This week has been relatively short  with a Monday holiday and staff Inservice on Thursday.  Four  P6 pupils, Kai, Jowita, Chloe and Katie went to represent the school in the Cluster KNEX challenge on Friday morning at Linlithgow Primary and achieved joint 3rd place – Well Done!

Here is a snapshot of some of our other learning this week.

Wiktoria – P6/7 helped out at the Superhero coffee morning where they practice their enterprise selling and money handling skills.

Abby – We completed our Tesco Art Competition entries where we had to be creative with the theme “Transportation” I chose to create a piece of art which showed Unicorn Island which you had to travel  to on a carrot.

Ryan – In Rugby P5 joined us as we practiced our passing skills and played sharks and fishes with Kyle and Andrew, coaches from Linlithgow Rugby Club.

Kai – I went to the KNEX challenge with our team. We had to create a wheelbarrow which would carry a brick and  then push the wheelbarrow over a course. The ladder of death was really tricky! We were proud of our efforts coming in joint third place with Torphichen.

Donnie  & Bobby – We were taking pictures for the nursery during their Assembly about Healthy Eating.  We felt that the nursery presented their assembly very well and were very focused and clear when speaking to a large audience. Well Done!

Jowita – We have been extending our writing skills through the use of similes and exploring ambitious openers.

Alice – This week we had loads of fun! I enjoyed naming fractions in maths and playing rugby too. In P.E we also did javelin throwing and discus!

Matthew – This week in P.E we practiced for rugby which were doing the week after. My favourite part was playing rats & rabbits with partners.

Katie-This week we had rugby and the best part was when we played “try to take the tag.”

Chloe – We have been learning to simplify fractions in maths and also to how to work out equivalent fractions.

Abby – I liked learning how to work with fractions. We were simplifying them and then working out how to represent a fraction as a percentage.

Kai – In PE we learned how to throw a Javelin properly.  It should not be held too high and the javelin should be thrown at a 45 degree angle.

Donnie – In PE were practicing our discus throwing in Athletics using frisbees.

Ryan – P7 went to Kingsfield Golf club where  practiced our putting and long shots using putters, wedges and irons.

Wiktoria – I enjoyed meeting my buddy in the nursery and am looking forward to making them feel more comfortable about coming into Primary 1.

Jowita –  In Health and Wellbeing we have been learning about a balanced diet and the Eatwell plate. We used out maths skills to work out the percentages of each food group that we should have in a meal.

Bobby –  We took part in rugby and learned how to dodge and side step from tackles. We also worked on increasing our speed in movement and response.

P6/7 have been busy during the first week back after Easter. We have started our new Interdisciplinary block on “The Species of the world”  where we will be looking at classifying and learning new species. We also participated in our class KNEX challenge where we had to build a wheelbarrow that would transport a book over 5 metres. We worked collaboratively in groups to see who will move forward to the next stage of the competition.

We have started a numeracy block on fractions and are also looking at angles  in maths. During literacy we have been discussing figurative language and discovering these in texts we experience. We have discovered similes and metaphors in music and our class novels so far – but are still on the hunt for examples.

Abby – We started to read a book that we chose before the Easter holidays The book I am reading is called Time travelling with  a hamster and we had to read 5 chapters for our literacy circle! I was the ARTFUL ARTIST!!!

Jowita-In maths we did angles and improper  fractions and equivalent fractions.

Wiktoria –  In P.E we did javelin we had to throw for accuracy and get  it in the stationary hula hoop.We then challenged ourselves and Mr.Cox provided a moving target.

Matthew-In maths we learned about angles by watching a powerpoint called the Angles family. We learned about acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex angles.

Alice – In P.E we did discus throwing at a hula hoop trying to get it in the hoop.

Katie-In maths I learned how to simplify fractions.

Kai- In P:E we where throwing javelins and discus to each other.