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Active Schools February Blog As Covid continues to disrupt after school activities the Broxburn Cluster Active Schools Team, Ross and Libby, offered all the cluster schools team building sessions. Every single school took up the offer for their primary 6 pupils. Ross and Libby delivered a variety of team building games which are designed to [...]

This week we made flash cards to practise our spelling words.

Please see attached information regarding the various coaching opportunities from Broxburn United this term.

Some photographs from this morning's fun. The children enjoyed pass the parcel, pin the nose on Rudolph, musical chairs and musical bumps, some photo props and a treat to eat. They also enjoyed looking at some photos of themselves when they were in Primary 1!

We have had another busy week of learning in Primary 6S. Here are some of the highlights to share with you, and some news for next week. LITERACY We have been learning how to write an exposition text, which is a one sided argument. The children had to persuade me (The Grinch!) to have a [...]

This week the children have been completing activities from the Reading Challenge advent calendar. They had to guess the author of the wrapped up book from the class library. They wrapped up warm and read outside in the winter sun. It is great to be able to be outside and we want to grab every [...]

We have been making our own fraction walls to help us understand the concept of equivalent fractions. This then also led us on to further discussions and we found ourselves adding and subtracting fractions too which was most impressive.

We have had another very busy week in Primary 6S. Here is a snapshot of some of our learning activities. HEALTH AND WELLBEING Mrs Kinnear is our Health and Wellbeing expert! Have a look on the school Twitter page for the posters the children have been creating with her. We have also created our own [...]

In our maths lesson today we used scales to measure the weights of different materials, we used tape measures and rulers to measure the length of different and we used jugs and containers to measure the volume of liquids. We also measured out the ingredients to make oobleck and slime. It was a little messy [...]

The children in Primary 6S have been very busy over the past few weeks. They revised how to write blog posts by looking at some of the posts from their Primary 1 teachers which included some funny photographs of them as they started school. The class worked in pairs and trios to create representations of [...]

This week in class we have learning about fractions. We used Numicon to help us convert improper fractions to mixed numbers. The pegs represented our numerator and the tiles were our denominator.

Thanks very much to our fabulous P7 Reading Ambassadors who met us in the school library today. They gave us all super goody bags for book week Scotland and helped us pick some new story books for our class library. Everyone is looking forward to enjoying them in some ERIC time this afternoon!