On Thursday afternoon we had a lovely time with our P1 buddies creating skeletons out of sticks, stones and leaves. We enjoyed working together and had lots of fun outside in the sunshine. 
The photos of our skeletons are on display in the classroom for you to see on Parents’ Night.
Today we celebrated the efforts and contributions of some of our pupils – Awesome Achievers ! Well done, the first of many more to come. Congratulations.
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!
P6A had a great day at the zoo yesterday.
We watched the tapir and her baby walking round their enclosure. It was interesting to see that the baby looked totally different to his mum with his watermelon stripes.
This koala was sleeping in what looked like a very uncomfortable position. We noticed he had 3 fingers and 2 thumbs on each front paw and decided we would find out how he used them.
We were able to stand really close to the wallabies as we walked through their open enclosure.
The tiger spent the whole time walking from one side of his enclosure to the other. We wondered why he walked backwards and forward along the same path – was he thinking about something? We also saw how the stripes on his fur helped to camoflage his body in the long grass.
We didn’t see the giant pandas but learned from their keeper about how giant pandas have adapted from omnivores to eating bamboo with the development of a thumb-like digit on their front paws.
We visited the penguins and learned about their life cycles and breeding habits. Josie told us you can only find out whether penguins are male or female by a blood test. We also learned that the King penguins one of three species at the zoo are the second biggest of all penguins.
We visited many of the monkeys but learned most about the gibbons. Did you know all buff cheeked gibbon babies are born beige and the males turn black at puberty? The family have a ‘song’ they sing every morning to tell other gibbons this is their territory. Gibbons also sing to find a mate – if they like the song they hear they will pair up for life. This photograph shows the close link between monkeys and humans:
Finally we learned that Edinburgh Zoo usually have two male rhinos. When they hit puberty they have to be separated because they fight trying to decide who is boss and so they go to other zoos to find a mate. Our most amazing fact of the day: a baby rhino can drink up to FIFTY pints of milk a day.
We all gave our trip to the zoo a very high score out of ten – our only complaints were that we wanted to stay longer and that some animals were not outside for viewing (lions and pandas).
We will be learning more about animal adaptations in the next few weeks and we wonder where our next trip will be.
P6A and Mrs Marshall
We were delighted to be joined by the buddies this afternoon for the One Planet Picnic!
Please find a link below to what’s happening during Scottish Maths Week here at LPS.
Look out for photos and news on Twitter and on our Blog.
This morning P1a were able to show Miss McDermott who was in class by removing the T shirts that we made with the buddies on Friday from the washing line and putting them in the basket. Miss McDermott was delighted that everyone was in class again after the weekend!
Today we had an Incy Wincy Spider theme in class. As well as reading a story about Incy Wincy Spider we sang the song and made our own spiders which were very tricky to cut out! This week one of the sounds that we are learning is “s” for spider so we had to look for the sound and listen for “s” words in the story. Mrs Bennie has made a giant web just like in the story so that we can display our spiders on the wall.
Here we are enjoying lunch with the buddies!
This afternoon we learned about a little boy called Kipper. He is in lots of the reading books at Linlithgow Primary School. We coloured little cards with his picture and his name on to help us remember him. Haven’t we done a good job?!!
On Friday P1a were delighted to be joined by the buddies to complete a small task. We designed T-shirts for our self registration washing line so that Miss McDermott doesn’t need to read the register out every day to know who is in school.
Here we are hard at work!
If you look at our blog again next week you will be able to see the finished washing line!
Here are some lovely photographs of P1a and their buddies on their first day at Linlithgow Primary School. Miss McDermott hardly recognised everyone in their smart new uniforms and looks forward to seeing all the boys and girls again tomorrow!
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. 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”. 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. 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. 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. 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!
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
As you may or may not know this year is the 40th Anniversary of Palace Guiding here at Linlithgow Primary School. I just wanted to let you know that we have just had some social media coverage about the 40th anniversary of the guides. There’s a tweet on Twitter
https://twitter.com/histenvscot
a Facebook post on:
https://www.facebook.com/HistoricEnvScotland/ and a news story on the Historic Environment Scotland (HES) website:
Historic Scotland ran a competition with our up coming guides to design a 40th Anniversary Logo. The competition was won by Charlotte Casey and Ellie McDonald.
The logo by Charlotte and Ellie is featured in the web news story. A press release has gone out too and STV are interested as well as local and national press. The 40th anniversary event tickets are on Eventbrite. The event will take place at Linlithgow Burgh Halls on Sunday 13th August. All welcome.
Details are at:-
Well done to all who walked with the School on Saturday. Some grooovy outfits! It was a great day, very hot but great turn out.
This afternoon P2/1 and P6a celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day by taking part in a joint scavenger hunt around the school grounds. The theme was weight and measure which is the focus for P2/1 maths learning at the moment. The children had a long list of things to find and do – some of them much trickier than others! Here are just some of the photographs.
A fantastic morning with Primary 6 pupils from all cluster schools coming together to take part in a Cluster K’Nex Challenge. The teams had to construct a wheelbarrow to carry a house brick through a challenging obstacle course. The wheelbarrows were all tested in the gym hall and the ‘ladder of doom’ ended the fate of many of them. All of the teams did a brilliant job and a huge well done to Winchburgh Primary who constructed the wheelbarrow which was the most successful.
Our team of master constructors and their model, well done boys.
