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Newsletter 31st October added
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Gift from Scotmid
Many thanks to Yvonne Goodfellow from Scotmid who gave us juice, fruit and bottled water today.
P4/3 can be seen in this photo getting ready to eat their healthy snack following a Handball Festival at Bathgate Sports Centre.
Yvonne told us that the new shop would be opening next Friday – 7th November.
We look forward to working in partnership with the shop in the future.
Creating a rainforest in P3B
As part of their rainforest topic, P3B were given the challenge to create a rainforest in their classroom. We looked at many pictures or rainforests and thought about the different layers and which animals live there. Pupils were then divided into groups to create the rainforest. One group had to create the forest floor, one group were making animals, one group were making the understory and smaller trees and the final group were making the canopy and emergent layer. All pupils displayed creativity skills are were able to work as a team to create the class rainforest.
Roots of Empathy – Primary 3A
Primary 3A are currently enjoying the Roots of Empathy programme. They have had visits from Baby Jack since last year and have watched him grow. Every three weeks they enjoy seeing what new things he is able to do.He is a very happy baby and loves when the children pay him attention and sing to him. There is always great excitement in the class when they know it is visit day. Roots of Empathy is a programme devised for primary children which allows them to develop their awareness of the needs of a baby. They have enjoyed learning about sleep patterns, communication and mood.
Business Enterprise Skills with P6
Primary 6 pupils at Boghall Primary School have been developing their Business enterprise skills. Chris Clayton from “Grey Matters” is a management consultant who visited Boghall Primary to work with Primary 6 pupils to develop their enterprise and employability skills such as collaboration, higher order thinking skills, communication and decision making skills. Chris has worked with many businesses such as Liverpool FC, NHS and Local Authorities, this being his first experience with primary school children.
The pupils were set a business challenge where they were given a “bad” business and their aim was to work as a team and use their enterprise and employability skills to improve the business. Pupils had to find ways to make the business more productive by finding ways to improve it. Improvements involved negotiating deals, choosing to spend money on equipment or staff, reducing waiting time for customers and making the business run more efficiently. The challenge lasted four hours and the winning team successfully improved the business and made a profit of £3250.
After working with the children, Chris said, “I was very impressed with the pupils’ ability to ‘think outside the box’. It was very clear that the children had previous experience of working in this way. They were very creative and all groups were able to apply their skills to improve the business. The children performed better in the challenge than some of the adults I have worked with before!”
Boghall Primary has a strong emphasis on developing skills for life. Teachers Lynsey O’Neill and Zoe Armstrong said “It was great to watch them in action applying their skills which as a school we have worked hard to develop through our school enterprise programme.”
Netball Team win Newland’s Shield
Well done to Boghall Primary netball team who won the Newland’s shield at yesterday’s netball festival. They attend three festivals every year along with other teams from Bathgate and surrounding areas. The results are all added together and overall Boghall came second. They were the first Bathgate team and so won the Newland’s shield. This is the first time since 1995 that Boghall have won the shield. The players, who were all P7s were delighted to have come second and to have won the shield. They have been training every week at after school club and all their hard work and perseverance has paid off. Well done to everyone who attends the netball after school club and particularly those who were playing at the festival yesterday.
Braw Breakfast with P7/6
Pupils in Primary 7/6 at Boghall Primary School took part in the annual ‘Braw Breakfast’ competition, organised by The Royal Highland Educational Trust. The aim of their Farmhouse Breakfast Week campaign is to raise awareness of the benefits of eating a healthy breakfast and show children the variety of options available to them, grown here in Scotland. The competition was to compose a poem in the style of Robert Burns’ infamous ‘address to a haggis’, celebrating their own favourite breakfast dish and how it “shakes up your wake up!”
There were many entries from schools across Scotland, with Katie Coyle from P7/6 at Boghall Primary School being named the winner! As a prize for winning, Katie and her classmates were treated to a huge Scottish breakfast! To begin their braw morning, the children took part in a workshop where they had to identify different Scottish breakfast items and how they are manufactured from farm to shop. After bowls of Scottish porridge, bananas, strawberries and grapes, they tucked into bacon rolls, scrambled eggs and black pudding! Honey was the top choice of toppings with added toast on the side. To follow that they polished off oatcakes and cheese and yet more grapes and strawberries, all washed down with freshly pressed apple juice. To top it off, there was an award ceremony for Katie to receive her certificate and read her winning entry, ‘Tae a roll oan sausage’. Their class teachers Zoe Armstrong and Ray McGregor said, “Everybody thoroughly enjoyed their Scottish breakfast,
kindly prepared by Karen Valentine and staff from RHET. There certainly wasn’t much lunch eaten in the dinner hall from P7/6 that day!”
Easter Chicks at Boghall!
P3B loved having their chance to hold the baby chicks last week. The chicks were at Boghall as part of the living eggs project. The unhatched eggs are delivered and are kept in an incubator in school. Everyone can then log in and follow their progress on glow in school and from home. Many pupils watched as some of the chicks hatched. After a few days, each class gets the chance to have the chicks visit their classroom and everyone has the chance to hold a chick. Pupils were taught how to hold the chicks safely and they had lots of questions about what happens to the chicks and Rory asked “Where does the mum who laid the eggs live?” We can’t wait until next year when more chicks will hatch at Boghall!
