- Today is World Read Aloud Day so P7S as well as taking advantage of this in class linking our reading to our World War 2 context also decided we wanted to share our skills with P1. We had great fun reading aloud to a very appreciative younger audience.
Roman Creations in P2W
Today we had been learning even more information about the Romans. This afternoon we were lucky enough to learn about the Colosseum and had a chance to create our own.
We were set a task to create our own Colosseum using only one material from the list below:
- Building Blocks
- Lego
- Paper
- Counting Sticks
We have been focusing on teamwork over the past few weeks and we were able to show how good we are at this during the task.
Here is some of our amazing work.
We are very proud of all our hard work!
P2W 🙂
Article 15: We have the right to make friends and join groups.
Read Aloud Day
Today is Read Aloud Day and P1 were very lucky to have primary 7 pupils read stories to them.
Some P1’s are joining in on the story telling too!
Primary 1 made these super Humpty Dumpty puppets in technology and used them to give puppet shows in class.
NURSERY – Packed Lunches
If your child brings a packed lunch to Nursery, please provide them with a drink and a spoon for yoghurts/fruit pots etc. We are only provided with cutlery for school dinners. Many thanks for your support.
Nursery Team
P5/4C Wider Achievement
Well done to these two girls who achieved first and second place in their cheering and hip-hop dance competition in Perth at the weekend , well done , girls!
Busy Bee’s in P5B
We have had a busy few weeks in P5B.
Last week, it was Scots week. We created our very own Scottish dictionary and we read a number of different poems and discussed what they meant as a class.
For homework, the pupils were asked to learn a poem. Pupils then recited their poems in front of the class. Well done to everyone. Miss Beattie was soooo proud of the level of confidence, memorization and the use of actions and tone during the performances. The pupils then voted for two people they thought deserved to recite their poem at the Scots assembly and they both did FANTASTIC!
We also learned a little bit about the artist Chuck Close and we have all been inspired by his photo-realism techniques. We have been focusing on using line, colour and shape to recreate a famous Scottish figure using the styles of Chuck Close…stay tuned if you want to see the finished artwork!
We also made shortbread as part of Scots week which was a success. We were learning how to work in small teams to follow a set of instructions in the form of a recipe. It was great fun, I just hope the shortbread tasted as nice as it looked! It also tied in well with our topic is math’s which is measure.
Our novel is Journey to the River Sea which ties in well with our topic which is the rainforest. As a class we came up with ideas to help us write a character description about the main character of the story (Maia). We then peer assessed each others work, relating back to our success criteria. Some of the work has made it to our display, along with our research work, our rainforest dictionaries and pictures, which is just outside our classroom!
We were also learning about setting and how to write about this successfully in an imaginative story. We used the rainforest as the setting and decided that using adjectives that related to the 5 senses would help us with our writing. We also used our knowledge of the rainforest and similes, metaphors and alliteration to make our sentences more interesting. The majority of us even wrote in paragraphs!
In P.E, we are continuing with our gymnastics on a Tuesday and fitness on a Thursday. Yesterday, we took part in 5 different circuits that tested our fitness levels. It was exhausting but great fun!
P5 and P5/4C also had a very special visitor from Soccer Street in on Wednesday who is going to be helping us to improve our football skills.
 
In math’s we are learning about measure. So far we are able to measure in mm and cm and can convert between these two measurements. We now have a better understanding of how to work out the area of a rectangle, square and a triangle using a formula. A couple of people even challenged themselves to finding the area of a circle! We have just moved onto weight and will be looking at grams/kilograms and converting between the two.
Have a great weekend!
P3/2C
P3/2C have been working hard on their gymnastic skills over the last few weeks in PE. They are doing such a fabulous job.
Well done everyone!
WW2 Artefact Handling Session P7S
P7S would like to thank Mrs Liddell for visiting us yesterday from West Lothian Library Services. We had the opportunity to handle a range of artefacts from WW2. We looked at a variety of uniforms and some of us (see embarrassing photographs!) even got the chance to try some on. We heard all about food and clothes rations, did you know you were only allowed 2oz of cheese and butter a week! Mrs Liddell has kindly agreed to join us in March for our Sharing the Learning Session so you will also be able to experience WW2 brought to life! We look forward to welcoming you….watch this space!
 
P3R Assembly
Just to remind parents and carers of P3RÂ Â that we will be presenting our class assembly on
Friday 7th February at 9.10am.
We hope you can join us!
Primary 7/6L World War 2 Visit
Yesterday P7/6L had a fantastic visit from Maureen Liddell from the Museums Service. The children participated in a handling session of many World War 2 Artifacts like army uniforms, food and clothing ration books and children’s toys and suitcases. We learnt a lot about life on the homefront during the war brought to life through the real stories of local people who owned the items.
