This week we learned about halves and took part in a quiz to identify halves in real life. We made a picture story about Mr Grinling the Lighthouse Keeper. In P.E. we continued to develop our tennis skills and in Health and Well-being we learned about respecting ourselves and created colourful pictures called ‘I am, I can’. Anya’s nana came to visit us and share what it was like for her growing up in the highlands of Scotland. She had photos of her life. Thank you so much for visiting us – we all really enjoyed it!

Well done to Maizy and Caleb for having their Oor Wullie cartoon strips chosen from P2 to be put on the School statue. 🙂

SOEC Belmont Centre School Talk – click on link to access information

We welcomed Miss Whigham back on Monday. We really enjoyed writing about the Easter story and learning the ear sound this week. In science, we recalled our learning about the body and Mr Keast was really pleased. In numeracy, we assessed our learning about time and money. We watched Authors Live on Thursday. It was all about Lauren Child and a story about a funny dog with Charlie and Lola. We then drew funny dogs of our own. Mrs Fraser enjoyed speaking to all our parents and sharing our progress.

Poppy was our pupil of the week this week and Sophie was our Star pupil for sharing strategies in number talks.

Happy weekend!

This week we kept our cloakroom really tidy and earned the Cloakroom award- well done P2! We learned about money and giving change to 20p. In writing we wrote a guide on how to spot a witch. We learned how to spell ire words and aw words. We made salt crystals in science and tried dissolving different things. We enjoyed gymnastics and Spiderman dodge ball in gym. We learned about plurals and revised nouns.

Well done to Arya, our star of the week.

We have had fun learning about money this week- recognising and ordering coins as well as adding coins to make amounts up to 20p.

We found out about old toys. We especially enjoyed learning about Teddy bears.

In RME we were learning about the Easter story and we really enjoyed role playing outside to re-tell the story.

We got to visit our new library and choose a book. We really enjoyed being on the new beanbags and sofas.

P2 had a fab time creating their own picture books after watching a video about illustrator, Rob Biddulph.

We enjoyed taking part in Drop Everything and Read as well as sharing stories.

In gymnastics, we created sequences with travelling, jumping and rolling. We videoed them to reflect on our learning. Next week, we will try to improve them.

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We have continued to learn about time, introducing digital times for o’clock and half past. In Number Talks, we shared strategies for addition.

Our phonic sound was ew this week which links to oo and u-e sound for next week. We have now learned how to write all of the letters of the alphabet as capitals. We shared some of the adventures of Flat Stanley, and will continue sharing these next week.

In art, we painted and drew Spring flowers.

Remember, if you know of any grandparents who would like to share what life was like for them growing up, we would love to hear from them.

We had great fun during Golden Time this week!

We enjoyed a performance by MK Duo, on Wednesday, when they played their guitars and mandolin for us. We have been continuing to learn to tell the time using o’clock, half past and quarter past…just ‘quarter to’ to conquer now!

We continue to enjoy using Sumdog on the computer to consolidate our numeracy.

We were learning about what kitchens were like in Granny’s day and watched a video from 1966 of a lady baking a cake. We spotted all the differences from then and now.

If any grandparents would like to come in and share what life was like as a child, please contact us through the school office. We would love to hear about games, toys and life in general- any objects or photos you have would also be welcomed!

We are almost finished learning to write the letters of the alphabet in capitals- we are getting really good at it. In literacy, we also learned what a homophone is and had fun playing a game about different homophones- ask us about it.

Have a nice weekend and enjoy any adventures that you get up to with Flat Stanley!

NYCOS West Lothian Wee Sing

Wee Sing is a completely free project that introduces Primary 3 children to singing through musical games.  Over the course of the project the children will learn new songs, develop musical skills, gain confidence and make lots of new friends

AGES: 7-8 years

DATES: Thursdays, 28 February – 28 March

TIME: 5 – 6pm

ADDRESS: West Calder High School Limefield Lane, West Calder EH55 8BF

COST: Free