All this week has had a wonderful feel throughout the school, we in P5 have certainly been enjoying this wonderful time of year.

Monday saw the whole school boarding coaches to Livingston to watch a highly entertaining pantomime which all of the children thoroughly enjoyed, it was lovely to see them all participating and joining in the singing and chanting during the show.

From that point on it was all about getting set for our Christmas performance, which I can say proudly they pulled off brilliantly. Each time the children performed they really put in 100% effort and the result I am sure will agree was well worth all the effort. Throughout the week we have continued to look at ‘A Christmas Carol’ focussing particularly on the various ghosts that appear in the book as we compare and contrast them. We have been thinking about which ghost had the biggest impact on Scrooge and why. Maths this week has continued to look at number facts particularly around multiplication. We have also been enjoying learning a multiplication mash up !!!!

We were treated to a wonderful Christmas dinner on Thursday which set us all up for our evening performance, I am very grateful to everyone who braved the icy conditions and joined us at the church. It really felt very festive both inside the church and in the hall afterwards. It was lovely to meet many of the parents during this time and being able to introduce myself to you.

As we look towards next week, I know it will be a fun filled learning week with an emphasis on the Christmas story and what it means to us all.

Here are some of the photos form Grandpa’s Nativity story. We had a great time but we are very tired today!

Congratulations to primary 1 and 2 on a fantastic nativity!  They worked so hard and performed two fantastic shows to the school community.  Well done to primary 2 on a super performance of the song ‘Around the World’ you sang beautifully!  We had a very yummy Christmas lunch with turkey, ice cream and juice!  We continued our class talks on our favourite toy.

Primary 2 made finger print Rudolph the Reindeer and Christmas tree cards to sell at our Christmas Fayre last Friday.  We walked to the church on Wednesday to run through the nativity and practise our lines.  We started our class talks on our favourite toy.  We described our toy, where we got it and what we like to do with it.  In P.E we learned some traditional dances.

What a Welcome!

We didn’t get a chance to update our blog last week because Glow was down so we have included some pictures of our  business enterprise Christmas Fayre event last         week.

We enjoyed selling all of the things we had made and we enjoyed working out our profit. We will let you know next week how much money our businesses made and how we intend to spend the money we made.

On Monday  we were very excited to hear about the birth of Mrs Scott’s  baby boy on Friday the 1st of December!

W were also delighted to meet our new teacher Mr Reed!

It has been a bust week on Monday we went to visit the Longcroft hall, where we were ‘Unwrapping Christmas’ by becoming involved in the Christmas story as well as participating in some lovely Christmas crafts which we were proud to take home.

With Nativity rehearsals in school and at the church it really feels like Christmas is in full swing.

In literacy we have been learning about Charles Dickens ‘Christmas Carol’ the children have been exploring different characters and the reasons why they behaved in a particular way.

In Maths we have been learning new ways to reinforce our times tables.

We have had a great week in P5 and are looking forward to our Nativity performance next week.

This week we started a new topic ‘The Toy factory’ we have also had to do lots of practice to prepare for next weeks Nativity. Our highlights from this week include:

• Advent has started and we have our own advent calendar which we have been opening each day. We also looked at the one on the CBeebies and CBBC website.
• In Maths we have been learning about 3D shape and we made cubes to go on our Christmas Tree.
• We played a board game and have been designing our very own board games.
• We walked to the church to practice the Nativity.
• We learnt about St Nicholas and completed a reading comprehension about him.