Thanks to all parents who attended our Number Talks session on Friday. They had a brief overview of the rationale behind ‘number talks’ before heading to the classes to watch their children take part in a number talks lesson with their teacher. All parents commented on how helpful it had been.
A huge thanks to all staff and children for leading this for parents on Friday.
An amazing achievement for St Nicholas this morning coming first place for our Aladdin Galaday Float!
Thank you to all of our amazing parents, pupils and teachers who supported in creating the fantastic float.
Would you like to help your school? Do you have an hour a month or an hour a week? Do you enjoy sport? If so please contact Ross in Active Schools for information on helping at your child’s school. As little or as much as you like. If you would like to come and watch a sports club and have a chat about how you could help or just fancy some more info please just get in touch with me on 07990 565 846 or ross.logan@westlothian.gov.uk . visit us at www.activewestlothian.com
We went to see Linlithgow Palace. We enjoyed walking around and seeing the dungeons, great hall, kitchen court and the gorgeous fountain! We look forward to our Forest skills activity this afternoon. -Nia
Primary 2 have had a very busy first week back!
Jacob- We were looking at the sound ‘qu’ and going over all of the sounds we already know.
Jessica-Lily- We wrote a ‘Recount’ of the Easter story. Jesus has now risen from the dead!
Ethan- A recount is when you are retelling a story you already know.
Wiktoria- In literacy, we were text explorers and we did a new activity called ‘Blankety Blank!’
Sophie- We have been giving people directions in maths this week! You tell them which places to go by using lots of different words.
Rory- Like forwards, backwards, left, right, clockwise and anti-clockwise.
Joshua- We did the ‘cha cha slide!’ because it gives you lots of different directions and movements to go in!
Lena- We also learned about symmetry. Asymmetric means the shape is different on both sides and symmetrical means its the same on both sides. We used mirrors on our symmetry hunt.
Leylan- We learned how to wash our hands properly for health and wellbeing. You always have to use soap and water and you don’t rush, you take your time!
Maisie- Mrs Alexander sprayed us with a water bottle to show us how far germs travel when we don’t cover our mouths. Everyone thought it was really funny because we got soaked!
Logan M- Rory had talcum powder on his hands and we pretended that it was germs. He spread the ‘germs’ to other people and around the classroom and the talc went everywhere!
Jack- This shows us how far germs can go if you don’t wash your hands and cover your mouth when coughing and sneezing.
A huge well done to the children who attended Rotary Club Quiz at Broxburn Primary School, where our P6 quiz champions scooped 2nd place. They were beaten by just 1/2 a point. Well done boys and girls – we are so proud of you. You have great team spirit and are a credit to your school, your parents and yourselves.
A huge thanks to our committed and hardworking Parent Council who organised a wonderful event for the St Nicholas PS. community on Friday night. We had a ceilidh (run by our PE teacher, Mrs Smith), Irish dancers, raffle, Irish Bingo, a disco and delicious hot food by the Canon Hoban staff. A huge thank you to the following partners who helped make this happen by donating to our raffle: Potter Around in Kirknewton; Houston House Hotel, Uphall; Kirsty Loves Hair, Broxburn; Final Touch Beauty, Broxburn; Florist in Argyle Court, Broxburn (10% off Mother’s Day Flowers plus free delivery if you mention St Nicholas); Lawson’s Butchers; Tesco, Bathgate; Morrison’s Livingston; Scotmid, Broxburn, Lindt Chocolate, Livingston; Dance Store; Broxburn.
We are very lucky to have our Parent Council who work tirelessly alongside us to improve outcomes for our children. Children, parents and staff all had a ball! Looking forward to the next community event.
The winners of the St Nicholas Reading and Writing competitions had a lovely lunch with our Head Teacher, Mrs Brown, today. They went on a bus to the other end of Broxburn, had a delicious lunch, and were treated to a book of their choice. Thank you very much to our local partners, Glow Worm Books, for looking after our prizewinners so well and for sponsoring these competitions for us.
And well done again to our fabulous readers and writers.
The Eco Group did the RSPB’s Big Schools’ Birdwatch today, noting the different types of birds that are in the Broxburn area, before we uploaded our results to find the Top 10 birds around St Nicholas. We then worked to create bird snappers – older pupils working alongside younger pupils. Thanks to our P7, P6 and P5s who took such good care of our younger St Nicholas children, working with such care, skill and patience. The snappers were very fiddly to put together but we got there with them. Well done everyone!
Our Pupil Council began the judging process today, looking at entries for the St Nicholas Writing Competition. Here they are hard at work reading the entries. The standard of writing was very, very high. Winners for the both the reading and the writing competitions will be announced on Friday 11th of January at assembly. Thanks Pupil Council for your help and giving us your views and insights into what makes a great story.
A huge congratulations to Mara Wishart and Logan Morrison who won a prize in the P1 category of West Lothian Young Writers’ competition. They go with their families to an Awards Ceremony on the 16th of June. Well done on this excellent achievement. We are very proud of you both.
Huge congratulations to gymnasts, Abbie Thomson, Anna Keogh and Chloe Laing – members of the St Nicholas Team – who scooped the award of 2nd place in the Scottish Gymnastics Primary Schools Finals in Perth last weekend, where they competed against schools from all over Scotland! Well done also to Anna Keogh who took the award for 2nd Place for her individual performance.
We are all so proud of you girls – well done to all of you!
Is your child interested in ballet? Auditions for Scottish Ballet are in Glasgow on the 23rd of April for children who will be in P6/7 in September 2018. No dance experience necessary and the audition is free. Every child who applies will be offered an audition. Please click below for application details…
A huge thank you to Broxburn Academy pupils who came to run a lunchtime debating group with some of our P7 and P6 pupils today. The children enjoyed the opportunity to work with S5’s from Broxburn and are looking forward to seeing you again next week.
A huge well done and congratulations to St Nicholas Primary School girls who took part in the West Lothian Schools Gymnastics Competition last week at Craigswood Sports Centre, Livingston. Our Level 3 team came first across the whole of West Lothian and were awarded best individuals too. All our girls were a credit to themselves, their parents and St Nicholas Primary School. We are all very proud of your achievements!
Check out the after school sport clubs available in our local community!
A great time was had by all today, and the sun shone to make it perfect! Thank you to all our children for being such great sports, their families who came to spectate (and take part in the races), staff for their hard work and to our PE teacher, Mrs Smith, for putting such a big effort in to a very well organised, fun day for the whole community.
A huge well done to Ollie in P6 who came first place in a street dance competition at the weekend. Ollie spoke to the whole school today at assembly as he shared the secret of his success – practising every night! At St Nicholas we know that the key to mastering anything is to practise and persevere and keep that positive growth mindset at all times. Well done Ollie – everyone is very proud of you. A great achiev
ement!
See the latest press coverage of Archbishop Leo Cushley’s recent visit to P4. The article appeared in the Catholic Observer 17.3.17
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Primary 6a worked really hard to produce their “Stickman” puppet show to perform to the younger classes during book week. Every child had a part to play in this show whether it was narration, puppet mastery, lights or ICT. Primaries 1, 2 and 3 thoroughly enjoyed the show. Excellent work Primary 6, a great example of creative, independent work!
Primary 6b will be completing and performing their performance very soon. We are very excited to see it!
Hello, the JRSO’s have been on a traffic survey around Broxburn and we tally marked every Car, Lorrie, Bus, Van, Motorcycle, Bicycle, Emergency Vehicle, Farm Vehicles and Other .We calculated the traffic. We would also thank everyone for not parking on the yellow zig zag lines. Here the traffic results. We are going to be studying these and finding ways of minimising traffic around our school.
Primary 6 has had a lot of fun this week!
On Thursday we watched a live interview with author and illustrator Chris Riddell who gave us some advice on how to doodle with confidence.
In Maths we have been learning about angles and we have also reinforced number concepts by using concrete and visual materials a lot. We have challenged ourselves by doing some tricky problem solving in Maths too!
In Language we revised when to use paragraphs- and also understanding the main idea of each paragraph.
In Spanish we learned about the objects of the classroom (lapiz, mesa, lista…) and classroom instructions (Mira, escucha, formad una fila…).
Finally, a special mention for Piotr and Grace, who have been Language Ambassadors for the school this week. You did a great job teaching the colours to all the pupils of St Nicks. Well done!
The Pope Francis Faith Group were busy this week grilling Daniel. This was all part of their learning on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The gift of “Knowledge” was their focus for this question and answer session where they had to work together to come up with questions for Daniel as someone who is undertaking priesthood training.
Please hand your Junior Road Safety Competition entry by tomorrow morning at the very latest!!!! Ben, Ollie, Hana, Grace
Primaries 2 and 6 enjoyed their paired literacy work today. We have missed our buddies after the long holiday!
P6 are looking forward to preparing more challenging work for their buddies this term and P2 are looking forward to completing their tasks and reading confidently!
This week in Maths we have continued with our fractions topic (expanding and simplifying) and in Language we have done work on antonyms and synonyms.
We have been doing lots of “Christmassy” activities too. For example, we have done some Christmas Art, practised for our school Christmas concert and learned about Christmas and New Year in Spain.
On Friday we had an Assembly to celebrate the achievements of the children attending after school clubs (Zumba and Football). WELL DONE! Also well done to our Junior Road Safety Officers for giving the children of St Nicks lots of tips on how to stay safe.
We finished our Friday by celebrating New year like people do in Spain. We had grapes with the 12 chimes and wished everyone a happy new year by saying “¡Feliz año nuevo!”
St Nicholas made a few splashes in the news last week, because of our Jubilee celebrations and the opening of our new extension –
Scottish Catholic Observer:
Daily Record:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/st-nicholas-primary-school-broxburn-9441935
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmsZgnK7oxk
St Nicholas Primary have been given a wonderful opportunity to host FAST sessions at our school. The programme was developed by Middlesex University and is funded by Save the Children.
The FAST programme runs after school for 8 weeks. The weekly sessions are 2.5 hours long where a series of structured family activities take place including; communication, listening, turn taking, community building, meal sharing and relationship building. These are key techniques to help build stronger families.
Our programme will run every Tuesday from 3.30pm until 6pm, starting on Tuesday 17th January 2017 and our final session will be on Tuesday 14th March.
On this occasion we are offering the programme to children who are in their pre-school year at Nursery or in Primary 1. We have places for 20 families to participate.
The video link above will give you a flavour of how the programme works. Our FAST team members are also delivering a short presentation at the Nativity performances this week.
An information leaflet and invitation will be sent home soon to the pre-schoolers and Primary 1 pupils. We hope you can join us in the New Year.
Some of our children sang beautifully at the turn on of the Broxburn Christmas lights on Saturday. Well done everyone!
On Friday the community took part in our 40th Jubilee Mass and following that, there was a reception with a chance to view old St Nicholas memorabilia. St Nicholas staff and friends of the school from the past mingled with the new, and a great time was had by all.
Many thanks to the parish of SS John Cantius and Nicholas for gifting the school with a beautiful new chalice to celebrate this important occasion.
We would like to say a huge CONGRATULATIONS to all the pupils of St.Nicholas! I am sure you will agree they were absolutely fantastic and put on an amazing concert.
Saoirse- “We were effective contributors because everyone joined in, sang out loud and were so happy to be performing for our community”.
Rosie- “We were successful learners because we worked so hard and we didn’t give up! We also learned so much about the 4 decades of our school!”
Fraser- “We were confident individuals because we were showing our talents and if we made a mistake, we continued to perform really well!”
Grace- “We were responsible citizens because we had the responsibility to learn different pieces of music really well, we had to help others, remember our parts and get ourselves organised!”
We would like to say a HUGE THANK YOU to every single person who helped to make our concert so successful.
Our highlights:
Congratulations to Milo McCallum in P3a for achieveing all of these medals in swimming! Lots of hard work and effort! Well done!
Hello, We are the Junior Road Safety Officers !!! (JRSO).
We protect St. Nicholas children from not getting hurt from any kind of vehicles. We also hold completions.
We went to a meeting at Broxburn Primary school.
We got taught how to plan for assemblies. After that we learned how to not have nerves on the day of the assembly and also got sneaky tips.
We got a JRSO Safety book, Badge and a goodie bag to go with the job. The goodie bag contains a torch, Bookmark, Pencil, Pen and reflectors for crossing the road So vehicles can see you.
We have a Notice board at the school main entrance. It will also contain Posters, completions and news. The winner of the completions will be displayed on the board.
(By Ben)
Hello we are here to say that we enjoyed ourselves at the JRSO(junior road safety officers) magic show and presentation.
We learnt the four special magic words which are STOP LOOK LISTEN and most special before you do anything THINK!
There was policemen all around some from Aberdeen,Broxburn and Linlithgow it was awesome!
Then the magic started a girl called Lois went up on the stage and there was a gray copy of stop look listen think and then she had to say the magic words then they turned colourful!
We will let you into a secret you only have to glue to big envelopes together and put a grey one in one and a colourful one in the other and secretly change the side.
Then Grace had to be a mind reader and choose one number out of 6 people and she got it right at the end all of them took there paper out of there envelope and the other 5 people had things that you should not do
and the one that I chose had the magic words on it!
At the end we got a goodie bag with all sorts of things in it and we also got a notebook as well .
(By Grace)
From , Ollie, Ben , Grace and Hana
Here are our ‘Star Pupils’ for this week. They look so proud and so they should!
Well done to our three ‘Dojo Champions’ for this week. Lots of points were awarded this week for good manners, super listening, team work and tidying up. Keep it up everyone !
A time of reflection yesterday as St Nicholas Primary School took part in Broxburn’s Remembrance Sunday Service.
Here are some of our thoughts…
We had been looking forward to the leap of faith and we did really well! – Maria-Victoria
I enjoyed the team challenge – Jazib
The murder mystery was very funny – Oscar
I liked climbing the leap of faith – Artur
I was excited and surprised when they brought me the birthday cake – Blake
I hate heights and faced my fears with the leap of faith – Cole
I did my very best at everything – Olivia
It is with great pleasure that we can now announce the grand total for our ‘Macmillan Coffee Morning. We raised a whopping £500 !! Thank you so much for digging deep and helping us raise such a super amount for a great charity. We enjoyed ourselves so much that we are thinking of planning another one. Watch this space !
Best wishes from,
The boys and girls in Primary 1
Both Primary 6 classes put in a HUGE effort today at their Cross Country Running Competition, run by the Active Schools Co-ordinators at Kirkhill Primary. Despite the wet weather, there were no complaints from our competitors as they battled mud, hills, rain and slippery slopes to come in third in the competition! Well done Primary 6 we are really proud of you! We have some photos of the event, but a technical difficulty means that we will need to upload them later.
Here we have Tavia and Kyle !
Tavia is proudly showing off her swimming certificate for moving up a level. Well done Tavia, I am very proud of you.
Here we have Kyle showing off his football medal. It was presented to him at a recent football festival. Well done Kyle, I am proud of you too !
Primary 3A and B had a busy weekend receiving medals.
Well done to Isla, Rebecca, Lilya and Melanie for taking part in a gymnastics competition at the weekend.
Well done to Callum, Luke and Warren for taking part in a football tournament at the weekend.
Also, congratulations to Monde-Jnr for going to London on Friday and receiving sponsorship from the High Commissioner to continue with his passion in motor sports.
Well done to all children! We are very proud of you.
Here we have Santiago and Grady ! Santiago is holding his orange belt that he was awarded in Tae Kwon Do. Well done ! Grady is proudly showing off his medal for being a fantastic boy at rugby. Well done ! I am very proud of both of you both.
Here is Kyle proudly showing off his trophy that he was given for having good football skills. Well done Kyle ! In future years you could maybe play in the World Cup !
Well done to Monde-Jnr for receiving this trophy for coming first in a go-karting competition on Sunday in South Wales.
Well done to Harris and Maisie for receiving medals for taking part in a triathlon on Sunday. Harris came in 13th place and Maisie came in 2nd place. Congratulations to you all! We are very proud of you!
Well done to Monde-Jnr for receiving this trophy for winning first place at a go-kart competition at Larkhall at the weekend. We are all very proud of you.
Here is Kyle proudly showing off his swiming certificate. He has moved up to level 6 , wow ! You must be a super swimmer Kyle. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations to Isla Keogh who came 3rd place at her highland dancing competition at the weekend!
Congratulations to Kirsten Morris on your athletics achievements!
Congratulations to Alea Badrane on being scout of the month!
A huge congratulations to Michael Beagley on signing with Hearts!
Hi everyone!
St Nicholas boys and girls have been having a great time at camp. We’ve been busy non-stop with abseiling, playing laser quest, problem solving, the 3G swing, building shelters, and sitting round the camp fire with hot chocolate at night. Our rooms are warm and cosy and we’re getting to know lots of children who’ll be with us in Broxburn Academy next year. Our last night is tonight and we’re having a disco and movie night tonight. Mrs McGuire is really proud of all of us: we’ve worked hard; taken part in all activities; and been an absolute credit to our parents and St Nicholas.
Photos will be uploaded when we get out of the wilds and back to civilisation.
See you all soon.
P7 Broxburn Academy Campers
Well done to Grace for receiving this trophy last night for coming 3rd in a Disco dancing competition.
Well done to Ruby for receiving this medal for running a 2k run during the Easter holidays.
We are very proud of you.
Primary 3A have been busy during the holidays.
– Well done to Rebecca for receiving this medal and certificate for Highland dancing before the Easter holidays.
– Well done to Maisie for receiving this medal for coming first in a skiing race in Italy during the Easter holidays.
– Well done to Harris for receiving this medal for competing in a duathlon during the Easter holidays.
– Well done to Monde-Jnr for receiving this trophy for coming first in a go-karting time trial.
We are all very proud of our class mates.
WOW! We are so lucky to have a school full of amazing, kind, helpful and talented children in our school! Today some of them took to the stage to showcase their talents at the annual Saint Nicholas Has Got Talent event!
The staff and pupils were blown away by wonderful singing, dancing, gymnastics and taekwondo! Everyone was laughing at the wonderful jokes!
To end the show there was a special surprise as some of the teachers took to the stage to perform! We had been practicing all week after school!
Hope you all had a good time! Enjoy the holidays everyone!
At the weekend Nia won two spectacular trophies for highland dancing. She was the National winner which is an amazing achievement. Well done Nia, we are all very proud of you! 
Well done to Grace and Rebecca for receiving these medals for gymnastics and cheer leading.
Well done to Callum in P3a for receiving his third Judo belt last night.
Well done to Robbie in Primary 3 for receiving this medal for swimming 10 lengths.
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Well done to Sophie from Primary 7a who won her swimming competition. Sophie had to swim 6 races and was the overall winner for her age group. She also won the special achievement award for her hard work.
Well done to Harris in Primary 3 for swimming 1,500 metres at his swimming club. He received a certificate and badge. Well done Harris!
Well done to Mode Jnr for taking part in a go-karting competition in London at the weekend. He came joint first. Congratulations!
Also well done to Ruby, Luke, Molly, Maisie and Grace for receiving medals for swimming at a gala at the weekend. Congratulations!
Here is Flynn from Primary 1a proudly showing his certificate. He has been moved up a grade and has a new belt. He is now yellow belt. Well done Flynn, we are proud of you.
Zach was really proud to show his friends this super Judo shield. He had to work really hard so that he could win it! Well done Zach, we are really impressed.
Well done to Harris for receiving this badge and certificate for swimming 1000 metres. Well done!
Well done to Grace and Rebecca for taking part in a Tapathon to try and beat the world record yesterday. Keep dancing!
Also well done to Monde-Jnr for receiving a trophy for coming 2nd in a Go karting competition with the West of Scotland Karting Club at the weekend.
Photos to follow, when Mrs Canning can sort the camera!
Here is Kyle from Priamry 1a proudly showing off his swimming certificate. He has been moved up to level 5. Well done Kyle, you must be a fantastic swimmer!
Here is Leon from Primary 1a showing off his super swimming certificate. Leon has worked hard and has now moved up to Level 4. Well done Leon ! You must be great at swimming !
Well done to Haroon for being P1a’s ‘Star Pupil of the Week’. Haroon has been awarded this for being kind and gentle. You are a star !
Haroon’s picture will follow after the holiday.
Today, we celebrated all of our successes of the last few weeks, both academically and wider. We were all awarded four different certificates: one for learning our sounds, one for learning all about numbers, one for super learning about dinosaurs and one for settling in well to school. We also brought in certificates from home. Some of us have moved up a level for swimming ! Some of us brought in certificates as we had raised money for charity, well done. We also saw a trophy for good ball skills, and certiciates for moving up a level in tae-kwon do. Well done everyone ! You have all worked very hard and we are all proud of you.
Happy holidays !
Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty.
Well done to Harris in Primary 3 for receiving this certificate and badge for swimming 600 metres. Keep swimming Harris!
Well done to Monde-Jnr in Primary 3 for receiving this trophy for taking part in a go kart competition at the weekend. Keep driving!
Well done to Harris in primary 3 for receiving a certificate and badge for swimming 400 metres at his swimming club. We are very proud of you. Keep swimming!
Well done to Callum in Primary 3a for receiving this medal for Judo at the weekend. Congratulations Callum! We are very proud of you.
Congratulations to Aoibhe Toner who moved up a belt in Tae-Kwon-Do, and well done to Zach Rova and Matthew Roxburgh for receiving a certificate and medal in Judo. They even got their photograph taken with two ladies who competed in the Commonwealth Games!
What super stars you all are!
Alex, Abbie and Grace brought in their medals to share their successes in recent dancing exams with the rest of Primary 5. Congratulations Girls
Sophie R in Primary 5A won “Performer of the Week” at her weekend drama class. Well done – a super achievement!
Well done to Beth for taking part in a gymnastics competition at the weekend. What a star!
Well done to Raqab for being P1a’s ‘Star Pupil of the Week’. I really did have to think for a while this week as all of the boys and girls are working hard, remembering their magic manners and trying really hard to listen to instructions. However , Raqab receives this week’s award for being a super team player. He is always helpful around the class and caught my eye this week as he helped a friend to tidy up. Well done Raqab !
Here is Zofia proudly showing off her swimming certificate. She has moved up a level ! Well done to you Zofia, you must be a super swimmer.
Well done to Monde-Jnr in Primary 3 for receiving two gold medals for taking part in a go-kart competition in South Yorkshire at the weekend. What a star!
Here is Santiago proudly showing off his swimming certificate. He has been moved up a new level. Well done Santiago we are proud of you !
Well done to Matthew for being a star at Judo and receiving this super trophy!
Well done to Callum in Primary 3 for receiving this certificate for getting 6 badges at Beavers.
Well done to Harris for receiving this certificate and badge for doing 200 metres at swimming.
Well done boys! We are proud of you.
Congratulations to Zach Rova in P2 who received this fabulous trophy for outstanding Judo! Well done Zach, we are very proud of you!
Here is Kyle proudly showing off his certificate and number from ‘Pedal Scotland’. Kyle , along with his mummy, daddy and big sister cycled all the way from Kirkliston to Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh yesterday ! What a super achievement !
Kyle did this for charity. We are all very impressed and proud of you for doing this. You have inspired Mrs Macdonald and your friends in P1a to also do something nice for charity. Watch this space.
After months of hard work and planning we are delighted to let you know that Saint Nicholas Primary School won FIRST PRIZE at Broxburn Gala Day for our wonderful float and costumes!
It was amazing to see so many children and parents turn up in wonderful costumes to support our school and join in with our parade! Everyone looked FANTASTIC! It was a wonderful day!
The school was supported by many local businesses and community members to pull it all together and we would like to thank everyone that helped us along the way!
The theme for our float was chosen by children across the school, designs were submitted and children from the after school gala day club prepared costumes and props!
Make sure you take a look in our trophy cabinet next time you visit Saint Nicholas and have a look at our certificate and huge trophy! We hope you enjoy looking through our photographs!
Well done to Jack for being a page boy at the Gala Day last week. 
Well done to Jack in Primary 3 and his family for winning the 3rd best dressed house in Broxburn at the Gala Day on Saturday.
Here is Harry proudly showing off his green stripe for Tae-Kwondo. Well done Harry you must be super !
Well done to Cole for receiving these medals from Broxburn Athletic Colts for taking part in a recent tournament and also taking part in a Soccer 7s competition. Well done Cole!
Well done to Rebecca for receiving her first 3 Brownie badges yesterday. She got one of them for taking part in the three bridges challenge, the other is for girl guiding in Scotland and the last one was for taking part in tht Brownies. Well done Rebecca.
Eshaan in P2/1 had a great time running in a race and received this wonderful medal for taking part. Well done Eshaan!
Maisie in P2/1 was awarded with a super certificate for performing with the Helen O’Grady Drama Academy last weekend. She was one of the children in the famous story ‘The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe’
Maisie had lots of fun acting when she had to be cheeky to the old woman and the housekeeper.
Well done Maisie, we are all very proud of you! 
Well done to Maria-Victoria for winning a silver medal at the Scottish Gymnastics Championships in Aberdeen on Sunday. She came second overall in the under 9 category. Well done.
In the same weekend Maria-Victoria also passed her Level 7 in swimming and is now on Level 8. Well done Maria-Victoria. We are very proud of you.
Congratulations to all the children in Primary 4 who recently made their First Holy Communion.
Well done to Emily Cook in Primary 2a for completing her Brownie promise and becoming an official Brownie member!
On Monday 1st June, P4, P5/4 and P5 went to the Science Centre in Glasgow. When we arrived some of us went to the first floor, some of us went to the second floor and the rest of us went to the top floor. It was a great trip and we all enjoyed the activities, experiments and science theatre show! We got the chance to have a browse in the shop and buy souvenirs and had our lunch in the large atrium.
Isobel – I enjoyed the large scale hamster wheel on the third floor and it wasn’t as easy as it looked!
Nicole – I enjoyed when we got the chance to pump the blood to the heart and it increased the heart beat.
Niamh – I liked watching Francesco and Isla trying to eat the cream crackers quickly.
Ehlana – I learned that the body needs to let gas release or you could explode!
Adrian – I liked the challenge where I had to use the air gun to manouver the beach ball through the hoop.
Alea – When watching the show I learned that the amount of blood your heart beats every day can fill 125 bath tubs!
Alex – I liked looking at the real life tornado that re-formed itself.
Madison – I enjoyed holding onto the high bar and timed how long I could do this for.
Ben – The sprint challenge was great! I got a best time of 1:63.
Lukas – I liked when I had to spin the wheel, whilst standing on the platform and turn the wheel at the same time. Astronaut use this in space to control the shuttle.
We would defintiely recommend the trip to another class. It was a great day out, we learned lots and had fun! A special thanks to our wonderful parent helpers for keeping us safe.
On Saturday Elijah took part in the Junior Marathon in Edinburgh for a super cause. He raised £100 for the charity Macmillan Cancer. We are very proud of him for taking part and making such a huge contribution to the appeal. Well done Elijah!
Well done to the Primary 4 children who received the Sacrament of Confirmation recently. They received their certificates, that are signed by Archbishop Leo Cushley, on Friday at a special assembly.
It’s not just the children that have to learn at school – the teachers do too. Along with 23 other teachers from around Scotland, I spent the weekend with the Field Studies Council on the Island of Cumbrae, off the west coast of Scotland, finding out how to take more learning outside. The weather was extremely inter-changeable, but that didn’t stop us – even the seals came out to say hello. It was a very busy, but informative and fun few days where I have carried out activities relating to, amongst other things, changing landscapes, plankton, mammal trapping, worm hunting and Geo-squishing!!!!
I can’t wait to try some of these new ideas out 😉
Mrs Buchanan-Coutts
