Primary 6/5 is fundraising for Red Nose Day throughout the week beginning Monday 20^th March.

Red Nose Day fundraising activities:

• Red noses will be on sale at a cost of £1.
• Be a film star and pay 20p to enter our ‘Joke-a-thon’. P6/5 will be filming pupils and staff telling funny jokes to show at assembly on Friday 24^th
• Enter our ‘Design a Red Nose’ or ‘Spot the Nose’ competition. Each competition entry costs 50p. Winners will be announced at assembly.
• Bring a donation and take part in our wear red day on Friday 24^th
• Enter DJ Boogie’s favourite song competition to win a cash prize. (£2 per entry for adults only)

Come on ‘Do something funny for money! Help Primary 6/5 to raise money to change lives for the better!

P5 worked on creating their learning pit display and all look forward to sharing this with their parents during parents evening this week.

We worked in teams to create skeletons through using our knowledge of the various names of the bones in the skeleton.

Did you know we have 300 bones when we are born but on 206 when we are fully grown?

P5 tried their hand at drawing skeletons through using Bo -jangles as a model (still life)

We used our knowledge of mathematical language to describe 3D shapes to our friends using terms such as faces, vertexes, base and edge.

A huge congratulations to Lana Campbell and Brandon Harkins for being runners up in the Year of Robotics design competition.

What have we been learning this week?

We have been writing our reports for Parents Night – Mckenzii and Millie

We have been practising our handwriting – writing x and z words. –  – Jay James and Millie

We have been learning more about 3D shapes – Cameron

We have learning more 2D shapes – Ethan

We have been doing problem solving – Elsie

We have been solving the patterns with the Solve It Blocks – Hali

We have been learning our 5 times tables – Jack

We have been learning to count in 2s – Kirsty

We have been learning about The Pit – Jamie

We have been learning more about pushing and pulling forces – William

We have been learning about friction – Jack

We discovered using cars, the smoother the surface the faster the car goes. The rougher the surface the slower the car goes. – Elsie

In Early Intervention we have been learning the new sound ay – William

We have been doing code breakers – Jay James

We won the top spot in the League Table today !!!!!

Hi everyone,

P7 have had a busy week with lots of extra curricular activities. On Tuesday a lovely artist from Edinburgh called Astrid came in to do some artwork with the children. She asked the children to design different letters of the alphabet for a mural at the Blackburn Partnership Center when it is completed. The designs have turned out lovely and I have some photos to share of the children working hard with Astrid’s ideas.

The children also completed their verse for CAB and were singing with YAP musicians today which was lovely to listen to and take part. The song will be sung at the CAB conference in April with the rest of the Bathgate cluster and will be recorded after this. The song has been adapted to be about people who help us to the song of “Count on me,” by Bruno Mars.

Also a little note to say a huge congratulations to Wiktoria Tyloch who won the class display contest. The class were challenged to create a Learning Pit display, using ideas from Growth Mindset. These displays were about ideas of how some people can feel like they are in a pit when learning something they do not feel confident with, and then how they could get out of this pit with help and support. It was a tough decision as everyone created lots of fantastic ideas but the final winner was Wiktoria. The display is nearly finished and it looks fabby.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend,

Miss Moir

P7 and P6 pupils worked today with musicians from YAP music to practise putting their lyrics to the tune for our annual CAB conference. This is always an exciting time and it is fun to have the opportunity to work with professionals and benefit from their experience.

We can’t wait until we have the opportunity to record it and hear how it sounds.

We have been designing and painting the rocks that Ms Macrae gave us. Each child has to decorate their stone in any way they choose and then they will all be used to decorate the front garden. We enjoyed looking at examples of painted stones on the internet, using them to give us ideas about how we could paint our own. We still have to add a top coat of glue/varnish so that the paint doesn’t wash off in the rain!

Our topic this term is Science, we are learning about Water and Electricity – although not at the same time!!!

We asked Mrs Stewart what water was made of and so now we know that the chemical formula of water is, H2O. The H stands for Hydrogen and the O means Oxygen. (We found that out by looking at something called the Periodic Table, which has lots of information on it about all the elements that have been discovered. Elements are the things that everything in the world is made from. Wow, there are lots!) Every molecule (wee bit) of water is made up of 2 Hydrogens and 1 Oxygen. We even learned about the structural formula of water and have drawn it in our IDL jotters:

There are 3 states of matter – Solid, Liquid and Gas. When water is Solid, it’s known as ice and when it’s a gas, it’s known as Steam or Water Vapour. The Melting Point of Water is 0 degrees Centigrade and the Boiling Point is 100 degrees Centigrade.

We can’t wait to discover and learn more next week, especially as it’s British Science Week!

Have a great weekend!

P4 and Mrs Stewart. 🙂

On Wednesday 8th March, Leona McCormack, Lewis Dickie, Logan Cargill and Marcus Ennis represented Murrayfield P.S. at the annual WL Burns’ Federation competition, held in St Kentigern’s Academy. Leona and Lewis competed in the P4/5 Poetry section, Logan and Marcus in the P6/7 Poetry section. As in previous years, the standard of entrants were incredibly high, as children from all over West Lothian participated in the event.

Leona had the nerve-wracking job of being the very first person to recite their poem, however, she performed ‘Red Red Rose’ confidently and with a smile on her face! Lewis had the audience scratching, with his rendition of ‘Tae a Louse’ – another fine performance!

The boys had to wait  until all the younger children had performed before they could take their turn. Both Marcus and Logan had learned an extract from ‘Tam O’ Shanter’,  not an easy poem to learn! They were word perfect and could be heard clearly at the back of the hall.

Our young people were a credit to themselves, their family and the school. They received a well-deserved certificate from the Burns’ Club and a book token from the school, in acknowledgement of their hard work and participation.

Well done to you all – you should be very proud of yourselves! 🙂

Lenny, Summer, Aimee and Laura , as members of the West Lothian Schools Junior String Orchestra (Bathgate), recently performed at one of the annual Spring Concert Series events. This was a fantastic evening’s entertainment, provided by the young musicians from various groups and bands from WL schools.

The Junior Strings Orchestra played a variety of different pieces, including folk tunes, classical pieces from Mozart and Beethoven and the theme music from Game of Thrones.

Our four violinists enjoy playing as part of the orchestra but this takes practice and commitment, as well as attending orchestra rehearsals every Friday afternoon. They receive violin instruction at school from Miss Luke, who also supported them at the concert, in her role as one of the orchestral staff members.

This talented quartet received Head teacher awards for being Effective Contributors and Confident Individuals, demonstrated during their performance at the concert.

On Friday, Wiktoria joined Lenny, Summer, Aimee and Laura to perform at our assembly. This gave everyone an opportunity to hear the progress they have made this year.

Congratulations to you all!

What have we been learning this week?

We have been learning 2D and 3D shapes – Hali

A rhombus has 4 sides  – Zoe

A cylinder has 3 faces – Megan

A sphere looks like a ball – Jase

A rectangular prism is like a squashed cuboid – Elsie

We went for a walk around the playground to look for different shapes – Zoe

We have been practising our handwriting using w, v and f letters – Kirsty

We have been practising our 2 times table – Leyla

We have been learning about forces in topic. We know the difference between PUSH and PULL forces – William

We have been practising reading with expression – Julia

We were learning the new sound ay in Early Intervention – Millie and William

We were learning end sounds d/t – Sean

We were learning Volleyball with Mrs McGlynn – Jamie

We have had a very busy week!

Jamie Watson received his Head Teachers Award for super improvement in his handwriting. Well done and keep it up.

HAVE A LOVELY WEEKEND FROM  P2F  🙂

Hi All,

Last week was another busy time for P3G and a highlight for everyone was taking part in the taster skateboarding sessions.  Everyone had a great time watching, learning and participating in this event and the children demonstrated a real talent/ determination when taking part.  Photographs to follow shortly!

We have been continuing to learn about the Romans and were researching what the soldiers in the Roman army wore and how these items helped to protect them in battle.  We have drawn our own soldiers, labelled soldiers clothing and made large classroom displays for this topic.  We will be looking at timelines next week and learning about when things took place within this period of history.

Numeracy and Mathematics:

P3G all got our logins for Education City and the class are really enjoying using this great resource to support their learning and help develop their knowledge and understanding of key concepts.  Several of the children have managed to log into this site at home and have been able to access the games sent home as homework.  However, we have been made aware of an issue relating to the site closing down for home use at 4.30pm.  We are looking into this issue and are hoping to be able to extend the period of time that children can access the site in the evening.

Head Teacher Awards: For writing an excellent newspaper report, with great use of the success criteria.

Congratulations to:

Freya Stewart

Callan Johnston

Kelsey Tait

Calvin Harkins