Primary 1

Last week before the Easter holidays and we made the most of it in Primary 1.

We had a great day for our very first school trip. We have been learning about Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and in particular castles 🏰 and we were very excited to get the chance to visit the capital and get inside a real castle.
Just going on the bus 🚌 without our grown ups from home was a real adventure. Some of us were very nervous but we were very brave. Everyone should be proud of themselves.

We all had lots of fun exploring the castle and looking out at the views from it.

 

On Friday we made Easter 🐣 nest cakes. We had lots of fun using our collaboration skills to work together.

Happy Holidays

Rannoch News

We have enjoyed a lovely sunny week in Rannoch class.

We worked hard on our understanding of the initial sound ‘f’ in our Literacy studies and also revised our awareness of our daily routines. We looked at our morning routines at home, our daily routines at school and also our evening routines at home after the school day.

We have also played with our friends on the field and enjoyed time in the sensory room.

We have had a lovely term and learned so much!

We are looking forward to a hopefully sunny break and then to rejoining our friends.

NYCOS Choir in P4

Over the past few weeks P4 have been loving our sessions with the NYCOS choir. We have been learning musical skills through songs and games. We have been learning to keep the beat by singing and passing or bouncing a ball to the beat. We have been learning how to follow hand signals to sing a tune and to sing at the correct pitch. Each hand signal represents a note and we are able to sing a tune following the hand signals. We have also been learning simple note annotation and following a set of  pictures. We have really enjoyed our sessions and we are learning so much.

P4 art

Over the past weeks we have studied our local community and learned about the different ways in which the surrounding land is used. We have learned that the land is used for recreation such as parks, football fields and the 5 sisters zoo, agriculture which we learned is farming and it is also used for Community Development, which is new houses, the new West Calder High School and the community garden. One very significant landscape we have in our local community

is The 5 Sisters Bings. We looked at how they were formed and we know that they are man made through the Shale industry. We went outside and photographed the hills. We then used those photographs to make our own sketches. We used pencils to create our own drawings.

Saving The Oceans- A Ness Class Project

Our pupils have been learning about the Oceans of our World. A fact we found interesting was that we have dumped over 5 Trillions of pieces of plastic in our oceans. The pupils of Ness found this very sad and decided to find out how much plastic pollution we had around our school grounds. We collected the litter and decided to make a giant poster with it. We will be sharing our research and our Pollution Poster with the rest of the school. Enjoy our pictures!

Primary 1

We were glad that our outdoor learning got changed to the start of the week this week as we had some lovely sunshine to work outside. We were helping in the trim trail to make a sensory garden. We put our handprints on the crate to decorate it. We then had some time with our buddies in the trim trail to work on our balance, co ordination and team work skills.

We have been learning about the new season of spring and thinking about what happens in spring time. We have created descriptions of chicks 🐣 in our writing jotters.

 

In numeracy and maths we have been making equal groups, sharing items between friends and making sure everyone has the same amount to keep it fair.

Primary 4 assembly – 21.3.25

What is Easter? Meaning, History and Holiday Symbols Explained

EASTER ASSEMBLY

Thank you very much to all of the parents, grandparents and other family members who came along to our assembly on Friday.  There was a fantastic turn out and it was lovely to see so many there!  We are so proud of how well our children led the assembly, delivering important messages about Easter.  We enjoyed a wee party back in classroom after the assembly to celebrate!

Working together in Ness Class

Teamwork was the theme of the week in Ness Class. We were all helping each other learn during reading, number and playing.

In Reading, some of us wanted to help read our Book Of The Week. Laura, Dominic, Hunter and Lochlan were very keen to ‘be teacher’ and teach the book to the class.

In number, we have been learning about Fractions. We used a big bag of sweets to help our understanding about what a fraction is. Everyone helped share out our 1 Big Bag into tenths. Some of us even understood sharing the small bags into thirteenths. Mr Elliott, Mrs Mains and Mrs Hill were absolutely amazed at our knowledge.

Finally, we have a lovely playtime today in the sun. Hunter, Dominic, Nathan and Laura decided to play their own game of Duck-Duck-Go! Or as it’s known in our class: Quack-Quack-Run!

Enjoy our pictures 🙂

   

Primary 1

On Monday we learned all about St Patrick, we used this learning of the trinity to make beautiful shamrock ☘️ sun catchers.

We also had a lovely buddy hour where we read to our buddies and they read to us.

Cake 🍰 and 🍭 candy sale was lots of fun, we got to take our money up and buy cakes. This was a great opportunity to use money in a real life setting.

On Thursday we had our outdoor learning in the school garden. We have been growing pumpkin 🎃 plants 🌱 in our classroom but they were getting too big for their pots. We wanted to plant them in the ground but because it has been frosty 🥶 in the morning we decided to put them in bigger pots and bring them back into the classroom.           We did get to dig a big hole and plant our Christmas tree 🌲 that our elf brought us during lent.

On Friday we enjoyed a lovely assembly led by Primary 4  all about Easter.

Have a lovely weekend.

What a busy few weeks!

We’ve had a busy few weeks in P6, here is a round up of it all.

Last Thursday we celebrated world book day, we had plenty of fun activities that linked to reading books – quizzes, private reading time, designing a new book cover and a scavenger hunt.

Last week we had a fantastic turn out for our big breakfast and sharing our learning! Thanks to all our grown ups for attending and participating! We hope you enjoyed it.

This week we have been busy learning all about persuasive writing, multiplying fractions & introduced to our new class novels.

We also got to update our digital profiles, which we’ll be able to share soon.

On Friday (today) we had a p4 to p7 bingo and had a few winners. Our focus for our assembly today was Rights Respecting Schools.

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