Congratulations to all the children in Primary 5 who have worked extremely hard to learn their Scots poem. You all did an amazing job.

A special congratulations and well done to our finalists – Kiera McElwee, Cameron Brydon & Evie Clarke (P5a) Jessica Heeps, Callum Telford & Libby Young (P5b). You all recited your poems tremendously well and gave our expert judges a hard decision.

Primay 5 Scots Poetry winners were –

In joint second place were Kiera McElwee & Cameron Brydon

In first place was Jessica Heeps.

Well done to all three of you.

The P5a children had a superb trip to the Bank of Scotland’s museum. We learnt about the history of money and about different items that have been used instead of money in the past. We learnt about the history of coins and we got to make our very own coins. We learnt about bank notes and how they are designed to make it difficult to fake. A great day out and we took the train to get there. What an adventure! I wonder what did the P5a children find the most interesting?

Primary 5b had a fantastic time at the Museum on the Mound in Edinburgh today,  where we learnt a lot more about money.

We travelled to Edinburgh on the train from Livingston South and even survived the walk to and from the station through the wind and rain!!

We all completed 3 workshops about money – What is Money?, Making Notes and Heads & Tails. We learnt about all different types of currencies throughout the world like coco beans, shells and even tea leaves. We looked at coins and how they all have a heads and tails side with particular pictures on them. We also got to make our own coins! Lastly we learnt about notes and created our own paying particular attention to the security measures.

Well done to all of P5a for the huge effort they put in for our assembly on Friday. It was a huge success delivering a very important value to the school. It was also well received by our very very important visitors from India. Well done. Here is our power point. Equality and  Imagine Pictures

We have had great fun this afternoon making our superhero gadgets. We’ve learnt that most superheroes have gadgets to help them save the day! Here are our superhero gadgets, what do you think of them?

Primary 5 can you remember to bring in any unwanted magazines, newspapers etc from home for our health activity next week.

Also remember to bring in any materials from home that you are going to need to make your superhero gadget on Thursday afternoon (21.01.16).

Monday:First thing in the morning we had P:E we done Gay Gordon’s.After P:E we done some French learning how to say our lunch in French that took us up to break. After break we had an assembly and then started maths about fractions. Since we did not get much done of maths before lunch after lunch we carried on doing maths and that was Monday.

Tuesday:We had maths in the morning which took us up to break. After break we had to do French and then health then it was lunch. After lunch we had Social studies then some people had choir – busy busy busy we are in P6!

Wednesday:First we had P.E then we had RME and then it was break. Then we have maths till lunch – more FRACTIONS! We will be the best at them before we know it! After lunch we had music with uklelles (do  you know what they are?) then drama – acting acting acting! We are a talented bunch us…

Thursday:we had two blocks of maths. Here we learnt about the mean, mode and median – all types of averages. We made a learning tool to help us remember them too.  In Writing we found some braw Scots words by using a variety of tools (dictionaries, devices, each other!) and we found SYNONYMS in a class challenge. Our Literacy Circle HMK was also set.

Friday:in the morning we had a Word Challenge starter  then assembly – all about EQUALITY. We read our blogs and class news and then did GOLDEN TIME – WOOHOO.

BY Olivia and Katie (Our first time blogging… what do you think?).

Primary 5 received another letter from Not-So-Super-Stan today. In his letter he thanks us for all our help so far but now he wants to know what it takes to be fit and healthy like a superhero. So we have begun Superhero Training in order to help Not-So-Super-Stan understand how to be physicallly fit. Below are some pictures of us training to run faster than a speeding bullet!!!

Magic Grandad arrived in our classrooms to great excitement this week. He is very confused about all our toys because they are different from the toys that he had. We wonder what kind of toys Magic Grandad played with?

We had P.E. with Mr Muldoon this week. We are really looking forward to learning more about gymnastics in the coming weeks.

In writing this week we thought about our targets for this year. We wonder how we will achieve these? Do you have any targets you could work on for outside school? Why not post them on our blog?