This has been a shorter week for primary 5 due to the Monday holiday so we have tried to cram lots in!
Tuesday saw P5 continue their Golf lessons with Mrs Rae outside in the sun. The children are really enjoying this experience and are very appreciative of Mrs Rae giving up her time to spend with P5.
We have also started preparing for our assembly on Internet Safety…the children are so excited to share their learning with you on Friday 8th June.
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Taylor
Another busy week in P5!
This week we held our debate with our guest audience from Primary 6. I was delighted at the confidence shown by the children as they delivered their points with such conviction, using lots of persuasive language to sway the audience. Hayley B felt “that it was a really good experience as you got to practice how MP’s may speak when delivering their talks”. Callan thought that “it was really helpful for teamwork, and I liked that the parents got to be involved as well with the questionnaire.”
We also had some very sporty children compete in the West Lothian Schools Triathalon. They went off feeling a little bit apprehensive but they returned with the biggest smiles and an impressive medal around their necks! Well done to Charlie, Callan, Zoe, Katy, Logan F, Jamie, Cade and Calum W.
To finish off the week the children had some Royal Wedding based maths problem solving. Helping Megan and Harry solve some tricky issues including organsing wedding guest seating, the amount of petals in the flower girls baskets and calculating the total number of presents left for the happy couple on each table…I think the Royal Couple should have employed P5 to solve their wedding issues, as they were awesome problem solvers!!
Enjoy the holiday weekend everyone, see you on Tuesday!
Mrs T x
we have been looking at fractions and specifically fractions of a number. Murray reported that “the fractions were fun! Learning how to use our times tables to work it out was interesting and really good fun.”
The children have also been working on their Class debate and had a trial run yesterday. Aiden was very confident as our Chairperson and did a good job in keeping the debate flowing. Aiden explained ” I thought it was quite good. We tried to organise it well and can’t wait to do the real Debate next week.” Primary 5 will be inviting their peers in P6 and P4 to be our audience.
Good job this week P5!
Mrs Taylor
Dear parent/carer
From June 4th, I will no longer be the PE teacher at Livingston Village Primary school. I have accepted the post as Principal Teacher of the Scottish Attainment Challenge schools in West Lothian. This promoted post was too good an opportunity to turn down and I am very excited for this new challenge. I will be working between St Thomas’ Primary School in Addiewell and Bridgend in Linlithgow.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your support over the years. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here and I will miss the children, staff and yourselves incredibly. I have so many happy memories and I have no doubt that PE and school sport will continue to flourish in my absence. I will be back at the end of term to celebrate all our fantastic sporting achievements this year at the Sports Committee Assembly.
My last day at LVPS will be on Tuesday the 29th May. I will also be ensuring that our application for an unprecedented 3rd sportscotland school sport gold award will be completed and if successful I hope to come back in November 2018 for the presentation.
I am also delighted to announce how much we raised at SportaFUNd. Abbie, our former pupil, raised £360.00 with the bake sale, the ELC raised £395.00 and the school raised a whopping £1724.20. This demonstrates all the hard work, dedication and commitment from everybody connected to this fabulous school.
Thank you once again.
Kind regards
Mr Stewart.
Upon hearing the news of the councils decision to remove our garden owl, the children have been busy planning campaigns and thinking of ways to raise funds!
Today has been a day of design and technology with everyone being involved in designing posters, using Lego to create the ‘perfect’ memorial garden using the Owl as a centre piece, and making Owl themed bookmarks to sell.
Hopefully a Superhero will come to our rescue…
Below is information which has already been circulated through letter, email, facebook and twitter about our upcoming SportaFUNd day. Any donation, no matter how small, will make a big difference.
SportaFUNd
Dear parent/carer
As you will be aware, the school’s SportaFUNd Day is on Thursday 19th April within the school. We are holding a Sponsored Mile long obstacle course, various stalls in the playground including face painting, beat the goalie and soak the teacher amongst others and a Bake Sale to support former pupil Abby Cowan on her trip to Rwanda to build a new school.
All monies raised within the bake sale goes to Abby’s trip. All monies raised by the nursery will go towards new nursery play equipment. All monies raised by P1-P7 and the money from the various stalls goes to the school for new playground equipment, new PE equipment and towards the cost of transport to various sporting events.
For all of this to happen we need your support please. We are looking for baking donations, volunteers to help at the various stalls and volunteers to support the obstacle course. All 15 members of the Sports Committee will be supporting the event too.
Below is a timetable for the day.
Assault Course Stalls
9:00am-9:15am P6 9:15am – 9:30am P6
9:30am – 9:45am nursery (am) 9:45am – 10:00am nursery (am)
10:00am – 10:15am P5 10:15am – 10:30am P5
11:00am -11:15am P1 11:15am – 11:30am P1
11:30am -11:45am P2 11:45am – 12 noon P2
1:15pm -1:30pm nursery (pm) 1:30pm – 1:45pm nursery (pm)
1:45pm – 2:00pm P4 2:00pm – 2:15pm P4
2:15pm – 2:30pm P3 2:30pm – 2:45pm P3
2:45pm – 3:00pm P7 3:00pm – 3:15pm P7
If you can help out at all please attend a short meeting in the school gym hall on Monday 16th April straight after school with Mr Stewart and the Sports Committee. If you cannot make the meeting please give your name to Mrs Young at the school office and Mr Stewart will contact you before the event. Even if you can only help for a short while we would really appreciate it. If you cannot support you are welcome to come along and support your child at the appropriate time above.
Children are encouraged to wear sports kit from any clubs or teams they represent out with school. Football strips will be allowed on this day. Those children who represent any of the school teams will be allowed to wear a school strip. PE kit or a tracksuit are also allowed. The assault course is outside so please ensure your child has a change of clothing as they may get dirty.
On the day the bake sale will take place in the gym hall from 9am – 12. All of the other stalls will take place in the school playground. Most of the stalls will cost between 50p and £1.
Can you please ensure your child’s sponsorship money is delivered to the school office as soon as possible.
Thank you for your continued support.
Mr Stewart, Ms Taylor and the Sports Committee
Over the last couple of days Matthew and Logan Y have been working on creating a Chinese Dragon Head….the finished piece is brilliant with lots of thought and detail. Well done boys, what a fantastic piece of Lego engineering.
Continuing on with our China topic, today’s challenge was to create a watchtower and walls based on our recent research of The Great Wall of China. The children worked in groups of three, using our Lego Challenge Roles to support their learning. Each group planned their tower, thinking about the size constraints and had great fun finally building their creations.
The final challenge was to link them altogether to great our own version of The Great Wall of China … and we did it!
Well done P5, what a terrific bunch of architects and engineers you are.
Mrs T x
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Good Morning Primary 5!
Another Snow Day…so i have found a Snow Day Bingo for you to play with your family and friends. It has lots of activities for indoors as well as outdoors!
Olivia and Rebecca are just away to start on theirs, you can upload any of your activities on our twitter page using #lvpssnowtasticday
Have fun, keep warm and stay safe little ones!
Mrs T x
