Classes across the school have enjoyed learning about net games and tennis this week. We have been practising skills such as control and balance to develop our understanding of the sport.
Month: October 2023
P 3 Learning Times Tables
We have been using arrays to help us learn our times table. As a class we worked on our 2 x table, making arrays with counters, drawing them on our desks and then writing the calculation. Some people were able to do this quickly so moved onto the 5 times table. By the of the week, a small group were able in their 5 times table so after the holidays will start work on the 3 times table. Lots of learning at each child’s own level.
Celebrating Success in P7
Here is one of our P7 pupils who took part in The Livingston Athletics club championships. She placed first in long jump and first in her 80m sprint.
She loved the supportive environment and standing on the podium for the medal ceremony, a massive well done!
P5 Handball Tournament
On Monday 2nd October, P5A and P5B took part in the Handball Tournament at West Calder High School.
We formed 3 teams and took turns to play short matches against other schools.
Everyone showed great team spirit and sportsmanship and we had a chance to practise our skills in passing, receiving, shooting, marking and blocking.
Well done to everyone who took part!
Learning in P3/2
We have been learning to estimate in Numeracy and we have been taking part in esti-mysteries once a week. We have been enjoying our learning and we work in random partners. One of our co-created Success Criteria was to use what we know about number to help us estimate. We talk about number throughout and use prior learning such as addition, subtraction and multiplication.
This amazing learner asked to lead our esti-mystery and supported Miss Marra with questioning. She got people talking about their estimate and explaining why they chose that number.
We write our estimate and change it throughout the esti-mystery as we work our way through the clues. More often than not, we have to change our estimate depending on the clues and we are provided with opportunities to share our answers.
This is our reaction when the answer is revealed. We then talk about our final estimate and compare strategies. 
In Literacy, we are continuing to work on identifying and using adjectives. We have worked in random partners to write sentences with adjectives, highlight adjectives in a passage and add missing adjectives to a passage.
We are use our learning to develop our confidence using adjectives in our writing. We can all explain what an adjective is now and we can give an example. We have been working very hard!
Article 13: We have the right to find out things and share what we think with others.
