Category: Whole School

Children, staff, family members, friends and the community joined together on 15th May to remember Miss Martin, a dearly loved teacher who sadly passed away in November. Miss Martin was a very well respected teacher who dedicated 41 years of her career to the school and made many friends along the way. A special tree has been planted at the front of the school as a memorial to Miss Martin. She is missed by all.

Please return your sponsor money and your sponsor form.

More than 20 children have already returned their sponsor forms and sponsor money and the total so far is £484! Thank you very much to everyone who has contributed to this great cause.   If you haven’t handed yours back yet, please bring your form and money in as soon as possible so we can send the money off the help the British Heart Foundation.

Last week we were meeting our new buddies in the Nursery.  We will be spending time this term making friends with them and helping them prepare for Primary 1.

We enjoyed the Jump Rope for Heart on Friday 9th May.  We really enjoyed the never-ending circle of skipping.  Remember to bring in your sponsor form with the money as soon as you can so we can send it to the British Heart Foundation.

We went bowling at Pumpherston Bowling club and had the chance to bowl on the green there.  This trip was part of our topic which is Our Community.   We have been finding out about different clubs in our community for our class talks.  The Golf Club, Martial arts clubs and dancing clubs are some of the community clubs we have learned about.  Are you a member of a local club? If you think we should know about it, speak to one of Primary 6!

It has been a short week but Primary 4 have still been very busy.

Demi: This week I enjoyed playing tennis in P.E. I learned how to a forehand shot. You need to get the racket and hit the ball from low to high.

Shannon: I enjoyed learning about the water cycle because I didn’t know that water was used over and over again.

Joshua: I liked Science this week because I learned that water can turn into a gas when you make it hot.

Ella: I enjoyed Science because I didn’t know that we are probably still drinking the same water as the dinosaurs did.

Hannah: I enjoyed PE with Ms Pender because I learned how jump far.

Rory: I enjoyed doing Maths this week because I like learning about fractions. I learnt what a tenth was.

Courtney: I enjoyed doing Maths this week and learning about tenths, thirds and fifths.

Lydia: I liked when we were doing skipping because it was fun to get out and about in the fresh air.

Callum: I enjoyed the sponsored skip because it was a lot of fun and it gave me lots of energy.

We are all looking forward to getting started on our new interdisciplinary topic next week!

This week has been a very short one but we have been very busy learning all about time and how people in the past used the sun, moon and stars to tell the time.  We are learning how to tell the time on a clock face.  We are so keen to learn how to tell the time we want to play with the clocks and challenge each other at every opportunity – even in soft start and free play times.  Ask me what I have learned.

This week, Primary 1 & Primary 1/2 had a challenge!

Porky the Pig needed a new house! But after seeing what had happened to his three pig cousins, he was very confused about what to make it from! So we offered to help!

We talked about what real houses were made from and why they were good materials to use. Then, we chose our own materials (from a choice of art straws, wooden blocks, stickle bricks, Lego bricks, cardboard and foam squares) to make our own houses for Porky to live in. We discussed why some materials were better than others and wrote Porky a letter telling him all about the best materials. We hope we have solved his problem!

Til next time.. (we’ll huff and we’ll puff..)

P1 & P1/2

Last week we made 3d bridges as part of our rivers project. They will be on show at our curriculum evening next Wednesday 2nd of April so please come along to see them as well as other things we have done as part of this topic.

Well done to Molly, Leyla, Yasemin and Finlay B for their performance at the Eco talent competition. Finlay stepped in at the last minute as someone else was off.

Thank you all for coming to parents’ night.  It was good to see everyone and there were a lot of very postitive comments for people to take home. Well done to the P6 helpers who gave up their evening to come along to help.