P4/5 have had a great few weeks back! In literacy we have started our core targets and spelling and in Numeracy are enjoying Maths No Problem!
We’ve played a Purple Sharock in Science as part of our living on planet earth topic and have voted to learn about mini topic Mythology before we start Romans after Sept holiday. In STEM we are designing habitats for animals through the medium of Lego.
Well done everybody!
This week P7/6 enjoyed the whole school trip to the Kelpies and Callendar Park as our end of term trip. We have been learning about the Kelpies in class and how you should be careful around the edge of a loch and not to approach any type of horse… or worse, any mysterious person whose hair might be damp and tangled…
The rain held off so we enjoyed the play park after eating our snacks under these magnificent monoliths. Well done P7/6!
This Friday was P7 leavers’ assembly and it was such a wonderful time to reflect, share and laugh, as well as share a few happy tears along the way too! After opening speeches from our house captains, parents, carers, family and friends enjoyed seeing the P7s’ fun iMovie – I’m a P7 Get me out of here! Then it was time for the Oscars and baby photos, followed by a show stopping finale by the cast of this year’s show, Matilda.
Well done to Macy who won the Burngrange Award for superb efforts across the school and to Zuzanna and Raeya who won the Brooke Bagley Award for creative and expressive arts. The heartwarming assembly was wrapped up with P6s receiving their P7 ties for next year. Well done everyone!
This week P6 met their buddies in school for a special lunch! They presented them with their buddy booklets and a special teddy. Over the coming weeks buddies will have a chance to meet up and play before starting school in August.
Well done P6! You are great role models!
On Thursday P6 went to St Margaret’s to take part in the annual Almond Cup. We competed in a fun day of football, tennis, fitness, rugby, javelin and more! We competed for points and displayed our super team working and motivational skills.
We also enjoyed a delicious hot dog lunch and enjoyed using the high school’s sports facilities.
Added to the fun was the booming sound track and sunny weather so a good time was had by all! Well done P6 you did St Mary’s proud!
P7/6 have had a phenomenal time during health week!
We have enjoyed judo, bowling, a trip to the community garden, making smoothies and fruit kebabs, gymnastics, football, pickle ball, fitness, strong man and circus skills!
We also talked about our mental health and what constitutes our ‘happy place’ and took part in some health-themed team quizzes. We all agreed it was a brilliant week!
P7/6 enjoyed a fantastic trip to the museum of flight as part of their World War II topic.
We enjoyed a super workshop with National Museum guide Eva where we got to see artefacts from WWII including uniforms, silk maps and compasses which were hidden in buttons to avoid detection. We also got to try out code breaking and try on some uniforms of the era.
Next we enjoyed a guided tour around the airfield with David and Ken. We visited the air raid and blast shelters, museum – Fortunes of War – and hangars which contained lots of interesting planes including the WWII fighter planes Spitfire and Messerschmitt and the ultimate luxury passenger airplane – Concorde.
We enjoyed boarding Concorde and learning about luxury, super sonic flight. We got to look in the cockpit and discovered at top speed it could travel at Mach 2 – over 1300mph!
We also got to see a WWII unexploded bomb that landed in Edinburgh!
After lunch we tackled the assault course and enjoyed some spectacular weather! The airfield last saw an aircraft land in the 1980s when the Vulcan arrived from the Falklands War. Even though it is now mainly grassed over, it is still easy to see the former runways, when it was in daily use in both WWI and WWII!
Many thanks to National Museums and the brilliant staff at East Fortune for such a memorable day!
Some of P7/6 enjoyed a trip to see Matilda in Edinburgh this week. It was a fantastic production! We are all looking forward to seeing the upper school put on the show at the end of the year!
In outdoor learning we have been planting trees and enjoying a blindfolded scavenger hunt!
In numeracy we are working on our decimals and in IDL we have begun a detailed look at WWII including which planes were used in the Battle of Britain and how the war began. We will be going on a school trip to East Fortune in May so we are looking forward to learning about this in class first!
In writing we have written several persuasive pieces – getting very good at this. We are also working on various spelling patterns and strategies, handwriting and guided reading skills. Well done P7/6!
P7/6 and P5 put on a superb performance for parents this week to showcase their learning from their workshop with Resilient Rhythms.
For the past four weeks, both classes have taken part in the music lessons with Eamonn, who put them through their paces to experience how music can inspire and uplift. Classes demonstrated their new skills using percussion instruments to perform their concert.
One pupil said “I have love this workshop and have learned so much about beat and resilience”; another said “it was super fun and Iwant a drum kit for Christmas!”
Well done to all our pupils and huge thanks to Eamonn who was an inspirational coach! St Mary’s loved our time drumming with Resilient Rhythms,
