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!

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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.

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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!

P6/5

Our first week back of term 4 has been a quick week! We’re all back and looking forward to our last term in P6 and P5.

We have sent home invitations for our class assembly next week and we are looking forward to showing you what we have been working on.

In other news, please read on:

• Aflie – we are now getting PE on a Friday with Mr Tennant.
• Eve – we are continuing on with money in maths and hopefully get this topic finished off soon.
• Jack – we were finishing off our West Lothian Young Writer of the Year entries.
• Callum – on Thursday morning, the P6s went to Polkemmet Park with the Greenrigg P6s for Forest Schools. We’re there for the next few weeks and really enjoyed our introductory session.
• Charley – we had music with Mrs Malloch on Friday this week instead of our usual Tuesday.
• Brogan – we have been rehearsing for our Assembly and will continue to do this until Wednesday morning to make sure we know our scripts.
• Brodie – during Together Time with Mrs Boyd we were talking about big deals and little deals and how these impact us.
• Keris – we did our usually weekly reading and one group are keen to get their book finished off next week.
• Eve – we did some grammar during literacy when the P6s were away.
• Charley – we finished off our invitations for our class assembly. These had been started last term but as we didn’t know the date, we just had to add this along with some finishing touches.
• Keris/Charley – for our earthquake topic we were building seismographs to record an earthquake. We worked in groups to build these and everyone managed to get their one working.

Here are a few pictures of the seismographs.

We have reached the end for Term 3 and what a quick term it has been. Tying to remember everything we have covered this term is a challenge itself!

We’ll give you an update for this week since we can remember that! On Monday morning the class were given a small concert by our brass pupils. They came into class and played for us all and it sounded really nice. Well done girls! We had our Easter Church Service on Monday which some parents came along to. It was lovely to see everyone. The P6s attended a Cross Country Event for the Whitburn Cluster on Thursday afternoon and did well for Stoneyburn Primary. The P5s had an Eastery afternoon while they were away.

Read on to hear more.

• Alfie – the P6s went to Blaeberry Hill Park in Whitburn to represent the school in the Whitburn Cluster Cross Country Event. It was hard going running in muddy conditions but we all did well. I came 7th and Callum and Fraser finished in the top 20. Hannah did well in the girls race as well. Mrs Rankin will be sent the final results after Easter.
• Danielle – the whole school attended Church on Monday for the Easter Service.
• Brogan – on Thursday afternoon the P5s watched the Yogi Easter Bear with the P1s while the P6s were away.
• Charley – we started our entries for the West Lothian Young Writer of the Year competition. These are well under way and we will be finishing these off on the first week back after the holidays.
• Hannah – we were doing kenning poems with Mrs Ewing on Wednesday. These describe something familiar in an uncommon way, without using its name.
• Eve – we have been making some Easter cards with Mrs Rankin and Mrs Robley this week.
• Jack – we had our second last session of Futsal on Wednesday. We played games and we’re pretty good at this now.
• Eve – Mrs Rankin the Pupil Support Worker left Stoneyburn on Thursday. She is moving to a school closer to home. We made her a card and wished her good luck in her new job. We’ll miss her!
• Cory – in maths this week we continued on with money and we were adding up amounts of money making sure we used the decimals correctly.
• Hannah/Brogan – with Mrs Ewing we did Big Maths.
• Leah – on Friday we were doing some Easter maths activities.
• All – we got outside for PE on Wednesday with Mrs Rankin for some cross country training. The sun shone for us and it felt warmer than it has been. We’re hoping to get outside more next term for PE.

Here are a few pictures of our week.

Enjoy the holidays and we’re back on Monday 9th April!

Have a great time!

P6/5

Well this week was a busy week with loads of great things going on, not just within our class but throughout the school. It was STEM week so we had loads of activities to do for this and we had a visit to the One-Stop-Shop in the village. We also had a Judo taster session to fit in as well as our STEM open afternoon and the Sport Relief Sport-A-thon on Friday morning.

Read to hear more about these!

• Katie – we were doing out Sport Relief activities on Friday morning. These involved basketball, target & aim games, Go-Noodle, power walking and dance sessions. It was a really good morning with everyone finishing off by doing a Joe Wicks session in the hall!
• Brogan – we had our STEM open afternoon on Thursday where we presented our Planet posters with our partners to the parents who popped in. We were also finishing off our space rockets we were challenged to build. Mrs Rankin drew lollipop sticks for those who wanted to bring their rockets home for each group!
• Alfie – we were competing in the West Lothian Primary School SumDog competition. We came 44th out of 267 classes. 2 pupils answered their full 1000 questions during the week. Well done to Hannah & Charley. P7 came 8th so well done to them!
• Fraser – we had the Planetarium come to the school on Wednesday and all classes got to visit it. We all really enjoyed this and some of us felt dizzy during this. It was very interesting and great to have this in school.
• Charley – some of the P5s are off to camp Friday to Sunday. There are 8 going from our class and everyone is really looking forward to it!
• Hannah – we had Marv in giving us a Judo taster session. It was really good and everyone really enjoyed it. He runs classes in Whitburn and everyone got a leaflet home
• Katie – we had our weekly Craft Club on Thursday with Mrs Rankin. A lot of our class go to this and we were making origami Easter Bunnies this week.
• All – on Tuesday we had a trip up to the One-Stop-Shop to find out more about healthy eating. We got to try some fruit and vegetables we perhaps hadn’t tried. We got to try blueberries, cucumber, tomatoes, grapes, apple and carrots. We also got a tour of the shop to look for healthy food signs which was really interesting.

Have a look at some of our pictures from this week.

Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to hearing how camp goes!

P6/5

It has been nice to get back to school after our snowy week last week. We all shared what we got up to in our 3 days off. It was all very exciting to have that amount of snow and we all had fun our playing in it!

We have had a busy week catching up and practising our class assembly which had to be postponed. We are in full swing with our rehearsals though. Once we know when it will be, we will let you know.

Read to on to hear what else we have been up to:

• Charley – we were doing invitations in writing on Tuesday. We have created invitations for our assembly and these will come home when we know the date.
• Cory – there was the Rotary Quiz at Polkemmet Primary on Thursday evening. Brodie and Eve attended from our class. Fraser was unable to attend as he was ill so Eve stepped in to take his spot. Stoneyburn came 5th on the night. Well done guys!
• Keris – we were using our scripts for our assembly and had a few full run throughs. It’s all coming together!
• Brogan – we were working on poems for Mother’s Day with Mrs Ewing.
• Danielle – we used the poems to put in Mother’s Day cards.
• Hannah – we had an assembly with Mrs Gibson where she announced she is leaving Stoneyburn Primary in August.
• Jack – in Futsal this week we were playing games practising our skills.
• Eve – we watched songs from the movie The Greatest Showman. A couple of these were called ‘This is Me’ and ‘A Million Dreams’. They were really good.
• Charley – in maths this week we did negative numbers and started looking at money by making a money poster with vocabulary on this that we use relating to money – see below.
• Eve – next week is STEM week and we will be building rockets in our class so we need more junk if possible!
• Alfie – this week it was International Woman’s Week and we saw some interivews on Newsround about this.

The pictures below are of us all showing our posters we started making in relation to money and what methods we can pay for items. These are now on up on our maths wall.

Have a good weekend!

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