Welcome back after the long weekend!

Welcome back after a few days off!

I hope you have all had a lovely Bank Holiday weekend at home with your families. I enjoyed going for walks and doing some planting in my garden. I even met some St Ninian’s families whilst I was out walking, it was so good to chat and hear how you were getting on.

Last week our teachers were contacting families via phonecall and they were all so pleased to get this opportunity for a quick chat and update on how you were all getting on. If they couldn’t get you they left a message or we sent a groupcall just to check in and to offer our support. Please contact myself or Mrs Smith if there is anything we can support you with via email or at St Ninian’s on a Monday when we are working in the HUB school.

This is a short week of learning for you and your teachers will post your learning grids online. Last week I sent out lots of virtual Golden Tickets and I am looking forward to seeing who the teachers will nominate this week.

As May is the month of Mary, Fr Kenneth has kindly recorded a video message for the schools of the Livingston & East Calder Parishes. It would be lovely if you could dedicate some time to this during your week for prayer and reflection, https://youtu.be/bK4Vnz46ldI

West Lothian are releasing challenges every Monday named ‘INspired’, these are challenges designed to challenge your skills, knowledge and understanding. It would be great if some of our children and families could give these a go. You can access the challenges via the blog https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/stayinspired/ or via Twitter @StayINspiredWL.

As a staff team we are always keen to gather your views so with this mind we have prepared a short survey about the continuation of learning during this school closure which we would appreciate you taking the time to complete. It can be accessed with this link and we have also sent it out via groupcall https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuBppqbcNrLJgsDJUrQoNQVhmpOqtObtFXaczyMQaxXrPDCg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Have a great week and stay safe!

Mrs Roy

P1 Mrs Davenport Weekly Grid

I hope you’ve had a relaxing weekend.

Please find below the grid for this short week.

P1 Learning Grid 6th May 2020

These are the numeracy attachments.

2 Equal Groups Ice Cream Cones

3 Equal Groups Ice Cream Cones

On the Active Learn Resource everyone has been allocated a new book this week and below are the guided reading activities/question, choose the one that matches your book title.

In the Garden

Look Outside

Look Up, Look Down

Strawberries at School

Mrs Conway has provided us with this week’s Rights Respecting school PDF to discuss at and some suggested activities. It is all about having the right to express your views and opinions.

RRS Article of the Week P1-3 06.05.20

If you complete any of the activities Mrs Conway has provided an email address for you to send your work to her.

Have a lovely day

Mrs Davenport

P3 Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan Wednesday 6.5.20

Welcome back Primary 3! I hope that you are all well and that you had a lovely long weekend.

This week’s core learning grid and the resources that you will need for this week are below. Please email us at the school office or use the comments section below if you have any questions. Remember that you can visit Sumdog to take part in our weekly challenges, linked to your learning grids.

Make sure that you take plenty of breaks today and get outside to enjoy the sunshine. You’re all doing a fantastic job!

Core Grid Week 5 P3

P3 Writing Poetry

P3 Maths Lesson-2-P3 Maths worksheet

P3 Maths Lesson-3- P3 Maths worksheet

Have a lovely day!

From Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan

P1 Mrs Currie Daily Update 6.05.20

I hope you’ve had a relaxing weekend.

Please find below the grid for this short week.

P1 Learning Grid 6th May 2020

These are the numeracy attachments.

2 Equal Groups Ice Cream Cones

3 Equal Groups Ice Cream Cones

On the Active Learn Resource everyone has been allocated a new book this week and below are the guided reading activities/question, choose the one that matches your book title.

In the Garden

Look Outside

Look Up, Look Down

Strawberries at School

Mrs Conway has provided us with this week’s Rights Respecting school PDF to discuss at and some suggested activities. It is all about having the right to express your views and opinions.

RRS Article of the Week P1-3 06.05.20

If you complete any of the activities MrsConway has provided an email address for you to send your work to her.

Have a lovely day

Mrs Currie

Mrs Docherty: Early Years Writing Support Day 1 6.5.20

This week we will focus on another key area of Literacy which will be writing. Throughout the week we will look at fun ways for you to support your child with writing which will build upon all of the previous advice on our other literacy skills: reading and spelling.

Writing is a great way for your child to communicate. We will focus on ways you can make writing exciting from fun activities to daily reading and writing sessions. This will help you to continue to build your child’s skills through our distant learning. Here are some writing tips for home.

Reading

One of the first ways to support writing is through reading. Reading helps to increase your child’s vocabulary and this in turn supports your child in using these words in their writing. Try reading together every day with your younger children.

Materials

Try different materials, fun pens and pretty paper can be motivational.

Space

Just like your reading space create a quiet space for writing and provide some stimulus: this could be a story you have read, a favourite toy, or an experience you have had ex your walk in the woods.

Purpose

You could encourage your child to write for a variety of purposes such as a shopping list, a menu for your evening meal, or even send a letter to someone.

Technology

Technology can be used to support writing. Get your child to send an email or produce a story using word.

I have added a few resources to help stimulate writing through games below. You could create a pirate or fairy adventure or even create your own monster and describe it!! Have fun.

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monster-surprise-roll-and-draw-a-monster-activity Pirate-Story-

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These are a few ideas to help you get started when supporting your child with writing and we will continue with more ideas tomorrow. Please get in touch if you have any questions or would like more ideas/resources for writing.

Have a lovely day,

Mrs Docherty

Primary 7 Learning Grid

Hi P7 Families!

A short week this week – I hope you all had a lovely break Monday and Tuesday!

Click this link for all of the learning materials for the week

School Closure

We are in Week 5 – all of the materials you should need should be in there, additional activities are in the ‘Keep Busy’ folder, if you would like some inspiration to keep busy!

As we are getting further into our Learning at Home journey it can be difficult to be motivated, but I know that having a busy plan for the day has helped our household to keep our minds and bodies active. Below is a suggested To Do list for this week;

Suggested to do list;

Talk together and come up with a timetable – one bit of literacy, one bit of numeracy and one bit of something else each day is a good way to do it – if you are using your device, screen shot the learning grid and cross things off as you complete them. In our house we plan for the week, but you might like to plan day by day – This is a good habit to get into and a life skill that will help with your studies as you get older. You are not expected to do everything on the learning grid – everyone is in a different situation, but aim to do as much as you can.
Please log in to TEAMs every day, if you can. We are monitoring learning engagement so please come on at least once per day to give me a wee hello or a ‘like’
Join in with our ‘Meet Now’ live on Wednesday at 2.30pm – when you come on to the team you will be able to click ‘Join’ on the meeting post on the TEAM – it would be great to speak to as many of you as possible, it is a ‘just for fun’ thing so please join us – all you need is a device and pencil/paper. It is nice that we can stay connected whenever we can through this!
All of the above is on the understanding that your wellbeing is in good form – your happiness and mood are very important – use our Hive of Wellbeing for ideas of how to manage your wellbeing – if you are upset, worried, angry etc. it will be hard for you to learn properly – but please keep in touch so that I can support you. Email via glow at any point!

I won’t be on TEAMs all day everyday as I have lots to do in the background – but I will answer your questions as quickly as I can, remember to help each other!

I’ll be on TEAMs from 8.40 – 9.15am approx for a good morning check in, then again around lunchtime for a check in and finally around 2.30pm to see how you are getting on with your planned tasks! Mrs Kerr will be on TEAMs every Thursday, and every second Friday 🙂

As with every week, please find time to complete our Wellbeing Check in – you can do it daily, once over the week or a few times (depending on how you feel!)

Mrs C 🙂

P2 MISS LYDON DAILY UPDATE 01.05.20

Good morning! I have finally managed to solve the technical issues with Sumdog. I will keep the spelling challenge open until Friday next week so that you have time to complete it if you would like to. Good luck!

It’s Friday so that means self-assessment time.

Let’s use the traffic lights to help us assess our work today.

What colour will your work for the week be? Remember if you give any of your work red try to come up with a goal you could set yourself to help you work on the skill.

Literacy

To assess your spelling get someone at home to call out the words from the weekly grid and you write them down. How many can you spell correctly?

How did you get on with the reading skill of using inference.

For the bench picture I thought the bench was old was because it looked like there was some old faded paint that you could still see a little bit. I’m not sure I think it looks comfortable to sit on because the slats on the seat part are all at different heights so this might dig into you when you sit on it. I think this bench is in a park because of the green grass that was all around it. I used my imagination for who I think might sit on this bench and I decided it might be a giant because the seat has a dent in it from where the huge giant was sitting.

For your free writing use this writing skills success criteria to assess how you got on.

Numeracy

Word Problems answers:

Extension word problems worksheet:

Data Handling Answers:

Remember there will be no blog post until Wednesday next week as Monday and Tuesday are school holidays.

Miss Lydon

P2 Mrs Currie Daily Update Friday 01.05.20

Good morning everyone.

It’s Friday so that means self-assessment time.

Let’s use the traffic lights to help us assess our work today.

What colour will your work for the week be. Remember if you give any of your work red try to come up with a goal you could set yourself to help you work on the skill.

Literacy

To assess your spelling get someone at home to call out the words from the weekly grid and you write them down. How many can you spell correctly?

How did you get on with the reading skill of using inference.

For your free writing use this writing skills success criteria to assess how you got on.

Numeracy

Word Problems answers;

Extension word problems worksheet;

Data Handling Answers

Well done everyone for all your hard work this week.

Remember there will be no blog post until Wednesday next week as Monday and Tuesday are school holidays.

Enjoy the long weekend

Mrs Currie

P1 Mrs Currie Daily Update Friday 01.04.20

Happy Friday everyone!

Please remember that there will be no blog on Monday and Tuesday next week as these would be days that we would not have been in school. So check back in on Wednesday and I will have a short version of our learning grid for you to work on over the three days.

Self-assessment strategy today is traffic light system.

Literacy

Well done to everyone who logged onto our new reading resource and had a go at reading the book allocated to them and completing the activities. Well done. Next week you will have a new book allocated to you, so check it out on Wednesday.

For word boost you had these four words, did you work out what they mean?

announce – to make a statement about something and give information

expect – waiting for something you know will happen

eager – very enthusiastic about something

a task – a job you have been given to complete

Numeracy

How did you get on with your time worksheet?

IDL

Did you get a chance to complete the water activity this week?

If you put water into the freezer it turns to ice.

If you boil water in a kettle some of it turns to steam.

Water is a liquid. Ice is a solid. Steam is a gas.

Have a lovely weekend.

It was lovely to speak to some of you on the phone this week, for those who had a voicemail service I left a message if I wasn’t able to get through to you.

Rest and relax over the long weekend

Mrs Currie

P3 Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan Friday 1.5.20

Good morning P3! I hope that you have had a good week and that you have enjoyed our learning activities. Thank you for working so hard this week. It was lovely to speak to so many of you and your families this week.

Today is the first day of the month of May. Do you remember how to say May in Spanish? Our months of the year song might help you. As today is Friday our focus is to reflect on our learning this week.

Reviewing Our Learning

In order to gain your exit pass and begin the weekend, have a think about your progress. If you wish, you can record your thoughts in your jotter or on your OneNote profile. Remember that you can make a voice recording on your profile!

Think about these questions and talk with a family member:

The most important thing I learned this week was…

The most difficult thing we did this week was…

How could you use what you have learned in the future?

What do you think we need to learn more of?

Literacy

Use a pink and green pencil, pen or crayon to self assess your writing. Our success criteria was:

remember to include a title
include 3 facts about your plant or animal
describe what your plant or animal looks like
use nouns and adjectives
remember to use capital letters and full stops.

Maths

This week we have been learning about 3D shape and tiling. How confident do you feel about your learning? Draw a traffic light to show how successful you have been.

Have a lovely long weekend and look out for our next blog post on Wednesday.

From Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan