A big thank you to the PSA and all the parents and staff that helped organise and support our Halloween Disco.
A big thank you to the PSA and all the parents and staff that helped organise and support our Halloween Disco.
LI: Â We are learning to plan and organise a holiday to Japan, while keeping to a budget
SC: I can consider best value for money when booking car rental, hotels and airfares.
I can book a hotel that is less than 2 miles from the city centre of Tokyo.
I can plan a day out/excursion for 2 adults and 1 child.
I can research and price an appropriate restaurant that is located in the city of Tokyo that is suitable for 2 adults and 1 child.
I can stay within the budget of £6000
This week P7/6 were challenged to book a holiday for a family to Tokyo for a week. In trios the children researched flight details and times and tried to find the cheapest flight within the given dates. They had to ensure car hire was booked, so they picked up their rented car from Narita airport. The hotel they booked had to be within 2 miles from the city centre, so the children researched further in to location and not just the best price. To ensure they had the best time when they were in Tokyo the trios organised a day excursion for their family and found well priced restaurants for them to eat in.
The children were so motivated during this real life challenge, and at times were a little concerned that they had actually booked for 3 people to climb Mount Fuji!! They loved the competition of beating their friends to a cheaper holiday price and some trios returned to try to reduce prices by choosing different deals. It was an excellent way to practice our budgeting skills and find out more about holidaying in Japan.
Japan has been a fantastic topic and we now are all excited about moving in to term 2! Enjoy your holiday!
This week all the P7’s took part in the annual Sports Festival at East Calder Sports Centre. Over the past few weeks we have been practicing the skills involved in the various activities with Mrs Mitchell. The activities that we took part in at the festival were the javelin, time 2 lap-run, speed bounce and standing long, which we were scored in. There were also another 2 activities, one to test our endurance and one to test our balance. All P7’s who participated gave 100% and did extremely well on the day. Hopefully we will get the results soon. P7 hope everyone has a fantastic and safe holiday. See you all soon 
Today we had our second house meeting which had a focus on our playground. First of all the vice and house captains shared with us our house logos and slogans and also the values that our house thought were the most important:
The vice and house captains taught us a new community builder called; elephants, monkeys, helicopters and palm trees. They were taught how to play this game at peer mediator training.
Next we discussed the importance of being safe in the playground and why we need to create a playground charter. We got into groups and discussed what we should have in our playground charter, and the house and vice captains will take this information to make a school playground charter.
Thank you to our house and vice captains for organising the house meeting, and to the P7s for organising the groups.
Learning Intention:Â We are learning to write a set of instructions for a rainforest in a bottle
Success Criteria:
I can use the key features of instructions including:
-a title
-an introduction
– a list of equipment needed
– short, clear and easily understandable steps
-numbered steps
-a picture/diagram
I can use commas correctly to separate items in a list
I can use connectives to show the order of events
In our writing lesson this week, Primary 5 were learning to write a set of instructions about how to make a rainforest in a bottle. We watched a video to help us, then we used the information we had learned to make an example as a class. We then felt ready to write out our instructions.
“I loved making a rainforest in a bottle with my Mum. It was fun and educational to make.” said Ryan.
“I liked when my Mum got most of the answers right in my quiz. She got my trick question wrong!” added Joe.
“I loved showing my Mum around our class, especially the quiz because she didn’t know that gum came from the rainforest and it was cool to teach my Mum something new” said Kiera.
“I loved it when we did the money challenge where we had to spell words from the rainforest and find out how much they cost. My Mum got on quite well.” said Katie.
“I liked making the rainforest in a bottle with my family and i think we should do something like this again” added Amy.
To celebrate our learning so far this term we invited our parents and families into the school so we could share what we have been learning for Money Fortnight and in our Interdisciplinary Learning which focused on traditional tales. We especially keen to share our story books that we wrote all by ourselves and we were able to show our skills when using coins to pay for items in our toy shop. Thank you to everyone who came along.
Congratulations to our two P7 boys who were invited along to take part in the West Lothian Cross Country event. They came 11th and 16th out of 60 competitors! Well done boys.
To celebrate the end of Money Fortnight we invited our parents and families into school to share with them what we have been learning about in connection with money, and also our interdisciplinary learning context for learning. Activities included visiting the bank, sharing our storybook, making a rainforest in a bottle and making sushi. Thank you to all the parents and families that came along to support this event, there was a great ‘buzz’ around the school.
