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Primary One’s weekly update

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This week in Primary One we have been learning the ‘ch’ sound and action. Please help us to build words like chip, chop, chat and chick at home.

Our number of the week was 16 and we have been talking about all the things we know about 16 eg what number it comes after, how to write it, ways to make 16 using our fingers and toes. I wonder what next week’s number will be?!!

With Christmas fast approaching our nativity rehearsals have begun. Parts and any lines to learn will be sent home next week so please look out for these and help us to practise at home.

As the weather changes we are becoming quicker and better at getting ourselves prepared for wet and cold playtimes. Please ensure all outdoor clothes are labelled clearly to prevent our lost property bag filling up.

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P7b 11.11.16

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The House Captains launched the new house points system this week. Every pupil is working towards earning lucky coins for their house which the House Captains will collect and count each week. The winning house will get extra playtime on a Friday. You have to work incredibly hard to earn the lucky coins.

P7 led the whole school Remembrance assembly. We worked really hard this week to prepare for the assembly. We involved some teachers in the school by asking them if they could remember the names of some of their previous pupils. It showed us that most of our teachers are good at remembering – except Mr Brice!

On Wednesday Michelle from the West Lothian Drugs and Alcohol Team came in to deliver our first Tobacco Education workshop. We explored what happens to the body when you smoke and we couldn’t believe that there are about 4000-6000 chemicals in one cigarette. We also learned lots of the impact smoking has on our health and our lives.

P7 pupils had the opportunity to try out for the school football team and we are excited to say that everyone who attended will be a part of the team.

We got started with our WW2 topic and began to explore the events of WW1 and how WW2 started. As part of this we have begun to look at Judaism and had some research questions. We loved sharing our findings on Yammer and learning from each other.

In maths we have been reflecting on what we know about time and identifying areas we would like to improve. In addition to this we have been exploring mental strategies for subtraction to help us feel more confident with subtracting larger numbers.

We are looking forward to our next Tobacco Education workshop next week and the Primary 6 ‘Children in Need’ assembly next Friday.

Bon week-end from P7b and Miss Brown

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P7a – 11/11/16

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Another busy week for P7!

 

Today we had our ‘Remembrance Day’ assembly. Thank you to all the classes and Nursery who created poppies to display during our assembly.

We had a tobacco workshop on Wednesday, which developed our knowledge and raised our awareness of the dangers of smoking.

We also started our P.L.Gs on Monday and enjoyed working with pupils from across the school.

We had our ‘Reflective spaces’ workshops with Gavin. We learned more about ‘Peace’ and how to create a sense of ‘calmness’ in our lives.

Our P7 House Captains counted and did their first presentation of the year to the whole school, giving this week’s total of ‘Lucky house tokens’ which was very exciting!

Next week, we’re looking forward to ‘Anti-Bullying week’, where we’ll be joined by ‘Changing faces’ who will be running workshops in the school for some classes. We’ll have our second tobacco workshop on Wednesday. We’re also looking forward to P6 leading the school’s ‘Children in Need’ assembly on Friday!

 

P7a & Miss G

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Friday 11th November – This Week in Primary 4B

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This week in Primary 4B we have been learning about the major bodies of water around the world, as part of our water topic and we had great fun in doing so! It proved to be an interesting lesson and Mr Mackie was impressed with the atlas and mapping skills in amongst the class! We have all managed to locate the world’s five main oceans but can you identify them by name? Some of us even located other major seas and principal rivers.

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Primary One time travellers!!

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101_4606 101_4610 101_4612 101_4617 101_4618 101_4621This week we were ever so excited to meet Nancy, AKA Super Gran! She will be helping us learn about the past and what it was like when she was a little girl. This week we had a look at her suitcase full of things that were special to her. Everything looked and smelt so old. We had to resist the temptation to try one of her favourite rhubarb and custard sweets!

We then got to work designing and building our own time machines to take us back to when Super Gran was a girl.

When she visits next week we will be looking at how houses have changed over the years. 101_4629pb040919Maybe if you have time at the weekend you could take a local walk and look at and talk about the different housing in the area.

This week we have learnt the ee and oo long vowel sounds. Please practise these, and all other sounds, at home. Ask us what happens to our mouth shape when we make these sounds.

We have also learnt tricky words be and was and are becoming very good at spotting these in books we are reading.

Congratulations to all the boys and girls who received a certificate at this year’s first achievement assembly. We are so proud of ALL the children and what they have achieved so far this year so it was very difficult to pick 5 special people!

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28.10.16 P7

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Today most of the girls are at ‘Active Girls Day Festival’ at James Young High School to take part in lots of different activities. The rest of P7 have been working on posters to let the school know about our Remembrance assembly on Friday 11th of November.

P7a have began a new Topic on WW2 and are really looking forward to learning more. P7b will be beginning to explore this more soon.

We have been exploring the Global Goals and focusing on Goal 5, Gender Equality. We finished analysing our surveys and calculated the gender ratio to see what percentage of men and woman have influential and decision making roles in our community. We reflected on what this means and how it fits in globally.

In addition to this we have been working on newspaper articles. We have been learning how to write a great newspaper article and focusing on writing in columns, in the third person, using past tense and writing catchy headlines.

A big focus for us in maths is addition and exploring different strategies to allow us to add up larger numbers. We are feeling more confident with this already!

We are really excited about our trip to The Risk Factory next Wednesday.

Have a great weekend!

P7, Miss Gardiner and Miss Brown

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This week in P4B

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Hello all. This week has been a very busy week as we prepare to deliver our assembly on Friday morning on the value of the month, ‘Patience.’ We really do hope to see as many of our friends and family there as possible! Also, we have started addition in numeracy, written a personal piece of writing about our October break, discussed needs and wants in relation to water use and we have identified the key features of a Christian Baptism. Another busy week – goodbye!

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Our busy week in Primary One

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Can you believe our first term in Primary One is nearly finished?!

What a fun and busy time we have had. Our teachers are so proud of how well we have settled into school and are enjoying helping us on our learning journey.

This week we started to learn tricky words and they really are called tricky for a reason!! These words don’t always sound the way we think they should so to help us learn them we need as much practise as possible. The words introduced this week were: I, the and he.

You may have noticed a word wall in our reading folders. These are the words we will be working on in class for at least the next 6 weeks. There is no set completion date for this activity.

We have really enjoyed being part of the whole school community this week. Some P6 pupils have been working with a DJ and invited us to a disco to showcase their new mixing skills. We are looking forward to the Harvest assembly today when we will get to sing our favourite combine harvester song…chug, chug, chug, chug, chugging away!!!!

Have an amazing holiday and thanks again for your continued support.