Our Creative Curriculum Committee got together to discuss how we would like to lead the school forward in our leadership role.
During our meeting we had a focus on our school garden 🪴

We agreed that it is all our responsibility to keep our school garden looking good. Everyone had a good look around  to see what’s going well and what we could do to make the garden even better.

Everyone agreed that the herb garden 🪴 was good and we enjoyed smelling and identifying some herbs, but we think we can be better gardeners so we plan to buy each class some seeds/ bulbs and assign each class a space.

As part of our leadership role in the school we also would like the opportunity to teach others, share our skills and as we are the Creative Curriculum Committee we agreed a good way to do this would be through games!
We want to use our participatory budget to buy some board games and create a Games Club….. watch this space.

Another busy week in Primary 3. We undertook stage 2 of our Egyptian mummy making and wrapped our mummies in bandages before covering in glue to make them hard on the outside. We are now waiting until they dry.

Our Building Thinking Classrooms task involved trying to solve a tricky problem using coloured cubes but with positive attitudes and some great teamwork we were able to come up with some interesting solutions.

On Thursday afternoon we ventured into the garden area with Mrs Ferguson only to be met with some upsetting news –  the slugs had munched their way through some of the lovely plants and flowers we had planted! There was nothing else for it but to plant some more so fingers crossed!

It was lovely to meet so many parents and carers at our Parental Consultations this week and be able to give such positive updates on our children in general and also on pupil learning. Thank you!

A great week in P5/4! We are working on description writing and are currently describing Halllowern. We are  also researching Romans using our laptops and have been learning about ecosystems.
we now have pet snails in class and will be learning about their safe ecosystem and what non living things they need to survive.

P5 also enjoyed a morning at West Calder High School playing dodgeball which was organised by a former pupil. Everyone had a great time! Well done everyone!

In primary 6 this week we have spent a lot of time sharing our learning. Both with each other and with our adults who came to visit us on Friday.

We have been sharing our work on our chosen planet with each other which has allowed us to practice our presenting skills as well as working on being a quality audience.

We were also able to welcome our adults into the classroom as we chose our new class novel. We were looking at information we could gather from a book before we read it. We then all had a chance to vote for our favourite, before writing to persuade others to pick our choice.

It has been another good (albeit short) week in primary 6.

This week in Health and Well Being we have been continuing our topic on Friendship which has worked well as we welcome a new pupil to our class. The children have been demonstrating our School Values by including, helping and supporting him as he settles in to his new class.

In RE we have been learning about the story of the Ten Commandments and how God wants us to use them as a guide so we can live as He wants us to.

As part of our Ancient Egyptians topic we learned about the gory process of mummification and we started to create our model Egyptian mummies.

We ended the week with a lovely school mass where we celebrated October as a month of the Holy Rosary.

Making the most of the autumnal weather in Ness. Outdoor learning is a major focus for us and our our pupils were keen to plant some seeds. We learned about the way seeds germinate and what care and nutrients they need to grow. Like us, they need proper food, water, warmth and sunlight.

Cool Fact: did you know corn seeds are the actual corn bits you eat?

Enjoy our pictures.

This week in P5/4 we have been learning how to listen, share and take turns with our mystery boxes. Twice weekly we open a different box and learn how to play a new game or complete a puzzle.

We have stated our new science topic – ecosystems – and our new IDL topic – Romans. And in writing we are working on describing.

In maths we are learning addition and subtraction with renaming. In French we are learning about parts of the body and we are using ICT daily across our plenaries.

Well done P5/4, you are doing brilliantly!

The Nurture Class have been enjoying a mini topic all about autumn! 🍂 This week, we explored the colours, sights and changes that we see during autumn and created some lovely autumnal artwork. The children enjoyed getting creative and using different materials and techniques to make their own autumn-inspired pieces. 🎨🍁