Category Archives: Class Posts

Class Posts, Primary 2/1

P1 & Ms King

Catch Up for W/E 2.11.18

The children all enjoyed the 3D shape lessons they had with Miss Sommerville last week. They were very busy, sorting, printing and hunting for 3D shapes. Their favourite activity was building 3D junk models.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

S – I made a dinosaur, I used a circle and a cuboid.

K – I made a dinosaur. I used a circle, a cube, cuboid and a cylinder.

P – I made a car and a drum, I used a cylinder and a cuboid.

A – I made a rocket ship and a drum.

C – I made a drum it has circles.

A – I made a jet and a launch pad. I used a cylinder and a triangle. I used 2 cuboids to make the launch pad.

H – I made a craft box. I used a cylinder and a cuboid. a cuboid has rectangles. I used a rectangle of tape.

N – I made a dancing box.

C – I made a vampire and a haunted house.

L – I used a cylinder and a circle on the vampire.

R – I made a rocket ship. I used a cylinder and a cuboid. a cylinder is curvy.

J –  I made a car, I used a cylinder and a cone. The box has rectangles.

S – I made a car. The box has a rectangle, it is straight. The wheels are a cylinder, it is curvy.

S – I made a car, I used a cuboid.

Class Posts, Primary 5

This week in Primary 5

The children have had an action packed week with outdoor learning, badminton, Remembrance writing, learning how to present information on graphs, Judo instruction, a walk to visit our local church, drumming workshop, choir practice, finishing with a wonderful assembly led by Mr Balaj from Livingston Village Kirk.

Primary 5 spent some time on Tuesday making Leaf Identification dials then we ventured outside to try them out, gathering lots of data about the leafs we found. The children loved the time outside investigating and comparing leaf patterns, sizes and shapes. We then sorted our data and used it to create bar charts to demonstrate the different types of leafs found.

This week we have also visited Livingston Village Kirk to see the beautiful Poppy Memorial created by the members of our community. It really is a fitting way to remember those who gave their lives, so we could live ours. Our visit inspired some writing to say ‘thankyou’ to the many people ( and animals) who were so brave.

Yesterday we were delighted to welcome Scott from Jidel Judo for some Judo instruction. Scott is a Team GB competitor, so it was amazing for the children to learn from someone who had competed at such a high level! The children listened and followed instructions, and Scott was very complimentary of their enthusiasm to learn.

Finally today we ended our week with a lovely Assembly led by Mr Balaj. He talked about why it is important to remember important events in our lives, but that it is also important to remember and be thankful for the life that we live now, thanks to the sacrifices of others.

Next Friday is our Class Assembly, the children are hoping you will be SPELLBOUND by it…

 

Mrs Taylor

 

 

Class Posts, Primary 3/2

Primary 2 this week

We had great fun learning outdoors this week! We went a walk through the village with Miss Whigham and stopped to look at the war memorial at the church. With Mrs Fraser, we went on a nature walk and collected as many different autumn colours as possible.

We continued learning about subtraction and longer and shorter in maths. In P.E. we were developing our ball skills ready to learn handball. In science we learned about Day and Night and how the Earth revolves around the Sun. We have started having spelling tests on a Friday- these will focus on our words for the week. Thank you to everyone who handed their homework in on Thursday. Have a lovely weekend:)

 

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 7

Our class blog

This week the blog has been done completely by us.

Charlie: On Thursday we made remembrance day cards which was very fun and entertaining everyone put a message in their cards, I did a poem.

Sophie;This week we did division in maths, I found it a little hard and I don’t think I have the hang of it yet.

Katie: This week I found maths a little challanging and I found the remembrance cards fun.

Kaitlyn: I  found the maths hard and I enjoyed doing the remembrance cards.

Brandon  I found the maths hard and I liked doing the remembrance cards.

Kieran: I found the Junior Road Safety Officer induction really interesting because we got lots of ideas for the school.

Ben M: I found going to the church fun because I got inspiration from doing it to draw a picture of the war memorial.

Bobby: In maths we did significant figures and I found it hard at first but then I got the hang of it and it was easier than before and we learnt that you don’t always need brackets and that you always times first.

Harry: I enjoyed going to football we had lots of fun.

Liam: Over the course of two weeks I’ve enjoyed learning about significant figures, at first it was a bit confusing actually finding out how to do it because there was lots of different ways to do it online but once I got the hang of it it’s actually really simple and easy.

Photos from our judo taster.

Primary 1

P1a Learning Reflection W/E 9th November 2018

Another busy week in P1. We have been working hard during our phonics lessons with Miss Fraser. We learned two new sounds l and h. We also learned the tricky word you. We made words with these sounds, taught ted how to write them, made a lamb and a horse. In numeracy we have been learning about number bonds. We have been focusing on adding numbers together that make 10. Can you remember any pairs of  numbers that make 10? We have also been outdoors twice this week. On Tuesday we went for a lovely autumn walk to the church and around the local area. We looked at the beautiful poppy tree for remembrance Sunday. We were lucky enough to get to go in the church and see the beautiful display of poppies in there. Photos to follow on twitter. We created rubbings of leaves once back in class. Primary 1 and primary 2 have also been practising for our nativity. In Science we were learning about push and pull forces. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Ayden: “I enjoyed learning my number bonds to 10.”

Ziva: “I found it tricky writing l and h.”

Leighton: “I enjoyed learning how to say the sound l.”

Isaac: “I found writing the letter h tricky.”

Ch: I enjoyed our walk to the church and learning about what the poppy is for. They are for remembering the people who died during the wars.”

Lois: “I found writing the h tricky.”

Euan: “I found our two sounds this week tricky.”

Primary 4

This Week in P4

What a great start to the term. The children are doing well and having fun in their quiz of the week which test their retrieval memory of past learning.  One of my favourite highlights this week is the classes confidence to times a number such as 64,321 by ten and most of them can explain fully what happens to the number when we multiply by ten.

I have challenged the children to improve their knowledge of graphs during outdoor classroom where we have begun exploring pictographs and pie charts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The children have loved getting their new reading books and settling into their new reading groups.  This term they have been mixed up  to give different challenge and to develop the children’s comprehension further.

General Information, Primary 3/2

P2 This week

P2 worked really well to produce their assembly about kindness.

They worked on subtraction within 20 and enjoyed measuring and ordering skeletons from shortest to tallest. We started learning about adjectives and continued our learning about magic e  with a focus on u-e words. We played punctuation game on the smartboard, focussing on full stops and capital letters. We read Autumn stories.

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 7

Fabulous Home Learning

What a great effort for the October Home Learning for P7. Across the whole class every item on the sheet was covered. One of the most popular activities was to learn a new skill – I’m so impressed that P7 were boiling eggs, pasta, trying fancy new hairstyles and even ironing! Well done! We have shared our learning and peer assessed it, with some pupils being so impressed with what their peers had done that they asked to use the WOW! stamper.

November Home Learning is already issued and a copy can be found here: November activities

We completed the SNSA this week.

We had great fun with art this week where we learned to make a picture using the wax resist technique – who knew it’s all really about science! Lots of great thinking about what was happening and why, also about why the candles worked better than the crayons. Great work P7.

Next week we are having Outdoor Learning Week and we will be outside for at least 2 sessions NO MATTER WHAT THE WEATHER IS LIKE, so please ensure pupils are dressed appropriately.

General Information, Primary 3

P3 Weekly Reflection 2.11.18

What a busy week it has been, with lots of excitement for Halloween.

Our literacy has had a focus on Halloween as we read some stories about The Clever Cat and The Bubbling Cauldron and wrote our own fictional stories by rolling a dice to choose the setting, character and prop. The children wrote fantastic stories using very creative ideas.

Darcy enjoyed our art activity this week where we were tearing pieces of paper and sticking them onto a Halloween themed shape.

Kayden reminded us about M. C. Escher who we learned about in Maths when we were thinking about tiling patterns.  We created our own tessellations using Tessellation Creator on Topmarks website, perhaps you can have your own go?

This week we started our new class topic, Inventors.  We learned about the Wright Brothers, Ruth Handler, Alexander Graham Bell, Steve Jobs and Mary Anderson.  Do you know what these people invented?  Jarrad particularly enjoyed watching the film about Alexander Graham Bell ‘accidentally’ inventing the telephone.  Over the coming weeks we will be working together in groups to research some other inventors who have been influential in Scottish history.

Kaitlyn said she enjoyed singing and dancing to The Skeleton Dance in music.  We had to listen to the lyrics and fill in the missing words on our activity sheet.  It was a very catchy song.  Rohan preferred listening to The Monster Mash.  Lakshya also enjoyed The Monster Mash and liked listening to spot the rhyming words.

Joe said he enjoyed having fun with his friends at the disco.

Wishing you all a relaxing weekend!

 

 

Primary 1

P1a Learning Reflection W/E 2nd November

Another busy week in Primary 1. We have been working very hard and learning lots.  In Literacy, we have learned f and e and the tricky word no. We have made words with these new sounds, learned how to write them and played games with sound dice. We coloured in an Elmer picture as Elmer begins with e and we are going to use them during book week Scotland. In writing we wrote about our halloween costumes. In maths, we have been continuing to learn about shape and in particular 3D shapes. We have gone on shape hunts, made shapes with our bodies, made shape wands then we blew bubbles with them, made shape biscuits, junk modelling and sorting shapes as to whether they rolled or slid. In P.E we were throwing and catching a ball to continue to develop our hand eye co-ordination. In art we finished off our space pictures. We have started preparing for our nativity and we tried to learn one of the songs. Here are a few of the children’s reflections from the week:

Sam: ” I enjoyed being the class helper this week and being responsible for taking messages to the office.”

Ayden: ” I enjoyed learning the tricky word no.”

Isaac: “I enjoyed learning the first song for our nativity.”

Lois: ” I enjoyed learning the shapes and making shape biscuits.”

Ziva: ” I enjoyed colouring in my Elmer.”

Leighton: ” I enjoyed Primary 2’s assembly on kindness.”

Euan: ” I found it tricky learning the letters f and e.”