On Wednesday, Baird clan enjoyed their Christmas party with Burns, Muir and Mackintosh. We played lots of games, including musical chairs, and enjoyed a festive snack with friends. After our party fun, we created our own festive origami stars, which tested our fine motor skills and resilience. To end a fantastic day of fun, we then went to watch the pantomime in the hall. Baird clan are well and truly in the festive spirit now!
This week, Baird have enjoyed a range of reading and writing activities to celebrate Book Week Scotland. We were given the opportunity to deliver the book bags to the Primary 3 clans and read their books together. Both Baird and P3 loved this experience! We have also created some new front covers for books we have been reading, completed a Book Week Quiz and created fact files for characters from our novels.
In writing, we have been focused on creating narrative texts. This week, we became authors as we looked at creating a sci-fi story. Before writing, we revised the different features of a narrative. We used a diamond 9 diagram to identify the importance of each feature from most important to least. We then reflected on our previous stories and chose a feature to focus on this week.
We began planning for our writing by creating our own planets to visit. We drew these in our jotter and labelled our planets with any key information we wanted to add. We then filled out our plans, wrote our stories and shared them with our peers, who then gave us some feedback before we edited and self assessed. 
On Thursday, 31st October, we were delighted to welcome two colleagues from Livingston Fire Station to speak to our P6 and P7 clans about the importance of staying safe on Bonfire Night.
Many of the children were then motivated to make their own posters about staying safe with sparklers and only allowing adults to let off fireworks.
Thank you to Livingston Fire Station for giving up their time to speak to our children.
Last week, our P3-7 clans took part in Financial Education Sessions, kindly delivered by Money Advice Scotland.
These sessions looked at Introduction to Money, Budgeting for Events, and Banking and Borrowing.
The children thoroughly enjoyed these sessions and learning about such an important subject.
On Friday morning, Baird Clan came together to share their learning with their families and the rest of the school community through their Clan Connects.
The children told us all about the Cost of the School Day and their important role in deciding how our Participatory Budget is spent. They did an amazing presentation and we are so proud of each and every one of our learners.
Baird Clan then spent some time with their adults, sharing more of their learning.
Thank you to all parents and carers who were able to come along to support Baird Clan on Friday morning.
This week, Baird clan have began to learn about descriptive writing. We started by creating self portraits that included visuals of our hobbies and interests. In reading, we used the game “Guess Who” to focus on using adjectives to describe others as well as ourselves.
Towards the end of the week, we completed our cold piece of descriptive writing, which included details about our physical appearance, our hobbies and interests and our goals for the future. We will use our feedback on this writing to help us to form our next steps for writing in the descriptive genre.
