Category Archives: Primary 3

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!

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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!

Outside and inside

This week we have had exciting learning times inside our classroom and outside! On Wednesday we went outside for a numeracy scavenger hunt. We had great fun as we challenged each other to make numbers from things we could find, then do sums! We used sticks, grass, leaves, pine cones…anything we could find! To make sure we protected our environment, we weren’t allowed to break things off of the trees, or pick flowers, we had to find what we needed!

Alfie ” I enjoyed it, we were having fun while we were learning”

Cory “I learned a lot but I enjoy maths in the class too!”

Phoebe “Making numbers outside was fun!”

Inside learning included our second visit from baby Allie for our Roots of Empathy course. This time we were learning more about what Allie can do now and how she communicates with her mum. She was much better at sitting up on her Mummy’s lap and her head wasnt as floppy. Allie was wide awake this time!

Hannah ” Allie looked at me, she liked my hairband. It was much better because she was awake!”

Eve ” Allie has grown a bit but she is still very small and very cute”

Next week we are looking forward to spending more time working on our business  ideas and making the things to sell from our stall at the christmas fair.

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Bench ball Festival

On Thursday afternoon, Mrs Sibbald and Miss Smith took us to join with other children in P3, from schools  in the Whitburn Cluster, to a Bench ball festival. We have been learning the rules in our own Gym times, and playing against each other, so it was good to meet with other children to play against them. We play as Australia in these festivals. Team 1 Australia came 2nd in their group and Team 2 Australia came 3rd in their group! We all had great fun!

We are enjoying hearing more from our class novel ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and in art we are making our own wardrobes, whose doors open to reveal magical lands!

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.Problem Solving Day 001 Problem Solving Day 008 Problem Solving Day 007 Problem Solving Day 012

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.

Be a Hero!

This week we have been selling Pudsey Keyrings and Pudsey Wristbands to raise money for this year’s Children in Need appeal. We are delighted to say we ran out of stock! We wrote poems about Pudsey and shared them at the assembly we led on Friday, Children in Need day.  The whole school joined in and helped to raise even more money, by paying a fine for not wearing school uniform but  dressing up as heroes, Pudsey and all sorts of others things.

In class we have started a new class novel. It is called ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’. It is exciting and we are looking forward to hearing about Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy’s adventures.

Fundraising for Poppy Scotland

Last week Primary 6/7 were doing their very best to raise money for Poppy Scotland by selling toast at our”Toastastic Tuck-shop”.  It was another highly successful adventure for the class.  They learned or practiced skills such as communication, money handling, hygiene rules, food preparation rules and patience.

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Primary 6/7 would like to say thank-you to all the pupils, staff and parents for buying toast and poppies which helped us to raise £183.25 for Poppy Scotland.

Our Baby Teacher

On Wednesday we had our 2nd Roots of Empathy (ROE) class time. Our new ROE teacher visited us for the first time…her name is Allie. She came with her Mummy, Mrs Boyd. Baby Allie is going to teach us how a baby grows, develops and communicates with her Mummy and the world around her . Allie will visit us once every 3 weeks, so that we can watch her as she changes. In between times our other ROE teacher Laura, will talk to us about Allie her development. Together we will learn how a baby shares their feelings.

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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.

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Lucky lady!
Friends, family & school
Friends, family & pupils

P5 Audio Book Review

As part of our talking, listening and ICT work, we have created an audio book review of our class novel ‘Mr Stink’ by David Walliams.  We now know how to record and insert audio into a PowerPoint, how to change the slide design and add new slides and how to add images from either a camera or the Internet.  Here is our finished book review for you to look at and listen to.  Click on the link below (you will need to have PowerPoint on your computer to allow it to open):

Mr Stink Book Review