Primary 6/7 have been doing some creative dance linked to their topic about the Rainforest. Today they listened to a piece of music then worked in groups to come up with some moves to fit to the beat of the music and tell a story. The groups worked hard to create flow in the dance and worked on performing in time with each other.
Timing proved to be a challenge for some groups and was identified as a next step.
Here are a few photos from today’s session.
Yesterday Primary 6/7 (and Greenrigg Primary 7s) worked with Andy McKechnie all day on speaking in public. He taught the pupils some drills on how to help project their voice, speak at a steady pace and add expression to their voices.
Pupils used these skills to teach the other classes a dance/fitness routine (with the help of Andy). There was then a showcase where the classes showed each other what they had learned.
Pupils from all classes enjoyed working with Andy. Primary 6/7 pupils gained confidence through the event and the skills will help them when they come to present their individual c
lass talks and with the Summer Show.
Here are a few pictures from yesterday:
On Wednesday 20th April pupils from Primary 5,6 & 7 from both Stoneyburn and Greenrigg Primary Schools met together to work with a new resource in school called IZAK9.
They worked on a number of different challenges that were set for them as well as creating their own challenges for the other groups working in the room. This was many childrens’ favourite part of they day. After looking at a video on Growth Mindset and discussing how important it is to have a positive attitude towards challenges, the children all rose to the occasion- successfully completing many challenges including the final challenge…..packing up the cube in such a way that a completed shape was fully visible on each face before putting it back in to the box! Not an easy task!
Children spent the whole day working brilliantly with one another, challenging and supporting each other and discussing and sharing strategies that could be used to solve the problems they had been set.
If you would like to watch the Growth Mindset video we looked at, you can follow this link.
Here are some photographs of the day – you can see just how much we enjoyed ourselves!
We are all looking forward to using IZAK9 again in school and to problem solving tasks in the future. We can do this!
It has been a VERY busy term in Primary 6/7 with lots of projects going at the same time. All the pupils have been working very hard with their learning, teamwork and representing our school with excellent manners.
These are Primay 6/7’s top 6 highlights of Term 3:
Today Primary 6/7 shared their presentations at West Lothian College in front of the 3 teams from Greenrigg Primary School, 3 teams from West Lothian College and the panel of “Dragons”.
All of the teams came prepared to deliver their presentations with clear, loud voices and made lots of eye contact with the judges. They really did themselves and the school proud.
A team from the college won over all with a bed time story book idea. Stoneyburn’s Team Silver Sparks came a close 2nd place. 
All the judges commented on how professional Stoneyburn’s presentations were. I am very proud and impressed at how well Primary 6/7 presented themselves today. Excellent work. 🙂
Thank-you to everyone who came to our sales event on Friday. P6/7 were delighted with the number of people that turned up and made some orders of our products. We will aim to get your products to you by the end of this week.
We have now sold out of our name plaques and “Shape It” games.
We have lots of keyrings still available to order so if pupils wish to order one, there will be another opportunity to order on Wednesday 2nd March. Pupils wishing to order a keyring should bring their £2 when they come to order it.
Thanks
Primary 6/7 have been working with West Lothian College this term on an enterprise topic called “Dragon’s Den”
Stoneyburn Primary School, Greenrigg Primary School and West Lothian College each have 3 teams competing for a “Dragon’s Den” trophy.
Teams have had to come up with a new product to design, make and advertise. All their work will be shared at a presentation at West Lothian College next week.
As part of the project, we are hoping to now start to sell the products we have created. Each of the teams will now share their exciting new products with you.
Pupils are parents are invited into the Primary 6/7 classroom on Friday 26th February from 11:40 to view and purchase any of the goods.
Team Pegasus:
We would like to introduce our spectacular plaques. The are unique to the owner because they have your name on it. You can choose from blue, pink, green or purple. The name plaques cost £4. Please come and order your unique plaque on Friday.
Team Silver Sparks:
We have created a fun, family game for 3 to 8 players called “Shape It”. This game comes with 53 game cards, a sand timer and 7 strips of modelling clay. You can play this game again and again. The game costs £4.50.
Team Golden Flame:
Our amazing keyrings are made exactly how you want them. They are personalised to you because they show your name and you can chose which colours you want on your keyring. You can choose from blue, purple, green, red, pink, orange and yellow. Our keyrings cost £2.
Yesterday Primary 6/7 attended a Basketball Festival at Whitburn Community Centre. We entered three teams into the event and were playing against teams from Greenirgg, Polkemmet, Whitdale and Fallahill Primary Schools.
Each team played in 5 games and competed in a mini-league on their court. At the end of a very exciting and well-run festival it was announced that Stoneyburn Team 1 game 3rd on Court 1, Stoneyburn Team 2 came 2nd on Court 2 and Stoneyburn Team 3 came 1st on Court 3.
The pupils and I are very excited and proud of these results. We have been working very hard on our Basketball Skills in P.E. and this hard work was clearly shown yesterday. The pupils knew the rules of Basketball well,were excellent team members and represented our school with high standards of behaviour.
Primary 6/7 having been learning about directional language in French. They have been using what they have learned to programme some pro-bots to make a journey.
They have been confidently using phrases such as tournez a droite, tournez a gauche and allez tout droit to describe each journey.
