All children are settled, happy and now getting ready for bed after a very busy first day.
Activities have been great, food fabulous and the weather could have been worse (though not much!)
No wifi so no photos tonight but hopefully tomorrow.
From P5 and P6 🙂
As part of Blackridge Primary School’s Eco Schools work we will be participating in the WWF Earth Hour on Friday 27 March at 11.00am when we will switch off all of our lights for one hour. Â We invite you to join us at home by switching off your lights for an hour on the official Earth Hour Day of Saturday 28 Ma
rch at 8.30pm.
After a lot of hard work and literally thousands upon thousands of questions…..
The children each won a years subscription to the full site.  Well done everyone 🙂
Special mention to Lily and Poppy who reached 4th place and 10th place respectively on the individual leader boards too!
The Nursery and p2 shared a very  special occasion in the nursery garden today. The solar eclipse was in the sky over Blackridge, and even though we were covered in cloud, in the breaks we were able to view the Eclipse perfectly.
In small groups of 3 or 4 the children were taken out to the garden and using the special viewers which were very kindly provided by Mr and Mrs Gregor (thanks Hamish!) Our Specially designed welders glass protected our children’s eye from the rays of the sun, and we were able to watch the moon moving over the sun (playing hide and seek).
Today we had a visit from Mrisho Mpoto a musician and poet from Tanzania. We did some (very loud and energetic) African chants and dances. I’m sure the children will be happy to share these with you at home! Here are a few pics that will show you a bit of what we did without giving anything away.
As part of World Book Day P5 made Vlog (video blogs) book reviews. We uploaded them to Espresso (a topical schools website) and we were delighted today when one of our pupils was featured in their news bulletin. Well done to all the children who took part, the standard was high! Especially well done to Hannah for her starring clip!
 Here’s a screen shot from the broadcast.
This week is West Lothian Sumdog Maths Competition. We are super keen and all set to do our very best and make it on the leaderboard! We managed a very respectable 15th last time but since then we have been polishing our skills and are very hopeful for a higher ranking. Watch this space!
Go for it P5!
Yesterday was our official planting day for our potato growing competition.
The morning nursery used the best of the weather to plant their ‘Athlete potatoes’ in their grow bag which they have affectionately named ‘Charlie bag’. The afternoon nursery had a little but of a chillier afternoon, but we still managed to get outside and plant our ‘Rocket potatoes’ in their bag which they have named ‘Rainy bag’.
We will care for our bags for the next two months in the hope that we will get lots of potatoes that we can eat for snack. Fingers crossed.
You can help us by saying the magic spell “Grow…Grow….GROW!!!!!”
Here is a video about how easy it is to plant your own potatoes at home.
To end our very successful Fairtrade Fortnight, Fiona and Taylor from LUSH Livingston came to our Assembly to tell us about their products. At the end we had the opportunity to buy some of them.  The ladies did a roaring trade! It all smelled wonderful and some lucky mums will be receiving them for Mother’s Day!
