P3 Class Blog

P3 have had lots of fun doing expressive arts this week.

For dance, we had a taster session from Danceworld. We all had to stay on our spots and do the moves we learned at the same time.

For drama, we have started rehearsals for our class assembly. We have been learning about scripts, cues and stage directions.

For music, we have been practising singing our songs for the class assembly.

We used our literacy skills to write invitations for our class assembly and brought them home. Please check school bags if you haven’t received your invitation yet. The assembly will be on Friday 24th November. Please arrive at 9am for a 9.15am start.

 

P6 River Models

P6 have been learning about rivers this term and this week we have been getting creative! First, we used clay to make 3D models showing the course of a river from source to mouth. We included features like valleys, tributaries, meanders, floodplains, levees, estuaries and deltas. Then we used a variety of instruments to make a sound story to depict a river’s course from source to mouth. Take a look at our models in the pictures below and see if you can identify some of the features of a river.

P4 Christmas Song

As part of their final session with Miss Mulholland Primary 4 performed their Christmas song which demonstrated their learning of beat, rhythm and pitch and then they finished the session with some games which had everyone giggling and trying to keep up.  Thank you to Miss Mulholland, we have all learned so much and have a much better understanding of music now.

 

Choir tour – day 2

We were at St John’s hospital today, singing Christmas carols in aid of the charity  ‘Friends of St John’s hospital’.  Those of us who had sung at St John’s before noticed the shiny new decor in the reception area – there’s even a handy new place to plug in our CD player!

We were able to run through our repertoire 3 times and had gathered quite a few fans by the time we finished singing.  Thank you very much to everyone who came along to listen, our fan club were much appreciated. We heard lots of lovely comments and compliments, so we think everyone liked our singing and we were pleased with our performance.  Thank you to everyone who donated money into the charity buckets- we’ll hope to hear the grand total raised in the New Year.

‘Thank you’ from The Friends of St John’s Hospital

We received a lovely thank you card in the post from the Friends of St John’s Hospital, thanking us for our contribution to their fundraising. Our choir sang Christmas Carols in the foyer of St John’s on December 9th and £108.10 was raised during our singing!  The charity is dedicated to promoting the comfort and welfare of patients, staff and visitors at St John’s hospital in Livingston.  Our support will help them to provide services throughout St John’s for the benefit of all patients, staff and visitors.

We are very proud to be able to help such a worthwhile cause in our local community. Well done to the choir for singing so well!

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 🙂

Stop Press! We’ll be on the radio!

We had great fun on Tuesday when Forth One presenters Boogie and Arlene came with their producer to record in our school.  We are one of the very few schools in West Lothian to be chosen for this feature on the Breakfast show.  We sang Jingle Bell Rock, then we all wished Forth One listeners a Merry Christmas, and got the chance to sing ‘Boogie in the Morning’ jingle too!  Then Boogie spoke to some of our children about Christmas, asking what they like about it, and they each shared a festive joke.

  The recordings made with Boogie and Arlene will be broadcast on Radio Forth One (97.3 FM) on Friday 13th December at 7:40 am. 

P6 weekly blog

This week we have been very busy rehearsing for our Jacobite assembly which will take place on Thursday 21st of November at 1 pm. We are all hoping you will be able to come so we can share with you what we have learnt about the Jacobites.

We are also very excited because we have been picked to take part in Radio Forth’s Carols at Christmas! Radio Forth will be coming to the school to record the whole school singing a Christmas carol which will be broadcast on Radio Forth on the run up to Christmas.

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