Category: Achievement

This week, Primary 4 has been turned into Dragon’s Den!

Miss McLaughlin gave us the task of designing a toy of the future. We turned from table groups to business teams!

First, we researched the different roles that would be involved in the toy design business (e.g. designer, artist, packager, advertiser, project manager and researcher) and each person was given a role in the team.

Then, our research team asked our sample (a group of Primary 1/2s – thank you Mrs Andison!) for their input and used this as criteria for our designs.

We came up with…

* It must be a type of doll/teddy/figure
* It must be soft/cuddly
* It must be colourful
* It must be suitable for both boys and girls
* It must have some special features.

Below is what we came up with! Later today we will be shooting adverts for our team pitch next week!

What do you think? Have we met our design brief?

Until next time…

Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂

West Lothian Council, Education Services, Admission Arrangements for Specialist

Provision 2014

 

In accordance with the Schools (Consultation) (Scotland) Act 2010, West Lothian Council

consulted (between 14 November 2014 and 16 January 2015) on the proposals outlined

below:

SUMMARY OF PROPOSALS – ADMISSION ARRANGEMENTS FOR SPECIALIST

PROVISION

 The adoption of admission arrangements set out in the consultation document will

ensure equity in the admission of children and young people to specialist provision

and ensure high quality decision making regarding admission;

 The adoption of a single catchment area for all specialist provision will ensure equity

within West Lothian for all children and young people with additional support needs.

This will help the council discharge its duty to meet the needs of children and young

people, to the benefit of children and young people with additional support needs,

and their parents/carers; and

 The proposed admission arrangements and catchment area will apply to all specialist

provision.

 

The consultation response report is available to download at the following weblink:

www.westlothian.gov.uk/admission-arrangements-report

The report will be available on the West Lothian Council website from Thursday 30 April

2015 for a period of 3 weeks.

Hard copies of the report are available from:

The foyer of the Civic Centre, Howden South Road, Livingston, EH54 6FF

and all West Lothian libraries.

At the end of the consultation period, a final decision will be taken on the proposals by West

Lothian Council’s Education Executive on Tuesday 26 May 2015.

This week, Primary 4 were exploring rights! Each class had been given a specific right to look at, and ours was the right to learn.

We decided to find out what school was like for different children around the world. Countries we looked at included Japan, Brazil, Canada, Spain and Poland.

Here are some of the interesting facts we found out…

• Japanese children ride to school on school buses in the shapes of different characters or animals.
• In Poland, you don’t start nursery until age 6.
• Brazilian children, get steak and chips for lunch as a special treat, but usually eat COLD acai berry soup!
• American children don’t wear school uniform.
• In Germany, children go to school on a Saturday! (No thanks!)

Ask us for other interesting facts!

Until next time,

Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂

Primary 3 are busy rehearsing for their assembly next week. Our assembly will be all about our recent island life topic where we learned about life on the Isle of Coll and the island of Madagascar. Here are details about our assembly.

Date: Thursday 30^th April

Time: 1.15pm

Hope to see you there!

 

It is only one more week until P 5 go to camp!

Are you ready? Have you completed your homework tasks?

Can you put a sheet on your bed?

Can you put a pillow into a pillowcase?

Can you put a quilt into a quilt cover?

You have to be able to do that at camp so you had better practise this week!

Have you got wellies or waterproof shoes? You will need waterproof shoes and a waterproof jacket because, if it is raining, you will be out in it all day!Please try not to wear jeans.  They will get very wet and be very uncomfortable to wear.

Please come to school on Tuesday 28th of April dressed ready for camp. No school uniform that day if you are going to camp.

Remember to bring towels with you! We will try to clean you up while you are there! Bring a bath towel and a small hand towel if you can.

Make sure your name is on everything you bring to camp!

Make sure you bring a black bin bag to put in dirty and  / or wet clothes in for taking home.

 

If you have room in your bag you may bring a toy, notebook, reading book HOWEVER NO ELECTRICAL TOYS (ipads, mobile phones, ipods) CANNOT COME TO CAMP.

Any other questions you may have ask them before this Friday 24th of April?

Mrs Campbell