It is our responsibility to minimise litter in our playground. Please support us by not dropping any litter boys and girls. Let’s take care of our school! We managed to collected 8 black bags yesterday!!!

Today, Karen  from the National Youth Choir of Scotland, (NYCOS) came to our classes and worked with us helping us to learn new songs designed to help us to keep a steady beat and feel a steady beat.  It was great ! We particularly enjoyed the song ‘Tiptoe Tiptoe’.

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This week we have been busy learning about so many things!

In Language, we have learned about when to use different tenses (past, present and future.

We have continued learning about time (telling time on digital and analogue clocks, duration of activities) and we are definitely becoming more confident.

We have done a lot of Number Discussions this week. In Number talks we have focused on the strategy of breaking numbers into smaller factors (multiplication) and we also made posters to show all the strategies we can come up with to solve a given sum.

In RERC we have been learning about the 7 Sacraments and we are making a Power Point to show our learning.

In Spanish we focused on improving our spelling and reading. We have also done some revision of the days of the week, months, weather and seasons. We have also learned how to say “can I go to the toilet” in Spanish with this song

Finally, we organised a short assembly in which we found out who the winners of the JRSO competition were.

Well done to the Junior Road Safety Officers for Organising everything and well done to the two winners of the competition. Summer (P4a) and Adrian (P6b) your mascots were fantastic!!

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The Open Evening and Information Meeting for parents of P7 children hoping to go to St Margaret’s Academy is tomorrow night at 6.30pm.  A copy of the letter below has been emailed to P7 parents.

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Primary 6 have been using their maths skills to work out which elf stole the Christmas Pudding… we had 5 clues and had to use a process of elimination to find the naughty elf!

Here are some of P6 with mathematical patterns we created using a specified percentage of each colour. We also calculated the fraction and decimal value for each colour we chose. Working hard on maths Primary 6!

Did you know that baking is a science experiment ? Primary 5 looked at the various aspects of science that are involved in baking.

We discussed the change from a liquid to a solid and the role of the gas produced by the baking powder to make the cake rise.

We also discussed the change that occurs by adding heat at a certain temperature. What would happen if we removed the cakes too quickly ? What would happen if we left the cakes in the machine for too long ?

We also had to consider the consistency of the solutions that we were creating. We had to measure and add the correct amount of each ingredient otherwise the solution would be either too thick or too runny.

Our conclusion ….delicious !

We liked…

The leap of faith and the trail bikes (Ollie)

The inflatables because it was good for practising your balance (Kornelia)

Doing the camp fire and the mystery because it was interesting to see the teachers acting out. It was great to make fire with few things (Saoirse)

Everything. It was an amazing experience (Molly)

The food was the tasty. I loved the leek and potato soup! (Rosie)

What we would change/do differently…

I would have liked to make a better rocket for the launch (Sophie R)

I would have liked to stay longer so we could try other activities too, like the bungee trampoline (Adrian)

I would have loved to try archery (Brandon)

In the leap of faith I would have liked to have jumped to the trapeze! (Abbie)

We learnt…

To light a fire (Reyan)

How to make my bed quickly (Oscar)

To face my fears with the leap of faith (Charlee-Marie)

Lots of cycling skills on the bike (Grace)

We felt…

Excited and nervous (Aayan)

Scared and happy that I was there (Abbie)

Nervous to do the leap of faith (Megan)

Excited and scared at the same time (Natasha)

Good (Artur)

The challenge was challenging and very fun (Jazib)

Relieved after the leap of faith (Cole)

Excited, happy and really tired (Molly)

It changed me because

I am prouder of myself for all the things I did (Alex)

I am more confident (Wiktoria)

Yes because I have a phobia of heights and I did the leap of faith (Callum)

Would we like to go to camp again?

I would definitely go again (Alex)

It was a really really good experience (Ieuan)

Yes, you were never bored (Piotr)

Yes, the instructors were really nice (Fraser)

Quick update to parents: St Nicholas P6 boys and girls are having a great time at camp. 

In RERC Primary 6 has been learning about the parable of the Rich Young Man: who or why do we make sacrifices?

In Language, we have explored figures of speech by looking at the similes and metaphors in pop songs and practised making our own ones too. 

We have made posters to advertise our Tuck Shop products in order to maximise profits and promote a healthy lifestyle. We have used persuasive language and included some nutritional facts of the fruits we sell in our shop.

In Spanish we learnt about El Dia de los Muertos, a hispanic celebration to honour our loved ones that have passed away. We learnt some useful vocabulary like papel, tijeras, corta and dobla by making Papel Picado. 

The end of the week was really fun! Some of us dressed up for Halloween and we had a small celebration in which we made decorations and ghost-treats like these. 

Finally, congratulations to Grace, Ollie, Hana and Ben for their new road safety jobs in the school. Well done!

Primary 6A and B have been learning about working within a budget in money week.  We applied our addition and subtraction skills in real-life situations when we had to organise the shopping from a supermarket web-site and ensuring that we bought enough ingredients to cook our weekly meals. We soon realised that buying in bulk and being careful to look for special deals (6 cans of own brand beans instead of one can of branded beans) meant that we had enough money left over for luxuries (we all like cookie dough ice- cream!). To finish off our money week learning we played the Global Market Game today. We were divided into groups to “govern” a country. Each country was given certain resources (some were rich in natural resources and some had great technology) . The aim of the game was for each government to barter, negotiate and trade what they were given to create goods and services for their population. Certain resources had to be prioritised (such as food and shelter) and others were very expensive (such as education) . We linked what we had learned during this fun activity to real life situations… running a country was hard!

Primary 6 had a wonderful day at New Lanark where we learned what life could be like for children in the past. We found out about the pioneering reforms that took place at New Lanark which made life better for poorer people, including education for children, the first Co-Op for food and other provisions and protection for younger children from the more dangerous and difficult work. We took a ride on the Annie Macleod experience, participated in a Victorian school lesson and toured the New Lanark mills and houses. What a great day!

Primary 7 had a great morning at the West Lothian Career Conference in Livingston Football Stadium. The focus was Hospitality, Food and Drink, Hygiene and Engineering processes within food and drink. We all enjoyed sampling the smoothies, cakes, scones, pasta, unusual fruits and vegetables. We learned how to set a table and a little bit about silver service. We watched a cookery demonstration and some of us tasted mussels for the first time.