Well what a quick and busy week we have had! From nativity rehearsals to the actual performances on Tuesday afternoon and evening, then off to the pantomime on Wednesday afternoon to singing practise for Monday’s Church Service and finally Christmas Jumper Day today!

Here’s what we have been up to other than all of that!

• Charley – Brogan is Special Person this week!
• Alfie – the P6/7 Choir were recorded on Thursday by West Lothian Council and are on You Tube singing a couple of songs.
• Danielle – we were all at the Pantomime to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and it was really funny!
• Eve – we sang at the nativity performances on Tuesday afternoon and evening. It was exciting to be part of it with the whole school.
• Charley – as a round up of our topic on Mary Queen of Scots, we watched Horrible Histories about her. It was funny and interesting to see this since we have learned all about her.
• Brogan – we were creating our Christmas jumper designs for the school competition. There are some really good designs. It’s going to be a tough to choose a winner!
• Hannah – we made some reindeer with Mrs Robley on Thursday afternoon.
• Danielle – some of us were are Maths sessions with Mrs Robley as usual this week.
• Charley – Mrs Robley was in class using Izak 9 to create some maths problems.
• Katie – we continued on with Data Handling this week and were reading tables and line graphs.
• Alfie – we are nearly finished Charlotte’s Web as our class novel. This will be finished off on Monday.

Here is a picture of us in our Christmas jumpers from this morning!

Have a lovely weekend!

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This week has been a super quick week! We have a feeling the next 2 weeks will be the same with everything that is going on during the Festive season!

We’d like to say a big thank you to those of you who stopped by our stall on Tuesday evening at the Christmas Fayre. We now have to decide what we should buy with the money we made to help us with our learning in class!

Here are some updates from the class.

• Eve – some of the girls from our class went to the netball tournament with our cluster schools on Wednesday afternoon and we came 5th. We scored in all games so we were happy to with that.
• Brogan – we had a full school nativity rehearsal on Thursday. This was the first time we all got to see what everyone is doing. It was really good!
• Leah – following on from Brogan’s comment, we were on the stage for the first time so we had a few more rehearsals with just our class to get our performance perfected!
• Charley – we finished off making our Pine Cone Elves and lollipop Christmas Tree Decorations for the the Fayre on Monday and Tuesday and set up our stall. We did really well and sold most of those.
• Charley – in maths we continued with data handling and were drawing bar graphs. We used the classes Christmas Crafts to make bar graphs and have them up on our wall.
• Eve – we created crowns for our Nativity performance.
• Hannah – we have Blurb the Bear in our class this week. We have started having a full school reading session as a Smart Start and Blurb will get the chance to visit all classes and be involved in reading activities. This week’s book was Alien Tea on Planet Zum-Zee.
• Charley – we completed our writing assessments on Tuesday – we wrote reports on the top 10 toys for Christmas 2017.
• Cory – we painted a couple of the characters for the Nativity.
• Brogan – we did some Go Noodle on Wednesday in the classroom
• All – we are very happy with our Wet Toys Box the PTA gave us for the classroom. We got the chance to use these on Thursday when Storm Caroline was here. Thank you very much to the PTA!

Here is a picture of Blurb the Bear reading our class novel, we hope to finish this before the holidays. Blurb with us until next Wednesday’s reading session. The other pictures are of ther bar graphs we created relating to the Christmas crafts the classes made for Tuesday night’s Fayre.

Have a lovely weekend!

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Sorry for the delay for our blog for last week. The full Glow system we use for the school blog was down from Thursday evening until Monday. We put our blog together as normal, but Mrs Rankin wasn’t able to upload it on Friday.

Better late than never..here we go. Last week was a busy week for us getting organised for the Christmas Fayre and we were in full steam ahead getting on with our crafts. We made our lollipop tree decorations first and these have turned out well. It was then onto putting together our Pine Cone Elves which involved different stages for the production line and having some patience letting things dry!

Other highlights of our week are:

• Callum – a few of us were off playing Longridge football team on Thursday afternoon at the Community Centre. This was our first competitive game and unfortunately, we lost 1-2 but we all enjoyed taking part.
• Keris – we have been asked to elf ourselves for a school display and Mrs Rankin has taken our pictures to get these started!
• Brogan – on Monday morning, all girls in the school got the opportunity to take part in a football taster session with a coach called Rachel. It was good fun!
• Alfie – while the girls were at football with Mrs Rankin, the boys had Mrs Loosemore and she gave us a maths lesson with a difference. We had to use the internet to see what we could buy an imaginary family with £500 for Christmas. We did quite well!
• Eve – we had our last futsal session this week. We have all enjoyed these sessions.
• Hannah – the P6/7 choir this week was taken by Mrs Loosemore. We are getting better and the Santa Parade is getting closer!
• Cory – we had our usual weekly spelling tests.
• Charley – we are all really enjoying making our crafts for the Christmas Fayre. Mrs Rankin showed those of us who wanted to sew how to make hats for the elves. They all look great.

Here are a few pictures of our crafts in production.

PE days will be changing in the run up to Christmas due to a new PE teacher starting on Monday. Mrs Rankin will let us know which days we will need our PE kits on once she sees the gym timetable.

Christmas has arrived in the P6/5 classroom with a mini tree and some decorations and of course an advent calendar! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Hope everyone had a nice weekend and we hope to see you at our stall on Tuesday evening!

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Another week has gone by and the time is now flying in with December now in sight! This week we started our Christmas Fayre Enterprise and we are very excited about this.

Read to to hear what else we were doing.

• Jack – we have finalised our crafts for the Fayre. We also voted on our class name for the stall and a logo. We have nearly finished these. We are called The Elf-A-Teers
• Eve – in music we have improved on our dance routine for our Christmas song.
• Hannah – in maths with Mrs Ewing we were doing Big Maths and she set us a 6 Fact Challenge which we have been given to work on as part of our homework.
• Brogan – in RME we started learning about Nelson Mandela which is very interesting.
• Eve – we had another session with Miss Gilroy on Tuesday. Our challenge for this week is to look at the person who is speaking.
• Brogan – for our topic Mary Queen of Scots, we were looking into the murder of Lord Darnley and looking at different types of evidence to help us decide who killed him.
• Cory – I am the Special Person this week!
• Charley – we had our PVG assembly this week and a few of us had to talk on behalf of our groups. It was good to hear what everyone is up to this year.
• Eve – in futsal this week we continued with games and we are improving when playing!
• Alfie – P6/7 choir had another weekly practise with the pupils from Our Lady’s Primary. We were singing Ding Dong Merrily on High.
• Jack – in French we were finishing off the drawings our of French families.
• Cory – in maths we finished off 2D & 3D shapes.

Here are some pictures from PE where we were working on our travelling skills for gymnastics and then using this with the moves we did last week. There is also a couple of pictures of us starting our logo and name for the Christmas Fayre.

We are all really looking forward to making our crafts next week for the Christmas Fayre. Christmas is certainly approaching quickly with all loads of different things coming up in the next few weeks!

Have a nice weekend.

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This week started off with the excitement of having our new smart board. It has been fantastic having this in the classroom and means we don’t have to move class for any lessons. We have had some great interactive lessons this week and we all love the board!

Here are some of our highlights:

• Hannah – for our P6/7 choir, the soloists were announced.
• Charley – in music we completed our dance for Bumping Up and Down on a Camel with Mrs Ewing and showed Mrs Rankin.
• Alfie – for our dance, Fraser is the camel for our dance and is the best camel we have seen!
• Charley – in maths we were continuing on with 2D & 3D shapes this week.
• Cory – today we all dressed down or “Did our thing” for dressing down for Children In Need.
• Eve – in RME we completed our Ghandi presentations and presented these to the rest of the class using our new board.
• Hannah – in PE on Monday we were doing some gymnastics.
• Leah – for our topic, we were doing some art work of Mary Queen of Scots. Mrs Rankin is putting these up in our classroom today.
• Fraser – we were doing report writing this week and wrote a report on Armistace Day.
• Brodie – we had ERIC (Everyone Reading In Class) time on Thursday morning, a new weekly task for us.
• Hannah – we had a listening session with Miss Gilroy this week and some of also had another session with Mrs Rankin. We have been set challenges to improve our skills for listening.
• Charley – on Tuesday afternoon the school had a Support the Learning afternoon where some parents popped in to see what we have to support us in our learning in our classrooms. We were with Miss Gilroy for some of the session.
• Brogan – Fraser and I went with Miss Eunson to Longridge to hear the results of the Levenseat project from last term. Unfortunately Stoneyburn Primary didn’t win this year but we all learnt a lot during the project.

The class was entered into the West Lothian SumDog competition which ended yesterday. Eve made it into the top 20 by making it to 18th position out of all pupils in West Lothian by answering 941 correctly out of 1000 questions! Well done Eve, that is really a great achievement! The next competition is in December and we’re all signed up!

Have a lovely weekend.

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We have had a good week in P6/5 and it ended with the excitement of our new Promethean board (new version of a Smart Board!). Read on to hear about our week. 

• Eve – In music, we were doing the dance for Bumping Up and Down, the song we have been learning.
• Alfie – We are all looking forward to getting our new smart board.
• Hannah – P6s had choir practice again – we were auditioning for singing solo part this week.
• Keris – we were finishing off our Power Points for Gandhi in RME and will get to show the rest of the class these next week.
• Cory – we did some outdoor maths since we had to leave the classroom on Fri morning while the smart board was being installed. There are some pictures of our multiplication grids we to completed.
• Brogan – special person this week was Hannah.
• Eve – Futsal – we played some more games this week.
• Hannah – we shared our news while in the Nurture Nook this morning. It was nice to hear what everyone has been up to.
• Brogan – in maths we did Sumdog for a little while. Mrs Rankin told us she had signed us up for a competition.
• Charley – we have moved onto shape in maths this week. We have been looking at both 2D & 3D shapes.

We have been entered into a West Lothian Sumdog competition which runs from today (10^th) to the 16^th Nov. We can login in at home if we want to and there is a free Sumdog app for tablets which we can also login to.

Have a great weekend.

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We have a good week n P6/5 this week. It has been filled with Halloween and Bonfire activities. Read on to hear what we have been up to.

• Leah – in music this week we were singing with the P4s. We were practicing Ally Bally Bee and also Bumping up and down on a Camel with actions!
• Brogan – a few of us went to the Halloween disco on Monday night. It was also Hannah’s birthday on Monday.
• Charley – we were working on completing multiplication grids on Friday in maths and we all got the chance to login to Sumdog this week.
• Alfie & Hannah – the P6s are now n a choir with the P7 pupils. P6 & P7 pupils from Our Lady’s Primary School joined us for this with Mrs Ewing. The choir has been created so that we can sing at the Santa parade and at the old folks home around Christmas time.
• Keris – we had house time this week. We were designing shields for our houses.
• Leah – in RME we started typing up our PowerPoint presentations on Gandhi.
• Jack – for writing this week, we were writing about Alma, a spooky story about a girl who touches a doll’s nose and ends up as the doll!
• Eve – in French we were learning about the weather.
• Cory – in maths we were learning to read timetables for journeys and TV schedules.
• Charley – we had Futsal again this week and we were playing games.
• Brodie – we were learning about the history of Halloween.
• Charley – we also learned about the history of Guy Fawkes and why we have Bonfire Night.
• Cory – For our topic of Mary Queen of Scots, we were learning about Mary’s family tree.

Have a good weekend!

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Well we have started off term 2 with a busy week. We were straight back into working hard!

Read on to hear what we have been up to. Eve & Charley were keen to contribute to the P6/5 blog this week!

• Charley – we started off on Tuesday with our new topic which is Mary Queen of Scots. We want to learn more about her and her husbands and why she was imprisoned for 19 years.
• Eve – we had a visit from Rev Malloch on Thursday afternoon.
• Cory – we had Futsal again this week and we were learning about passing. We had a game as well.
• Brogan – in French we were learning spooky words and we did a word search with all the words.
• Brodie – in music we were using rhyme and alliteration using a cauldron!
• Cory – in maths we were learning to read timetables and had different activities to do to read these such as working out what time we could get a train/flight and how long some journeys were.
• Charley – in writing this week we were writing about a giant tortoise and about a house on his back. We were focusing on self-assessing our work and also looked at peer-assessment too.
• Eve – in music we had a few class members playing in band. Hannah, Charley, Alfie and Jack were in our band.
• Eve – in maths we used Plickers to answer multiple choice questions for our Time topic on the smartboard. We like using this.
• Charley – in reading this week we were using alliteration as well for George’s Marvellous Medicine with a potion bottle
• To end the week we created some Halloween haunted house pictures using oil pastels.

Here are some of our pictures and artists!

Have a good weekend!

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What quick and busy last week of term! We had Mrs Campbell on Monday and had a great art lesson learning about different artists, we were at Whitelee Windfarm on Tuesday, Wednesday Mrs Ewing had us as usual and then Thursday and Friday we had Mrs Rankin.

Here are some of our highlights:

• Charley – For music on Thursday, Mrs Ewing brought her daughter in – she played the trumpet for us.
• Brogan – For RME, we watched Chariots of Fire to round off the Eric Liddell topic.
• Keris – In maths we were continuing with Time and kept getting asked how long it was until break or what time it was.
• Charley – The netball team went to Whitburn Community Centre on Wednesday afternoon. The school team came fifth!
• Alfie – this morning we got our flu vaccinations. The nurses flew through the class and we were completed in no time.
• Cory – On Tuesday we were at Whitelee Windfarm – it was a great day and we learnt a lot about more about wind turbines and Whitelee itself.
• Leah – It was Parent’s Evening last night.
• Callum – Today we had our first House Time sessions. We were answering questions about what we would like to do as a house during the year.
• Jack – The Book Fayre was in school this week and a few of us bought books.

Here are some pictures from our visit to Whitelee Windfarm.

Have a great week off!

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