Well our final week in P6/5 has been and gone and we are all set for the holidays and moving on to P6 & P7. We have had a great week and the weather has been fabulous as well, if not a bit too hot!!

Read on to hear what we have been up to.

• Alfie – it was our last week!
• Danielle – we had the P7 leavers assembly on Thursday morning and there were tears by the gallon! Such a nice assembly and we wish them good luck for Whitburn Academy and St Kentigerns!
• Callum – we had a surprise assembly for Mrs Gibson leaving on Thursday afternoon. We all performed our favourite songs for her. We think she was surprised!
• Keris – we had a class party on Wednesday afternoon with Mrs Rankin and had food, drinks and a cake!
• Hannah – the whole school went to Glasgow Science Centre on Tuesday and it was really great! We could have stayed longer to look at all the exhibitions. We all tool part in a Car-azy Construction where we build cars.
• Brogan – we played some games outside in the sunshine.
• Eve – all of the classes are being moved around and things are starting to take shape for August.
• Alfie – we watched a bit of Angry Birds and Garfield this week.
• Callum – we had our last PE session with Mr Tennant. We joined up with the P7s since it was his last week.
• Keris – it’s the end of term and Mrs Rankin’s last day!!!
• Mrs Rankin – I would just like to say a big thank you to the pupils and the parents for your support throughout the year. I have enjoyed teaching P6/5 and will be sad to leave them and Stoneyburn. I will keep up-to-date with how everyone is doing via Mrs Sibbald and the other staff members! I wish everyone a safe and enjoyable summer! Get outdoors and explore!

Here are a few pictures from this week.

Have a great 7 week holiday and everyone will be back on Tuesday 21st August as the new P6/7!!

P6/5 signing off……

Well, our second last week of P6/5 is over! We have had lots going on with assemblies and the P7 show rehearsals to perfect our performances.

Read on to hear what we have been doing this week.

• Brogan – it was the P7 Summer Show this week and we all really enjoyed taking part with the P7s. What a great show!! Well done to Mrs Loosemore and the P7s!
• Alfie – we had our Celebration Assembly on Wednesday morning and the new P7 Leadership team led this for the first time.
• Eve – the new P1s were visiting today for their first school assembly where they were presented with their ties for next year. It was nice to see them!
• Callum – the football team were due to play St John’s on Tuesday but they couldn’t make it along so we played each class for a little while instead.
• Cory – we had music with Mrs Malloch on Tuesday. As some of the class were playing football a few of us had 10 mins just with Mrs Malloch and she had us singing and doing actions to a song. We all enjoyed it.
• Callum – we continued on with measure in maths. We were looking at perimeter and area this week.
• Danielle – for PE on Tuesday, we played rounders with P4 outside. It was a great game and we had fun.
• Brogan – we finally got to watch Wonder this week and see how it compared to the novel. We’re going to write about which one  we preferred and why we think that.
• All – we met Mrs Brown our new  head teacher from August. She joined us with Mrs Gibson for a quick game of Silent Ball.

Here are some pictures of the 2018/2019 P7 Leadership team. Hannah’s picture didn’t come out! Mrs Rankin is disappointed but she knows the boys love getting their pictures taken!

 

Have a great weekend and we look forward to our last week in P6/5!

P6/5

The countdown is on with the pupils in class! Two weeks today and school will be over for the year. We still have a lot to do in these last two weeks  so it’s full steam ahead.

Read on to hear what we have been up to this week:

• Brodie – in maths we have started Measure and have been looking at length and the units it can be measured in.
• Brogan – we found out that our new teacher for P6/7 will be Mrs Sibbald. We had Moving on Day on Wednesday and we all had a great day with Mrs Sibbald in our new classroom.
• Cory – Mrs Rankin has put up a World Cup Wall Chart for us to keep up to date with the games that will be on each day. We all picked out 2 teams to follow during the tournament.
• Hannah – we joined the Authors Live session on Thursday with the P4s to find out about Adrian Edmondson. We then created our own time machines afterwards as his book is about a girl with a time machine.
• Danielle – we got together with P4 to practice our songs for the show and Celebration Assembly.
• Alfie – the P6s met our Buddies again on Wednesday on Moving on Day. We were colouring in with them in their new classroom.
• Cory – we checked on our plants we have been growing in the light and dark and had to add canes to them to help them stay up right.
• Eve – in writing this week we wrote a letter to the new Primary 5 teacher (we didn’t know at that point it was Mrs Loosemore!) recommending Wonder to read as a class novel.
• Fraser – we had Buddy Training from Miss Gilroy this week – she gave us advise on how to be a good buddy for next year.
• Charley – we were helping Mrs Rankin tidy the classroom and start to get it ready for Mrs Loosemore to be able to start moving in.
• All – in PE with Mrs Rankin we did the long jump and also javelin throwing.
• All – We also did an Izak9 session with Mrs Rankin working in teams to calculate the answers as fast as we could.

Mrs Rankin has one request for us to do for next week. Would it be possible to bring in a plastic bag so that we can bring home completed jotters and work home from this year.

Have a great weekend!

P6/5

 

 

What a great week we have all had this week for Health Week! It has been so busy with great things happening all week and the sunshine has really helped us get outside and enjoy our activities! As it has been so packed, we have broken it down into days!

Monday:

Clean-up – we started the week helping Mr Bryce keep on top of the litter picking and weeding.

We had Star Harmonies in school on Monday afternoon giving us a taster session of Matilda The Musical. We got to sing about Revolting Children and did actions as well as we sang. It was really good fun. We also had sing-offs between the boys and girls and then the P6s and P5s. Everyone enjoyed this!

Keris – It was very fun!

Brogan – Musical theatre was my favourite activity of the week.

Tuesday:

Sports Day arrived on Tuesday and it was lovely to see parents join us for our sessions of Potted Sports and then the races in the afternoon. The classes worked in house groups. Here we are ready to go – some looked more enthusiastic than others!

Charley – I came first in the flat race!

Eve – I enjoyed the races, coming second to Charley.

Danielle – I enjoyed the races as I came third in the hopping race.

Wednesday:

Come Dine With Me was on in the morning. We were making sandwiches and we had a lot of choices for fillings with some unusual combinations added. Alfie wins with his filling of Nutella, crispy bacon and banana! He did admit he had to take the banana off as it didn’t taste quite right… Everyone really got enjoyed making these and some sandwiches didn’t last very long. A few made it home … hopefully in one piece!

Playground Training – we were outside going round the new playground zones and looking at the resources at each station to see what there is and to see if anything else would be good to have. We went round in groups with P1/2/3.

Cory – Let’s Talk About It show was on in the afternoon. The jokes in this were quite funny.

Keris – I really enjoyed going around the playground zones seeing what was in the boxes at each zone.

Thursday:

Thursday morning brought gymnast Amy Regan to Stoneyburn who gave us a taster session of gymnastics. Amy Regan is a two time Scottish Commonwealth Games Gymnast who did gymnastics for 15 years. She put the class through their paces and tired them out with her warm-up! Some pupils were ready to sit down after that but had to get on with 3 different stations to demonstrate their skills!

Just Dance requests in the classroom

Wheels Half Hour – for those of us who brought in wheels and a helmet, we all got the chance to have fun in the playground for a bit. For those who didn’t bring wheels, they played some games on the grass.

We were out watching the Stoneyburn Vs Greenrigg football match on Thursday afternoon and we were cheering on both teams! Well done to Stoneyburn with for the 9 – 4 wind and our class mates who were playing – Callum, Alfie, Fraser, Brodie and Charley all played their part in the team’s win! Well done everyone, it was a great game to watch!

Fraser – it was a good game and played magnificently!

Friday:

We were outside with P4 and P7 for Rackets and Bats! We had 2 games of rounders on the go with mixed class teams.

We also had our Sports Assembly this morning announcing the winners of our races. The final announcement was the house winner which this year was Wallace – well done Team Wallace!

Back to normal next week with only 3 weeks of P5 and P6 to go….Wow!

Have a great weekend!

P6/5

Another week has gone by, our last short week of P6/5 and we now only have 5 weeks left. We can’t believe how fast this year is going!

We did a Litter Pick this week as a whole school and each class had different areas to clean up. We had the job of the cleaning up the woods and boy, did we find a lot!

We had Impact Arts in working with us on ideas for the fence between the school and the new houses. The ladies who were in  will feed this back and hopefully some of our ideas will be taken on board.

Read on to hear more about our week.

• Jack – in science this week, we started looking at chemistry and did a couple of experiments and also looked at what jobs you can do if you study chemistry.
• Callum – it was the last week of Forest School with Greenrigg Primary at Polkemmet Park. We were building a fire and lighting it with cotton wool and petroleum vaseline.  Next week we will be going a full blog for our time at Forest School with pictures.
• Brogan – we were working with Impact Art on Tuesday for the fence.
• Charley – in maths we were working on angles and learning how to use protractors to measure the size of anlges.
• Hannah – we planted broadbean seeds this week with half of the glass leaving their plants in the light and half have put their plants in the dark. We have written a prediction on what might happen to these.
• Alfie – we had PE with Mr Tennant today and played rounders outside. It was good fun.
• Eve – we split the class this week for a little while and some of us were in helping Mrs Campbell’s class with writing. We really enjoyed that.
• Danielle – we did some singing practice for the Summer Show.
• Brogan – Hannah, Eve and myself represented the school in netball at a festival at West Lothian College. We all really enjoyed this!
• Charley – Mrs Rankin took over Health and Wellbeing for the P5s this week and we all had a chat.
• Alfie – we had a reading session with P3/2 this week and they read to us. Their reading has really come on!
• Fraser – the new P1 pupils were up for a visit this week and we were able to see some of our buddies. Callum got to meet one of his buddies who he hadn’t met.

Have a good weekend in the sunshine!

P6/5

 

 

Well P6/5 have had a good week with this nice weather we have been getting. We had our last transition day with Greenrigg on Tuesday, a triathlon for some of our class members on Thursday and our P6 pupils had 2 trips up to the nursery this week to spend time with the new P1s due to start school after the summer.

Read on to hear what else has been going on:

• Eve – for the P5 transition day, we made smoothies with Mrs Robley & Mrs Warden. I had a pineapple and mango. We could have also had strawberries and blueberries in this if we fancied. We designed and made our own products in groups.
• P6s – we were able to visit the nursery twice this week. It was good to play with the boys and girls who are coming up to start at Stoneyburn Primary in August. This morning we played Enjoy-a-ball with the pupils. We really enjoyed spending time with them this week.
• Jack – P2/1 did their assembly this week on Pirates. We all enjoyed it.
• Brogan – we did a short Drama session with P1-3 in the hall. It was great and it was relating to a story we read called When Will it be Spring?
• Keris – we had PE with Mr Tennant today and we were outside playing football.
• Katie – we finished our class novel Wonder this week! We all enjoyed it.
• Callum – we started HWB this week – this was week 1 of 4.
• Charley – we have PVG groups today. We were all thinking about what we will share at the PVG assembly in a few weeks.

Charley and Alfie took part in a West Lothian Triathlon at Deans Community High School on Thursday morning. They went along with some P7s to take part in this. They swam, cycled and ran in the sunshine. Well done to everyone involved!

The P6s were at the Queensferry Crossing Education Centre with the P6 Greenrigg pupils on Tuesday with Mrs Rankin. They were working in teams with a Project Manager, Quantity Surveyor and a Health & Safety Manager. Alfie was a Project Manager and Fraser was a Quantity Surveyor. Callum & Hannah were Construction Engineers who helped to build with their teams. They had to work together to build a bridge. They managed it with a few problems to resolve as they went.

Here are a few pictures from this week.

 

Have a nice long weekend and we’ll see everyone on Tuesday!

P6/5

 

 

For it having been short week, the class came up with a lot for our blog! It has been nice to have a shorter week but it has been just as busy as normal.

Read on to hear what we have been up to.

• Brogan – We continued on with our Kandinsky abstract art pieces and some of us managed to get these finished and are up on the wall already. The others need to get these finished next week.
• Jack – We started our new topic this week on science. We’re going to look at plants, chemistry and some mechanics at the request of the class so Mrs Rankin needs to get a plan together for our requests.
• Callum – Some of the girls were at a netball tournament on Wednesday afternoon. They came 5th in this. Well done to the whole team!
• Zara – We had PE with Mr Tennant this morning with only 10 of us as some of the class were playing in the football team.
• Fraser – During Forest Schools this week we started to build our rafts. We weren’t near the water this week but might be next hope to be.
• Katie – In music with Mrs Ewing we were singing and then we used percussion instruments to play along to a song called Yellow Bird.
• Danielle – In maths this week we continued on with patterns and sequences in numbers.
• Brodie – This morning 5 of us are off to L0ngridge to play football for with some P7s!
• Keris – Today is the start of a National SumDog competition so we started the day by getting on with some questions. We have until next Thursday evening to get answering as many questions as we can.
• Charley – We are nearing the end of our class novel Wonder. We are all keen to hear how Auggie is getting on at camp.
• Callum – We had our Pupil Voice Groups this morning.

Just a reminder that our PE days are Tuesday and Friday each week and can I please ask that all provide a PE kit on these days where possible. We may be outside during these sessions so it would be helpful if pupils had the appropriate footwear for these.

Have a nice weekend.

P6/5

So another week has passed by and we have had a good week. We finished off our topic of Earthquakes & Volcanoes with a bang (exploding our volcanoes!) and we had another drama session and we were just busy in general!

Read to hear more about this week.

• Brogan – on Thursday afternoon we exploded our paper mache volcanoes. We had 4 to explode and we used 3 different methods. Two groups used the same method. The elephant toothpaste explosion was probably the best but they all did explode and the rain didn’t dampen our excitement!
• Alfie – on Thursday the P6s got to meet the nursery pupils coming up to P1 after the summer. We gave them a tour of the school as well. We don’t know who our buddies will be but it was great to see them in school.
• Hannah – P6s were at Forest Schools on Thursday morning and we finished off our dens. Next week we will be building rafts from natural materials and also learning to tie knots.
• Alfie – we had PE with Mr Tennant outside with the P7s. We also did football rounders with Mrs Rankin.
• Eve – in French this week were created houses for our French Families and decorated these and added our families to them.
• Cory – in maths this week we were looking at patterns and number sequences.
• Keris – in writing we were looking at letters again and wrote a letter to either Via or Auggie from our novel Wonder and we were doing persuasive writing.
• Leah – we were given exit tickets for our Earthquakes & Volcanoes topic. We had to write 3 things we have learnt form the topic and 1 thing we wanted to know about which perhaps hadn’t been covered. Mrs Rankin will find out the answers if there are any.
• Callum – in Health & Wellbeing, we were looking at our physical wellbeing – how we look after our bodies and the our appearance and discussing why it’s important to look after ourselves.
• All – in art we were looking at the Russian artist Kandinsky and what we could see in his abstract paintings. Today we started our on Kandinsky inspired piece of art.

Here are some pictures from Drama Box and our volcano explosions!

 

Enjoy the extra long weekend! Back on Wednesday.

P6/5

The last full week in April has gone and we’re nearly into May. What a quick April it has been. We have a good week with our Volcano topic nearing an end and a surprise Drama Box session and then finishing up with Parent’s Evening last night.

Read on to hear what we have been enjoying:

• Fraser – we started the week making volcanoes with paper mache and then on Thursday we were painting these and looking at ways we can cause them to erupt. We plan to do this next week.
• Callum – we had a drama session with a lady from Drama Box on Tuesday morning which we all enjoyed. We had to improvise with the start of a conversation “Excuse me, have you lost a beetle?” then carry on with this.
• Brodie – our parent’s were in seeing Mrs Rankin last night. A few of us were trying to bribe her!
• Hannah – the brass pupils had a visit to Whitburn Academy with 4 or 5 other schools on Wednesday. We were playing a lot of songs and we all really enjoyed it.
• Keris – in maths this week were working rounding and estimation of number and calculations.
• Charley – in reading we had to write a letter to Mrs Ewing telling her what we thought about our reading books, if we were enjoying them and what parts we liked.
• Brogan – in writing this week we were looking at letter formats and had to write a letter to Mr Tushman, the headteacher from our class novel Wonder, apologising to him for doing something bad in school.
• Eve – we had PE with Mr Tennant and did basketball and we were looking at the rules.
• Hannah – the P6s had choir again with the P7s and we were singing Sing and also Part of This World.
• Cory – we were continuing on with Number Talks sessions during the week.

Here are some pictures of our volcanoes in progress and also some pictures from Drama Box.

 

 

Have a great weekend.

P6/5

Well another week is over and we were busy at the start of the week with our final preparations for our assembly which we hope you all enjoyed. We have had a Roman workshop, Forest Schools for the P6s and literacy team teaching. All in all, another good week.

Here’s what we have been up to:

• Charley – We had a Roman in school on Tuesday morning who did a workshop with us and the P4s about the Romans and how they lived and where they travelled and fought. He had the full armour and weapons to show us and spoke to us in Latin. We were all given the chance to suit up as a Roman and march. We were split into groups and made a turtle formation to be able to protect ourselves and were under attack from the second group who threw soft balls at us!
• Alfie – Mrs Rankin & Mrs Ewing were team teaching literacy on Thursday morning. The P6s missed out on this.
• Keris – the P5s had times table revision this week and we also did some budgeting in money with the whole class. We had to book a trip to London with transport, hotel and 3 activities for £750. Two groups managed to do this.
• Eve – we continued with volcanoes on Thursday and we worked in groups to create a newspaper front page describing a volcano eruption and have a headline, sub-headings, pictures and a story.
• Brogan – we did the bleep test in PE and Alfie was the winner reaching level 22. Well done Alfie.
• Hannah – the P6s had Forest Schools again on Thursday morning. We were building dens.
• Charley – we had our class assembly on Wednesday morning. It was a good show and nice to see the parents join us.
• Brogan – enjoyed the daily mile in the sunshine this week!
• Brodie – we had a super fast music with Mrs Malloch on Tuesday – the Romans Tale over ran so we only had a very short session!
• Alfie – we have Pupil Voice Groups this week.
• Charley – The P6s are back doing the choir with the P7s with Mrs Ewing.

Here are some pictures from our Roman Workshop.

Have a nice weekend!

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