Howden St Andrew's Primary School
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Howden St Andrew's Primary School
@hsa25.bsky.social
Welcome to our Notification site. Here you will see our weekly learning updates. Please contact us via wlhowdenstandrews-ps@westlothian.org.uk or phone on 01506 283790 if you have any questions.
P5 have enjoyed a week full of festive fun 🎄

We wrote a procedure on How to Steal Christmas, inspired by the Grinch, worked together as Santa’s elves to design and build sturdy packaging, and finished the week with lots of laughter and fun at our Christmas party! 🎅
December 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
P3/4 completed elf academy this week where we turned into elves for the day and had to complete different missions!🎄
December 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Our P5 Christmas hamper this year is green-themed, we would be grateful for any green-coloured items you can donate to include in it. Other donations are also very welcome, such as sweets, bottles etc. All contributions will help make our Christmas Fayre on 5th December a success 🎄 Thanks again 🤩
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Last week, Primary 5 celebrated Book Week, by watching authors live. In PE, we’ve been getting creative with dance, experimenting with movement and working together to build routines. We’re also loving the challenge of “bumping up” our writing, making our work even more exciting and detailed.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
As part of our PBL learning about the future, P3 have been using the sphero bots to learn how to code. So far, we have been able to make them move, change colours and even talk. Can you hear what it says?
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
P5 are enjoying developing their procedural writing skills. Today, they wrote instructions on how to make a paper aeroplane and then had great fun creating what they had written about. They loved testing their procedures to see if their steps were clear and if their aeroplanes could really fly! ✈️
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
As part of money week, P3/4 worked in groups during our Building Thinking Classrooms lesson to make 20p in as many ways as possible💰 #moneyweek
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
For outdoor classroom day, P5 went outside and practiced there timetables ✖️➗
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Parent bake off winner!
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Senior bake off champion!
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Junior bake off champion!
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Infant bake off champion!
November 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Our Halloween Hamper winner !!
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
For PBL this term, Primary 3 and Primary 3/4 want to know what the future will look like. We are excited to try out the sphero bots as part of our digital learning this term!
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
P5 have enjoyed lots of different Halloween activities this week 🎃 In maths we became detectives to work out the Halloween mystery 🕵️ and we used our creativity in literacy to write some spooky Halloween stories 👻
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
P3/4 done some spooky writing and described what was inside of the haunted house🎃🏠👻
October 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Our head boy and head girl represented us today at ICHS discussing budget priorities!
October 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Our play ambassadors hard at work this morning putting together our play policy and deciding on what we need to prioritise going forward! #playistheway #playscotland
October 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A huge thank you to the families from P3 and P3/4 for coming to our world of pure imagination 🍫🍬🍭🍩. The children were incredible and we are extremely proud of them all.
October 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Primary 3 have been learning a story map linked to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We worked together to create actions to help us remember it. Today, we used this map to plan our own stories. We can’t wait to write them!
October 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Primary 3/4 loved our chocolate tasting session today as part of our PBL topic!🍫 we collected data to find out the overall favourite!
September 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Primary 3/4 have enjoyed celebrating maths week! This year’s theme was wild maths, we loved working collaboratively and taking our maths outdoors!🌿🐝🌸
September 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
P5 enjoyed celebrating European Day of Languages today. We took part in activities that celebrated all the different languages we speak and understand as a class 🇪🇺🌍
September 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In P3, we have been trying out Finn Finity’s Lego challenges for #MathsWeekScotland. Do you like our marble run?
September 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Primary 3 and Primary 3/4 were in a “world of pure imagination” this afternoon. They designed and built their own chocolate factories, inspired by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We saw some excellent collaboration skills! 💭🍬🍫🍭
September 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM