Meldrum Primary School Blog

February 8, 2016
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National Safer Internet Day

West Lothian Council have organised some helpful advice when dealing with cyberbullying:

Twitter: Cyberbullying – any form of bullying that takes place through online communication. See [Facebook page]

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Cyberbullying is any form of bullying that takes place through online communication. Although the use of technology has changed the way that some of the bullying takes place, the core problem is the same as it has always been – as are many of the solutions.

If the child you care for receives a nasty message, regardless of whether it comes from a known or anonymous source, it is important:

* Not to respond

* To keep a copy of the abusive message – it may be needed for evidence

* To block the user from making further contact through the social media platform or app

* To report the abuse to the platform on which it took place For more advice on how to tackle cyberbullying: http://www.bullying.co.uk/cyberbullying

This Friday 12th February, you are invited to the new Bathgate Cinema, St. David’s, George Street, where industry experts will offer practical advice on parental control settings for different devices. There will also be the opportunity to see the first ever big screen-screen showing of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) internet safety films that your children see in school.

This event is free to enter, and open to everyone, so why not invite family and friends along? For more info see www.westlothian.gov.uk/saferinternet

February 5, 2016
by Mrs Lang
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RRS Assembly

Today the RRS Group introduced Children’s Rights to the school at assembly. They also spoke about the work of UNICEF. All proceeds from today’s dress down day is being sent to UNICEF’s Day for Change.

February 5, 2016
by Mrs Stephenson
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Rights Respecting School

One of our priorities this session is to re-establish Meldrum as a Rights Respecting School. In order to do this we have set up a steering group led by Mrs Lang which includes class representatives from P3-P7, Miss Ross (Class Teacher), Mrs MacDonald (Pupil Support), Mr Smith (School Chaplain), and Mrs Moffat and Mrs Stewart (Parent Council).

On Friday 5th February we are delivering a school assembly to inform the children about the Rights Respecting School Award and the work of UNICEF.

A Rights Respecting School is a community where children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child sets out the rights of every child under 18 years across the world and how these rights should be met. All children have these rights, no matter who they are or where they live.

Young people and the school community learn about children’s rights by putting them into practice every day through learning in Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Global Citizenship, Social Studies, RME, Class Charters and Assemblies.

There 54 Articles or Rights in total. Article 1- States Everyone under 18 has all the rights in the convention and Article 42 states that governments must make the convention known to children which is why they are included in our school curriculum.

UNICEF is the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and is the main UN organization defending, promoting and protecting children’s rights. It also works towards protecting the world’s most disadvantaged children.

Day for Change is UNICEF UK’s annual fundraising campaign for UNICEF’s work to keep children safe around the world.

This year the challenge is to collect as much loose change as you can from January to May – from around the house, down the sofa, your pockets – and anywhere else you can think of! All the change you collect will go directly to the Children’s Emergency Fund to save and protect children caught up in emergencies around the world.

In school we are going to have a container at the office to collect any loose change. We are going to start our fundraising with all proceeds from Friday 5th February’s Dress down Day going to this charity and we hope to have some more events in the future to raise funds. So any spare 1p, 2p, 5p that are in your home please bring into school so that we can help to raise as much money as possible.

Thank you.

Rights Respecting Schools

Films and Songs created by schools

http://www.cypcs.org.uk/ www.unicef.org.uk/Get-Involved/Your-organisation/Schools/day-for-change/

February 3, 2016
by Mrs Brown
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Au Revoir

Mrs Russell was given a rousing send off by the whole school on Friday. Some of our youngest pupils presented her with these lovely flowers. Wishing her all the best until we meet again!

January 29, 2016
by Mrs Stewart
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The Toy Shop

Primary 1 and 1/2 have been working hard with Mrs Stewart to make products for our Toy Shop display. We have been learning about toys in our topic so we thought we would make a bright and attractive display of robots, dolls, teddy bears, balloons and kites. We are going to make some of our own labels this week to add onto our display to make it even better.

January 29, 2016
by Mrs Stewart
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Paul Klee inspired castles

In Primary 4 we have been learning about castles. We were inspired by the work of Paul Klee, an artist who makes works of art using 2D shapes. We made our own castles and towns using brickwork collage paper as a background, black pens for the outlines of our buildings and then used crayons to make them bright and colourful.

January 28, 2016
by Miss Canning
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Primary 6 Science

Primary 6 are building complex circuits using a variety of components. Here we are testing for conductivity and recording our findings.

January 28, 2016
by Miss Canning
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Primary Maths

Primary 6 have been looking at the nets of 3D shapes and have constructed some out of different materials.

January 28, 2016
by Mrs Stephenson
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Deans Gala Day – Saturday 18th June 2016

Deans Gala Day Committee are looking for names of children interested in taking part in this year’s Pageant.

At this moment the Committee will need a note of your child’s name, age and what school your child attends.

There are various roles available, please see below:

Gala Queen – 10yrs – 12yrs old
Lady in Waiting – 10yrs – 12yrs old
Princesses – 10yrs – 12yrs old
Flower Girls – 5yrs – 10yrs old
Rainbow Girls – 5yrs – 10yrs old
Herald – 10yrs – 12yrs old
Princes – 10yrs – 12yrs old
Guards – 5yrs – 10yrs old

If you require more details or wish to put your child’s name forward please email deansgala@gmail.com

All interested children must be registered by 11th March 2016 and the draw will take place on 14th March 2016 at Deans Community Centre.

January 19, 2016
by Mr Page
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P7 learn about different Biomes.

Over the Christmas break Primary 7 were tasked with a personal project comparing the UK Biome with another elsewhere in the world. A Biome is a large area of land with a distinct climate and forms of life. This may span over a number of different countries.

The work produced by Primary 7 was fantastic and it was obvious a great deal of effort had been made. Miss Garrett from the High School visited last week and listened to each of the children make a short presentation on their findings. She left having been impressed by the knowledge and the way that the class were able to talk about their learning.

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