Three learning highlights for us this week were:

1. We have enjoyed learning decimals through active maths games this week. We have been playing mental maths games through a website called Blookit, playing Press the Button (we even managed to persuade Mrs Egan to play with our teachers to try to beat our scores).
2. We have all chosen a famous Scottish person to research and complete a personal project on. This has been fun because we have small books to present our information and we are using our research, presentation, summarising and clarifying skills.
3. Primary 6s took part in a Euroquiz drop in session with other P6s across West Lothian. They are going to form a group to compete in a quiz to answer questions about European countries, foods and cultures.

Three challenges we faced this week were:

1. Primary 7s had a transition task with the DCHS Humanities department where they had to do some reading and research about Antarctica which included some very sophisticated language.
2. We have been memorising a Scottish poem in preparation for Burn’s Day on the 25th January. Everyone did fantastically well, each poem had some really hard Scot’s words, especially in Scot’s Wha Hae.
3.  In maths we have been learning to work with decimals and this week some groups have been dividing decimals by large numbers, for example 8/4000! This proved quite tricky because each sum had to be completed in two different steps to get the correct answer.

The Lead Learners this week were looking for concentration, kindness and inclusion are are so pleased to have spotted many pupils demonstrating these values in and around our classroom.