Primary 6 have all earned a Pupil of the Week award for their impressive WW2 projects and presentations. 
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Primary 6 have started the school newspaper this week – The Village Reporter. Our two reporters for this week are very excited to get started!
Swimming Success!
Well done to Olly, Sophie and Emma in Primary 2
for their recent achievements in swimming.
P1M Learning Reflection W/E 12.01.18
Happy New Year to you all! I hope you had a relaxing holiday and are ready for another busy term. P1 have been learning how to subtract within 10. We have enjoyed playing games to help us understand what happens to our numbers if we take away. In Literacy we have been learning the sound ‘v’ and tricky word put. For the next few weeks we will be having a Scottish focus in our learning. We learned about Nessie, the Loch Ness monster and where it lives. Here are a few of our highlights from the week:
James: I enjoyed P.E. and making different single leg balances.
Zach: I enjoyed finding out about Nessie!
Calum: I enjoyed learning the new sound ‘v’ and making words with the new sound.
Alanice: I enjoyed learning how to take away.
Safia: I enjoyed playing hop off, which helped me learn about take away as I had to take some bears off the bus.
Lewis: I enjoyed French and learning how to say my age in French.
Aiden: I enjoyed having a circle time and reflecting on my learning from the week.
Celebrating Success
At Livingston Village we enjoy celebrating the achievements of our pupils and we would like to say a big well done to all the children in our class for their continued hard work in their learning. Last term we celebrated some super work from the children and Ethan, Freya, Jarrad, Lakshya, Leo, Elisha, Luke N, Rohan and Kayden were all rewarded with a Pupil of the Week certificate. We look forward to celebrating many more successes this term. Please remember that we celebrate all of the children’s successes including wider achievements from any clubs and groups they might attend out of school so send in any certificates, medals, badges etc and we’ll look forward to the children sharing their exciting news.
Snowy Science!
Today P5 thought they would enjoy the snow and put a science based twist onto their fun. The children worked in groups to come up with some snowy science questions and the recorded their predictions. We then put our coats, boots and gloves on and headed outiside.
Questions for investigation included ……Does paint make snow melt quicker? How many drops of cold water does it take to melt a snowball? Will a snow tower collapse before a snow bridge? And hitch melts a mound of snow quicker, hot water or cold water.
Lots of discussion about the questions, making experiments fair and then comparing results with predictions.
Enjoy the snow folks!
Mrs Taylor x
P1K Star of the Week
Announcing the P6/P7 show for 2018
We are pleased to announce that this year the P6/P7 show will be…
P6 and P7 have had an introduction to the story and the characters, and have listened to some of the songs. There appears to be much excitement in both classes and it looks like there will be strong competition for the main parts. Audition pieces will be distributed this coming week.
Each pupil will be given their own copy of the script and will be expected to bring it to school each day. No replacements will be issued.
Growth Mindset
This week in Primary 2 the children have been learning about Growth Mindsets. We watched a video clip about Mojo, a friendly monster who loves school. Mojo loved maths but decided he wasn’t smart enough when the maths problems got a little bit too tricky for him and he wanted to leave. His friend helped him to see that his brain was a muscle and if he gave his brain exercise by practising his maths and working hard, his brain would become stronger and he would become smarter. We had a lovely discussion about fixed and growth mindsets following the video clip (which can be found on Youtube – Growth Mindset for Students – Episode 1/5) and then read and discussed the book Your Fantastic Elastic Brain Stretch It, Shape It by JoAnn Deak. The children will continue to learn about a growth mindset throughout this term and I look forward to seeing the changes in their thinking as they move to develop more of a growth mindset towards their learning.
P3/2 Christmas Party
The children in Primary 3 and Primary 2 had a super time as they celebrated the end of the Christmas festivities with their party on Wednesday 20th December. The children enjoyed some fun and games including some traditional scottish country dance. This was followed by party food and karaoke and rounded off with some excellent dancing in the dancing competition. Everyone had a lovely time and the teachers hope everyone had a nice relaxing holiday with their families. Here are some photos of the fun!
