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Health and Well Being 2018

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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

Prmary 7

Week beginning the 21st of May 2018

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Hi all, we have had a great week in P7 ….taking part in lots of sporting activities.

We started off our week with Boot Camp which was very tough! We also had a visit from the ‘Police’ to tell us a bot about their job. We had Sports Day on Tuesday and a visit from the  RNLI to talk about water safety. We also played Netball, Football , Rounders and Martial Arts, but out favourite was Boogie Bounce! It has been a great week at St. Joes’s !

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Gardening Gang 23rd May 2018

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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!

Some P4s and P5s planted courgettes, carrots – orange and purple! – lettuce and spring onions in our vegetable beds.
And our P3 wellbeing and wildlife competition tyre continued to progress – this week’s group planted marjorum (good for bees and smells good) in the tyre and planted out some lavender and pansy seedlings. P3s also earthed up our potatoes for our potato growing competition.
Lots of folk see the lovely cherry trees which are in blossom at the moment as they’re in the playground but if you get the chance, do take a walk around the garden and look at our lovely apple trees which are in full blossom at the moment. And while our pond sadly isn’t playing host to any tadpoles this year, at least some wildlife is enjoying it – this female blackbird was having a great time bathing in it!
Prmary 7

Week beginning the 14th May 2018

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Hello from Primary 7…. this week:

  • In Literacy we have studied the sad poem Timothy Winters and wrote a critical essay using PEE chains.
  • In Maths we have completed our block on Time and started our assessments
  • In Art we completed our Manga portraits and started to design our own pop stars
  • We also continued to practise for our Rock Band performance
  • We found out more about touch rugby
  • We packed bags with Mary’s Meals for children in Malawi
  • We helped our buddies with their Learning profiles

 

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Sensational Sounds

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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.

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What a whirlwind week.

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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

Prmary 7

Week beginning the 9th May 2018

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We hope you had a nice long weekend.

This week in Primary 7 :

  • we visited LPS and PC Hunter our Community Police Officer told us  how to stay safe on line
  • we led our schools ‘May Procession’
  • we delivered our Japanese news reports to the class
  • we helped P1 with their Ascension Thursday Mass
  • we completed our pictures in Japanese Manga style
  • we found out about the job the Deacons Court do
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Week beginning the 30th April 2018

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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
Primary 5

Beatlemania hits Primary 5

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This week we have been busy continuing our learning about rock stars through different periods of time. Over the past few weeks our focussing on the Beatles and life during the 1950’s – 1960’s.

We have been looking at different album covers and trying to recreate our favourite one which is for the Yellow Submarine. We particularly liked all the colours and the how eye catching it was.

Here are a few of our own album covers.

 

Our learning took us to discover lots about a well-known author called Dick King Smith, we found out lots about his early life and what influenced him to become such a popular author. We have begun reading one of his books about a water horse which we will be working together to write our own version of this amazing story.

We have been using drama to help us understand how sound travels from a source to our brains which was lots of fun and we now can explain the journey to a friend.

We continue each day to observe the Osprey occasionally catching glimpses of the three eggs they are incubating. We have seen how the male bird is not as good as the female at keeping the eggs warm but is very good at providing food for them both.

Primary 5

Week Beginning the 23rd April 2018 -Powerful Presentations

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Over the past few weeks we have been working in small groups to prepare and deliver a presentation about Ospreys.

We have been using ICT to locate information and have visited various websites to help us understand more about these birds and their habits. We then used power-point to prepare our presentation. We had to use teamwork throughout this task as we sometimes did not all agree on pictures, backgrounds, texts or even the transition between slides.

After our presentation we had to self assess our work and think about what worked well and what needed to be worked on if we were to repeat this type of exercise.

We all learnt lots about the topic and had lots of fun presenting to the class.

We continue to monitor the nest everyday to see how many fish are being brought to the nest as well as seeing how the birds are coping with the eggs that they have.