Meldrum Primary School Blog

A very Happy New Year to all staff, parents and pupils. I hope everyone had a happy and restful holiday. It’s great to be back in school and this week I will be spending time in all of our classes.

A reminder that this Friday, January 6th is our Dress Down Day – £1 for each child.

Mrs Russell (Head Teacher)

Our Recorder Group perform for the first time in front of an audience at assembly.  They were absolutely fantastic – well done girls!

Building on the earlier work of Rookie Rockstars, it’s great to see the children enjoying singing the songs once again – ‘Let’s All Be Friends’  was the chosen song, and their expressions say it all!

Thank you for all your support and good wishes over the last year…

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Our Primary 7 pupils are leading the music and dances for our Primary 4 and 5 party today.  This is a great opportunity for them to transfer their newfound DJ skills from earlier this year.   Primary 4 and 5 are enjoying this experience.

West Lothian Council have launched their Winter Ready campaign.  Please access the link below for further details:

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The Deans cluster gymnastic classes will continue at Deans Community High School on a Tuesday evening.  The purpose of this club is to get young people more active through run, jump & gymnastics disciplines.

Who is it for?

2 classes: P1 – P4 @ 17:00 – 18:00 and P4 – P7 @ 18:00 – 19:00

Training dates?

10 January to 28 March @ Deans CHS costing only £33.60 for 12 coaching sessions

How to register?

To enrol please complete a booking form at DCHS reception or telephone 01506 282155 for further information.  Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Our P6 and P7 pupils did themselves proud today by singing carols and they have been uploaded onto the West Lothian Council facebook page.  Please check them out by following the link below:

https://en-gb.facebook.com/westlothiancouncil/

We are looking to raise awareness of Save the Children’s Wear your Christmas Jumper day this year.  Wednesday 7 December is our Christmas Lunch and we thought it was fitting to encourage the children to wear a Christmas/Winter jumper to school – there is no need to bring in a donation on this occasion.  Further details can be found at:

https://christmasjumperday.org/about-christmas-jumper-day/

Primary 4 to Primary 7 enjoyed another inspiring and informative visit from David yesterday.  David introduced the children to ‘augmented reality’ a real breakthrough in using technology and literature.  David will be at Waterstone’s bookstore in Livingston on Saturday for book signing from 11 am.  From 1 pm onwards the children can be involved in a range of games and activities.

David Goutcher recently contacted the school to organise a visit to speak with our P4-P7 pupils.  David has a new book out and he enjoyed himself so much when he was here earlier in the year that he wants to come back to share this with the children.  We look forward to listening to David on Wednesday morning.

Our Morrison’s Champion, Ms Hendry, has been able to involve Meldrum Primary in a special ‘tree planting’ project.   Morrisons donated an apple tree for planting and a basket of apples for the school.  Our P5 pupils will be involved in planting the tree (when weather permits!) and they all enjoyed an apple.  The remaining apples were distributed to some of our Rainbow Room and Breakfast Club children.