Please see booklets for suggested activities to be completed at home in the event that the school is closed due to extreme winter weather.

P1 and P2 Winter Ready Pack

.P3 and P4 Wintewr Ready pack

P5, P6 and P7 Winter Ready pack

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Reading for Enjoyment event for Parents’/carers’ and children in Nursery, Primary1, Primary 1/2 , Primary 2 and Primary 3

You are invited to ‘Read Your Way Through the Day’ at Blackridge Primary School with your child on

Thursday the 30^th of November:

8.00am-9.30am

10.30am-11.30am

12.20pm-1.30pm

2.30pm-4.30pm

Work your way round the hall experiencing –

1. Start the day with breakfast! Read and follow some instructions to make your own breakfast then sit and read the morning newspaper, comics, magazines and take part in some reading for information activities.
2. Then move to ‘school’ where you can play with your child and wait for the ‘drop everything and read bell’ when you can share a story with your child for fun!
3. There is more to go at our ‘home’ role play area.  Use digital technology to see how IT can support reading at home.
4. At last it’s bed time.  Our Big Bedtime read initiative will launched in Nursey this term but all are invited to have a cup of hot chocolate, supper, brush teeth and enjoy a quiet story before bed!

At the end of this event P1-P3 will be able to collect your free Bookbug bags from the Scottish Book Trust and Nursery children will be able to borrow a Big Bedtime Read lending bag

We launched our I Bike Programme on Tuesday 31st of October with Our I Bike Officer Katie Robins from Sustrans with a ‘Spooky Breakfast’.

All children and parents/carers were encouraged to walk, bike or scooter to school and then joined us in the hall for breakfast.  The winner of the best spooky bike or scooter will be announced shorty however thank you to all of you who took part.

We are looking forward to taking part in more activities through this programme led by our pupil ‘Bike Crew’.