P1 were busy yesterday afternoon creating their own working village using loose parts. There were  cafes, shops, police stations and vehicles. We saw lots of roleplay, cooperation and writing.
P1 Achievements
The wider achievement forms were sent home last week – please talk to your children about these and send them in to be displayed outside our classrooms. Â Achievements may happen at home or at a club. Â Children are encouraged to bring in a picture, certificate or even a medal to share with their class.
Many thanks
P1 – Have a look at the moon before bed!
Primary 1
This week P1 have continued to learn new sounds. Â We are confident with lots of sounds now so have started to write some 3 letter words more independently. Â This weeks sounds were ‘o’ and ‘g’ so we could build words like ‘dog’ and ‘got’.
For maths we have been practising counting forward and backward from different numbers, recognising numbers and saying what comes before or after. Â Some numbers have been quite tricky to write so we will be trying different ways to learn and practise these.
In topic, we have been listening to and talking about fairytale stories. Â We have enjoyed acting out the stories using puppets, sequencing the story and making masks for the characters. Â The Fairytale Land knights were also busy in the school playground today protecting their castle.
Primary 1
P1m and P1s have been very busy and learning lots of new things.
Each classroom has started to build their own Fairytale Land castle.  We had to find out about the different parts of castles so we could make it look like a real castle from the past.  We have made the castle walls look like stone and made sure the battlements were at the top.
For Maths week, we practised our number formation by writing numbers in icing on biscuits. Â They tasted lovely and we remembered that we need to clean our teeth after sweet treats!
Our school garden has lots of vegetables ready to harvest at the moment so P1 helped to pick the potatoes. Â We then had to wash, peel, cut, mash and cook them. Â Our potato feast was ready just in time for Thursday snack –Â mashed potato and wedges. Â We all enjoyed having a wee try!
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P1m and P1s School Houses
P1 have been very excited this week to be sorted into their new school houses. Â They are called Almond, Breich and Calder. Â House points can be earned through lots of things and already some of us have been earning points.
Earn points for your house through:
- being kind
- holding doors open for others
- working hard
- picking up litter
- being helpful
- playing nicely
- walking sensibly
- following our golden rules
- listening quietly
- treating others with respect
Almond (Green house)
Breich (Red house)
Calder (Blue House)
Hello from P1m
P1m have had a fantastic first week at school.  Miss McLennan has been so impressed at how well everyone has settled in.  We have been very independent in the morning getting changed and putting our snacks and drinks in the right place.
Well done!
A huge congratulations to Peyton Dervish in P1 and Calum Rose in P3 for their achievements at the West Lothian Young Writer of the year awards. They attended the awards at Howden Park Centre last night with their family and received a medal and prize.
Well done Peyton and Calum!
Primary 3 Uganda Penpals
We have been busy replying to our Magale Penpals!
Highland Games
Everyone in P3 enjoyed a sunny Scottish morning at the cluster Highland Games today. From welly wanging to highland coo catching, lots of fun was had. The children had the opportunity to meet other P3 pupils from the cluster and showed excellent participation and behaviour.
Well done P3!
