P7/6 are selling hand made Christmas cards.

The cards are sold in packs of 5 for only £1.00!!!

You can request cards made by an individual child or in mixed packs.

Order forms are available from Miss Preston and P7/6.  Alternatively you can print off the attached order form and send into the school for the attention of P7/6.

Order Form GLOW

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 6 are starting their class enterprise business through “make it grow,” by selling small decorated stockings filled with sweets for £2 in school. The money raised will go towards something for the class at the end of the school year.

Primary 6 will come round the classes with the stockings until the end of term for anyone interested. The children of primary 6 will make as many as they can but stocks will be limited due to time and cost at this busy time of the year.

Thank you for your continued support,

Primary 6 and Miss Moir

Here are some images of our finished product 🙂

It has been another busy week in Primary 1:

“We were learning to write capital M” – Ashton

“We learned the sound u” – Lucas

“We learned about b” – Jack

“I have enjoyed practising writing our sounds using the right colours” – Sean

“I enjoyed writing a story about me and Peter going to the shows” – Zoe

“I liked drawing a picture of me and Jase in my story” – Leyla

“I liked working out the missing numbers” – Elsie

Next week are looking forward to making things to sell at our Christmas Fayre, learning about Road Safety and wearing something bright and colourful on Wednesday, as well as something Tartan on Friday.

Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday. Keep up the great work P1S!

Miss Simpson

MuppetHomework Challenge.doc

19^th November 2015

Parent/Carer

This year’s Christmas show will involve all classes across the school.  P6, P7/6 and P7 have decided to use ‘The Muppet’s Christmas Carol’ as a focus for our section of the show.

In preparation the children have been set a homework challenge to design and make a muppet mask.  The masks can be based on one of the muppets from the film or they can be something they design themselves.

If the children need any help with resources to make their masks then we will do our best to supply what they need.

Some ideas for the masks are available at:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=643&q=muppet+christmas+carol&oq=muppet+ch&gs_l=img.3.2.0l10.1739.12745.0.15489.38.15.21.2.8.0.86.1017.15.15.0….0…1ac.1.64.img..0.38.1051.o50MMqIMURE

https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=muppet%20masks&term_meta%5B%5D=muppet%7Ctyped&term_meta%5B%5D=masks%7Ctyped&remove_refine=christmas%7Ctyped

 Things to consider:

• The children need the mouth of the mask to be open so we can hear them speak/sing
• The children will need to be able to see where they are going

The masks must be completed and brought into school by Monday 2^nd December.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support with this challenge and look forward to seeing the children’s creations!

A copy of this letter is on the school blog should you misplace this copy.

Yours faithfully

Miss Moir, Miss Preston and Mrs Anderson

Good evening

Homework

You may have noticed a change in the homework being set for your children.

Miss Moir (P6), Mrs Anderson (P7) and I agreed that in order to prepare the children as best we can for the jump in the level of homework set in S1 and beyond we had to re-vamp our upper school homework expectations.

Each Monday the children will be set spelling homework, a numeracy challenge and a reading comprehension challenge. This homework has to be handed in on the Thursday.

Additionally each Wednesday the children will be set reading plus a Literacy Circle task. This has to be completed by the coming Monday.

Homework is an integral part of your child’s learning as it enhances and consolidates what we they are learning in class.

Homework club is held every Wednesday lunchtime and is open to all children.

Thank you for your continued support.

Should you ever wish to speak with me regarding any aspect of your child’s education/school life please do not hesitate to call the school to arrange a meeting/phone call.

Hope you all have a lovely cosy evening!

Miss Preston x

For our section in this year’s Christmas show our class, P6, P7/6 and P7 have decided to focus on The Muppets Christmas Carol. With this in mind the children from all three classes have been set a homework challenge to make a muppet mask!

Full details will be confirmed in a letter tomorrow.

Miss Moir, Mrs Anderson and I are all really excited to see the children’s creations! 🙂 🙂

Miss Preston x 🙂

The higlight of this week would be Thursday.  The children came to Nursery dressed in their pyjamas in aid of Children in Need.  They had great fun dancing, making Pudsey faces and some of them even helped count the money we raised!

We have had a busy week in P7/6.

IDL/Topic

On Monday we started our new topic on Rainforest.   In pairs the children were researching information on ‘Layers of the Rainforest’ and where about in the world rainforests are located.  Information found was written in their individual fact files.  The children were using ICT and reference books.  A whole class trip has been planned for early January that will finish off our rainforest topic; further details will be given after the Christmas break.

Numeracy

In numeracy we have been consolidating our knowledge and understanding of fractions and decimals.  Next week we will begin to link this knowledge to percentages.  We will be using our enterprise challenge to develop our understanding of money.  Through the budgeting and planning of our enterprise challenge and our topic we will be enhancing our knowledge of data handling.

Literacy

In literacy we have all been given a new reading book.  Literacy circle homework is now in place to enhance and develop the children’s comprehension of their reading.  Each reading group will be given the responsibility of allocating rewards and sanctions for effort in homework.  Mrs Harrison will be focusing on reading comprehension via reading routes.

HWB

The children were given a challenge of designing and creating an eye catching and informative poster.  The posters were based on their HWB topics of Dangers of Tobacco (P6) and Substance and Alcohol Misuse (P7).  The posters will be used as an assessment piece for their literacy.

PE

We are hosting some PE students from WLC – for the next 3 weeks the children will be getting an extra hour of PE.  Can I remind parents that PE kit is a part of the school uniform.  As we move into winter it is still our intention to have an hour of outdoor PE (weather permitting).  Outdoor PE is on a Monday, can I please ask that you ensure that your child has appropriate clothing for outside.  Thanks. 🙂

Transition

Our P7s began their journey onto secondary education.  On Wednesday and Thursday all of our P7s had their first transition visit to Bathgate Academy.  They had a fabulous time.  They had a treasure hunt around the school and even had a chance to meet a few of the teachers.  Every single one of the children should be exceptionally proud of the way they behaved.  They did themselves and Murrayfield PS extremely proud!  Well done guys!

Enterprise Challenge

Ms McCrae has given each class a challenge to ‘Make Your Money Grow’!  This challenge will run over the whole academic year.  We have decided that our first enterprise activity will be to design and hand make Christmas cards.  These will be sold in packs of 5 for £1.oo.  A pre-order form will be sent out next week.  Our plan is to raise as much money as we can over the year to put towards an end of year class trip!

Vertical Groups

This week each teacher gave their first lesson on their element of the GIRFEC health and well being indicators.  Bruce 3 worked really well together learning about Nurture.  In groups, the children were given a variety of nurturing statements which they had to discuss and put in order that they see as most important.  The statements included nurturing within the home and within school.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

See you on Monday.

Miss Preston 🙂 x

This week has been a busy one…

We have been learning all about missing numbers in Numeracy, 2 new sounds (d and e) in Literacy and working on our Nativity performance.

This week we have also enjoyed learning about Percy the Park Keeper and his animal friends. We read about the Hedgehog’s Balloon and then we had our own balloon challenge in groups. We had to pass the balloon round our group without it bursting but…. we were not allowed to use our hands. We had great fun trying out different ways of passing the balloon.