Week Beginning 19^th February 2018

We have had a busy few weeks in Primary 4 working hard with Miss Russon. Our highlights from the last few weeks include:

• Learning about money in numeracy, we have been ordering coins and notes, adding money and giving change
• Our Big Writing lessons, using speech marks in our imaginative writing
• Learning new skills at Futsal with Craig
• Exploring The Rainforest, learning about the layers and animals that live in each.

By Ronan, Josie and Hayley ( Media Committee)

Primary 2 have had another busy week.  We have been working on place value and subtraction in maths.

We summarised the end of our reading books and wrote a story about ‘The Enormous Turnip’.

We have been learning rule for adding ‘dge’ to make the j sound after a short vowel.  In French we were learning how to say ‘my name is..’ and we played the French game ‘La Marelle’ to practise our numbers to 10.

In Primary 6 this week we;

• Enjoyed a visit to West Lothian College. We got to participate in lots of classes which included media, childhood practise, social care, hairdressing and computing
• We explored the importance of a problem in a story and how we build up to this. We then started to write own imaginative stories for the Night Zoo.
• We explored the rules of division which will help us work out whether a number can be shared equally.
• We created beautiful art pieces of Mary, Queen of Scots, using enlargement and tone.
• We developed visualisation skills and inference skills, creating a picture of Mrs Pratchett, by reading descriptions.
• We had a lesson from Primary 3, who taught us about our local town.

This week we have been working hard on our Local History Topic as we work towards our Archaeology Scotland ‘Heritage Hero Award’. This week’s highlights include:

• We have been making information posters about places in Linlithgow which we will present to P6.
• We had a visit from the SSPCA where we learnt about their work and how we can help to look after animals.
• We have been learning about the value of Honesty
• We have begun working on subtraction in Maths
• In RE we have been learning about when Jesus was baptised by John the Baptist
• We wrote some information leaflets about Linlithgow.

Time for a well-earned break.

Over the week we have been very busy, our learning has taken us back in time as well as considering the impact of modern tools such as social media.

This week we have been considering what a wonderful soldier William Wallace was and using drama to understand how other may have thought of him. We investigated the strategies used to defeat the English at the battle of Stirling Bridge. We also used art to capture some of their understanding of this important battle. We also put themselves in the midst of the battle and wrote a descriptive opening as if they were a soldier on the day of the battle.

Through our mathematics we have been developing our understanding of different ways in which we can multiply large numbers together. We are now choosing which method we prefer when answering various word problems including at times ones with decimals in.

We enjoyed our last tag rugby session this week, showed our thanks to the guys afterwards.

Through our science work, we used ICT to show our understanding and have begun to put together very impressive power points all about food chains.

We are going to enjoy having a couple of days off school!

Many thanks for your continued support

Primary 5

A week in the life of P5

What a lovely end to a spectacular week. We finished our week by giving a short but informative presentation based upon our research area that we had chosen earlier in the week. Throughout the week we had been learning about how life was different during the medieval period. Having completed our research as part of our literacy work we created a fact sheet, bursting with fun filled facts.

During our numeracy work we have been learning how to multiply two and three digit numbers; we have had lots of fun trying out different methods.

We have some budding scientist in our class who were able to explain about how animals have adapted to live in various environments, we considered lots of different animals including animals that live on land, in the sea and even animals that fly.

We spent time this week learning about William Wallace as part of our Scottish War of Independence topic, we enjoyed learning about his rise to power and his gruesome end. We have been able to recall many of the facts we have learnt as we work through this interesting and important period of history.

We enjoy the rugby sessions that we are taking part in and are beginning to show great potential in this action packed activity.

We loved our afternoon of shield making and as a result we have almost completed this project. We have been evaluating what worked well and what we would do differently next time. When all our shields are completely finished we will share our designs with you all.

Thank you again for your support

P5