On the lead up to Bonfire Night, please find some information Police Scotland, West Lothian Council & Scottish Fire & Rescue Service.
Firework Letter Schools 2021 WLC
Primary 6 Trip
We had a fantastic trip to Almondell Country Park in order to celebrate the near completion of the woodland management works and Historic Wall Project there. The kids had a brilliant day and so did the adults! We went on a guided walk, watched a chainsaw demonstration and did lots of tree planting. A massive thank you to Mrs Hearn and Mr Fazakerley who joined Miss Livingstone and I on the trip.
A massive thank you to Kirsty who helped us arrange this great trip and to all of the staff who were kind, patient and welcoming and supported the children with their tree planting.
Have a look at the fun we had in the pictures 🙂
Miss Baldacci (Principal Teacher)
P3 Learning
On Wednesday a surprise arrived in our classroom. It was a box and it had a label that said, “To P3a, don’t open until Friday.”
We were very excited an wrote a list of what might be in the box.
On Friday we finally got to open the box.
It contained… pine cones!!!!
We all had a look and wrote down what we might like to learn about them.
Let the learning begin!!!
Amazon Future Engineers Webinar-Primary 6
On Thursday October 7th both Primary 6 classes attended a digital webinar with Amazon. The live 1 hour session was highly engaging, fast moving and well presented by a group of Amazon staff demonstrating the whole process from clicking and placing your order to your packages arriving at your home. The webinar was a mixture of live streamed interviews and demonstrations of each step your package takes, videos explaining the technology and also interactive multiple choice questions. There was an opportunity to have staff respond to you questions in a live Q&A session at the end.
We were fascinated by the amount of digital technology used by Amazon to carry out work in their factories and distribution centres. We learned all about algorithms, databases, computer science and cloud computing as well as how they are used to make Amazon as efficient a company as possible. Keeping the process as quick and efficient as possible. We were so shocked to see that all products are stored on ‘Pods’ which are completely controlled and moved around by robots. The robots scan QR codes on the factory floor to constantly update their position and to plan the fastest route to a human picker. Staff who must access the floor in an emergency must wear a custom made AI safety vest that cost Amazon around £9.8m to design. We were also shocked that the products were all stored randomly as the Amazon research showed this was actually more efficient than organising and storing products in alphabetical order or grouping them in any way. We also loved seeing some of the other machines in action and finding out about ‘machine learning’ so that technology can adapt and learn to keep the company as efficient as possible. We were shown how quality control was carried out at various stages.
The ingenuity and forward thinking of the company was so exciting, as well as their dedication to reducing their carbon footprint by cutting packaging by creating more ‘frustration free packaging’ and purchasing over 100,000 electric vans. It was a great opportunity to interact with such a modern and exciting company with over 1.3million employees, we agreed as classes we are all familiar with those smiley boxes!
Scott said “I thought it was really interesting to see some of the machines and I was shocked at what they did. Looking at them I wouldn’t have guessed what they could do.”
Jack said, “I thought it would be a normal deliver service but it’s so much more than that!”.
Erin thought, “It was really interesting because I thought it would just be a video of how they did it but there were all these robotics. We actually heard from real workers!”.
Jake said, “I like there was a real Q&A quiz and the interactive questions so would could join in.”
Term 1 in The Hive
The children in The Hive have had a great first term.
We have learned many new things at our workstations.
We have also enjoyed some outdoor learning during Maths Week.
We learned some life skills by making our own sandwiches!
We have used our creative building skills in the block play area.
Mrs Grieve, Mr Fazakerley and all the Hive children hope you all have a lovely October holiday.
Royal Mail Competition Finalist!
We have received exciting news that one of our pupils has made it through to the 120 finalists of the Royal Mail ‘Heroes’ Stamp Design Competition! Well done to Lily in P6 🙂 We have our fingers crossed that you make it to the next round (where 24 from the 120 finalists will be announced in November) and hopefully even make it to the final 8 winning stamp designs! An incredible 606,049 entries were received from children across the UK, with an amazing 7,479 schools taking part so to make it through to the 120 finalists is a great achievement – we are very proud of you and love you ‘Heroes’ stamp design. 
Well done!
A massive well done to this P7 pupil for this fabulous drawing. She came down to show me on Friday and I was very impressed. She also shared the work she is completing on the American Revolution and said she was currently in the process of completing her own research. Well done!!
Miss Baldacci.
P7B Outside School Achievements
Congratulations to these members of 7B for their achievements outside of school. We have the rosettes for 2 clear rounds in a jumping competition at a local horse riding school, quite the achievement! The medal was for an unbeatable season with Murieston United girls team, amazing! What a talented pair. If you would like to share any achievements from outside of school please let us know. We would love to showcase your talents, and remember an achievement can be anything you are proud of !
Scottish Maths Week in P6B
This week in Primary 6B we have been participating in a range of maths and numeracy challenges for Scottish Maths Week. We also came 363rd in the National Sumdog Challenge this week, out of 7761 participating classes!
We have been working in pairs and teams to apply our skills in numeracy and maths to some real life problem solving contexts. One of our Challenges was to solve the ‘Fidget Spinner Mystery’. We had to solve multiple clues to work out who sabotaged the classes fidget spinners- can you believe it was a TEACHER?! Here are some photos of us working out some of the clues with the support of our resources and devices in class.
“The Fidget Spinner Challenge was really fun!” said Millie.
“The Sumdog contest was really good and exciting. We kept track of our place all week.” said Daniel.
“We were so surprised we came in 363rd place!” said Josh.
Lacie said, “It was good to get on Sumdog more this week.”
Outside School Achievements P7B
Congratulations to these two very impressive members of P7B .Great achievements over the weekend in The Spartan Race and Livingston Athletics Club. In the Spartan a 4 k was completed with 15 obstacles and to win the medals in the Athletics event it was both the high jump and 75m hurdles. Brilliant!
