On Monday P5 were excited to go swimming at Broxburn Leisure centre. The other exciting news is our Europe assembly which will take place on Thursday 28th of February. We are busy researching about a variety of countries for this. Please put that date into your diary as it is an event you will not want to miss!
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.
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.
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 .
P5 Reflective Learning
In Primary 5 this week we have been rehearsing for our Scots afternoon for the Senior Citizens.  We have been rehearsing two poems: The Puddock by John M Cale and Tae  A Moose by Robert Burns.  Also we have been practising our Scottish Country Dancing and we hope to present the Virginia Wheel aswell.  Thank you for reading! P5
Primary 5
Primary 5 have been linking RME and Science this week as we learned about Evolution as an explanation of how life began on Earth. We watched an animation which showed some dinosaurs with feathers, and explained how there are some birds in the world today that can’t fly, but have other talents which make them the best birds for their habitat.
Thank you to Ellie for helping to sum up the learning this week.
We thought about the kiwi in particular – can anyone tell me where kiwis live? Can P5 remember what the kiwi is good at?
Panto Fun
Here are a few photos of this year’s panto, Peter Pan.  A great time was had by all, including some staff who were included in the show – not always willingly.
Sleigh bells ring…
We want to show off some of the super sleighs our children have designed and built for Santa this December! He will have a difficult job choosing between gold, glitter, rocket speed, reindeer power, and even time travel machines.
Primary 5 – Haiti Earthquake
This week in P5 we have been researching how earthquakes happen. Carry out some research at home to find out other countries which have had earthquakes recently and compare the damage caused in these countries with the damage caused by the Haiti earthquake.
Quick Choir on Tour
Here are the Quick Choirs who were singing this week at St John’s hospital and Dobbies Garden Centre, Livingston. We had a great time and we hope to hear soon how much was raised for the Friends of St John’s charity. Well done to all our singers, you were a credit to the school.
Thank you to Horsburgh Buses for the transport and to Santa for joining in at Dobbies!
