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Primary 3, School News

Sporting June

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Yesterday Primary 3 visited Broxburn Academy to take part in a Highland Games festival with other primary 3 children from the local schools.    We were all split into groups and the older children from the secondary school were our group leaders and they took us round all of the fun activities.

My favourite part was doing the speed bounce. Charlee-Marie

I really enjoyed the potato and spoon race. Fraser

I liked throwing hoops over the highland cow. Jack J

Today, Miss Watson kindly allowed us to look at and try on her friend’s Staff Commonwealth uniform.  We know to look out for the colours red, grey and white and there is a Scotland flag on the back.  Ethan, Karolina and Daniel had the pleasure of trying them on and we all agreed that they felt very light and comfortable.

Primary 3, School News

Healthy & Happy Hearts

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Primary 3 have been really lucky to be part of the Healthy Hearts programme led by James Pegg and George Scott.  Over the last 5 weeks we have learned about happy minds, importance of water, food groups, physical activity and dental hygiene.  Each week George showed us a presentation on the Smartboard, then at The Strathbrock Partnership Centre, James linked physical activities to our learning.  We always worked in teams and the important message was to encourage each other.

Sadly, this was our final week and we were all awarded with a medal and a brand new toothbrush for us to use at home.

Primary 3

Terrific Tuesday!

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You have the right to be with friends and join or set up clubs, unless this breaks the rights of others

Well we certainly have had a very busy day!  P3 and P3/2 thoroughly enjoyed taking part in a Judo taster session in the school hall.  We did different Judo moves and took part in fun games with a partner.  We even got to wear special Judo jackets.

Later in the morning, all of the P3 children began their series of ‘Healthy Hearts’ activities with James Pegg and George Scott.  George told us all about how to keep healthy and how important our physical and emotional wellbeing is.  We then went over to the hall in The Strathbrock Partnership Centre where we did lots of active games.  The main message that we learned from today is that we should all ENCOURAGE each other.

Primary 4

Mathematical Art – Cubism

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You have the right to education which develops your personality, respect for other’s rights and the environment

We have been busy working on our mathematical artwork, which has been inspired by Cubist painters like Georges Braques, Pablo Picasso and Carlo Rossi.  We learnt that Cubist painters used lots of shapes in their paintings. Sometimes they didn’t even look much like the object they painted.

We took this opportunity to revise our knowledge of the properties of 2D (number of sides and right angles, whether the shape was regular/irregular) and 3D shapes (faces, vertices and edges).

We also used our ICT skills by using Microsoft Office Word to type up what had inspired our own paintings.

Look at some of our masterpieces, or pop in and see them in the classroom!

Primary 4, Wider Achievement

Our Benchball Festival

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Phew! We’re just back from a brilliant benchball festival up at Broxburn Academy.  We played in teams against Kirkhill, Uphall, Broxburn, Pumpherston and Holy Family Primary Schools.  We won lots of games and we all had a go. A wonderful time was had by all.  Thanks a million to our adult helpers – Mrs Thomson, Mrs McPherson, Mrs Beagley, Mrs Devine and Mrs Langton.

Have a look at the fun we had.

Primary 4

Science with Mr Chatterjee

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As part of our ‘Human Body’ science topic, we have been looking at various aspects of our body.  We have looked at the skeleton in detail and we are now moving on to look at the digestive system.  Mr Chatterjee, Olivia’s dad and a plastic surgeon, came in to talk to us about our digestive system, our respiratory system, our circulatory system and our nervous system.  He told us all about the work he does, and how he helps people who have had burns or other injuries to their hands.  Mr Chatterjee reminded us all of the importance of being safe around fires, especially at bonfire night.  We learned a lot and we had lots of questions for him.

Thanks for visiting us Mr Chatterjee and please come again soon!

Primary 4

Our Library Trip

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P4 and P4/3 had a wonderful trip to Broxburn Library today.  Diane read us lots of stories – they were very funny.  We are looking forward to visiting the library again soon, perhaps with our parents at the weekend.  We promised Diane that, as a thank you, we would help decorate Broxburn Library with some lovely Easter artwork.

Thanks to Mrs Ferguson, Rachel’s mum, for coming with us today.