Category Archives: P3
Williamston Receive Gold Sport Award
Congratulations to all the staff, pupils, partners and parents/carers who have helped make this outstanding award possible. We look forward to continuing the great sporting achievements and successes within school and without next session. Click on the music below to help you feel good about our award…
P3a games on the Peel and Lowport centre
P3a at Linlithgow Palace
P3a’s trip to Lowport!
This week it was our turn to visit and stay over at Lowport, and we’re very pleased to tell everyone that we had lots and lots of fun and managed to come home safe and sound.
We left for Lowport on Wednesday and after a bus ride (complete with a tour guide in the form of Mr Brice) and a quick check of our rooms, we were off to Linlithgow Palace. We were very lucky to have some very knowledgeable children from the local Primary school who gave us a tour around the palace. We then came back to Lowport, unpacked our bags and then went out on to the Peel to play games before dinner.
We were very well fed at dinner time and managed to have enough energy to play outside on the Peel again! Mr Brice had some wonderful games for us to play and tired us all out. Then it was back to the centre for pyjammas, supper and a DVD before bed.
We got up at 7.30am yesterday (although some of us had already been awake for a while! We must have been excited for the day ahead) and after packing up our rooms and having a huge breakfast (including bacon rolls!) we set off for Linlithgow Canal. We had a lovely trip on a canal boat and then a look around the little canal centre museum. We learned lots about canals and now understand the difference between a canal and a river.
At 1.00pm we got back on the bus and headed for Beecraigs. We all managed to get to the top of Cockleroy (although some of us required some extra encouragement!) where we were treated to a super view – we could see the Forth Bridges and Linlithgow Palace where we had been the day before!
Then we played in Beecraigs park for a while before getting the bus back to school. Some of us were so tired, we fell asleep on the bus back. Mr Brice was fast asleep in the front passenger seat! We were very happy to see our families waiting to collect us.
We had the best time at Lowport and will remember it for a long time! We will put some photos of our trip up soon!
Value of the Month
The value of the month for May was “Responsibility”. Gavin, our local Scripture Union Representative, came into school recently to lead two assemblies on this value. He visited P6 classes to discuss this in more depth. P3a and P5a also held special assemblies about this important value. The value of the month for June is “Perseverance”.
Responsibility in P3a
At assembly this morning, we taught the nursery children, P1s, 2s and 3s all about the value of RESPONSIBILITY.
We have spent the last couple of weeks learning all about responsibility and working hard to share our learning with the rest of the infant classes.
We showed pictures we had drawn of us being responsible at home, showed photographs of us being responsible in school, sang a song and performed a drama of the story of The Good Samaritan.
Miss Robertson and other teachers around the school have complimented us for doing such a good job and we’re very proud that we taught everyone all about our Value of the month.
Perseverance in Primary 3b
In preparation for our class assembly on ‘Perseverance’ we had a special visitor this week. Darren Philip from Livingston United Parish Church came into school to tell us the story of Mary Jones and her Bible, the Three Echidnas who conquered Everest and the story of Saul. We can’t wait to share our learning with the infant classes on the 12th of June.
Researching in P3
As part of our Romans topic, we have been working in groups to research different aspects of Roman life. The “mini topics” that we were looking into were food and drink, clothes, houses, school, buildings, leisure, Gods and Goddesses and inventions.
We used our non-fiction reading skills to look in books to find interesting facts and then practiced note-taking by writing down the information we found. Then we used these notes to make our own non-fiction posters, leaflets and booklets to share the information with everyone else. We then presented our information to our classmates – we were the teachers!
We really enjoyed being responsible for our own learning and sharing what we discovered with everyone. This was a super way to finish our topic on Romans.
P3b at Low Port
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