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

In maths we have been learning. We have been counting money and working out how much change we would get. We have set up a cafe area in our classroom so we can practise our money learning through play.

Some of us have been using racing cars to help us blend sounds together. We said the 3 sounds on their own and blended them together as we drove the car along.

In writing, some of use were using of senses to write a Spring poem. We had to describe what we could see, hear, smell, feel and taste in Spring.

We have started our new topic, Space. We have thought about what we already now and what we want to learn and are excited to get started properly!

This week we have been drawing and painting a picture of pirates and mermaids to enter a competition run by the National Gallery in Edinburgh.

In health we have started learning about the World of Work. We came up with a list of jobs and worked with a partner to draw one of these jobs. If anyone is willing to come in and speak to us about their job please let us know – we would be interested to find out more about the skills needed for work.

By Elyse, Erin, Ciara and Connor.

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.