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Primary 6

PFFA – The gift of Wisdom

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Today Mrs Fitzpatrick answered our questions on the gift of wisdom. We invited her into our class as this was one of our tasks for the Pope Francis Faith Awards. She told us about the many subjects and experiences that had helped to make her wise.

Mrs Fitzpatrick told us that her dad made her wise as he taught her great things and gave her advice. She enjoys reading autobiographies and she found the book about Alex Ferguson to be inspirational.

We enjoyed having Mrs Fitzpatrick in to talk to us today and she gave us good advice for our lives. We have written a report on the advice that she shared with us.

Jack and  Hubert

Primary 6

Special Surprise for P6 Letter Writers!

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Last month Primary 6 sent letters to inspirational Scottish people. Our aim was to get a reply from them and for them to answer our questions and send us their favourite Scottish recipe for our class cookbook. Today we received our first reply!

Michael and Nicole wrote to Hibs and Celtic player (and Saint Nicholas pupil!) Liam Henderson, and lucky for us when he read their wonderful letters he decided to pop in and answer their questions in person! It was very very exciting and a great surprise! Everyone got a chance to ask questions and we learned a lot about what life is like as a football player! A huge ‘Thank You’ to Liam for taking the time to visit our children! Nicole and Michael were over the moon!

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Classes, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7, School News, Wider Achievement

TALENT SHOW 2016

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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!

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Classes, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7

DANCEMARATHON!

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Here are some photos from our Dance Marathon yesterday!

We all had a wonderful time and hopefully raised lots of money for our Lenten Appeal!

5, 2 or 1 hour of non stop dancing can be pretty challenging! Well done everyone!

A special THANK YOU to the dance leaders from St Margarets Academy for running a session with us, and the girls from JHM who taught everyone an amazing dance!

Highlights were definitely the class dance off, lip sync battle and best dancer competition!

Remember to bring in your sponsor money by FRIDAY!

Primary 6, School News

Gold, Silver and Bronze for Saint Nicholas in Broxburn Cross Country

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On Wednesday the children of primary six took part in a cross country race against Holy Family PS, Uphall PS, Broxburn PS and Kirkhill PS.

We raced around the back of Kirkhill, the track was about 1 kilometre long. First all the girls raced and we were so pleased to see them all trying their hardest and keeping on going! The first girl from our school to cross the finish line was Madison Clarkson, she just missed out on a medal position but finished in the top 10 of around 100 girls in total!  Well done Madison and all the girls who did us proud!

In the boys race Saint Nicholas had a ‘clean sweep’ of the medals winning Gold, Silver and Bronze!!! First to cross the line out of all 100 boys AND taking the gold medal was our very own Logan Beagley, he was closely followed by his brother Michael Beagley in 2nd place and Eoin Sword in 3rd!

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We are extremely proud of all the children who took part and represented our school in our local community!

 

School News, Wider Achievement

Hip Hip Hooray for the Gala Day! St Nicholas take 1st Prize!!!

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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!

Primary 3, School News

Fun in the sun for primary 3’s school trip!

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P3 had an amazing day last week when we went on our school trip!  As we have been learning about different cultures and food from around the world, as well as keeping our bodies healthy, we visited some local restaurants to sample some different foods and learn about how to make our own meals! We had great fun and would like to thank the Harvester Grill and Pizza Express at Livingston Centre for letting us visit! I’m sure we’ll all be back soon!

When our visits were over we got back on the bus and traveled to our local park Stewartfield where we enjoyed a picnic in the glorious sunshine! We played rounders and races and then enjoyed an afternoon walk back to school!

We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to Nia’s mum, Ruby’s mum, Hollie C’s mum, Owen’s mum, Esme’s dad and Kieron’s granny for joining us on our trip! We hope you had as much fun as all of us!

Primary 6, Primary 7, School News, Wider Achievement

Broxburn Football Tournament!

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Well done to all the boys playing in the Broxburn Schools Football Tournament at the Albyn last Friday.

The Yellow, White and Green teams all had a great time and came back with some fantastic results!

A huge thank you to Mr Gorman and Mr Devlin for their continued support with the football teams!

Look out for pictures of our brand new strips- coming soon!

Justice and Peace, School News

Frozen Filmclub

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Unfortunate events meant we had to postpone the scheduled Community Film Night showing of Sing-a-long Frozen.  However, we are now very pleased to announce that the event has been rescheduled and will now be held on Wednesday 4th February.

All those who paid for tickets previously should now have been given them.  If you find that you have not received them, please let the school know so we can check the list of names.

The doors will open at 5:30pm with the film beginning at 6:15pm.  If an adult is not at the film night with their child, they must be collected no later than 8pm.

So get your singing voices tuned up and we’ll see you there.

 

School News

An evening with Olaf!

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The Filmclub are organising another community film night, this time to celebrate our school Saint’s feast day.  The film on offer is Frozen with a wee snowflake to keep up all right with the words to all the songs!

Tickets cost £3.50 each and include an ice cream, a bottle of melted ice (flavoured water) and a themed sweet.  You could also win a Frozen hamper or a batch of delicious cupcakes in our raffle, which will be running in the lead up to the evening at a cost of £1.00 each.

Tickets for both the film night and the raffle go on sale at break-time on Tuesday and will be available every break-time until next Monday (or until they are sold out).We would love to see as many of you there, with your parents as possible.  Come dressed up and bring a cushion and blanket to snuggle up with.

Primary 6, Primary 7, School News

Fantastic Football: Final Farewell!

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Well done to all the primary 6’s and 7’s who played in the final Broxburn Schools Football Tournament on Friday after competing in many games, tournaments and festivals this year, they, as always, made us extremely proud and did very well. For the last set of fixtures we played in a mixed team from both p6 and 7, everyone recieved plaques for participating in the tournaments.

A huge well done and thank you to the wonderful Primary 7 pupils who played their last game for us and will move on to high school after the summer. They always represented the St Nicholas Primary School wonderfully, showing excellent sportsmanship and teamwork, talent and skill.

Primary 7 Team 2013/2014

Dominik, Luke, Jack, Chris, Gary, Mark, Byran, Liam, Aiza, Sean


Primary 6, School News

Flagtastic!!

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On Sunday the 15th of June a really exciting event is happening in Broxburn, the Queen’s Baton Relay will be passing through. In order to make the town look really festive Primary 6 have been busy making a staggering 125 Commonwealth flags to be displayed throughout the local community.  Some of the flags were really hard to draw and it took loads of time to get them just right, however we all enjoyed the challenge and are looking forward to seeing to finding them in the local community.

After we had finished all our hard work we took some pictures to show off just how many flags we had made. Below are some pictures of our work.

Primary 7, School News, Wider Achievement

Football Festival!

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Today the primary 7 football team were invited to take part in a football festival at Howden St Andrew’s Primary School! We played 4 games against teams from St Pauls, St Andrews, Holy Family and Livingston Village. We are very pleased to announce that we won every game!

This was a great opportunity to meet with other primary 7s from different schools, thank you to Howden St Andrew’s Primary School for organising the event!

A huge thank you to Mrs Bell and Mrs Thompson for driving us there and cheering us on from Miss King and the team!

Primary 5, Primary 6, School News, Wider Achievement

St Nicholas Swimming Champions!

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Super Star Swimmer Hannah Spence!

A huge well done to our amazing talented swimmers here at St Nicholas Primary School! Many of them competed in the Broxburn Swimming Club Gala last week.

We are delighted to tell you that the pupils from St. Nicholas not only had a great time and tried their very best, but three of them came away with medals winning bronze, silver and GOLD!

Louis Mattheson came in 3rd, with Rachel Kendall just in front taking 2nd place and Hannah Spence the fastest of the lot winning 1st prize- A HUGE TROPHY! What a wonderful achievement!

Congratulations and a huge well done to all the boys and girls who took part in this event! We are so lucky to have such hard working and talented pupils in our school, and everyone at St Nicholas is extremely proud! Keep up the hard work!

Some Upper Area Swimmers!

Primary 5, School News

Presents that Protect the Planet!

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Last week LUSH  from Livingston Centre visited the St Nicholas to talk to primary 5 about how they source ingredients for their products fairly and in a way that protects the environment. It was very interesting and we all learned a lot about fair trade and about rare ingredients from all over the world!

We were particularly concerned about the use of palm oil in products after our presentation from Joss, Hannah S and Georgia. Luckily LUSH never use palm oil in any of their products.

After their presentation LUSH set up a stall for everyone to buy gifts for their Mum’s for Mother’s Day on Sunday! There were hand creams, bath bombs, bath  jellies and soap bars on offer, the upper area smelled wonderful all day.

There was lots of discussion and mental maths in action as boys and girls from across the school helped each other work out how much they could buy with the money they had and how much change they would receive.

Primary 5, Primary 6, School News

Ryder Cup Coming Up!

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2014 will be a fantastic year for sport in Scotland with the Commonwealth Games coming to Glasgow and the Ryder Cup coming to Gleneagles!

Throughout the year we are looking forward to many opportunities to try out  different sports and activities at school.

This week golf coach Macrina Crawford visited the school and ran fantastic taster sessions with Primary 5a, Primary 5b and Primary 6b. We were learning all about different types of clubs (putter, driver etc) and when is best to use them. We were playing group games that involved different golf shots and Macrina was very impressed with the promising talent from St Nicholas! Next week Macrina will be visiting primary 6a, 7a and 7b, look out for the photographs!

If you are interested in learning more skills Macrina will be running a 7 week Clubgolf programme for children aged 6-12 at Binny Golf Club, for more information parents can contact macrinacrawfordgtf@hotmail.com

Primary 6, Primary 7, School News, Wider Achievement

Meet St Nicholas Football Team!

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Meet the Primary 7’s from the St. Nicholas Football Team!

So far the team, along with Lewis and James from primary 6, have competed in 2 tournaments at the Albyn Park organised by the Broxburn United Sports Club. We have been playing against Broxburn Primary, Uphall Primary, Kirkhill Primary and Pumperston and Uphall Station Primary.

Our first tournament was on 29th November and we won every game.

Our second tournament was on 21st February and we won 5 of the games we played and lost 1.

On Friday 4th April we will be playing again at Albyn Park at 1.3opm. All are welcome to come and watch! We would love to see some supporters cheering on the school team!

HUGE THANK YOU!

A huge thank you from everyone at St Nicholas to Neil Gorman at Piggy Print for providing us with the fantastic football strips for the team and being our sponsor!

PRIMARY 6 TEAM

We are hoping to recruit a second team to play in tournaments from children in Primary 6! If you are interested in joining the Primary 6 football team please see Miss King or Mr Valentine as soon as possible!

School News

Lenten Appeal

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Yes, it is that time of year again and we have various fun activities planned for our children to raise lots of money for our Lenten Appeal.

Tomorrow is of course Ash Wednesday and we will be celebrating Mass at 11am in school. Primary 3 and 3/2 are leading the Mass.

We will kick off our Lenten Appeal with the Silver Snail Trail. Children are encouraged to build a large snail on the floor made of silver coins – Let’s see if we can make the biggest snail ever this year!!

Please see the timetable for activities – click the link below..

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Nursery

Nursery Welly Walk

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Last Wednesday 5th February saw both morning and afternoon sessions go on their sponsored Welly Walk. Luckily the weather was very kind though there were still lots of puddles for us to jump in! It was also a great opportunity to observe lots of interesting things in our local environment and the most brilliant piece of news is that so far we have raised £660. What a remarkable achievement. A huge thank you to our parents, grandparents and all those who helped either by coming along on our walk or by donating money. Our next job is to decide how to spend it! If you have any suggestions then please let us know. We will also be asking the children what new toys or games they would like to see in their nursery.