23/11/18

It has been fantastic week in P4. Here is some of our news…

Curriculum Areas & Subjects

In maths, we are continuing to learn about time. Some of us have been reading schedules and timetables and others have been matching digital and analogue clock faces.

We have been writing letters to local businesses to ask for kind donations for the school Christmas Fayre. We had to include the correct features of a letter.

Interdisciplinary Learning

We used our counting skills to help us in PE this week because we were doing some Scottish Country Dancing.

Ethos and Life of the school

This week we have been learning about our ‘Collaboration’ value. We have practised our collaboration skills during topic as we work together to prepare for our presentations next week.

Opportunities for Personal Achievement

Well done to Amber, Eve, Zoe, Elsie and Peter for receiving ‘Successful Learner’ Head Teacher’s awards this week. They include great persuasive language in posters about road safety and anti-bullying week.

Well done to Rachael and Melanie for sharing personal sporting achievements during our assembly this morning! Well done to all others who have also made some good sporting achievements as well as boys and girls brigade awards, too!

Have a brilliant weekend!

Primary 4, Miss Calder & Miss Hoey

Thank you to everyone who took part in the Pudsey events for BBC Children in Need.

The P7 Fundraising Team started by promoting the charity by reading the story of Pudsey’s Great Fundraiser to the nursery boys and girls; and P1 – P3.

Throughout the week, the team sold many raffle tickets.  Well done to the winner of the raffle, Lewis Walker in P3!

Finally we were delighted to see so many people taking part in dress down in spots day on Friday 16^th November. You looked fabulous!  It was great to see so many homemade t-shirts!

The turnout at biscuit and blether was fantastic! You helped make our bake sale a great success. The beautiful Pudsey themed cakes were kindly made and decorated by Dot from our School Kitchen.

In total, we raised over £400, which is amazing! Thank you again for all of your donations.

From The P7 Fundraising Team.

We’d love to see P1-P3 parents and Carers at our gifting event on Wednesday 21st November at 2.45pm.

Thursday 22nd November

Photographer will be in school to take individual and family snaps.

Further details to follow.

We would like to thank Into Film and Vue Cinemas in Livingston for giving all our pupils from Primary 1 – Primary 7 the opportunity to attend a free screening of “Luis and the Aliens” on Thursday 15th November.  The film was great and our pupils were excellent ambassadors for our school.  I felt very proud walking through McArthur Glen with them on the way to the cinema, watching groups of people smile at our pupils and comment on how well behaved they were.

Thank you also to Vue Cinemas for giving every child a voucher to come and see another film.  Even if just one of our pupils has had the chance to experience something new, then the trip has been a success.

Last and by no means least… we’d like to say an enormous thank you from all our staff and pupils to the Parent Council for paying for the buses to take us to the cinema and to Mrs Strachan for organising.  That meant that the whole trip was free for every child in the school! You work so hard to raise funds for us with your discos, Christmas fairs and fundraisers and to support us in so many different ways.  It was lovely to see new parents come along to the Parent Council meeting on Wednesday night.  You really do make a difference and we appreciate your support more than you realise.

19th-23rd November is Road Safety Week.

The JRSOs would like you to try out a free road safety app called ‘Klang’.

Look out for posters around the school and click on the link to see a trailer for the game – http://klangtheroadhome.com/downloads/klang-trailer.mp4

Download the app here: http://klangtheroadhome.com/

It has been a busy, hard-working week in P4. We are continuing to reflect on our learning through the four contexts.

Curriculum Areas & Subjects

In P.E this week we played capture the flag, a game from the olden days. We practised our running and dodging skills.

We learned about anti-bullying week by making posters to persuade people to choose kindness over bullying. We included persuasive language such as ‘in my opinion’ and ‘it is vital’…

Interdisciplinary Learning

We used our writing skills to help us create posters about farming during our topic lesson.

Ethos and Life of the school

The school value we have been learning about this week is respect. We have shown respect by being kind to others, by talking about anti-bullying week and by showing good manners at all times.

Opportunities for Personal Achievement

Well done to Kirsty for receiving a successful learner Head Teacher award for reading lots of tricky words.

Well done to boys and girls in P4 for achieving new skills in boys brigade, sports clubs and even dog training clubs, too.

Thank you to the parent council for making our cinema trip happen. We had a great time.

Have a spectacular weekend!

Primary 4, Miss Calder & Miss Hoey

What have we been learning this week?

We have been learning money

We were matching up money to certain amounts – Lily Mc

We were learning abut exclamation marks – Lily Mc

We were learning about 2D shapes – Laiba

We were solving problems – Logan

We were using our strategies in problem solving – Emily

We were learning about living and non living – Kaylin

In science we were drawing things that were alive or not alive – Lily Mc

We were learning how to do Scottish Country dancing – Sophie

HAVE A LOVELY WEEKEND

DATE FOR YOUR DIARY – OUR ROAD SAFETY ASSEMBLY WILL BE ON FRIDAY 24TH NOVEMBER