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Achievement Awards, Achievements, Events, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Top Scorers

Term 2 Celebration Assembly

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On December 22nd, we welcomed parents and friends along to our Celebration Assembly so that pupils could receive their STEM Super Star and Successful Speller awards. We also announced the Top Scorers for each house.

A big thank you to Mr Welsh for inspiring us by sharing his interpretation of our school motto, Believe, Achieve, Succeed, and for presenting our Primary 3 pupils with their certificate for coming first in West Lothian’s Sumdog Maths Contest. Certificates were also awarded to our pupils who came in the top 50 in the competition.

Well done to all of our award winners!

Primary 2, Uncategorized

P2 Christmas Party

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This morning Primary 2 were ready to party!

The children all looked amazing, and had such enthusiasm for taking part in the games and activities, which they planned themselves yesterday. They did this by first of all gathering lots of ideas for party games, then they used tally marks to record votes and eventually they discovered that the favourites were Pass the Parcel, Musical Statues, Christmas Corners and Duck, Duck, Goose (which we changed to Santa, Santa, Elf since it was Christmas!)

We also had time to dance and show off all our wonderful moves. We even had a dancing competition. What terrific dancers we have in P2!

In between all these activities we  stopped to enjoy a short break and to have some food and drink.

The party was a lot of fun and a great way to start our day.

Primary 1

P1’s Christmas Party!

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P1 had an absolutely amazing time at their Christmas party this afternoon. All the boys and girls looked fantastic in their party outfits and really enjoyed participating in all their chosen Christmas party games such as musical statues, musical bumps, pass the parcel, Christmas corners and a dancing competition.

Well done to all our fantastic prize winners demonstrating some really groovy moves on the dance floor!

We also had a special visitor, santa, who popped in while he was passing in his sleigh on the way to his workshop to deliver a special gift to each of the boys and girls in P1. We all enjoyed singing Jingle Bells to welcome him in.

Merry Christmas P1!

Mrs Walker & Miss Prior

 

Events, Primary 3, Uncategorized

Primary 3’s Christmas Party

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“Tis the season to be jolly…” and Primary 3 were certainly feeling jolly today when they celebrated at the P3 Christmas party.

We kicked off the party with a game of Eggs, followed by Christmas themed Corners. Next, we played an energetic game of Ollie Ollie Octopus. After that, we stopped for a bite to eat in to replenish our energy, then got back to party mode with a game of Killer 12. We then played a game that Lucas invented called Shark Attack. We also showed off our dance moves and sang along loudly to our favourite songs. Everyone had a fantastic afternoon 🙂 Merry Christmas Primary 3!

 

Primary 7

A Fun-Filled Week in P6 and P7

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Last week P6 and P7 had an exciting week. On Tuesday the P7s had their Christmas party, on Wednesday we all went to see ‘Wonder’ at the cinema and on Thursday P6 had their party. It was a good opportunity for the children to be together and have fun in their year groups.

Our visit to the cinema was very enjoyable and brought the book ‘Wonder’ to life. It was interesting to see how the film adapted parts of the story and how it tried to help the audience get into the minds of the characters. In class, there has been lots of good discussion about the film and the story in general. It covers very important topics such as friendship, family, bullying and self image.

Book Week Scotland 2017, English & Literacy, Primary 2, Uncategorized

Book Week in P2

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Last week the children in Primary 2  were very excited to receive their Read, Write,  Count bags as part of  the Book Week Scotland event.

First, Primary 5 children were welcomed into the classroom to  present the bags to the younger boys and girls. They explored the contents of the bag together, and spent a little time choosing and reading one of the books.

We were then joined by family and friends later in the afternoon, and had lots of fun playing some of the suggested number games using the resources in the bag, as well as completing some of the tasks related to the book ‘Mr Tiger Goes Wild’ by Peter Brown.

At the end of the afternoon we listened to author Kes Gray read his story of Quick Quack Quentin which was the other book in our Read, Write, Count bag. There was lots of fun and laughter as we worked out what our names would sound like if the letter A was missing!

Kes Gray is one of our favourite authors in Primary 2, so please ask us about some of the other books we have read that were also written by him.

Thank you to everyone to came to visit. We hope you enjoyed exploring the Read, Write, Count bags as much as we did.

Book Week Scotland 2017, English & Literacy, Primary 1

P1W’s Book Bag Gifting

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Last Thursday, we invited our P7 buddies to our class to gift our book bag’s as part of Book Week. Our P7 buddies enjoyed reading the stories with the children and showing P1 what they had been given in their book bag.

We also invited our relatives and friends to our class on Thursday afternoon, to participate in activities related to the three picture books included in our book bag (Gorilla Loves Vanilla, Little Owl’s Egg and The Fourth Bonniest Baby in Dundee) and gain ideas of how to use this fantastic resource at home.

 

We were all very excited to receive our book bags and share them with our families and friends. Thank you to everyone who was able to visit P1W!

 

Book Week Scotland 2017, English & Literacy, Nursery, Nursery Learning Stories, Uncategorized

Nursery Book Bag Gifting

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The nursery children were very excited today as it was the day of our book bag gifting and all our anti-preschool children were receiving their bag with lovely new books and activities inside. Our preschool children were not forgotten and were delighted to receive a new book to take home.

Some of our parents and grandparents attended the gifting and along with the children were very excited about our special visitor. The Book Bug came along to our nursery to give the boys and girls their gifts. The children enjoyed giving him hugs and high fives and loved showing him our new nursery. After our gifting the parents and grandparents went with the children in to their key groups and the teachers read the group one of the books from the anti-preschool bag. The adults were able to observe our voting system and were involved in choosing what book each group read. We used the title, cover and author to help us make the decision. We all then enjoyed reading together and listening to the stories, discussing afterwards what we liked about it.

This was a lovely way to spend our session at nursery and a super way to encourage families to read at home together and learn more about the books they enjoy.

Thank you to everyone who supported this event.

 

 

Book Week Scotland 2017, Early Level, English & Literacy, Primary 1

P1P’s Brilliant Book Bug Bags

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P1P have had a very exciting week for Scottish Book Week!

At the start of the week we spent time reading and exploring the 3 picture books that were shortlisted for The Bookbug Picture Book Prize, we also watched some fantastic videos of the authors reading their stories. After we watched the author videos we voted for our favourite book using gems, ‘Gorilla Loves Vanilla’ was the winner of the vote!

On Thursday we were very excited because our P7 Buddies came down to our class to deliver very special P1 Bookbug Bag. These bags were filled with fantastic activities and stories for us to use at home. Later in the afternoon our parents came in and we shared different activities we can use with our Bookbug bags!

We had a fantastic time and thank you to everyone who was able to come in and visit!