Welcome back P5!!

January 12, 2024 Mrs Wotherspoon Leave a comment

Our holidays feel like a long time ago as we have been so busy and active in Primary 5!!

Firstly this week, we started off by catching up after our holidays and talking about New Year’s resolutions. We spoke about what we are all excited for in 2024. There were some lovely conversations about holidays, birthdays and, starting new clubs and sports!

We have started our new topic in numeracy this week which is division and, we have learned strategies to help us with this using concrete materials. We have been dividing by 6, 7 and 9.

In literacy, our reading groups started their new books this week. We have been talking about characters, settings, clarifying and researching words that we don’t understand and summarising chapters after we have read them.

We also started our new topic, ‘Weather’ and made posters in our working groups to display this in our class. Everyone worked really well on these and the designs have really brightened up one of our walls. The posters were to show what we already know about weather and what we would like to learn about our topic.

And finally, we have continued with our BSL (British Sign Language) topic and are still doing really well with it. We had a refresh of the alphabet and then learnt how to say some animals. We had lots of fun with the animal signs.

Very well done on your first week back in 2024 P5!! Keep up the good work and have a great weekend 🙂

Primary 1

First week of 2024 in Primary 1S

January 12, 2024 Miss Stenhouse Leave a comment

What a fantastic first week back in Primary 1 with lots of learning.

We have started a new topic in class, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 , as part of our topic we have started reading Hamish McHaggis stories to help us learn Scottish words and places in Scotland. We all worked together to make the characters of the book and listened to the story to find adjectives for each character.

We talked about how we live in a country called Scotland, Polbeth and West Calder are towns in Scotland.

In maths we are working on number bonds to 10, making 10 by adding two numbers together or taking numbers away from 10. We had lots of fun building 10.

In RE we talked about the Epiphany, how the Wise men visited baby Jesus and brought him gifts. We also learned that the Bible has lots of stories about Jesus in it and we treat the Bible with care. One story we looked at was the story of Noah and the flood. We loved making our very own rainbows 🌈 .

On Friday we completed our free writing, we enjoy getting to write about anything we want! We were using our skills we have learned in literacy to write words as well as draw pictures and we are using the classroom tools 🧰 to help us.

Such a bust first week back we will definitely enjoy the weekend 😀

Primary 2

Merry Christmas P2!

December 22, 2023 Mrs Saunders Leave a comment

We’ve had lots of fun these last few days making Christmas cards, wrapping paper and playing around with some bright green pastels to create a rather familiar Christmassy hand!

Have a wonderful Christmas, thank you for your support and we are looking forward to doing it all again in January.

Primary 3, Whole School Events

P3 Christmas Party

December 18, 2023 M Gaffney Leave a comment

it was Christmas party time in P3. We had so much fun. We enjoyed dancing the Grand Old Duke of York, the Hokey Cokey and the cha cha slide. We had fun playing pass the parcel and the corners game. We were very lucky to have a special visit from Santa who gave us all a lovely gift. We loved our treat of some party food and Gillespie’s ice-cream.

Whole School Events

P6’s fun Christmas Week

December 18, 2023 Mrs Sinclair Leave a comment

P6 are having a fun week. Today we enjoyed wearing our pyjamas to school. We started the day off with some fun Christmas literacy and then went to the hall to see who had won the Christmas Stem Competition! Well done to Bailey, Charlotte, Lacey, Colby and Jessica who won the clay competition. Next we played our football competition, with the Yellow Girls team winning 2-0 and the boys Reds winning 2-1. Finally we had a quick carol practise and then enjoyed our Secret Santa present giving! Well done Primary 6 – a fun start to a fun week.

Primary 2

A baby is born… P2 15.12.23

December 15, 2023 Mrs Saunders Leave a comment

Primary 2 were a mixture of excited and terrified this morning for the St Mary’s annual nativity. I think we can all agree that they were fabulous and should be very proud of themselves. We hope you enjoyed it.

Earlier in the week, we also enjoyed our Christmas dinner. Lilly eating a Brussel sprout was definitely the highlight of the week!

We enjoyed a bit of down time as well with a few new classroom toys.

Don’t worry grown ups, there was still plenty of maths and literacy!

Have a great weekend. One week to go!

Mrs S

Primary 3, Whole School Events

P3 Christmas lunch

December 13, 2023 M Gaffney Leave a comment

Christmas is underway in Primary 3. It was Christmas jumper and Christmas lunch day. It was lovely to be served by the P7s. Some of us had steak pie and others had turkey. We all agree it was delicious. We spent the afternoon turning our cattle into a Christmas wonderland. We painted Santa and his sleigh, a gingerbread house, a snowman, candy canes and Elf!

Primary 1

P1s Christmas Lunch

December 13, 2023 Miss McNeil Leave a comment

Today Primary 1S have had a very tasty Christmas lunch.

We listened to Christmas music. We had the choice of Turkey, Steak Pie and Pasta.

We’re so excited for Christmas and are having so much fun. 🎅🏻

Whole School Events

P1 M’ s really busy week !

December 8, 2023 Mrs Moffat Leave a comment

Thanks to everyone who came along to our Christmas Fair last week. We still have some personalised items left , so please come along and have a look.

We have been very busy practising for our Nativity Concert and in between times doing lots of creative activities. Here we are designing and making dresses for our dolls.