Category Archives: Learning Stories

Events, Primary 5

P5 Christmas Party

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“Tis the season to be jolly…” and Primary 5 were certainly feeling jolly today when they celebrated at the P5 Christmas Party.

We kicked off the party with a game of Christmas themed Corners followed by a very impressive game of Musical Statues that Miss Sherlow and Mrs Redmond found extremely difficult to judge because everyone was so good! Next, we played an energetic game of Musical Arms. After that, we stopped for a bite to eat in to replenish our energy, then got back to party mode with another game of Musical Arms. We then took part in a P5 Mannequin Challenge. We finished our party by showing off our dance moves in the Primary 5 Dance Off. Everyone had a fantastic afternoon :) Merry Christmas Primary 5!

Anytime Anywhere Learning, Primary 5, Reading IDL 2016, Technologies

Marvellous Advertising Posters

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Learning Intention: We are learning to use persuasive techniques to create a poster advertisement.

Success Criteria:
A successful poster will include:
– A picture of the product
– The price
– A slogan
– Persuasive techniques
– Key information from the text

In P5B, we have been learning about persuasive language and techniques that advertising experts use to sell products. We used this to help us to create poster advertisements for our redesigned versions of George’s Marvellous Medicine as part of our Dragons’ Den challenge.

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We were allowed to select which ICT software we thought would suit our task the best, then set to work creating our posters. We had to make sure that we used as many persuasive techniques as possible to sell our product to our customers.

When we thought we had met all of the success criteria, we posted our posters onto our Yammer page, then gave our peers two stars and a wish feedback.

We used our feedback to make changes to our poster to ensure that our final product met the criteria, and was as clear and as persuasive as we could make it.

We think you’ll agree that our final designs are very persuasive. Would you buy our ‘marvellous medicines?’

English & Literacy, Events, Expressive Arts, Primary 7, Reading IDL 2016, Uncategorized

Primary 6, 7/6 and 7 Alice success!

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Myself, Miss Anderson and Mr Renshaw were so proud of our pupils following the success of our Alice the Musical Show.  To celebrate the hard work and dedication shown by all pupils, we held a movie premiere afternoon in class, sharing snacks and having a sing-along to our show, viewed through the West Lothian Council youtube channel.  It was lovely to see how all of the different teams of pupils, pulled together to pull off a great performance.

Have look below at some of our cast photos taken on the night time performance…

Fantastic job again boys and girls,

Mrs Ross, Miss Anderson and Mr Renshaw

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Community, Events, Expressive Arts, Musical, Nursery, Religious & Moral Education

Nursery Nativity

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Today our Nursery performed the A-Z of Christmas for their parents and families. Thank you to our P6 buddy’s who narrated the performances, Ben who helped with sound, Grace and Leah who played the piano, the PSA and to everyone who came to support our pupils. We definitely have lots of creative confident individuals in our Nursery, well done!

English & Literacy, Primary 7, Reading IDL 2016, Uncategorized

Book Week – Alice in Wonderland

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Alice in Wonderland has taken over P7/6! During book week we have been comparing and contrasting the original Alice In Wonderland with the modern adaptions and of course the original novel by Louis Carroll. We have discovered that books can let your imagination run free and inspire you to improve your own writing.  The novel has been quite challenging due to the language and craziness in it, at times it can be hard to follow and very hard to visualise what Wonderland might look like. To help us do this we have been referring back to the original Disney version of 1951.

We have used the films, the novel and of course our own ‘Alice the Musical’to inspire us to create a new front  cover or a scene in Alice in Wonderland.

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Miss Anderson & Cailin McKenna

Curriculum Areas, English & Literacy, Primary 1, Primary 2, Reading IDL 2016

P2/1 Scottish Book Week

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Primary 2/1 had a great time during Scottish Book week. We explored Cops and Robbers by Janet and Allan Ahlberg in more detail, choosing one of our favourite events and recreating it in planned role play.

During our Reading Open Afternoon, we welcomed some of our families into our classroom. Primary 1 pupils received their Book Bug Bags, and Primary 2 pupils were delighted to also receive a Read Write Count bag each. To start, the P1 pupils enjoyed an author reading of Shark in the Park on a Windy Day, while the P2s watched an author reading of Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam. Thereafter we enjoyed a range of activities linked to the stories. For example, the P1s made their own telescopes (just like the main character, Timothy Pope in their story) and used them to find rhyming words around the classroom. Meanwhile the Primary 2s created their own criminal animals and choose appropriate adjectives to describe them. We also engaged in a range of reading activities which we enjoy on a daily basis within our reading lessons, such as common word games and comprehension activities.

English & Literacy, Nursery, Reading IDL 2016

Scottish Book Week in the Nursery

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*I can explore and choose stories and other texts to watch, read and listen to, and can share my likes and dislikes.

Reading and the enjoyment of books is very important in the nursery and we have group story time every day. Different children choose the book for their group and tell the others why they chose it and what attracted them to the book. We discuss the author and illustrator and look at the picture to see if it can give us any clues about the story. After reading the book together the group talk about the characters and what they liked or didn’t like about the story. We also pay close attention to any rhyming words we might hear.

During free play time we read books to each other and sometimes the children like to be the teacher and read books to their class. The nursery love using books to help us learn and we enjoyed doing this during Scottish Book Week and every other week! Keeeeep reading!!

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