Primary 3/4 were using array patterns to help them learn about their 2 and 4 times tables today. If your son or daughter is in Primary 3 of 4, why not ask them to tell you more about it?
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Smart Start Open Morning
A busy morning in P1/2 with lots of parents in class to visit!
P1/2 Smartstart Open Morning
Thank you so much to everyone who came along and attended our Smart Start Open Morning. We were delighted to see so many people there and the children were excited to be able to share their learning with you. WE have attacehd the Power Point shown this morning here. 2016_01_20 Numeracy at Home Stoneyburn
Basketball Ccub in Action
Basketball Club is in full swing again this term, on Wednesdays after school- led by our experienced basketball coach and volunteer Jennifer Witcombe. We are very lucky that she will be with us all term. The children are loving the club!
Maths Smart Starts in P1/2
Primary 1 and 2 have been enjoying Numeracy focused Smart Starts on Monday Wednesday and Friday mornings over the past couple of weeks. They come straight in to class after changing their shoes and choose an activity they would like to do. We have had some visitors in from the West Lothian Numeracy Development Team to see what we are up to and they have been joining in too!
We will be doing Numeracy focused Smart Starts three days a week in the new year- and these will run in to our Maths lessons. Towards the end of January, we will be inviting parents in too to join in with our smart starts so they can see what we are doing….look out for your invitation!
A Successful Afternoon
Our Stoneyburn Netball Team did themselves and Stoneyburn Primary proud this afternoon when they came 4th out of 6 teams playing in the Whitburn Cluster Netball Tournament. They won one game and drew two out of the five that they played and they worked together brilliantly as a team!
They are now on a well deserved break from training until after Christmas but this was a great way to finish our Winter term training. A big thank you goes to Mrs McKay for helping us out each week at our training sessions and also to Mr McKay who drove the minibus for us today and allowed us to get to the tournament! We are really lucky to have such great parents support in our school and really appreciate all that they do for us.
Congratulations again team- you we are very proud of you!
Maths Challenge Problem Solving
We had a fantastic day working with the West Lothian Numeracy Development Team yesterday. A group of our Primary 5s, 6s and 7s worked with children from Greenrigg Primaries 5 to 7 on a variety of problems to prepare for the Scottish Maths Council Maths Challenge Competition. They worked well in teams, discussed their ideas, used strategies and solved many many different problems together.
Learning in P6/7 this week
This week in Primary 6/7 we have been learning about new things in gymnastics. We have been trying out our skills in rotation- we have been jumping off a horse in gym (not an animal!) and on to a mat, using a springboard and doing different types of rotations on different parts of our body.
In Topic work we were writing and putting together scripts for the scenes we created in our black houses. These scripts made up three different scenes. We worked in small groups and wrote these scripts ourselves. We created videos of these and are planning to make them in to a movie later in the term.
This week we all took part in a lesson about “The Flu”- we discussed the pros and cons of the flu vaccine and learned about who gets the flu vaccine and talked about why and how it helps us.
An emotional day at Stoneyburn
Today, after 30 years of service, we said a tearful goodbye to our dinner lady Mrs Connell. She was a bit reluctant at first to come in to say cheerio to everyone in the hall but Stoneyburn staff and pupils said a lovely good bye to her before lunch was served today.
Mrs Connell received beautiful flowers from the boys and girls at Stoneyburn, presented to her by her grandaughter Madyson. She was presented with a book full of pictures and memories of the school and the local community and more flowers arrived from Murrayfield Kitchen Staff as she used to work with the team there in days gone by. The families of pupils from the school, many of whom had had Mrs Connell as their dinner lady when they were at school, had contributed to a collection for her. This was used to buy her a beautiful pair of earrings and these were presented to her by Mrs Cotterell, one of Agnes’ very good friends. She received many other beautiful gifts from staff and pupils and this showed how much she was valued as a part of the Stoneyburn Primary School Community.
We wish her all the best for a long a happy retirement and hope that she won’t be a stranger to Stoneyburn and we will see her again in the future.
Happy Halloween
There was a lot of spooky looking folk around Stoneyburn Primary on Friday October 30th! Everyone had lots of fun dressing up, bobbing for apples, playing games and parading around, showing off their fantastic fancy dress!
We hope the children’s family and friends enjoyed seeing the super costumes everyone wore to school on Friday- a fantastic effort was made by all and we would like to say a big thank you to everyone for that. Congratulations to our Fancy Dress winners from each class, pictured below- we are not kidding when we say it was VERY difficult to choose the winners………the standard of dress was fantastic across the entire school! The children had a great time at the party, as did the staff! We hope you enjoy these pictures of some of the fun we had and hope you all had a wonderful, fun filled and safe Halloween this weekend.
