Sports Day will go ahead today at 1:15pm. We look forward to seeing you.
Harry Potter Lunch Time Club
Some of our P5 children had an idea to run a Harry Potter Lunch Time Club. They made a plan of what they would do, collected the resources they needed and made up a register.
This week the focus was on creating a wand and everyone who came along said they really enjoyed it and are looking forward to the next session.
Transition
It’s that time of year when we start thinking about moving on. Our Primary 7 and pre-school children have already started their transition journey over the past few weeks and months.
Transition Challenge
As part of Health Week, P1 – P7 have been set a transition challenge to teach the new children coming into their stage about their learning, achievements and events this year.
Here is an example of the P7 challenge:
Here are the P6s hard work completing the challenge:
Watch this space for the final results!
Moving up MorningÂ
On the 19th June we will have our moving up afternoon when our children will have the opportunity to meet their new teachers.
Class Structure
Currently our class structure for next session is:
- P1
- P2
- P2
- P3
- P4
- P5
- P6
- P7
*This is our current structure, however we are still awaiting our final numbers for Primary 1, so this may be subject to change if our numbers increase.Â
WL Sum Dog Competition So Far …
So far in the competition …
Classes placed out of 23:
- 7th – P6
- 20th – P4
Children placed out of 623:
- 29th – Callum C – P6
- 39th – Jack – P6
- 40th – Emilia – P6
The competition runs until Thursday and all children can play at home as well as school.
P5 Visit Dynamic Earth
Primary 5 wrote a recount describing their trip to Dynamic Earth. Here are some examples of their writing.
https://vimeo.com/272671680
Health Week & Sports Day
Dear parents/carers,
Health week will take place next week (4th– 8th June), with a whole range of exciting activities for the children taking place in school. On Monday – Thursday, children should wear sports gear appropriate for indoor and outdoor activities, remembering that football colours are not permitted. Children should wear school uniform on Friday. Please ensure they have a water bottle each day.
Sports day be will on the afternoon of Thursday 7th June, on the playing fields beside the school. It will commence at 1.15pm.  Should we have to cancel due to the weather, we will Groupcall you by 10.30am on that day.  Please note, due to health and safety, there will be no access to the school for spectators. Due to photograph restrictions, we ask that you only take photographs of your own child/ children.
Kind regards,
Morag Dickie
Acting Principal Teacher
Developing the Young Workforce Week
Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) is a programme organised by the Scottish Government  that aims to better prepare children and young people aged 3–18 for the world of work. Last week we held our annual DYW Week in order to share with our children different a range of types of jobs/ carers and the skills, qualifications and values you require to fulfill these roles.
This year we had a range of speakers and visitors from our local community and beyond. We also used a website called Founders4Schools and our contact Arlene Nicol from West Lothian DYW to find people to visit us.
Our visitors included:
- Mrs Edwards ~ Team Building Skills
- Mr Walker ~ 35 Cycles
- Mrs Gent ~ Community Midwife
- Mr Cecil ~ STEM East
- Ms Haston ~ Archaeology
- Alison & Rachel ~ Narnia Hair Design
- Mr Fish ~ Fire fighter
- Mr Wilson ~ Postman
- Ms Szawlowska ~ Carer/ student
- Mr Mitchell ~ PBC Foundation
- Kristy & Dawn ~ Dawnfresh
- Applied Science Students ~ West Lothian College
- Mr Russell ~ Wright and Maclennan Ltd
- Jenny Cambell ~ Resilience Engine
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who visited us and helped to make it such a huge success. Ms Haston organised for WL Courier to visit us … So watch this space!
The learning outcomes we explored during the week were:
Nursery – P1:
- I can communicate with people about the different jobs they do in my community.
- I can discuss some of the rewards that a job brings
- I can role play different job roles.
- I can develop ideas and take part in projects to make things.
P2-4:
- I can describe different jobs in my community and some of the skills needed for these.
- I can learn about the world of work from visits, projects and my experiences.
- I can talk to employers about myself and about their workplace.
- I can recognise that there are different ways to get a job.
- I can talk about the types of jobs that interest me
P5-7:
- Â I can discuss the relevance of skills to the wider world and make connections between skills and the world of work.
- Â I can explain to others my ambitions/what I would like to do and look for ways to achieve them/that.
- I can recognise the skills I have and need for work.
- I can apply my skills to get more information about jobs/careers.
- I can identify different types of enterprise opportunities and engage in them.
You can find out more about our DYW Week by visiting our blog.
Primary 5 DYW challenge
The digital learning/DYW challenge this week was very engaging for our class. The task was to create a new digital character for a game, either a new game or one that is currently on the market. As many of our class are interested in careers in gaming, it was a great challenge. We discussed what we liked about characters in games and then decided if we wanted to work alone or in a small group.
We were using lots of different skills in this challenge that will be important for us in the future when we are working.
We used teamwork, discussion, negotiating, literacy, creativity and IT skills. We also had to learn to use new programmes to create the digital image.
Once we had decided on our character, named it, designed it, gave it super powers and agreed what its personality would be like we then had to think of what the characters back story would be – this was lots of fun.
Mrs Andison was impressed at the literacy skills we were using to describe our characters as well as the creativity of our designs.
Thanks to Miss Burton for setting this challenge.
Primary 5 Digital Learning week
This week we have been using our digital expertise to research in Science and Maths.
We have been learning what the benefits of renewable energy sources are
We found out that they are cleaner for the environment, they create jobs, save money, don’t add to greenhouse gas emissions, won’t run out and make us less reliant on other countries to supply us with oil.
We have been investigating different types of triangles and their properties.
We learned that equilateral and isosceles triangles are the most commonly used triangles in engineering (Murron). We also found out that the triangle is the strongest shape and that is why it’s used in bridges and buildings (Owen and Liam).
West Lothian Schools Triathlon
A massive ‘well done’ to our pupils from p5, 6 and 7 who participated in the triathlon today! Mrs Dickie was extremely proud of them all! They were a real credit to our school and everyone had a great time. Lots of smiles in the sunshine!
