This week P6 took part in the West Calder High Cross Country event. Local schools from across the region took part which took them along the route skirting the school grounds.
Every pupil finished the race and really enjoyed it so well done to all. Particularly well done to Codi and Phillip who had the fastest times in our class group!
It has been a quick week in Primary 7. We would like to start by thanking everyone who attended ‘Rock for Camp’ last week. We raised over £900. Thank you to the parent council members who supported us with this, your help and advice was really appreciated. We hope everyone had as much fun as we did. Well done to the winners of the games and raffles.
We have also welcomed some very hungry visitors this week. We have been learning about life cycles. we have planted seeds and are now looking at the life cycles of animals. Our caterpillars will be with us for a few weeks as we study different stages of their
development.
Another shorter week next week. We hope you enjoy the holiday weekend.
We have had another fun-filled week at Lego Club! This week our challenge was to build an animal habit for their favourite animal for Earth Day.
Amongst the creations were snakes in the jungle, sharks in the ocean, fish in the coral reef; as well as penguins, polar bears, rabbits and more! One clubber even created a ‘true view’ of the ocean with plastic and old junk floating in it – which was very sad but very important as we all agreed this should not be allowed to happen.
Well done for your creativity and great discussions Lego Club!
This week in P6 we have finishing our Europe topic by presenting our Power points on our favourite country. Next week will will start our new topic Victorians. In maths we have been learning about decimals and angles. We have started a new writing topic – Persuasive Writing – and have been practising presenting a series of arguments in two class debates.
We have also started working on our Shrek the Musical Jr show, with all pupils rehearsing or helping to paint and build props.
We also began a new session of outdoor learning and will be planting up our raised beds and finishing off our John Muir Award.
In other news well done to Codi and Maddison for taking part in the gymnastics competition – they each received a medal and certificate. And also huge congratulations to Luke, Kymberley and Keira who received an award from St Kent’s for participating well in the Young Stem Leader’s lesson before Easter. Well done!
Rock for Camp is nearly here. Thank you to everyone who has bought tickets so far. We will be selling tickets in school tomorrow morning or on the door tomorrow night (£3 for Adults £2 for children).
Doors open at 6.30pm where we will start the games and raffle and open the ‘tuck shop’ where you can buy a can of juice, a fruit shoot, a packet of crisps or even an ice pole. Adults may BYOB.
We have some excellent raffle prizes including an overnight Glamping experience for 2. There will a chance to play ‘Slide the Coin at the Bottle’ and other games to be played.
The Band ‘Full Circle’ will be performing between 7-9pm. We hope to see you all tomorrow night.
This week we have been looking at the life cycle of plants and how a plant produces seeds. We have been planting seeds of our own. The ones that we planted out in the school garden before Easter have become dinner for little visitors to the garden, so undeterred, we are starting again.
We have planted cress indoors and letuce, radishes carrots and spring onions outdoors. We have also been looking at how the plants produce seeds. We have disected and pressed some flowers and examined each of the parts to learn how seeds are produced.
As part of their final term enterprise in collaboration with the Parent Council P7 would like to invite everyone from across the school and nursery to a live music event on Friday 28th April. The doors will open at 6.30pm where there will be music, a raffle and slide coin at the bottle games for adults and children. There will be some soft drinks and snack available to buy on the night but adults may BYOB.
The band Full Circlewill be performing at the school between 7-9pm. Christopher Ferguson, our chair of the Parent oCuncil, has been a member of this covers and events band for many years and they have kindly donated their time to raise money for the Primary 7 school camp. The parent council, for many years now, have been raising money to ensure that every child who wants to go to camp can get this experience.
The Primary 7 children will be selling the tickets in school. Numbers are limited so make sure you get your tickets now!
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!
https://fb.watch/jyM6lbnEfT/’
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.
