A massive thank you to all the people who supported our Sports for Champions Sponsored Event. We raised an amazing
£1431.18 !
60% of this goes back to the school and 40% goes to support Liam Davie in his bid to attend the next Commonwealth Games.
Blackridge has shown that it is extremely generous and supportive, but above all a proper community with great team spirit.
Thank you again!
Mrs Bell
Principal Teacher
Just a reminder that sponsor forms and money for our athlete challenge on Thursday 23rd June are due in by Wednesday 22nd June. The money will support school funds but also help fund a local athlete. Our allocated athlete is Liam Davie- who is a Commonwealth Champion and it would be brilliant for Blackridge to be part of his future as a world class athlete. Here is is a bit of background information about him-
Liam Davie is widely recognised for his achievement in the 2014
commonwealth games in Glasgow earning silver for Team Scotland!. Liam is
cemented in Scottish history as winning their first ever Commonwealth
Games team gymnastics medal.
Liam 21, from Cambroe Lanarkshire started gymnastics when he was 10
years old at his local club which his older sister also attended. He
enjoyed going along after school and didn’t take it too seriously at
first, meeting up with his friends there and attempting back flips!
He kept at it and he first realised that he had progressed from having
fun with his friends to professional level in 2009 when he came 3rd on
high bar under 16s category at the British championships.
He started to take gymnastics more seriously and after a lot of hard
work training 4 nights a week for 4 hours a day, Liam went from strength
to strength and soon had a string of titles under his belt!
PLEASE NOTE-If your child raises between £5 and £15 they will be presented with a photo card of the athlete. If they are able to raise between £16 to £34, they will be presented with a poster of the athlete. If they raise £35 or more, they will be presented with an autographed instant photo of themselves alongside their GB athlete in a keepsake wallet.
We understand that not all families are able to raise money and therefore stickers are awarded to every child so that no one is left out.
An engraved trophy will be presented to the class that raises the most , so that everybody can work together as a team to win the trophy!
Thank you for your anticipated support in this event.
Very well done to our pupils of the week ! We have two week’s worth of successful learners and effective contributors who have caught their teacher’s eye!
Primary 1 were learning how to measure using cubes, their feet and rulers!
The whole school participated in a brilliant Burn’s Assembly on 22nd January, to celebrate the work of Rabbie Burns and all things Scottish.
We are especially thankful to our piper who entertained us with some rousing Scottish tunes!
As mentioned in the recent newsletter, next week is Walk to School Week and on Friday 2nd October we will be ‘Walking our wigs off’. The whole school will take a short walk through the community at 9:30am in aid of Team Jak and the GOLD 16 campaign so please encourage your child to wear a wig and bring in £1 to support this very worthy charity. The Nursery will be walking Thursday afternoon at 1:30pm and Friday morning at 9:30am. All children should also come to school with sensible shoes and jacket in case of inclement weather. Please feel free to come out and watch the pupils walking their wigs off!
Thank you so much to our volunteers who gave up their time today to give the Nursery Garden a well deserved face lift!
Thank you to all the parents/carers who came along to our first Fairtrade Coffee Afternoon on Tuesday 3rd March. Sharon from ASDA Armadale kindly came along and supported our event by providing Fairtrade tea, coffee and biscuits. Donations totalled £13.30. Look out for us in next week’s West Lothian Courier!
Just a wee reminder that on Tuesday 3rd March we will be holding a Fairtrade Coffee Afternoon for all parents/carers. This will be supported by ASDA Armadale who have kindly agreed to supply us with Fairtrade tea, coffee and biscuits. Pupils from the Rainbow Room will be assisting on the day.
Please come along any time between 2pm and 3pm to sample the goodies and find out a little bit more about our journey towards becoming a Fairtrade school. There will be a donation box which we will put towards the Fairtrade Foundation.
