P5/4 have been enjoying a fun week back after half term. On Wednesday we enjoyed a pantomime in school – Robin Hood. We also planned a few Halloweens crafts to do before our party on Friday which we can’t wait for!
We have also been busy starting a new writing topic – Information Report. In numeracy we are working on subtraction and in Science we are learning about food chains. We are also finding out how the Romans changed Britain after their invasion.
Well done everyone!
This week we kicked off our cooking club. We have four Creative Curriculum pupil leaders helping us plan and lead the learning.
We started of agreeing some rules for cooking club and brainstorming what we would like to cook during the club time.
After we all washed our hands we got started making iced Halloween themed biscuits. Everyone enjoyed mixing ingredients and deciding what they would do on this biscuits. We were all very pleased with our biscuits.
Our Pupil Leaders we also looking out for someone who was paying attention to all the instructions and following them well so they could award one person Masterchef of the week……will it be you next week?
On Thursday, Primary 7 went to West Calder High School to take part in a Mini Olympics event which was organised by S5 pupils. We are so proud to share that our Primary 7 stars won the most amount of medals and were awarded with the cup!
Primary 7 are going to tell you more…
Emma-Leigh – It was a fun morning and there were a lot of people there. I took part in the 100m and the 400m races. We all got to take part in two events.
Mouhammed – I did the long jump and I got 1st place. We did most of the events outside.
Connor – I came in 2nd place in the 100m sprint.
Ethan R – I did the shot put and I threw it quite far.
David – I got 2nd place in the shot put.
Amelia – The relay race was probably the best one and I will take a lot of memories from that one as everyone was so happy that we won! We did great team work and everyone in our class was chanting and supporting us. It was good to see pupils who used to come to St Mary’s.
Alexsander – I enjoyed it and it was good going to the High School. It was good at the end when we got the cup and everyone was so happy.
Cai – I loved it and my favourite bit was the relay race. We were the fastest by far and we won. Everyone was cheering.
Zoe – I took part in the relay race, which we won, and I also won the long jump. I was a bit nervous but I tried my best.
Charlie – I did the relay race with Zoe, Amelia and Cai and we were so fast at running and you could tell from the start we were going to win as we were way ahead!
Evie – It was a brilliant day and we won the cup. It was great getting a medal too. St Mary’s got loads of medals!
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Rannoch Class have been learning about nocturnal animals. We’ve developed our motor skills through a variety of activities such as collage hedgehogs, hedgehog models and collage ‘owl babies’, Mrs Ferguson has helped us to develop our skills too through making model foxes and bats. Several of us really liked the nocturnal animals song and the ‘Owl Babies’ book.
In food technology, we especially enjoyed making then eating our pitta bread pizzas.
We explored some ‘ghosts’ during ‘what’s in the box?’ We are learning to wait our turn then pass the object to a friend once we’ve had our turn.
We continue to try hard in our literacy and maths learning. Mrs McMaster continues to help us develop lots of skills and fitness during our PE sessions which we love. Our daily ‘Danny Go’ sessions are keeping us active too – we tried a new one this week ‘The bat wing Beat’ which was fun!
Thanks to A’s family for sending in some delicious cupcakes to celebrate A’s upcoming birthday.
We hope everyone has a lovely October break!
We have had another busy week in primary 6 this week. We have been working hard across the curriculum and have finished our work on subtraction in numeracy this week.
As we finished off our solar system topic, we looked at the difference between primary and secondary sources, what source type is more useful, and researched our own sources to provide us with information about the Apollo 11 moon landing. This work culminated in us creating our own newspaper front page imagining that we were journalists reporting on the story in real time.
As October is the month of the rosary, we learned about the miracle of the sun and the story of Our Lady of Fatima. It was good to learn a bit more about our school’s patron saint.
We finished the week with an online quiz with questions about everything we have learned across the curriculum this week and the standard was very high.
It is time for a well earned October break for everyone. Have a good holiday!
We got a lovely surprise on Monday when Miss Pritchard invited us all along to the hall for “Hot Chocolate Monday”, as our whole class received a certificate at Friday’s assembly for welcoming and supporting a new addition to our class so well. Well done Primary 3!
This week we spent time introducing the 2 Times Table using lots of concrete materials. We feel we have made a good start as we have already been practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s!
Our class members of the STEM committee brought some materials back to class to demonstrate an experiment. They demonstrated with confidence although we are not sure how successful the experiment was.
Thank you to Primary 3 for all their hard work this term. We hope everyone has a lovely, relaxing October break.
During Art this week we created witch decorations for our Halloween 🎃 party, we made scary witches 🧙
We have been using pumpkins 🎃 in class to to work on our fine motor skills, we have loved making patterns on the pumpkins and using tools.
Working on our meta skills we have started Building Thinking Classrooms in our classroom, this involves working together to solve a problem. We all did very well working in randomly selected groups.
During outdoor learning we went up to the woods and made magic wand’s for Halloween . We talked about rhyming words for spells and how we could use things from nature to decorate.
We hope everyone has a lovely Autumn break 😀
Well…welcome!
We started this half-term with sunscreen on, and we finish it with puddles suits and wellies firmly attached!
It’s been brilliant – and thank you for following us! We have loved our Autumnal painting this week, and bubble fun in the fresh air…and we’ve fed dinosaurs!
We have also been working on our awareness of symmetry, and 2D shapes.
Busy, busy!
We wish you all a lovely October break, and we’ll be back soon with more Tay-tales!
P5/4 are knocking it out of the park for ICT skills.
Over the last few weeks we have been logging into Glow and using lots of different platforms. We have used Clickview for our research, My World of Work for skills and jobs research, Epic Books for our reading and Blooket and Kahoot for our plenaries. Amazing work!!!
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.
