School Blog

Today in P4-P7 we started to read a range of descriptive texts, focusing on characters in our group novel and how they are portrayed. We started by looking at descriptive language and grammar using our Think Aloud approaches and then had the opportunity to describe another character of our choice.

A busy morning in Woodmuir completing our Sky scraper sundae art work. The children first of all had to draw their tall outline and design each of their sections with a pattern and colour of their choice. At the end they had to outline their drawing in black pen and cut around the drawing carefully. ... Continue reading "Sky Scraper Sundae"

This week in Woodmuir literacy hour we have been very busy working together on our new class novel Turtle Moon. Children were predicting what the book is about, reading character descriptions and designing their own book cover!

The children had the opportunity to express their views and voice their opinions on our middle area hub. Working with their peers, communicating and collaborating, they came up with super suggestions of what they would like their hub area to look like and sound like. This is linked to our Rights Respecting article of the ... Continue reading "Pupil voice"

This week we were very lucky to have the chance to go to the book festival with our all of our friends in school. We started the day off attending the Eco - adventurer workshop with Hannah Gold! Hannah Gold is the best selling author of the last bear. Hannah told us all about her ... Continue reading "The Edinburgh Children's Book Festival"

A fantastic morning of laughter with lots of water fun and a movie. A lovely way to end our year and wish the p7's all the very best for high school in August. We will miss you all in Woodmuir primary and wish you all the best in your next adventure. Thank you to Lachlan ... Continue reading "Goodbye to our Primary 7 pupils."

Well done to the upper class on a fabulous leavers show, Reach for the stars! The singing was super and everyone spoke very clearly and in role. A great way to finish off the term and demonstrate our talent in the arts, we wish our p7 pupils all the best in secondary school! We will ... Continue reading "Highlights from our Leavers assembly"

This afternoon we had an extra football training session from West Lothian community Association. This was great fun, learning new skills and having a game at the end.

Today we all had the chance to try out some hockey skills from Livingston Hockey Club. We practised lots of skills such as passing and tackling before a mini game. We had lots of fun and are looking forward to football this afternoon.

We had a fun whole school visit to the RHS yesterday. It was a fantastic day out in the sunshine, getting to see the cattle, sheep, horses and much more. We also had the chance to try lots of different food and participate in fun activities from the exhibitors. At the end we had ice- ... Continue reading "Royal Highland Show"