P7 have made a very busy start to their final year in Windyknowe. Here’s what we have been learning and what we are looking forward to.-

 

I enjoyed doing mean and range with Mrs welsh in numeracy-AG

I enjoyed doing symmetry and fractions because I’m good at it-OTM

I enjoyed doing races and dodgeball in P.E because I’m REALLY good at it – LY

I enjoyed doing Art because it’s fun-DR

I enjoyed dong athletics in pe because it was fun-NS

I enjoyed working with decimals –CB

I enjoyed comparing countries with Scotland because I liked to compare other countries lifestyle-M.U.M

I am excited about reading the end if the book called Wonder -LMc

I am enjoying the book Wonder and seeing some Banksy art. HD

I’ve liked doing writing because we got to do persuasive writing about wonder LA

I enjoyed doing science this term and learning about genes-HM

I enjoyed doing data handling with Mrs Welsh this term

I enjoyed learning about genes and how they work- SH

I enjoyed learning about Argentina and UAE and comparing them to Scotland- MK

I enjoyed reading the class novel Wonder and learning about genes in science- JH

I enjoyed learning different fractions and we learned new skills in PE-TT

I enjoyed learning about genes and how we are how we are. I am excited to learn more science next term-CJM

I learned fractions and percentages, they were a bit tricky buy I got through them. Next term I want to do more symmetry-MW

I liked doing synonyms and antonyms of our spelling words. Learning about genes was great and Wonder was awesome.-OH

I learned about fractions and getting better at multiplication tables. I have been doing well in PE and learning about genes in science which was interesting.-AC

I liked doing multiplication tables and hope to get even better at them.-JA

I loved drawing the old Bathgate Academy and Regal Cinema in art.-JMcI

I liked sketching Bathgate Academy and doing a presentation with my group on Argentina. I danced the Tango in perfect timing.-ET.

 

We are looking forward to an even busier next term. Well Done P7-Have a great break!

 

 

Hello everyone,

We hope that you are all well.

At nursery we continue to explore Autumn.  Our learners have been extending their knowledge of the season, using Autumn materials to create lovely artwork and further developing numeracy skills using leaves and conkers for counting, ordering and creating patterns.  We have enjoyed visits to the forest with our friends.

We are loving all our children’s observations and seeing their progress on their learning journals, please remember to log in and view these at your leisure.  If anyone needs support to set this up, please let a member of the team know and we can help with this.

There have been some recent changes to our nursery setting as we continue to ensure the safety of our children at all times.  Our children are now in 2 separate bubbles, meaning that they have their own room.  Each group has their own area in the garden ensuring we can still provide free flow outdoor play.  The red and yellow group are in the rainbow room with Miss Prentice, Mrs Keast, Miss Darcy and Miss Greig.  The orange, green and purple group are in the sunshine room (the room looking out onto the school playground) with Mrs Murdoch, Mrs McNee, Mrs Pecoriello, Miss Dickson, Miss Crighton and Miss Copeman.  Our little learners helped us to set up their new nursery environment and the rooms are looking fantastic with so many engaging and exciting experiences for all.

Can we please remind parents/carers to provide a few changes of clothes in your child’s bag as we cannot use spares.

Thank you all for your continued support.

The Nursery Team

Numeracy and Maths

• JLD liked learning about angles – I learned there are right, acute, obtuse, straight and reflex angles

*ECB has learned about chimney sums and is working on adding and taking away bigger numbers

• LS has learnt the split strategy.  I split my tens and add them together.  I then split my ones and add them together.  At the end I add my tens to my ones.

*AW has been following directions – North, East, South, West.  They help you find your way home!

*WR loved Maths week.  We had lots of challenges set by the Deputy First Minister.  They were pretty hard but we managed to solve some of them.

*CR has learnt about 2D shape.  He found different types of angles inside the 2D shapes such as acute, right and obtuse.

*MC has been tiling during numeracy with 2D shapes.

 

Literacy & English

*IE has wrote a story linked to topic about volcanoes.  We used our topic spelling words throughout our writing

• AM enjoyed writing about Earthquakes.  This was explanation writing and we had to use subheadings to be successful

• JM has learnt about prepositions.  These are words that tell you the position of a noun.  E.g. on/off, up/down, behind

*EY has been answering questions about something she has read in Topic and being specific in her answer

*CM wrote a story about what it would feel like to be in a natural disaster.

 

Health & Wellbeing

*AJ has learnt about different roles across the school and that all roles are important in our school community.  We looked at different jobs and their roles (e.g. a judge).  We compared lives in different countries and how this linked to children’s rights.  We played charades to learn about making good choices.

*CSc has been taking part in Orienteering.  She has developed her problem solving and mapping skills through this.  She liked the Harry Potter ones best.

*EP has been enjoying Cross Country.  He has tracked his time each week.  His time has improved by as much as 5 minutes!

*JeD liked learning about Playground games, they were really fun!  She liked the Splat game.  The whole class love Chaos Tig and have been playing it at break.

 

Across Learning

• CM has been learning about tornados through Art.  We made a drawing of tornados in front of each other and coloured them in using a technique to make them stand out like 3D.

*AS has enjoyed Topic and learning about Natural Disasters.  Her favourite was the earthquake as she got to learn how to deal with an earthquake (drop, cover and roll).

• MR loved taking part in a volano erupting experiment.

*AJ loves doing all the Art with Mrs Smillie

 

Back to School Vibes

• EM just likes the school in general.

*CSt is quite happy that the school is doing as many things as it can to keep us safe.

*EY likes eating her snack inside as it means there is less litter in the playground

• AJ likes seeing her friends and being back together.  She gets excited for the summer holidays but likes to be back to see everyone again.