Good Morning,

The children from p7 who will be going to Bathgate Academy will start their transition on Tuesday 6th of June and their last day will be Friday the 9th June. They should still come to Murrayfield on Monday as usual and wear their normal school uniform throughout their transition dates. The bus passes have arrived and will be given to the children on Monday. The school bus leaves at 8am outside the Mill center and they should arrive at Bathgate Academy at 8.30 for registration each morning.

Children who wish to buy their lunches should take money with them as they will not be given their money cards until during or after the holidays. I would suggest that children bring their own snack with them as the tuck shop at break time can be very busy and a little overwhelming at first. Children have been given their booklets which has their timetables and classes in them. Please make sure that they take their P.E kits on the appropriate day and on Thursday morning for their Sports Day. Mrs Millar and I will see them at Bathgate academy on the Tuesday morning and I will also see them at sports day on the Thursday morning.

Although it is a voting day on Thursday 8th June, Bathgate Academy will be open as usual. Murrayfield is a polling station so any p7 pupils not attending Bathgate transition week will have the day off school.

I am sure everyone will have an amazing week and will enjoy every minute of their transition. It is a wonderful opportunity to make new friends and get used to their timetables and the layout of the High School.

Enjoy it P7! You will be amazing.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Moir

Just a reminder that our Sports Day is this Friday, 2^nd June. Children should come to school in sports clothes and bring water and sunscreen if necessary. Parents are most welcome, fingers crossed for dry weather !

A little reminder that we are having a short meeting tomorrow at 3.30pm for parents/ carers of children who will be attending next year’s residential trip to Dounans Activity Centre.  This is an informal meeting to hear a little more about Dounans, the types of activities your children will be able to experience and to ask any questions you may have.

Don’t worry if you are not available at this time as there will other opportunities to discuss this information and to share any questions or queries you have.

Mrs waugh

What have we been learning this week?

We were writing a story about if we were shrunk and describing huge mini beasts – Cameron

We have started learning about measure – William

We have been painting more of our rocks – Rachael

We were using tally marks to count flowers – Sean

We were choosing mild, spicy and hot challenges for data handling – Zoe

We went to visit the Nursery to see their caterpillars as part of our topic – Elsie

We were reading and answering questions on the story – William

We were adding 2 digit numbers to solve word problems – Cameron and Elsie

We were practising our handwriting – Millie

Millie took in her caterpillars today for us to look at closely.

Our skillionaires this week are Jase – I can show 2 strategies using numicon of how to add
Ethan – I can order children from shortest to tallest.

It’s been a fun week in Primary 3G.

In literacy we have been building our vocabulary. We focussed on including as many interesting and exciting words as possible in our discussions and writing. This is a challenge but can be made fun through games and activities such as word webs, filling the web with more exciting versions of a word.

We have enjoyed some new challenges in numeracy. We have created and started using multiplication, addition and subtraction wheels to help with our mental maths. We have been practising these strategies this week and will challenge ourselves next time by timing each other and possibly adding some competition too.

Our garden centre topic has been a hit in class and we have created a few displays of lovely artwork showing different flower paintings using a range of techniques. We have also been learning about what a plant needs to grow before completing sequencing tasks about how to plant and grow seeds.

We have also used the internet and non-fiction books to do some independent research about plants.

We have loved the sunshine over the past few days and have taken the time to get outdoors for some PE challenges. This has been good fun and tricky at times as we even included some of our recent learning in French when discussing the weather outside – “il fait chaud”.

Have a lovely weekend!

Primary 3G and Miss Calder

It’s been another great week in P7! We have been looking at division in maths and have been sharing strategies to support our learning. The children learned a strategy called bar modelling and some have found this strategy really supportive within the division concept. Good Job!

Within Literacy the children have been focusing on Wanted posters and have created some amazing work on characters from a book they have read. The children looked at vocabulary of Wanted Posters and their layout and used these to create ideas for their own posters.

As it has been a beautiful week, we had a fun outdoor session with p6/7 and p6/5. It was so lovely to get outside and enjoy the sunshine and practice some stations for Sport Day next week.

Have a good weekend!

Miss Moir

This week we have:

• Worked on using our poetic techniques when writing poems.
• We worked on using a variety of different strategies when doubling and halving.
• We used bar graphs to interpret and gather information in order to answer questions.
• Working with Jess this week during music and technology we had the opportunity to create our own theme tune for an animation using fruit and makey-makey.
• In PE we were working on our volleyball skills.

This weeks blog was made by Lewis Dickie