Just a reminder that tickets for the
P1 & P2 Nativity and P3 Christmas Songs show,
on Wednesday 12th December,
are on sale in the school office.
Get your tickets before they sell out!
Christmas Fair 5.12.18
Christmas dinner and Christmas jumpers
Just a reminder to wear your Christmas jumper on Wednesday 5th December if you have one and also to remind you that it’s that time of year again for a Jingle Bells walk down the corridor, followed by a delicious Christmas dinner, lovingly prepared by our wonderful team in the kitchen!
Always a treat! What did you order this year?
P1 News
It has been a busy week in P1 again!
In Literacy, we have been revising all of our sounds and using different activities to help us remember them.
We have been writing in sand and writing using different pens, pencils, crayons and chalks.
We have been looking for our sounds in books in our reading corner
In numeracy we have been working on careful counting skills. We learned that it helps if we touch and move the objects we are counting or score them out (if they are on a worksheet) it stops us from counting them twice. This is a good strategy to use!
We have been working on ‘counting on’ to help us with our addition skills. We have to try and remember to put the big number in our heads before counting on the other numbers.
We have been using the laptops to play numeracy games to help reinforce our learning.
Mrs Mackie was pleased to hear that one of our class members has been working on his numeracy skills at home using the number activity pack that was in his Bookbug bag! Well done A-Jay!
We have also been busy making our Christmas items which will be on sale at the Christmas Fayre on Wednesday 5th December.
Our Nativity show is approaching soon. Please remember to get your tickets from the school office as soon as you can as they are selling out fast!
Please remember that we will be having outdoor PE/outdoor learning even if it is cold or wet (unless it is not safe for us to be out) so please help us to wrap up warmly each day.
Have a good weekend.
P1
P5/4 News (30.11.18)
What a busy week in Primary 5/4. We have been working on our:
- School Values
- Addition Strategies (Number Talks, Mild, Spicy and Hot)
- Study Ladder to consolidate addition
- Persuasive Writing
- Handball
- Symmetry – Class Maths
- Wordsmith – Ebook (Non-Fiction) Designing Question and Answers relating to a country from the ebook.
This week’s Raffle Prize winner was Cameron – Well done!
Please remember to bring an Outdoor PE kit each Wednesday and make sure you also have suitable indoor shoes. e.g. black gym shoes.
Many Thanks and have a lovely weekend
Mrs Glancy
News from Primary 3
What have we been learning this week?
In science we are learning about a life cycle – Oliver and Kevin
We were rewriting our Grinch Adventure – with more adjectives – Lily McDonald
We were learning about orangutans in literacy – Lily
We have been learning how to count up and give change – Ollie
We have been learning all about 2D and 3D shapes – Brooke
We were matching properties to the shape – Kevin
We can describe 3D shapes – Lily
We had our parents in for Sharing our Learning on Thursday- Laiba
We have painted our Autumn leaves we made out of clay – Lily Mc & Ollie
Jakub won the prize for designing number 8 in the number family.
HAVE A LOVELY WEEKEND
P4 News – Contexts For Learning
30/11/18
We have had a busy week in P4. Let’s share some of our learning.
Curriculum Areas & Subjects
In PE this week we have been learning all about Scottish Country Dancing. We work on our movement skills and are beginning to work together.
For technologies this week we have been designing and creating some Christmas craft to sell at our school fayre. This has helped us to learn about enterprise and our skills for work.
Interdisciplinary Learning
We used our reading skills to help our learning in Problem Solving this week. Reading the problems helped us to understand what sums to do.
Ethos & Life of the School
The school value we have been learning about this week is Growth Mindset. We develop and show our growth mindset by not giving up and continuing to try our best, even when something is challenging. We try hard to climb out of the learning pit!
Opportunities for Personal Achievements
Well done to Alex, Riley, Leah and Alicia for receiving ‘successful learner’ Head Teacher’s awards this week!
Well done to Elsie for winning a prize in Mrs Stewart’s number family competition!
Well done to all pupils who have shared sporting achievements this week, too.
We hope you have a brilliant weekend!
Primary 4, Miss Calder & Miss Hoey
What P5 have been doing this week
Maths
We have been looking at time. We know that the 9 on the clock means quarter to and the 3 on the clock means quarter past.
The squares were converting 12 hour time to 24 hour time. Some of us have learned how to make a train timetable using 24 hour times.
We were doing some Barvember challenges. Barvember is a website with lots of maths challenges that we have to solve. Each problem had to be solved by using a bar strategy.
Literacy
In Wordsmith we have been listening to the podcast called “The Ghost Thief”. We wrote down what characters thought about each other. We also were looking for powerful language in the text and created a poster about this.
Health and Wellbeing
We discussed how we could show respect to the community. We also found out about different clubs in the area.
In P.E. we were learning the skills in the Dashing White Sergent in Scottish Country Dancing.
We also had our last week of handball with pupils from Bathgate Academy. We loved playing handball and are very grateful for this chance to work with Bathgate Academy. These skills will hopefully help us in our Handball Tournament on the 13th of December!
IDL
We made powerpoints about landscapes in Scotland. We had different groups working on different subjects. We are starting to draw pictures of coastlines, cities, forests, lochs, mountains and rivers.
Extra
We were making a secret Christmas craft for the Christmas Fair. You will need to come along to see what it is! The Choir will also be performing there.
We also on skype to Bathgate Academy and 3 primary schools. There were a few sound problems but we were able to discuss the cost of the school day. The pupils from Bathgate Academy will make this into a play which we will be excited to see.
We hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
P5
West Lothian Council’s Attendance at School Policy
West Lothian Council’s Attendance at School Policy provides a system that intervenes at an early stage and letters are sent to parents/carers when their child’s attendance falls below 90%. This system keeps parents/carers informed about their child’s attendance, as absences can mount up easily and this has an impact on their overall attendance percentages. This also allows us to address any concerns or difficulties parent/ carers are facing getting their children into school or getting them to school on time.
The AIMS team (Attendance Improvement Management Service) has been supporting schools within West Lothian to help raise the profile and priority of attendance issues. The AIMS team work in partnership with schools and families to support the implementation of West Lothian Council’s Attendance at School Policy, focusing on early intervention through regular attendance audits and meetings.
Please remember to keep the school office informed of your child’s absence and reasons for this by phoning as early as possible on the first morning of the absence in accordance with West Lothian Council’s procedures for ‘Safe Arrivals.’
Thank you for your continued support and cooperation with this matter, please do not hesitate to contact the school should you have any questions regarding attendance or if you require support with this matter.
Mrs Bruce
Depute Head Teacher (Acting)
Slight change to Murrayfield’s website address
We have just been notified that our school website address has changed slightly. Effective immediately, our new website address will be:
https://murrayfieldprimary.westlothian.org.uk/
Thank you
