Hello and happy December – the most divisive year in the calendar!  P2 are very much in the ‘December’ is fabulous camp and have fully embraced the season today by decorating our classroom tree and welcoming a very special visitor.  Little Candy Cane, the naughty elf will be disrupting our peaceful mornings for the next few weeks!

We had very little time to properly mark St Andrew’s day due to our intensive nativity rehearsals but we did give some highland dancing a bash.  Looks can be deceiving!  It was surprisingly hard!

A special mention must be given to the whole class who attended our advent service this morning with Father Marcin.  They were an absolute privilege to sit with, behaved impeccably and gave Father a wonderful impression of what we can do at St Mary’s.

Christmas Fayre is in the dinner hall at 10am tomorrow morning.  P2 have personalised baubles on sale for £2.  Please come along and support the school.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs S

Hello!  Another week gone!  It won’t be long until that scary ‘C’ word that fills teachers with dread!  And on that subject, P2 have been busy making a little treat for you to purchase at the Christmas Fayre next weekend.

We’ve also made a strong start to the nativity practice and can’t wait for you to see it in a few weeks time.

Business as usual in other areas however as we continued to build up our knowledge of fact families in maths.

Have a great weekend and stay warm!

It has been a jam-packed week in P2 this week.

We have been marking Catholic Education Week with the theme ‘Pilgrims of Faith’ and thinking about what we can do to walk in the footsteps of Jesus.

We have taken part in Money Week.  We used the MoneySense online resources  – Where does money come from?  We met the Jackson family and leaned all about  where they get their money.  We also played Money Bingo to help us identify all UK coins and notes.

We created rain gauges for our weather topic and will monitor the rainfall next week.  What’s the chances we have a really dry week now!

The highlight of the week was, without a doubt, hot chocolate with some very special people for Scottish Book week.  It was fun watching the grown ups (including the staff) scratch their heads over the tangram maths puzzle in our special Read, Write Count book bag!  Thank you to everyone who was able to join us.

And finally the obligatory wooden spoon pick!  Special mention goes to Jake for his double sided Spiderman/Peter Parker.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and warm up those vocal tones as nativity practice begins next week!

Primary 2 enjoyed exploring the origins of wind and were very surprised to find out that it all begins with the sun.  We looked at the importance of wind direction and created our own wind socks.  Thank goodness there was a gentle breeze and they worked really well.  Have a wonderful weekend.  Stay warm.  The children should be able to tell you that there will be a slight breeze on Saturday and clear skies but Sunday may bring some rain.  Temperatures will be around 8 degrees which isn’t too bad but night time will be rather cold indeed!

P2 have been doing a bit of work on their scissor skills this week.  We’ve sorted hot and cold items as a warm up activity in health and wellbeing.  We then visited Firefighter Fred’s Bonfire Safety workshop in preparation for the weekend.

We also created a fireworks collage using multicoloured cupcake cases.  It was a careful and delicate task but the results were fantastic.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Mrs Saunders

Hello to you all and Happy Halloween weekend!  P2 thoroughly enjoyed their party today and were throwing some fabulous moves on the dance floor.  The costumes this year were of a very high standard and grown ups will be very busy tonight scrubbing face and glitter!

Apologies for the lack of photographs – they were extremely tricky to track down once the fun had begun!

Thank you P2 for such a lovely warm welcome to your class.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Saunders

We have been working on our class topic which is “People Who Help Us” and we have identified lots of people who help us in our community.

We discussed their roles and created our own collage models which we have displayed outside our classroom. We think they look fantastic!!

In Numeracy we have been working with a learning partner to use concrete materials and whole-part models to help us write number stories. We have been working very hard!

Well were almost at the end of P2 and what a week we have had.

On Monday we walked all the way to morning mass in West Calder. We were very good and all listened very well. We then went to the park at the back of the community centre where we had snack and got soaked in the heavy rain but had great fun playing with our friends from P1. We then walked to the community garden and went around the stick man trail and enjoyed exploring the fairy garden.

On Tuesday we had our last session with Mr Lockhart. We enjoyed playing and our s’mores which were delicious.

Today we had our picnic. We made our own sandwiches and then enjoyed them in the trim trail and had a play.

Thank you  for a fantastic year, I hope you all have a fantastic summer😊