Here are some pictures from the Primary 3, 4 and 5 Christmas Party.  We had lots of fun at the party yesterday afternoon and some fantastic dancing!!

Primary 6/5 have been using their maths skills today to make 3D stars.  They used a compass and a ruler to draw the star before cutting it out and folding along the lines.

Primary 6/5 have also been drawing and colouring some abstract Christmas Trees using pens or oil pastels. 

Primary 6/5 have been getting into the festive spirit today with their reindeer inspired art work.  Pupils designed their reindeer using card and pipe cleaner antlers.  They were decorated with sequence and coloured paper.

Last week saw all pupils learning about money and finance at Stoneyburn Primary School as part of West Lothian’s Money Week. All pupils had a busy week with a range of activities aimed at developing pupils’ awareness of how money is spent or saved.

Primary 2/1 and Primary 3/2

Primary 2/1 and 3/2 had a focus on developing their awareness of the types of coins available, what they look like and how much they are worth. They played a variety of games and participated in activities that allowed them to use coins.

Primary 4/3

Primary 4/3 were also learning about different types of coins and how to use them through a range of game based activities. They also played an online game where they had to earn and spend money ( www.moneyville.co.uk)

Primary 5/4

Primary 5/4 were learning about money through a family called The Sterlings. They found out about how the family earns and spends money and participated in activities helping the family to spend and save their money wisely. Primary 5/4 also participated in games to develop their awareness of pounds and pence.

The Sterling Family

Primary 6/5

Primary 6/5 discussed the difference between necessities and luxuries and identified where money should be spent first. They were learning about how money was used before coins were developed and saw some strange money, such as beaver pelts, eggs, shell money and tea bricks. Primary 6/5 then investigated how notes were made and what security features are present on modern British notes. They then had the opportunity to design their own range of coins and notes for the future. Finally they were learning about budgeting and had to plan a holiday which involved choosing flights, accommodation, food, leisure activities and insurance all on a budget.

Primary 7

Primary 7 focussed for a lot of the week on the saving of money. They had visits from a Credit Union representative who shared how the Credit Union is run. Primary 7 then used this information to design a range of posters and to make an assembly which was shared with the whole school. Primary 7 also were learning about how coins are designed and made and the features of modern British notes. They also had the opportunity to design coins and notes.

Yesterday, all the children at Stoneyburn Primary School had an opportunity to participate in the Zoo Lab experience.  A representative from the company brought some exciting creatures to show our children and giving them the opportunity to hold or touch them if they wanted too.

The event was a great success and the children really enjoyed holding the animals and learning some interesting fact about each animal.  We had many brave children who wanted to hold all the animals, including a giant millipede, cockroach, milk snake and toad.  A tarantula and a scorpion were also shown to the children but kept in their boxes for safety reasons.

This week sees the start of Money Week across West Lothian. 

At Stoneyburn, all the classes will be focussing on money and financial education during their maths lessons this week.

This week your child might be learning about how to use money and work out change, the importance of saving, the history of money and coins, security features presents on notes, how bank accounts and credit cards work  or how to budget for a party or trip.

As well as schools organising lessons and activities for their pupils, West Lothian Council have organised information events for adults that will be run throughout this week.  Please see the attached timetable for further information. 

Money Week 2012 Programme

Hopefully all our children will enjoy learning about money this week.

We have recently recieved our Morrisons Let’s Grow 2012 collection box.  It is located in the reception area.

We would appreciate it if you, or anyone else you know, shop at Morrisons could you collect the vouchers and pop them in the box.  The vouchers will be handed out by Morrisons for the remainder of September and all of October. 

Thank you in advance for your support. 

A huge thank you again to everyone who came to support this year’s Dance Show. 

Through your support and kind donations we have managed to raise £196.49 for Sport Relief through ticket sales and donations at both performances.  I’m sure you will agree that this is a fantastic amount going to a very worthy cause. 

We have also raised £222.61 for School Funds through ticket and programme sales.

The tickets for Tuesday night’s Dance Show have proven to be very popular this year and unfortunately we have sold out for the evening show.

To ensure that as many families as possible can see all the children perform, we have taken the decision to add an extra show on Wednesday 14th March.  The doors for this extra performance will open at 1.30 pm and the show will begin at 1.45 pm.  Tickets will be on sale on Monday morning from the school office and will be sold on a first come, first served basis.  Tickets will remain the same price, £2 for adults and £1 for children.  As with the evening performance, half the money raised will go to Sports Relief with the remaining half going to school funds.

We hope to see you all there.

The children at Stoneyburn have spent the past 8 weeks learning and practising dances for our annual dance show.
We would like to invite you to the dance show on Tuesday the 13th of March at 6.30pm.
The tickets will go on sale on Monday 5th March and will be sold on a first come, first served basis.  An order form has been sent out to all families in the school.  If you wish to purchase tickets, send the order from back to school with your child and the Dance Show Business Team will collect orders and distribute tickets.   Adult tickets cost £2 and child tickets cost £1. Half the money raised will go to Sport Relief and the other half to our school fund.

We look forward to seeing you all there.