November 1, 2024
by Miss Mushet
0 comments

P3/2 Weekly Summary 1.11.24

Hello P3/2 families!

Here is a summary of our spooky and fantastic week:

P2 focused on suffixes ‘ing’, ‘ed’ and ‘er’ for spelling. P3 focused on the ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ sound. We also practiced our handwriting with the spelling sounds.

In writing, we looked at acrostic poems with Halloween/spooky words and we all did amazing at this!

We looked at halfway points between two numbers in maths using the ‘Building Thinking Classrooms’ strategy writing on whiteboards on the walls. This new approach to learning has sparked curiosity and problem-solving skills in the pupils.

We have begun our journey of preparation to make the sacrament of reconciliation in RE.

We learned about mummification during the Ancient Egyptian times and even got to practice this on one another! (Although the Egyptians would have used a better material than toilet paper). We also ordered the steps of mummification and gained an understanding of the importance of each step. We looked at the canopic jars (where organs were kept) and created these out of playdough during our IDL stations.

It was amazing to see the pupils dressed up spooky on Thursday for Halloween. In the afternoon, we joined the other infant classes to do a variety of different activities. Photos can be found under the blog title “Halloween Fun in P1, P2 and P3”.

I hope everyone had a fun Halloween if you participated!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Mushet

Image preview

November 1, 2024
by Mrs Craig
0 comments

Primary 2 Weekly Update – 1.11.24

We have had a very spooky week in Primary 2, with lots of fun Halloween activities taking place!

On Thursday, It was wonderful to see the children all dressed up in their Halloween costumes. We had a fantastic Halloween afternoon with the other infant classes and completed lots of fun activities. Look out for a separate Blog post with lots of photos showing the types of things we got up to.

For writing this week, the children wrote descriptions about their very own Witch. They used lots of adjectives to make their writing more interesting. Here are a few examples of their amazing work:

We have continued to work on addition within 30 in Maths and the children are coping very well with this. We carried out some group problem solving activities on Wednesday which allowed the children to put their addition skills to use.

Learning Highlights

I loved the Halloween colouring in – Matteo

Oscar – I had great fun dressing up for Halloween!

Joseph – I loved the Halloween activities. My favourite was dooking for apples

Rose – I loved writing about a Witch.

Big congratulations to our hot chocolate winner Joesph. Joseph is always hard working, helpful and kind towards others. Well done Joseph!

Our new reading champion is Ellie! Well done Ellie, you always set a good example to others at reading time.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone!

November 1, 2024
by Mrs Ross
0 comments

1st November – P4B

We found out today that a stopwatch of Mr Pentlands was used over 3025 minutes ago. We worked out that it was used on the last day P3. 126 days ago!

We learned about some Halloween traditions. I found out that pumpkins can be white, green or orange. (AB) we did some Halloween reading. (EAB)

I found it interesting that many years ago they used to dunk people into water to see if they were witches. (BC) We coloured pictures and wrote about Halloween. (CL) Mrs Ogunro taught us about the ‘Day of the Dead’ which is a celebration in Mexico and some Spanish countries. (CF)

November 1, 2024
by Miss Stebbing
0 comments

Primary 2/1 Learning Highlights 1st November 2024

This week has been a very exciting week!

We started the week by reading Room on the Broom and we set up different Halloween activities in the classroom. Our favourites have been the potion area and the little pumpkin baskets. We loved filling the baskets with lots of loose parts to pretend they were sweeties.

In literacy, we were learning all about the sound ‘i’. We used the magnetic boards to make words with all the sounds we know. In writing, we took photos pretending to ride on the broomstick and we had to write a sentence about what we had room for on our broom. We used our common words confidently and tried to sound out the words we knew.

In maths, we have continued our work on addition. We looked at the bonds for 7 and we got to write the sums on the teaching table.

In RE, we have learned all about All Saints Day and All Souls Day. We decorated candles to display on the RE wall to remember all the people who have died. We also read the story The Best Diwali Ever and made Rangoli patterns using paper plates and colourful shapes.

On Thursday for Halloween, we spent some time with our buddies and we designed a Halloween costume for Miss Stebbing. There were lots of creative ideas. In the afternoon, we went into group with the other P1, P2 and P3 children to take part in lots of different activities. We enjoyed dooking for apples, playing bingo, dancing, making a pumpkin or ghost craft and going on a scavenger hunt to find Halloween pictures.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Dawid – I enjoyed playing with the conkers.

Niamh – I enjoyed writing about Room on the Broom.

Miles – I enjoyed drawing.

Muhammad – I enjoyed reading books.

Vivaan – I enjoyed learning about the letter i.

Freddie – I enjoyed writing about Room on the Broom.

Congratulations to Harrison who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week for trying hard to write a super sentence. Our new Reading Champion is Niamh, who tries hard to read all the common words and reads lots of books during ERIC time. Well done Niamh!

November 1, 2024
by Miss Stebbing
1 Comment

Halloween Fun in P1, P2 and P3

On Thursday, the pupils of P1, P2 and P3 took part in a Halloween activity afternoon. They worked in groups across all three primaries and took part in some fun Halloween tasks. They enjoyed dooking for apples, playing Halloween bingo, creating pumpkin or ghost crafts, dancing and doing a scavenger hunt to find the Halloween pictures. Here are some photographs from the activities.

November 1, 2024
by Mr McGurn
0 comments

Weekly Update P7A

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update by Lead Learners Emily and Lili…

on Monday we had technology time, so we all build marble runs. We also done a rosary because it is the month on Mary.

On Tuesday we done farm recounts about going to the farm the week before. We also done drama and we got into pairs and done an alibis.

On Wednesday we had music and we practiced our songs for the p7a show. Next we slpit up into our peruses side and our Defenders side.

November 1, 2024
by Mrs McLaughlin
0 comments

Halloween Foodbank Collection

Thank you very much to everyone who donated items as part of our collection for West Lothian Foodbank. We have had a huge number of items donated and will arrange for these to be collected.

November 1, 2024
by Miss MacGregor
0 comments

28/10/2024 P7B BLOG

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

This week P7B had a lot of fun due to Halloween dress up day!

Halloween – A lot of us dressed up and we had a lot of fun playing Halloween themed games and some games of capture the flag outside in the MUGA.

This Thursday onwards, the house and vice captains of each house have to count all the points, and the winning house gets a double break. This week the winning house was St. Peters! It was very close as St. Francis had 655 points; St. Teresa had 650 points, and St. Peters had 656 points.

We also started our new class novel on Monday, Millions by Frank Cottrell- Boyce and Fatima M is being incredibly useless by sitting and drawing Gojo on the whiteboard.

Thursday was also Diwali! We did nothing for it as we were incredibly occupied with All Saints Day posters for today.

This week on Wednesday, we did some patterns with a teacher from St. Margarets Academy. We looked at Factorial Numbers and learned how to use them.

Finally, during the week we created Halloween and Autumnal poems that are still in progress.

That’s all for this week and we hope you tune in next Friday for more info! Enjoy your weekend!

November 1, 2024
by Miss Maxwell
0 comments

P4A W/E 01/11/2024

Welcome families of P4A

A lot of hard work has been completed this week by P4A.

We have explored poetry this week, understanding what onomatopoeia is and have written some amazing pieces of acrostic poetry related to Halloween.

Through literacy, pupils have also explored new spelling words and with their partners completed their spelling challenges to which they all enjoyed.

Pupils have worked very hard to recognise money in our society as we have begun learning about money in maths. Pupils have been adding and subtracting money up to £10 and are showing great confidence in doing so.

Alicja- “I like learning about all of the coins”

Ollie- “I really enjoyed the Halloween day that we had and seeing all the costumes”

Skyler- “I enjoyed making some Halloween cookies”

This week we created some posters and researched the history of Halloween on the ipads. We are enhancing our research tasks and are becoming more independent in finding our own information. Below are some pictures of pupils with their posters that they created. Some pupils even created a powerpoint to show the class instead of a poster, showcasing their evolving technology skills.

As a treat for working super hard this week and it being Halloween, Miss Maxwell brought in some goodies for the class to create their own Halloween biscuits. Pupils showed amazing creativity and I hope that they shared some of their treats with you all at home.

P4A had their fire safety talk this week by the local fire service. They explained to us the importance of keeping ourselves safe around fire at this time of year. This was very informative and primary 4 showed amazing listening skills throughout this presentation.

Our hot chocolate winner of the week is Zion- well done!

I hope that you all have a great weekend!

Miss Maxwell

November 1, 2024
by Mrs Meikle
0 comments

This week in P1

What an exciting week we have had this week with Halloween.

This week we read the story Room on the Broom. We discussed the animals in the story and then wrote fantastic sentences on what animals we saw on the witches broom. We are focusing on writing a sentence with a capital letter, finger spacing and a full stop. We also thought about and drew 3 things we would put in our own spell.

Arush – I liked the story.

Cerys – I wrote a good sentence.

We have been learning the sound ‘i’ this week and enjoyed making iguanas. We used magnetic letters to build CVC words with the middle vowel ‘i’.

Guhan – tin and tip

In math we continue to learn about addition to 10. This week we focused on the story of 6 and 7.

Tiara – 5 and 2

Alfie – You can reverse them, 2 and 5.

We had a visit from our P7 buddies. We worked together to make a handprint Halloween craft, either a ghost, pumpkin or Frankenstein, it was fun. We also had the opportunity to play with our buddies in the area.

Ava – I made a ghost.

We all really enjoyed coming to school on Thursday dressed in our Halloween costumes. We spent the afternoon doing joint learning with P2 and P3. We had lots of fun dancing to Halloween songs, playing bingo, doing a scavenger hunt, making a craft and dooking for apples.

William – I got an apple.

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend.