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Hey Ness Class! It's a new week and this week we would have been joining in lots of fun activities in school for health week. Just because we are all at home doesn't mean that we miss out. There's lots of fun ideas to enjoy health week at home where you can be safe and ... Continue reading Ness Class - Let's Join In the Fun of Health Week!! →

Hi Ness class! It's been a wee while since we all sat down to have school lunch together. I have to admit I'm really missing the chat around the table. It's not quite the same at home. West Lothian are keen to find out if you enjoy lunches at school or if you think they ... Continue reading Ness Class - What do you think of school lunches? →

Ness class have been reading 'The Snow Bear' by Holly Webb. The main character Sara is busy building an igloo with her grandad in the garden so we decided to have a go at building our own igloos! We worked in pairs to try and build our igloos using marshmallows and cocktail sticks instead of ... Continue reading Ness class busy using STEM skills to create igloos. →

This week, as part of our Christmas themed Science, we were putting candy canes in different liquids to see how they would react. We recorded our predictions on our worksheets and then what actually happened. The liquids we used were cold water, hot water, vegetable oil and vinegar which we all thought was very smelly. ... Continue reading Ness Class carry out some Christmas Experiments. →

Ness class have been joining with Alice from The Volunteer Conservationists to create a friendly habitat area for hedgehogs getting ready for hibernation. Ness class enjoyed creating a hidden feeding station and using tools to cut large branches to let us start making a dead hedge for the hedgehogs to hide in. Earlier in the ... Continue reading Ness Class have enjoyed some outdoor learning in the woods. →

Hey Ness Class, Welcome back after the Monday holiday. I hope that you are all keeping well. I'm uploading a new grid every fortnight with some fun ideas for you to have a go at away from your worksheets. Chekc the link below and go back through the blog to find the grids from the ... Continue reading Ness Class Learning Grid 4 →

Ness class have begun to settle well into learning and fun at St. Mary's. This week, we had a go at rock painting and have been working hard on our Maths in class.

Our New Garden is ready for Action! Well almost! The Contractors have completely finished up our new garden area last week, having already completed the secure surrounding wall and lockable gates in March 2021, and this past week completed the central walk way and access paths to different planting areas. We are so lucky to ... Continue reading New Garden area is completed by Contractors! May 2021 →

Litter Pickers & Eco Code We took delivery of new litter pickers this week. They have been distributed throughout the school. Class bubbles across the school are doing an amazing job of keeping a check on the litter rota to see when it's their turn, and keeping on top of the litter around our school ... Continue reading New Litter Pickers & New Eco Code on Display →

An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Ness had a great time: "Making catapults was a very good activity." "It was awesome." "I really loved the Catapults, it was really fun ... Continue reading Newton's first Law of Motion →