In our committee group this week we discussed what’s going well in both digital and play in our classes, we also talked about what we would like to see in our classrooms going forward.
We made a two stars 🌟 and a wish 🪄for each class. Using our collaboration skills to decide what our wish would be for our class. It was helpful to all about what other classes use digital for and how we play in class.
We talked about how we learn better when we are having fun 🤩 or playing together. This inspired us to make posters to put up around the school to remind everyone why play is important.
We are very lucky to have 4 sports leaders from West Calder High School who will be working with us for a block of multi sports. This is to help them to achieve their Level 6 Sports Academy. We have loved playing the warm up games and all the different stations they have organised for us. Today we focused on ball skills, throwing, catching, passing and working as a team.
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On Friday, P4/3 celebrated Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. He was a famous poet and songwriter and known for writing in Scots. He wrote about nature, love, and animals, with famous works like “Auld Lang Syne”. His birthday is celebrated annually on 25th January (Burns Night) with suppers featuring haggis, neeps and tatties and his poetry. He was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, to a farming family and he often wrote about the lives of ordinary people. His work remains globally recognised!
Children enjoyed learning some facts about the life of Robert Burns, listening to highland music and had a wee taste of some Scottish treats including shortbread, tablet, oatcakes with cheese and (sugar free!) Irn-Bru.
Primary 1 have had lots of fun exploring den building skills. Working as a team we created some very unique dens. We had to think carefully about where to set our dens, what we would use and if the dens to survive a full day. This involved lots of collaboration and creative thinking skills, as well as lots of fun 😀
We have been enjoying our topic, Scotland, 🏴and this week we have been learning about Robert Burns and in particular enjoyed the poem To a Mouse 🐭 . In PE we have also been learning some Scottish dancing, everyone has enjoyed this and showed good skills in learning the dances.
During outdoor learning we ventured to the local woodland area where our learning focus was on pH testing on natural objects, we talked about the pH scale and tried to predict where each item would sit on the scale.
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After exploring the Bible story of Noah and the Ark this inspired our art activity for the week. We created painted rainbows 🌈 and added texture to them with cotton wool ⛅️. We thought about the story of Noah and how God wants us to listen to him even if others try to convince us not to.
A few of us have been suffering from colds and coughs this week but everyone has been such good troopers engaging in all learning activities. We hope everyone has a restful weekend to recharge for more learning next week.😉
It was lovely to see everyone back after the Christmas holidays. It’s been a busy few weeks… We’ve welcomed our new pupil to our class as well as our new APSW Miss Savage. They’re both settling in so well.
Below are a few recent photos and also some from before Christmas including when Santa visited our classroom!
What a fantastic time we had during our Food Technology session. The pupils decided they wanted to make ‘Monster Burgers’ with scary faces and tasty teeth. Well done to all the pupils who flipped their own burgers, used different food textures and sniffed and tasted everything, they cooked. A very responsible class who cleaned and tidied up after themselves.
At the beginning of the new term we had our business meeting to decide what we wanted our house corner to be. Jenson chaired the meeting and Macie took the minutes. Everyone had lots of great ideas but in the end, after a fair vote, it was decided to turn it into a Starbucks. Everyone has been busy designing and creating different parts of the coffee shop for play. We designed the outside and inside, we have a drive through window with a headset to speak to the customers, a road and some cars. We made menus, snacks, cakes, drinks, ice cubes, a fridge for storage and lots more. We look forward to having lots of time to play and learn in our new area.
We have had a very busy start to the new term.
Out new IDL topic is Our Community. We started by looking at the difference between our wants and needs. We now know that our needs are the things we require to live and be healthy whereas our wants are things that make our life more comfortable.
We then investigated the services that are available in our Community to help with our wants and needs.
Jorja – We have a doctors surgery
Siena – We have fire fighters
Amber – We use the Vets
Jenson – There is a police station
Evan – We have shops for food
In maths we have started our work on Multiplication. We used lots of practical equipment to help us learn different strategies to help us. We can use repeated addition, skip counting and arrays. P3 have been working on the 2 and 5 times tables and P4 have been working within the 3 and 4 times tables.
We have found out lots of geographical facts about Scotland – gaining an understanding of where it is in the world and where we live in Scotland.
We are also learning some Scots songs and poems.
In outdoor learning this week we were looking for signs of nature around the school grounds. We collected lots of interesting things to bring back to class and examine.
In RE we learned all about the Baptism of Jesus and talked about how some of us have been Baptised (but not in a river). We talked about what we would have worn to our own Baptism and if we had been a guest at any other one what we remembered.
In PE we are learning gymnastics 🤸 we are learning how to be safe while moving our bodies in different ways.
