenges to conquer before watching a theatre production of Matilda by Roald Dahl. Busy, busy busy…
Fun and Games in Primary 6
Primary 6 have been enjoying getting active to practice multiplication and spelling skills!
Welcome to Primary 6a!
Lost Property in Primary 1b
Hi everyone,
We are working hard to ensure we always hang our coats up on our pegs, and keep other items of clothing on our chairs when we are not using them, however it appears that some have grown legs. Over the last few days we have misplaced ties, cardigans and jackets.
Please could I ask you all to check your childs belongings to ensure that they do not have another name in them?
Thank you in advance,
Mrs Baty
P1b are Fantastic Friends!
We have had such a busy day today! We have been learning about what makes a good friend in primary 1b.
Safaa – ‘We have to play nicely’
Mya – ‘A good friend is nice to others’
Mia – ‘Friends are kind’
Freyja – ‘We have to share’
We listened to The Rainbow Fish story, and we were able to discuss why he didn’t have any friends at the beginning of the story, and how he made friends at the end.
We then sat next to our friends on the carpet. See how happy we are when we are with our friends?
After this, we made friendship certificates to give to our best friend in the class.
We also used our finger prints to make a class friendship tree, which Mrs Baty is going to display in the class. It looks very pretty and colourful.
Mrs Baty
P1a having fun.
Here we are having lots of fun during our ‘Activity Afternoon’ in the area. We painted dinosaurs, big and small. We made jigsaws, drew lovely pictures, read books in our cosy corner and built dinosaurs too out of the construction toys. It was great !
P1b’s Outside Adventures
Primary 1b enjoyed maths outside today (despite the lack of sun!).
We began by playing ‘What’s The Time Mr Wolf?’ to help us practice counting. We had lots of fun!
We then practiced counting out objects and writing the number on our very own stone, for example 3 twigs, and 6 leaves.
We are super proud of our number skills!
Mrs Baty
Super Spanish in P1a.
We are going to be learning some Spanish this year, very exciting !
So far, we have been practising saying ‘Good Morning’, ‘Good Afternoon’, ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’. Every morning we ‘Go on a plane to Spain ‘ and Mrs Macdonald says the register in Spanish. We are becoming very good already. Santiago is very good at speaking Spanish so he will be helping us too.
Here are some of the Spanish words that we know :
Buenos días - Good morning.
Buenas tardes - Good afternoon.
Hola - Hello.
Adiós - Goodbye.
A terrific Wednesday in P1a.
Another busy day for us today ! What did we do ?
We learnt how to read and write sound ‘g’.
We blended our sounds together to make words.
We learnt all about number 7 and how to write it .
We had music with Mrs Steele.
We learnt that today is a special day for our Queen. We watched some of today’s ‘Newsround’ as there was news on it about her. We learnt that she has been the Queen for a very looooooong time !
We exercised in our class to ‘Boogie Beebies’ and ‘Five a Day’.
We heard all Borisaurus’s sleepover at Santiago’s house. He had a great time !
Borisaurus has gone to Lara’s house for a sleepover.
Lots of learning and fun in primary 1. Well done everyone !
Well done
Well done to Callum in Primary 3 for receiving this certificate for getting 6 badges at Beavers.
Well done to Harris for receiving this certificate and badge for doing 200 metres at swimming.
Well done boys! We are proud of you.
Groovy Grandparents- Learning about life in the 1970s
Primaries 2 and 2/1 were very lucky today! Mrs Hesketh was born in 1970. She brought in a record player and all her favourite records from when she was a little girl. We learned lots of new facts about our topic.
Mirin- You have to hold the records really carefully or they will get scratched. If they get scratched, they jump all over the place and we can’t hear them properly.
Aoibhe- We learned that it’s not just music. We can listen to stories too. Mrs Hesketh brought in the Peter Pan story for us to listen to.
Matthew, Christy- We listened to the Carpenters.
Adam- When Mrs Hesketh set the record player to 78, it was really funny. The voices were very fast and squeaky.
Cerys and Mrs Hesketh both brought in a disco ball! We decided to put out the lights, switched these on and dance to the records. We tried to dance like they did in the 1970s, with lots of special moves!
Judo Star
Congratulations to Zach Rova in P2 who received this fabulous trophy for outstanding Judo! Well done Zach, we are very proud of you!
P1 photos.
Tomorrow, a photographer from the ‘COURIER’ newspaper will take class photos of the P1s. If possible, please dress your child in a white shirt and tie. We have spare ties should you need one.
We are looking forward to this as it will be a very special photo for us to treasure as we get older.
Breaking News in P1a !
We had a huge surprise today after lunch to see that our dinosaur egg had hatched open to reveal a baby dinosuar ! This caused great excitement. After a dicussion about a name, we decided to vote for the best suggestions. Our baby dino will be called ‘Georgeosaurus’. This was Tavia’s great idea !
To celebrate this special day we watched a cartoon about dinosaurs and learnt lots of amazing facts. We spent the afternoon doing all things dinosaur. What did we do ?
We played with the dinosur small world.
We used playdough to add features to our dinosaur play mats.
We used our fine motor skills to follow the lines and do super colouring in of dinosaurs.
We told Mrs Macdonald a dinosaur fact that we learnt today. She wrote down what we said.
To finish off our dinosaur afternoon, Leon was given our friendly class dinosaur, ‘Borisaurus’ for a sleepover. We hope that he behaves for you Leon !
Dinosaurs loose in the school!!!
Primary 1 have some very exciting news!!!
Today, after lunch, our dinosaur eggs hatched! Inside, we found a baby T-Rex. They were a bit naughty, with one even walking through dirt and leaving muddy footprints all over the classroom!
However they are learning quickly, and primary 1b’s dinosaur (named Rory) has even been brave enough to go on a sleepover! (With his special blanket).
We hope he has a lovely time and we are all looking forward to our turn to take him home.
Mrs Baty
Fantastic Kyle !
Here is Kyle proudly showing off his certificate and number from ‘Pedal Scotland’. Kyle , along with his mummy, daddy and big sister cycled all the way from Kirkliston to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh yesterday ! What a super achievement !
Kyle did this for charity. We are all very impressed and proud of you for doing this. You have inspired Mrs Macdonald and your friends in P1a to also do something nice for charity. Watch this space.
Perfect Popping in Primary 6!
Last week we were practicing using ‘an’ and ‘a’ in sentences based on words with vowel sounds. Some of it was quite tricky because we thought it only mattered if the next word began with a,e,i,o or u, but ACTUALLY be discovered that words with any vowel sound would have ‘an’ for example….
‘An honest man’ would have an instead of a because the h is silent and the word starts with a ‘o’ sound!
Once we finally got to the bottom of it we worked in teams to complete a quick assessment of what we had learned. We worked in 2 teams in a race against time! We had to read a sentence with ‘a’ or ‘an’ missing then put it into the correct category… sounds easy? Well the trick was the sentences were inside balloons! We had to pop the balloon first! As soon as Miss Miller and Miss King said ‘Go!’ the classroom turned into a frenzy of cheering and excitement! At the end we made sure everyone had placed their sentence in the correct category and it showed us that most people had really grasped using a and an properly! We are looking forward to using this game to assess our learning in other areas soon!
Primary 1a’s Weekly Evaluation.
What have learnt in class this week ?
What have we enjoyed ?
Here is what some of us had to say.
Kyle – I have enjoyed playing with the dinosaurs.
Michael – I have learnt how to do neat writing.
Grady – I have learnt a new sound, ‘n’.
Cole – I have learnt how to make a play dough ‘a’.
Fynn – I liked it when Mrs Macdonald found a box in the cupboard but I didn’t like the signs on the box.
Anum – I learned how to write more letters.
Leon – I have learnt that numbers stand on a number line.
Niamh – I liked the number hunt in our class.
Ciara – I like doing the prayer because we pray to God.
We have had a great week boys and girls. Well done to you all. See you all on Monday !
Mrs Macdonald.
