What an amazing week we have had; we have had such a wonderful time participating in new activities and having talks from various visitors.

No better way to start our week than a ‘Boot camp’ during which we were all made to do a range of activities that were hard work but fun.

We had a talk from the RNLI who informed us all about the need to stay safe around water and the incredible job that the RNLI do keeping people safe, as well as the police and Mr Godley who explained the importance of keeping our feet healthy!!

Our sports day was lots of fun and we all enjoyed taking part in the races and activities around the field.

We were privileged to witness not one but two osprey chicks hatch, we are wishing the third the best and hope that we come back to school to see three chicks all safe and healthy.

We took part in golf, dance and Taekweon-do, seeing how much fun each of the sports is.

It has been a great week and we enjoyed every opportunity we were given.

P5

This week the P6 group watered their wheat – all growing nicely! – and replanted some nasturtiums and marigolds which had self-seeded in one of the wheat beds – these can be reused in our physic garden or in the P3’s wellbeing and wildlife garden. The class had researched plants for our physic garden and have come up with some interesting choices! We planted some seeds from the first plant on their list this week – liquorice!

This week we have been investigating sounds as we prepare to make our very own instrument. We have been looking at what materials are used to make different instruments as well as which part of the instrument actually makes the sound.

We carried out a scientific investigation to discover which material is best to insulate sounds. We had to use a decibel meter to measure how loud the alarm was when wrapped in various materials. We are surprised that the bubble wrap worked best.

Mr Reed created a bell using a metal coat hanger and string, this sounded as loud as the school bell!!

In preparation for our next big write, we have been choosing which animal we will be writing about as we create our own version of Dick King Smith’s The Water Horse.

During our maths we have been reinforcing our understanding of division using known facts and the bust stop method to solve questions with larger numbers.

We have been watching the Osprey nest every day as we eagerly anticipate the arrival of the chicks, the first is due to hatch early next week.

We enjoyed our games sessions this week, we were playing ball games in small teams.

We are really looking forward to next week and taking part in all our health and well being activities.

This week has been an unusually short week, we all enjoyed some fantastic weather whilst being off.

This week P5 have been busy learning about

• Life during the 1970’s in particular toys, television shows, walkmans, music and films.
• Powerful persuasive writing. We wrote a persuasive letter to the rangers at the Loch of the Lowes pleading with them not to close down the web site that we have been looking at daily.
• May Procession, we began our week with a lovely assembly during which we brought flowers and art work to the front of the hall.
• The whole school went to Mass on Thursday for the Ascension Mass.
• We had a visit from the Deacons Court where we learnt more about the Linlithgow marches and took part in a quiz to check what we had heard.
• All of us who applied to become a CHUM found out that we had been successful and will be starting this by the end of term.
• We have new class pets which arrived on Thursday, we have a bowl of Tadpoles which we are busy naming.

We are looking forward to next week to see what fun and exciting learning we have on offer.

P5

We’re back from camp and still so tired!!  We have included some last photos…

This week

• In Literacy/Topic – we continued working on our Earthquake/Tsunami news reports… we have written our scripts, chosen our music and video clips, and will present our news reports to the class next week!
• In Maths we investigated timetables and how long journeys take.
• In Art we created our own Japanese Kasa hats and pictures in Manga Comic style
• We also used Money Maths to help out at the Bake Sale