Meldrum Primary School Blog

What a fantastic week here at Meldrum PS!  We enjoyed the sunshine and did some fun activities in our classes throughout the week.  We hosted football teams from local schools and our P6 and P7 pupils played against them, performing well and scoring goals.  We had an Achievement Assembly yesterday where we celebrated learning that takes place outside of school and said goodbye to Mrs Nagle and to Mrs Harris.  We will miss them and hope that they come back and visit us next year.  Last night, our P7 leavers enjoyed an activity that was organised and funded by the Parent Council.  Everyone had a great time and made the most of spending time with their friends.

Today was an eventful one!  The extreme weather this morning meant that we couldn’t walk to church so our chaplain, Nelu, came to school for our service instead.  P7 toured the school to get their shirts and t-shirts signed and then they had a guard of honour from the other classes as they left the building, accompanied by a piper!  Thanks to one of our P7 parents who organised this for us today!  Our leavers have had a great time taking part in all of the end of term activities and experiences and have consistently shown our school values.  We send them off to high school with good wishes and lots of luck for the future.

As you know, school is now closed for the summer holidays.  We know that holidays can sometimes be tricky to navigate and hope that some of the resources that we have shared with you will be helpful.  You will receive a Sway powerpoint over the summer which has photographs of class teachers and information about the school day, including things like which doors children should come in, hopefully this will help to ease any worries about coming back.  I wish everyone a fantastic summer, enjoying time spent with your children and making memories as families.  We look forward to welcoming our amazing pupils back on August 12th!

We’ve had a really busy week here at Meldrum PS with a lot going on!  There are a number of highlights to share – our Sports Day was able to go ahead yesterday and everyone had lots of fun taking part in the different activities that were set up.  We haven’t been able to share winning teams with the children yet so we’ll need to fit this into next week!  Our P4 pupils had a great visit to DCHS yesterday to hear performances from a range of different orchestras and bands, showcasing the different instruments that are taught by West Lothian Council’s Instrumental Music Service.   We also had pupils take part in Deans Gala Day schools relay races and football tournament on Wednesday evening.  Our girls relay team came 2nd in the girls schools race, our boys football team came 2nd in the schools tournament and our boys relay team won their race and were awarded the Willie Dunn Memorial Shield which is on display in our reception before it is collected by Deans Gala Day committee to be engraved with our school name as 2026 winners!  A huge thank you to the pupils and parents who gave up their time to bring the children along and stayed to cheer them on!

Today, our P7 pupils put on a fantastic Leavers assembly for their families and school friends.  They shared important messages but resilience and how they have shown this over the year as well as the ways in which they will continue to persevere as they move on to high school.  A huge well done to the class and to Mrs Lang for all of their hard work to put this together and perform it for everyone.  Well done P7!

End of year reports are currently being printed and we hope to send these home early next week.  We will send an email to let you know when to look out for these in school bags!  If your child is absent, their report will be kept in the school and can be collected on return in August.

A final reminder that all pupils are invited to walk with the school in Deans Gala Day tomorrow.  Any pupil attending must be accompanied by an adult who stays with them and is responsible for them during the procession.  Hopefully the weather is kind and everyone is able to have a great day!  We have a number of pupils who are part of the pageant, including this year’s Queen (Millie P7) and King (James P6) and hope that they enjoy being part of this important local event!

Next Week 

Monday – Final transition visits to new classrooms

Thursday – Play all Day!  Pupils are invited to have a non uniform day (no club football colours, pyjamas or onesies please) and take part in play activities for the day.  Please note that children will be going outside at breaks and lunchtimes as well as potentially being outside at other points in the day and should be dressed for the weather!  At the moment, the forecast is good so please ensure that suncream is applied before your child comes to school.

Thursday – Achievement Assembly (pupils only)  The link to the e-form to register an achievement for your child has already been emailed.

Thursday – P7 Leavers Event – information from Parent Council has already been shared with P7 parents regarding this event.

Friday – Whole school to attend Church for the Summer service – school uniform should be worn today. 

We had an exciting week this week at Meldrum Primary Schools sports day! We showed lots of resilience and excellent participation.

Great Green: “What went well…”

-During sports day, we demonstrated good team spirit and encouragement towards our peers.

-In Numeracy, we have been completing addition and subtraction sums.

Think Pink: “Even better if…”

-Next week,  we will continue to show the school values as we get ready for Primary 2.

Lead Learners:

Well done to Amelie and Imogen for being this weeks lead learners.

Next weeks lead learners are Theo and Irha for showing respect and kindness during sports day.

The weather outside might be frightful, but inside Meldrum things are sunny!  Our P7 pupils had a positive transition experience at Deans Community High School and were full of chat and excitement about it today when they had to come back to primary school again!  They are back to full on preparation for their Leavers Assembly which takes place next week and we are very much looking forward to seeing them perform.  Our incoming P1 had the final experience of their transition programme on Wednesday, concluding this process with a lunchtime experience.  This was a nice end to their transition and we are very much looking forward to seeing them when they join us in August.

Please note that Monday 15th is not a holiday within West Lothian so children are expected in school as normal. 

A plea to please talk to your children about ensuring that they dismount bikes/scooters before they enter the playground if they cycle or scoot to school.  There have been a few near misses recently and we don’t want anyone to be hurt.  This rule applies for both arrival and exit from school. Thank you for your cooperation.

We have planned to have another go at running our Sports Day next Thursday, although the forecast at this point still doesn’t look great.  Let’s hope that the weather presenters have got it wrong and we can go ahead!  As before, we will wait until nearer the time to make a final decision but fingers crossed that it stays dry.

A reminder that we are going to be participating in Deans Gala Day on Saturday 20th June.  The theme is “World Cup” so plenty of scope for dressing up!

Next Week

Sunday – Deans Gala Day activities (see poster below)

Monday – Deans Gala Day activities for boys (see poster below)

Tuesday – Deans Gala Day activities for girls (see below)

Wednesday – Deans Gala schools relay and football tournament

Thursday – AM – Sports Day; PM – P4 to DCHS for Instrumental Music Services Concert

Friday – P7 Leavers Assembly 11.15am

We enjoyed designing and creating a World Cup t-shirt for the nation of Croatia. We are also identifying on a wall map and in atlases the nations taking part in the first few matches as well as their flags and their national anthems. We will continue to do this in the next 2 weeks.

Great Green – ‘What went well’

• We have been using data to create a graph, thinking about the x and y axis, the scale and the type of graph which best suits the information. We made line and block graphs.
• We explored horizontal and vertical lines in art, looking at the horizon to support our understanding of the x axis in a graph. We added vertical objects to our paintings e.g. wind turbines, trees, cacti etc

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

 We will generate our own data next week – deciding what we want to find out from areas of personal interest, who our sample group will be, how we can record the results and then how we will show this on a graph. Finally, we will use this process to reach conclusions about the data.

Lead Learners.

Our lead learners this week are Arlo and Lily. They are showing an excellent level of participation in Numeracy and Maths tasks.

This week we spent three days at DCHS as S1s following our timetables with our classes. This was a great experience which we all enjoyed.

Here are our 5 highlights:

• Lunches…the food and choices were so good.
• Meeting new friends.
• Science- spraying metals into Bunsen burners to observe colour changes.
• The concert – the musician were so skilled.
• We were allowed to use our phones at break and lunch.

We are now excited to start high school in August.