Category Archives: Primary 3

All change!

Primary 3/4 took on a whole new look on Friday as we transformed ourselves into monsters and ghouls! Halloween was with us once more!We had our fancy dress parade after our assembly in the morning, then after playtime we had lots of halloween fun in the hall! Congratulations to Hannah who was our class fancy dress winner, on her birthday too, a day for her to remember!!

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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.

 

 

Scary Winners

Dooking success!
Dooking success!
Donut fun!
Donut fun!
More Donut Fun!
More Donut Fun!
Lots of fun for everyone!
Lots of fun for everyone!

Multi sports festival

On Thursday we joined with all the other P3 classes in the Whitburn Cluster for a Multi Sports Festival. We went to Whitburn Community Centre, and we tried 5 different sports. In the hall we had Athletics, Basketball and Football. In 2 rooms upstairs we played parachute games and tried some dancing. It was a very busy, noisy afternoon. We all had great fun and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!

P5-7 House Group Hockey Challenge

On Wednesday afternoon, primary 5, 6 and 7 got together in the hall to take part in a Hockey House Challenge.  P6/7 created the teams and organised the positions each team member should play in.  The afternoon was a great success and a brilliant way to end our blocks of work on Hockey.

Wallace came first, Bruce and MacGregor were joint second and Stewart were fourth – all houses earned valuable house points to add to their totals so far.

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Drama – Freeze Frames

This week in our Drama, we have been learning how to create ‘Freeze Frames’ using facial expression and actions to communicate an event.  We had to work in groups to create a ‘Freeze Frame’ of an important event in the life of Mary Queen of Scots.  Here are some of our ideas:

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Forth Road Bridge Sponsored Walk

This Sunday, 11th October, is our sponsored walk day, teaming up with Greenrigg Priamry.  From Stoneyburn we have 24 pupils signed up to walk across the bridge with a member of their family and we’re all really looking forward to it.  an 11am start from the bridge car park on the south side- remember, you can wear your onesie or feel free to dress up if you’d like to!  We’ll post pictures here of all the fun next week, after the big event!

Friday Fruity Fun

We have been looking at what is involved in keeping ourselves healthy. We have talked about healthy and unhealthy foods and what we need to do to stay healthy. On Fridays we are encouraged to bring fruit to school for our playtime snack. We took this to heart and on Friday as part of our Health and Wellbeing program, we made fruit kebabs! It was great fun and we all definitely had more than one piece of fruit on this fruity Friday!!

 

Highland Clearances Topic

Primary 6/7 have been learning about Scottish History through their Highland Clearances topic.

As part of their learning about living conditions, pupils worked in groups through a Critical Skills Challenge to make a replica “Blackhouse”.  They had to discuss a list of criteria for the interior and exterior of the house and make decisions as a group.  This helped to build on their talking and listening skills as well as maths and art skills.

Groups then designed a family (with at least 3 generations) to live in the house.  The family were made into puppets which were used to act out a drama scene to show what life was like in 1800.

Here are a few pictures of the “Blackhouses” and crofters’ families.

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If you know a child in P6/7, ask them to explain why they are called “Blackhouses” and describe some of the main features.

Exciting Mega Fun Week

Our week started off really well when our parents visited us in our classrooms on Monday when we were doing Numeracy. We played games with one another and with the parents who came to visit us.

In our topic work we were researching the Battle of Stirling Bridge, where Wallace fought the English. Although there were more English soldiers, who were better trained that the Scottish ones, Wallace and his soldiers won the battle!!

Karen from NYCOS came on Thursday.  We played games and sang about Tony Chestnut! A song that we just can’t get out  out of our heads!!

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