School Blog

What a day! We all loved World Book Day, especially coming to school wearing our pyjamas and some of us dressed up as our favourite book character. Darcy - I liked the Authors Live. Freya - After Authors Live we did our own comic strip characters! Mine's is called Cherry Girl and her super power ... Continue reading World Book Day P4/3 →

ENERGY HOUR AT ST MARY'S! We are all being Eco Warriors! On Friday we had our Energy Hour where the whole school switched energy off in order to play our part in being eco friendly. The Eco Committee asked that we all refrain from using laptops, iPads, lights in the classroom and staff laptops ... Continue reading Primary 4/3 - Energy Hour →

We have had a very busy first day back. Today is Pancake Tuesday and we all had the chance to flip our own pancakes. We know that tomorrow is the beginning of Lent and it is tradition to use up all the ingredients the day before Ash Wednesday and to make pancakes. Some of us ... Continue reading Pancake Tuesday in P4/3 →

We are very lucky to have 4 sports leaders from West Calder High School who will be working with us for a block of multi sports. This is to help them to achieve their Level 6 Sports Academy. We have loved playing the warm up games and all the different stations they have organised for ... Continue reading Sports leaders in P4/3 →

Robert Burns (1759-1796) On Friday, P4/3 celebrated Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns. He was a famous poet and songwriter and known for writing in Scots. He wrote about nature, love, and animals, with famous works like "Auld Lang Syne". His birthday is celebrated annually on 25th January (Burns Night) with suppers featuring haggis, neeps and ... Continue reading Primary 4/3 celebrating Robert Burns →

At the beginning of the new term we had our business meeting to decide what we wanted our house corner to be. Jenson chaired the meeting and Macie took the minutes. Everyone had lots of great ideas but in the end, after a fair vote, it was decided to turn it into a Starbucks. Everyone ... Continue reading P4/3 New year, new house corner →

We have had a very busy start to the new term. Out new IDL topic is Our Community. We started by looking at the difference between our wants and needs. We now know that our needs are the things we require to live and be healthy whereas our wants are things that make our life ... Continue reading A new term in P4/3 →

P4/3 had great fun this week at the Christmas Party. We played pass the parcel and the corners game. We loved dancing to our favourite K-Pop songs, we really have some fantastic dancers. We also loved dancing to some of the old classics like the cha cha slide and the Macarena. We had some yummy ... Continue reading P4/3 Christmas Party →

Well done to our wonderful Primary 4/3 pupils who led our Advent Mass on Friday. We were so proud of the children who read with confidence and sang with pride! This is a special time of year where we prepare to celebrate the birth of our Lord.

Continuing our celebration of books and reading for enjoyment during this Book Week we went for a visit to West Calder Library. The rain did not put us off and we had a lovely walk into West Calder. Ann the librarian was very welcoming and delighted to see us. She read us a very funny ... Continue reading P4/3 Visit to the Library →

We got Book Week Scotland off to a fun start with our hosting party in P4/3. Some of our parents and carers joined us this afternoon to do some fun activities related to books. P3 were gifted a Read, Write, Count bag and P4 were gifted a new book. We all enjoyed creating a book ... Continue reading P4/3 Gifting Party →

Some recent photos of P4/3 during Outdoor Learning. Miss Nelson leads this each week and as the photos show, the children love it! Charlotte - I liked making my name with twigs and mud and leaves. Jude - I liked going to the park and playing with my friends. Joseph - I like exploring in ... Continue reading P4/3 Outdoor Learning →