We have been working very hard with our student teacher Mrs. Murrell.

As part of our topic the human body we conducted a science experiment and recreated the digestive system. This was messy but so much fun.

A big thank you to all the boys and girls who brought in their homework on the digestive system, you worked really hard on this.

In Numeracy we are working hard on subtraction and division strategies. Some of these strategies are proving rather tricky.

A big congratulations to all the P6 boys and girls who participated in the Bathgate cluster schools cross country.

You did Murrayfield Primary schools proud through your excellent behavior and sportsmanship.

Congratulations to Anna Findlay for placing 3rd in the girls race.

P3 National Children’s Day Challenge

A few weeks ago our class assembly was all about National Children’s day UK which is coming up this weekend, Sunday 13^th May.

This afternoon we have all visited classes for a survey about what makes us happy and keeps us safe. We set challenges for people to do some happy and safe tasks this weekend and share them with us by commenting or leaving photos on this post. We hope you have a lovely weekend!

From Primary 3!

What have we been learning this week?

We have been doing our comprehension questions on The Two Jacks – Rhian

The red group are reading Black Hat Bob – Noah

We were answering questions on our book – Charlie

The yellow group were reading Hairy Fairy – Robbie

The Blue group were writing a Book Review – Leyla

The Green group are reading In The Sun – Quinn

We were learning about our organs and our skeleton – Quinn

We were watching a video about the skeleton – Jakub

We were learning about our heart – Jay James

We were doing an addition and subtraction sheet- Brooke

We were reading scales in measurement – Cameron

We were weighing ourselves in kg – Charlie

We were doing sequencing, counting and dot patterns with Mrs Stewart and Mrs Wedlock in Numeracy – Kenzie and Cameron

We were doing Go Noodle in the class to keep fit – Jakub

We were writing the first part of an imaginative story about Pirates – Cameron

We had to identify nouns, adjectives and verbs – Kenzie

We started the Fizzy Programme with Mrs Logan  (Leyla, Brooke, Robbie, Quinn and Alex )  – Brooke

WELL DONE to Robbie and Brooke for their independent writing

and to Jay James for independent 2 digit subtraction work – they recieved their HEAD TEACHERS AWARDS.

Well done Julia for winning the P1-P3 stage of designing a SAFE superhero!

HAVE A NICE LONG WEEKEND AND HOPE THE SUN SHINES

This week we have been learning…..

Writing an imaginative piece. We enjoyed drawing our imaginary characters. – Ollie

We made/ designed our own toys from the past. – Kevin

We  have been practising our assembly lines. – Katie

We made our own head bands for assembly. – Ruby

We also looked at some more toys from the past. I enjoyed playing with the old dolls the most. – Laiba

**Reminder**

Our primary 2 assembly is on Friday 11th. We hope you all have a lovely long weekend.

Primary 2 & Mrs Prentice

Wow – what a wonderful and amazing week Primary 4 have had.  Mrs Glancy and Mrs Geddes have been blown away by the quality of work which the Primary 4’s have produced.

Well done to Artemis and Aleisha for achieving their Head Teacher Awards at assembly!

Artemis was also the class Raffle Prize winner!

Keep learning your multiplication tables, as you will need to use them for next weeks Number Talks.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Mrs Glancy & Primary 4

This week P 5/4 have been finding out about what a Role Model is and discussing who our own Role Models are. We then drew our own Role Models and wrote about why they were our Role Model. There were lots of Famous Celebrity Role Models, as well as lots of mum’s and dad’s.
We have also been learning about Time in Mathematics and Numeracy. We drew our own clocks, which have helped us to understand analogue clock time better.
We have been continuing with our Persuasive writing in class and this week Miss Hanlon asked us if we thought we should ban P.E in school? There were a lot of good discussions about it helping to keep boys and girls healthy.
Finally, yesterday afternoon we continued to find out more about Ancient Greece and Ancient Greek people. We had to pretend to be Archaeologists and investigate what the Ancient Greek people used to eat. We researched some information on the internet and used some topic books all about Ancient Greece to help us. We had to carefully exhume some food in the sandpit and then we had to get our hands dirty by examining some fake poo, to find out what the Ancient Greek people might have eaten. There were a lot of silly faces being made when we were examining the fake poo, but we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
P 5/4, Miss Hanlon and Mrs. Stewart.

We have had a smashing week in P3!

It has been super busy but we have achieved lots!

Thank you very much to all the parents who came along to our assembly this morning! We have worked hard learning our words and songs and enjoyed sharing our learning with you all.

In maths we have been investigating weight, predicting how heavy or light classroom objects are and using balance bucket weights to test our predictions.

We have started our new topic ‘My Body’ and have enjoyed naming organs and learning interesting facts. Next week we will continue to look at keeping our bodies safe and healthy.

We hope you all have a lovely, sunny weekend!

Primary 3 and Miss Calder

At the beginning of the week we were learning all about the parts of our eyes.

We have been using our eyes a lot this week and have been taking part in activities where we didn’t use our eyes.  We found out that not having our sight can be tricky BUT we were surprised by how well we could still manage to do things.

We drew a picture with our eyes open and then we had to draw the same picture with our eyes shut tight.

Then decide which  one we found to be more challenging!  Can you guess from our drawings?

We also had to guide our partner through an obstacle course when they were blindfolded!  That was really challenging as we had to give clear instructions to get them through safely!

As well as learning about our senses this week we managed to get outside for Outdoor Gym!  It was a bit windy and some of our equipment blew away but we stuck with it and had fun!

We also had a visit from the Nursery children.  We read Ten Little Monsters and made a mummy!

We have been very busy in Primary 5/4 over the last few weeks.

We have been learning about Time, such as days of the week and months. Looking at half past, quarter to, quarter past and o’clock on an analogue clock.
We have been looking at lots of different ways in which we can measure time, such as using a Sun dial. Miss Hanlon would of loved to have taken us outside to make our own Sundials yesterday, but unfortunately the clouds have been hiding the sun. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that the sun comes out again soon for us.

We have been discussing our own personal strengths and weaknesses in Health and Well being, which we all found a lot more difficult than we thought it would be to begin with. We also spoke about what we could all do to become more confident in our own abilities and as people.

In our Big Writing this week, we have began to find out about Persuasive writing. We had a discussion about whether or not we should wear school uniform or not. We had to think about why school uniform was good to have to begin with and then we had to talk about why we thought we shouldn’t wear school uniform as well. Surprisingly some children changed their minds from being against wearing school uniform at the beginning of the lesson to being for wearing school uniform at the end of our discussions.
(Some children did ask if this meant we were now not going to have to wear school uniform and I assured them that no, they would still have to wear school uniform regardless if they wanted to or not.)

Finally we have started to learn about our Topic, which is Ancient Greece. We had a look at some Ancient Greek vases and paintings and tried to make our very own Ancient Greek vases from clay.
Miss Hanlon was very proud of us all and thinks we have all done a very good job of our Ancient Greek vases. (One child asked if they could sell theirs and if they did, did they think they would get at least £10 for it?.)

We also shared our exciting news of our two latest additions to the class and Miss Hanlon can happily say that they are still swimming away happily.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

P 5/4, Miss Hanlon and Mrs.Stewart.