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Good afternoon,

The Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills proposed providing teachers with two additional in-service days in the academic year to support professional learning.

The additional in service days of Tuesday 20 August 2019 and Monday January 6 2020 have been approved.     The school session for pupils in the school and nursery will begin on Wednesday the 21st of August 2019.

 

Regards

 

Mrs F Burns

During the Summer holidays, Whitburn Academy will be hosting the West Lothian Council’s ‘Active Fun Active Feet’ Multisports Holiday programme, delivered by the Active Schools & Community Sport team with support from local accredited and verified sports clubs, sports coaches and young leaders  

 

The Whitburn ‘Active Fun Active Feet’ Summer holiday camp (in partnership with Armadale and St Kent’s Active Schools Coordinators) will take place on Tuesday 23^rd and Wednesday 24^th July 2019 from 9am-3pm for all pupils in P1-P7. Nursery Pupils going into P1 in August 2019 will not be able to attend as pupils need to start school at P1 before being eligible to attend. Pupils in P7 going into S1 in August 2019 will be able to attend as this will be their last Active Fun Active Feet Camp.

 

The cost is £25 for 2 days and £15 for individual day’s (concessions available).

 

Bookings can be made online at http://2019whitburnsummer.eventbrite.co.uk   

 

Mrs Mooney

 

We have been learning:

• to measure using a ruler
• to read and spell words with the sounds ‘au’, ‘ew’ and ‘ow’
• to talk about a favourite toy

We have been learning:

• to read and spell words with the sounds ‘ue’, ‘aw’ and ‘oi’
• to add and take away ten or twenty from a two digit number
• to rewrite a story, fixing mistakes and adding more detail

We have been learning:

• to add and take-away a multiple of ten to a two-digit number
• to read and spell words with the sound ‘mb’
• to write a story about an ‘old’ toy

 

Our uniform is available through the following company, please follow the link. https://www.border-embroideries.co.uk/schools/st-josephs-rc-primary-school-whitburn.html Orders for August delivery must be received before the 21st July.

All deliveries will be to your home. Orders over £45.00 will be free. Orders under £45.00 incur a charge of £2.99. (You can club together with your friends to avoid paying this fee).

P7 Ties, School Badge and Kilts are available from the school. These must be ordered and paid for using the order form on our blog, app and website and sent to your child’s class/nursery teacher.

Uniform Information, the new order form for P7 ties, kilts and badges and the link to BE is always available in the “Uniforms” tab at the top of this Blog.

P5 have been devising outdoor learning opportunities to take advantage of the beautiful weather.

Yesterday they were practising their times table facts, staying active and working in a team.

 

Today we played hangman using chalk and this week’s spelling words.

Hopefully the weather will stay dry and we can enjoy more outdoor learning opportunities tomorrow.

P4 took advantage of the nice weather to work on some mini-canal constructions. We used tin foil to make a waterway then tried to make  dam out of sticks and stones to change the amount of water that run through.