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October 4, 2024
by Mrs Russell
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P1 Weekly Learning Highlights 4th October 2024

This week we have been learning the ‘a’ sound we made alligators and practised writing and saying the sound.  We sorted apples from biggest to smallest.

To prepare for going on our trip next week we read the story ‘The Baddies’ we wrote which character we like best and drew a picture of it.  We also made our own story maps.

In maths we continued our mental counting and we did some subitising.  We looked at the numbers 11, 12, 13 and 14 how they are formed and the quantity of each.

In Spanish we played a number game spin the wheel and say the number in Spanish.

We learned about our sense of smell and used smelly pens to decide if we liked or disliked the smell of them.  We discussed things that smell nice and not nice.

As part of World of Work we learned about the job of a dentist.  We had to show how to brush our teeth using an interactive games and we got our own brand new toothbrush and toothpaste.

We learned about the job of a careers advisor and also a nurse.  We got to play with some equipment and look at PPE. Today we learned about the Tesco distribution centre in Livingston and how it supplies all the Tesco shops in Scotland.  We all got a free Tesco pen.

Lothian Football Academy were in school this week and we were very lucky to have football today for Gym we got to play football with a coach and learn some football skills.  We also had the opportunity to read outside as part of our Outdoor learning.  We had lots of fun and found the sounds and common words we are working on in the books.

Our Weekly Highlights:

Ava ‘I liked playing football’

Felix  ‘liked playing with the toys’

Tiara ‘I liked playing football’

Daniel ‘I liked learning about Tesco and the jobs they do there’.

Lena ‘ I liked making the alligator’

Arush ‘I liked sorting the apples’

 

Well done to our Hot Chocolate winner this week Antosh.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

October 4, 2024
by Miss Mushet
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P3/2 Highlights 04.10.24

Hello our P3/2 family!

We have had a busy learning week with exciting new experiences!

Pupil Highlights:

“I enjoyed P.E. playing toilet tag.”

“I liked playing Minecraft education on the iPad.”

“Learning our four times table was fun.”

“I love doing IDL because we listen to our Amazing Egyptians song.”

“I liked the problem-solving in maths because we were writing on the walls.”

Miss Mushet’s Highlights:

“The pupils made songs for their new spelling words and they all did an amazing job! A lot of the pupils have built up the confidence to perform them in front of the class which is phenomenal.”

“We went to the school library on Tuesday to choose books and the pupils were very respectful of the area and the resources. The P7 helpers even came to thank us and say well done. Keep it up P3/2!”

For writing, we had a focus on maths week and created a story including the mascot ‘Finn Finity’, a shape and a number. These will be entered into a contest… Good luck everyone.

In maths, P2s were consolidating their knowledge of the 2, 5 and 10 times tables whilst p3s also learned counting by 4s. We linked maths to our topic and looked at ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, what the numbers look like and how to create bigger numbers. We answered sums with our knowledge and also practiced writing in hieroglyphics.

In topic, we looked at the importance of the River Nile for the ancient civilisations. We also looked at the map of egypt and created our own, mapping out the grassland, deserts and water.

For health and wellbeing, we worked on how to be a good friend and the importance of always being kind to everyone. We also had football with coaches for P.E. and LOVED it

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Have a lovely weekend everyone 🙂

Miss Mushet and Mrs Broadley

 

October 4, 2024
by Mrs Brand
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P2 Weekly Highlights – WB 30/9/24

Hi Families of P2

We have had a super week in P2. We have been very luck this week to have visitors into our classroom to talk about their jobs. We are learning about the world of work and it was wonderful to hear about real jobs.

The children wrote some excellent stories about what job they want to do when they are older. We had Astronauts, Vets, Footballers and Zookeepers, to name a few.

In Maths we continued to work on numbers to 100 and learned to count on and back in 10’s.

West Lothian Football academy were in school this week and we were very lucky to have football on Tuesday and Thursday, The children had a great time participating and showed excellent manners and teamwork throughout.

Weekly Highlights

Ellie – I liked silent reading time. My favourite book is called Scruff Sheep.

Rose – I liked doing all of my work.

Daniel, Willow, Lewis, Ollie, Edward and Matteo – I loved football with Stephen.

Laaibah – I liked making patterns with natural materials in the woodlands.

Oscar – I liked when the visitors came to talk to us.

Huge Congratulations to Daniel, our hot chocolate winner and Edward, our Reading Champion! Well done boys!

 

Have a lovely weekend!

 

October 4, 2024
by Miss Maxwell
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W/E 4th October 2024

Hello to all of our P4A families!

This week P4a have explored lots of maths as our school celebrates Scottish Maths week. We have taken maths into many different curricular areas such as literacy, music and art. We have created beautiful art pieces which you can see at the bottom of our blog post

With Mr Pentland on Thursday we created our name in art through coding which was super cool!

We created in groups some maths stories after watching them on the board. They showed us how we can add numbers,shape and math problems into our literacy.

P4a have enjoyed being outside and active this week for football during PE. This was a hit for all of our class and we all loved improving our dribbling, shooting and passing skills.

On Friday we finished up our week by creating some autumnal art work to display in our classroom.

Our hot chocolate winner of the week is Chahiti. Well done Chahiti you have worked so hard this week!

I hope you all enjoy your weekend.

Miss Maxwell 🙂

October 4, 2024
by Miss Stebbing
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Primary 2/1 Learning Highlights 4th October 2024

This week has been a very busy week in P2/1.

We have been learning all about the sound ‘a’. We have been reading and writing words using the sounds we have learned so far. It was great fun to use the mini telephones to hear our words clearly. We have been reading ‘The Baddies’ by Julia Donaldson and we wrote a sentence about who our favourite character is.  We are looking forward to going to see the stage show next week.

In science, we investigated our sense of smell using the silly scent pens. Some of them were very nice but some of them were not!

In RE, we have been learning about Mary and the Rosary. We looked at the Rosary Beads Miss Stebbing has and we put them on our altar. We worked together to colour in a stained glass window for our RE wall.

In maths, we used apples to count and then order from the smallest to the biggest. We then used a stick puppet of the ghost from The Baddies book to look at different prepositions.

On Thursday for PE we took part in a football session and we were all very tired but we had great fun.

We have had three visitors to finish our World of Work fortnight. We loved learning about being a nurse, a careers advisor and about working in the Tesco distribution centre.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Hallie – I enjoyed learning about being a nurse.

Martha – I enjoyed doing the silly scent pens.

Vihaan – I enjoyed writing about The Baddies.

Zenith – I enjoyed learning about football.

Amariah – I enjoyed learning about letters.

Vivaan – I enjoyed writing the letter a.

 

Congratulations to Joseph who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week. He always tries hard in all his learning activities and is a good friend to others.

October 4, 2024
by Mrs McLaughlin
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St Francis Assembly

Some of our school family joined together this morning to learn all about St Francis of Assisi on his Feast Day. We learned all about how he spread the word of God across many faiths. This quote from a Primary 2 sums up how we are like St Francis.

‘Our school is like a puzzle; we are all different pieces but when we fit together it is perfect’

 

October 4, 2024
by Mr McGurn
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P7A Weekly Update by Lead Learners Francesca and Aarya

Dear Parents,

Here’s what we were learning this week in Primary 7A:

On Monday for science we made salt crystals just by using salt and hot water, it was really fun!

On Tuesday we done mime for drama, the hard part was that we couldn’t speak so we had to make our meaning clear through actions. And after school there was the first St. Margaret’s transitions.

On Wednesday, we had a maths teacher from St Margaret’s teach us some maths and show us what to expect in High School.

We also did Mock court which is our topic. We had to do posters about our roles and what we do.

On Thursday we had outdoor learning, we played conkers and ate brambles and apples from the school woodlands.

On Friday we had a French online lesson from St. Margaret’s all about Halloween and we worked on data handling in maths.

Have a great weekend from

Francesca, Aarya, P7A and Mr McGurn

 

PS Ashlyn won the over and above hot chocolate this week so she’ll be Lead Learner next week.

October 4, 2024
by Miss MacGregor
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P7B 4th October

Hello P7B families, it’s Fatima M and Veerica,  your weekly bloggers! 

 

 Our class has had a wonderful week as it was Mathematics Week Scotland, aka Maths Week Scotland. We have done loads of fun and engaging activities related to this. Here is a brief review of our week as a class: 

 

  • We were looking at maths in nature and we did some animal symmetry! 
  • As an activity for Maths Week Scotland, we made our own math tales about a shape, a number and this year’s mascot Finn Finity. 
  • Another thing that we did as part of Maths Week Scotland, we did some fun math activities with P5A outside in the playground. 
  • We dug deeper into the “why?” of shapes and had a look at “why?” the shapes that we see in everyday life are used in ways that make them incredibly convenient and strong. 
  • As a stem activity that related to the “why?” of shapes, we created structures out of cocktail stick and little gems sweets that would withstand Miss MacGregor’s incredible anger toward our structures which meant she would hurl them toward the whiteboard and the tables to make sure they were strong enough. Veerica also ended up eating the rest of the sweets that were left and trust me when I say there were a lot of sweets… 
  • We also had one of our weekly lessons from St. Margarets Academy and this time it was Halloween French Vocabulary. 
  • In Spanish this week, we drew around the body of a human from our class and labeled the body parts in Spanish. 
  • On Thursday, we as a class decided to take a breather and sit and read quietly for half an hour. We enjoyed the reading and felt ready to take on the rest of the day. 
  • The last important thing we did this week was take part in the school football team tryouts, we will get informed who has made the team and who has not after the October break! Good luck everyone! 

 

That’s all for this week. Tune in next Friday for more highlights and enjoy your weekend everybody! 

September 29, 2024
by wlclare.broadley@glow
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Primary 3/2 Week Beginning 24.09.24


Dear Parents and Carers,

It’s been a very busy week in Primary 3/2 and we want to share some of our learning news with all of you.

This week we have been learning about The Ancient Egyptians as part of our topic. We located the position of Egypt and discussed the pharaohs.

During health, we continue to learn about The Zones of Regulation to support our emotional health. We focused on strategies to help us return to the green zone, when we are in the red, blue and yellow zones. In P.E we have been working on ball skills, focusing on passing and receiving accurately.

In Maths, we continue to study 3D shapes and this week concentrated on the properties; faces, vertices and edges.

Furthermore, in Literacy we have completed The Friendly Vampire comprehension task and we also made our own rap songs as part of spelling practice.

As part of R.E the children enjoyed making doves to represent the Holy Spirit.

In Spanish, we began learning to say our age.  We completed an activity using the Spanish numbers, where children had to count the candles on the birthday cake and say/write the correct age.

This week the Hot Chocolate Award goes to Maks for excellent effort and contributions in class! Congratulations Maks!

See you next week!
From Mrs Broadley & Miss Mushet x

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