We have had the best week ever; we have partied hard, become teachers for the day, danced, taken part in tournaments and had a visit from ‘Rookie Rock Stars’.

It truly has been a wonderful end to the term. This week we had the opportunity to share some work that we had been doing in class over the past few weeks with the children in Primary one. As part of our learning, we had been designing a board game that could be played by others; we had to be able to explain the rules to new players as well as show that we can play games fairly. We had lots of fun designing our games, but even more fun playing them. We were very proud when Mr Reed said that we could share our games with the children in Primary one. It was fun to play against them even though they did seem to win all the time.

Our Christmas party was amazing; we played games, danced and enjoyed some lovely party food. The traditional dances that we had been learning during our PE sessions were performed. We impressed Mr Reed with our dances.

To end the week Rookie Rock Stars came to do a reunion session, this was an opportunity to sing the songs we learnt at the end of the summer term as well as a few Christmas songs. It was lovely to see Glynn again and sing and dance to some familiar songs.

Mr Reed has really enjoyed the term with us and has given us a clue about our theme next term. We will be looking at sustainability with a focus on one of Mr Reed’s favourite stories, Robinson Crusoe. Mr Reed thinks says we will have fun learning about the original Bear Grylls.

Have a lovely Christmas and a very happy New Year.

Primary Five.

This week has been amazing; we have really got into the festive spirit in so many different ways.

Our week began with a dress rehearsal for our nativity during which we were performing our song ‘Mary’s boy child’.  It was lovely to see all the P1 and P2 children dressed in their costumes, it really got us in the festive spirit.

Tuesday the whole school went to Livingston to watch Jack and the Beanstalk, it was a brilliant pantomime, full of songs which we all knew and could join in with. It was great to be out as a whole school enjoying such a fun performance.

Wednesday we had a fun task to carry out in our table groups. We learnt lots of new grammar terminology and tried to spot examples of each of them in a text taken from A Christmas Carol.

We were excited and nervous performing our song to the parents in the afternoon but enjoyed every second of it.

Thursday was our night to be the stars again and sung our song in the church. The church was packed so we really had to sing our hearts out. We especially enjoyed the biscuits and snacks that had been left for us afterwards. It was such fun to share our song with so many parents, grandparents and carers.

Friday we could wear our slippers to school to show our support for the homeless at this particularly cold time of year, even Mr Reed wore his slippers but they were not as cool as ours.

As our term draws to a close we are all in high spirits and excited about the parties next week.

Primary 5

Primary 1 have had a really fun week!  We had our Christmas lunch on Wednesday and wore our Christmas jumpers.  We made Christmas coasters to sell at our Fayre on Friday. The whole school walked to the church to practise the nativity.  We are really looking forward to performing to the school community next week.

This week has really felt like Christmas is getting closer, we have had a great week full of festivities and rehearsals.

Our week began with a visit to ‘Christmas unwrapped’, here we learnt more about the Christmas story in a fun and interactive way. We were treated to recounts told by actors who really brought the story to life. We then had the chance to take part in some lovely Christmas crafts where we made something special which we took home.

We have come together as a school several times to prepare for our Christmas performance where we will be singing for everyone.

We enjoyed a Christmas dinner which was full of fun and laughter.

We became Santa’s elves on Thursday and using all our teamwork skills and a very impressive production line created over one hundred sweet filled sleighs to be sold at the Christmas Fayre.

Next week we are looking forward to even more festivities as we get another week closer to Christmas.

Even though the weather is not the best it has not dampened our spirits in Primary 5.

Our week has ended on a high with our Primary 5’s mass. We had been preparing it over the week and enjoyed our moment to lead the school in our St. Andrew’s day mass. We all had roles and responsibilities that we were proud to take on.

This week has once again been full of fun and exciting learning.

During our maths work we have been learning about area and perimeter and have been learning to calculate areas of shapes including compound shapes. We have also been finding out how to calculate the perimeter of shapes other than squares and rectangles.

Through our literacy work we have been focussing on our use of adverbials and how we can use these at the beginning of sentences. We have also been learning to use different methods to plan and write stories with a focus on how best to begin a story if we really want to ‘hook’ the reader.

With our topic now completed Mr Reed has been really impressed at how much knowledge we have about what has been an incredible period of Scottish history. We have all taken part in presentations to share with the class one aspect of the period. We all enjoyed doing these although it was a little scary to stand in front of the class and become the class teacher, even if it was for only a few minutes.

Next week we have a very hectic week as we are out on Monday morning to ‘Christmas unwrapped’. Where we will be looking at the story of Christmas as well as taking part in some craft activities. We also will be preparing for our Christmas performance, where Primary 5 will be singing a song which we were desperate to sing.

Primary 5

This week Primary Two have been busy learning:

• Literacy: We have been learning to word build, blend and segment words with the long e sound (e-e). We have been doing lots of active stations to help us practice this!
• Maths: We started our data handling block this week and began looking at Venn diagrams. We know how a Venn diagram works and how to read one. We also worked with a partner to create a Venn diagram about our favourite foods- it was great fun!
• Topic: We are still working on our night and day topic. This week we have been learning all about animals that are nocturnal and diurnal. We worked with a partner to sort them into categories on a table.

I just wanted to say a massive thank you to all of you (parents and children) for making me feel so welcome over the past few months. Your support has been very much appreciated.

Primary Two- every single one of you are super stars and it has been a pleasure getting to know you all! Best of luck!