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Hi everyone,
Here’s some Maths activities for you to have a go at. There’s one for Early Level, one for First Level and one for Second, so click on the one that suits you best. Have fun and stay safe!
Mrs Robley
Please find attached the letter that will be making its way to you today. We are planning a great morning for this very worthwhile appeal! Please note – any money for the VIP Dining Experience should be sent to Mrs Sibbald in a named and sealed envelope as P7/6 are organising the tickets for this part of the event. All sponsor money should be given to class teacher in the first instance. Many thanks for your support.
Good morning!
Please find attached the Winter Weather packs for Early, First and Second Level (and other resources that may be required).
P1/2 – Early/First
P3/4 – First
P5/6/7 – Second
There is no expectation to do any or all of the tasks, but if you are needing some inspiration on what to do on your snow day, then look no further! 🙂
Have a lovely day, and stay safe!
P5-6-7-winter-weather-work-second-level
Here is a selection of pictures from our party this afternoon! There was great dancing, games, karaoke and creating fantastic memories with friends.
December Newsletter Stoneyburn Primary School
Nearly there!
Just one more week to go before everyone gets a well-earned break!
The last few weeks have been hectic but very successful and lots of fun.
We were particularly proud of our choir who performed at the Santa Parade, The Pensioners’ Treat and our Christmas Show.
If you would like to see more of these talented youngsters log onto the West Lothian Council website where you can listen to them perform two of their Christmas songs.
Lights, Camel, Action!
Thank you to those of you who came along and supported the children at our recent Nativity. It was absolutely FAB-U-LOUS!!
Mrs Howard
We are very lucky to have Mrs Howard join our staff to work on P.E and Team Building Skills. Mrs Howard will be with us on Mondays so we will need to re schedule our assemblies from January:
| WEDNESDAY February 7th 2.15-3.00 | Primary 4 |
| WEDNESDAY March 7th 2.15-3.00 | Primary6/5 |
| WEDNESDAY April 25th 2.15-3.00 | Primary 3/2 |
| WEDNESDAY May 16th 2.15-3.00 | Primary 2/1 |
Having Mrs Howard with us means that some classes will change the days they have P.E:
PE for P7 Mon and Fri, P3/2 Mon and Fri and P2/1 Mon and Fri.
Please support your child’s learning every day by making sure that they have all that they need for their school day. We are really concerned at the number of children coming without a P.E kit. This is an important part of the curriculum and your children are missing out. If we work together we will ensure that they are getting the best experiences. We can’t do it without you!
Head Lice
Please check your child’s head regularly. Head lice is easy to treat but it is also easy to spread. Being alert can save discomfort.
Happy Holidays
School closes on Friday 22nd December at 12.20 and re-opens for pupils on Tuesday 9th January at 8.45.
We would like to wish you all a safe and merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year from all of the staff at Stoneyburn.
It’s getting even busier in our classroom, with Christmas fast approaching we have started our enterprise topic. We are all being very creative and it is exciting to see our things taking shape. We really like what we are making. We hope that you will like them as much as we do, and buy them!
Maths has been really challenging this week, we have been working with Algebraic equations! We started by finding missing numbers in a sum e.g. x +5= 17 what is the value of x ? Then we moved to working with much more complicated equations e.g. 3x + 5= 26, what is the value of x? When we were confident with this we moved onto even harder ones: 4x +2 = 3x +9 what is the value of x? We need a bit more practice with the last example but we getting to grips with it. It has been challenging but fun doing these equations and we are delighted when we calculate the equation correctly!
Another first for us this week was working with the P4’s. We have teamed up together to do paired reading. Working with P4, has let us get to know them better, and in reading together, we can share our skills with them, hopefully helping them to become more confident readers.
We also work with our buddies in P1 during their Smart Start on Thursday mornings. This helps make our relationship with our buddies stronger, and also lets them know that we are here for them, and they are important to us!
“I really enjoyed doing Algebra, it was really hard to start with, but with practice I understood it more and I found it fun to do” – Sarah
“Painting the characters for the Infant Nativity was fun” – Matthew
“Our language work was all about making inferences,we learned how to make inferences from pictures and from text, by using what we know, and adding that to explicit details from a picture or text. This will help us with our own reading and writing” – Kuba
“I’m glad we have started our Christmas Enterprise work, it’s fun making things!” – Kieran Mc
“I enjoyed making the things we are going to sell at the Christmas Fayre” – Robbie
“I like being creative” – Brad
” Doing Paired reading with P4 was exciting” – Leon
“I liked spending time with my buddy during Smart Start” – Erin
“Playing Basketball games with Mrs Warden was tiring but fun!” – Katie
Although it has been a shorter week than usual, we have worked just as hard! On Tuesday we wrote letters to our MSP (Angela Constance) thanking her for spending time with us when we visited the Scottish Parliament. We made sure that our letter was correctly set out, and we used appropriate specialist vocabulary e.g. constituency;schedule etc.
We are continuing to use Literacy circle work with our reading and are each taking responsibility for a different task each week. Our lessons this week included some new games on the smart board with challenges for us to do. In the afternoon we continued with our Forest Schools experience. This week our dens began to take more of a recognizable shape as we started to build the walls and roof. Those of us who were at a Netball Tournament last week, are behind the others with our den but we collected sticks and branches to start our den, and Tracey showed us how to use a specialist saw to cut through a tree.
As part of our Ancient Greeks Topic, we learned about the Trojan War. We made a Trojan horse for our wall display. That was how the war was finally won, after ten years, when the Greeks tricked the Trojans with a wooden horse which, unknown to the Trojans, contained hidden Greek soldiers inside. With the success of this trick, the Greeks won the war.
Mr Tennant kept us busy during gym time with bleep tests and Ultimate Dodge Ball. It was challenging but great fun!
“I really enjoyed gym with Mr Tennant, playing Ultimate Benchball which includes, dodgeball, benchball and basketball was the best fun ever!” – Robbie G
“I am glad to be back at school after the October Break” – Leon
“The Beep Test was challenging, Brad and I got to 13.1” – Sarah
“I liked hearing about the Trojan War, and I loved making our own Trojan horse”-Katie
“Forest Schools was even better this week, we got to start building the walls and the roof of our den” – Kuba
“I really liked writing a letter to our MSP Angela Constance” – Brad
” I thought putting our Trojan horse together was fun. We all had to make individual planks of wood, then we fitted them together to make the horse.” – Madyson
“The new games that we played at reading were challenging but great fun” – Robbie McC
“I taught Kuba how to play downfall and showed him different strategies to use”- Erin
“We have a happy book in the class, where we can write down things that have made us happy, or smile. We hope that if someone is having a bad day or feeling bad, they can look in the book and that will maybe help them feel better. I wrote a joke in it today, I enjoyed doing that!” – Robbie G
