“From Holyrood to Bollywood and Back” is the new P4 book, written in partnership with The Universal School, Mumbai and author, Mary Turner Thomson. The book contains two stories, one set in Scotland, written and illustrated by Williamston pupils and the other set in Mumbai, written and illustrated by The Universal School pupils. The book is now available to order for £5 a copy. The P4 Sales Team will be coming around classes next week to
take orders for the book.
Category Archives: Literacy
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch
In Primary 2 and Primary 2/1 we have enjoyed learning more about lighthouses this week. We have thought a lot about the purpose and importance of a lighthouse as well as the structure and shape. Using our creative skills we used clay to mould our own individual lighthouse referring to our own design. We had great fun getting messy and creative and cannot wait to put the final touches to our lighthouse models!
We were also set a challenge of creating one of the key characters in the story. The seagulls are funny and have a big role in the story. We were provided with some materials and told to make a seagull using only what was on the table. Each seagull was to be unique and its wings had to be able to move. We showed great determination and problem solving skills in this activity and of course the challenge was completed successfully!
Our favourite mini beasts
During our literacy time we have all been thinking about our favourite mini beasts. We closed our eyes to think carefully about the characteristics of our creatures. Some of us thought of worms, butterflies, centipedes, spiders and ladybirds. We drew them onto a leaf and told our key worker some describing words for our mini beast. We thought of lots of WOW words!
Primary 3a Outdoor Active spelling
We chose to make the most of the lovely weather in P3a this afternoon and took our learning outdoors!
We worked with a partner and searched the playground for a variety of items such as sticks, stones and flowers to spell out our new spelling words for this week. It was a great way to help us remember our new spelling patterns and we had so much fun outdoors. We also used chalk to write our words and draw pictures to represent them.
P4 Book Project
The deadline for submitting the P4 book to the publishers is fast approaching. Mary Turner Thomson, our author, has sent us a copy of the book with our illustrations inserted and we are now busy editing it. We are also reviewing the story and illustrations sent by our partners in Mumbai. We really can’t wait to see the final product and share it with everyone at our official book launch at the end of April. Watch this space for more details….
P4 Book Project
In Primary 4 we are busy working on developing our story book in partnership with the Universal School in Mumbai and author Mary Turner Thomson. We have completed our illustrations and they will now be scanned and sent to the publishers. The character descriptions from India have also arrived and we will add them to our story. Our book will be completed soon and we can’t wait to see it in print. We will be having an official book launch at the beginning of May!
West Lothian Burns Poetry Competition
Last night St Kentigern’s hosted this year’s West Lothian Burns Poetry Competition. Abbie, Arran, Harry and Ruby represented Williamston giving outstanding performances. Ruby received runner up in the P4/5 category and Abbie was overall winner in the P6/7 category. As a result Williamston will be represented at the National Finals in Glasgow which will take place in May. Many congratulations, we are very proud of all of you.
P6 Literacy: ‘Reverso Boy’
P6 enjoyed creating some newspaper reports about ‘Reverso Boy’…a fictional story about a boy who literally defies gravity! Taking inspiration from a short film, we had to observe and report the events that took place in a front page news article! We developed our note-taking skills by observing, listening and analysing.
P4 Book Project Update
Mary Turner-Thomson, the author, has emailed us the storyline for our book that she put together from all of our ideas. Wow! What a story! We love it! We are now busy working on adding detail and editing the story. Watch this space…..
Scottish Week in Nursery
We have been learning some great Scottish songs – ‘The Shoogly Woogly’ which would be the Hokey Cokey and ‘Heid, shouders, knaps and taes’ which is head, shoulders, knees and toes. Our favourite word was ‘lugs’. We have also read some lovely Scottish stories from the Hairy Maclary, Katie Morag and Hamish McHaggis series. By the end of the week many children could talk about the Scottish flag, speak some Scots, identify some iconic Scottish objects and know who Robert Burns was.
