School Blog

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"

A huge big thank you to all our volunteers who came along recently to be 'Secret Readers'. Our classes love listen to stories and having visitors makes it even better. It's so important for our learners to see adults other than their teachers reading. Thank you again. We couldn't do it without you!

We took part in lots of different activities for Book Week. We watched Author's Live with the illustrator Fiona Lumbers. She read one of the Luna Loves stories and taught us how to draw Luna. We had good fun adding our own things that Luna might love to our pictures. We took part in the ... Continue reading "P3A Book Week"

It's lovely to hear about our pupils achievements in and out of school. Here are two pupils celebrating their medals and hard work in their extra-curricular activities. One pupil won five medals at the Fauldhouse Swimming Gala: coming 4th in the 200m freestyle, 5th in the 50m breaststroke, 1st place - winning two gold medals ... Continue reading "Celebrating success in P7!"

Thanks P6 for all your kind donations. You all looked very chilled!