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.
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.
P2/1
P2/1 have had a great time during Maths Week. We have been learning about 2d shapes. We made them inside with lollipop sticks, and even got to draw the shapes on the table! Some of us drew shape pictures.
We have loved exploring 2d shapes in the tuff tray and have made some beautiful pictures with them.
We also made shapes outside and had a great time working together to find, count and record numbers with our partners.
Article 28: We have the right to learn.
Primary 1
This week has been Maths Week Scotland. Primary 1 did lots of different maths activities inside and outside! We collected 10 items on a paper plate and when we brought them into the classroom, we sorted them into different groups and within the groups we sorted in size order.
P1a used items they collected in the playground to make different shapes and looked for shapes in the playground.
We all took part in a number hunt, finding different numbers of items and showing this on a 10 frame.
In Literacy we have completed the first set of phonics; s, a, t, i, p & n, and are now learning all about c/k.
It was great to see so many parents at consultations and we hoped you enjoyed looking at all the learning that has taken place since P1 started.
Primary 3 Learning
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 in P2 (Maths Week Scotland)
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. 
Autumn in The Hive
In The Hive we have been learning all about the season Autumn. We went into the playground looking for Autumn leaves, sticks and berries. We then brought them back into The Hive and made lovely Autumn pictures to display in our classroom.
