Monthly Archives: November 2018
Spelling and Phonics in Primary 1/2
We were able to get outdoors and enjoy a little sunshine to do our spelling words and practice writing our names. Primary 1 have been learning to sound out and blend consonant, vowel, consonant words, helping to read words such as pat, sat, pin, tin etc.
P6 Learning Update
This week, the primary 6s have been moving onto money problems in Maths. They are developing their knowledge of the decimal point when used with money as well as developing their mental calculation strategies in order to quickly calculate.
Within Literacy, they are developing their knowledge about adverbial phrases and how they can use a comma to include this technical skills in their own writing. Some of them made good attempts to include some adverbial phrases in their character description about ‘the Water Kelpie’.
Finally, through HWB, the pupils have been revisiting the UNCRC articles and exploring examples of where children’s rights are not being upheld. This week, we will be revisiting our school values and linking these to our new rules: be ready, be respectful, be safe. From here they will redesign the school charter; look out for it the next time you are in!
West Lothian Swim Heats
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We have found out this afternoon that the team came 12th overall after out of 33!!!! MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Well done to Phoebe, Izzy, Euan and Lewis who represented our school at the West Lothian Swim Heats on Sunday. Their swimming was excellent and, for some of them, personal bests were achieved!!
P3/4 Measurement
P3/4 have been learning about length over the last few weeks. Children have been completing lots of practical activities to help with understanding. We are going to be learning about weight this week.
Finn – ‘We got to measure how far a toy car could go and we were using metre sticks to measure length’
Martin – ‘It was great to measure things and we were getting some of our estimates close but sometimes we were 5cm away’
Cameron – ‘I have enjoyed length. I liked when P3 measured their shoe and made a poster to show our learning’
Isaac – ‘I enjoyed learning about measurement and measuring our class because it was challenging’
Charlie – ‘I have learned that 149cm is 1m and 49cm and I can convert units of measure’
