June 4, 2017
by Miss Thomson
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Eco Assembly

Well done and thank you to all who took part in the Eco Assembly on Friday.

I think a wee reminder about what being an Eco School means was a good idea, and I hope that everyone now knows how important it is that they all play their part.

As mentioned in our assembly, litter is becoming an issue in the school. Please make sure that everyone remembers to use the bins in the playground to help reduce the problem. Each class can also help by making sure they have an up-to-date litter picking rota.

We are looking forward to our next big project of developing our story telling area in the school garden. We are very excited about seeing all your little rockfish!

June 4, 2017
by Miss Thomson
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Murder Most Horrid!

In our topic about Mary, Queen of Scots, we have been learning all about the mysterious death of her second husband, Lord Darnley. We investigated his death by looking at various documents and evidence from the time – including maps, letters from Mary to the Earl of Bothwell, and letters to Mary from Elizabeth I. We discussed the evidence and considered its reliability. We thought that the evidence was probably not reliable, however, we now know that fingerprints and DNA evidence wasn’t available in the 16th Century! Most of us thought that the Earl of Bothwell (Mary’s soon-to-be third husband!) was the most likely suspect, but we’ll never know the truth!

We used our knowledge to become crime correspondents and wrote newspaper articles about the case. We enjoyed using writer’s tricks such as alliteration, puns and rhyme to make attention-grabbing headlines! Some of our headlines include, ‘Darn! Darnley’s Dead!’, ‘Deid Darnley!’ and ‘Mysterious Murder’. We used the questions ‘Who? What? Where? When? and Why?’ to form the basis of our introductory paragraph, then gave more information including quotes from witnesses to complete the body of our reports.

We have been continuing to decorate our castle and it’s coming along nicely! Here are a few photos of our work so far – including our maps of a Royal Burgh, castle maps, our Crown jewels, our historical evidence folder, our portraits of Mary and our newspaper reports. This week we’re looking forward to typing up our ‘Secret Panel’ creative stories and sharing those too!

In maths, we have begun a block on fractions. We have been learning the terms ‘numerator’ and ‘denominator’ and finding out what they mean, and what they tell us about the fraction. We found out that the bigger the denominator (the number at the bottom of the fraction!) then the smaller the actual fraction! Some of us have also had a quick look at improper fractions and mixed numbers. Next week we will look at finding unit fractions of numbers.

We all enjoyed sports day this week – despite the rain. Well done on your efforts, P5! We also held our class auditions for the school talent show. What a talented bunch P5 are (Miss Thomson thinks she may have discovered the next big boyband!) – well done to everyone who took part. It takes a lot of courage to perform in front of an audience and you all did a brilliant job!

We were excited this week to put our knowledge of evaporation (which we learned about in our water cycle topic!) to good use when we finally started trying to grow some sugar crystals (Miss Thomson’s only been promising we can do this since Xmas…!) The classroom still smells like a mixing room in Willy Wonka’s amazing factory after some of us decided to add some flavouring to the mix. Keep your fingers crossed that we manage to grow some crystals!

June 4, 2017
by User deactivated
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P3 Update

Judo Taster

This week it was the turn of the P3s to sample some Judo skills and fun.

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Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it, and some keen to continue learning this in the club after school.

Mummification of Tomatoes!

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The tomatoes have been getting “mummified” for a couple of weeks. Still not quite ready yet so they changed over the salt mix to dehydrate the tomatoes further.

Sports Day

The weather was mostly dry, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed participating.

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Shoebox Car Challenge

It was the final week of the preparation of the shoe-box cars for the challenge. This week the focus was on trying to get the cars to go straight and far – experimenting with wax lubrication and accurate measurement for the axles.

There were 3 challenges-

Furthest
Straightest
Prettiest

The first 2 were done with a “Top Gear” style leader-board – leading to a very exciting ending to the challenges. Well done to everyone – including the P3 pupils from Dechmont who were here for the day as part of their transition.

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June 2, 2017
by User deactivated
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What P4 learned this week :)

This week we have been learning all about time in Maths. Cristian learned that we count round the clock in 5’s. Alanna knows that if the big hand is on the left hand side it shows ‘ to’ the hour and if the big hand is on the right hand side it shows ‘past’ the hour. Holly thought that learning about ‘Time’ was trickier than she first thought. Maddison enjoyed trying to beat the class time with the Round the Class Cards. Blanka liked playing Buzz with the 3 and 4 times table but wants to improve her knowledge further. Toby enjoyed working with Joshua when learning about ‘am’ and ‘pm’.

This week we enjoyed doing our handwriting using our key topic words from the Titanic, especially Toby because it is was different from just writing the other words. Nico and Tia really liked writing the facts and Deryn and Kiera especially liked drawing the timeline of the Titanic. Sarah enjoyed doing both! Yousef and Chantelle enjoyed writing and describing a picture and Chantelle wrote a further paragraph using her imagination. We finished our class novel about an Edwardian girl who wrote a diary when she was going on the Titanic. Steven enjoyed finally finishing it and we are now starting a new novel called, The Little Princess.

Layla, Grace B, Toby, Grace S, Maddison, Zach and Oscar enjoyed drawing lifeboats for our Titanic wall display. Steven enjoyed painting the sea on the display and Holly liked painting the ice-berg, making sure it was white enough.

Lewis, callie, Grace B, Alanna, Grace S, Allie, Blanka, Zach, Jayden, Toby, Joshua, Layla, Nico and Sarah enjoyed auditioning for the Talent Show this week which will be on 20^th June. We will soon find out who made it through to the finals.

Blanka got chosen to go to Hot Chocolate Friday because of her fabulous effort every week with her Home Learning. Well done!

Jack enjoyed taking part in the Eco assembly this week and the class are super proud of Toby and Nico for getting Pupil of the Week!

June 2, 2017
by Mrs McCann
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Fun at the beach

Primary 1 had a super trip to Silver Sand yesterday. The weather stayed dry but it wasn’t too sunny. We were able to enjoy lots of activities and even found some sea creatures in th erock pools. (Photos to follow!)

Here’s what we thought:

Sinead – I enjoyed building sandcastles

Hunfah – I enjoyed playing in the park in the monkey bars

Martin and Mollie – I enjoyed finding dead crabs

Natalie – I found a jellyfish. It was blue on the top and had orange tentacles

Alfie – I was swinging on the monkey bars and I liked paddling and building sandcastles. I t was the greatest day ever!

Calum – I liked looking at the jellyfish

Layla – I liked the park

Summer – I liked putting my feet in the water!

Alyssa – I liked building the sandcastles and dipping my feet in the sea

Lauren – I enjoyed everything!

Thank you so much to all the parents and carers who were able to come along.

June 2, 2017
by Mrs Hawkins
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Primary 2 Update

It’s been a very busy week in Primary 2! Here are some comments from the children:

“I enjoyed making a house for the three little pigs. I made my house out of Lego bricks. I also enjoyed letting Gordon find my treasure on my treasure map that we made in maths.” – Lennon

“I enjoyed racing on Sports Day. I nearly won!” – Harry

“I enjoyed racing on Sports Day. I liked skipping. I also enjoyed making maps and learning about coordinates.” – Tiana

“I enjoyed when my step dad won the Dad’s race on Sports Day! I also enjoyed maths. We learned about coordinates and we made maps.” – Cadence

“I enjoyed running and skipping. I also enjoyed doing the Judo taster session.” – Tyrese

“I enjoyed Sports Day. I nearly won the skipping race and I enjoyed everything else. I won the bean bag race, and my mum won the Mum’s race! I also enjoyed the Judo when I tried to push the turtle over.” – Emily

“I enjoyed writing a wanted poster for the big bad wolf. I also enjoyed doing the Judo session.” – Tyler

“I enjoyed the running race a lot at Sports Day.” – Tait

“I liked doing gymnastics in PE.” – Teigan

“I liked jumping off the spring board in gymnastics.” – Alan

“I enjoyed doing a story for grammar.” – Mason. We have been learning about verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and nouns, so we did a MadLibs story as part of our grammar lesson this week.

I hope you have a good weekend!

June 2, 2017
by Miss Sutherland
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P7/6

This week was a very exciting week for the P7s. It was transition time! P7s spent all day Wednesday and Thursday at Broxburn Academy getting a taste of what life will be like after the summer holidays.

I enjoyed science because we got to have a shot of the Bunsen burners – Eilidh

I enjoyed drama because the teacher was quite funny with us – Ewan

I enjoyed lunch as it was pizza! – Adam

I enjoyed the boiling water experiements – Morgan

I liked CDT because it was fun. We got to draw monsters. – Peter

I liked science and using the Bunsen burners – Abbie

I enjoyed maths where we did a treasure hunt – Paige

I enjoyed P.E. as we got to play football – Sam

I liked the CDT because I like crafting things – Jordan

I enjoyed art and making prints of a robot – Kelsey

I enjoyed science because I got to light the Bunsen burner and then we experimented with boiling water – Evie

I liked science because we got to use fire and if you opened it would go blue – Candyce

I enjoyed Science because we got to use the Bunsen burners – Charlie

I enjoyed art because its my favourite thing to do – Sophie

I really enjoyed art because its my favourite thing and I liked the printing – Alix

It looks like all the children loved science and art!

P6 have worked really hard this week helping sort and organise the Library. we are planning on making this a great area to promote reading for enjoyment. We have taken away old, outdated books and novels and will be looking to stock the fiction area with current books that we all want to read!

P7/6

June 2, 2017
by Mrs Weir
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P7 Transition Highlights

This week we spent two days at Broxburn Academy as part of our transition for next year. We all enjoyed ourselves and here are some of our highlights:

” I enjoyed making new friends.” – Isobel
“I liked printing in Art.” – Chloe
“I liked Science because we made a chemical reaction and lit a bunsen burner.” – Emily
“I liked CDT where we made monsters out of shapes.” – Shannon
” I was delighted that I found out that we get Maths homework once a week.” Calum
” I enjoyed playing games in drama.” – Emma
” I liked CDT.” – Findlay
” I got scared of the Bunsen Burners as I accidentally burnt my glasses.” – Ryan
“I really liked Spanish as the quiz was really fun.” – Evie
“I enjoyed the Art because we got to do ink printing.” – Holly
“I liked problem solving in Maths.” – Shannan
“I enjoyed meeting up with my friends from camp.” – Amy
“I enjoyed Science when we were filtering chemicals.” – Caitlin
“I enjoyed going around the school and it was fun.” – Codi
“I enjoyed CDT.” – Ewan
“I liked mixing liquids in Chemistry.” – Callum
“I was amused with myself when I got lost.” – Kyle
“I found it funny when Abbie went with the wrong group.” Sophie
“One of the teachers got angry when a phone went off.” – Leah Crow
“I enjoyed drama as it was completely silent and a phone went off.” Leah Clark
“I liked P.E. – we won!” – Abbie
“I enjoyed Art.” – Matthew
” I almost set my hair on fire in Science.” – Jack

Oliver also enjoyed his transition at St Margaret’s on Thursday and enjoyed mixing chemicals in Science.
Declyn was a super helper to Mrs Weir and Miss Sutherland in preparing the ICT for the Leavers’ Service. He is looking forward to his transition to Deans High School in a few weeks.

June 2, 2017
by User deactivated
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P6 Update

This week in P6 things were back to normal after our student teacher Miss Ostridge, finished her time with us.

We have started work on angles in maths, learning about measuring angles and classifying their types.

We have been investigating Chinese calligraphy as part of our topic. We learned to write our names in Chinese characters.

It was also very exciting as we had sports day. Well done to all the winners and to everyone for taking part.

May 30, 2017
by Mrs Shankland
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Sports’ Day- A Big Thank You !

Well done everyone for taking part in this year’s Sports’ Day. It was a wee bit dreich this afternoon but everyone was still smiling and all the children were keen to take part. Thank you so much to all the families and friends who came along to support us and got a bit wet 🙂

Another big thank you to the P6 and P4 helpers who did all the running about at both events and also to Mrs Alston, Mrs Featherstone, Mrs Jamieson, Caitlin and Mrs McMillan for keeping score and handing out the stickers.

And finally thank you to all the parents/carers who took part in the races- balancing a bean bag and running with an egg and spoon at the same time is no mean feat.

🙂