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By exploring climate zones around the world, I can compare and describe how climate affects living things. SOC 1-12b By exploring a natural environment different from my own, I can discover how the physical features influence the variety of living things. SOC 1-13b Having explored the landscape of my local area, I can describe ... Continue reading "New IDL Context in P4"

'We were making Earth Day pictures for Earth Day' Zoe. 'We learned to look after the planet' Michelle. 'We learned to pick up litter so sea animals don't die- they might become extinct. We should not be cutting down so many trees.' William. 'We have to learn to look after plants' McKenna. 'We made little ... Continue reading "P2A Learning"

This term we have moved on the learn about writing Explanations. We started off looking at an Explanation titled Why a Goalkeeper's Job is Important. We learned about the sections of the writing Title, Identifying Statement, Explanation Sequence & Summary Statement. We then looked at the text and highlighted the nouns. After that we spoke ... Continue reading "P3A Learning"

With our new 'Sports' conext, it seems fitting to post about our success across a variety of sports in Primary 7. Here are some of our P7 learners celebrating some amazing achievements in swimming, motocross, ballet, skiing and dance. The pupils chose to learn about Sports as our final context this term; we are researching ... Continue reading "Celebrating success - Sports in P7"

What a fabulous few weeks we've had baking up a storm! The scent of cookies drifting along the hallway has got a few tummies rumbling! Well done to all our bakers who did a great job making some delicious vegan chocolate chip cookies. Yum!

This we we were working on the Meta Skill Social Intelligence. This meant we were communicating, collaborating and leading. We listened to the story Jack and the Beanstalk and thought about the characters and main points. We discussed how the characters would act, what they say and talked about how the story would be better ... Continue reading "P3A Hubs Week 2"

We were working on Meta Skill of INNOVATION. We had to use our creativity to come up with a new wild animal, thinking about how it moved, where it lived, how and what it ate and how it defended itself. We got to choose if we worked on it individually, in a pair or in ... Continue reading "P3A Hubs Week 1"

We are all so excited that today is the launch of our new skills hubs. These hubs have been in development since August as part of our School Improvement Plan and have been consulted widely on.

On the 2nd March this dynamic duo entered their first competition at Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh. They came second in both Cheer and Hip Hop! They both received a medal and have another competition in May. Well done ladies!!

This term we are working on our division. We learned a new strategy called Bar Modelling. We then worked with a random partner to show our knowledge. This will also help us work out fractions of a number. We were asked to let the architects know what we thought about different aspects of our new ... Continue reading "P3A Learning"

This week we have been completing lots of work inspired by the story Ruby's Worry. It will be used for a West Lothian Council Creativity in Literacy Competition. Please see Sway to find out about our learning. P3A Creativity in Literacy We based our competition entry on the book Ruby's Worry by Tom Percival. This ... Continue reading "P3A Learning"

We have started learning about 3D shapes. First we tried to remember their names. Then we looked at them, touched them and thought about their properties. We then had to work with our partner to work out how many edges, faces & vertices they had. We found some like a sphere easy but found working ... Continue reading "P3A Learning"