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!
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!
In Money this we took part in different activities to help us improve our knowledge of coins and how to pay. It has been difficult as nowadays we use less and less actual coins and notes to pay for shopping. Most people pay with cards now but it is still important we learn about money as it is life skills.
The title of our description this week was A Bus. We learned lots of information about buses, used key words on our planning sheet and then wrote our description. This week was our first time in P3 using a self assessment sheet. On it we had to colour to show how we felt we had done on each point. On the whole we did really well, just a few people needing to remember their word logs or finger spaces. Next week we get to choose our own title and what we are going to write a description about.
In art we used our imagination and creativity to cover up a mistake. We were all given pieces of paper that had accidentally been splashed with black paint. Everybody’s was different. We had to think about how best to cover them up. We came up with lots of ideas from a mermaid’s tail to an eyebrow!
This week has been especially busy with it being Maths Week Scotland. We did some extra numeracy and maths activities to support this. We focused on shape and  did a shape hunt with a partner.  We  looked  at  tessellation using shapes and created our  own patterns.  We thought about shapes  through  our  number  talks  in class and  came  up with great ideas.  We are still working on descriptions in writing and working on our sounds to help our reading.  We are loving our topic of ‘Animals around the world’  where we are looking at habitats. 
On Saturday 26th August you managed to get your first clean sweep,winning all three races at School House MX. You told us you were very happy to achieve your goals as this was your last race on a 65cc. Congratulations,a great achievement.
In Science we have been investigating lights and shadows. The P5’s were tasked to investigate how a mouse could have a longer shadow than a cat. After creating cat and mouse shadow puppets they set about investigating the changing size of shadows. They discovered that when the light source is at a higher angle, the shadow is shorted. By playing around with the angles of the light source we were able to make the shadow of the mouse longer than the cat’s.
The P3’s and P4’s have been learning about magnets and forces. We have designing our own ‘Magnet Mazes’ for our classmates to try and escape! There were some fantastic designs and some very creative rules to follow!
What a great Saturday this must have been…..except for the score. Mascot for the day at Livingston FC. As the Mascot you got to meet the Livingston players in the home dressing room and have a tour of the stadium. You then had the opportunity of a kick about on the park,with a photo shoot with your favourite player. Finally, you waited in the tunnel for the players and got to run out with the team. What an amazing experience!
Although it has been a short week we have still learned lots. We looked at a picture and had to predict what we thought was happening. Then we wrote sentences about it.
We continued to work with money and started giving each other different amounts. Some people could work with coins to 10 pence while others could give amounts up to £10. We will keep challenging ourselves with our learning.
Last week was International Dot Day. We read the book The Dot by Peter Reynolds. We were then given a black dot sticker to put anywhere on our piece of paper. Then we had to use our imagination to create a picture using the dot. We came up with lots of different ideas. Come look at our Art Board to see some of our creations.
We have been working hard to focus on our work. We often work in random partnerships so communication is important as is working as a team. We take part part in a Friday Challenge most weeks and have to use our creativity and problem solving skills. We also use lots of different skills when we play. In these pictures you can see use problem solving, focusing, creating, communicating and working as part of a team.
This week we have been learning about descriptive language and planning to write our own descriptions. We started by writing descriptive vocabulary to describe our class pet. We then organised descriptive words into groups. In teams we made a description bubble for our class writing wall. We used words to describe the colour, size, number, texture and shape of a person or thing. We tried to be as creative as we could using words, pictures, photographs or play dough to present our ideas.
Both Primary 4 classes had their first session with NYCOS on Wednesday. We were learning about pitch, temp and pulse when singing.
We have been thinking about the well-being indicator’s in class. We worked in pairs to make models that represent what each indicator means to us.
