Primary 1 have had a very busy and exciting week.  We went to the Rugby club on Monday to see the author Alan Windram read his books ‘One Button Benny’ and ‘A Puppy’s Tale’.  We also had our amazing performance of ‘Mary Poppins’.  On Friday we had moving up morning where we got to visit our new Primary 2 teacher Mrs Grant.

Primary 1 have had another great week!  We have been learning to read and spell words containing consonant blends ‘ng’ and ‘nk’.  Fischy music came in to teach us songs and we put on a concert in the afternoon.  We had our very first ‘Box Play’ where we had great fun using our imagination to come up with ideas of how we could play with a cardboard box!

Primary 1 have enjoyed all the Health week activities planned this week.  Thank you very much to Mrs Telfer and the Health and Wellbeing committee for all their hard word organising all the events.  We did a cardio class in the hall with Miss Henderson and played football in the playground.  We had a visit from Zola’s mum who talked to us about her job as a doctor and showed us how to use a Stethoscope to hear our heart beat.  We had a talk from the SPCA and had the opportunity to hold a robot rabbit and role play as a vet.  The sun was out for sport’s day on Tuesday afternoon which was great fun.  We got to make fruit kebabs and ended the week with a whole school smile mile!

Primary 1 are excited to be back to school after the Easter holidays and are looking forward to a fun filled term ahead.  We have started our new topic with Primary 2 all about ‘Under the Sea’.  We have been investigating under the sea creatures and learning about life cycles.  Our topic in maths is money and we have been identifying and sequencing coins up to £2.  We planted Narcissus seeds in our playground which we will look after this term.

What an exciting week in Primary 1!  We took delivery of 10 eggs and observed them hatching over the week. We now have 8 gorgeous fluffy chicks! We filled in our Living eggs diary and created potato print chicks.  We wrote a story about a walk in the Springtime using lots of description.  We went outside for P.E on Thursday, we had lots of fun!

This week Primary 1 have been learning how to tell the time in o’clock on analogue and digital clocks.  We have been revising all our long vowel sounds and Block 2 common words.  We went into role as a knight and a dragon in our story ‘The Dragon Hunt’.  Kyla brought in a daffodil and Zola brought in a Snowdrop to school so we painted pictures of the flowers and learned about the changes in Springtime.  We also got to observe tadpoles before they were released into our pond in the playground.  St Joseph’s had a very special visitor today.  Archbishop Leo Cushley came round all the classes to answer questions and say a prayer, we were very lucky to meet him.

Primary 1 have had another great week!  In topic we have been building houses from clay and using our new Promethean panel to design a castle.  We have been retelling the story of the Three Little Pigs using storymats and building our own story using a variety of materials in preparation for our writing next week.  We had a visit from the author Michelle Sloan who read her story ‘The Fourth Bonniest Baby in Dundee’.

Primary 1 have had a very exciting and busy week.  We have been continuing to learn all about Fairtrade by designing a poster to show where chocolate comes from.  We used Fairtrade Chocolate to make Chocolate Krispie Cakes and used Fairtrade Jam on our pancakes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday.  We have been investigating materials and used sticks, bricks and straw to build our own houses for the Three Little Pigs.  On Wednesday we had a very special service to mark the beginning of Lent.  This morning we worked with Mrs Vickers and Henry’s mum to plant Snowdrops in our playground.  We are also really excited about our brand new Promethean Panel which was installed on Thursday!

Primary 1 have been learning all about the importance of Fairtrade.  We had a visit from Mrs Byrne and Mrs McEwan from the Linlithgow Fairtrade Partnership and we found out about different food products.  We designed a picture of a variety of Fairtrade snacks and designed a poster to show the journey of a Fairtrade Banana.  Our new sound this week is oa/ow and we were outside writing our sounds with chalk.  In maths we have been measuring length and weight in non-standard units. On Wednesday it was such a beautiful day that we got to have our lunch outside!

It was ‘Scotland loves languages’ week and Primary 1 did an amazing performance of ‘Frere Jacques’  in French and Polish to the School at assembly.  We are embedding French through our routines and are getting really good at saying the days of the week.  We listened to the story of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and used playdough and a variety of materials to make a story map.  We also created our own ‘Hansel and Gretel’ house.  We are working on subtraction in maths and are very good at using the numicon to show our understanding.  We used a variety of natural materials to create a ‘Fairy house’  we were very creative.  We used a pointillism technique in art to create Valentine cards for our mums and dads.