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From Monday the 11th of June to Friday the 15th of June was a West Barns Primary School held a health week including activities like zumba, Rugby, Karate, a Whole school sleep, Jazz dance, Get going, a visit […]

                This year has been one of the best out of primary school. We have had some really fun whole school activity days, truly interesting class trips and fascinating learning in-between; it has been a […]

On 25th June 2012 West Barns held the sports day we had been looking forward to, but which had been delayed by the torrential rains of Thursday night. It was sunny and warm and many parents and carers came out to […]

We did Zumba on Monday the 11th of June; we all really enjoyed it, even the boys that don’t like to dance. Our favourite bit was when we went in partners and stood in two separate rows facing each other and went […]

Meadowbank Athletics event 2012

 On Wednesday the 30th of May 2012 West Barns were taking part in an athletics event at Meadowbank. The participants: Alistair Fell, Joseph Flower, Heather Cameron, Iain Goldie, […]

Meadowbank Athletics event 2012

 On Wednesday the 30th of June 2012 West Barns were taking part in an athletics event at Meadowbank. The participants: Alistair Fell, Joseph Flower, Heather Cameron, Iain Goldie, […]

 
Lennox Award
The Lennox Award kicked off with Yester giving a presentation about Ali sparks. They were making news articles about one of her novels. It lasted about fifteen minutes and involved […]

As Joseph won the Lennox Award book review prize, with his review of Day of the Assassin, the prize was a visit by the author Johnny O’Brien. Joseph has written his review of the visit below ….

On Thursday […]

Today we were looking at equivalent fractions, what they are, why we use them and how we use them. We played games including equivalent fraction snap, jigsaw puzzles and finding equivalent fractions using […]

On Wednesday 2nd May 2012 weeks of hard work in Drama Club paid off when a Broadway-worthy performance was delivered to an audience of rapt parents, family and friends. The Incredible Adventures of Oscar […]

Today primary 6/7 took part in a hockey taster. Although the end tournament is for primary 6s we all took part.

We started with a warm up of just running, around the football field. It was very cold but […]

This week we have had some brilliant successes in the school that have been awarded with Star of the Week, including literacy, maths and excellent behaviour. Keep up the superb work!

P6/7 had a visitor called Linda Young from the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday, who came to tell us about what goes on in Holyrood. Firstly we discussed how parliament worked and discussed vocabulary like […]

On Tuesday as part of our reading comprehension, we looked at the author Roald Dahl. We learnt a bit about his life, and some of the things that surprised us were that his English teacher thought he was an awful […]

Cross Country
On Monday 26th March Callum, Alistair, Heather, Zosia, Iain, Lewis, Ben, Cameron, Dani, Annie and Georgina from West Barns Primary School went […]

We have recently been looking at Fair Trade as part of our rainforest topic, and naturally our investigation turned to chocolate, which is produced from cacao trees from the rainforest. We have investigated […]

Today Miss Beattie from Sustaining Dunbar came to speak to us about travelling around East Lothian. We thought about different types of travel, where we like to go in East Lothian and what the possibilities for us […]

Today P6/7 played the Orange Trade Game as part of their learning about Fair Trade. Four groups played orange farmers in the developing world, and they had to contend with taxing work, demanding money-collectors, […]

Today Mrs Kavanagh spotted a white ferret running free in the playground, enjoying the sunshine! Mrs Kavanagh caught the ferret, who was friendly and obviously a pet, at around 11am. The RSPCA came round to […]