Good morning everyone,
Please find attached the learning grid for this week. Please email the school mailbox a couple of pictures of your child’s work alongside a sentence or two about what they have enjoyed learning this week. Thanks to those of you who have sent pictures so far, it’s great for us to hear how the children are getting on and helps us to plan for future learning.
Please email the school mailbox if you have any questions.
Miss McCormack & Mrs Canning
A shorter week but a super busy week in Primary 6. We won’t be getting lost after lockdown after learning about directions and grid references on maps. We are also learning about the process of pollination in our new science topic. We also created a pic collage of the five things we do each day to keep us happy:
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However our most important task this week was to begin to prepare our buddy information for the new Primary 1 pupils. This year we have to be very creative using our digital skills to share information about us and our school so that the wee ones have a smooth transition into starting school.
Wow nursery boys and girls! We have all loved seeing your amazing photos this week. You’ve been working so hard on some of the transition activities. You’re going to be superstars when you come into primary 1! Keep up the good work everyone! You’re doing a fantastic job! 🌟🌟🌟
Watch out for new activities on Monday! 😊
Another very busy week, we were off on Monday but still managed to fit in lots of fun, challenging and thoughtful tasks.
We had our usual daily tasks of Spelling, Number Talks and Reading, along with our energetic participation to Joe Wicks exercise classes and Mr Muldoon’s challenges; teachers included, thankfully no video footage of that!
Here are some examples of the work uploaded onto Teams from our classes. We have a lovely example of spelling and a fantastic Number Talks layout, clearly showing the strategy of removal.
In Maths we looked at fractions of a whole number and did a little place value revision. Here are some fantastic examples provided by our classes.
We also did lots of tasks for Literacy, this included, reading, developing our listening skills, writing and also looking at some grammar points. There was an activity looking at prefixes and this was particularly well done by P5. Here is just one example of the work carried out.
There were tasks to design French posters, make a happiness jar, make a wind chime, research the story of the amazingly brave girl Anne Frank. We have also been following the music scheme ‘Treasure Island’ and the children were asked to practice the 6th song of the series ‘Jimmy be Good’. Maybe we could have a P5 concert when we all get back together to showcase all of the songs we have covered! We also had some General Knowledge quizzes, for all the future budding ‘The Chase’ competitors, maybe one day we could have a go at taking on the Governess!
We hope you enjoyed today’s Mass, it was truly lovely for many reasons but in particular it was so nice to hear the children’s voices at the end. We miss you all and are so proud of how well you are all coping with things. Take care everyone and have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Mac and Mrs K
Primary 3 have had a busy week completing lots of home learning tasks, read on to see what we have been up to this week.
Keep up the hard work Primary Three, we love seeing all of your pictures. You continue to make us proud every day!
This week Primary 7 have been very busy learning and working at home! We had an extra special day on Tuesday as we had a video call with some students from both St Margaret’s Academy and Broxburn Academy. As the primary 7’s are unable to attend their transitions as usual, we were lucky enough to ask the high school students some questions via video call and have our queries answered very well. This opportunity helped a lot with worries about going to high school without being able to attend more transition dates and we are hoping to get more chances like this in the coming weeks.
Primary 1, we have been so impressed with you all this week. You have been working really hard and we have loved receiving all your lovely pictures.
This week Primary 1 have been working on the following:
Take a look at our lovely pictures!
This week P4 have been learning how to use compass directions (Never Eat Soggy Waffles) and brushed up on their rounding skills (nearest 10 and 100). They have really enjoyed working on their Famous Scots project in literacy and have produced some incredible posters and PowerPoints or Sway presentations. As part of their STEM, some P4s have made videos for the Sky Academy Competition as well as some impressive space rockets and toys for their pets using just some old t-shirts. They kept their bodies healthy with Mr Muldoon’s daily challenges and also their minds, with lots of Health&Wellbeing activities. We are very proud of the hard work that our Primary 4s are putting in every day. Well done!
We are finishing our seventh week of home learning. We did a fantastic job as usual. Have a look at what we have done.
To broaden our knowledge of literacy we used Oxford Owl and read a book of our choice aloud with the excellent expression. Then we answered blooms questions.
We were practising our spelling words in pyramid writing. Then we logged into Sumdog and completed the spelling challenge set.
Also, we created poems about Spring, using our senses.
In addition, we were practising our handwriting by writing our addresses.
Knowing how to add numbers is a very important life skill. So for maths, we revised addition by playing games, filling worksheets and completing the Sumdog challenges the teachers had set for us.
Que clima hace hoy? What is the weather today? In Spanish, we were learning about weather vocabulary. It is good to know other languages.
We did research online about living creatures that live in our local Union Canal.
Capturing spring on a piece of paper may not be easy for everyone but for our young artistic minds it was ‘easy peasy lemon squeezy’.
May is the month of Mary so we discussed with members of our families why we honour Mary so much. As well as that we watched videos from the Bible Beginners channel on YouTube.
‘Who we are and what we are good at is not fixed.’ All of us are unique and we all have different talents but that does not mean that we cannot get better at things. We looked back at all the skills we have learnt since the time we were born.
Here is what some of our pupils said:
‘I did my missing numbers within 50 without a chart!!’
‘Still loving my sum’s more than writing but love learning different subjects’
‘Working hard in my writing, I think you will be impressed with the amount I have written and how many WOW words I’ve used during home school’
Hi everyone!
Please click on the link below to access the transition activities for this week. We are looking forward to seeing photos of you engaging in these activities. Please send them to our school email:
wlstnicholas-ps@westlothian.org.uk
Speak to you soon!
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Hi everyone,
We hope you had a lovely weekend!
Please find attached the Home Learning grid for week 7.
Sumdog challenges will be set each week. These will be available Monday to Friday for you to access.
Remember you can email us if you have any questions or send us pictures of your learning to the school email address: wlstnicholas-ps@westlothian.org.uk
We hope you are all well 
Mrs Alexander and Mrs Koziel
Hi Everyone,
I have attached the learning grid for this week (week commencing 18.5.20). We would really appreciate if you could please send a couple of pictures of your children’s work with a little message telling us what activities they enjoyed that week to the school mailbox. It’s great for us to hear how your child is getting on and helps us to plan for future learning.
Please continue to use Sumdog as we will continue to post challenges to develop Numeracy skills.
If you have any questions please email the school mailbox, we are happy to help!
Miss McCormack & Mrs Canning
Hello Everyone,
I have attached the learning grid for this week (W.C. 18.5.20). Please send pictures of your child’s work and emails letting us know what they are enjoying to the school inbox. Thank you to those of you who have sent pictures so far, it’s great for us to hear how they are getting on and lets us plan for future learning.
Each week we have been putting challenges on Sumdog, the challenges run from Monday-Friday before expiring. This is so we don’t have too many up at the same time because it can be quite confusing for children.
Any questions just email, we are happy to help!
Miss McKeown and Mrs Gardiner
Primary 6 have been very busy this week with our online learning.
Numeracy – Angles. The pupils have been learning about Angles and how to recognise a Right, Obtuse and an Acute angle. They have also looked at estimating angles and calculating angles on a straight line. To add some real life context, they had a task to look at jobs that use angles, such as, architects, engineers, doctors and athletes and write about a day in the working life of that person using angles in their work. Well done P6!
Literacy – Recount Writing. The children really do enjoy writing and this week they learned about Recount writing – retelling or recounting an event or experience in a factual or imaginative way. We watched a video of author Michael Rosen talking about this style of writing then the children were asked to do their own using a famous Battle from their Scottish Wars of Independence topic and writing about the final day of that war in the eyes of a soldier. Some excellent writing with lots of historical fact and chronological order. Well done, Primary 6!!
Scottish Wars of Independence Topic – Primary 6 researched uniform and weapons of a soldier in the 1300s and compared this to a solider of today. They also learned about the Battle of Bannockburn and the Declaration of Arbroath.
Music – Flower of Scotland. The children were learning about the meaning of our national song and how this is linked to both the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 and our national flower, the thistle. The pupils were asked to read about this with support through website links. They were also asked to learn the song and some talented P6s provided videos of this at the end of their learning. Well done!
Health & Wellbeing – Challenge Your Mindset. The children were learning about fixed and growth mindsets and we used the storybook, The Dot, to think about the character’s journey from a fixed to a growth mindset. The pupils also had the task of looking at photos of themselves as babies and thinking about how much they have achieved since then. Some created some lovely narratives about this journey.
Well done Primary 6! We are very proud of your dedication to completing your tasks and thank you to our supportive parents too.
Primary 1 have had another busy week working hard from home. Here is what we have been up to:
In numeracy we have been revising our knowledge of subtraction and learning how a number line can help us with this. We completed 2 Sumdog challenges and made posters to show our learning.
In writing we have been learning to write a recount of a story we have heard. We know that it is important to listen carefully and check our writing to make sure the events are in the right order.
In reading we have been learning to read non-fiction passages for information. We used the information to answer questions about what we had read. Lot’s of us also managed to complete our phonics challenge on Sumdog where we were learning about the sound ‘ing’.
This week we also started a brand new exciting topic all about dinosaurs! We learned when they lived, what they ate and the names (which are tricky for us to spell) of lots of different kinds of dinosaur!
Well done Primary one, another super week!
Miss McKeown & Mrs Gardiner
Primary Three have been working very hard this week. We are very impressed by the positive attitude that you continue to show in your learning!
In Literacy, we learned new spelling patterns through active spelling tasks. In Reading, we have been digging deeper into texts by using our Blooms Buttons to answer questions but also to create comic strips of a plot. We continued to watch Newsround to develop our note taking skills and we used our notes to create our own version of Newsround. In Writing, we watched David Walliams read some of his book, ‘Gangsta Granny’ which we used as inspiration to create our own adventure stories using a family member as the main character.
In Maths, we learned all about Time. We know how to read a clock and some of us have had a go at adding time. We created a flyer for a fair and had to timetable all of the different events. We revised our knowledge of the seasons looking at the months, weather and wildlife you might expect to see. We used exercise to develop our estimation skills, guessing how many we could do in a set time and then having another go using a timer. We used this information to complete a table. We created a time table of our daily routines.
In Health and Wellbeing, we thought about different occasions that people would eat together. We created a set of rules for our dinner hall based on what we know about table manners.
In Social Studies, we learned more about Ancient Egyptians. We researched the River Nile and why it was so important to the Egyptians. We learned about a tool they used called a Shaduf and researched how to create our own. We also researched everyday life in Ancient Egypt and compared it to our own. We used the information we had gathered to complete a table.
In Science, we have been learning about Water. This week we created our own diagram to show the Water Cycle and how rain is created. Some of us completed an experiment to create rain in a bowl.
In Art, we learned about the artist Heather Galler. We looked at one of her famous paintings and discussed what other paintings of flowers we know. We used materials we had at home to create our own versions of the painting. This helped us learn about colour, tone, line and pattern.
Our Technology challenge this week was to design and create a chair using materials we had at home. We sat a toy on it to check it worked and made adaptions if it was too weak or too small.
We know that May is the Month of Our Lady. In RERC this week we have been learning to pray a decade of the Rosary to Mary. We looked at icons and pictures of Our Lady from around the world and drew our own picture of her. We know that Mary has many different names. We listened to three different hymns about her and wrote down all of the names she was called. We wrote these around her picture.
Hello Everyone!
P5 have had another good week working hard at home and posting work for us to see. Mrs Kilpatrick and I continue to be very proud at how well you are all doing , thank you for working hard!
In literacy the children have worked hard on their new set of spelling words, writing them in all different ways including, bubble writing, rainbow writing and used them to make a pairs game and also a wordsearch. They have continued to practise their listening skills using David Walliam’s daily stories and learnt how the meanings of words can be changed by adding a prefix.
Lots of super stories were written this week using the story starters that we provided. What great imaginations P5 have ! It was nice to see that lots of the children used exciting vocabulary and some similes, very well done !
In numeracy P5 consolidated their skills on a few different concepts, including: time, money, rounding and fractions. More ‘Number Talks’ were tackled and lots of calculations solved using a number of different strategies including: chunking, friendly numbers, compensation and partitioning.
In R.E the children were encouraged to pray especially hard to Mary. They were also asked to choose their favourite Saint and make a Powerpoint or Sway presentation. Saints Andrew and Patrick are very popular!
P5 learnt about more famous people including: Joseph Lister. Following on from learning all about him they conducted our own science experiment using water, soap and pepper. This experiment was useful as it reminded the children of the importance of handwashing to keep those germs away. The children also conducted a food science experiment by making soda bread. Having looked at the pictures we can see that there are a few chefs in the making as they looked delicious!
P5 have also used skills learnt in STEM to make their own musical instrument. Lots of cool and noisy instruments were made and some boys and girls even attached a sound file to their work so that we could listen to them, fantastic!
All in all it has been a productive week!
Here is what some of the lovely P5’s have said about their learning this week:
‘I have enjoyed the Brainteasers’.
‘I have enjoyed my chanter lesson and listening to David Waliams’.
‘I have enjoyed doing activities like making an instrument and doing art, it’s my favourite thing to do’.
‘I like doing the maths because it was sometimes hard and sometimes easy and it gave me a challenge’.
Here are some examples of their work.
This week we had lots of exciting activities to do…
In maths, we were learning about Data Handling. We have completed different types of graphs/charts, extracted key information from graphs to answer questions and took part in a Data Handling Sumdog challenge.
In literacy, we have been learning the difference between Fact and Opinion. We know that a fact is known to be true and an opinion is what someone believes.
We were learning to write character descriptions. We completed a character description about a witch using lots of different adjectives.
To develop our Spanish we used a video from YouTube to teach us how to say different greetings. Later we revised them with an adult.
We started a new topic this week called Living Things. We learned the difference between Living and Non-Living things. Living things are alive e.g. plants, people, animals and non-living things are objects/ items for example, door, table, TV, tablets.
We also learned about what Living things need to be able to survive. We know that living things need: Food, Water, Air, Shelter and Sunlight.
This month is the month of Mary. We have been practising saying the Hail Mary and are going to say it every day for the month of May. We also watched a video to learn more about Mary.
As part of our resilience topic, we were looking at respecting ourselves. With our families we discussed our strengths and qualities, if there were similarities and differences between us and why everyone can’t be good at everything. We then shared something that we would like to improve on.
This week we worked on our fitness by doing a ‘What’s your name?’ workout. We had to do a different exercise for every letter of our name.
Yes, we have been revising alliteration this week in Primary 4! We have also learned about the Scottish man who is famous for inventing the TV, John Logie Baird. Our spelling sound this week was ‘tch’ and we took part in some fun activities including making a pairs game with our words. Tuesday was National Limerick Day so we had lots of fun creating our own limericks. Some of us found this hard but we had a growth mindset and persevered!
In Maths we have learned about volume and capacity and also worked on repeated addition for multiplication sums. Our STEM activities this week included drawing a 3D alphabet and creating bird feeders. It’s been a busy week and lots of fun. Here’s what some of our brilliant P4 children had to say:
“I found the capacity experiment was fun and easy to do.”
“I enjoyed learning about John Logie Baird because I found it interesting.”
“I enjoyed filling the basin with water and guessing how many litres it would take.”
“I can help my mum cook by telling her about the litres and millilitres.”
“I liked making the bird feeder this week. I learned that birds like to eat apples, cherries, grapes, sunflower seeds and nuts.”
“I have enjoyed art and history this week.”
“This week I learned how to write a limerick. It was really fun and and I enjoyed finding rhymes and counting the syllables.”
“I can use volume and measuring at the shops because I can tell how much milk or water there is in a container.”
“I enjoyed art because I like drawing pictures for my comic strip.”
Good morning everyone. We really hope you are all well and keeping safe. Here are a few suggestions / ideas on how to prepare your little cherub for school. As daunting as it may feel you are doing an amazing job and we know our children from St Nicholas Nursery are very resilient and confident individuals. We are very fortunate as a nursery to be adjacent to Primary 1, which permits us to have a continuous transition throughout the year. The children are very familiar and comfortable with our infant area which is shared with Primary 1 on a daily basis.
Lets hope we will all be together soon. Take care, be kind, stay positive and well.
Best wishes The Nursery Team xx
Hello everyone! It has been a busy few days, we have been tackling spelling tasks, ‘Number Talk’ tasks, researching famous people (we looked at Mother Theresa this week), investigating metaphors, looking at loads and loads of maths and we even squeezed in a little bit of science!
Here is a small example of what we did this week:-
Money Tasks and Number Talks
Metaphors
We have had some great examples, here is one to show you how well this exercise was done.
Science
We looked at the ‘Water Cycle’ and then for fun we carried out a ‘Making a Rainbow’ experiment! It was packed with lots of scientific language for us to learn!
Your teachers are so proud of how well you are all coping with these changes, keep doing your best, but more importantly stay healthy and happy.
Take Care Everyone!
P1 have had a short but busy week. We have really enjoyed seeing the pictures of your work and we are so proud of you all. Here is what P1 have been up to…
Here is a collage of pictures that we have received this week. Well done to these superstars!
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Primary 4 really enjoyed the long weekend and back on Wednesday ready to learn! This week they practised spelling common words, possessive pronouns, they told us all about their weekend in their ‘weekend news’, did some work on division and explored how capacity is used around us. They have also been busy with their First Holy Communion preparation and joined the P4 Playground group on Teams, where they will be able to catch up with each other. This is what our P4s said about their week:
– I have enjoyed finding out how many litres and millilitres something holds. I have used this to work out how many litres of water I drink in a day.
– I learned about VE Day which stands for Victory in Europe. This is when the Second World war finished.
– Have enjoyed finding things in the kitchen cupboards for maths. I know how much is in a bottle now, because I can read the measurements on the label.
– In literacy we learned grammar and spelling which is necessary for good writing.
– I enjoyed learning spelling because I am getting better at my words.
After a few days off to enjoy the nice weather we went back to home learning on Wednesday. We know it is not easy but we are so proud of you all and love seeing photographs of all your fantastic work. Thank you for sending pictures to us.
Here are some of the things we have been doing this week:
Here are some examples of the fabulous work taking place at home.
Have a safe and happy weekend.
In literacy, we have revised our common words to help us consistently spell them correctly.
We used the Oxford Owl website to explore a variety of books and write a summary about what happened in the book we read.
We have also written about our feelings in our jotters. We wrote about how we feel spending so much time at home.
In maths, we have been learning about estimation. We have had some worksheets where we had to guess what number should fill the blank space on the number line. We also played some math games using the new skill of estimating.
One of the subjects in school is to learn another language. Since we are learning at home, we asked our parents for permission to have an account on Duolingo to help us uphold the knowledge of Spanish and take it to the next level.
Creativity is in everyone. It is also in all the children of P2! To use our talents and imagination, we gathered different materials and created a unique picture of what WE think spring looks like.
As May begins, we are going to try to have a better relationship with Mary the Mother of God and God himself- Our Father, by praying to them every day in our own words.
Making the right choices in our day – to – day eating can sometimes be difficult. Luckily, we know exactly what to do because we have been cutting out food and putting it on a paper plate to make a healthy meal for ourselves. This will help us to know exactly how to eat healthy in the future.
Thank you for the lovely pictures we have received so far. Remember to keep sending us pictures of your amazing work.
Take care everyone and have a nice and safe weekend
Mrs Alexander and Mrs Koziel
This week Primary 6 have been investigating probability with some games and data handling tasks. Some children chose to do their tasks outside in the sunshine and others preferred to stay inside in the shade. Lovely to have that choice while we learn at home.
We continued to develop our skills in persuasive writing by creating an advert for a product of our choice and use language that would entice someone to buy that product.
We have also been learning about the next stage in the Wars of Independence with the Battle of Falkirk, which was not too far away in distance. The children researched some of the weapons and armour used during this period in history to create diagrams, a scratch animation advert and to design their own weapon that would have been more successful for the Scots in this battle.
Well done Primary 6 we enjoyed seeing your creativity this week.
The first week back to school in May has been marked by tremendous weather, exciting STEM experiments and an interview with an astronaut. Although we have continued to face challenges and missing our loved ones, Primary 7 have made an amazing effort to remain upbeat and positive throughout their online learning – a massive well done is in order!
Throughout the week Primary 7 have been working on their literacy, numeracy and engaging with lots of online quizzes! We have also been revising our Spanish.
On Wednesday, Primary 7 created their own volcano using water and food dye – we have some mixed results but it was extremely fun!
On Thursday we were lucky enough to be invited to listen to European Space Agency astronaut and former International Space Station crew member, Tim Peake. Following on from the recent cancellation of DataFest20, which included STEM events, we were able to listen to an interactive event with Tim – where the winners of the STEM Challenge asked him some very interesting questions about his expedition.
Tim also showed us some amazing photographs that he took from space and explained the details of his expedition.
We hope that everyone has had a lovely week and managed to enjoy some of the sunshine! Take care and stay safe everyone!
From, Miss Fraser & Mrs Bell
Hello Everyone! This week we Joe Wicks’ed every morning
then we exercised our brains with some number talks and multiplication practice!
We also looked into inference; when we have to think about what information the author is subtly telling us. This can be tricky sometimes, so we have to practice it!
We pondered about ‘Thoughts of the Day’, we discovered that when we talk about ‘Forgiveness’ that we are actually quite a forgiving lot, even when our sister ‘borrows’ our chocolate or when our little sister thinks our head needs a seat and so throws a chair at it! What does this tell us? Well, maybe it is telling us that it is safer to have a brother? Maybe not?
Today is a very special day, it is the first of May. May is the month of Our Lady, so we have had a lot of fun making ‘May Altars’ and doing some fun crafts to decorate our own altars.
We hope you have had a good week and that you are all happy, healthy and safe. Remember next week Monday and Tuesday are holidays, so we will catch up again online on Wednesday.
Take care everyone.
Mrs Kilpatrick and Mrs Macdonald
Here is what we have been up to this week…
In literacy, we have been revising sounds that we have learned so far using pyramid writing.
We were upskilling our sentences by trying to add WOW words to them and writing a letter to our teacher about what we have been doing during lockdown.
We also completed a book review on one of our favourite books from home.
In Maths, we have been practising subtraction using different materials we found at home e.g. pasta, pencils, blocks. We also completed a subtraction worksheet and played games online.
To develop our Spanish we used videos from YouTube to remind us how to say the colours, numbers and months of the year.
For science, we continued to learn about Forces. We have been exploring different objects that we can push and pull at home and at school.
In Art, we were learning to use textures by finding different materials at home e.g. wool, string, pasta, buttons, feathers etc. to create a picture.
We continued to develop our fitness by completing a Body Coach workout on YouTube.
We reflected with our families about why we should be thankful to God and wrote down 3 things we were thankful for. We also said our own prayers of thanks to God.
Primary 6 have been very busy this week with our online learning.
Maths – The pupils have been learning division and how to deal with remainders. They’ve used Division Wheels, Division Jigsaws, Division Dominoes. They’ve also tried Division Word Problems to add breadth to their learning. They can see the relationship between multiplication and division more clearly now.
Scottish Wars of Independence Topic – Primary 6 have done a lot of fun work with their topic this week. Imaginative Writing – this took the form of an adventure story of a hero in the year 1315 in Bannockburn whilst a war was raging. The pupils were given a starter idea for the story and they produced some great writing for this. Report Style Writing– this took the form of assuming the role of a Newsround reporter interviewing Robert The Bruce about his life. Portrait Art– the pupils were asked to look at various images of Robert The Bruce from the internet, money, images from movies, history books and art galleries. They then followed an online portrait art lesson to learn tips and techniques and then produced their own Robert the Bruce portraits with fantastic results.
Collage Art – the pupils were asked to create an outline profile of themselves and fill the inside of it with collage art – cut out images and words from magazines that hopefully represented themselves. The children were given extra support by watching an online art lesson for this. What a talented group P6 are. The results were excellent.
Health and Wellbeing – the children used a map of Broxburn to help plan a safe cycle route. Consideration was to be given to roads, canal and pedestrians. Again, great ideas and problem solving from Primary 6.
Well done Primary 6! We are very proud of your dedication to completing your tasks and thank you to our supportive parents too.
Hello everyone, we hope you are all keeping safe and well. Thank you for sending in all of your home learning pictures this week. You are all superstars for working so hard and it looks like you’re having great fun too!
Primary 1 have had another busy week working their way through home learning packs! Here is what we have been up to..
We know that learning from home is not easy and is a big adjustment for everyone but we are really proud of all our children. If they’d like us to see some of their work you can still send us this via the school email. Most importantly keep safe, enjoy some family time and have a lovely relaxing long weekend.
Miss McKeown and Mrs Gardiner
This week in Primary 4 all the children have been working very hard as usual. Their digital technology skills are improving everyday and they are sharing their brilliant work with their teachers through Teams.
We have enjoyed active spelling activities and P.E. challenges, as well as practising subtraction strategies and learning more about weight in Maths. Our Famous Scot this week was Charles Rennie Mackintosh and some children enjoyed drawing their own ‘Mackintosh Rose’. Every week children in Primary 4 are improving their writing skills through ‘Weekend News’ and story writing tasks. Well done boys and girls! We have finished our week by praying a Hail Mary as today is the 1st of May (the month of Mary).
Here are some Friday Reflections from our P4 pupils:
“I enjoyed learning about art because I can get better at drawing and making posters.”
“I learned new number talk strategies and how to write in paragraphs.”
“I enjoyed learning about plurals because it’s really fun.”
“This week I got more confident with subtraction strategies. I think the formal strategy works best for me.”
“I can use what I learned about weight when i’m baking.”
“The Maths quizzes were really fun.”
“I found the subtraction sums hard to start then it was easy.”
“I have been enjoying Health and Wellbeing because it’s really fun.”
“I enjoyed mindfulness because it’s relaxing and it makes me calm.”
Primary 6 have been very busy this week with our online learning. We learned how to use brackets in numeracy to help us group numbers in order to work out the answer easily.
Our writing focus was creating a persuasive letter to the Council regarding our thoughts on graffiti. We looked at some of the debating issues around this topic and the work of the graffiti artist, Banksy. The pupils produced very well thought out and mature opinions on the subject.
Graffiti – click this link to see our points of view.
Our Science work focused on chemical reactions as we used some household solutions to try and clean the copper oxide from some old 1p and 2p coins. The most effective solution was ketchup due to the mixture of acid and salt.
We developed our drawing skills by using a Disney animation tutorial to create portraits of Pluto and other favourite Disney characters.
In Spanish, we videoed ourselves having a conversation about our feelings and role playing two characters, it was lots of fun.
Well done Primary 6 ! We are very proud of your dedication to completing your tasks and thank you to our supportive parents too.
Here is what we have been up to this week…
We wrote stories all about our favourite hobbies. We all have personal writing targets at the front of our jotters to help us to know what to focus on in our writing. Well done if you managed to achieve your target!
We have been learning new sounds and practising some we already knew. These will help us to read and write.
We have been consolidating number bonds to 10 by listening to songs, playing games and making fact files.
We followed “Art for Kids Hub” to create some lovely pictures.
We used items and surfaces around our house to create our own rhythms and play along with our favourite songs.
We have been exercising to help keep us fit and healthy.
We have been practising counting to 10 in Spanish.
We have discussed the importance of prayer and learned “Our Father”.
We have practised our handwriting. It is really important that we know how to form the letters correctly as this will help us when we begin cursive writing.
We know that it is very different to how we usually learn P1 but you are all working really hard and we are proud of you. Keep up the good work and most importantly, keep safe and enjoy spending time with your families.
We have really enjoyed seeing these lovely pictures this week. Please send us more next week and we will include them in next week’s post.
This week we had lots of exciting activities to do… Here are some of them…
In maths, we were learning about symmetry, we had a chance to explore symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes in our houses.
In literacy, we were revising our knowledge about question marks.
We have been reading books and then checked our understanding by completing comprehension worksheets.
We also practiced our handwriting in our jotters, writing our names and surnames.
This week we challenged ourselves by using different openers for our sentences to make our writing more interesting.
To develop our Spanish we used a video from YouTube to remind us how to say the days of the week in Spanish. Later we revised them with an adult.
For science, we were learning about Forces. We were exploring everything that you can push and pull.
Also to help relax and reduce stress, we watched a mindfulness video on YouTube and completed a mindfulness colouring sheet.
Helping our parents is just as important as learning. That is why we helped to prepare a meal with our parents by washing, peeling and cutting the food.
Thank you to all who sent photographs of their fantastic work. We are so proud of you all. Well done!!!
Primary 4 have been working really hard from home this week learning about subtraction, weight, making plurals, using Microsoft Paint to make a painting, keeping fit with the cushion challenge and learning about Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell. This is what P4 said about their learning:
-This week I enjoyed doing Art.
– It was fun to learn chimney subtraction.
– I can use what I learned about the past tense, for example, to say “I ate a cake.”
– I learned to do kicky upees because I practised a lot.
– I enjoyed finding out how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
– I enjoyed learning about Alexander Graham Bell in Literacy, removal strategy in Number talks and how to draw the world on MS Paint.
We might be at home but that doesn’t mean that we have not been working hard as we adapt home schooling. We are very proud of the boys and girls and how well they are engaging in the online tasks. A big thank you to your mums and dads too for supporting you with this.
What have we been up to ?
Well, lots of us start our mornings with Joe Wicks. His exercises certainly keep us on our toes. We also waken our brains up with a daily brainteaser. Who can solve this one ?
What travels around the world but always stays in one spot?
In Literacy we are reading our class novels and logging in to hear David Walliams read a daily story. We are continuing to leant new spelling words, this week we have learnt how to spell ier words. We are also honing our writing skills by keeping diairies and writing letters to family members who we can’t see at the moment.
In Numeracy and Maths we have continued to practise our times tables using Sum Dog and Top Marks and revised telling the time in one minute intervals, recapping rounding numbers and recapping permiter and area.
We have made rainbows to hang up in our windows as a thank you to all of the keyworker who are working hard for us and logged on to Art hub and drawn Spring animals. We also watched a clip on how to create lots of animals by drawing round our handprints, this was particularly fun!
On Wednesday we had a science lesson on light and dark and drew pictures with light and shadow. We learnt that light travels in a straight line until it hits an object, fascinating !
In R.E we have celebrated Jesus rising from the dead and have practised the art of being thankful. We made a handprint care and wrote down 5 things that we are grateful for. Times may be strange just now but we are still lucky for the lovely families that we have, the food in our bellies and the roofs over our heads.
Here are some examples of our work!
Have a lovely weekend everyone,
All of us in P5.
This is our third week of learning at home. Here are some of the things we have been learning about.
We have been `researching a Mediterranean climate zone and then creating a poster or video about why we should visit this area.
We have been using money this week to practice paying for items and calculating the change. We have tried to make our own shops at home and also used topmarks games to help us.
We have been practicing common words this week and also writing a diary about what we have been doing during this time.
We have been practicing making tens in number talks.
We have use the art hub to complete a drawing tutorial this week.
We have also been learning about things that dissolve and completing an experiment with things we have at home to discover what dissolves and what does not.
We have also tried to use dance mat typing to help us improve our typing skills.
We have also tried some additional challenges like building a den at home, doing P.E with Joe Wicks, watching the animals at Monterey Bay Aquarium and playing sumdog. Here are some examples of fantastic home learning in P3.
Good morning everyone…
Hope you are all well and safe. We thought you could try out this little activity and bring the Scientist out in you. This is a great way for the children to use their imagination, problem solving skills, investigative skills while feeding their curiosity. It would be a good way to show our support for our amazing front liners. If you could, it would be wonderful if you could send us a little picture of you carrying out this experiment. Good luck!! The Nursery Team xx
Make your own rainbow
Learn how to make a rainbow with this fun science experiment.
What you’ll need:
• A tall glass of water (about three quarters full)
• White paper
• A sunny day
Instructions:
1. Take the glass of water and paper to a part of the room with sunlight (near a window is good).
2. Hold the glass of water in front of the paper and watch as sunlight passes through the glass of water and bends (refracts) and forms a rainbow of colours on your sheet of paper.
3. Try holding the glass of water at different heights and angles tosee if it has a different effect.
You will only be able to see a rainbow when the sun is behind you and the sunlight refracts through the water droplets in the sky in front of you. Have a look here for a bit more help if you need it!
https://youtube.com/watch?v =4ziRXe-w9yg
Sit back, relax and enjoy listening to this wonderful story read by Julia Donaldson.
We hope you are all doing well and keeping safe.
Nursery Team
This lovely book has been published in the last 24 hours to help support our children emotionally during all this uncertainty. Hope it will help you to reassure your loved ones.
Keep doing what you are doing and keep safe.
Nursery Team
We hope you are all well during this uncertain time. This is a suggestion to keep your little ones busy at home. The children enjoy participating in mindfulness session in the nursery where we focus on breathing and feeling good about ourselves.
This is a video from Cosmic Kids which focuses on breathing. They do lots of other videos too to keep your children active so have a look and keep safe.
The Nursery Team
Please find a list of suggested activities for nursery children on the link below:
Primary 6 have been learning about tourism in Scotland and have been investigating different tourist attractions. As part of our studies we decided to take an art class at the Botanic Gardens.
We learned how to create a piece of art using the skill of batik. We began with an expedition through the desert and the rainforest (greenhouses) where we drew plants that would inspire our designs. We magnified our designs and then traced them onto fabric. We then went over the design with hot wax and used fabric dye to add colour.
This was the best art we have ever created !
This week in P3 we have been busy learning lots of new things:
In Maths, we have been learning about halve. We can have shapes, numbers, we can put objects into equal groups and we can count and plot halves on a number line.
In Literacy this week we have been learning all about how to write a story. We know all stories have a beginning,middle and an ending. We have also been learning about settings and characters. We also visited the library on World Book Day- we all enjoyed it! We also watched Author’s Live this week. We learned about poetry and comic book art.
We had a visit from Father Isaac, he talked to us about preparing for the Sacrament of Reconciliation. We spoke about the 10 Commandments and how we can use these rules to live by God’s example. We also learned all about the story of Jesus and Zacchaeus.
In PE, we were playing a game called Kingball. It was quite a tricky game- we had to practise our throwing and catching skills.
In Spanish, we have been learning our colours. We know how to say what our favourite and least favourite colours are.
In Music, we were learning about different sounds and how they are made. We drew pictures of things that you would hear making noises in a busy street. We were learning about making music from street noises and continuing to learn about body percussion.
We also did the Daily Mile this week and played some team games as part of our Outdoor Learning.
We also said goodbye to Mrs Renshaw who began her maternity leave this week. We are all going to really miss her and look forward to meeting Baby Renshaw soon!
This week in Primary 4 we have been busy as usual.
In topic we have learned a little bit about deforestation, for example every minute in the forest trees the same size as twenty football pitches are cut down.
In P.E. we have been playing Continuous Dodgeball. We need to be quick and alert.
We have been challenging ourselves in times tables this week. We have a sticker chart in our classrooms to show what tables everyone knows well.
We have also been learning about adverbs. An adverb is an adjective to describe a verb.
We used adjectives and adverbs to describe a rainforest setting in our writing.
We have been learning about half past and o’clock
If the big hand is up the top the time is o’clock
When the big hand is at the bottom the time is half past
There are 60 minutes in an hour
There are 24 hours in a day
We looked at digital clocks, you can see them on your phone
We looked at analogue clocks, some people have them on their watches
We made a P1 Forum
The P1 Forum make decisions
We decided we didn’t have enough crayons in P1
We decided to have a pyjama day to raise some money to buy crayons
We made posters to send home
We have been learning about the 70s this week
Their televisions looked very different
They didn’t have very many channels
We watched a bit of the Wombles
We learned about the music in the 70s
Lots of the men had long hair in the music videos
We all learned the YMCA dance
We learned the oa sound
We learned the y sound
This week in p5 we have been very busy learning lots of different things.
In literacy we have been learning how to spell iregular words. We have also been learning the genre of writing a diary inspired by Anne Frank. Anne was a Jewish girl but she was born in Germany. She moved to the Netherlands during the war. She was held captive by the Nazis.
In numeracy we have been going over measurement( perimeter, area, width and length ). We made measurment posters and continue to practise our times stables and the 24 hour clock time and am/pm.
In R.E we have started to learn about Lent and Jesus’s hard time in the desert. We have prepared a Lenten calendar with lots of fun activites on the countdown to Easter. On Easter Sunday we remember how Jesus rose from the dead.
In P.E we have finished with our gymnastics routines and for no we have been playing some really great fun ball games. We hope to move on to a new active topic in the near future.
Well done Primary 5 !
Written by Catherine and Gerard.
This week in P3 we have been:
What a busy week! We can’t wait to see what we will learn next week.
In Primary 1 this week the children have enjoyed learning about:
“we were learning about the months of the year”
“I learned that spring is a season”
“In summer we have our summer holidays”
” In autumn the leaves change to red and fall off”
“In winter it is cold and you might see snow on the ground”
“This week it was Ash Wednesday, we went to mass”
“Lent is the countdown to Easter and that’s when we celebrate Jesus coming back”
” In letters we learned the sound th”
“Our group was learning the ing sound at the end of words”
This week was have been working hard in lots of areas of the curriculum.
In literacy we have been learning about metaphors as these will help us with our writing. ‘Life is a rollercoaster’ is one of our favourite metaphors. It turns out we know lots of metaphors but just didn’t realise. We have also been learning how to spell irregular words. Our spelling has improved because we practise and the words are much harder now.
In numeracy we have been learning lots about measure. We have learnt how to calculate perimeter which will be useful in later life if we ever need to measure the garden for a fence. We also been pracitising the mutiplication facts as always.
We went to the Ash Wednesday service and were given ashes. We spoke about Lent and are going to try to give up something, pray more and give to charities. We have a SCIAF box on our altar which we are hoping to fill. Each £1 that is raised will be doubled by the government.
Our entries for the engineering competition were completed this week and sent away. Fingers crossed for us !We finished our gymnastics routines in P.E and we have enjoyed gymnastics because it has been great for our bones.
We have also been learning about a group of artist s known as the ‘Glasgow Boys’. The Glasgow Boys’ were a group of around 20 artists who liked to paint outdoors and paint real people. Their artworks were very popular. In the next few weeks we will recreate one of their works.
This week in Art we have been making pictures and using pattern and colour to make our art work beautiful.
In numeracy we have been learning our 5 times table. we know that it is counting in 5s and each time you add another 5 on. The pattern is that the numbers end in a zero or five. we know that 5×10=50 and that is the same as 10×5=50. it has an even and odd pattern.
In handwriting we have been joining m, n and s. In P3a, we were writing the word grandmother without lifting our pencil from the page. Some of us were very shocked that we could write such a long word.
We have been looking at Broxburn for our topic. We have been learning about the features of the area. We made a map to show where things are.
We were learning to take notes in Literacy. We know that you don’t need to write proper sentences with full stops and capital letters. We use bullet points to write our notes.
We had visitors from Stantec to talk to us about engineering this week. Sam and Gil are engineers – one is a water engineer and the other is a civil engineer. We learned that they design bridges, houses and design ways to stop flooding. They talked to us about how long projects can take. They told us about different materials that can be used. We are now going to enter an engineering competition and we need to design something to make the world a better place.
In RERC we have been learning about the parable of the ‘Lost sheep’. The sheep are each of us and the shepherd is God. We know that God always loves us and forgives us and wants us to be happy.
It has been a short week in primary 5. However we have still worked hard.
We have been working on a five hundred words competition and have had lots of fun typing and making stories as we love using our technology.Here are the rules of the competition,if you do more than five hundred words the machine will not except your story,you don’t have to have excactly five hundred words you can have under five hundred words.
We have also been making routines in our P.E sessions and it is good fun working with your friends and using your gymnastics skills to entertain your class.
We have been recapping our spelling words from last week s since it has been a short week and our spelling words are ture words..
In maths we have been practicing our 8 and 9 times tables counting forwards and backwards.
We have also been making some anti-littering posters to try and get some people to stop dropping litter in our school,Broxburn and Uphall.
It has been an amazing week for primary 5.
This week has been a very good week for primary 5. This is what we have been up to:
We have spent a lot of time outdoors as we were involved in a litter pick , and filled THREE BIN BAGS of litter. It was disgusting but we have made it look a lot nicer. P5b had a turn at making dens using sticks and tarpaulins which was great fun. Thank you to Danielle from Kids Go Wild for leading us with this.
On Thursday we walked up to Broxburn Academy for a handball tournament. Our teachers were particularly impressed with our good behaviour walking up and down and whilst we were there. It was great fun and we saw some of our friends from other school which was nice.
In maths we have been learning about movements. We know what is half turn, full turn, quarter turn in clockwise and anticlockwise- Derren
We have been practising our handwriting with letters Ww, Vv, Xx, Yy-Jannat and Ehtan
We have learnt about Litre and mililitre. We know that 1L is 1000 ml. We can estimate if the container holds more then 1L or less then 1L.- Matty
We know now that volume is how much liquid is in the bottle and capacity is how much water the bottle can hold.- Orla
We have been learning about Chinese New Year and we designed our own dragon masks- Thomas , Connor
In art, we learned how to draw a person and make a shadow.-Steffi
On Thursday it was a National Book Day and our P6 buddies came to read books for us and they helped to write a book review with us.- Niall
We made a prayer for Christian Unity Week. We wrote our prayers on a paper flowers and we made a bouquet.- Lauren
We have been doing gymnastics in PE. We have been doing to do pencil rolls, handstands, splits, cartwheels and forward rolls. – Caitlyn
We learned about the importance of a compass. It helps us to work out where North, South, East and West is- Inaaya.
We have been learning about Robert Burns. He was born on the 25th January 1759.- Jack and Zofia
We celebrate Burns night on the 25th January every year. At a Burns Supper they eat haggis, neeps and tatties- Penny
We looked at lots of different tartans and then designed our very own tartan- Murron
We decided that our new topic is going to be about Houses and Homes. We discussed what we would like to learn about Houses and Homes – Caiden and Orla
Primary 5 have had a busy week working hard and learning lots.
What have we been up to ?
We learnt how to do CPR earlier in the week. A big thank you to Dr Strachan and the nurses who came along from St John’s Hospital to show us what to do. We also learnt how to put someone in the recovery position. These are great skills to learn, hopefully we will never need to use them.
In literacy we have been recapping adjectives, speech marks and we now know that every time a new character speaks you have to take a new line.
In numeracy we have learnt how convert am and pm times using the 24 hour format. This will be useful to us in later life as it will help us to be able to read bus and train timetables.
To mark Christian Unity week we worked together to compose a prayer based on the theme of kindness. We then wrote this prayer on a flower that we made and used the flowers to make a spiritual bouquet. Father Jeremy is going to put this on the altar.
We have also learnt about the parts of the body which make up the digestive system. It is so interesting!
We have also been looking at Andy Warhol’s art and are in the process of making own versions. Watch this space for pics !
We have been practising forming the letters Ss, Tt, Uu and Vv- Harvey D and Zofia
In maths, we have been learning about area. We know that area is how much space a shape takes up.- Murron and Sophia
We have been working out math word problems. We used a Rekenrek to help us- Thomas
We have been doing gymnastics in PE. We have been practising forward rolls, cartwheels and balancing on the benches- Niall and Caiden
We had fun doing resilience tasks. We had to find people in our class that liked or done different things e.g. someone who liked pizza, someone who played a musical instrument- Amelia
In literacy, we were learning about different Scots words. We learned that wee lassie means little girl, greetin means crying, bairn means child, bahookie means bottom, bonnie means beautiful and craw means crow. – Jack and Lauren
In music, we were learning to sing 3 craws sat upon a wa’ – Freya
We have been learning to spell different words using oy and oi e.g. cowboy, enjoy, spoil- Harvey L
We have hit the ground running and have had a fantastic start to 2020.
What have we been up to ?
In literacy we have learnt new spelling rules, focussed on characterisation (which will help us with our stories) and read read read! We have practised our times tables as we know that these help us with our division and fractions and also honed our skills in telling the time using analogue and digital clocks.
In science we have learnt about the respiratory system and are currently learning about the nervous system. It has been fascinating to learn how the brain works and a reminder to us all to look after it. We have also entered an engineering competition, (more details to follow) and Skyped a mechanical engineer, Jenny Roberts who told us about her work. She was so inspring to listen to and has been involved in creating fantastic inventions. She told us to have confidence in our designs for the engineering competition. Brilliant, we will Jenny !
We have been learning about 1 meter and half meter. We checked what is longer and what is shorter then 1 meter and half meter in our classes-Niall
We wrote our Learners` Statements about our learning, Personal achievements and awards and certificates- Zofia
We have been learning how to spell tricky words like because, igloo,your etc.-Harvey L.
We have been practicing our handwriting with letters: Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr- Harvey L.
We went on the senses walk around the school to see what we can see, taste, feel, hear- Penny
We talk and wrote about New Year Resolution, about made our own goals for this year- Caiden
In PE we played team games. We all worked well together – Leonie
We came back to school after a lovely Christmas break this week. This is what we have learned:
We have been practicing our handwriting-Caiden, Zofia
We have been practicing adding and subtracting. The picture was Santa- Thomas
We wrote letters to Santa- Caithlyn, Jannat
We painted Robin pictures- Jack
We performed our Nativity to our mums and dads- Ellis
We sang songs, Christmas Carol Concert- Inaaya, Oliwia G.
We made Christmas cards- Murron
We designed Christmas Jumpers for our elf called Coco and Pompom- Arriana, Niall
This week has been extra busy for Primary 7 with so many Christmas activities going on.
On Tuesday we learned the rules we learned the rules of divisibility.
On Wednesday we had our school Christmas carol concert, it was nerve racking at first but we all enjoyed singing and performing in front of a live audience. We also did choral counting, the mystery of the cinema suspect and number talks using divisibility rules with Mrs Heather.
On Thursday Andy Weir came into to do more presentations. The presentations were about swimming, cycling, bagpipes, World War 2 and Air Fix. We also started learning Christmas songs we are going to perform Run Rudolph Run and Santa Claus is coming to town and record them. We also had a visit from Hannah from the SSPCA who explained how to keep your pets and wildlife safe over the winter, for example, if there is a hedgehog going about during the day you can feed it cat food and phone the SSPCA to get it help. She also told us some interesting stories about a man who tried to sell an alligator on GumTree. There was also a lady who bought a pineapple from Asda, she saw the leaves move and inside was a venomous snake.
We have been learning how to write the School`s Senses Poems. I can see a lovely classroom, I can feel a door, I can smell Mrs Koziel`s perfume, I can hear the playground`s noises, I can taste my lovely lunch- Zofia
We have been practicing really hard for the Nativity Show- Steffi
At maths we have been making the Numicon robots- Freya
We have been making decorations for the Christmas Fair- Naill
In Spanish, we have been learning about the colours- Jack
In music, we have been singing Christmas Songs- Jannat
In literacy, we have been learning about question marks. – Alyssa
We have been learning about St Andrews Day- Olivia L.
We are celebrating St Andrews Day on 30.11 every year-Joseph
Primary 7 went on a retreat to Dunfermline to learn about St Margaret. We visited St Margaret’s cave where she went to pray and spend time with God. We also got to hold a relic of St Margaret (although this was a 3D print) of her shoulder bone which was very interesting. We also had mass in St Margarets church and a tour, the church was decorated with stations of the cross, a statue of St Margaret with a child, Joseph and stain glass windows of St Margaret.
In our WW2 topic we have begun to draw St Pauls Cathedral as it was bombed during the war. Although St Pauls Cathedral was hit by 500 pound bombs twice it did not fall down. We have also been learning about the Blitz (Blitzkreigg) which meant ‘lightning war’. Robbie and Molly brought in some special artefacts from WW2 including photographs of their family in uniform, badges, ration cards, identity cards and a plaque about the Victoria Cross.
Miss Norman also visited from St Margaret’s Academy, she taught us easier methods to use for subtraction sums we found this very useful.
Thanks to all parents who attended our Number Talks session on Friday. They had a brief overview of the rationale behind ‘number talks’ before heading to the classes to watch their children take part in a number talks lesson with their teacher. All parents commented on how helpful it had been.
A huge thanks to all staff and children for leading this for parents on Friday.
We have had another busy week with our learning. What have we done ?
We have been practising our skills in writing letters. This is a skill which will help us even after we leave school as we will need to write letter alongside our job applications. We will continue to hone our skills and improve in what we already know and what we can do.
We are reading lots too as we know that by practising our skills we will learn new vocabulary and increase our knowledge. We hope to visit the library next week to choose a book!
In numeracy we have been working with money and are continuing to do calculations which help us to work out change. This is another skillk which will help us long after we leave school.
We have also been very busy practising for our assembly. We are looking forward to seeing our families on the 15th of November as we share our learning about looking after the planet.
We have been practising our handwriting, Gg and Hh-Caitlyn, Zofia
We have been learn about money- Lauren
We have been learning practising making the exact amount 26p, 20p, 5p, 1p- Arriana
We have been pretending to be shop keepers during maths- Steffi
We have been practising our Nativity Songs- Caiden
In PE we have been working on our fitness. It is important to keep fit and healthy- Inaaya
We were learning to keep safe around fireworks and created some fireworks art.- Thomas
We were learning greetings in Spanish Good night- Buenas Noches-Karel
We were learning that some people cannot use all there senses. Some people are blind or deaf-Macie
We were writing Invitation to invite our parents to our Read, Write, Count Launch- Leonie
Some of us went to Multi Sports and we did lots of different activities e.g. football, basketball, running- Harvey L.
We have been reading interesting books- Aiden
We had a Golden Time on Friday- Niall
This week we have enjoyed learning about:
We have been learning to add and subtract numbers using partitioning – Preston
In topic we learned to identify the organs and know where they are – Justyna and Cameron
We have been learning about adjectives, verbs and nouns. – Shahzaib
In Health and Wellbeing we made posters about resilient people like JK Rowling or Michael Jordan – Isla and James F
We wrote an acrostic Halloween poem with those adjectives, nouns and verbs – Max
Each class had to make a scary trailer for Halloween – James H and Jie-Rui
We did some spooky division, multiplication – Thomas
We drew sugar skulls and learned about El Dia de los Muertos – Patrick
We learned how to use a (consonant) or an (vowel) – Cameron
Primary 3 have had a very busy week this week!
Emma – We learned how to make pumpkin face using black paper and crepe paper. It was fun!
Sadie – We went to the library to borrow some books. I picked a book about brains!
Owen – we had a hymn practise to learn hymns for Mass today for All saints Day. We learned the hymns Amazing Grace and Lord I Put Your Name on High.
Chloe – in handwriting we were learning to write the cursive letters p and q. I think q is quite tricky.
Lena – in Music we learned the Hallowe’en song – the Witch fell in a ditch!
Andrew – we were thinking about resilience. We made resilience capes with ideas of how to make us feel better when we are having a down day. We know we can talk to others, read a book, go outside, play with toys and make a cake to feel better.
Jacob – we went to Mass on Monday. We had to sign hymns and say Mass responses and prayers.
Aroush – we have been learning about money in maths. We have been learning to use different coins to make an amount. We can find more than one combination of coins to make a total.
Jessica Lily – in number talks we have been learning to make a friendly number to help us when adding 3 digits together.
Oliver – in Writing we were writing instructions about how to play a game of tig. We know we have to include how to play, what you need and a title that tells us about what the instruction are for. We also need to write them in order and use time openers like first, next, then and after that.
Chloe – in grammar we were looking at punctuation and making sure we use capital letters and full stops in all sentences!
Jessica-Lily- we also complete some Hallowe’en addition.
Another group of P7’s went to St Margaret’s Academy as part of their transition program. First of all we went to the science department where Dr MacCallister showed us how to use the Bunsen Burner’s we also conducted an experiment to find out the best insulator by putting boiling water into a copper can and checked the temperature every 30 seconds to find the best insulator. We also went swimming and played the game to find as many ‘sinkers’ as we could for our team to win the game!
For Halloween on Thursday we took part in a maths challenge to find the mystery putrid pumpkin poisoner who turned to be Bailey Butternut! We have also been practicing for our presentations which take place on Monday and Beth’s dad Andy Weir will be coming to watch us. Harris read us a spooky story called The Curse of Cogston house we are excited to find out what happens at the end. We also typed up our learners statements for parents evening explaining what we have learned so far as well as what we have achieved. At the end of the day we had some Halloween fun by eating sweets and doing some just dance!
20 students from primary 7 had the chance to take part in a transition day to St Margaret’s Academy. First of all we went to science the teacher was called Dr McAllister, she explained the names and uses of the scientific equipment for example Bunsen burner, beaker, test tube, boiling tube, measuring tube, tripod stand, heat proof mat and thermometer. We conducted an experiment to find out which material – cotton wool, felt and bubble wrap – provided the most insulation. We found that the cotton wool provided the most insulation. We also went swimming, first of all we did a swimming assessment then played some games and did handstands etc.
Miss Norman came into our class on Thursday from St Margaret’s maths department to do a maths starter challenge with us. We had a certain amount of numbers to either subtract, add, multiply or divide to make the numbers from 1-24. However, we did not find out the answer to 22!
We started our World War 2 project by creating a wall display. We drew and cut out silhouettes of bombs, paratroopers, planes and zeppelins.
We also created some autumn tree art we had to draw lines and used yellow,orange and red paint to paint the background. We added glitter and painted on the tree with black paint we think they look very effective!
This week in P3 we have been very busy after our October holidays. Keep reading to find out more…
In the last two weeks in gym we have been learning how to play proper basketball matches (very competitive!). We had eight teams playing against each other, this really helped us understand the rules of the game a lot better.
In maths we have been working with money and calculating the change we should get from different types of money tasks. We have also been making Number Talk posters showing all of the addition strategies that we can use.
We have been getting prepared for our assembly too but we can’t tell you too much about it at the moment, all we can say is we’re practising a lot! We are very excited for the big day! Have a lovely weekend everyone.
(written by Niamh and Kyle)
We wrote prayers thanking God for looking after us and our family-Caiden
We have been learning about Place Value. We were showing how many tens and ones are in a number-Jack
We were writing Autumn Senses Poem. I can see leaves falling from the trees- Matty
We have started learning songs for the Nativity- Orla
In Science we are learning about our senses. Our senses are taste, sight, smell, touch and hear- Alyssa
Zero is very important in place value. 40 would not be 40 if you did not put the 0 it would just be 4- Lauren
We have been practising our tricky words by writing them in shaving foam and playing Twister. We had to read the word when you stepped on the coloured circle- Ethan
Another busy day in the nursery. Today we had great fun outdoors getting the garden ready for the winter months. The planters were tidied up and to our surprise our potato planter still had lots of potatoes hidden in the soil. The children were estimating how many potatoes there might be. The amount we harvest were phenomenal. Lots of counting, sorting, measuring and weighing went on. One child asked ‘what are we going to use these potatoes for’. This sparked off discussions about different types of potatoes and ideas of what we could do. It was decided we are going to roast them with butter and use the herbs we are growing in the garden. We also had great fun measuring our sunflowers growing in the garden. ‘This is bigger’, ‘I can’t reach’. Mathematical language and problem solving skills are developing. Quality group discussions went on among the children. The children all worked collaboratively. What a great day we had.
BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!
We have been practising our times tables, mainly the 7 and the 9 times tables. We have also been journalists for our paper ‘The Broxburn Bugle’, it was fun pretending to be a journalist covering an event and interviewing people for our reports.
We have been learning and practising songs (we also discovered that it’s really important to do a vocal warm-up, just like we warm our muscles up before PE, we have to warm our voice up before we exercise it!).
There was great excitement at the book swap today and now lots of us have a new book to read over the holidays. Our Literacy Circle groups reviewed the novels that we have been reading this term and we gave our honest opinion, with evidence, of these books.
Have a great holiday everyone and see you in the new term!
(Written by: Hanza and Gaby P5b / Zofia and Umaima P5a).
This week in Maths we did some rounding to nearest 10 and 100. – Julia B
We’ve also been writing stories. We were thinking carefully about setting, character, build-up and ending. – Cem
We enjoyed learning about Saint Bernadette. October is the month of the Rosary and we prayed the Rosary with Peter and Moira. We also went to church to pray and sing beautiful hymns – Alfie, Julia, Isabella P
We learned some Spanish. We played a card game to practise the numbers and another game to learn the names of the animals – Isla.
In Music we practised pizza talking rhythms. – Damian
We learned about the history of football and made a timeline with the facts. – Megan
In PE we did dodgeball and line-tig. – Olivia
We also celebrated the last day of term with a cookie! Yum!!
We have had a very busy week in P3. We have been learning lots of new things.
Logan – we have created posters about the SHANARRI indicators as part of our health and well being topic.
Chloe – we have been practicing the letters k and l in cursive script. The letter was quite tricky.
Emma – in Music we have been learning to make our rhythms. we were using the notes ta, te-te and ta rest.
Sadie, Wiktoria, Lena S and Logan- we went to the woods. we had to find 5 natural objects that we liked. Then in our groups we had to chose a way to sort them. we could try size, colour and age. Then we made pictures with our objects. It was fun! We learned to sort objects.
Weronika – we created cards for the residents of Holmesview Care Home. We had to write about what we do and where we go to school. Then we had to draw a picture.
Andrew – in P.E we had to throw the hoops to each other. We also had to jump into the hoops.
Mara and Emma- in RERC we were listening to the story of Joseph and his amazing coat. We learned that his brothers were not mice to him but he was also not nice to them as he told tales on them. WE learned not to be mean to each other. We also learned that God looks after us all even if we are not perfect.
Elias – In Science we were thinking about sounds we liked and didn’t like. We liked the sounds of water and wind as they are relaxing. we didn’t like the sounds of dogs barking because it is really loud. Most of us like relaxing sounds and don’t like loud noises.
Chloe – In Spanish we were learning about animals. We were learning a song in the wrong order to see how well we know the song. The song was about a man and mouse and a button.
Sophie and Andrew – In Maths and Numeracy we have been learning about function machines. We know different strategies for adding on. We can use counters, cubes, number lines, 100 squares, empty number lines and our number bonds to help us. We have also looked at missing number sums and tried to find the answer using different strategies.
We are looking forward to our well deserved week off!
We have had another busy week in Primary 1. Here are some activities we did.
Marcel sorted all the different ways to make 2 and 3. He was working hard on his cutting skills too.
Eliza – ” we had to move the letters to sound out words”
Ava P – ” I listened to little red riding hood and then I drew a picture of the woods.”
We have been learning about patterns-Zofia
We know how number patterns looks like e.g.2,4,6,8,10-Caitlyn
We were learning how to count in 5`s e.g.: 5,10,15,25- Lily
We have been learning about making predictions. We know to use the title and front cover to help us predict the story.-Lauren
We made the Recipe for Friendship e.g. 1 pinch of love, 1 handful of hope, 1 litre of kindness-Inaaya
We have been learning how God made people and also we know that God created us-Alyssa
At PE we have been learning how to play `line tig and disco tig games`. This was lots of fun.-Lauren, Harvey, Arriana
We have been learning about our feelings and emotions e.g. sadness and happiness etc. We know now that we all have emotions and this is normal- Murron and Arriana
This week was very exciting for some primary 7 pupils who were the first to visit St Margaret’s Academy for a transition day. We were lucky enough to visit the science department and use the bunsen burners to conduct an experiment by using a copper can, pouring hot water in it half way and putting different materials around the copper can to investigate how well the materials insulated the water. We also learned about the different equipment used in science and how to illustrate scientific diagrams. We found that the cotton wool was the best material for insulating the water. We were also lucky enough to go swimming in the pool. We did lengths of the pool and were set challenges to do tricks and flips. This was very fun!
On Wednesday we had a circle time and shared our emotions about moving to high-school, problems within the classroom and any worries that we had. We learned that everyone has different problems that we might not know about so to be kind to everyone and include them. It also helped to clear our minds and get things off our chest.
In maths we learned different strategies for multiplication including the grid and formal method. We found that different people found different strategies easier to use highlighting differentiation in our learning journey. We also started a Daily 10 Maths Challenge on multiplication – we have under 7 seconds to answer each question and anyone with 10/10 gets a house point!
(Written by Lara, Matthew, Cameron and Haroon )
In P5 we were learning to write a newspaper report, it was about a basketball match, we were being sports journalists! It was fun to pretend to be a real member of the Press.
We also made posters to advertise the Coffee Morning that we were hosting today, we hope that we have raised lots of money for the Macmillan charity. We will let you know how it goes!
P5a and P5b have been focusing on Money in maths this week. We learned how to budget, calculate different amounts of money using notes and coins and we played money games with a partner.
We are looking forward to visiting St Margarets for our first transition day next Wednesday.
On Thursday we created some poems on a magical garden. We had to include similes and metaphors, for example the river was a ribbon of moonlight and we also drew our moonlit gardens using oil pastels. We also created magazine articles on different topics such as dogs, football, the future and swimming. We also created simile and metaphor posters to show our understanding of this figurative language.
In maths we created tessellation posters, we drew lots of different shapes to create a pattern leaving no gaps. In PE we toke part in a pre-tennis tournament in preparation for our end of topic tournament.
P1 have to complete a “star job” everyday for both literacy and numeracy. After completing their star job, the children take a picture of their work. We look at these pictures on the board at the end of each lesson.
Here are some of the pictures the children have taken
Amy- “We were finding different ways to make 6”
Marcel- “I was doing letters”
Nela- “I used yellow and purple to make a pattern. A pattern has to go in an order”
Adrian- ” We made a house”
Jenson- “It had a chimney”
John- ” Mrs Brown came along to visit our house”
We have been learning about the number sequences on number lines-Lauren
We have been learning about Mary as October is the month of Mary-Oscar
We have been learning about gifts and talents that God has given us . We all have different gifts and talents- Emily
We have been learning how to write the letters ( handwriting lesson) Yy and Zz- Zofia
We went to the library to get some interesting books which we can read at school-Joseph
On Wednesday we had a hymn practice and learned new hymns. – Inaaya
In literacy we had a tricky words spelling test on Wednesday and on Thursday we had a Big Writing about our favourite toys- Harvey L.
We have been learning about being responsible and respectful. We know that we need to keep our hand to ourselves, this shows respect. – Jack
P3 have been very busy this week, read more to see more about what we have enjoyed.
Primary 6 made the biiiiiggggeeessstttt artwork in the school ! We were inspired by the artist Matisse who is famous for ‘painting with scissors’ when creating collages. We learned all about Matisse because he has some of his work on display at the Modern Art Gallery in Edinburgh.
We worked collaboratively to create a marine scene using shapes of sea creatures and swimmers. If you wish to see this art work coming together then watch our time lapse clip on Twitter.
For our STEM activity we tried out different tangram puzzles. It is a traditional Chinese game. It was difficult to move the shapes to make a square. We used cardboard, apps on our devices and a website on the Smartboard. If you would like to try it at home here is the link:
www.tangramgames.co.uk
It was fun working together.
P1 have chosen to update everyone on the on the progress of their cress!
We have been taking care of our cress, making sure it has enough water and sunlight and we are very excited to see that it has grown :). This has generated a lot of discussions around the different parts of plants and why some may have grown more than others.
We will be sampling the cress next week.
We have been learning about the properties of 3D shape.- Caiden
A square based pyramid has 5 vertices, 5 faces and 8 edges.- Matty
We have learned how to predict what is going to happen in the story.- Zofia
We have been learning about being nurtured. It means how is looking after us at home and at school. – Caitlyn and Lily
We were showing all the different ways to make 12 in our Maths Journals.- Jack
We learning about an artist called Piet Mondrian. – Inaaya
He paints lots of things with squares and rectangles. He only uses 4 colours which are red, blue, black and yellow.- Harvey L
Piet Mondrian was a primary teacher before he became an artist.- Alyssa
When he was older he went to art school.- Niall
We learned that John baptised Jesus in the river Jordon.- Ethan
We have been learning how to make the numbers 8, 9, 14 and 16 in the most effective way using a Rekenrek.- Freya
We learned how to edit pictures using an app on the Ipad. We changed the effects of the picture- Lauren
We learned the 4 times table with arrays, cubes and a song – Matthew, Julia and James F
We discussed climate change because it was on Newsround. – Daniel M
We learned about the commutative law. – Isla
We had some visitors who talked to us about our learning. We talked about what we were doing well and what we could improve on – Lovisa
We’ve been writing autumn settings. We know a good one should have adjectives that describe what you see, smell, touch… – Roman and James H
In Spanish we learned how to say your feelings. – Dermott
In Music we learned ta-a which is a minim. –Jie-Rui
Primary 7’s Week
Our sport education teams have written their own statements to tell you about their week.
The Top Servers’ Say…
This week Top Servers decide who goes to the tournament and that is Megan and Maisie, Ethan and Archie. the player of the week is…NIA! This week has been has been busy practising for the tournament. We have also been really busy learning subtraction strategies in Number talks. We have also been learning about the squared numbers in the times tables.
The Slazengers’ say…
We have been getting on great.
Our Player of the week is: Alicja 😎
We have been playing tennis matches to decide who goes to the tournament,
Our 4 players going are.. Liam, Callum, Julia & Millie. The teams are Liam and Millie & Julia and Callum.
The Sport 19’s say…
We had a great week. We wrote a poem about are childhood.
We watched a movie with our buddies which was Inside Out for our health and well being.
Our pupil of the week is Freya.
The Net’s say…
This week we have been writing poems about our childhood,
We watched Inside Out as a treat and to learn more about emotions with our buddies.
Our player of the week is Melanie.
This week in p5b we have been dealing with money and learning how to budget. Sometimes this was quite difficult but it was really enjoyable and something we will use all the time, especially when we’re older.
I am really more confident with budgeting and using Google shopping` said Catherine
We also used SWAY to practice our Spanish skills, we focused on the weather El Tiempo!!
I am more confident in using ICT and SWAY` said Mya.
In p5a we have been revising the rounding of numbers to their nearest 10s, 100s, 1000s and 10,ooos, we also started to look at rounding numbers up to 100,000. Some of us found rounding quite difficult and will practice more, however, some of us have increased our confidence with this task.
`I used to think that rounding was quite hard but now I'm confident in rounding to the nearest 10,000s` said Raqab
A few of the class made up their own rounding game:-
In 5a we had fun creating a chant for our Maths Champ game, it uses the tune of Queen’s We Will Rock You` but we are using the words
We’ll do, we’ll do…MATHS CHAMP!!!
Well done Niamh for creating the winning chant.
In p5b and p5a, we are learning to create QR codes, we can now create these codes and display them. When you read our QR codes it will show everything that we are learning.
We have had a buy week in P3.
Chloe – We have been learning to do the cursive letter f. It is very tricky.
Rebecca – We have learning how to solve conflicts. We could share the thing we both want.
Lena – We have been learning about friendship. We made a recipe for a good friend. A good friend needs to be treated the way you want to be treated.
Sara – We have been doing a QR hunt to find famous friends and enemies.
Elias – We have also been practicing the letter g in handwriting.
Lena – We have made poster about how to be good friends.
Sophie – We made a friendship potion. You need to be playful and helpful to be a good friend.
Emma – We have been learning how to count 1, 10 and 100 more than and less than a number. We have used 100 squares, deans materials and number lines.
Jacob – We have been learning how to log onto Glow.
Sadie – This week we watch the film Inside Out because we have learning about keeping our body and mind healthy.
Jessica-Lily – We have worked with our reflective reading partner s to find the silly word in a passage. We then came up with a word that would make more sense.
Lena – We have created a picture using the key information from a passage about Fantastic Mr Fox. Some of us tried to use a green screen to create our picture!
We have had a very busy but fun week.
We did a STEM challenge with Mr Heather on Thursday. We were building catapults to see if they worked by putting a ball in a cup and seeing how far it could go. We only had elastic bands to tie up the poles so it was quite challenging but fun working in teams. We also did escape the room maths challenge with Mrs Heather in which Maisie, Harris, Ethan, Luke and Isla.M managed to escape!
To celebrate European Language Day we created posters which included different flags and ways of saying hello!
We also had a great time at the movie afternoon watching Inside Out!
On Tuesday we started writing a poem about where we are from which was all about our childhood based on the poem ‘Where I’m From’ by George Ella Lyon.
We have had a busy few days in P2.
We were practising our ball skills and skipping in PE- Orla
We were using drumsticks in Music to tap the beat of the song- Macie
We have been learning how many edges and vertices different 2D shapes have. We have been looking at parallelogram, square, octagon, rectangle, circle and a triangle. -Matty and Penny
We made Chatterpix to tell everyone about the properties of 2D shapes.- Lauren
We learned how to say different healthy food in Spanish. Potatoes is Patatas, fish is pescado and orange is naranja- Ethan
We have been talking about the values of our school. Our values are friendship, honesty, trust, kindness, respect and fairness.- Jack
We learned how to improve on our volleyball club leaflets. Our teacher gave us some tips and showed us what a good one looks like. Here are some tips we found useful:
We could all see an improvement in our second draft and will use these tips again.
Stephen
Primary Three have had a very busy short week, keep reading to find out more:
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