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We are holding an Open Afternoon to celebrate the school’s 40th Anniversary.
Please pop along for refreshments and a trip down the St Ninian’s memory lane!
Thursday 9th February
1.30 – 4.00pm
St Ninian’s Primary School
All former pupils, families and staff members are welcome to join us.
RSVP Mrs Black 01506 414612 jackie.black@westlothian.org.uk
It has been another busy week in Primary 2/3 with lots of exciting learning experiences.
On Tuesday we visited the library and chose lots of books to borrow. The librarian read us a story and told us all about the different types of books including fiction and nonfiction, hardbacks and paperbacks.
On Wednesday we had a special visit from James’ and Harry’s mum who came to tell us all about her trip to Egypt. She showed us lots of interesting photographs and we enjoyed asking questions. We got lots of great ideas to develop our learning for our Ancient Egyptians topic.
Another highlight on Wednesday was our visit from NYCOS. We had great fun singing and playing musical games with Jackie from NYCOS.
Everyone enjoyed our literacy focus this week, the story of ‘The Snail and the Whale’. In writing we told the story ourselves and tried to use some interesting openers to start our sentences. Mrs Howley and Mrs Keegan were very impressed with our writing. Next week’s literacy focus is the story of Prince Cinders.
Our focus in numeracy has been subtraction and we enjoyed playing subtraction games with dice, with cards and on the smart board.
Our Primary 3 children have been busy preparing for our 40th Birthday Show – there’s lots of talent in our class!
Thanks for reading our news!
From Mrs Howley, Mrs Keegan and Primary 2/3
This month’s Health and Wellbeing focus is ACTIVE.
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What a busy week it has been in Primary 2/3. We rounded off the week with a lovely farewell assembly for Miss Smyth. We’ll all be so sorry to see her go and wish her lots of luck in her new job.
Everyone has participated so well in International Week and we loved drawing pictures and introducing ourselves in Spanish to our friends in a school in Spain. We hope that they write back to us!
Some of our highlights have been:
Brooke ‘Learning a song for Miss Smyth from the Trolls movie’.
Andrew ‘Learning about pyramids in Ancient Egypt’.
Hasan ‘Maths carousels were my favourite’.
Levente ‘I liked writing the story of Jack and the Beanstalk because I used lots of connectives’.
Aaron ‘I liked learning about the pyramids and the River Nile in Ancient Egypt. I can’t wait to make a pyramid next week’.
Rachel ‘I liked drawing a picture of myself and writing in Spanish to send to our friends in Spain’.
Oma ‘I love our Ancient Egyptians topic and I’m excited to learn about mummies’.
Chloe ‘I liked scribble spelling because I like writing my words in different colours. It helps me learn my words’.
Carly ‘I liked handwriting because we are getting faster at joining letters’.
Our writing focus next week is the Story of ‘The Snail and the Whale’. It would be really helpful if you could share the story with your child. You can access it at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B0kSTA-ma90 When we are writing, we’ll be concentrating on spelling common words and using different openers for our sentences.
Have a lovely weekend!
From Mrs Howley, Mrs Keegan and Primary 2/3
Another busy week for Primary 3…..
The children have impressed us with their existing knowledge and understanding of Advent. They were very keen to share the Advent activities they have carried out already which we are displaying in our Sacred Space after discussing them.
The boys and girls have been learning about similes and alliteration recently and applied their learning in writing this week to describe a winter scene – super work!
They continued their exploration of different ways to sort and display information by looking at Venn Diagrams. Using their observational skills they sorted different rainforest birds by the detailed colouring on their beaks.
In Number Talks this week, we have been talking about our strategies for adding numbers and how we can tell whether a number is odd or even.
We were lucky enough to have a visit from baby Kelsey which is sadly the last visit before the holidays. Primary 3 learned more about Kelsey’s development.
: Kelsey is now beginning to eat mashed banana, sweet potato puree and apple puree but still has milk too.
: Kelsey can sit on her own now and only falls over if she tries to reach for something on the floor that is too far away.
: Although Kelsey still likes lying on her tummy, she is not yet able to roll over all by herself but it probably won’t be too long!
Primary 3 sang Wheels on the Bus to Kelsey (not too loudly!) and she absolutely loved it, especially the new verses she hasn’t heard before.
Here are some of the interesting questions, Primary 3 asked Leona & Neil (Kelsey’s mummy and daddy).
Michael – Has Kelsey got her first tooth yet?
Niamh – Is Kelsey grabbing things more now?
Sophie R – Does Kelsey try to move if you hold her legs when she’s lying on her tummy?
Thank you Kelsey for the lovely Christmas card!
From Primary 3 and Mrs Scott.
It has been another busy week in Primary 2/3! Mrs Keegan and Mrs Howley are really proud of the children and all of their hard work.
The children would like to let you know about some of their highlights:
Maya liked learning the colours in Spanish and using them to play a game.
Levente, Annayah and Zuzanna liked learning about gravity when we investigate how a helter skelter works in our Funfair topic.
James has enjoyed joining letters in handwriting.
Oma loved learning about 3D shapes in maths.
Andrew and Rachel loved exploring money in our Funfair topic and deciding which coins to use for different rides.
Carly liked writing an imaginative story about a visit to the Funfair. We thought about sights, sounds and smells and everyone produced fantastic writing!
Maeve liked when our surprise visitor, ‘Terence’ popped in to our class on Thursday to help us with our writing.
Aaron liked learning about Advent and painting an advent wreath.
Matthew loved talking about maths to our visitors during our numeracy review on Wednesday.
Alishba has loved rehearsing for the Nativity play and thinks that our Primary 2s are doing a great job!
Calvin has enjoyed skip counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s during our maths lessons.
Chloe really enjoyed yoga because she thinks that it helps her learn better.
Have a lovely weekend.
From Mrs Howley, Mrs Keegan and Primary 2/3
Crazy PJs/Children In Need – Well done to all the children for dressing down today for charity. So much effort has been put into taking part and thank you for all your donations.
Roots of Empathy
Last week, we had a lovely visit from baby Kelsey with her mummy and daddy. We couldn’t believe how much Kelsey has changed.
Daniel – ‘She is moving her legs and arms more.’
Sophie YM – ‘If a toy is spinning, Kelsey can grab on to it now.’
Ola – ‘Kelsey is teething now and she is chewing on anything she can!”
Alexis – ‘Kelsey’s hair has grown and it looks much darker.”
Katie – ‘She can roll onto her back as well.’
This week, Mrs Brutin visited us and P3 talked about their achievements and drew pictures of lots of proud moments.
Emma – ‘I moved up a level in my dance class.’
Orla – ‘My first Brownie badge.’
Emily – ‘I went down a big, scary water slide and it was fun!’
Sophie R – ‘Riding my bike without stabilisers.’
Kate – ‘When I got Star Writer!’
Cool To Be Kind Week
As part of the UNICEF Outright Campaign, P3 have been learning about some refugees and their stories of how they have had to move away from their Syrian homes. We have had lots of discussions about how these children must feel moving to a strange place and how the new children they meet can make them feel welcome.
Maliha – ‘Teba had to move house six times because of the war in Syria.’
Sophie D – ‘We had to read about Malak who had to leave her home in Syria and travel by boat to Greece. She was scared on the boat. Then we answered questions.’
Niamh – ‘We also learned about a refugee called Bashir who lived in a refugee camp in Jordan. In writing we had to compare Bashir’s life with ours and write what was the same and what was different.’
In RE, we have been preparing for our Class Mass on 24 November. Part of homework next week, will be to practise singing our entrance and exit hymns. The hymn words will come home on Monday but here are two weblinks to the instrumental versions of our hymns ‘Here I am Lord’ and ‘Bind Us Together’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knUvfN0GIKs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLaadLgsV14
P3 have been learning about the life of Saint Margaret as it was her feast day this week.
Richard – ‘St Margaret cared a lot for the poor people. She washed their feet and took food to them by herself even though she was a Queen.’
Robbie – ‘She was a very kind person.’
In Number, P3 continued to develop their recognition of Odds and Evens through sorting activities. We are really getting used to Number Talks and like the chance to talk about our own strategies as well as listen to the strategies that others have.
We have finished our work on Time for the moment but we will continue to use our class clock to develop our understanding every day.
Michael – ‘We were matching quarter past and quarter to the hour with digital times.’
Jack – ‘We worked with a partner to make our own matching quarter past and quarter to game.’
Emily – ‘We were using our applying and creating skills to make the game.’
We have also finished learning about Skeletons. We recorded our learning in our Talking Book and checked that we had answered all the questions we had in the beginning!
Christmas CD – P3 will be recording their class Christmas song next week for our whole school Christmas CD. The weblink below is the instrumental version of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town with lyrics. Please encourage your child to practise this at home!
P3 said goodbye to Miss Ross today as it was her last day. We have loved having her in our class as she has been a huge help to us. We have made her promise to come back and visit so we can show her how much we are learning! Thank you and good luck, Miss Ross!
Have a lovely weekend from Mrs Scott and Primary 3.
It has been another busy week in Primary 2/3 with lots and lots of fantastic learning.
We have reached the last chapter of The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and we have loved listening to the adventures of Plop, the little barn owl. Ask your child what their favourite part of the book was and let us know in the comments.
We celebrated All Saints’ Day with a lovely whole school mass. It was great to have so many parents joining us for this special feast day.
In Spanish we have been counting to 20 and having great fun challenging ourselves to learn the trickier numbers.
In maths we have continued our work on telling the time. In numeracy P2 have been adding doubles and near doubles and P3 have been adding teen numbers.
We are so excited that our new topic is The Funfair! We had a busy and creative planning session on Thursday when we worked in groups to plan our topic. Our first challenge was to create a price list for a Fairground food stall – you can see our creative price lists in our Learning Journals.
Everyone has been busy setting their targets in literacy, numeracy and health and well-being. Our targets are all in our online learning journals – please log in and have a look.
In writing we thought about firework safety and created rules to keep everyone safe at the weekend. Look out for our stories appearing on our Learning Journals.
The highlight of our week was the multi-sports festival at James Young High School. We tried badminton, rugby, basketball, football and a mini assault course and we loved all of the activities. It was great to try so many new skills!
Have a great weekend.
Mrs Howley, Mrs Keegan and P2/3
Science – Last week, P3 had to decide what they wanted to learn about skeletons. Mrs Scott wrote their questions in the class Talking Book. There is a photo below that shows you all the different questions they have! Ask your child to tell you what they know about the ‘strings’ on their hand!
P3 have been learning why we have skeletons as well as the names of some of the bones and the special jobs some of them do. Ask your child if they can tell you the special job that the rib cage does or one of the reasons a skeleton is important!
Sophie YM – I liked learning about the jobs of a skeleton.
Cameron – I enjoyed it when Kate and Emma drew an outline around Lennon and then we all took turns to cut out the bones and place them where they belonged.
Why don’t you sing and dance to this Skeleton song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e54m6XOpRgU
Writing – P3 were learning the very tricky writing technique of using similes this week. Their writing was super!
Here is a Simile Song we watched and listened to on Thursday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC_beTyT2YY
Maliha – I had to imagine I was a firework and I used similes to help describe myself…
Jack – If I were a beautiful, shiny firework….. Richard – I would be as high as the moon…..
Maths – In Maths, looking at digital time and matching digital times with the analogue clock times has been a little tricky! These matching pairs are helpful.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=matchingpairstimev3
Numeracy – we are learning the importance of being able to think about our own strategies for doubling big numbers and talk about them.
Art – this week we were painting a picture of the rainforest and later on this term part of our topic is going to look at animals in the rainforest!
Have a lovely weekend everyone! Mrs Scott and P3
It has been another amazing week in Primary 2/3 and we would like to share some of our highlights.
Matthew – A highlight was learning about the layers inside the earth and what happens when a volcano erupts. I liked looking at diagrams of the mantle of the earth.
Maeve – I liked when we made a volcano then watched it erupt.
Hasan – I liked working on the Tig Tag website and watching the film clip which showed us what’s inside the earth.
Alishba – I liked adding to 20 and working in my maths workbook.
Maya – I liked art when we made pictures of spacemen with Mrs Thomson.
Annayah – I liked using our Spanish weather phrases to make weather wheels.
Carly – I liked writing about our science experiment.
Harry and Dominic – I liked playing dodgeball in PE with Mr McCurdy.
Pawel – I liked going to the library and borrowing books for our class.
We were all very proud of Alishba when she got a certificate in our achievement assembly this morning for working so hard in Primary 2/3. All the children from Glasserton and Calder had a fantastic time at the movie morning on Friday!
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