Last week, we were collecting for West Lothian Foodbank.
The food has been collected and we just wanted to say a huge thank you to all parents and carers who were able to generously contribute towards this cause. This will help families in need in our local community as well as across West Lothian.
Well done to the learners who took part in the P7 Football Festival yesterday afternoon at James Young High School, where the team did amazingly! They played 5 games, won 4 and drew 1 without conceding a single goal. We are so proud of you all!
A big thanks also goes out to two of our parents for arranging and running trials for this event, and for supporting the team at the Festival – we really appreciate this.
To celebrate the learning we have been exploring in our IDL Olympic and Paralympic topic we were very lucky to have a visit from Josh Manson.
Josh spoke about his experiences being a wheelchair basketball player, ran a basketball training session and even gave us a go at manoeuvring a wheelchair.
Click here to explore photos and videos of Josh’s visit and the amazing MacKintosh Clan taking part in the activities!
Josh Manson Visit 30.9.24 Wheelchair Basketball
Huge thank you goes to Josh for all he did to support our learning and help us celebrate this interesting topic!
Baird Clan have begun to get in the Halloween spirit this week by creating our own spooky characters! We started with a game of “table wars”, with each table giving examples of Halloween related vocabulary until only one table was left. We then created riddles in pairs or independently as a way of focusing on describing objects without using their names. Finally, we created our own monster characters and used adjectives, similes and metaphors to describe our creations. Next week, we will use our monsters as the basis of our own spooky stories.
Ben Lomond Clan have been having a blast in clan this week with some spooky Halloween-themed activities.
We kicked things off by taking a look at Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ before adding our own Halloween twist to it. The children then crafted some amazing artwork inspired by this stunning piece, focusing on colour and creating texture with paint.
We also took on a Halloween Code Breaker challenge, in which we used our teamwork skills and knowledge of four-digit addition and subtraction to crack a fun Halloween joke. We really enjoyed the challenge!
Tummel Clan have been very busy exploring their namesake habitats, the Tummel River and Loch. To consolidate our learning, we upcycled materials to make a three-dimensional model of a scene called a diorama. We had to apply what we had learned about the habitat such as the climate, plants and animals. We also had to plan, share tasks and collaborate on the construction as we worked together in groups to complete our dioramas!
This afternoon, we had our very first House Meetings in our four houses:
Fallow, Red, Roe and Sika.
Our Junior Leadership did a fantastic job introducing themselves properly to all of our houses and sharing more about themselves. The children then got the chance to speak to someone they didn’t already know, or find out something new about someone that they did know.
There was such a sense of belonging, particularly as the children wore their house colours.
We look forward to our next house meetings!
