This week was a short week at school but we still managed to get a lot done.

Jack – I am learning how to join my handwriting and it is pretty easy. When I am writing 2 letters it is neat but words can be messy. I will work on this.

Cyrus – We had rugby on Tuesday with a coach, learning to pass the ball properly. I enjoyed it.

Toby – In maths we were adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with all our tables. I found the multiplying more challenging

Meah – In our China topic we watched a video and wrote down facts about China.I wrote 22 facts.

Angus – In maths we were dividing fractions and I found it really hard.

Melissa – In Spanish we were experimenting with fruit and which would float and not float. We had to do this in Spanish.

Sophie Lee – In French we made smoothies on paper and were learning the vocabulary for fruit

Ffion/Helen – In maths we are looking at money, giving change up to a pound. I have been able to do it easily.

Lewis – We have been learning to interpret information from different kinds of graphs in Maths.

Alexander – In maths we took a survey in the school using tally marks and displayed our results on a bar graph using Create a Graph on the laptop.

Kelsey – I had fun creating a poster all about China.

Rebecca – We wrote our names in Chinese and painted them in black.

Kieran – In French we had to match the names of fruit to the right picture.

Tia – In maths we were dividing fractions which started out easy but got harder

At camp I learned how to make a stretcher, bridge and a swing with only wooden posts and rope we had to work together and it was really fun  in the hail – Lewis

At camp I learned how to ride a mountain bike with Dave our biking instructor, we cycled 6 miles -Ava

At P.E I learned how to hold and throw a javelin properly – Angus

At camp I learned how to do archery and in archery we played some games and one of those games was called the pizza game and what you had to do in the pizza game was first you had to get the  white witch was the base ,then you had to get the red witch was the sauce, then the blue witch was blue tuna, then the black witch was the black olives then finely the yellow witch was the cheese the round  that I played Ava won, it was really fun- Meah

At camp we all went to Annet House museum first we had a handling session, we got to hold alot of old things one was in a shape on a boat but it wasn’t anything you would use for a boat it was for it you had a pencil and you didn’t have and ink the in would be in the bottle. then we went outside and we got to see how they used barley to get milk around. then we went to the second floor and at the second floor was the ice room and there were stocks that you put your feet in and you couldn’t escape. after that we went to the third floor on the third floor were plants and where they kept there food there as well. After that we went to the fourth floor was the maze,a statue of Mary queen of Scots and a story line of what early Linlithgow looked like through late Linlithgow. First we went to the story line then we went to the maze and some of us got lost but it was still very fun- Tia

On the second day at camp everyone that went to camp got split into groups so in my group with Lewis,Meah,Ava,Dave and Cyrus went mountain biking first and we all played follow the leader including Ava because she couldn’t really ride a mountain bike but she got the hang of it.We also went out of Linlithgow while we were following the canal.-Melissa

At camp we were going swimming it was really fun my favourite part was at the start because I knew I had a lot of time remaining-Toby

At camp my favourite part was swimming and we were playing with a ball in the pool but we had a long walk to get there and back. – Cyrus

At camp we went to Beecraigs when we were building a bridge over a pond which was a’lot of fun.-Kieran

At camp we went to archery it was so much fun and  I got a bulls eye Amber

At camp we were split in to two groups on Tuesday I was in a group with Angus,Amber and Tia first we went to do archery when the other group was going biking when we switched we went to biking the other group said they had the best time ever but they did’t go to BeeCraigs because it was wet but when we where going it was dry so Steve said we could go so we did when we got there we had practice and then we started to go as we went we came across a bridge and Angus wasn’t that sure off it and he was quite wobbly and of course he fell of the bridge into the water and the bike fell on him 2 minutes later Angus had settled down and we started going again an Angus was so quick he went right past me and i fell of my bike right into the brambles we cycled on and we came across the park and we got to play for 15 minutes and then we cycled on after then we stoppped and we looked for tadpoles and then we went back and told the story to the other group-Alex

I enjoyed doing PE volleyball with Mr cox-Cyrus

I enjoyed making the mosques in a sunset-Ava

I enjoyed painting the towers-Helen

I enjoyed doing maths we learned how to do a percentage with fractions and decimals-Rebecca

I enjoyed doing maths and in maths we learned how to turn a percentage in to a fraction and a decimal -Lewis

I enjoyed making fish out of willow in outdoor learning -Finlay

In art we were drawing/painting daffodils  by coping steps.-Alexander

I enjoyed wearing my pj’s on Friday.:-)-Meah

I enjoyed doing my soft start which was questions if you got them right you keep the card i got 8 right- Chloe

l need really hard work for homework like my 6x tables/Jamie

I enjoyed doing maths because in maths we are doing our three times table and we are doing chimney sums and i got every single one right – Sophie lee

I enjoyed handwriting because it was not to hard but not to easy-Toby

I enjoyed outdoor learning will Mrs Ferguson because we were making fish with sticks it was really hard at first but it got much more easier we were outside it started to rain so we went inside to get some shelter- Tia

I enjoyed PE with Mr cox because it was fun-Angus

I like doing my math. I have been learning my 2 and 3 times tables and I know them – Jack

I get excited to do maths because I’m understanding it now and getting it right – Amber

I liked math in Mrs browns class because it is challenging for me and that is because we are on decimals with using different math operations – Melissa

I liked making the willow fish with Mrs Ferguson in outdoor/indoor learning and I also helped people make theirs-Ava

I liked making a theme park in the hall-Kieran

In maths I learned how to divide and multiply a 2 digit decimal – Lewis

I learned what a Cantilever bridge was and it is made up from steel shaped in a Diamond shape-Alex

In PE I learned how to play short tennis – Angus

I learned what the different types of bridges are and I learned what a structure is.-Ava

On Thursday my daddy came into school with real bricks and real cement and so the group that I was in got to build a stable wall and the group that I was not in got to build an unstable wall and it was lots of fun-Meah

On Thursday PE was very fun Because it was our last time doing tennis i was up against Alex and Lewis me and Toby -Kieran

In maths the triangles was doing the 8x tables and i thought it was hard but easy at the same – Chloe

In maths most of primary fives went to Mrs Browne’s to multiply and divide decimals and we had to mark it on our own I found it very very hard but just to mark it the work was complicated so i needed some help because of the first one was pretty hard to do because I am not that good at dividing but I am good at my times table-Melissa

yesterday Meah’s dad came and taught us a bit more about structures and about his -work because he builds structures he showed us pictures of some he had made then we went outside to build a wall some people built a safe wall and the other peaple built a unsafe wall – Sophie lee

In writing all of the primary fives went through to Mrs Brown’s to do  some writing unfortunately Mrs Brown was away so we did writing with Mrs Ferguson we were doing characterisation and describing what some people look like my group were describing a young boy then we changed around groups and described other charecter’s after that we described our own made up character-Tia

I enjoyed learning about Microbes because now I know all about microbes so now they will not make me ill-Toby

I liked doing math with Mrs Brown because we were doing X table and division – Cyrus

Yesterday Mrs Grant hid wallys all round the school because it was world book day it was really fun after that we had to do a quiz and Mrs Ferguson said who won-Rebecca,Amber and Jack

one of the class mates have a dad called Mr burns and he is the head of his building  firm. The houses he builds a lot of nice and really awesome. He looks so busy every day. Jamie

At the Science and Technology club we have been designing and making a volcano  then choosing the best ingredients to make it erupt. We experimented with different things and found that the best were warm water, washing up liquid, baking soda and vinegar. We also added red food colouring to make it look like lava.

Below are some pictures and a short video of the eruption!!!!!!

This week’s learning in our class.

In maths we have been learning about decimals, finding out about tenths, hundredths and thousandths- Ava

I have been learning how to add 3 digit numbers with carrying – Jamie

In HWB we were learning about how germs are spread and what we could do to stop this – Lewis

In maths I have been learning my 7 times table and I found it easy – Amber

For our Scottish night we have been learning a lovely new song called the Ghosts of Culloden – Rebecca

On Friday we did a speed times tables test and I did it up to 12 – Meah

In handwriting I am beginning to learn how to join my letters – Jack

In HWB we learned the 3 ways of germ travel – Direct/indirect/airborne – Chloe

I enjoyed playing badminton in PE – Cyrus

We were learning how to win a point in badminton – Kieran

I learned how far a sneeze can travel and it is 6 feet – Angus

I enjoyed doing our speed times tables on Friday – Ffion

I enjoyed making the 3D Nessie, stuffing it with paper – Tia

We are making a map of the Battle of Bannockburn which has been good – Melissa

In writing we wrote a newspaper article about Bannockburn and I enjoyed it – Kelsey

I liked learning the Scottish song for the Scottish night – Helen

We are learning Robert Burns poems and I am reciting Address to a Haggis – Toby

We did an experiment with a bottle spray to show how far a sneeze travels. below are the pictures of us conducting the experiment.

Since coming back to school after the Christmas holidays we have been very busy learning lots of new things. Here are our thoughts and information to tell you all about it.

In PE we are learning how to move the shuttle with the bat in badminton. – Jack

In maths I have been learning to add 3 digit numbers with carrying and I was able to do this well- Kelsey

I have been learning to learn and use the 6x table – Toby

In HWB we have been learning about germs and how to wash our hands properly -Melissa

Our topic is about Scotland and we have been making a big 3D Nessie for our classroom and I’ve enjoyed our topic so far – Sophie Lee

In ICT we have been researching the different castles in Scotland and drew black and white pictures of them – Lewis

I now know how to find the area of a triangle and rectangle – Alexander

We have been learning Scottish poems to recite at our Scottish night – Tia

With Mrs Browne we have been learning how to count numbers quickly in different ways – Cyrus

I enjoyed making up the rap about Scotland for the Scottish evening – Angus

In Spanish we have been learning a song about movement – Kieran

In writing we are writing a newspaper article about the Battle of Bannockburn – Chloe

We took notes from a video of the battle to help with our writing -FFion

In maths I have been learning to measure – Helen

I was partnered with Angus and we made an ‘All About Scotland’ poster – Rebecca

We discussed and decided on table names on the Scottish theme – Jamie

We went on a treasure hunt to find clues about our Rights – Meah

I have been learning my 6x table – Amber

In maths I have been learning about big and small – Callum

We had our Celebrating Success Assembly today to share our learning on the Ancient Celts. Here are our thoughts and memories of it.

I enjoyed singing the Boudicca song and putting actions to it – Melissa

I liked taking part in the Boudicca drama as I was a warrior – Amber

I liked making the faces of shock and horror when the Celts were losing the battle in our drama – Angus

It was great to see our parents come to see our assembly – Kelsey

I enjoyed the whole assembly and the topic because it was about the Celts – Tia/Alexander

The drama about Boudicca was my favourite part – Kieran

My favourite part was saying my lines in the play as I used actions and expression – Toby

I had to fall to the ground when my character died in the play and it was fun – Jamie

I enjoyed all of it, especially the song and the play where I was Queen Boudicca – Meah

The song and play, especially the song, was fantastic and I enjoyed the whole assembly – Sophie Lee

I liked the battle in the play – Tara

I had to read my Haiku poem and I enjoyed that and the song – Gabrielle

Wearing the blue face paint as I was a warrior and the daughter of Boudicca was exciting – Chloe

We said a rap about the Celts at the beginning of our assembly and that was fun – Ffion

I enjoyed showing my parents around the classroom to share my learning with them – Cyrus

Today the 5th of October, a football coach called Lyn came to the school to begin teaching us skills to become better with a ball.

First we did a warm up by running round a circle of cones and when she blew the whistle we had to follow a command. Then we each got a ball and dribbled it in the circle of cones.

After that we had to pass the ball from foot to foot followed by lots of different games and skills.

We really enjoyed it and we have 5 more weeks to be the best we can with a football.

Our comments on the trip

Melissa – The exhibition was terrific because we saw real Celtic things.

Cyrus – I enjoyed digging in the workshop and finding a smashed pot that looked like a pizza.

Ffion – I liked looking in the trays to find things in the workshop.

Kelsey – I enjoyed being an archaeologist and digging up the past.

Angus – I liked listening to the information from the touch screens.

Alexander – My favourite bit was seeing the film about the Celtic art.

Lewis – I enjoyed the digging, but I found something hard which I couldn’t dig up so had to move somewhere else where I dug up a rock.

Tia – I enjoyed the handling session because I got to wear a real torc.

Meah and Sophie Lee – I enjoyed everything!!!!!

Chloe – I really liked the real Celtic chariot in the exhibition.

Toby – I liked seeing the Celtic man made out of stone.

Amber – The Celtic warrior helmet was my favourite thing in the exhibition.

Kieran – I enjoyed using the tweezers to pick out different things from the trays.

Jack – I liked the Celtic bowl with all the faces around it.

Helen/ Tara – We enjoyed everything too.

Gabrielle – I liked seeing the Celtic money .