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“We learned what to do when you’re being bullied from Childline” (Jordan)
“In P.E we got peer assessed and we self assessed how good we are in tennis” (Sophie)
” In maths we were finding partners for fractions and decimals” (Rebecca)
“In reading the red group were summarising and creating a new text about spiders” (Connor)
“In French we were learning how to say the weather in French for example cold – le frevo” (Shea)
This morning the teachers were surprised by the kindness and talent of one of our P6 girls. Krtisinna decided to make a cake for the teachers to eat at playtime. Doesn’t it look lovely?
This week we have been drawing pictures about all of the sports which will feature in the Commonwealth Games which will be held in Glasgow in July. We produced our best work and we hope some will be selected to appear in the athletes village. Next week we will put up some of our finished entries for you to see.
We started our football training with Greg from Broxburn United Football Club. He is helping us all to lead a healthy lifestyle by making sure we eat healthily and take regular excercise. We were doing  sit ups and wall presses to improve our personal fitness. We have been given fitness homework to help us improve our levels of fitness.
This Friday Eilidh, Jamie Lee and Niamh will be taking part in the gymnastics display which will be held at 11.45. Good luck girls!
Primary 7 have been busy updating their new Didbook profiles. Didbook has taken over from our reflective diaries where we can think and write about our learning. W e created targets last week and are all trying hard to achieve them.
Science/Health & Wellbeing
This week we have been learning about animal adaptation and how certain features help animals survive in their habitat. For example a polar bear has hairy paws to stop slipping on ice. They also have tiny ears to stop their eardrums from freezing. We worked in group sto create a booklet about certain animals – here are a few photos.
Literacy
As we enjoyed creating our booklets we decided to write a short report about our animal. We had to include 2 paragraphs. The first paragraph included 3 facts about the animal and the second paragraph included 3 facts about the animal’s adaptations. We then read a partner’s work and gave peer feedback.
Numeracy
This week we started a new maths topic – addition and subtraction. We have all been reminding ourselves of the number bonds to 20 by playing games. We have also been adding on lots of ten to bigger numbers using mental strategies and the empty number line strategy. We have also been able to take away lots of ten from bigger numbers. We know that we have to start at the beginning of the line for adding questions and the end of the line for subtraction questions. Next week we will continue to work on this.
Didbook
We were very excited this morning when we got to start using Didbook. Didbook is like a reflection diary but stored online (securely). We can update our Didbook diaries from home by visiting my.didbook.com and using our school email address to log in. Miss Anderson is already looking forward to reading and commenting on our entries.
That’s all from us – hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Miss Anderson and P5 🙂
This week, the Red & Blue groups have been taking their work outdoors! We have been playing ‘Spell a Snowman’ – a game which helps us learn our common words! We usually play it on our own with our jotters, but this time we worked as a team! We each were given a common word and if we spelled it correctly, we got to build a piece of our snowman. The first team to build their snowman wins!
The Yellow group are still waiting to play ‘Spell a Snowman’. The Red & Blue groups had some ideas for how they could do well at the game!
‘They could take their common words from their homework folder and maybe practise them at home.’ Abigail
Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 are looking forward to more outdoor learning with sounds!
Primary 3 finished their 5 week course today of football skills with James from Broxburn United Sports Club. During the 5 weeks, primary 3 learned the importance of being healthy and fit and also how important it is to offer encouragement to your team mates. Today all the class received medals to take home for all their hard work over the last few weeks.
Well done to Ciaran and James who were picked to recite their poems at the Scots assembly. Well done also to Dolce, Hollie, Liam and Eilidh who gave a super performance when performing ‘Strip the Willow’ with the P7 dancers. It was a super afternoon which we all enjoyed. We hope the senior citizens who attended enjoyed it as much as we did!
This morning we were very excited to visit Broxburn Primary and meet Clyde, the mascot for the Commonwealth Games.
The mascot was a thistle, called Clyde. Clyde is very active and energetic, he loves to dance and have fun. He has met people who are competing in the Commonwealth Games this year. We also got pictures of Clyde, and one picture of us with Clyde. It was very exciting to meet him and we had loads of fun.
Check out our photos…
By Nia (P5) and Jake (P7)
This week the children took part in our Scottish Assembly. Well done to Nathan and Oliwia for reciting their Scottish poems and to Lucas, Cerys, Callum and Kamila for performing The Canadian Barn Dance with pupils from primary three.
We have also been learning about 3D shapes and have used them to make models.  In literacy we have been learning about magic ‘e’ and how it changes the sound of the middle vowel, for example, cap becomes cape. Can you find some more words that can be changed by adding magic ‘e’ to them?
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