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Yesterday an audience of pupils, friends and family were treated to a very special performance by the school’s senior drama club. The pupils had written an orginal (and very funny!) play featuring the Doctor Who […]

A big thank you to the Parent Council who funded this annual tradition for the P7 leavers at West Barns.
P7 Pizza Party June 2011 on PhotoPeach

A big thank you to the Parent Council who funded this annual tradition for the P7 leavers at West Barns.
P7 Pizza Party June 2011 on PhotoPeach

All this term, P4/5/6 have been reading the novel “Breaker” as our class novel. The novel is set in North Berwick and follows the adventures of Tom and Beth who have recently moved there. When they meet the eccentric Professor Macblain, with his weird and wonderful inventions, the mystery deepens. Soon they are involved in [...]

…. but not before one final session with P2/3/4 and the pre-school nursery children who joined us outside to listen to our stories.

Shared Reading 1 June 2011 on PhotoPeach

Shared Reading 2 June 2011 on PhotoPeach

Mosque-making 3 on PhotoPeach

Today to celebrate our final Shared Reading, the whole of P2/3/4 and P4/5/6 went outside to share their reading. P2/3/4 brought their puppets and described them to the older pupils while P4/5/6 chose either their current personal choice reading book or a story from their literacy jotter to share. To the delight of everyone, the [...]

Mosque-making 2 on PhotoPeach

As part of Health, P4/5/6 made clay models of each other’s faces. We had to look carefully at each other and try and represent our features in clay- harder than it sounds!
Clay modelling on PhotoPeach

Mosque-making 1 on PhotoPeach

As part of our shape focus, P4/5/6 have been searching the school armed only with their understanding off 2d and 3d shapes and a camera in order to find, recognise and record shapes as they appear in the man-made environment. Can you see which shape was the most frequently identified? Finding Shapes in the Environment [...]

Sports Day 2011 on PhotoPeach Today the whole school took part in our annual Sports Day. After a week of anxious sky-checking, the weather proved kind and the day commenced as the house captains led out the three houses, Tyne, Forth and Biel. All the pupils had worked hard to prepare their outfits in their [...]

Weather permitting, Sports Day will go ahead this Friday at 9.30am. The Parent Council will be selling teas and coffees, home baking as well as juice and crisps. Your generous donations of home baking will be warmly received- you can bring them along on the day or hand them into the school office on Thursday. [...]

As you will be aware West Barns Parent Council/School BBQ takes place on Friday. The signs are that the weather on Friday will be sunny and dry, so the BBQ will be taking place outdoors near the Nursery Area. In the unlikely event of rain on Friday we will still be holding the BBQ. We thank Belhaven [...]

There is a new school Menu starting from Monday. Please read the following information for more information. In 2011-2012 we are introducing seasonal menus in all primary schools. The summer menu starts on Monday 6 June 2011. It offers a a choice of 2 main dishes (one is a vegetarian dish), a filled baked potato or [...]

Thank you so much for the flowers, good wishes for the painting which will grace my office at Saltoun–Humbie office is too small!! I have loved my time at West Barns and will miss it hugely, so having a piece of the view to take with me will help. You have a great school–smashing children, [...]

As part of own non-fiction focus on newspapers, we have been learning about fact and opinions. As part of our writing we have been learning to identify the difference between the two and what role they play in newspaper articles. Yesterday we sorted a selection of statements into two categories and had to explain our [...]

As part of our reading programme, all the pupils are encouraged to choose and select texts to read in class for their personal enjoyment. This is in addition to our current non-fiction reading comprehension focus on newspapers and Internet-based texts, our class novel study on “Breaker” by Annemarie Allan, all of our Tudors and Stuarts [...]

Just a reminder that the school will open again on Thursday 26th May 2011.
All the teachers have been working hard today sharing lots of good practice at a meeting in Dunbar Primary School. Tomorrow we have another in-service day and we are looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday.

Hope you are enjoying your extra break P4/5/6. Mrs Johnson and I have been working hard today in school learning all sorts of new things which we can then share with you. This is your final reminder that your Tudor homework is due on Friday 27th May 2011. You are to find 3 interesting facts [...]