Well done to Cole for being this week’s ‘Dojo Champion’. Lots of points were awarded to Cole for trying hard and for helping to tidy up. Well done to you!
Well done too Niamh for being our ‘Star Pupil’ this week. Niamh has worked very well this week on all tasks. She has also had super duper manners. Great work !
Primary 5 have become health inspectors to learn about healthy eating and having a balanced diet.
They have looked at typical school lunches around the world and explained why they are healthy or unhealthy.
As part of our recycling topic, Primary 3 and 3/2 were set the challenge to make a model using junk from home.
We made:
– a little girl
– a rocket
-a kittens bed
-a spaceship
-a candy castle
– a planter
-a pencil holder and a pen pot
-a dragon
– a leaf blower
-a robot and bag
We then showed our models to each other. Everyone has put in lots of effort and all the models look fantastic!
Well done P3 and P3/2
What have we learnt ?
What have we enjoyed ?
Niamh – I have been learning about night time animals. I have enjoyed playing in the area. I built a tower.
Kacper – I have learnt how to write a sentence. I liked to paint.
Tavia – I have learnt how to make a sentence and I was happy. I have enjoyed Spanish . I can ask how are you ?
Fynn – I have been learning about Guy Fawkes. He almost blew up the Houses of Parliament (wow, you have remembered lots !!! Mrs Mac). I have enjoyed making the firework picture.
Thomas – I have learnt that Guy Fawkes didn’t like the king. I have enjoyed working with my shoulder partner.
Well done everyone ! You have worked hard.
Here is Kyle from Priamry 1a proudly showing off his swimming certificate. He has been moved up to level 5. Well done Kyle, you must be a fantastic swimmer!
Preparations are underway for this year’s Christmas Fair which will take place on Thursday, 4th of December from 6pm till 8pm. Thank you for the donations that have been handed in so far. There is still lots of time to hand in a raffle prize, tombola prize , ( children or adult) and good quality toys and books that we can sell . These can be handed in to the office.
Many thanks,
Mrs Macdonald.
Today , we learnt all about why we celebrate ‘Bonfire Night’. We also learnt ways to keep safe if you go to a bonfire or a fireworks display. To finish off our afternoon we made fantastic firework pictures using paint and glittery glue. We think that they look lovely !
Primary Five are showing a great interest in their new mini-topic:- Inventors and Scientists. We have been fascinated learning about the early years of some famous figures such as Albert Einstein who couldn’t speak until he was the age of four and whose Grandmother thought was stupid! Here we are putting together some powerful presentations to present the key facts…
We received a visit from the SSPCA this week in Primary 5. We learned about the role of the SSPCA in Scotland, what number to call if we found an animal in distress and what we need to do to look after our pets. We then played a fun game to help us find out facts about animals – Our teachers learned a thing or two too!
Here is Leon from Primary 1a showing off his super swimming certificate. Leon has worked hard and has now moved up to Level 4. Well done Leon ! You must be great at swimming !
Today, primary 1 had a chat about their brand new topic. Now that we have finished learning about dinosaurs, we are very excited to find out what we’re going to be learning about this term.
We are beginning to learn about the sun, moon and stars, and night time animals (very big topic!).
We already know quite a lot about this:
Here are some of the things we want to learn about:
We are very excited to begin finding out lots of new things, and we will keep you updated with our fab work.
Look at the work from our two writing stars from today, Lara and Kyle.
We have now started to write about our news on a Monday morning. We are doing well using our sounds to write words independently. Keep it up everyone !
Primary 5 have been learning about the Day of the Dead in Spanish. Karolina, Wiktoria and Charlee-Marie really enjoyed learning about the lovely altars that they make to honour their loved ones and Reyan and Oscar liked making sugar skull post cards!
Check out our Day of the Dead post cards and our spooky Halloween costumes!
Happy Hallowe’en everyone !
The boys and girls had a great day today doing all things spooky (not too spooky, Mrs Macdonald is a scaredy cat !). Some of us made skeletons, some of us practiced our good colouring in skills on our Hallowe’en pictures. We also played with dough and used spooky cutters to make shapes. Our story was SPOOKTACULAR ! It was very funny as it was about a smelly ghost. Our teacher hardly reecognised us all as we had all come to school dressed up. Mrs Macdonald said that our costumes were fantastic ! As a treat we have all been given an apple to use for dooking tomorrow and some sweeties.
Here we are having fun !
Today Primary 3 came to school dressed up for Halloween. We looked at artwork by Pablo Picasso. We looked at his art work of faces and how two faces are on the picture of one face. We discussed how one side of the face is looking to the side and the other is looking forwards. Look at our amazing work.
I am pleased to announce that Grady is our first ever DOJO champion as he had the most points. He was even given a point from one of our lovely dinner ladies for super lunchtime manners ! Well done Grady ! Who will it be next week ?
Due to it being a shorter week and with us concentrating on DOJO points, we have had no ‘Star Pupil of the Week’ for this week. This will resume again next week and run alongside the DOJO points. All of the children have come back to school after the break refreshed and ready to work hard. Well done everyone, this makes me proud !
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What have we learnt ?
What have we enjoyed ?
Niamh – I have been learning about pumpkins. Some are orange, green and white. I have enjoyed making a paper pumpkin.
Cole – I have been learning about pumpkins. They have lots of water in them. I have enjoyed doing the pumpkin.
Raqab – I have been learning about chocolate. Chocolate is white, brown and dark. I have enjoyed watching ‘Alphablocks’.
Tavia – I have learnt pumpkins are fruit. I have enjoyed the Hallowe’en fun.
Leon – I have learnt how to write sounds. I have enjoyed moving tables.
Primary 2 are excited for Halloween! We have come to school in our costumes and are looking forward to lots of Halloween activities in class. Here are the things we like to do at Halloween:
Finn – I like going trick or treating.
Lucas – I like dooking for apples.
Charlie – I love trying to eat Halloween donuts from a piece of string, it gets my face all messy!
Zach – I love going to Halloween parties.
Mirin – I like to play Halloween games with my brother.
Aaron – I enjoy dressing up!
Happy Halloween everyone!
We made perfect pumpkins today in class. We learnt that a pumpkin is a fruit because it has seeds but most people think that it is a vegetable. We also learnt that:
This week Primary 5 are concentrating on challenging themselves to answer as many tricky maths questions as they can using their knowledge of number bonds and a variety of mental computation strategies. Great Effort Primary 5!
We are very excited to have starting using ‘Dojo Points’ in our classes. We will be awarded a point for the following good behaviours:
Having good lunchtime manners.
Working as part of team.
Helping others.
Trying hard.
Tidying up.
Good listening.
Changing quickly.
Remembering our magic manners.
Being kind.
Who will be our first DOJO champions this week ?
We have sent home a note with a personal code on it. This can be used to access your child’s DOJO points from home.
Thankyou everyone,
Primary 1 teachers.
Today p7a and p7b started their high school transitions at St Margarets Academy. Once we arrived we were introduced to Mrs Melville (Deputy Head Teacher), who took us to our classrooms in the Social Studies department. Primary 7a were working with Miss Stone.
Taylor – We learned about how WWII affected children in Germany and how Hitler created “Hitler youth”. The Youth clubs were used by Hitler to prepare young boys to be soldiers and young girls were prepared for motherhood. In Hitler youth,there were 3 stages for boys and 2 stages for girls. Boys started in these clubs at the age of 6 and continued until the age of 18.
After break time we focused on what life was like for Jewish people in Germany. We learned about some laws that Hitler pasted to make life very difficult for Jewish people.
Racheal- I learned that in 1938 Hitler created a Law to stop any Jewish people attending University and in 1942 another Law was created to stop Jewish children attending school.
We are all looking forward to going back next week to find out more about how Jewish children were affected by Hitler during WWII.
I would just like to say a huge thank you to the whole St Nicholas family – your generosity has overwhelmed me. I have some wonderful memories to take with me to my new school and post and will pop in now and again to see how everyone is getting on.
God Bless you all
Mrs Buchanan-Coutts
What have we learnt ?
What have we enjoyed ?
Michael – I have learnt that a diplodocus has a long neck. I liked seeing my mummy and gran at the showcase.
Niamh – I have learnt a new sound called ‘nk’. I have enjoyed my granny coming into my class to see my work.
Fynn – I have learnt about numbers before and after. I liked building a house out of lego.
Leon – I have learnt ‘z’. I have choosing this week as I am fast.
Anya – I have learnt a rap about triceratops. I liked doing all of my work.
Well done everyone for working well !
Well done to Haroon for being P1a’s ‘Star Pupil of the Week’. Haroon has been awarded this for being kind and gentle. You are a star !
Haroon’s picture will follow after the holiday.
Today, we celebrated all of our successes of the last few weeks, both academically and wider. We were all awarded four different certificates: one for learning our sounds, one for learning all about numbers, one for super learning about dinosaurs and one for settling in well to school. We also brought in certificates from home. Some of us have moved up a level for swimming ! Some of us brought in certificates as we had raised money for charity, well done. We also saw a trophy for good ball skills, and certiciates for moving up a level in tae-kwon do. Well done everyone ! You have all worked very hard and we are all proud of you.
Happy holidays !
Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty.
Primary 1a, would like to say good bye and good luck to Ciara as today was her last day at St Nicholas. We will miss you Ciara ! Please keep in touch.
Love from.
Your friends and Mrs Macdonald.
Primary 5 have enjoyed sharing our learning about the 60s with you! Thank you for your support and enthusiasm!
Here are some pictures of our mood baords and our 60s disco.
Primary 6 would like to offer a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to our Syrian Refugee Appeal. We are overwhelmed with the generosity of everyone at St Nicholas. As you can see from the pictures, the van could not have stored any more of your donations. All of your donations will have reached Calais and are helping refugee’s right now! We are all very proud.
We would also like to thank all of the parents and children who attended our assembly. We worked extremely hard to put together the appeal, the videos and the assembly overall. We loved sharing our hard work with you all and we hope you enjoyed it too!
Primary 6 Assembly
We would like to say a huge thankyou to all of the special people who came along today to our ‘Dinosaur Showcase’. It was a RAAAAWWWWRING success.
Here are some pictures from today. We will upload the slideshow before the end of the week.
Kind regards,
P1 teachers.
Mrs Hesketh has very kindly been busy making a new friendship spot for our playgrounds.
This lovely sign is already up in the infant playground and will soon be introduced into the other playgrounds too.
Children whose friends are off school, or are still eating lunch, can go to the spot, and can find new people to play with.
The primary 1’s have particularly loved this. They have all been keen to share stories of finding new friends or playing with someone who didn’t have anyone.
We are looking forward to hearing many more lovely stories.
Well done Primary 5 on great presentation of your homework research projects. We learned so much about all sorts of things from the 1960s such as how the lava lamp works, which famous criminals attempted escapes from Alcatraz, who the first man on the moon was and also all about the Beatles – Fantastic work!
A great visit to Broxburn Library today for Primary 5 A and B. We learned that a lot of things were MUCH cheaper in the 1960s than they are today, but that many people didn’t have very much money to spare. We learned that most houses would only have one black and white television and the whole family would gather around it in the living room where it would be warm from the fire to watch favourite programmes such as Coronation Street! Here we are at the library and here are some of our fantastic 1960s costumes!
Here is Tavia, proudly showing off her ‘Dinosaur Invitation’. Just a reminder to P1a/P1bs mummies and daddies that it is on Wednesday, 14th of October at 2.00pm in our classrooms.
Well done to Harris in Primary 3 for receiving this certificate and badge for swimming 600 metres. Keep swimming Harris!
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!
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
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.
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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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!
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 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!
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 3/2 also really enjoyed creating the Egyptian necklaces. We think we all look great wearing them!!
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 !
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.
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).
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 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!
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 !
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!
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!
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 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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!”
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!!!
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!!!
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!
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.
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.
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 🙂
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!
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
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 ?
Primary 6 have been working on shape in maths. This week our focus is tessellation. They tried to create some patterns and others tried to make pictures using tessellation. We are very impressed with the results!
Primary 6 had a fantastic time performing the Spanish song we learned to Primary 3 on European Languages Day. We hope the Primary 3’s enjoyed listening to us as much as we enjoyed listening to their performance. It was excellent!
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 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.
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 have been concentrating on honing their powers of persuasion and perfected them by producing them in print! Great word-processing skills Primary 5A.
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!
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.
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.
Well done to Callum in Primary 3a for receiving this medal for Judo at the weekend. Congratulations Callum! We are very proud of you.
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)
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!
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
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.
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!
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.
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!!!
Thank you so much to all of the mummies, daddies, grannies, grandads and friends who came along to today’s Macmillan Coffee Morning. It was lovely to see so many people. We had fun tasting the scrummy cakes that lots of lovely people baked. You are all SO kind.
Lots of the money has been counted and we are pleased to say that we have raised £660. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for supporting us all.
Love Mrs Macdonald, Mrs Baty and Mrs Gibson.
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 !
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.
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.
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!
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 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!!
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?!
Alex, Abbie and Grace brought in their medals to share their successes in recent dancing exams with the rest of Primary 5. Congratulations Girls
Sophie R in Primary 5A won “Performer of the Week” at her weekend drama class. Well done – a super achievement!
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.
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.
Well done to Beth for taking part in a gymnastics competition at the weekend. What a star!
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.
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