In writing this week we wrote about traditions during Chinese New Year. In maths we are looking at different shapes and the triangles maths group have been introduced to the triangular prism. In topic this week, we found out how jewellery was an important part of Egyptian life even for the poor people. We used a range of materials to make our own Egyptian bracelets and necklaces.
P7 Poets!
Earlier this week Primary 7 worked in pairs to create a recipe poem about what makes Scotland great!
Here are some quotations from them-
“Drop in 282 munros and dust them with snow”. By James and William.
“Take some beautiful empty land, stir in the sound of music”. By Junior.
“Then dip in some noisy bagpipes as loud as a lions roar.” By Lewis Taylor
“Grate the grass around the thistles.” By Michael.
They will be on display outside the P7 classroom for you to read!
We achieved our class target!!!!!
Primary 2
This week we have been working on ‘ai’ and ‘ay’ sounds in words, paying particular attention to where these sounds appear in words. The children have been creating these words in bubble writing and decorating them in their own style to be displayed on our word wall in class. There have been some very interesting designs which clearly show individual creativity and imagination.
Primary 6
Everyone has been busy this week rehearsing for our Scots afternoon. I think you’ll agree it was worth all the hard work! Primary 6 poets were excellent and a special well done to Ellie Hamilton and Amy Barnett for their recitals of ‘Bingo’ and ‘Oor New School’ on the day.
Scot’s Afternoon
This week saw our very successful Scot’s afternoon for the senior citizens of Pumpherston and Uphall Station as well as many of our parents and grandparents. Â The children all worked hard to learn a selection of Scot’s poems and a several traditional scot’s songs and P5 learned a dance, which they performed with great enthusiasm. Â The afternoon was a great success and the audience appeared to enjoy it thoroughly.
Primary 2
This week we have been learning about the effects of gravity. We have also been looking at Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh and drawing part of it using chalk pastels.
P2 enjoyed performing in the Scots afternoon this week. Well done to Matthew M and Katie C who learned and recited their poems confidently to the audience.
UNICEF Day for Change
We will be supporting UNICEF’s Day for Change next Friday by having an Inside Out Day.  Children can come to school on Friday 8th February wearing their clothes inside out! In return children are asked to bring a donation of 50p to help supprt UNICEF’s vital work.
Primary 4
This week we have been learning about the uses of water in Science. We made a diagram to show how we had used water in a day. Next week we will be learning about how important water is to us and how we can prevent water wastage.
We wrote imaginative stories in writing about travelling in a Time Machine. Some people went on an adventure to the past and some people went into the future!
Next week Ewan McVicar will be visiting Primary 4.  He is going to talk to us about food in other countries.  We will also be taking part in a joint bird migration art activity with another school in Africa.
By Ryan and Primary 4
P5
We had fun at the Scots afternoon.The people who were doing the poems in P5 were Eilidh and Christopher and our dancers were Finlay B, Hollie , Aimee , Dolce , James , Molly , Finlay C and Leyla.We hope everybody enjoyed it as much as we did. Thank you .
P1a Learning
This week was very exciting.Taffy our class dragon got a letter from his cousin George. The letter told Taffy that all the buildings in Fairyland had been destroyed in a bad storm. Taffy was asked to help. We decided to help Taffy and all the characters in Fairyland to build new houses, castles, caves and a tree house. This morning we made plans for the three little pig’s houses and next week we are going to build the houses from our plans. We are very excited! We are using our skills in working together. We also learned to tell the time using digital clocks and our next step is to match clock faces to digital times. We are going to try to practice reading the o’clock times at home. Let us know how you get on.
