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!

P6/5