Category Archives: Health and Wellbeing

Busy Week in Primary 1

June 17, 2016 Ms Petkova Leave a comment

It has been another very busy week for Primary 1. The boys and girls have enjoyed taking part in Health Week activities and they particularly liked their Dance and Enjoy-a-ball sessions.

If only you could see how good we were throwing, catching, rolling, balancing a ball.

The boys and girls in Primary 1 took part in the Empty Classroom Day today. We all took our learning outside and we are very proud of our well done work. Look at our letters! They are all neat, beautiful and formed correctly! And that is not easy when writing with chalk.

We also had a very successful achievement assembly. We are so proud of the children who received certificates this month.

We are looking forward to performing our dances in front of our friends from P2 on Monday afternoon.

Eco School Group, Health and Wellbeing

P4 Litter Pick for Eco Week

May 24, 2016 Miss McMillan Leave a comment

This week it is “Eco Week” and today P4 took part in a litter pick to help tidy up the areas surrounding the school grounds. We collected quite a bit of rubbish! Please remember to put rubbish in the bins provided or take it home with you and keep our planet clean and green!

Health and Wellbeing

French Fun in the Sun in P4

May 10, 2016 Miss McMillan Leave a comment

For outdoor P.E. this week, we combined playing team games with learning French! We revised French vocabulary of colours, numbers and months while playing Boules and a traditional French playground game. It was fun and we learned together. (Please remember outdoor P.E. kit including outdoor trainers is required on a Tuesday this term in P4).

Health and Wellbeing

Spring sunshine

April 22, 2016 Mrs Robertson Leave a comment

This week we have thoroughly enjoyed the sunny warm weather. A lot of us have been eager to spend the nursery sessions playing outdoors so we have moved many of our indoor learning opportunities to the outdoors. We have enjoyed expressing ourselves with painting. Lots of concoctions have been produced in our busy mud kitchen. Building work has continued as children enjoyed making dens from the waffle blocks. We have also been reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk where we decided to grow our own beanstalks. We used small food bags and cotton wool to place our bean in. Through this process we discussed the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and what we had to provide for our beans to grow big and strong. All children have now started to learn about emotional literacy through the Oh Lila story. Lila is a small hare who gets into a spot of bother. The story helps children identify different feelings and recognising that it is ok to ask for help. We now have a forest in our Library area where children can play with the Oh Lila puppets and story book.

Health and Wellbeing

Nursery Oh Lila

April 22, 2016 Mrs Robertson Leave a comment

The nursery children are following the story of Oh Lila, a young hare who gets herself into a spot of botherOh Lila PARENTS INFO PACK

Oh Lila HOME ACTIVITY PACK. Oh Lila supports young children in developing their emotional literacy and helps them recognise the importance of talking when you need help.
Information attached provides an outline of the story and some home link activities.

Health and Wellbeing, P3, Religious and Moral Education

Primary 3a create a Labyrinth

April 13, 2016 User deactivated 5 Comments

Today Primary 3a had a very special visitor. Darren Philip, the Youth and Children’s Development Worker from Livingston United Parish Church, came into class to help us learn about labyrinths.

A labyrinth is a bit like a maze but has only one path and no dead ends. Labyrinth paths have been walked for over 4000 years with people using them to relax, reflect and clear their minds. Christians say a prayer at each twist and turn of the path.

We designed and created our own finger labyrinths out of clay and then created a class labyrinth using our mathematical, problem solving and group working skills. When it was complete we all walked the labyrinth then shared our learning with Mrs Hollands and Primary 3b.

Our class labyrinth – didn’t we do well!

We thoroughly enjoyed our morning. A big thank you to Darren.

Health and Wellbeing

Health Leadership – Lots of Socks Day

March 24, 2016 Ms Watt Leave a comment

Williamston Primary School have raised £172.00 for Down’s Syndrome Scotland by taking part in Lots of Socks Day.

The Health Leadership Group would like to thank everyone who took part in the fundraising day on Monday 21st March. We hope we have helped raise awareness of Down’s Syndrome while encouraging everyone to treat each other with respect and equality.

The money we have raised for Down’s Syndrome Scotland will help provide information, support and groups for children and families affected by Down’s Syndrome.

Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Mathematics, Scottish Culture, Technologies

Scottish Cooking and Baking in P4

February 22, 2016 Miss McMillan Leave a comment

In P4, we have been having great fun learning about, making and tasting Scottish foods. The first food we made together was a (child-friendly) cranachan – we used oats, yoghurt, raspberries and honey. We also baked shortbread for our Burns Party. Both were delicious! Well most of us thought so anyway! We are doing all of this through our food technology lessons with Mrs Logan. We are learning to prepare food and use equipment in a hygienic and safe way. We use our reading skills as we read the recipe and we use our maths skills as we measure the ingredients. We have to cooperate with our friends and work as a team. We can’t wait to find out what we are making next!

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