St Mary’s held a whole-school Careers Fair on Weds 22nd March in the hall. More than 25 local employers came along to speak to all pupils – from the Nursery to P7,  about what they did to help our young people think about their interests and next steps.

We had representatives from the Police, Fire, The Army, NHS, professional athletes, Network Rail, beauty, West Calder and St Kent’s High Schools Careers, hypnotherapy, law, Glasgow Kelvin College, the News and more. See the link below for our budding reporters!

We were so grateful to all our wonderful guests who took time out of their busy schedules to talk to our young people. Feedback from our pupils and guests was overwhelmingly positive! Let’s hope we can make this a regular occurance!

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This week’s lego challenge is complete! First our intrepid clubbers tested last week’s lego with the strength test – they had to stand on their structures to see if it would bear the weight of a human. Next they began to construct their Easter garden! So bunnies, ducks, eggs and Spring themes were in abundance! Happy Easter lego club!

Well done to P6 for taking part in the EuroQuiz! They got a brilliant 35/60, answering questions across four rounds . The team comprised Adam, Luke, Shaheen and Katie with Kymberley as the stand-in. Well done for working so hard! Here they are with their certificates.

It has been a great block of cooking club and we were all a bit sad that this was this blocks last week.

Over the weeks we have made a variety of savoury and sweet items and have learned many new skills while doing so. We have also enjoyed the opportunity to work with others across the school, making new friends.

This week we went with an Easter theme, we made conflate nest 🪺 cakes and iced biscuits 🍪. Again we had to use lists of skills to do this as well as having lots of fun!

This week was a super busy one in P6! In numeracy we have been working on fractions and will soon see how they relate to decimals and percentages. Before that however we will learn about common denominators and continue to simplify.

In literacy we have started our new reading groups and have all received new books Over the coming weeks we will learn in more depth the roles of summarising, prediciting, clarifying and questioning.

We also made pancakes this week, which was great fun! They were delicious!

Finally we had some very special visitors in our class this week. On Friday we had Young Stem Leaders from St Kent’s who gave us a really interesting lesson on magnets and the expansion of the universe. Well done to Edward for sharing his learning with us and thank you to Mr Jack.

As well as this we also enjoyed having the guinea pigs in our classroom for three days. We learned how to clean out their cage, what to feed them and how to handle them. Biscuit and Muffin got lots of cuddles. All in all another brilliant week in P6!