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Primary 1’s Book Week

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Primary 1 have been having a great Book Week so far.

We have been reading lots of books in class, with our teacher, with our friends, with nursery children and with our primary 7 buddies. We also took some of our favourite books outside to read in the sunshine today.

We’ve had lots of fun book related activities, including painting and other art activities related to some of our favourite stories.

We have been decorating our door like a book too – we are trying to win a ‘Dress Your Door’ competition against the rest of the school (of course, ours are by far the best!).

We helped write the first chapter of a ‘School Story’ – the rest of the school will continue and finish the story.

We have also been doing lots of fab writing related to and inspired by some of our favourite books.

We’ve also been bringing in some fab photos of our ‘extreme reading’ for the competition – the winner will be announced on Friday.

There’s still lots more to come, including a school carousel (where we will hear some stories from other teachers in the school, and finally, we are really looking forward to dressing up as our favourite book character on Friday.

Burns Celebration in P1

Burns Day

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Today in Primary 1, we had great fun learning all about Robert Burns. We learned that he was a super clever man, who lived in Scotland. We learned that he wrote lots and lots of poems. We listened to some of his poems. We also learned about the traditional Burns Supper, which includes Haggis, Neeps and Tatties. 

We listened to some Scottish songs (and learned about bagpipes). We then learned to sing some Scottish songs, including Donald Where’s Yer Troosers?’, ‘Ye Cannae Shove Yer Granny Aff The Bus’ and ‘Ali Bali Bee’.

We then learned some Scottish words:

Troosers – James H

Wheisht – Roman 

Braw – Andrew

Ston up – Max & Megan

Doon – Lucia & Julia D

Aye – Joshua 

Heid – Justyna 

Lugs – Toby

We then had our own Burns Supper. We had some oatcakes and cheese and some shortbread. 

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We then went to the hall to practice some Scottish dancing.

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Here are some of the things we have learned: 

‘Today is Robert Burns Day’ – Toby

Robert Burns wrote hundreds of poems – Olivia

Robert Burns was very very special – Matthew P

It is Robert Burns’ birthday today – Daniella and Sophia 

It is Robert Burns day on 25th January – Piper 

Robert Burns wrote lots of letters – Lucas 

Hope you enjoy the rest of your Burns Day! 

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Feathery Visitors in P1!!!

Today, Primary 1 had such an exciting afternoon with some very special visitors. As part of our light and dark topic, we have been learning about nocturnal animals. So today, we were visited by 6 owls!

They were so cute! We had:

Chili – Chili is a spectacled owl from the South American jungle. She is 6 years old, and prefers warm weather. Today, she was making lots of ‘hissing’ noises, that reminded Mrs Baty of her cats when they fight. She also kept turning around to face away from us. I think she maybe didn’t like being woken up during the day.

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Cuddles – Cuddles is a barn owl, and is also 6 years old. She is mainly white, with light brown feathers too. She was very calm and friendly, although also kept trying to fly away (it’s okay – she had her lead on, so she couldn’t go far!).

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Otis – Otis is a grey, long eared own. Although we did learn yesterday that owls ears are hidden. We asked about this – Otis is called a long eared owl, but actually it’s not his ears that are sticking up, just feathers. The ears are actually hidden underneath, just as we thought.

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Poppy – Poppy is a small, brown, tropical screech owl. She made some little squeaks whilst we were holding her, but not loud at all. She is also from South America, and is 4 years old. We was very good when we were holding her, and loved strokes on her head. She looked like she was going to sleep! Mrs Baty thought she looked a little bit like a pom pom.

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Bell – Bell is a tengmals owl. She is also very small. She didn’t really want her photo taken, she kept looking away. She was showing off, by showing us how far around she could turn her head. She is originally from Scandinavia, so doesn’t mind the cold weather.

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Daisy – Daisy is a white faced owl. She also has feathers that look like ears. She is originally from South Africa, and is about 6 years old. She was showing off for us by doing a little dance whilst we were having a chat. We were able to hold her too, although she kept fidgeting and flapping her wings.

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We also found out lots more facts about owls. We have been learning that owls are nocturnal animals (meaning they come out at night) but actually we found this is isn’t quite right.

If an owl has dark coloured eyes, they come out at night.

If it has yellow eyes, it comes out during the day.

If it has orange eyes, it comes out at sunrise or sunset.

We also learned that they sleep up to 20 hours a day!

 

We then asked some fantastic questions:

Lennox – How long are their wings?

A – all owls have very big wings for their size

 

Matthew – do they fly fast or slow?

A – they actually fly quite slowly for birds. They only get to about 30mph.

 

Dermott – why are they tied onto logs?

A – they have to be tied up, the same way a dog has a lead when it goes out – so that it doesn’t fly off and hurt itself. The log is so it’s got something comfortable to sit on.

 

Lucas – can they fly really high in the sky?

A – they actually stay very low so they can find food. They don’t go higher than the trees.

 

Overall, we had a fantastic afternoon!!!

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P1 Visitor

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Today P1 were very lucky to have a special visitor. We were visited by 2 policemen (PC Robertson and PC Hart)!!

We were very excited (and on our best behaviour).

Who helps us?

Alfie – policeman

Matthew – fireman 

Ava – lollypop man (he has an orange jacket and a hat and a stick)

Haziq – shopkeepers 

Louvisa – they wear a uniform

James – and a badge

Joshua – high service (customer service) 

Piper – teachers

We learned a lot about Stranger Danger – we know that we don’t speak to people we don’t know!

We had some questions we were bursting to ask. Lots of these were about the uniform they were wearing. We wanted to know why it was bright yellow, what the pen was for, and what the handcuffs looked like . The policeman even arrested the teddybear!

We also asked:

Olivia – How do you catch bad guys? (we are really fast, and some people tell us where the bad guys are?)

Joshua – where do you do? (we take the bad guys to the police station)

Arran – is the car bumpy or not bumpy? (it can get bumpy when we drive fast) 

Roman – do you only catch bad guys? (we only catch bad guys, but we speak to good and bad people)

James – do you drive really fast? (only in an emergency)

Tyler – why do you have a police hat? (so everyone knows we are policemen)

Kayleigh – why do you have handcuffs? (in case the bad guys run away)

Lucas – do you have a police ambulance? (no, but we do have a police van)

Leo – why do you have a radio? (so that in an emergency we can speak to each other when we’re far away)

Joshua – why do you have a flashlight? (so we can see in the dark, because we work at nighttime too, to keep you safe). 

We then all had a chance to wear the policemans hat! (including the bear).

We then got a chance to see the police van! We were so excited!

We had such a fun day!

(photos will be posted later!)

 

St Nicholas in Primary 1

Today in Primary 1, we have been learning all about our school’s saint: St Nicholas.

Here are some of the things we have learned:

Louvisa – he rescued someone

Thomas – he rescued them from a storm 

Chloe – he made people rich (he was generous) 

Leo – he shared his money

Roman – he left a bag of money for a man 

Matthew (P1b) – the man found the money

Lucas (P1a) – he wants to give money 

All – he was happy

Toby – he wanted to be a bishop 

All – A bishop is like a priest 

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More people who help us!

Our primary one children had a fantastic day today visiting our local fire station!

The children listened well as the fireman told them what his job was. They learned all about the uniforms (did you know that most fire fighters wear yellow helmets, but the one who’s in charge wears a white helmet?!) and all about the fire engines (in Scotland they are red with blue lights – the same as the ambulance!!)

We learned that at Broxburn, all the firefighters have pagers, which beep when it’s time to go to work, but other stations have fire fighters who eat and even sleep there!

They then saw what fire fighters have to wear (Mrs Evans and Mrs Baty modeled the uniform – it was very heavy and warm!!)

We also learned what to do if we ever see someone on fire (tell them to Stop, Drop and Roll – you can see us practicing this in our photos).

After that, the children went outside to explore the fire engine. They even got a shot of a water hose out of the fire engine!

All primary 1 children were fantastic on our first trip! Thank you again to our fabulous parent helpers!

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Amazing Ambulance in Primary 1!!

Today, primary 1 were lucky enough to have some very special visitors! As part of our People Who Help Us topic, we invited some paramedics to come to see the children. They told us all about their job, what they do and what equipment they use.

Some of us were allowed to dress up in their real High Vis Jacket, and their paramedics helmet. Then, we pretended Mrs Evans had been trampled by an elephant!! The paramedics put a bandage on her head (like a big plaster) and used a special machine to make sure she was feeling okay (it beeped, and had a blue wavy line on it).

Then, we went to see the ambulance!!! It was amazing! We even got to go inside! Then they put the siren on for us to hear! (See our picture with our hands over our ears … it was so loud!).

We had a really great day!!

Joshua – Paramedics have ambulances

Alfie – they wear an ambulance suit

Ava – they have a torch

Kayleidh – (how could they make sure they are seen?) you wear a jacket

Isla – (Mrs Evans should..) get away from the elephant!

Lucas – (Mrs Evans is hurt, what do we do?) phone the doctor!

James – is the number 909?

Ben – the ambulance is blue

Lucas – …and green and yellow

Matthew – the ambulance has lights

Olivia – the lights are blue, and they flash

Matthew – it has a siren, and they rescue people

Toby – they help people who get hit by a  car

Ben – they are sometimes with the fire brigade

Arran – they take you to the hospital

Dermott – St Johns hospital. 

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Day 8 of Primary 1’s Fitness Fortnight.

Today we had a visit from three lovely ladies from ‘West Lothian Gymnastics’. What did we do ?  Well we all went to the gym hall and had a gymnastics taster session .  It was amazing ! First of all we played a warm up game called ‘Breakfast’ before we stretched out.  We were then placed into three groups and let loose on the equipment doing forward rolls, backward rolls, handstands, kangaroo jumps and more jumping using the springboard.  We had such a good time that some of us wanted to have another go.  Well done everyone for working hard !

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Fitness Fortnight continued – Karate

Primary 1a and 1b had a fantastic afternoon of Karate. Some of us have already experienced Taikwondo or Karate before, and we were keen to show off our skills.

We found out that Karate is a Japanese sport.

We began by learning how to say hello in Japanese. They are very formal. To say hello, they bow, with their hands at their sides and their feet together. The more important the person, the lower we bow. So of course, we all bowed very low to our teachers!

We then learned how to count to 5 in Japanese.

1 – ish

2 – ni

3 – san

4 – chi

5 – go

We then learned different ways to punch and kick correctly, so as not to hurt ourselves. (Of course, we learned that this is just a sport, and only to be done in safe environments, such as in karate or taikwondo classes).

We learned a forward punch – it is important to keep our thumb tucked away, punch in a straight line, and use the top part of our first 2 fingers.

We learned to a head block and a side block (to stop others punching us).

We then learned something called a slap kick – we don’t use the bottom of our foot or our toes, as this would hurt. Instead, we use the top part of our foot.

We practiced all of these on punching pads, held only by the instructors. We then got a go at using the pretend man called Bob. This was fun as he was very squishy and wobbled a lot.

We also had lots of fun playing games. These games were to help us get fit, and to exercise our muscles. We played an opposites game. We found this tricky at first but eventually got the hang of it. If the man said sit, we had to stand. If he said fight, we had to dance.

We then played a dice game. The dice had different exercises on it, including crunches, push ups, star jumps and squats. There was even a side which got the teachers to do 25 exercises! Luckily it only landed on this once. It was very funny watching Mrs Baty trying to do 25 push ups! She’s not as fit as us.

We had a really fun day, and we’re looking forward to the rest of the week.

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Primary 1’s Fitness Fortnight Day 6.

We have had a fantastic day today !

What have we been up to ?

This morning we took a walk up to the ‘Range Park’.  Some of us had already been before so we were already familiar with it.  For some of though, it was our first time there and we were amazed when we saw all of the super things there.  What did we see ?

a  flying fox

a climbing wall

a roundabout

a chute

an obstacle course

a trampoline

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and lots of lovely green grass and sand for us to run around on.  

We all had lots of super fun running around and using the equipment. It was really great !  We arrived back to school just before lunchtime having walked back.  Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty agreed that because we walked up and down to the park we didn’t have to do our ‘Daily Mile’ back at school.  Phew !!!!

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In the afternoon we had a visit from a nurse ! She told us lots of super things about our body and what we can do to keep ourselves strong and healthy.  She also showed us what a heart looks like and told us how important it is to exercise.  We learnt that children’s hearts should beat between 80-120 beats per minute.  We also learnt how important it is to wash our hands.  It was a very informative visit.  Thanks so much toMrs Purves for giving up her time to talk to us.

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A big thank you also to Freya and Tavia’s mummy, Wiktoria’s mummy and Thomas’s mummy for coming along to the park this morning to help us.

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P1s Fab Fitness Fortnight Continued

P1 are having a brilliant week as part of our Fitness Fortnight. We are definitely feeling very fit …. and very tired!

Today we did our daily mile again. It is 6 times around the field. We have been walking most of the way, then running the last 2 laps, although some of us are pushing ourselves further to run more. We are noticing the differences now that we’ve been doing it more continuously.

This afternoon P1a had a yoga instructor come into the class. We had lots of fun trying to get ourselves into all the different positions. They had funny names, including The Airplane, The Bridge and The Cat. We had a lot of fun! (Primary 1b will get to try this next week).

This afternoon, P1b made some healthy snacks. We actually began by trying Mrs Baty’s smoothie (she wasn’t so keen on the ones we tried yesterday, so brought in one of her homemade ones). Lots of us liked it a lot more than the others, and we found out how easy it was to make.

We then made our own yoghurt snacks. We mixed yoghurt, coco powder, honey and banana, and put it in the freezer. We were hoping to eat them this afternoon, but they weren’t frozen enough. It’ll just have to be our breakfast tomorrow! (P1a will make these next week).

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Day 3 – Primary 1’s Fitness Fortnight!

We have had another great day today ! We started our day off learning about lots of different fruits. We spoke about our favourite fruits before trying some of these in the form of smoothies.

We tried a mango and passion fruit smoothie, a pineapple, banana and coconut smoothie, a strawberry and banana smoothie and a pomegranate, blueberry and acai berry smoothie. We liked some of these better than others but we still tried them and some of us even asked for more.  A big well done to everyone for trying these , we are super proud of you all.

Primary 1b voted, and we decided our favourite was the strawberry and banana smoothie, although the mango and passion fruit was a very close second.

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In the afternoon we went for our mile walk.  This is starting to become easier for us and we are enjoying being out in the fresh air.

P1b’s Fabulous Fairytales

Primary 1b had a great couple of weeks towards the end of our Fairytale Topic.

Thank you to all the mums and dads and grannys etc to who came to our Fairytale Showcase. We had such a great time telling you all about our learning. We have really enjoyed this topic.

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After the showcase, we still had lots more to learn. We looked at the fairytale of Hansel and Gretal. We decided the witch was very nasty, and that we should be cooking her instead of her cooking Hansel. We wrote some amazing recipes for her.

We then made our own sweetie house. They looked yummy!

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P1’s Fantastic Fitness Fortnight (Day 1)

Primary 1 have had a brilliant start to their Fitness Fortnight!

This morning we went on a trip to Craigswood Xcite Leisure Centre.

It was amazing! We had 7 different activities set up for us, and the trainers were very helpful.

We experienced shot-put, using basketballs before using REAL shotput balls!!

We tried the javelin. This was very tricky.

We tried the high jump and the long jump (I think we brought back most of the sand!)

We had a go at wellie throwing.

We had a hoop game, and we had races. We were all super fast, but eventually we got our boy and girl winners. We even got prizes!!

We had a really fab time!

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Then, this afternoon, we took part in our daily mile. We are enjoying it a lot more and are finding it easier now. We are even trying to run more and more of it.

Then we had some team building games.

We had a hoop game – we had to get the hoop around the circle, without letting go of each others hands. This was quite tricky, but Mrs Baty & Mrs Gaffney’s team seemed to get the hang of it very quickly.

We then had some wheelbarrow races. Most of us went in the right direction! This was great fun though.

Finally, we played a game with a ball. We stood in a row in our team, and had to pass the ball along the line in a pattern. We were quite good at this, but rather tired by this point.

Overall, we had a fantastic day! (and what great weather it was too!)

Hopefully we’ll all sleep very well tonight, and be ready for more adventures tomorrow.

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Primary 1b’s Magical Morning

Primary 1b had a very fun morning, imagining we had a Fairy Godmother, just like Cinderella!

We had some lovely wishes to ask her. We will soon be making magic wands to see if we can help make some of them come true. Photos will come later.

Grace – I would wish to be magic so I can decorate my room

Freyja – I would wish all of the world was made of chocolate 

Gabrielle – I would wish for a fast, flying, spectacular pony with magic

Lucas C – I would wish for a hundred dollars 

Lily – I would wish to have 5 fluffy cats

Hamza – I would wish to live in a castle 

Alicia – I would wish to have a beautiful unicorn 

Brooke – I would wish to be a Fairy Godmother

Lucas T – I would wish to go to Disneyland 

Adriana – I would wish for a bunny

Holly – I would wish I had a magic wand 

Mia – I would wish to live in a ball

Liam – I would wish for Mrs Baty to live with me

Martyna – I would wish for a sparkly cat

Mya – I would wish for a crown with gems

Nicola – I would wish for 5 cats

Gabriel – I would wish for Goofy to come to my house

Leonard – I would wish for 3 dogs

Oliver – I would wish to be stronger

Safaa – I would wish to be a princess with magic

Wojciech – I would wish for blue dogs

Catherine – I would wish to be a really fast runner

Let’s keep our fingers crossed that (some of them) come true!

Amazing Adventures in Primary 1b

Hola!

My greatest appologies for the long delay since my last update.

Primary 1b have been so busy since coming back from the Easter holidays.

 

First of all, our most exciting news is that we have had some post. We have had letters from ‘The Friendly Dragon’. He lives in Fairyland, but he needs our help. Fairyland is disappearing, and he has asked us to read lots of fairytales, and rebuild Fairyland in our classroom, so all the fairytale characters have somewhere to go.

So far we have read Jack and Beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Rumpelstiltskin, and The Three Little Pigs.

We have written some amazing stories of what we would see if we climbed the beanstalk. We also build a huge beanstalk in the classroom.

A couple of days later we came back in the classroom to see a huge mess in the classroom. Porridge was spilled everywhere and chairs were knocked over. It turns out Goldilocks had been in our classroom. She was such a monkey. We decided to make some Wanted posters, so everyone can look out for her, as she needs to come to say sorry. Although, we also read a book written by the baby bear (his name is Sam). Goldilocks is actually his friend, so we think she might be back soon.

Last week we wrote a letter to the dragon to let him know all about our adventures. He visited our classroom during playtime to read our letters. He was very impressed!

He then left us a new story, and some clues.

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So this week we have been investigating The Three Little Pigs, to work out how to make our classroom comfortable for them to come to stay. We have got more straw, sticks and bricks in the class, and we are playing with them to build our own houses.

We have also been on an adventure around the school, to see what other materials things are made out of.

We found lots of metal, wood, bricks, fabric and plastic all over the school. Maybe the first two pigs could use some of these ideas? We also had some materials in the classroom, to investigate how heavy they are. We decided the feathers were the lightest, and the bricks were the heaviest.

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We have been doing lots of other work too.

We are very very proud of our maths work at the moment. We have been adding numbers within 10, remembering the number bonds up to 10. We are getting very quick with these. We often play a game against Mrs Baty, and we ALWAYS win!

We have also been learning to answer take away sums. We are learning that we just need to count backwards.

We have even realised that adding and take away sums are linked! Did you know that?

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Finally, Gabrielle was in a dance competition a couple of weeks ago. Both her, and her sister in nursery, had some amazing costumes and some fantastic routines. Well done girls!

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We will try our best to remind Mrs Baty to update you all again very soon. Until then, adios!

P1’s Bring and Buy Sale – Thursday, 17th of March.

Bring and Buy Sale – Thursday, 17th of March.

The boys and girls are really looking forward their ‘Bring and Buy Sale’.  Please hand in donations of good quality toys, games and books for us to sell.  All money raised will go towards our ‘Lenten Charity Appeal’. Donations can be handed in to the office or Mrs Macdonald. Thank you for your support.