A taste of winter from P7 …

A Winter Scene

It was a cold night and the snow was shining on the ground.  The buildings lights were shining while the river was frozen below. The trees were covered in ice.  You can hear the cars and you can touch the fluffy snow.  You also can taste cooked chestnuts and see the dark sky and the tall buildings.

By Craig, P7

The lights were on, there was nothing but candle light dying slowly as the terrain got darker and the sky changed colour into romantic pink. It was bitterly cold outside, and you can smell the ginger cake as well as cookies and roasted chestnuts. At night time you can hear owls and Christmas carols. You can see the snowmen being created by the merry, joyful children. You see the city, the slush and the angry, strong men digging out their covered, snow white cars from the brown, awful snowy grounds of the city. It was a marvellous sight, the house was next to an enormous ever green forest – half empty. It grew the best trees ever, the empty skies of the country felt as if it were magic. You could feel the snow against your freezing feet. It felt like a thousand knives digging into you. You could taste the hot cocoa going down your throat as you sit near the everlasting fire.

By Molly, P7

As the steam flew up from the chimney, the smooth, white sheet of snow was changing colour, white to black. It smelt like roasting chestnuts alongside the taste of hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows. Yummy! As the sun was setting, the wolves were howling at the full, corn moon.  There were engines roaring in the slushy snow.

By Finlay B, P7

P5 Weekly Blog

Last week P5 entertained the whole school and their parents with their assembly about life in the 16th Century.

Kadan ‘I enjoyed throwing the rotten food over the people in the stocks’.

Sophie C ‘I enjoyed dancing with Samantha on the stage ‘

Lewis P ‘I liked being put in the stocks and having the food thrown over me.’

Aaron ‘ I enjoyed being the narrator’.

We hope you all enjoyed our assembly too!

Primary 6 are ‘locky’

It’s been a week that has just whizzed by! We can’t believe that it is the weekend already. Here is a summary of our learning for the week.

Dance

This week we have been learning how to ‘lock’ in dance. This is a basic move for all kinds of street dance, but it is harder than it looks. We are all participating well in dance learning and becoming great street dancers.

Music

This week we have continued to work with Lauren to develop our musicality. This week we were using small electronic instruments and Yann told us more about hardware hacking. We also became songwriters, writing songs about Livingston. One group have recorded their song and it will be added to the blog (if Miss Anderson can work out how!).

Writing

We had a free choice in writing this week. Lots of us decided to include a spooky setting. We are all working towards our personal targets and it is almost time to set new targets.

Reading

We all had different tasks this week. The Jaguars completed a character profile, the Tigers a labelled location from the text, the Panthers looked for interesting words to define and the Lions designed and created a birthday card for a character in their novel.

Maths

This week we completed games on Education City, which required us to log in and find our games. It wasn’t too difficult and we will do this again in Maths and English.

We have lots more to learn next week. Miss Anderson and Mrs McCulloch will be doing a wee day swap so Miss Anderson will be in class on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and Mrs McCulloch will be in on wednesday.

We have lots of high scorers for Class Dojo this week! Nia, Carys, Chloe, Ellie and Emma S all have 15 points. Overall Emma C has the most points with 61.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.



Primary 1

This week we really enjoyed learning all about electricity. We made posters to show how to stay safe when we are using it.

In Social Studies, we have been learning all about how to care for animals and the local environment.  We watched a video clip about hedgehogs and used the information we heard to write facts about them. We know that hedgehogs hunt for food when it’s dark and that they are good climbers.  They really like slugs and worms. In the winter, when there is less food around, they need to hibernate.

After learning about the jobs that vets do, we set up an animal hospital in our roleplay area. Here are some of the things we said about playing there:

Ava F: ‘It’s the best thing I’ve played with!’

Calum: ‘I really, really, really love it!’

Ellie C : ‘I like taking x-rays.’

Aaron: ‘I like putting the animals in their beds for a sleep.’

Ava B: ‘I like giving a dog medicine.’

P1/2

This week we have enjoyed watching the P5 assembly. This week we have been learning about electricity and how much we need it as well as how dangerous it can be.  We wrote our own safety rules to help us remember to keep safe when using electricity.  P2s in the class have been learning about simple electrical circuits and we built our own making a bulb light up.  We have been learning about numbers to 20 and we learned some hedgehog facts that we wrote about.

We have a plan to help Mr Robin and his family,  so next week we will be very busy making bird food.

Ask us about our animal hospital that we now have in the open area.

Have a great weekend.

Primary 7 News

This week in Maths most of us really enjoyed learning about coordinates as it was quite a challenge! You could start to predict what the next coordinate might be because it started looking like a picture. 

A good tip to remember the order for coordinates is:  ‘Along the coridoor and up the stairs.  Numbers on the line and not the squares’.

Lots of us enjoyed visiting Broxburn Academy last night especially the Home Economics taster session.  Some of last years P7s shared some of their recipes.

In the guidance department some S1s talked about settling into high school and guidance and support we could get.  They said the homework diary really helps. 

In Writing we continued a story called ‘The Cave of Dur’ .  It was really good as we could end it in any way.  We trying to use a range of VCOP particulary openers ending in ed, ly and ing.  

In P.E we enjoyed basketball with Grant as some activities were challenging but fun.  We were shooting and practising jump stops.

Jammies and Onesies for Pudsey

We had great fun wearing our pyjamas and onesies to school, raising money for Pudsey bear and BBC Children in Need. The total raised was over £180!  At the end of the day we had a fabulous furry fashion show so everyone could see how great we looked.

Well done everyone. I couldn’t fit in everyone’s photo so I decided to show the very youngest – and the very oldest – pyjama people!

P1
Primary 1
Primary 1/2
The teachers

P5 Weekly Blog

We would like to share our learning from last week:

Aiden’ I enjoyed doing addition by partitioning numbers and then bridging 10′.

Sophie Campbell ‘ I enjoyed looking at the map of Scotland and finding all of the cities’.

Hannah ‘ I am enjoying our new class reading book which is called ‘Precious and the mystery of the missing lion’. The book is set in Africa.’

Ella ‘This week I enjoyed music because we got to play a variety of instruments when we were playing the ostinato beat.’

Rory ‘I enjoyed doing PE with Mrs Pender because we are learning the skills of tennis and I think I have got better at tennis because I am able to control the ball better’.

Just a quick reminder this Thursday we will be doing our assembly about life in the 16th Century at 1.15. See you there!

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