The next parent council meeting will be held in school at 6pm on 3rd May. All welcome and any points to be raised can be sent to Mary Brown or posted in comments here.

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.

We have displays packed full of exciting books for sale. Please come in and browse, or send in orders via the form that was sent home this week. For every book sold, the school will receive credits that will be transformed into books for use in school.

For top tips on how to encourage reading at home, please click on the following link:
http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/learning/learning-resources/resource/reading-with-children-and-teenagers-top-tips-sheets-for-parents

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

The wonderful new logo, designed by pupils with the help of Lesley Welsh (art specialist) will now be appearing on letterheads and other paperwork, and will be on new uniforms from August 2017!

Thanks to Lesley for helping the children with their design, and to Alec Cheer from New College Lanarkshire who digitised the image ready for us to use.

Remember, tomorrow is Red Nose Day. Pay £1 and come to school wearing PJs!! There will also be Guess the Sweeties in the Jar, and Pin the Red Nose on the Person – both for 50p a try.

Thank you to everyone who came to our Showcase assembly yesterday. We enjoyed sharing our learning with you.

We hope to see you in school again soon so we can share our learning again.

Our visitors creating their own dinosaurs. We had a Doggysaurus and a Longleggedsaurus.

Our dinosaur lands that we made as a homework task.

More mums and dads creating their own dinosaurs.

Guessing which dinosaurs made our fossils.

Our visitors were hard at work pretending they were Paleontologists by removing chocolate chips from cookies using toothpicks.

By Callum, Kaila, Christopher, Maris, Stephen and Henry

In reading, we focused on the Jack and the Beanstalk story, answering comprehension questions and describing the characters using wow words. We also used props to act out the story with a partner and used yellow split peas to make something from the story – one of the characters, settings and even the beanstalk.

In maths, some of us have been learning our two times table. Others have been using ten frames to support their understanding of addition. Some of us have been developing our understanding of subtraction and others have been counting in 10s.

In language, some of us have been matching words with pictures to help our decoding and blending skills. We had to read the three sounds in the word and work to blend them together to read the word.

In health we have been learning all about medicines and how to stay safe around them. We focused this week on some do’s and don’ts of medicines including who to take medicines from.

In writing, we have been continuing our dinosaur adventure stories to get them ready for the West Lothian Young Writer competition.

By Josh, Ruby, Henry, Adam, Connor, Kaila and Ciara.