Some more photographs of our happy campers on their final day of activities.

Good afternoon everyone,

Today, Mr Young came to support the boys and girls in playing Boccia-a game similar to french Bowls and lawn bowls. They were all given a small ball and had to practice some target games before playing the real game. They children really enjoyed the game and are looking forward to some tasty treats later on today!

Here are some photos of the boys and girls having fun!

P 5/4 Visited Pets at Home this morning.
We have been learning about how to look after pets in class and we decided as a class that we would like to get a Pet Fish for the class.
During our visit to Pets at Home in Livingston today, a lovely man called Liam spoke to us about lots of different pets. We were allowed to pet some animals, such as a rabbit and guinea pig. Liam brought out a snake, frog and lizard for us also to have a look at. We fed all of the fish in the tanks and then we were lucky enough to be able to pick out our very own tank and fish for the class. This afternoon we have set up our tank, which we have to leave for 3 days, so that it will be ready for the fish to live in. Miss Hanlon will go back to the store to collect our fish for the tank.
We have all had a lovely day and we cannot thank Liam and Pets at Home enough for all of their help today.
Miss Hanlon and P 5/4.

Hi,

Happy to report that our campers have arrived safely.  They are being assigned their dorms and are heading to start the mammoth task of unpacking!

Photograph to follow.

We will keep you posted as updates come in from staff.

Mrs Waugh

It has been a busy week in class this week.

We have worked hard with Primary 3/2 to prepare and practise our Ancient Egypt assembly. We feel proud of ourselves for working hard and we hope everyone enjoyed it! Thank you to everybody who came along to watch us.

Our Egypt topic isn’t over quite yet as we are still working on rescheduling our museum trip and we will share details soon.

We loved watching the upper school’s dress rehearsal on Wednesday afternoon. Well done to everyone who made the Jungle Book amazing.

We have been writing imaginative stories about characters in Egypt. We are working on including VCOP in our work.

We have been focussing on early times tables by playing lots of active games. These can be practised at home too by using sumdog and education city.

We spoke about Fairtrade Fortnight and identified foods which are fairtrade and why these are important.

We hope you have a great weekend!

Primary 3 and Miss Calder

This week in P2/1 we were learning about how things work.  We had a to decide if they worked using batteries or electricity from the sockets.

We went for a walk around the school to find out about the different things.

A clock works using batteries. – Kayleigh

A mobile phone has a battery  but we have to plug it in to charge it. – Harris

Computers are plugged in to the wall with wires. – Kian

A kettle is plugged in. – David

In Mr Wilson’s wee room there was a fridge and that is plugged in to the wall. -Rhys

The remote control for the Smart Board works with batteries. – Ruby

The photocopier had a plug so it gets it’s electricity from the socket. – Cooper

We also did some World Book Day activities on Monday.  We listened to the story of Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam.   Then we watched the illustrator draw Sam and we copied him.  You can see some of our work below.  All the other pictures will be displayed on the wall outside of our classroom so you will be able to see them at Parent Consultations.

We have also been keeping ourselves healthy by joining in with some Go Noodle activities to raise our heart rates, followed by some  yoga to cool ourselves down and stretch out our muscles!

Have a good weekend everyone!

Mrs M :o)

As well as practicing for our fabulous Assembly, we have also been learning.

The Blue group were writing a book review on Game Boy – Brooke

The red group 1 were reading about Men in the Moon – Eva

The red group 2 were sequencing their book Dick and his cat – Macaulay

We have been counting in 2s – William

We were sorting out even and odd numbers – Eva

We were trying to count back in 1s from 100 – Charlie

We were making a giant map of Egypt for our Assembly – Brooke

We were designing and colouring Canopic Jars – William

We were deciding on our ideas for MPS vision – Rhian

We were using the Story Mat with Mrs McGonnigal to create a story – William

and Jase

We were doing mindfulness with Mrs McGlynn – Charlie

We were doing listening skills with Mrs McGlynn – Brooke

We were ticking off the things we wanted to find out in our Topic in the Big Book – Rhian

HAVE A LOVELY WEEKEND. LET’S HOPE IT DOES NOT SNOW ANYMORE!

We are inviting everyone to dress up as a book character for world book day next Friday – 16th March. Afternoon nursery children will dress up on the Thursday afternoon. Hang on to your costumes as we will be holding a grand opening of the school library after Easter and you can come to school as a book character for the grand opening.

Head along to the Edinburgh Maths Circle at the University of Edinburgh for a free afternoon of maths fun!

The Edinburgh Maths Circle will be running on Saturday the 10th of March from 1.00pm to 4.00pm.  This event is suitable for ages 5 years old to 16 years old and their adults.

Students and staff from University of Edinburgh will be on hand to help out with mathematical games, activities and puzzles.

There will also be tea, coffee and juice available.

The Edinburgh Maths Circle takes place in the James Clerk Maxwell Building of King’s Building’s Campus.

Check out the event at: https://www.familiesonline.co.uk/local/edinburgh/whats-on/edinburgh-maths-circle-march