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Ness, Primary 5, Whole School Events

Happy Campers P5

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A brilliant day had by all here in Broomlee. After an uneventful bus journey, we set up in our dorms before heading for a tour of the camp. A delicious lunch was a big hit with most of our campers before our afternoon activities-Low Ropes and Crate Climb. Dinner was pasta with cake and custard then we headed into the woods for campfire. Well done to Raeya who won the award for the best campfire singer! Supper and playtime in the grounds ensured a happy end to the day… with hopefully a long nights sleep.

Looking forward to tomorrow’s adventure!

Primary 5

Primary 5’s busy week!

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It’s been very busy in Primary 5 this week from practicing for our Handball Festival to playing Blookets to assess our learning!

On Monday 2nd of October we have the Handball Festival at West Calder High School. We have all been working really hard in PE, learning skills and strategies to help us. Tyler was a great referee helping Mrs McMaster as he can’t play just now.

 

We had completed lots of active literacy activities this week when we were doing our spelling – writing on the desks, partner testing, keyboards, magnetic boards, foam letters, scrabble tiles and letter beads. The children responded really well to these activities!

We started our new numeracy topic of addition within 10,000 and everyone has worked so hard on this! We have been using our chimney skill strategies to help us with this and, we’ve played some blookets to practice our addition sums too! Mrs Wotherspoon had never played blooket before so it was lots of fun showing her how to use that game too!

We also completed some Health & Wellbeing work talking about how we feel safe and healthy! Everyone had great ideas and suggestions for this. A big well done for all the most amazing suggestions.

Lastly, we had lots of fun outside with Mrs Hudson-Price creating our own woodland creatures out of clay.

Have a great weekend everyone!! See you next week 🙂

Mrs Wotherspoon

Rannoch, Whole School Events

Rannoch news

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This week we have finished our class tree…looking at the 7 habits…the class thoroughly enjoyed making the tree and are justly proud of the result!

We have also been working hard on our phonics and are making great progress on our initial sounds in our RWInc lessons…

We have also enjoyed our number work in what has been a busy week of learning and activities…

Today we enjoyed our cooking session where we made top hats!

 

Primary 5

Primary 5’s speedy, super week!

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Wow what a busy 3 days we have had in Primary 5 this week!

We’ve been really busy practising our sounds ‘ey’ and ‘ai’, and we spent some time using our magnetic boards too.

In numeracy we finished off our Place Value topic this week and next week, we’ll be starting Addition and Subtraction. We had a wee quiz to finish off our topics and some of our class became our teachers to help us.

Primary 5 then taught Mrs Wotherspoon something new when we played our first Blooket on Thursday about our class topic, Mary Queen of Scots! It was very loud in our classroom when the quiz was happening, especially since we used ‘Gold Quest’ mode!!

We also spent some time outside in the sunshine with P1S and it was lovely to see all our little friends, and help them with the bikes and scooters!

And finally, we finished off our Friday with some Handball practice for the Handball Festival that we are going to a week on Monday – October 2nd!

A big well done on another fab week Primary 5!! Have a great weekend!!!

Primary 3

Primary 3 – class novel, “Matilda”

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Matilda by Roald Dahl | Martha Brook

In Primary 3, we have been listening to a wonderful book called “Matilda” written by Roald Dahl.   We have created large posters of the characters and this week we have been thinking of good adjectives to describe them.

Bella – Matilda is smart and extraordinary.

Bonnie – Matilda’s family are horrible and very greedy.  I like when Matilda scared her parents with the parrot when she stuck it up the chimney and they thought it was a ghost

Iza – Matilda is a clever girl.

Karlie – My favourite character is Matilda because she is a polite and nice girl and I think she is a bit of a genius.

Stella – My favourite character is Miss Honey because she is kind, caring, beatiful and she is so nice to Matilda.  She cares about Matilda unlike her parents.

Damon – I like Mrs Phelps because she is the first to know how smart Matilda is and she let Matilda read lots of amazing books.

Luke – I like Miss Honey and Matilda because they are both nice and intelligent.

Jacob – My favourite character is Mr Wormwood because he sells cars.

Annalee – My favourite part in the story is when Miss Honey finds out how clever Matilda is.

Jessica – Miss Trunchbull is definitely not a good Headteacher.  She is a bully and she hates children!

 

Rannoch, Whole School Events

Our Minion Families!

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Another super week of learning adventures, and activities, in Rannoch…yesterday we created images of our families through inspiration from the Minion families! The results were super and the children thoroughly enjoyed the painting process! Progress on our work with money continues apace – as does our phonic learning journey with RWInc. Tomorrow we look forward to making sandwiches for our class picnic in our cooking time!

Primary 5

Primary 5 – oh how busy we’ve been…

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Hi everyone!!!

What a busy, busy time we have had in Primary 5 since returning after our summer holidays 😀

We’ve been settling into our new routine and all the new work that we will be completing! We’ve moved up from working at ‘First Level’ and are now working at ‘Second Level.’ Everyone should be so proud of themselves for all the hard work and effort they have been putting into all our activities!

Miss Fox was back in our class for a couple of weeks whilst Mrs Wotherspoon was off and it was lovely to have her back! She’s now off on maternity leave and hopefully, we’ll get a visit from her and the twins once they’ve arrived.

In class we have been working on lots of different literacy activities including writing, spelling and grammar. In numeracy we have been focussing on place value. We played some outdoor games in the sunshine practising rounding numbers. Soon we will be moving on to addition and subtraction.

Our class topic is ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’ and we have all really enjoyed this so far! We have been up to the woods with Mrs Hudson-Price, Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Watson for outdoor learning and, on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons we have been enjoying spending time in the outdoor classroom exploring the mud kitchen and playing foos-ball.

We have also started two new languages in class, Spanish which we are going to be focussing on until the October holidays and on Thursday, we started sign-language. We are learning the alphabet first then we’ll be moving onto greetings.

Homework will start Monday 25th of September after the September weekend and short 3 day week back. We all have new Teams log-in details and have access to this too!

Massive well done to everyone for all their hard work and enthusiasm so far, you are all doing fantastic and are such superstars!! Big well done P5!! Enjoy your September weekend, can’t wait to hear all about it next week!

Tay

Tay Class News

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Tay Class have had another busy couple of weeks. The classroom has been very warm so we’ve enjoyed lots of fresh air outside at the trim trail, kick pitch and the playground.

We listened to the story of the colour monster and coloured in our own monsters.  We listened to lots of other stories too.

We listened to lots of songs and rhymes and made our own Incy wincey spiders.

B did great counting and stuck in the correct answers.  Well done B!

A and M enjoying a story in the library corner. Great listening and looking.

C having a relax on the cool grass. Great idea C!

B took a selfie with his missing tooth. His tooth fell out but luckily Miss A found it on the floor.