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We have had a great start to the year in P2A. We love our new classroom and we have enjoyed seeing our old friends from P1. We have also enjoyed making some new friends and becoming a fantastic team as one class. Here are a few pictures of our classroom. Article 24: We have the ... Continue reading "Primary 2A"

We are off to a flying start in Primary 1C, we have been practising our new sounds and number writing. We have been showcasing our creativity using technologies and other tools like PlayDoh to help us with our counting and 1:1 correspondence. As a class, we have loved exploring our class story 'The Smeds and ... Continue reading "Primary 1C"

Please find attached the NHS guidance for those that have asthma. Take care, Alison Hamilton Asthma return to school 2025

Another lovely acknowledgement for Primary 4's efforts raising money for a local charity. Jak's Den offers emotional, social and practical support to children and young people with cancer-related illnesses. They sent us a lovely thank you card and certificate this week - well done again, P4!

I hope all of our families have a relaxing break over the summer. In the meantime, I have created some social stories so that all classes can familiarise themselves with their teacher, playground, class and entry/exit doors. In the lead up to the schools coming back, it can be particularly helpful to go over the ... Continue reading "Social Stories - Session 2025/2026"

Back in Term 2, Primary 4A and 4B researched different charities and used the information to create Powerpoint presentations. Each class voted for their favourite charity and we then raised funds by selling Christmas cards around school. We recently received this certificate of thanks from one of our chosen charities, the R.N.L.I. Great effort, P4! ... Continue reading "P4 Charity Champs!"

Congratulations to one of our P7 pupils who achieved a bronze award at the Scottish Mathematics Challenge, he is one of two pupils from the whole of West Lothian to win. Here are some photographs of him at the prize-giving ceremony at Edinburgh Napier University's Sighthill campus. A huge well done!

A huge thank you to a very talented parent who came in today to share her experience in photography. We learned about composition, complementary backgrounds and how to use lighting. Each group had a photographer, director and model. We worked on our team work skills and communication. Our context this term is 'Sports' and our ... Continue reading "Sports photography in P7"

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"