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P1K Learning Reflection for Week ending 20.4.18
PATPAL
Holly – we taught Mrs M to count on a Rekenrek
Arya – we played cover up you can count in your head or see the counters to help
Nathan – takeaway using dice, you take the small number from the big number
Rayyaan – We showed different ways to make a number you can do 6 and 4 or 7 and 3 to make 10
Maddie – domino number patterns to see how many ways we can make a number
Measure
P1K found different sized foot prints in the class. After lots of speculation about who or what left the footprints the children explored different ways they could measure them. They decided to use: beach glass, dominoes, lego and counting teds. The children started to notice that they were getting different results because they were using different materials to measure with, see the table below:
After lots of discussion and exploration the children found they best way to measure was:
- Dominoes were the best non-standard unit because they were all the same length
- To measure the length you don’t go around but from end to end
- Be careful there are no gaps when placing the dominoes.
- Measure the longest part
The children then practised their measuring skills further by measuring the length of all sorts of things around the classroom using cubes.
P2 Window into Learning Term 4
Please find attached our Window into learning for Term 4.
SportaFUNd Thursday 19th April
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
Snow day challenges
Hope you are all staying cosy and warm, however if the children need some challenge –
1.
- Take a cupful of snow and time how long it takes to melt in the house.
- Take a second cup of snow and wrap it in a scarf, time how long it takes to melt.
- Take a third cup and wrap it in plastic- how long does it take to melt.
- Take a fourth cup and try and idea of your own to keep the cup cold, and time how long the snow takes to melt. Remember if it is a fair test everything must be the same except one thing. So same size cups, same place in the house. the only change is what it is wrapped in.
Let me know if you have any other science ideas.
2.
- Put food colouring in balloons and add water thenleave them out in the snow to freeze, when you cut the balloon off they look like giant colourful marbles apparently! Not very sciency but hopefullyfun!
3.
- ? Do you have any other ideas?
Reminder
Happy snow days, just remember if you’re stuck for things to do then check out the snow activity packs. Click on the link in the left menu.
P1M Snowy Days
Hello boys and girls. I hope you are safe and warm. I hope you are making the most of this snowy weather and have had an opportunity to go outside and build a snowman or make snow angels. We would love to see some pictures of your snowy adventures and these can be uploaded to twitter on the LVPS PE account under the hashtag lvpssnowtasticday. Also you will find some snow day activities on our school website and you can always play Sumdog and practice your maths.
Stay safe
Miss Maclachlan
Make the Most of Your Snow Day
I hope you are not all too cold and are managing to have some fun in the snow.
When you are back inside, don’t rush to your X-box or whatever gadget too quickly – think about your poor show script sitting all curled up and forgotten at the bottom of your schoolbag.
Why not get it out and have a go at learning some more of your lines?
Show day is coming up fast and we need to be off script by this time next week.
Sportshall Athletics East Regional Championships
On Wednesday, 20 members from our P7 class took part in the Sportshall Athletics East Regional Championships at the Jack Kane Centre in Edinburgh. This is where the top two schools from City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian and the Borders take part in activities which include: 4 x 100m, over/under relay, obstacle relay, 6 lap parlauff, 2 lap relay, 1 lap relay, javelin, speed bounce, long jump, vertical jump, triple jump and chest push.
Our team placed 8th overall. Kirknewton Primary finished 10th which means although we were not crowned Champions on the day, we are the top performing school out of 67 in West Lothian. Another fantastic achievement. On the day our children demonstrated resilience, perseverance, motivation and superb sportsmanship. We cheered on the winners and all the other competitors and enjoyed a really great event.
Livingston Netball League
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R1
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4 V 5
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Meldrum
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1
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Toronto
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1
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R2
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3 V 1
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Parkhead
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4
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Livi A
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8
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R3
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2 V 3
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Livi B
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8
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Parkhead
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4
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R4
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1 V 4
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Livi A
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4
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Meldrum
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12
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R5
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1 v 5
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Livi A
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8
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Toronto
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3
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R6
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2 v 4
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Livi B
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4
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Meldrum
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2
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R7
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4 v 3
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Meldrum
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2
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Parkhead
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5
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R8
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5 v 2
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Toronto
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0
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Livi B
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9
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R9
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1 v 2
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Livi A
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3
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Livi B
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12
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R10
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3 v 5
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Parkhead
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11
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Toronto
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0
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3 pts win, 2 pts draw, 1 point loss
1st Livi Village B 12pts
= 2nd Livi A and Parkhead 8pts
4th Meldrum 7pts
5th Toronto 5pts
We took part in the second round of the Livingston Netball League yesterday at Parkhead Primary school. We had 15 members of the team so we decided to have two teams. The results above show the strength in depth we have at the school. This is testament to the hard work and dedication our players put in. Not only are they all great players but they are fantastic role models too who display sportsmanship at all times. Well done team. We are all very proud of you at LVPS.
