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This week Primary 1 have been learning how to tell the time. We can show and read o’clock times and next week we will be learning to read half past times.
In phonics, we learned ‘v’ and ‘w’ and practised building words with these sounds.
Today we wrote spooky stories for Halloween. We had to close our eyes and imagine that we had walked into a spooky house, then we drew and wrote about what we had seen inside.
Although we have only been in school for two and a half days we have been very, very busy.
On Wednesday we started our new topic Livi Living, which is all about Livingston. We created a class book with all the information and facts that we already know. A few of us drew maps of parts of Livingston that we know. We still need to create a cover for our book and would like suggestions for what we need to include on the cover.
In Maths we have been transferring our skills to create different versions of our names. We create symmetrical patterns and wrote our names using block letters, with a set area (52-62 cm2). This was great fun, Then we coloured in our names, using fractions to help. Most of us had to use rounding to decide how many squares to colour. Here is an example:
If your name took up 55cm2 and 1/4 of it to be blue then you would divide 55 by 4. This would give you an answer of 13.75. Because this is not a whole number you would round up and colour 14 squares. This means that 1/4 of 55cm2 is approximately 14cm2.
We can’t wait to find out what we will be learning next week…
Miss Anderson and P6
P7 have had a very busy term. We have been very lucky to have lots of visitors to help our learning in music, technology, social studies and health.  Next term we have a trip to Edinburgh Castle and our class assembly  to look forward to.
Enjoy the holidays!
Primary 7 and Miss McLennan
This week we had our trip to Linlithgow Palace and Annett House as part of the work we have been doing on our topic about life in the 16th Century in the time of Mary Queen of Scots. Â We also had a look along Linlithgow High Street to see if we could spot things which are still there from that time.
Thank you again to everyone who donated goods to our Harvest table today. We were very grateful for all the food and produce brought in to school, and glad to be able to help our local community in this way. This year the table also included some of our OWN grown produce- the leeks were freshly pulled out of the raised beds this morning.
We hope everyone who joined us enjoyed our Harvest assembly and we wish all the best to everyone receiving a bag of Harvest goods. This year we were able to give bags to everyone nominated by our school family, and to send many bags to the West Lothian foodbank to help families in crisis. Thank you to the group of helpers who sorted out the bags for distribution. Your help is much appreciated.
We learned at Assembly how our money has helped our friends in Uganda to buy Braille machines for the school and orphanage in Magale, and we saw how happy the children were to receive a pencil each.
We can make a difference!
Time for a little update on the roundhouse…
P4 have been very busy this term constructing our very own Celtic roundhouse! With the help of Tom and Sarah-Jane (Murron’s parents, who are also archaeologists!) we were able to make a life-size (for us anyway) version of a roundhouse. It has been hard work, involving lots of digging, hunting for mud, stripping and weaving willow and building the overall structure. We are very proud of how it looks and have been surprised at how much learning has come from this project! We have had a first-hand experience of how ancient Celts would have built their own homes and how difficult it could be, we have learned about joins and structures and also about how to use different tools. Keep posted or pop in and visit to see how it is coming along!
Until next time…
Primary 4 🙂
This term we have been learning about slavery in Scotland. We have worked in lots of different ways. Our Celebration of Learning is to create documentaries about slavery. Here are a few sneak peaks at what will be included in our documentaries…
Transportation of Slaves
Slaves were transported from Africa on ships. Many slaves travelled to the Caribbean where they worked on plantations. Fewer slaves travelled to Scotland, where they lived with their owners. Here are a few illustrations of slave ships. We used pencil to draw a slave ship and then used one colour of pastel for effect.
Life as a Slave in Scotland
We have taken part in lots of drama activities in order to learn more about the life of a slave. Here is a video that shows the way that a family would treat the slave that they ‘owned’. We have also included a conscience alley at the end.
If you would like to see more videos of our learning, leave us a comment.
Miss Anderson and P6
This morning we were visited by three very important visitors: Moira Niven (Deputy Chief Executive of West Lothian Council), Councillor Dodds and Councillor Fitzpatrick. Our visitors came to see our WWI Victory Garden. Niamh, Chloe and Declan were all able to share their learning, talking about how they planned and created the garden, along with the knowledge and skills that they developed. Our three Primary 7 pupils were amazing hosts, thoroughly enjoying sharing their learning.
After visiting the garden, our visitors popped into the Primary 7 classroom to join in with the class learning.
Our visitors also visited the Primary 4 Celtic Roundhouse and were amazed at what has been produced. They all said that they would like to come back again at a later date to find out more.
We hope our visitors enjoyed their time with us (and enjoyed their Victoria Sponge!).
We were learning about what rich people and poor people wore in the 16th Century. Â I would have preferred to have been a rich person because they beautiful clothes. Shannon
We were working with 6 digit numbers and we were adding on 1000, 10 000 or 100,000. I found it a bit tricky so we are going to play the roll and stick game to practise this to make me more confident. Amber
We were developing our basket ball skills further by shooting into the hoop. Since I am quite good at it I was supporting others to show them the correct way to hold the ball when you are shooting. Â Louisa.
In drama we were doing an improvisation from our class novel ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’. The characters we were becoming were Mallory, Jared, Simon and Mum. To be successful we had to try to take on their characteristics eg. move like the character, how they sound and how they react to others. I enjoyed trying to be Jared. Â Lewis P
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