Primary 2/3 have been trying out their writing in French to send some smiles and greetings to our friends at École St. Jacques in Roussillon, France.
Seatbelt Safety
Primary 4 have been showing the importance of wearing your seatbelt in the car by designing and testing new vehicles for some rather furry passengers. Each group was challenged to work together as a team using Lego, K’nex and other construction systems to create a car for a cuddly toy, Â with elastic safety harnesses.
Remember to wear your seatbelt and sit in a safe car seat on every journey.
P3 Weekly Blog
Last week was West Lothian money week therefore we started out money topic!
Here are some of the facts we have been learning:
‘I have been learning how much money I have by counting up the coins.’ Kyle
‘I have been learning the coins up 10p’ Michael
‘I have been learning how to give change up to £1’ Eilidh
‘I brought in money from Croatia to show the class’ Jamie
‘I brought in Victorian money to see how their money was different to ours’ Murron
‘ When we went on our school trip we saw Victorian money in the grocers shop’ Dylan
‘We have been using interactive maths games to help us practise using coins’ Abigail
Primary 4
This week, Primary 4 started their fantastic Technologies challenge – to build a Roman amphitheatre!
We had looked at the design of amphitheatres (the most famous probably being the Colosseum) and noticed that they had no roof or doors, were made of stone and used lots of arches for their construction.
We are very lucky to be working with Sarah-Jane and Tom! We have enjoyed learning so far about how different materials can be used and how to work with different tools. We are currently building our structure from stones, sandbags and turf.
Have a look at our first set of photos:
Keep checking in with us to see how we are getting on!
A shout out to parents and friends of the school…
We are in need of old spades, trowels, forks, rakes… If any of our school community have any at home, we would love to be able to use them 🙂 Â
Many thanks,
Miss M & Primary 4
Nursery news
The children in Nursery have been learning about our school rules, and telling each other how we make our school the best it can be. Have a look at their great ideas!
P5 travel back to a Scottish Royal Burgh!
Primary 5 visited Linlithgow today to find out more about life in the past. They have lots more to share so keep your eye out!
P5 & Miss McLennan
Primary 4
This week, Primary 4 made links between our Roman topic and RME!Â
We found out that Romans had many different gods and often prayed to them for different things. We decided to investigate the main gods and find out more about them. We worked in pairs to create a fact file about each god.
Here is our display below…
We will be starting our fantastic building project next week.. Check in with us to see how we are getting on!
Until then…
Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂
P5 Science
Primary 5 have been building a compost column so they can observe micro-organisms at work. We are going to make more next week and add different materials.
P5 & Miss McLennan
P3 New Lanark trip
To launch our topic,  the Victorians, we went to New Lanark to see how people lived, worked  and learned in the 1800’s.
What a Wonderful Wig Walk!
Thank you SO much to everyone who contributed to the success of our ‘Walk your Wigs Off’ walk today.  This was our part of West Lothian Walking week, and what lovely weather we had for our walks. Thank you to Pumpherston Community Council and the West Lothian Council NETS team for the  loan of litter picking equipment – Pumpherston was looking very tidy today.  We had a fantastic team of helpers with us on the walk, thank you for coming along with us.  We hope you enjoyed it, we were very pleased to have you with us today.
Back at school we were raising money through our Dress Down Day pounds for Team Jak, a local charity raising money to build and improve facilities for young people with cancer – we are very proud to say we raised £200!
Well done everyone – remember, as it says in our song, ‘ I can, you can we can make a difference! ‘
