Pupil voice:
This week has been a very busy week for P6/7, many exciting things have happened!
Cole: The P7’s made Santa’s Grotto and Santa came to our school last night at the Christmas Fair.
Brooke: I enjoyed doing Santa’s Grotto at the Christmas fair.
Bea: This week we started Christmas dancing and we had a great time, we even helped the nursery learn some Scottish Country Dancing.
Neve: We started Christmas dancing in PE.
Lorenzo: I enjoyed dancing
Joshua: We did Scottish dancing
Matt: We did Scottish dancing.
Ambra: We did Scottish dancing.
Lorena: This week P7 got to go to St. Margaret’s academy for a science lesson and did some experiments.
Ivana: I learnt how to use a Bunsen burner.
Haseeb: We learnt how to make paper bags.
Abi: I enjoyed my gymnastics competition because I came second place.
Beth: This week the gymnastic team went to compete, my team came 2nd and I came 1st individual I was so excited.
Aria: I went to a gymnastic competition and we came 2nd and 3rd
And this was our busy week.
Teacher voice:
As you heard from the pupils they have had a really busy week.
Our P7’s went to St Margaret’s Academy for their first transition visit. Dr McAllister led them in a Science lesson where they got their bunsen burner licence, learned how to draw scientific diagrams and worked with a partner to complete a science investigation.
Our P6’s went to the Lanthorn to participate in the P6 Cluster Assembly to celebrate St Andrew’s Day. They sang the hymn ‘Follow Me’ and some of the children read out the prayers they had written for Scotland.
As part of Catholic Education Week we learned about life in India and how families had to make paper bags to sell – 10 bags would earn you 1 rupee. The children worked in teams/families to try to make as many bags as they could in 1o mins (thanks to Mrs Reeves for the demonstration). On average each team/family made 17 bags. We all agreed that this must have been a tough job for the families as they would have to work very long days just to make a basic amount to live on.
There was also great excitement in the class this week as we prepared for the Christmas Fair. Santa’s Grotto looked amazing-well done everyone! A special mention to my ‘little elves’ who helped out last night, they did really well!! They raised £160 on the night!!!!!
We started Scottish Country Dancing this week. Mr McCurdy asked us to assist him in teaching the AM nursery some Scottish Dancing, it was lovely to see the older children helping the younger ones, smiles all around!!
Well done to Aria, Beth and Abi who competed in the gymnastics competition this week – they were fantastic ambassadors for our school and came back buzzing with excitement!
Next week we will begin learning more about our country, ‘Scotland’ as part of our interdisciplinary learning. We will also be changing our class altar to purple to celebrate the beginning of Advent.
I finished the week by attending a mass at St Margaret’s Academy this afternoon which was offered for teachers in West Lothian.
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Mrs Roy and P6/7
