We are enjoying our Harry Potter topic so much, you need to be careful when you come into our classroom. You may have to duck from a passing owl which might be flying around!!

This term, P6/7 individually identified the targets that they, themselves, felt they needed to work on and develop. We have decided to keep all our targets in this folder which we can check on whenever we want. As soon as we feel we have achieved our target, we transfer it to our #followme profiles.

When we were setting our targets, we tried really hard to make sure we had a growth mindset. Our grow mindset wall display helps us to stay on track and keep on growing!

This week has been so busy with so many things achieved. Well done everyone! Here are just a few things that have been learned in each class.

Primary 1/2

Cole can count up to 20 and Niamh has been writing about things that make her happy at school.

Primary 2/3

Aiden can name some planets after learning about Space and Gabriela has been learning about sharing.

Primary 3/4

Alex has learned how to do some yoga and Sophie has learned new exercises in PE.

Primary 4/5

Robbie enjoyed learning about function machines in Maths and Tapiwa improved on his Beat That score in Maths.

Primary 5/6

The whole class have been working really hard on direct speech in Literacy and decimals in Maths.

Primary 6/7

Primary 6/7 have been learning about the tragedy of The Burngrange Mining Disaster. It showed us how valuable life is. As a class, we have been reading and enjoying Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, ready for our new topic of Potter Mania!

Phew! What a lot of learning! What will next week bring?

P6/7 can’t wait to start work on our new topic of Potter Mania! Maybe by Easter, we will be able to make people disappear!! We are looking forward to working together with P5/6 to create a great experience!

Tomorrow (Sat 15th Jan) marks the 70th anniversary of the Burngrange Mining Disaster in West Calder, the worst accident in West Lothian’s mining history and we have been learning all about that this week. We learned that 15 men died in the explosion and that around half these men were from Seafield. We looked at where the pit was located and the Burngrange Memorial that stands in the square in West Calder. We then created newspaper front overs to report the terrible news. It’s been really interesting finding out about this tragic event. May the men who died rest in peace.

Diogo is heading back to Portugal on Sunday to spend Christmas and New Year with his family and he would like to give you a Portuguese message.

Feliz Natal para todos e um Feliz Ano Novo.  Divirtam se.

This means:

Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year. Enjoy your holidays.

Oliwier, in our class, is heading to his family in Poland on Sunday to spend Christmas with them. Here is a special message in Polish for Christmas:

Szczesliwych swiat wam wszystkim i szczesliwego nowego roku. Cieszcie sie swoimi swietami.

This means “Merry Christmas everybody and a happy New Year. Enjoy your holidays!

Everybody had a great time at the party yesterday. A HUGE thank you to Mr Mann for being our DJ and to Lewis who was such a help to him and showed what a responsible citizen and effective contributor he is. Here are some snap shots of P6/7 enjoying the party.

We were so sad to hear that our friend and classmate Eilidh had an accident at gymnastics last night and broke her arm in two places. We will really miss you at the rest of the Christmas celebrations Eilidh. We hope you’re not in too much pain and we hope you feel better really soon.

Look at how smart we look, ready for our party. Can’t wait for this afternoon.