Our school football team looked fantastic in their new sponsored strips on Friday. Â Many thanks to the parents who help the coach, David, at the matches. Â If you are interested in being more involved in supporting our team – please let us know.
Primary 5
This week, Primary 5 were learning about dissolving.
We learned that dissolving meant that the particles of one material mixed with a liquid to create a ‘solution’. This means that the material is ‘soluble’. If the particles cannot mix with a liquid, it is ‘insoluble’.
We tested different materials to see if they were soluble or insoluble. We use the same measure and temperature of water to make sure it was a fair test.
We found that chalk and sand were insoluble. Flour, coffee and salt were soluble. We were unsure about gravy as some of it dissolved, but not all. We wonder if the temperature of the water would make a difference – what do you think?
Until next time…
Primary 5 & Miss M 🙂
Book Bug Bags for P1 Pupils
P1 Parents & Carers – Scottish Book Trust needs your help!
Every November, Scottish Book Trust gifts a free bag of books to every P1 child in Scotland to help them with their reading, writing and counting and to encourage them to develop a life-long love of books. Scottish Book Trust is asking parents and carers of children in P1 to complete a short online survey about the Bookbug Primary 1 Family Bag. Please click here to take part in the survey, which shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes to complete. Your feedback will help us to improve the Bookbug P1 Family Bag in the future and you couldwin a free bundle of books! The deadline for completing the survey is 10 February 2017.
Primary 1
This week we celebrated Burns day in Primary 1. We learned about Robert Burns and why he is a famous Scot. We drew our national flower, the thistle using oil pastels and we had a Scots food tasting. We tasted haggis,neeps and tatties and then we had oatcakes with cheese and some tasty shortbread!
P 2 / 3 weekly blog
Last week we looked at other pieces of art work from Jolomo (John Lowrie Morrison). Here are more paintings in the style of Jolomo. Â We hope you like them. This week we used primary colours ( blue /white / black). We mixed primary colours to make secondary colours ( we mixed white and red to get pink).
Learning Overviews
Every term teachers complete a planned Learning Overview – showing the learning which is planned for this term. Â This is sent home in your child’s bag and is also available on the blog from the menu at the top of the page or by clicking this link here.
Primary 3
We have had a very busy week.  James from Broxburn United has been visiting us on a Wednesday for P.E.  He spoke to us about the importance of encouragement and that water is our most precious resource!  We were given a gift of a water bottle to keep us hydrated!
In Maths, we started the week by creating our own frequency tables to show peoples’ favourite things. Â Next week we will be creating bar graphs with our data. Â In number, everyone has been learning about the value of digits dependending if they are in the ones, tens, hundreds or thousands place. Â Some of us even managed to talk about tens of thousands.
We are looking forward to next week.
P3 🙂
P6 Class Poem – ‘My luve, Ross’
As part of our Scots focus, P6 have been analysing ‘A Red, Red Rose’ by Robert Burns. We discussed his use of rhythm, rhyme and repetition and used this to inspire our own class poem in the same style. We used the Scots spelling of ‘luve’ rather than ‘love’, as Robert Burns did in his poem. You can read our poem below; we hope you like it!
My luve, Ross
Oh my luve’s like a teddy bear,
That’s soft and fluffy too;
Oh my luve’s like a purple pug,
That’s filled with joy like you.
Oh my luve’s like a big Big Mac,
That’s so juicy inside;
Oh my luve’s like flowers in grass,
That touches my heart with pride!
Oh my luve’s like a cheese pizza,
That’s crunchy like some toast;
Oh my luve’s like a golden ring,
That’s a perfect fit for most.
Oh my luve’s like a bunch of grapes,
That’s growing on a tree.
Oh my luve’s like a juicy lime,
That’s growing just like me.
Oh my luve is like a diamond,
He shines so bright at night;
Oh my luve’s like a chocolate cake,
We will not ever fight!
Oh my luve’s like a cosy fire,
I’d love to give him hugs;
Oh my luve’s like the gentle breeze,
He is as cute as pugs!
Oh my luve’s like chicken nuggets,
Covered in curry sauce;
Oh my luve’s like a frying pan,
And my love’s name is Ross!
Primary 1
Primary 1 have been busy this week learning a Scots poem for homework. Today, everyone got a chance to recite their poem in front of the rest of the class. Some children chose Mince and Tatties as their poem and others chose Robin Reidbreist. We all met our success criteria which  was to speak in a clear voice and make eye contact with our audience.
P6 Weekly Blog
This week we learned about time in maths, we were learning 12 and 24 hour time. We found out that 24 hour time has a colon and 12 hour doesn’t and 24 hour time is mostly used on your phone or electrical device.
With Mrs Andison we have been learning about smoking. In drama we made a smoking advert to help people stop smoking and to tell them about the consequences.
By Mya and Iona
