Hear our singing all over again by following the link below to the Forth One page.
http://www.forthone.com/on-air/boogie-in-the-morning/kids-christmas-carols/
Or listen to the mp3 file here 13th-PUSCPS-Carol
Merry Christmas everyone!
Nativity
Over the past few weeks, Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 have been learning about Nativity.
First, we heard the Nativity story, and tried to relate what we learned to our own ‘Wriggly Nativity’ story. We also looked at different versions of the story and talked about what was the same and what was different.
Then, we moved on to creating the programme for our own Nativity performance. We drew a picture of ourselves as our character, wrote our own name and tried hard to write our character’s name. They looked great! We photocopied them for our grown-ups to enjoy too!
Finally, after lots of singing and acting (and wriggling!) came our performance of ‘Wriggly Nativity’. After a slight delay from the fire alarm, we were ready to go! We loved the songs, especially the parts where we could wriggle! Mrs Andison and Miss McLaughlin were very proud – we’re sure we saw tears in their eyes! We really enjoyed our learning over this topic!
Miss McLaughlin and Mrs Andison would like to thank Nia Mullen (P5) and Lewis Paterson (P4) for being wonderful narrators; Liam Cavanagh (P7) and Zoe Evans (P7) for being super with our sound; Rebecca Lawrie (P7) and Alexa Renwick (P7) for selling our programmes; Miss Speirs for keeping the performance going; Mrs Hull for all the song rehearsals; all of the grown-ups who came to see our performance and bought the programmes, and finally, to the children in Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 who worked so hard to make the performance as special as it was. Thank you.
Merry Christmas from Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 
Primary 4 Science
In Science this week, Primary 4 have been learning all about conductors and insulators. We created a circuit using wires, a battery and a bulb then used this to help us investigate which materials conduct electricity best.
We tested lots of materials around the classroom, discovering that plastic and wooden materials are insulators and that metal materials are conductors because they allowed electricity to flow around the circuit.
Holly’s Learning
I learned that the blue side of a magnet, if you put it against the other blue side it retraces itself. The red side with the red side does the same as the blue. With the red and the blue they attract to each other.
We learned in maths how to divide by using the chunking method or the bus stop method. It was to divide bigger numbers from one digit to three or four sometimes.
We have a money Monday where we learned what money is worth in different countries and there are currencies so if we go to a different country when we are older.
We are learning about smoking. We had a nice lady visit and she showed us how smoking affects your health and what it does to you.
Zoe’s Learning
In maths we have been learning how to read lots of different types of word problems. In an assessment we had to read the question carefully but you needed to use lots of skills like adding, time and loads of other ones.
Sophie’s Learning
Maths
- In maths we did a maths test to show what we know already we had to work by ourselves. There were 45 marks.
Topic
- In topic we were learning about money and drugs/smoking.
- Our topic now is drugs/smoking. We made posters to show why you should not smoke and what effects it has on us.
- A woman from West Lothian Tobacco Unit came to visit and she taught us a lot of interesting things. She showed us a jar full of tar and she taught us about more effects it has on us.
Rebecca’s Learning
This term I enjoyed and learning about the risks of smoking here are some of them: Cancer, Tar (the stuff in our playground but it doesn’t set), Yellow teeth, Smell bad
And many more!! In science with Mrs Campbell we were learning about magnets and how they work. Here is some of the things we learned:
- The blue side cannot connect with a other blue side the will just drift apart
- The red side cannot connect with a other red side they will just drift apart
- But if you but the red side to the blue side they will connect
Snowed under Sevens
In the past two weeks P7 have been extremely busy and had a lot of visitors. We had Ali from Sweet Service in talking about how to run a business and what ingredients we need to run one. We also had a Michelle coming in and talking to us about smoking and the risks that can go wrong.
In writing we were writing a scene in the city called Winter in the City. We only had 15 minutes to write as we used the Learning to Learn tool – WE GOT Time!
We were practising our Christmas song, Mary’s Boy Child to sing in assembly.
At P.E we were doing shooting into goals and catching the ball in a diamond shape like a goal keeper.
In maths we were learning about money about how to transfer into a different currency using an exchange rate to see how much it would cost here.
By Connor, P7
The Christmas Extravaganza
Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun at the Christmas extravaganza today. It was a great success. Congratulations to the choir for singing so sweetly and starting the afternoon off in style. We sent a roving reporter round the busy stalls to record some of the activity for the Blog.
More details, including a total for the funds raised, to follow soon.
Christmas Homework tasks
