Last Thursday P6A visited the new museum to perform their song ‘Medieval Times’. We worked with community songwriter Caro Bridges to write the song. We hope you enjoy listening – it has a catchy chorus!
We also had the opportunity to look round the museum and learn lots of new facts about Linlithgow in olden days.
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P1a Scottish Celebrations – 25th January
This afternoon we got dressed up in tartan and held our very own special Scottish celebration. We have learned how Scottish people all over the world remember Robert Burns today by holding Burns suppers. So we did something rather similar! We had lots of Scottish music, Miss McDermott read the Selkirk Grace, Mrs Ritchie read the toast to the haggis (crisps) and we even had written our own toasts to the laddies and lassies! After our haggis crisps and shortbread snack we had lots of dancing which you can see on the video clips! Happy Burns Day everyone!
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Christmas Choir
Choir visit to Linlithgow Care Home, 7th December 2017
The choir visited the Linlithgow Care Home last week and performed a range of Christmas songs. The children in the choir were given a warm welcome and sang beautifully, everyone agreed that they were a real credit to the school. The residents and staff thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon!
Thank you to the parent helpers who walked with the children. The choir’s next Christmas visit is to Templars Court on Thursday 14th December.
“The best way to spread Christmas Cheer is singing loud for all to hear!”
Last week of our first term in P1a!
It’s hard to believe that we have now completed our first term in Primary 1 at LPS. We’ve been doing lots of learning across all curricular areas – here is just a little look at the last week of term!
This week’ s sound was “r”. We enjoyed reading the story Robot Rumpus and making our own robots for team challenge. The focus for this week’s challenge was to share resources and we were allowed to swap with each other and to use the swap box! Miss McDermott is very pleased at how well we are working in teams .
Well done to everyone for taking part in Show and Tell this week. There were lots of interesting things and we were able to practise our talking and listening skills including asking and answering questions. Two of the most popular items were the space rock and the pea pods – both of which caused lots of excitement for quite different reasons!
We were delighted to be joined by our P6a buddies this week who had chosen some poems to share with us. (Originally we planned to do this on National Poetry Day which was on the 28 September however there were several other things on in school that day!) In particular we were listening and talking about rhyming words in poems as this is something we have been doing as part of our literacy learning.
We are just about at the end of our fairy tales topic but we’ve enjoyed doing some drama activities about the Three Little Pigs and have been amazed at how quickly our beanstalks have grown. We have been very keen to compare the size of them even though they were all planted on the same day! We’ve also been practising our drawing skills – look at these fantastic big bad wolves!
Over the past few weeks we have been learning a lovely autumn song with Mrs McWhirter, our music specialist. We hope you enjoy watching us perform it!
A busy second last week of term in P2/1!
My apologies for not posting this last week but here is a little update of a few of the things that we have been doing even though it is just about holiday time!
As you may have seen on Twitter we have enjoyed learning about the Scottish artist Steven Brown and were even more delighted that he retweeted our post and obviously some pictures of our art work too. Â I’m sure you’ll agree that there could well be some famous artists in P2/1 some day soon! Here a few more of the finished McCoos.
As the weather was nice last week we went outside to do some “wild writing”. Â This is part of the outdoor classroom initiative and we were able to write about anything we chose although spiders did seem to feature in quite a lot of the stories.
One of the reading groups was recently reading about a book about World Instruments which included the didgeridoo. Â MissMcDermott just happened to have a didgeridoo in her loft so she gave it a good clean and we all had a go at trying to play it. However, it was not as easy as it looked so we did some internet research ( which also said it was fun and easy!!!) and gave it another go. Â With a lot of perseverance we finally managed – well, some of us did!
On Thursday some of the P6a buddies game to our classroom to join us in playing a variety of maths games. Â We have been practising telling the time and money skills throughout the year and these are something that ideally we need to keep practising over the holidays. We would like to say a big thank you to the buddies for all their help this year!
Family Fun Picnic & Fundraiser
Fun and fundraising at the Family Picnic on Friday, anyone for cake?
Happy Birthday Linlithgow Primary School. Thank you to everyone who cam e along to support. LD
Rocking Recorders end of term update
The library was bursting with harmonies this morning as the P4 recorder group played some duets and trios! The whole group has worked really hard this term and Mrs Cameron has been very impressed with their enthusiasm. A fantastic end to an extremely tuneful term, well done Rocking Recorders!
P2b – Bugtastic Assembly
Today P2b shared their fantastic learning about their recent Minibeast project.
Some amazing stories, dancing, singing, drama and artwork.
Well done P2b.
Rocking Recorders
The P4 beginners recorder group started 5 weeks ago. The club has 12 budding musicians who meet bright and early every Wednesday morning to discover music and learn how to read musical notes. So far they have already mastered 3 new notes (B, A and G) and lots of new songs. Mrs Cameron is very proud of the group’s enthusiasm and dedication! The group hope to invite friends in P4 to come and watch them play some tunes and duets in a music lesson at the end of term. Watch this space for further updates…
Brass Day
Our P5 Brass Instrumentalists joined musicians from other schools for a wonderful day of brass.
Charity Presentation
On Friday we were joined at our Spring Assembly by Linda, a representative from the Children’s Liver Disease Foundation. This is one of the charities we picked to benefit from the money raised at the Christmas Sing a long.
Drumming Extravanganza
More pictures from the fantastic drumming performance at Howden Park.
P4A Beat Out a Banging Performance
On Monday night at Howden Park Centre, Livingston, our P4A class performed an amazing demonstration of their new skills. For the last 8 weeks P4A have been working with a project called Voice Beats which gives children an opportunity for innovation and creativity combining Japanese Taiko drumming and vocals. Please see a snap shot of their performance below.
They combined their talents with Linlithgow Bridge Primary School who were also part of the project for a joint finale mass drumming performance.
P7A Celebrating Creativity
P7AÂ were inspired by the ship’s crest we were given in our mystery box and created a huge variety of art, drama, songs, and technological design. Â Here are some of the final presentations…
