On Tuesday of next week , our Primary 6 pupils will be taking part in the Whitburn Cluster Schools Basketball Festival at Stoneyburn Community Centre. We have 20 P6 children, which is the largest number we have representing us at an Active Schools Festival this school year, so we are hoping for good results. As always, we wil be proud of our children no matter the outcome.
Today is World Book Day and Stoneyburn Pupils are celebrating it with special assemblies provided by West Lothian Library Services. In addition, each child will receive a free £1 book token which they can take to a participating bookseller and exchange it for one of the special World Book Day Books (which all cost just £1 each) or put the token towards another book of their choice and pay the difference. We hope as many of the children as possible will be encouraged to exchange their tokens for books – what a boost to literacy that would be.
As intimated earlier in the year, Stoneyburn Primary School will be hosting an Open Afternoon on Thursday, 01 March where parents and friends can visit the school to see the work being done on our ‘Artists’ topic. Visitors will be able to see the results of 7 weeks’ work in vertical groups, as well as hear a presentation by children on our Pupil Voice Groups. Don’t know what that’s about? Then you need to be there. The fun begins at 1.30 p.m.
The annual transition of Stoneyburn Primary’s P7 pupils to Whitburn Academy begins on Thursday, 23 February, with a Transition Literacy Day. Our P7s will meet with the other children who will form S1 at the Academy in August, and take part in literacy activities related to the book ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ by Michael Morpurgo. We are sure that this will be a very positive first experience of ‘the Big School’.
There will be a SOC-IT Group meeting on Friday, 10 February @ 9.00 a.m. in the school dining area. Parents and carers of ALL children who attend Stoneyburn Primary School are automatically members of SOC-IT, and we are always looking for volunteers to donate their time and skills for the benefit of our children. Why not come along to the meeting and find out what you can do to enhance our school and community?
Monday February 7th is this year’s Safer Internet Day. Each year, CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) look to raise awareness of why it is important to use the internet safely.
In Stoneyburn, we are always looking for as many ways as possible to use the internet to enhance learning. We all love that education in the 21st century can be so wide reaching and that so much information can be found readily at our fingertips. The internet also provides us all with great opportunities to talk safely with other people all over the world at the click of a button. I certainly couldn’t have anticipated that schools would be like this as a pupil all those years ago!
With all of these rights it is important to remember we all have a responsibility to use the internet wisely AND safely. Pupils – don’t put yourself in danger online. Parents – get to know what your children are doing online and be vigilant. Social networking is, undoubtedly, a hugely successful and useful medium – but should children be accessing it? The golden rule from CEOP – and Stoneyburn PS – is safety first!
CEOP’s thinkyouknow site has games, videos and the best information on internet safety, lots of which we use in school. If you don’t know about it – get internet informed! Click on the link below for more information.
This week’s assemblies have an Internet flavour and we have set the children a challenge to find out what parent’s memories of computers as a child were. Please share these for Friday’s assembly!
Primary 7 have been composing new Scottish National Anthems as part of their music lessons with Mrs. Agini. You can listen to the results by clicking the links below.
On Tuesday of this week, our Primary 5 pupils will be able to demonstrate their hockey skills as they take part in the Whitburn Cluster Schools Hockey Festival to be held at Stoneyburn Community Centre. The children have experienced hockey taster sessions as well as being involved in hockey lessons during their PE times. Here’s hoping the training allows them all to enjoy playing the game on Tuesday.
The Soc-It Group are looking for sponsors for the Race Night to be held on March 17th at The Ewington Hotel. Donations of wine/spirits would be greatly appreciated. Any donations can be handed into the school office or to any member of the Soc-It before 9th March. Also, if anyone would like to buy a horse/jockey or sell a Race Sheet please contact the school office, who will pass on your details. Thank you for your continued support.
Sadly, our’ Treasure Hunt Through Scots Songs’ event has had to be postponed due to illness of the workshop leader, Ewan McVicar. The event will now run at a later date. Mr. McVicar sends his apologies for any inconvenience his illness has caused.
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