This week in primary one we have been learning about:
Noah McK – “we are still learning about being healthy”
Ryan- “we used fruit and vegetables to make our pictures”
Sophie – ” we moved our bodies about to keep healthy”
Ollie- ” we learned about s, p and a”
Ava P – ” we started learning about shapes”
Igor – ” a 2d shape is flat”
Cameron- ” a 3d shape sticks out and is not flat”
Zack B – ” we learned about a cylinder”
Aariz- ” we learned about a cube”
Ava B- ” and a cone”
Lucas- I enjoyed drawing the patterns in art this week
James F- I liked doing the football strips and the the sports ed topic
Matthew-I enjoyed the bleep test because I enjoyed the challenge and got better at it
Oona-I enjoyed reading and talking about James and the Giant peach.
Lovisa-I enjoyed the Maths where we had to order numbers from smallest to largest
Olivia-I liked the visit to the library because I reading books
We have been learning to say and write our number bonds up to 20- Matty
It is important to learn maths for jobs in the future. We need maths to be a farmer because we need to be able to count the sheep and to be a doctor because you need to know how much medicine to give someone – Niall
You need maths to be able to work at an airport so you know which terminal you need to go and work at- Zaine
We made posters to tell everyone in the school about internet safety. You should not talk to strangers on the internet. – Jack
We have been learning ai/ay sound this week. We learn how to spell hair, play, rain and tray.
We have been learning about being healthy. It is important to eat healthy food like carrots, broccoli, cheese and apples.- Ethan
We went to the library to get new books. – Ben
We had visitors in to P2 to tell us all about eczema. We learned that putting cream on your skin helps you to stop itching.- Lauren
We learned that our biggest organ is our skin.- Leonie
We talked about baptisms. We know that the priest has baptised some of us in the church when we were little.-Arriana
This week we used chalk to draw a tennis racket and tennis ball for our tennis topic. Using chalk was difficult at first as in the past we have used pencil or pen to draw. However the more we used it the more comfortable we felt drawing with it. We also found it challenging to get the correct angle and proportion of the tennis racket as it was an unusual shape and was quite big. Although the tennis racket art work turned out very effective – I’m sure you will agree – and it was very fun.
On Wednesday we created number talk posters with Mrs Heather to show different strategies for mental maths. Callum thought this was useful to remind himself of the strategies he had forgotten from primary 6.
We also did literacy circles for the first time in primary 7 which differed from the previous times such as in primary 5 and 6. We have also been designing a news report in Spanish and have been allocating roles for this project.
Ethan, Harris and Jack had basketball try-outs and will find out on Monday if they make the team but think they done very well!
As primary sevens one of our responsibilities is to help our P1 buddies. At break we have been helping them to get ready for break by putting on their jackets, shoes and getting their snacks. Luke found that his buddy Bartosz was very shy at first but he helped to bring him out his shell and make new friends. Amie-Lee helped her buddy Sophie to be responsible by picking up litter but have fun while doing so. Ethan felt his buddy was shy at first but by the end of the week they played together and got along well. Molly helped her buddy Ava to make new friends in her class.
In class this week in art we drew our own tennis players and used paint to create a water colour effect. In maths we did place value challenge and code breakers in order to find out the numbers and break the code. In literacy we wrote our new prayer and learned how to use synonyms and in writing we wrote an imaginative diary entry based on our class novel.
Mrs Heather played a name game with us on Wednesday where we had to remember all of the names of people in our class with an adjective in front of it – Nice Nicola, lovely Laura, Incredible Isla…
Over all we had a great full week back!
Today Primary 6 were developing their literacy skills with their thinking reader partners. Our focus was a factual text about honeybees. We were given the opportunity to discover the importance of bees in our environment and how we can help them to survive. We also developed our reading skills by learning new words, using facts to create a visualizer,think about the products we get from bees, creating questions and summarising.
“My favourite task was the summarising as I had to say what had happened in twenty words. It was fun making questions for other groups. I think doing these tasks will help me to understand the text better. I did not know that a young bee was called a larva.”
Primary one have had a great first week at school. They have settled in well and made lots of new friends already. They have been learning their new school routine and getting to know all the staff. #p1stnics
At our school every Monday to Thursday we provide a healthy tuck shop where you can buy a snack. We have a great choice of snacks available: water, fruit juice, yoghurt, oranges, apples, grapes, fruit salad, watermelon, pineapple, strawberries and melon. Everything costs 20p. Primary 6 are happy to serve you each day and give you help choosing a delicious snack that is good for you. Hope to see there !
P3a and b have had a great few days back at school. We have been reading the story of Fantastic Mr Fox and have completed a character description and a visualisation task.
We have started our class charters and talk about our ‘Our Trusted Adults’.
We can’t wait to see what next week will bring.
We are already working hard to get our classroom set up for the year ahead. We have completed our first week and we are still smiling…even our teacher!! There will be lots of hard work ahead but also lots of fun, we can’t wait!
Primary 6 have been working on a book study this week. We have been learning all about the giant Saguaro cactus which is found in Arizona.
“These cacti can grow up to 50 feet tall and live for over 200 years. They can weigh the same as 5 cars. Lots of animals use the cactus as a home. We have been researching the Gila Woodpecker, Jack Rabbit and coyotes that are animals found in this desert.” – Zachary
“I really enjoyed doing the art about the cactus. I had to draw the details on the cactus and the holes where the animals would live.” – Mirin
“I had to find the meaning of new words that were in the book and some of them were quite challenging. I then had to find these words in a wordsearch. The next task was to find out about the animals who use the cactus as a home.” – Marwa
“Basically I never knew that so many animals lived in a cactus and even when it dies and falls over different animals move in to live in the cactus. Another amazing fact is that people can eat cacti.” – Charlie
We drove to Beecraigs for our Forest skills activity. Our instructor Mike taught us lots of cool facts about plants, animals, mini-beast and even history… we hugged trees, made dens, jumped about, went under a bridge… but our favourite but was getting mucky! 🤣
We went to see Linlithgow Palace. We enjoyed walking around and seeing the dungeons, great hall, kitchen court and the gorgeous fountain! We look forward to our Forest skills activity this afternoon. -Nia
We have had a busy few weeks in Primary 3. In ICT, we have been learning how to create a Sway. To find Sway we had to remind ourselves how to log onto Glow using our individual usernames and passwords – please continue to allow us to practice doing this at home. Sway is a programme which we can use to create a presentation, we can add text, photographs and videos. We have posted our Sways on our Teams page, why don’t you go and check them out!! Furthermore, we used this as an opportunity to then practise our note taking skills in literacy, so that we could then write a set of instructions on how to make a Sway.
In numeracy we have been looking at patterns within numbers and we used the smartboard to use an interactive hundred square to look at what happens when we add on tens and hundreds. We know that when we add on tens, the ones stay the same and we also know that when we add on hundreds, the ones and the tens stay the same. These rules are the same for subtraction. We enjoyed playing lots of games to check these rules!
We are now coming to the end of Fitness Fortnight. We have taken part in a variety of activities over the past two weeks. We challenged ourselves to take part in a live body coach routine with Joe Wicks and we tested our co-ordination and mirroring skills by doing a Just Dance challenge video. During Balloon Tennis we found it challenging to keep the balloons in the air, and we had to try and hit the balloons hard enough to get them over the net, but not hard enough that the balloons burst! On Monday, Primary 5 came to visit us to give us a fitness challenge, they had made up lots of fun, challenging activities for us to do. Yesterday, we visited Neil at Gymtastics to have a taster session of gymnastics. Our favourite piece of equipment was the bars! Lastly, a personal trainer visited us to put us through our paces. At the beginning of the lesson a few of us were being a bit chatty and the forfeit was to do burpees! Needless to say we made sure we had our listening ears on after that!
We have just finished our 5 week block of lessons with James Pegg as part of Fun Start Fitness. Each week we focused on something new. Here is a short round up of what we have learned.
-The BIG word was encouragement and we had to work together as a team to encourage each other to do our very best.
-We learnt how the most important resource in the world is Water.
-Alongside our Health and Wellbeing lessons we investigated the Eatwell plate and discussed how much we should be eating from each section. The important sections of the plate are the green section which represents fruit and vegetables, the pink section which represents protein and the yellow section which represents carbohydrates. We also know that we should be eating only a little from the purple section, which is fats!
-Week 4 was all about physical activity and how people are less active now than they were years ago. We all made a plegde to try and spend less time on our tablets and more time outdoors being active!
Lastly we would like to thank Primary 4 who came to see us as part of transition. This allowed us to develop our questioning skills as we were able to ask them any questions we had about next year.
We have a busy few weeks left before the end of term, check back again to see what we have been up to!
This week we have been learning about fractions. We have looked at fractions of a shape and how to find them on a number line. We have also been comparing and ordering fractions. It is a bit tricky.
We have also been looking at data handling. We have been using tally marks and creating bar graphs. We collected data about our favourite colour, eye colour, hair colour and favourite country.
We have been writing a recount about our favourite holiday or day. We know you have to write a recount in the past tense, include details about who, what, where and why and how you are feeling. We also know you need to remember punctuation!
We have also learned about Ascension Thursday and know this is the day when Jesus ascended into heaven. We celebrated Mass on Thursday.
In Guided reading we have completed our novels and are starting new ones. We can’t wait!
With Mrs Baty, we have started to make our own games for our gaming topic. We didn’t realise how many steps are involved in making a game.
In Number Talks with Mrs Heather, we were looking at a sequence of numbers and trying to work out which number was the odd one out. We discovered it could be more than one number.
We have created presentations about food and the calories and energy found in food. We then presented the presentations to the class. Some of use made a PowerPoint, while others used sway or made a video or poster.
In P.E we have been learning about playing different types of rounders. It was fun!
We drew self-portraits and used leaves to make our hair – Lena P
In our topic work we have learned the names for different parts of a flower- roots, petals, stem and leaf – Chloe
We have planted sunflowers and are keeping a diary about them growing- Alexsander
We have been learning to use the exact amount of money to pay for different items- Jay
We have enjoyed going to Mrs A’s shop to pay for yummy items using exact coins. The bubblegum was 17p, I used a 10p, 5p and a 2p to pay for it – Jessica- Lily
We have learned about Ascension which means that Jesus went up to heaven- Danyal
In literacy we were learning about past tense- we know that you need to add ‘ed’ on the end of the word to make it past tense- Lena S
We went to the Library to pick new books, I picked My Little Pony: Friends Forever. –Emma
We learned that Jesus grew up in a town called Nazareth- Jack
We had to predict what was going to happen in the story ‘Stuck in the Mud’. I thought Dad, Biff, Chip, Wilma and Floppy would get stuck trying to save the sheep- Zuzanna
The green group have been reading a book called ‘In the Sun’. Meg went to the beach with a bucket and got wet. – David
We have had a busy few weeks in Primary 3. Last week Marcia came to see us to teach us some Reflexology. We enjoyed learning the different moves especially Indigo Glide, Red Squeeze, Silver Sweep and Violet Circles.
In Numeracy we finished off looking at multiplication. We know that we can make links between the 2 and 4 times tables for example if 2×6 = 12, we know that 4×6=24, because it is double. Some of us need to keep practising these facts so that we are confident at recalling our times tables. We have also been looking at measuring the area of shapes using non-standard units such as counters, cubes and the squares in our maths jotters. Furthermore, we also know that for squares and rectangles we can use multiplication to calculate the area.
In Literacy we have revisited what a verb is and have been learning about adverbs. We tried to think of some amazing adverbs such as peacefully, fiercely, beautifully, grossly and excitedly.
In Science we have recently been learning about our Skeleton. We used Forms to create a quiz all about the Skeleton, we even created a QR code to share our quiz with Mrs Brown! We enjoyed using digital technology to play Kahoot! to check our knowledge!
As a stage we have been working with James Pegg to take part in weekly Health and Wellbeing lessons called Fun Start Fitness. During these lessons we focus on a different theme, such as Healthy Hearts, Water, and Food and Energy. We play a variety of games, and we are learning to use encouragement to make each other feel better, even if we are not winning.
We have a busy few weeks coming up with Fitness Fortnight, so check back next week so see what we have been up to!
This has been a busy week in P5b. We have really enjoyed digital week and learned lots of new things.
Some of the activities we took part in are coding, debugging, a silent disco, QR hunt and a VR experience.
Chloe – My favourite part was the silent disco.
Charlie – My favourite part of the week was QR hunt as we had to go around the school to find all the different parts of the story.
Ellie – My favourite was the silent disco because it had lots of different music to listen to.
Daniel – My favourite part of the week was making a presentation about solids, liquids and gases. I worked well with my group.
Szymon – My favourite part of the week was when we did the hour of code because it was fun.
Alex – I learned about solids, liquids and gases and made a presentation using powerpoint.
Erin – I learned how to use clips this week.
Kacper – I learned how to debug this week.
Cameron – I learned how to use scratch this week.
We also had a day on Friday where we only used digital technology. What a busy week! We have learned so much. Thank you to our digital leaders for helping us.
We have been having such a fun time this week playing with and learning about everything digital! And it’s only TUESDAY!!!! So far we have experienced a Silent Disco and then discussed why would this be designed? Why would people want this? And what technologies would be needed to make it…we also danced a lot! There was also an opportunity to Code and today we collaboratively developed part of a digital story that will be added to by every class in the school. Here are some pictures of our classes.
We have been working with our learning partners to help each other learn. We will have a new partner each week to help us talk about our learning and share ideas. From now on we will do TOP TEN every morning [ten maths sums]. We will work with our learning partners for this to share strategies.
We have started a new topic in Maths and that is measurement. We will do length for now but we will do different types of things like weight and distance.
In Literacy, we have been writing an adventure story called ‘Tom Trueheart and the Land of Dark Stories’. We have tried our best to describe the settings and characters using adjectives and adverbs, and to write in paragraphs. We will create front and back covers for our stories next week.
On Thursday we went swimming for our swimming assessments. If we get a letter in the next week or so, that means we are being offered free swimming lessons.
We have also been lucky enough to learn about Ramadan from some children in our class who are celebrating this Muslim festival. We now know that during Ramadan, Muslims pray more, give to the poor and fast. Adults fast everyday between dawn and dusk!
Written by Matthew and Zofia (P4a)
This week we have been very busy even though we have only been at school for 3 days!
Ellie- we designed and then made a stop and go sign. We were only allowed to use one kitchen roll tube, 4 pieces of paper or card, 1 pair of scissors and sellotape per group. After we made the sign we had to write about how we made it.
Sam – we had visitor this week to see us complete a number talks lesson.
Connor – in Numeracy we have dividing and using the chunking method and expanded method to solve sums. I like the chunking method when dividing.
Paula – we had an author visit from David McPhail. He told us about Vikings. We had the chance to buy one of his books.
Leo – we looked at Mary and coloured in some stained glass windows and thought about we think of when we think of Mary.
Ciaran – in P.E we have been doing athletics and running races. We have been sprinting and doping sprint starts.
Marwa – this week we did some reading routes and looked at punctuation. we looked at why it was important and rated the authors use of punctuation.
Mirin – with Mrs Baty we started to make scratch projects and made the characters communicate with each other.
This week in P2, we were really excited to send home our reading teddies Charlie and Paddington. Lena and Joshua took them home this week and have been reading them lots of stories. Soon, the bears will be going home with someone new!
We also visited the library and Diane, the librarian, was very impressed with how sensible we are and what super readers we are.
Aroush- I like reading ‘The Big Bunny Surprise!’
Lena P- I like reading my school books.
Owen- I read the Titanic on my Kindle.
Elias- I read this as well on my Kindle too!
Danyal- My daddy reads a newspaper!
Daniel- I’ve got a new book and I’m excited to read it. It is called ‘The Train To Impossible Places!’
David- I like reading ‘The Bug In The Rug’.
Weronika- I like reading Biff, Chip and Kipper books using the netbooks.
Ethan- My favourite thing to read is my football comics! Sometimes I look at the football scores in the newspaper.
Chloe- My favourite books to read are books that teach you all about the world. My favourite one is about China. These are non-fiction.
Primary 2 have had a very busy first week back!
Jacob- We were looking at the sound ‘qu’ and going over all of the sounds we already know.
Jessica-Lily- We wrote a ‘Recount’ of the Easter story. Jesus has now risen from the dead!
Ethan- A recount is when you are retelling a story you already know.
Wiktoria- In literacy, we were text explorers and we did a new activity called ‘Blankety Blank!’
Sophie- We have been giving people directions in maths this week! You tell them which places to go by using lots of different words.
Rory- Like forwards, backwards, left, right, clockwise and anti-clockwise.
Joshua- We did the ‘cha cha slide!’ because it gives you lots of different directions and movements to go in!
Lena- We also learned about symmetry. Asymmetric means the shape is different on both sides and symmetrical means its the same on both sides. We used mirrors on our symmetry hunt.
Leylan- We learned how to wash our hands properly for health and wellbeing. You always have to use soap and water and you don’t rush, you take your time!
Maisie- Mrs Alexander sprayed us with a water bottle to show us how far germs travel when we don’t cover our mouths. Everyone thought it was really funny because we got soaked!
Logan M- Rory had talcum powder on his hands and we pretended that it was germs. He spread the ‘germs’ to other people and around the classroom and the talc went everywhere!
Jack- This shows us how far germs can go if you don’t wash your hands and cover your mouth when coughing and sneezing.
We’ve been so busy since we got back after the Easter holidays and we have crammed lots into this week’s three days already. In numeracy we have been learning to round our two digit numbers to the nearest ten – we know that if a number is greater than 5, we round UP to the nearest ten and if the ones are less than 5, we round DOWN to the nearest ten.
In literacy we have been working hard to develop our reflective reading skills: reading passages and then drawing it out, so that we build a picture of the scene in our heads; filling out missing words to ensure the passages make sense; and a spotting the silly word game where we put in appropriate words to finish the sentences. We went to the library to take out new books that we will read at home for pleasure. Our reading BEARS (Being Excited About Reading) Mr Cuddles and Charlie will be coming home with us from next week onwards. We are hoping that parents will send in pictures of us with our bears reading bedtime stories together – nobody is too old for a bedtime story!
In art we learnt a new technique – quilling – to complete a spring picture. This technique involved rolling paper through our fingers and thumbs – it was a little tricky but we got the hang of it eventually. We are all looking forward to a full week, next week.
After all our Titanic research, P5 have been learning about what makes a boat buoyant. We tested out our theories using tin foil to make the boats and weighed them down using pennies. The record was 42 pennies in one tiny tin foil boat!
It has been a great week in P4b, jam packed full of learning and fun ! We particularly enjoyed our trip to Duncarron Fort.
Here are some of the things that we did this week.
Catherine – On Tuesday we went on a trip to a mediaval village.
Gerard – On Wednesday we practised hymns for our Stations of the Cross Service.
Gaby – I learned about the weapons that would have been used long ago. I enjoyed having a shot of the axe (YIKES !).
Shay – I enjoyed learning about Mary’s Meals. A man called Magnus started it off.
Liam – We learnt that Jesus travelled to Jerusalem on a donkey with his disciples.
Brooke – I learnt that salt was used a lot in a long time and it cost a lot of money.
Holly – When Mary Queen of Scots was alive you had to take your spoon and cutting knife with you when you went to dinner.
Lucas L – We visited our Church for Stations of the Cross. There are 14 altogether.
Olivia – We visited the Shrine next to our Church and it was peaceful.
We also made a wee something for all of our lovely mums. Have a good day on Sunday !
We have been very busy the last few weeks in Primary 5. We have covered lots of different things.
Literacy
In literacy we have been learning about different phonemes that make the ‘s’ sound. We have looked at s, ss, ce, se, and c.
Poppy – We have been learning about the story of ‘Invasion’ in Literacy. We have been looking at the character Rollo and predicting what we think might happen.
Leo – we worked with a partner and discussing the story and our predictions and what we know and want to know about the characters.
Kacper – we have been researching women in engineering and writing about why they are important and what they invented. I researched Victoria Drummond. She was the first woman Marine Engineer.
Numeracy and Mathematics
We have been learning about compass directions and angels. We learned some rhymes to help us remember the directions –
We have been learning about different turns and even went outside to direct each other around the playground.
Max – we have been learning to multiply two digit numbers by two digit numbers. It is quite tricky but with practice I can do it!
Christy – We had visitors from Stirling council to see us doing a number talks lessons about multiplication. We can break factors into smaller factors to help us in number talks.
Leo – We have been measuring the length of different things in and around the school. We estimated then measured the objects.
Other areas:
Ciaran – we have been creating titanic quizzes and fact files as we are finishing the topic.
We had a theater production about Simon, Martin and Sharon. It was all performed by one man. It was called Pondlife. It was very good and entertaining. We were amazed that the man could perform more than one character.
In Religious education we looked at the seven sacraments and when people receive them.
Max – we have been practicing the hymns for the Stations of the Cross and took our class picture for the Stations of the Cross service next Wednesday. We used the green screen.
Leo – we went to the Church and Father Frances led us through the Stations of the Cross.
Sam – in P.E we have been skipping – we have been learning jumping skipping, running skipping and hopping skipping. Some people tried cross over skipping.
Today was ‘Feel Good Friday’ and we designed our own happiness t-shirts.
Sadie- We had a craft afternoon yesterday and we made something special which we are keeping a secret until Sunday.
Chloe- We had visitors from a school in Stirling who came to see our Rekenrek lesson. We did really well and the visitors were impressed!
Tinashe- We were using prediction in literacy. The book was called ‘The Storm’ and we had to predict what happened in the story.
Lena P- Our topic is called Forces and this week we did the ‘Car and Ramp’ experiment.
Joshua- We found out that building a big structure for a ramp, making it higher, made the car go faster and further.
Jacob- Friction stopped our car on the big ramp because it bumped into the carpet.
Orla- We have been working on subtraction and addition together.
Daniel- 18+2=20, 2+18=20 Sara 20-2=18, 20-18=2
Ethan- We have been learning all about the Stations of the Cross. There are 14.
This week we have been really artistic! We have made some surprise creations for our mum’s for Mother’s Day and we were also inspired by Pablo Picasso and we made our very own interpretations of his work.
In Maths, we have been continuing to learn about time as we have been finding it a bit tricky, especially quarter to on a digital clock. We are going to keep practising this at home too so that we are more confident in telling the time!
In PE we have been learning how to skip forwards, backwards and in groups. We need go co-ordination to do this.
In Literacy some of us wrote about our mum’s and how they are superheroes and some of us created a fact file about some Egyptian pharaohs.
Some of us visited the church twice this week. Once was to practise and prepare for The Sacrament of Reconciliation and secondly we went to Stations of the Cross with Fr. Francis.
In Digital Learning this week we were making animated cartoons using Scratch on the netbooks and then we got to show our creations to our classmates. It was cool!
Lastly, we have been singing lots this week in preparation for the Stations of the Cross service which will be in school next week.
Today Mrs Fitzpatrick answered our questions on the gift of wisdom. We invited her into our class as this was one of our tasks for the Pope Francis Faith Awards. She told us about the many subjects and experiences that had helped to make her wise.
Mrs Fitzpatrick told us that her dad made her wise as he taught her great things and gave her advice. She enjoys reading autobiographies and she found the book about Alex Ferguson to be inspirational.
We enjoyed having Mrs Fitzpatrick in to talk to us today and she gave us good advice for our lives. We have written a report on the advice that she shared with us.
Jack and Hubert
Second place in the Rotary Quiz!
A huge well done to the children who attended Rotary Club Quiz at Broxburn Primary School, where our P6 quiz champions scooped 2nd place. They were beaten by just 1/2 a point. Well done boys and girls – we are so proud of you. You have great team spirit and are a credit to your school, your parents and yourselves.
A huge thanks to our committed and hardworking Parent Council who organised a wonderful event for the St Nicholas PS. community on Friday night. We had a ceilidh (run by our PE teacher, Mrs Smith), Irish dancers, raffle, Irish Bingo, a disco and delicious hot food by the Canon Hoban staff. A huge thank you to the following partners who helped make this happen by donating to our raffle: Potter Around in Kirknewton; Houston House Hotel, Uphall; Kirsty Loves Hair, Broxburn; Final Touch Beauty, Broxburn; Florist in Argyle Court, Broxburn (10% off Mother’s Day Flowers plus free delivery if you mention St Nicholas); Lawson’s Butchers; Tesco, Bathgate; Morrison’s Livingston; Scotmid, Broxburn, Lindt Chocolate, Livingston; Dance Store; Broxburn.
We are very lucky to have our Parent Council who work tirelessly alongside us to improve outcomes for our children. Children, parents and staff all had a ball! Looking forward to the next community event.
We have had a busy week in P5b. This week we have been continuing with Multiplication in Number talks and in our Numeracy lessons. In Number talks we have used the strategy partial products this week and also used friendly numbers, doubling and halving and repeated addition. Mrs Heather came into class and worked with us on Thursday. In Numeracy we have worked on the formal written method of multiplication.
Marwa – there are different ways to do the written.
Mirin – this method is easier than a vertical sum for me.
We have practiced this week and are getting really good at it. In maths with Mrs Renshaw we have started to looked at measure and started to estimate the length.
In Literacy we have completed spot the silly word in two different pieces of writing.
Sam – one was a job advert and the other was about Harry Potter. Phoebe – you need to read the whole piece then look for words that don’t make sense.
Paula – we have continued with literacy circles and are improving with our group discussions and peer assessments.
In writing we wrote a diary entry about when the Titanic hit the iceberg.
Max – In a diary you must discuss your feelings.
Connor – you must use ‘I’ when writing a diary entry. It also has to be in the present tense.
In Health and Well being we looked at advertising and how companies advertise products to get people to buy them We discuses different strategies like buy one get one free, half price, toys in boxes and tokens to collect.
Ellie – We then created our own cereals and next week we will create an advert for our cereal.
Sam – we also discussed what makes a good friend and created a ‘wordle’ about friends. Some of the things we think they need to be are- kind, caring, honest and trustworthy.
In our Titanic topic we created adverts for Titanic. We talked about communication on board the Titanic and how important it was. We also looked at the technology on the Titanic. We also completed a cross section of what was inside the Titanic looked like and looked at where things were placed for first and third class passengers.
We also visited the library this week and had a look for Titanic books.
These are only some of the things we have covered this week. What a busy week!
We have had another great week in P4b. We have been learning how to spell words that need a prefix and working on the proper use of exclamation marks. We have been learning that it is more effective in writing to use one exclamation mark and not lots !!!!!!!!! (ha!).
In numeracy, we have moved onto telling the time in one minute segments and are still practising our times tables as we know important these are.
We are just loving our topic, ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’ so much. She led a very interesting life. This is what we have learnt so far :
Liam – She was born in 1542.
Cameron – She was born in Linlthgow Palace.
Natan – When she was 6 days she became Queen of Scotland.
Catherine – She married three times.
Lily – She moved to France when she little because her mum did not want her to marry Price Edward.
Hamza – Her cousin Queen Elizabeth the First was jealous of her.
Alicia – She was a Catholic.
Lucas L – She was imprisoned for 18 years.
Shay – The axe fell on her head three times.
Oliver – She watched her friend, David Rizzio being murdered.
Freyja – Her mum was Mary of Guise.
Leonard – Henry the 8th the King of England wanted his son to marry Mary Queen of Scots.
Holly – Her first husband was the Dauphin of France.
Mya – Her second husband was Lord Darnley.
Gerard – Her third husband was the Earl of Bothwell.
Wojciech – She was beheaded.
Gaby – She did not have a good life.
Olivia – Her mum was born in 1515.
Lucas C – Her mum died in 1560.
Haroon – When she died one of her dogs was found hidinhg under her dress.
We did some measuring- we estimated and measured the perimeter of large rectangles in the classroom. We Made some paper clovers for St Patrick’s day and paper chains. We enjoy reading for pleasure and this week we went to the library. We have been doing research on careers and we are now working on a presentation about it. In writing we did a recount on Frankenweenie and in HWB we wrote questions to ask our parents. By Melanie and Victor
As part of our pets topic, P1 got a very special visit today from Mrs Gardiner’s dog Cami. The children learned all about rescue animals and were able to ask lots of questions about looking after dogs. We all had lots of fun! 🐕😁
P6 had an awesome week, here is some of the stuf that we did 😀
We also met with our p2 buddies for the first time, while with our buddies we read a book to each other. We had such a good time.
Some p6 parents also came into our class for a career talk.
‘I liked making our own ‘runaway pancake’ with Beth at the library.’ -Sadie
‘I enjoyed Ash Wednesday mass when we were all singing the hymns.’- Aroush
‘I liked the Annie McCleod ride at New Lanark because it told us all about working in the Mills.’ – Weronika
‘I liked making my lenten promise.’- Jack
‘I really enjoyed making animations in digital learning this week.’- Daniel
I really liked making a new book cover for our mystery book in literacy this week.’ Jay
I enjoyed going into the old classroom and seeing the crocodile at New Lanark.’- Lena P
‘I liked getting dressed up in the old uniform.’- Jacob
‘I enjoyed writing on the slates.’- Rory
Mrs Cook, Mrs Walker and Mrs Spence have really inspired some of our primary 6s in this week’s career talks. Thank you very much!
St Nicholas are offering the P6 and P7 pupils the opportunity to participate in our Seasons for Growth programme this term. Seasons for Growth is a programme devised to help children to cope with changes in their family through loss or bereavement. The programme was developed in Australia over 20 years ago and is used across the globe to support the emotional wellbeing of young people. We hope to offer the programme to other age groups in the coming months.
Primary 6 have been using their creativity to design entries for the John Byrne Art Competition.
Primary 6 have been so lucky to hear about a variety of jobs from parents who have been visiting our classes over the past three weeks. Today we heard from Mrs Spence who explained how her job will influence the future and lifestyle of prospective jobs for our pupils and showed how life may be in 2037 – it was fascinating and certainly food for thought. Many pupils have been inspired by these presentations and have started to think about their future employment. We would like to say a huge thank you to the parents who took time to pay us a visit.
Primary 5 learned so much today from our Titanic workshop! We took on different roles as the passengers and crew of the ship. We found out what happened from the shipyards to the day the ship went down. Thanks to Captain Sean for such a memorable day!
We have had a busy week in class learning lots of new things.
Marwa – we have been learning about Fair trade as this is Fair trade overnight
Christy – if you put Fair trade banana skins on mosquito bites they go away.
Ellie – I learned that in the UK people eat over 5 billion bananas in a year.
Max – over 1.66 million farmers and workers produce Fair trade products.
Ciaran – there are over 100 billion different Fair trade bananas produced a year.
Paula – we learned about the grid method of multiplication
Mirin – we made a Titanic display.
Max – we drew pictures of first and third class passengers from the titanic
Kacper – we have been researching facts about the Titanic
Phoebe– we completed our well being check in.
Cerys – for homework we researched a language
Charlie – we have been learning bout Michelangelo and his image of God.
We have been using our own devices to complete research and find out more about Fair trade and the Titanic.
This week seems to have gone in a flash ! What have we been up to ?
In literacy we have been talking about how important reading is. We are making a real effort to read more books for enjoyment and not just the reading book that we are given at school. We also been learning about prefixes and our sound of the week has been ph.
In maths we have been practising telling times on analogue and digital clocks. We have also spoken about area and are continuing to practise our times tables.
We drew some daffodils this week and used wax crayons and watercolour to colour them in. We are proud of these are we all made a beautiful job and put in a lot of effort. In digital learning some of us manged to finish recording our books for the P1s and we have also used the laptops and ipads to play maths games on.
And for the exciting part ! In our music lesson earlier today we were taught how to read music using two notes , ‘so’ and ‘mi’ . This was challenging to begin with but we got there in the end. We are great at using our growth mindset in P4b. We certainly don’t give up when there is a challenge. Have a nice weekend everyone !
What have we enjoyed the most this week ?
Catherine – ‘I have enjoyed completing all of the maths games on the computer’.
Shay – ‘I have enjoyed balancing in P.E’.
Gerard – ‘I have enjoyed completing more time activities’.
Liam – ‘I have enjoyed recording ‘Mr Big’ for the wee ones’.
Freyja – ‘I have enjoyed reading because my book is exciting’.
Alicia – ‘I have enjoyed doing the deliberate mistake task. This is when we read a story and have to find the silly words and highlight them’.
Look at are amazing mandalas from P6b .Also we were making a recount of a poem . The poem was called The Highwayman. We were pretending to be Bess or the highwayman and telling the story from their point of view. We also finished our scratch animations about the battle of Bannockburn. We have been learning about Islam and two Muslim people came to our class to talk about their religion.In maths we have been learning negative numbers . We did blether stations about a good friendship. 😀😀
In Numeracy this week we have been learning about fractions and have been calculating halves, thirds, quarters and fifths of shapes and numbers. We know that if we are confident counting in 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s this will help us to calculate fractions of numbers.
Our teachers did some training on something called ‘Reflective Reading’ and they taught us some of the skills that they learned and the skills that we need to make us better readers. We did things like ‘Blankety Blank’ where we had to work in groups to think of words to make a sentence make sense. We also did a ‘Picture It’ and had to read a gruesome description of The Bloodbottler from our new novel ‘The BFG’ and we had to draw a picture of him. Lastly we did a ‘Spot the Silly Word’ where we had to replace a silly word with a sensible word. We did this through our topic The Ancient Egyptians. We realised that we already know lots of interesting facts about The River Nile and the pyramids.
Last week we finished our class novel ‘Charlie and the Chocolate factory’ and this week we have been enjoying watching snippets of the original movie each day and have been comparing and contrasting the book to the film. We realised that there are quite a few differences between the two.
We visited the library this afternoon and enjoyed choosing a new book to read.
In our Digital Learning we were using an app called Stickbot Studio and we were creating our very own animation projects. We realised that we had to move our objects little by little in order for it to look like it was actually moving. It was great fun doing this and working as a team.
We had a visit from Fr Jeremy and a visiting priest from Nigeria called Fr Francis. He told us all about Nigeria and he will be helping us when we make our First Reconciliation.
What a busy week!
It may have been a short week but we have managed to pack a lot of learning in. What have we been up to ?
Well firstly, we welcomed a new friend to our class, Natan. We are delighted to have another friend in P4b, welcome to Saint Nicholas Natan.
In maths we have spent more time on how to tell the time using all of the numbers on the clock. We are becoming really good at this. We have also been practising counting up and back in 7s. Quite challenging for some of us but we know that we will become experts soon enough.
In literacy, we have been learning how prefixes can change the meaning of a word. We have also revised nouns, adjectives, verbs and alliteration. We have also been reading more texts for inference and have enjoyed listening to Mrs Macdonald reading our class novel, ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl. It is sooooo funny !
In P.E with Mr Muldoon and Mrs Smith, we have been perfecting our gymnastic skills which has been fun too. As part of our digital learning, we worked together in groups and used the Ipads to record us reading a story for the P1s. We will finish it next week and then use a QR app to make a code which we will then stick inside the book so that the P1s can scan it and hear us read !
Sadly, our topic, ‘Famous Scots’ has come to an end. However, we are excited to start our new topic next week although we do not know what it is yet , it is a surprise !
What have we enjoyed the most this week ?
Haroon – I have enjoyed P.E because it has been fun in gymnastics and learning how to balance.
Oliver – I have enjoyed learning about time. I find it cool how every number represents five minutes.
Lucas C – I have liked designing my famous Scots poster because it is fun learning about the different famous Scots.
Ethan – I have liked reading ‘Kipper’s Balloon’.
Natan – I have enjoyed learning about the time and have had fun in my new school.
We have been taking part in a drawing and engineering contest.
In the drawing contest we had to draw what ever we want and John Byrne would pick and it’s a Scotland competition and there is only 1st 2nd and 3rd.
in the engineering contest you have to think of something that people mmay struggle with daily and draw that invention then write a letter to Clydesdayl University to persuede them to make your invention and win. 👍 🏅post by Maisie and Ethan
Here is a little snippet of our Friendship rap which we performed at our assembly on Friday. We hope you enjoy it!
Click on the link below.
https://vimeo.com/user15042952/review/318455278/d4ac31e099
We have had another busy week in P4a.
In Topic and Literacy, we wrote about Famous Scots who inspire us.
Michael – Andy Murray inspires me because he is a very good tennis player and when I grow up I want to be the same.
Kaylan – John Logie Baird inspires me because when I grow up I want to be an inventor too.
Lara – Saint Margaret inspires me because she helped the poor and when I grow up I want to help others by being a teacher.
Leon – Andy Murray inspires me because when I grow up I want to help children play tennis too.
We have started making giant posters about all the ‘Famous Scots’ we have learned about the past few weeks, bringing together our skills in ICT, reading, writing and research.
In Numeracy we have changed our focus to ‘Time’. We learned about using a calendar and we made our own, adding some important events such as class birthdays and the February Break! We played games with the clocks too, recapping o’clock and half past times.
On Tuesday, Archbishop Leo Cushley came to visit our school. His Grace came to our classroom and we sang him some songs about the 12 Disciples. We also prayed together for all the people who help us in Primary 4, especially as we prepare for the Sacrament of First Holy Communion.
Finally, in Music we played ball games, sung songs and learned about the rhythm names: ta and te-te.
Have a lovely weekend!
Primary 5 have had a busy week. Here are some of the things we have been doing and learning.
Mirin – this week we made an emotions timeline thinking about how we felt at different points in our lives.
Marwa – we started to learn about the Titanic.
Ciaran – we learned that the Titanic was on her the first trip from Southampton to Nee York.
Daniel – we thought about we what know and what we want to learn during the topic.
Lucas – we have continued to practice our cursive script.
Max – we started to look at the timeline of events that led to the sinking of the Titanic.
Mirin – we typed our learners statements and shared them on Teams for our parents to see.
Sam – we reviewed our guided reading books.
Phoebe – we went to the library and read to the nursery children.
Marwa – we completed our entries for the engineering competition. Good luck everyone!
Paula – we went to Broxburn Academy to play Handball.
Leo – we were learning how to use the halving and doubling strategy in number talks.
We have been very these last two weeks!
In literacy we have continued to brush up on our grammar skills. We have become very competent at identifying adverbs, verbs, nouns, adjectives and homophones. We also had fun with alliteration. In reading we have been making good progress with our chapter books. Some of us are reading a book that has been written by Chris Hoy, ‘Flying Fergus’. Chris Hoy is actually one of the famous Scots that we have learnt about , however, we did not know that he had written a book ! We have also read lots of texts and completed reading comprehensions which have focussed on inference which some of us have found challenging, however, we know that these will become easier the more we practise.
In numeracy, we have moved on from fractions and are now learning how to tell the time using all of the numbers on the clock. We have used lots of interactive games to help us with this. Our favourite one is called, ‘Beat the Clock’. You have to read the time sentence and press the buzzer to stop the big hand and make sure that it is in the correct place. It is great fun !
Our topic, ‘Famous Scots’ has almost come to an end which is a shame because we have really enjoyed it. We are in the middle of making a HUGE poster which will showcase our learning. We will post pictures as soon as we have finished them.
Wednesday was very exciting because Archbishop Cushley visited us. He gave us a special blessing and spoke to us about our First Communion. It was lovely to meet him. As part of our learning, we have also studied the life of Saint Margaret. She was a special queen and led by example.
The last few Fridays have also been fun as Mrs Curle from NYCOS has been in to teach us about rhythms and beats in music. We have learnt some great songs including: ‘I Like Coffee’ ‘Starlight’ and ‘Lemonade’ and now know one beat in music is called ‘TA’ and two beats are called ‘TE TE’.
What have we enjoyed the most ?
‘I have enjoyed learning about what all the numbers mean on a clock’ – Freyja.
‘I have liked doing my times tables in maths this week’ – Holly.
‘I have enjoyed making my poster because it has been really interesting researching people’. – Cameron.
‘I have enjoyed learning using the computers’ – Lucas L.
Primary 7 have had a very busy week.
Maths:
We have been working on data handling this week. We enjoyed collecting data and deciding what graph or chart to present our findings. We also worked on reading and interpreting data.
Literacy:
In true valentines spirit we analysed and wrote our own love poems. They were very creative and we used techniques like similes, metaphors and personification to enhance our writing.
Topic:
This week we’ve been learning about evacuation. We wrote an information text about evacuation and designed ourselves as evacuees which was lots of fun!
Other:
This week we had a visit from Andy Weir who has been teaching us about presentation skills. He left us with a ‘wee gift- WIIGFT’ which taught us when giving a presentation always include what is in it for them to engage the audience.
We’ve also been working on evaluating How Good is Our School (HGIOURS). We self assessed how good our school is at relationships and identified what we could do to improve.
We have had a fantastic week in Primary 2. Here are our highlights:
Rebecca- I liked learning about tally marks! We made a tally chart of P2’s favourite pets.
We also started to use tally marks to record our group points. We are enjoying our ‘information handling’ maths focus.
Daniel- We learnt a new skill in literacy. It’s called note taking! A note is writing something short, we used bullet points. You don’t write a big long sentence.
Jacob- We were learning the sound ‘ph‘. Like elephants, dolphin, phone, phonics and alphabet. This is a quiet, lip sound.
Sophie- We starting singing songs to get ready for our assembly.
Our assembly is on the 1st of March at 11.15am. All P2 parents are very welcome!
Sadie- Mrs Thompson, our dinner lady, came in to talk to us about what children ate for school dinners before we were born. She has been cooking school dinners for 27 years!
Sara- My dad came in. He spoke to us about when he was little and what it was like in school for him!
Joshua- He liked the team Hearts when he was a boy.
Lena- In Mr Sanderson’s school, f you were very healthy and always took the green tray, you got to win a prize! Like going bowling.
This week we have been incredibly busy preparing for our class assembly which is all about friendship and forgiveness. Our assembly will be tomorrow (Friday 15th February) at 11.15am and families are welcome to come and see it.
As it is Valentine’s Day we learned a little bit about the history behind it.
I learned that it was named after a priest called Valentine who helped soldiers to get married in secret. – James F and Alfie
I learned that Valentine got caught by the Roman Emperor, Claudius and he was put in jail. – Thomas, Toby & Isla
I know that Valentine’s Day is all about love. – James H
I know that some people give cards on Valentine’s Day but it’s not always the same tradition in every country. – Isabella A
In Spelling we have been focusing on the pattern ‘ou’ and we can read it and use it in our writing.
In Literacy we have been continuing to learn about poetry and we worked in groups to write our own rhyming verse to continue the poem ‘Going through the old photos’. We used some of our own names but we discovered that not all of our names have words that rhyme with them.
In ICT we used Forms on the ipad and netbooks to make our own quizzes on something we knew lots about.
In PE we are continuing with gymnastics and we have been doing different stretches and counter-balancing. This means that we had to put trust in our partner and work as a team.
We look forward to seeing you at our assembly!
Today P6 had a visit from Mr Sanderson. P6 had lots of fun learning about oil rigs and what you need to do to be a surveyor.
Mr Sanderson explained that there is a crisis for jobs in this area and encouraged us to think about a career in this field, especially the girls.
You only have to work for two weeks and then you get four weeks off. You get the same wage as a footballer and the food on the oil rig is amazing and it is like a hotel with a football pitch,gym, swimming pool and a squash court. The downside is that you miss your family.
You don’t need to go to university as you learn on the job but you need to be good at maths.
P5a and P5b had a great time this morning at the Handball Festival at Broxburn Academy! We were in 5 teams and played 5-a-side matches against 5 other schools. We have been practising handball over the last few weeks in PE and played fairly with some excellent tactical moves! Thanks to the parent helpers who walked us along too!
‘In Maths we have been learning about duration of time’- Jessica-Lily
‘We have been getting really good at telling the time quarter past the hour’- Leylan
‘There are 60 minutes in an hour.’- Neave
There are 30 minutes in half an hour’- Zuzanna
‘We are learning to take notes during literacy time.’- Sadie
‘Notes is when you write small things rather than big sentences’- Logan M
‘We have been doing lots of independent writing’- Wiktoria
‘We learned how to use Glow.’- Joshua
We learned how to use computers safely.’- Rebecca
‘Don’t click on the pop-ups.’- Jacob
‘Tell an adult if you feel unsafe using tablets, iphones and computers.’- Ethan
‘Don’t talk to strangers online.’- John
‘Mrs Baty told us that some games aren’t for our age group like Fortnite. You are supposed to be 12 to play this and some children are playing it in P2.’- Logan P
‘ In RE we were learning about important festivals and celebrations like Easter Sunday, Epiphany and Christmas.’ – Daniel, Weronika and Max
Primary 6 went on an AMAZING trip to Bannockburn and Stirling Castle yesterday. At Bannockburn there was a lot of really cool things to do : you could explore the battle by looking at the 3D giant screens, we could touch the weapons and armour, and we could interact with digital people who were part of the battle. The Chiltern spears were 12 -15 feet tall. The chain mail was really heavy. We then went into the battle room where we split into the Scottish army and the English army. We then plotted the battle on an interactive map. On this occasion, England won the battle through the use of our strategic commanders. It was named the Battle of the Bowling Club, as that is the building on that piece of land now. The map could change from present day to the landscape of 1314. We also took a walk to the Rotunda and saw the famous statue of Robert the Bruce.
A short journey away and we arrived at Stirling Castle where we spotted another statue of Robert the Bruce and we could see the Wallace Monument in the distance. We were amazed at how narrow the River Forth is at Stirling. We explored a room with a Scottish history timeline and recognised many events from our studies. We then explored the chapel where Mary, Queen of Scots had her coronation as a baby. Next stop was to the Great Hall where we sat on thrones which also incorporated a potty !! We then popped into the Palace and admired the famous Stirling Heads before spending time in the Queen’s Bed Chamber. The Palace staff told us about the history of the Castle and were really funny.
We enjoyed this trip and would highly recommend it to other primary schools.
Mr Smith came into school to tell us all about an Arctic adventure that he is going on in March. He showed us all the equipment he will be using and even let us taste some of the dehydrated food that he will be eating on his expedition.
He explained that he has been training for the expedition by pulling tyres to build up his strength. He will be taking the same route as a historic Arctic explorer called John Rae, who was also Scottish. He allowed us to try out his clothing and equipment for the trip. His clothing will prevent him from getting frostbite as the temperatures will be minus 30 to minus 50 degrees ! There is also a risk from hungry Polar Bears so Mr Smith will use an electric fence to keep his tent safe at night. We learned LOTS of interesting facts and look forward to seeing his route progress online and he will try to contact us via satellite whilst on his expedition. Primary 6 will design a St Nicholas flag that he will leave in the Arctic Circle.
Good luck Mr Smith!
P6 went on a trip to Stirling castle and Bannockburn. We had so much fun! We learnt about the Bannockburn war and what weapons they used. We saw the Rotunda and the statue of Robert the Bruce. We learnt that if a King was camping at war he would have a flag on top of his tent so that the warriors know where he is. Amazing!
Today Primary 5 worked with Primary 2 to think about what makes them happy. They look at mindfulness and the importance of it and why we should not worry about the past or future.
We have had a busy week in Primary 5. Here are some of the things we have been learning this week.
Leo – We have been learning about storytelling as this is NAtional Storytelling Week and we watched David Walliams talking about his novels.
Ellie – We have been learning about the 7 times table and practicing our other times tables.
Cerys – We have drawing entries for the art competition and also designing inventions to make life easier for the engineering competition.
Paula – We have been learning about the brain. Your brain connects to your nerves and tells you what to do.
Ciaran – We have been practicing our tables and looking at different strategies for learning the facts we find tricky.
Mirin – We have photographed our latest and best pieces of Numeracy and Literary and tried to use teams to post them.
Poppy and Leo- We have been talking about our reflexes and we were holding each others’ shoulder to see how quick our hand reacted and squeezed the other person’s shoulder. We also tried this with hands so see if it was quicker than our shoulders. Shoulder reflexes were quicker as the shoulder is closer to our brain.
Erin – We worked on our estimation skills with Mrs Heather. We learned that our guesses have to be reasonable.
Alexander – We have been thinking about our learning and completed our learners statements.
Leo – We were having learners conversations and talking about what we are good at and what we need to work on.
Ciaran – we have been completing our health and well-being check in and today is feel good Friday.
Phoebe – Mr Menzies came into school to read us a story for storytelling week.
We enjoyed learning about our new topic Scottish independence wars and making a shield for Robert Bruce.We also enjoyed writing a poem about ourselves using similes and metaphors.In maths this week we leaned about percentages and on Thursday Mrs Heather came in and did subitising.
Another busy week in P3! This week we have started to prepare for our class assembly which will be about Friendship and Forgiveness. This ties in with our Reconciliation preparation. We have been working hard learning our lines, a song, a prayer and even a rap! We can’t wait to perform for you all on Friday 15th February.
In Literacy this week, we wrote acrostic poems all about friendship. These poems didn’t need to rhyme but we had to make sure that each sentence told us something about friendship.
Also, as this week is National Storytelling Week, we had a visit from Mr Menzies who came in to share tales and stories with us. He was really expressive and funny!
In Numeracy, we have been continuing to learn the 5 and 10 times tables and some of us are getting quicker at recalling these facts without using our fingers. We are all going to keep practising.
In PE, we are continuing to develop our gymnastic skills and have been practising doing different types of rolls.
In Digital Learning we were learning how to edit a photo and upload it to our class Teams page. We have also been using a search engine to find the meaning of different scientific words to finish off our topic of freezing and melting.
We look forward to our visit to the library this afternoon and the busy week that lies ahead!
We have had another great week. Some of our highlights include, working with fractions, learning the ed ending for our spelling and sharing our presentations on ‘Famous Scots’. Our presentations included some very famous Scots l about James Watt, John Logie Baird, Mary Queen of Scots, Charles Rennie Mackintosh Muriel Johnston, Rob Roy, Rabbie Burns, Andy Murray, Gordon Ramsay, Steven Naismith, Scott Brown and Alexander Graham Bell.
We are all feeling very proud of ourselves as our presentations were really good and lots of technology was used to help us to make them. Gerard used Sway, Freyja used Glow and lots of us made a powerpoint.
We also got some irn bru and shortbread to celebrate Robert Burns Day. It has been a really enjoyable week.
Today P5a and P5b celebrated Burns’ Day by reciting some of his poems and sampling some lovely Scottish fare: Oatcakes (kindly supplied by Mr Quinn) and shortbread. Happy Birthday to the great Bard and wishing everyone a lovely time tonight if they are having a Burns’ Supper.
In P6b we have been learning how to divide decimals and we did lots of active games to practise. We have also making posters to encourage everyone to read, using persuasive language.
Our writing this week was to write a poem using onomatopoeia.
On Thursday we did a bird watch outside and on Friday we did a poetry recital for Burns day.
Primary 5B enjoyed a Burns’ celebration today. We had shortbread and oatcakes. Kai’s dad very kindly gave us the oatcakes. Thank you! They were delicious!
This week we have researched Robert Burns using our own devices and school i-pads and laptops. We created a profile of Robert Burns. We also learned some Scots words. For homework we also learned a few verses of a Burns’ poem or song and recited them to the class. Well done everyone!
Some facts we have learned about Robert Burns.
Ellie -He was very famous for his poetry and songs.
Mirin – He died because of a heart condition.
Paula – He wrote so many poems and songs for example ‘To a mouse’
Szymon – He was born in a farm in Alloway, in Ayrshire.
Christy – He was also called Rabbie Burns.
Max – He originally spelled his name BURNES.
Sam and Leo – He had a wife called Jean Armour.
Marwa – He had 9 children.
Tomasz – He was born on 25th January 1759.
Charlie – His last resting place is in Dumfries.
Max – He died 21st July 1796.
Sam – He was 37 years old when he died.
We have had a busy week learning lots of new things in primary 2.
‘We have learned all about Rabbie Burns. He was born in Alloway’ – Mara
‘We designed kilts for Robert Burns’ – Chloe
We have learned new Scot word, aye means yes, fitbaw means football and Auld Reekie is Edinburgh’– Joshua
‘I have learned that the long hand on a clock is the minute hand and the short hand is the hour hand.’- Lena S
‘We talked about our emotions and feelings. We have made a calm spot in the classrooms.’ – Jay
‘We were playing hopscotch, clapping games, knots and crosses and kick the can. People have been playing these games for a long time and that is what our topic is’– Olivia and Lena P
‘We have been learning ou/ ow words this week’ – Finn
‘We listen to Address tae a Haggis and To a Mouse. These are poems written by Robert Burns.’- Sophie
Primary 7 had a lovely Scottish afternoon celebrating Burn’s Day. We had some fantastic poets, some great singing and plenty of eating. The traditional haggis was the most popular compared to vegetarian haggis, scotch bonnet crisps and of course shortbread were amoung a few favourites!
Wow! What a busy week we’ve had so far. Let us begin by telling you what we’ve been learning about in Literacy. As it is Burns Day on Friday we have been looking at Scots language. We listened to and sang the song ‘Donald where’s yer troosers’, we also sang ‘Heids, shooders, shanks and taes’. Mrs Dymock read us two different poems called ‘The sair finger’ and ‘Lament to the lost dinner ticket’. It took us a little while to figure out exactly what they were about. Some Scottish words we learned were mooth = mouth, taes = toes, lugs = ears, bairn = child and mair = more. Keeping along our Scottish theme we decided to create our own tartan kilts using 4 colours and different widths of lines. Here is a photo of some of our creations:
In Numeracy, we have been learning the 5 and 10 times tables. We have been playing Fizz Buzz, Table Trainer and have been drawing pictures to show what each fact looks like. We’re trying to get faster at recalling these facts so we’re going to keep on practising. Here are some photos of us busy learning:
In PE we have been practising gymnastics and have been having competitions where one group is demonstrating different types of jumps and the other group is judging the quality of the jumps. The judges are looking for well stretched bodies and a good balance.
In Science, we tested different materials to see if they were soluble or insoluble. We discovered that gravy granules, coffee and salt were all soluble materials whereas paperclips, paper and blu tac are insoluble.
We bet you’re all tired from reading about our busy week and we’ll check in again next week to share more of our learning.
After the fantastic achievement of gaining the Gold School Sport Award last year the school have continued to go from strength to strength. Instead of sitting back and relaxing the pupils have hit a record number of attendances at after school clubs. Compared to last year when 29% of pupils attended an after school club in term one this year 49% of pupils attended an after school club.
Active Schools have worked closely with Miss Miller to put on a range of after school clubs for all the primary stages. Clubs have included football, dance, hockey and tennis.
This term we have spoken to the Health Committee who requested a number of different sports. From these we have a volleyball club starting soon.
All after school clubs will be starting the week beginning 4 February, keep an eye on school bags for letters coming out.
Follow Broxburn Cluster Active Schools on Twitter, @ActiveS_Bburn.
Active Schools Coordinators, Ross Logan and Libby Harris
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P5 have been learning about body systems. This week we looked at the digestive system and did a messy practical experiment! Our digital leaders made a quick video to display the learning.
This week we have been learning how to multiply decimals and played a game to practise it. We also had a great time at our vertical learning groups and at the library.
On Thursday we did pop art of Rober Burns and at the start of the week we learnt how sound is detected. Finally on Thursday we did an Alliteration poem. Myles & Adam
We have been very busy this in P4b. We have moved on to a new topic, ‘Famous Scottish People’ and have learnt that there have been many Scots who invented lots of cool things including :
the telephone – Oliver
the television – Shay
the wheel – Cameron
steam engines – Holly
penicillin – Catherine
We have set a couple of challenges for next week. Firstly we have to “make a powerpoint about a famous Scot” and “learn how to say a Scottish poem”, Lucas C. We are up for the challenge! We will tell you all next week how we get on.
In literacy we made a wordsearch with our spelling words all hidden, we have also been working hard on our grammar. In numeracy we have been learning about fractions, practising our times tables and exploring through tartan.
“It has been an amazing week”, Olivia.
P2 are very excited to share their new topic with you. We are going to learn about ‘Schools Past and Present’. We worked on our plan together. We are going to learn about what it was like being a pupil in the past compared to being a pupil today. This includes subjects taught, games played, transport to school, school lunches, tools used in school and pupil voice.
We need help from our mums, dads, grans and grandads! Could you please send in a photograph of when you were in primary school? (Whether or not you were a St. Nicholas pupil!)
We are also looking for any parents who would like to come into school and talk to us about what it was like! The children will have lots of questions for you. If you can, please let us know.
We had lots of fun this week looking at old photographs of our school and of previous teachers and pupils.
Today primary 5 worked together to create a performance of a poem. The poem is called ‘What Stars are’ by James Carter. Here is our final performance. 73D621A0-129A-4478-A8DA-81DD9F666B63
This week so far we have been busy bees!
In Literacy, we have started to learn about poetry and we know that not all poems need to rhyme and that they can be split into verses. They also have patterns and can be read to a rhythm. We made up actions for a poem and performed to our class.
In Numeracy, we have been looking at number patterns and counting in 5s and 10s from lots of different numbers. We noticed that when you count up in 10s that the ones column number doesn’t change and that when you are using a 100 hundred square you just need to jump down. When you count in 5s there is a pattern for example, 1,6,11,16,21 etc.
In Science we have started to learn about Freezing and Melting. We found out that water freezes when the temperature is 0 degrees or below. We also learned that water can be solid, liquid and gas.
In RE, we have started to prepare for the Sacrament of Reconciliation. We have been learning about Baptism and talking about our Godparents and where we were Baptised.
In PE we have started to do some gymnastics and have been practising different types of jumps like star jumps, stretch jumps and tuck jumps.
Can you believe that we have done all of that work so far and it is only Wednesday?!
The winners of the St Nicholas Reading and Writing competitions had a lovely lunch with our Head Teacher, Mrs Brown, today. They went on a bus to the other end of Broxburn, had a delicious lunch, and were treated to a book of their choice. Thank you very much to our local partners, Glow Worm Books, for looking after our prizewinners so well and for sponsoring these competitions for us.
And well done again to our fabulous readers and writers.
The Eco Group did the RSPB’s Big Schools’ Birdwatch today, noting the different types of birds that are in the Broxburn area, before we uploaded our results to find the Top 10 birds around St Nicholas. We then worked to create bird snappers – older pupils working alongside younger pupils. Thanks to our P7, P6 and P5s who took such good care of our younger St Nicholas children, working with such care, skill and patience. The snappers were very fiddly to put together but we got there with them. Well done everyone!
Primary 5 have had a busy first week back at school.
In Literacy, we have been learning about poetry and metaphors and similes. We have worked very hard to create our own metaphors and similes and added them to a poem about dogs.
In Numeracy, we have been continuing to work on money. We have been working on subtraction number talk strategies and also using our number bonds knowledge to add and subtract multiples of 10.
We have been learning about the 10 Commandments and came up with our own commandments that we felt were important.
This week we have continued with our science topic about our body systems. We have looked at our respiratory system and also our circulatory system. We have been working together to research body organs and locate them in our bodies.
We have also been making new year resolutions and looking at making targets for ourselves this term.
What a busy first week back!
This week in p6b we were using laptops to make a shopping list, we also played elens in Spanish and had a lot of fun! Miss Gilmore came into our Limerick writing lesson and did game with us where you have to find the missing line sof a Lymerick poem. We had lots of fun this week! Goodbye and have a Good Day! 
Primary 2 would like to share some of the things they have been doing and learning since Monday.
Olivia- We have been using our Rekenreks to switch numbers! A switch is when you change the order of the numbers in your sum.
Nina- We have made shadow pictures for art.
Daniel- We have been writing Winter Senses poems.
Rory- We read a book and wrote about the main thing that happened. Wilf and dad went to the ice rink.
Elias- We read ‘No Tricks Gran!’ and the main thing that happened was Gran made a ghost outside to scare the children.
We are really looking forward to telling you all about our new topic very soon.
Our Pupil Council began the judging process today, looking at entries for the St Nicholas Writing Competition. Here they are hard at work reading the entries. The standard of writing was very, very high. Winners for the both the reading and the writing competitions will be announced on Friday 11th of January at assembly. Thanks Pupil Council for your help and giving us your views and insights into what makes a great story.
Some lovely photo’s that were taken of our Nativity dress rehearsal in case anyone didn’t manage to get a picture of their child in their costume. Nativity DVD will be available soon too!
Today we really enjoyed taking part in the Christmas Carol concert. We sung ‘Beneath the Stars’ in front of all the parents and the St Nicholas V.I.P.’s. It was fun and breath taking as we noticed some members of the audience becoming emotional as we sang. Primary 6 would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas.
by Summer and Amie-lee
Great fun was had by all at our party this afternoon. We managed to create the longest conga line in West Lothian and floss to Baby Shark. 🕺🏻💃🏻🎅🏼
Yesterday P6 visited the International Space Station, then they landed on the moon, then they popped in to the Kennedy Space Centre…using our new virtual reality headsets.
The class had a fabulous time exploring all the places that we have been learning about over the past few weeks. I wonder where we will be exploring next ?
On Tuesday we had a visit from Clare who reminded us how to care for animals. We worked in teams to play a game answering questions about different animals and what they eat, the name for their young and which category of animal they are. We had a great time learning all about it.
Nicola and Maisie
This week P6B had lots of fun with the VR life and were visited by the SSPCA and learned all about protecting animals and different creatures.🐢🐶🐱🐣
Last week in Maths we were learning all about symmetry. We used mirrors to check if a shape was symmetrical and how many lines of symmetry it had. We discovered that not all shapes are symmetrical and that is called asymmetric.
In Literacy, we were learning about common and proper nouns. We learned that a proper noun is a little bit fancy and needs a capital letter. Words such as months of the year, names, places and days of the week are all proper nouns.
We are starting to feel a little festive, so in Art we were given a challenge by our class elf to create a Christmas tree using forks, paint, glitter and paper plates.
We have also been exercising our vocal chords and have been practising our Christmas carols in preparation for the Christmas carol concert next week. We have also been pract
ising our dance moves for our Christmas party and have been learning The Square Dance, The Grand Old Duke of York and The Flying Scotsman.
What a busy week we had!
We hope that our class elves leave us some more fun challenges to do this week!
Mrs Dickson, a parent from P6a visited our classes to share her knowledge about mindfulness. She helped us to understand the importance of mindfulness by showing us a jug of water and stirred some glitter into it. The water represented our brain and the glitter represented our thoughts and it showed us how busy our brain can become and this is why it is so important to have quiet, calm time …mindfulness.
We then participated in some exercises. Mindfulness eating with a raisin, sitting like a frog whilst listening to a CD from this book:
Ruby said, “I found the mindfulness very calming.” Molly added, “I really enjoyed the mindfulness eating as it made you savour your food more.”
“Mindfulness helps you to get into a place where you can think about your problems or relax without feeling stress.” said Callum.
We would like to give Mrs Dickson a big thank you for teaching us about mindfulness.
Written by Clara and Nicola
Are you looking for a new style for the festive season ? P6 created this Christmas Tree design during Golden Time.
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
