Primary 1 have had a great week.  We went out to our playground with the Gardening Gang and harvested the apples and pears from our fruit trees.  We even got the opportunity to taste the apples, they were delicious! We have been creating a storymap of the story ‘Everywhere Bear’.  We had to sequence the events in the correct order.  In maths we have been learning the story of 4 and forming our numbers.  We have been using the numicon to build a castle and a city. We created an autumn tree using corks to print the leaves.  The buddies came to read us a story, we had lots of fun!

On the Friday before we broke up for our holiday, as part of our outdoor learning we took part in a ‘Poetree’ activity. Mr Reed introduced us to this by sharing a poem that he had written about trees.

We then went outside with whiteboards and sat under, next to, near, in and around different trees in our playground and began to write poems about what we saw, felt, heard and smelt. Once we had some lines of poetry we then wrote them up on the computer.

This week we have been editing our work, we gave feedback to each other’s poems and then used the feedback to make changes to our own poems. Our new and improved poems were again typed up and then printed. We then illustrated our work before they were laminated and tomorrow we are going to place them on the trees that we wrote about.

Here are a few pictures of us as we wrote our first drafts of our ‘poetree’.

Primary 6

Over the last two weeks we have continued to investigate the ‘Body’. We  read body books, we researched using the ipads, w e built our own Skeletons. We found out how to insert pictures into Word and Powerpoint files and started to create our own fact files on a chosen ‘Body System’. We found out about how to round numbers and estimate answers. We have carried out our own research at home about the brain. We also created models at home to show interesting things that are happening in the world!

As part of our outdoor learning we were challenged to look for symmetry in nature by Mr Reed. Our first challenge was to find a leaf which when folded in half was symmetrical. After much searching we as a class had to agree that Cerys’s leaf was the most symmetrical leaf.

We then created symmetrical art using natural items that we could find on the playground and had a competition to see which was the best example of symmetry.

Throughout the week, as part of our topic we have been learning about the different gods of Ancient Greece and have been learning the connections between them. We have used what we learnt to aid our writing and included one in our writing task.

Primary 6 and Primary 7 have been invited to take part in a really exciting project which will draw upon our designing and artistic skills as we create a section of a mosaic that will be displayed here in Linlithgow. The project involves the other primary schools in the town and we are really excited to be part of it.

Mr Reed led a class discussion about the need for clean water and how so many people in the world do not have access to clean water like we do. Over the next few science lessons we will be creating different water filters to see if we are able to filter and clean water (we still will not be drinking it.) We will then look to see how clear we can get the water as it passes through various filters that we will be making.

Primary 6

This week has been full of fun filled learning; we ended last week with some wet weather so were not able to go outside for our outdoor learning session. Instead Mr Reed took us to the hall and provided us with various bits of equipment which we used to design our own playground games. Mr Reed allowed us the opportunity to share with the rest of the class what we had been working on as well as play our games.

During our topic sessions we have been learning about one of Mr Reed’s favourite myths, Theseus and the Minotaur. We have been learning the story and practising retelling it through remembering the key events.

During our Science lesson we were making observing how skittles dissolve in water and predicting which colours dissolve best. The lesson was great fun and created some fantastic results. We did end up with a few sweets which we were able to eat after school.

Our art work continues to focus on Henri Rousseau, this week we were collecting grass, leaves and twigs and then creating our own picture which we then attempted to draw.

Primary 6

Primary 1 have had a great week.  We have been word building with the sounds ‘a’, ‘t’, ‘p’ and ‘n’.  Mrs Aitken from Murrayfield Language Centre came in to do a group activity using musical instruments. We had to listen to the sounds and decide whether they were the same or different, it was lots of fun! In maths we have been learning to form the numbers 1, 2 and 3 and we used the numicon to match numbers within 10.  In topic we are continuing our adventures with ‘Everywhere Bear’.  We have made our own playdough and created Everywhere Bears.  We have drawn detailed pictures of bears and have used the Beebots to follow a map of the school.

Welcome to Primary 5. We hope you’ve had a lovely summer. We are all settled in Primary 5 and are looking forward to telling you about our learning this year.

This week we in Reading we chose our new books and found out how to be Book Detectives. We also found out how to retell a story and how to include the main points. In Writing we learned how to create a character description. In Maths we revised Place Value and found out more about 2D shapes. In P.E. we developed our Handball and Tennis skills. In Art we created some body action figures in the style of Keith Harring. Finally we found out about tour new topic The Body Snatchers! We were excited to learn that the basic blocks of the body are called ‘Cell’. We found out all about the cells by completing different topic challenges.

Primary 1 have had a fantastic week.  We have continued our adventures with ‘Everywhere Bear’.  He was lost in the playground so we had to follow the clues and we eventually found him in the Pirate ship!  In literacy we have been learning to segment and blend the sounds ‘a’, ‘t’ and ‘p’ to read words with our frog puppet ‘Fred Fingers’.  In maths we have been developing our number sense within 10 by matching numbers to numicon and building towers to match dice patterns.

Welcome to St Joseph’s Primary 1! We have had a lovely start to our Primary school journey.  We have settled really well to the routines of Primary 1 and enjoyed playing with our buddies.  We are really excited about the year ahead.  Look at all the fun we have had so far!