Primary 5 have the responsibility of running The Stationery Station as their ongoing Business Enterprise. The children work in committees covering marketing, sales, finance and stock. Money raised is used to buy more supplies and part fund the upkeep and developments of our school garden.
Prices range from rubbers at 10p to pencil cases at £1.00.
We will now be open for business on a THURSDAY morning.
Come along and keep yourself organised and help improve our gardens too!
Parents/Carers, family and friends are invited to P3/4’s assembly on Friday 7th June 2019 @11.15am. We look forward to seeing you there to share our knowledge about our latest topic, ‘Our Planet.’
This week Primary 3 have been enjoying learning in the sunshine.
Sophie S – We watched the P1 and P1/2 assembly
Sara – We have been learning about internet safety and not to give out our personal information
Emily C – We are learning about our planet in our vertical learning groups
Emily – We had S.T.A.R (stop time and read) outside in the sunshine
Anna – In science we are learning about living, non-living and never-lived things
Bailey – I liked learning about the heart and lungs
Kara – We did story massage
We are looking forward to a restful Monday holiday before another busy, short week!
The class have raced each other and challenged themselves doing hurdles.
The class got a new topic on climate change they have been enjoying their topic and have started designing machines to help climate change.
Next week the class are going to Livingston football stadium.
Week beginning 20th May:
Monday –
HOLIDAY
Tuesday –
Wednesday –
P6’s and 7’s at Developing Young Workforce Fayre
Scripture Union Lunch club
P1-3 Football After School club 3.30-4.30pm
Hockey After School Club 3.15-4.15pm
Thursday –
Enhanced transition groups visit DCHS AM
P1 Transition Information session for parents @ 2pm for 2.15 start.
Basketball After School club 3.15-4.15pm
Friday –
Futsal P4
P5/6 Class Assembly @11.15am
Today was our last Families Connect get-together and we celebrated in style!
We went to Innoflate together and had a great time bouncing around, we’re not sure who had more fun, the children or the adults!
Can you spot Sarah hiding in the ball pit?
Back at school we had a special visitor waiting for us – Gary Locke, the Hearts coach and ex-professional footballer! This was very exciting! Gary spent some time with us and then visited a few of the classes, he gave some great advice about becoming a professional footballer – his top tip was to listen to teachers and stick in at school.
What a lovely week it has been! The weather has been great and we have had several reading sessions outside which everyone really enjoyed.
We have started our new topic about our environment and will be working in mixed age groups for the next few weeks for those sessions. Pupils reported that it was really good and interesting. They liked working with different pupils and teachers.
Next week we are re visiting division in maths before moving onto our new topic on measurement.
We celebrated Numeracy day with a carousel of engaging maths activities which pupils worked through in groups. Pupils have said that they would like to do more carousel activities in maths, which we will plan for.
Today was Maths Fun Day. Mrs Lockart and Miss Beattie had organised a basket of fun maths related activities for us to take part in. We had great fun playing games such as dominoes, fraction games and ‘multiplication dash’. As well as using our maths skills, we also demonstrated excellent skills in team work and negotiation.
“Lucy’s Blue Day” is a story of a little girl who has magical hair which changes colour according to her mood. One day she wakens up to discover her hair is blue and she doesn’t understand why…… this beautifully illustrated story aims to simply explain our emotions and how they affect us.
We discovered this book by having it recommended by a parent on Parent’s evening , who is the cousin of the author Chris Duke! Having bought it and shown it to the whole school at assembly, it has quickly become a firm favourite! There is also a version, suited more to older children, which is now on pre-sale.
We are thrilled to have arranged a visit from the author himself on Tuesday 4th June. He will speak to P1 – 3 and P4-7. If you are interested in getting copies of the books, we have a special code which will mean we don’t pay postage and packaging and he will bring us signed copies when he visits!
Check out www.lucysblueday.com – DEANS (code) 
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In Mental health week it is encouraging to have our children speak openly and identify their feelings, and to realise -as Lucy does that it’s – #OKNotToBeOK
Although this has been a very short week for pupils, we have still been working hard. On Thursday we got together with the other classes on our downstairs corridor to find out that we are going to be working together on our next new topic “Our Planet”. We will be working with the other classes and we will visit other teachers on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. We have chosen which group we would like to work in, and we are keen to get started next week.
