Learning in P5 this week…

P5 have been redrafting and up levelling our recount pieces of writing in our jotters and on Glow.

In maths we are finding fractions of amounts and will start learning about telling the time digitally and on an analogue clock. We will also start looking at time intervals next week.

We have been working in groups too! We have been looking into the life of a solider and their kit bag while living in the western front during WW1. We have also been preparing for our class assembly which we will be presenting to the rest of the school next Friday.

We enjoyed a visit to our new school library on Tuesday afternoon. It was a fantastic experience and we cannot wait to use this space to develop our love for reading…We had so much fun!


P7 Assembly -Fairtrade

Today P7 celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight by sharing their assembly with the whole school.

Fairtrade Fortnight

What is it?

Fairtrade Fortnight this year runs from 21 February to 6 March 2022

For two weeks each year at the end of February and start of March, thousands of individuals, companies and groups across the UK come together to share the stories of the people who grow our food and drinks, mine our gold and who grow the cotton in our clothes, people who are often exploited and underpaid.

Since last Fairtrade Fortnight we have seen the G7 and COP26 take place. Over 33,000 campaigners joined 1.8m Fairtrade farmers and workers in backing the Be Fair With Your Climate Promise challenge to world leaders at the UN COP26 summit.

Well done P7,you certainly made us think about the choices we can make.

Loving the costume!!!!

P7B visit our Fantastic new Library space

After much anticipation P7B visited our new Library  and it was certainly worth the wait. As you can see from the photographs a great time was had by all. An amazing space which will certainly encourage the enjoyment of reading to be embedded across the school.Thanks to Mrs Robertson and the P7 Literacy Team for all your hard work,the results were amazing!

 

 

   

Coming soon .. our Library opening event ..and World Book Day!

As part of our Reading Schools Award we are working to promote reading for pleasure and enjoyment.

A growing number of studies show reading can have a major impact on on children and young people’s attainment, self-confidence and well-being.

Next week we will be opening our  long awaited, refurbished library (just in time for World Book Day on Thursday 4th March) We hope everyone will enjoy reading and exploring all the fantastic books we have. Classes will be invited along for an opening event and then will have an allocated time each week to spend in the library.

This is what our library looked like before..

Each pupil has been given a token for World Book Day which can be exchanged at participating retailers (Waterstones book shop in Livingston is one) for a selection of short, free books or used to discount other books by £1.  The tokens can be used from now until 27th March.

NEXT FRIDAY  4th March we will be celebrating World Book Day by dressing up ..or down .. if you wish. We would really love to see some characters from books!

We are looking forward to a fun…and book-filled week ahead!

Article 31 (leisure, play and culture): Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.

P6 Art Project

On Monday February 21st, P6A and P6B took part in the Almondell Cemetery Memorial Artwork project. Visiting artist Svetlana Kondakova specialises in public and environmental art and has been commissioned to create a piece of art for the cemetary at Calderwood with the help of our P6 pupils.

Svetlana Explained the concept she had in mind and showed us how to make templates to represent water, leaves or flowers. We then cut the shapes from silver, gold and bronze card and glued them together.

Once they were finished, all the pieces of art were joined together to make the final shape. It looks amazing! Svetlana’s plan is to use our design to help her create the finished 3D version which will be made of metal; we can’t wait to see the final result.

Discovering Angles

P7A used their prior knowledge to create and identify different types of angles through folding paper. We managed to create and identify the properties of most of the angles; there was a bit of problem-solving involved when it came to the reflex angle! We used our communication and team work skills to conquer the task.

Primary 1

It’s been another busy week of learning in Primary 1.

Well done to the children in P1b for sharing their Scots story at the assembly last week.  Everyone worked hard to learn their words and they shared the story beautifully!  Congratulations also to all those who learned their Scots poem.

We have all been learning about time.  We started with the year, then seasons, months, days and now the hours.  We have been making clocks and using them to tell o’clock times.

We continue to learn and practise sounds and are beginning to  write sentences, remembering capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

A gentle reminder to please return reading books on a Thursday and to keep toys at home, we don’t want any getting lost.

Have a super holiday weekend, we’ll hear the children’s news on Wednesday.

This Week in P5…

In P5B we are continuing to try out lots of different reading strategies and are continuing to learn about the structure of a recount piece of writing.

In numeracy we are continuing to work on our mental/written multiplication and division strategies. We have been looking at what fractions look like in everyday life and how they are shown on a number line depending on their size.

As part of our health and wellbeing we have been learning about healthy lifestyles. As part of this topic, we explored the way food is advertised and how this effects the choices we make. We worked in teams to create our own food brand/cafe and thought about using different advertising techniques to persuade people to buy our product. We look forward to sharing our creativity and ideas with the rest of the class next week!

We have been looking at photos from WW1 and discussing what has been happening in them as part of our War Years topic. One picture showed us 3 Scottish soldiers working together as a team and we look forward to finding out about Scotlands role in the war! On Thursday we enjoyed learning more about the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance agreements. This led to a great discussion  about what other countries worked with and against each other during this war.

 

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