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’.

Primary 6 visited Blawhorn Moss with Beechbrae and Scottish National Heritage to find out about the plants that live there. This is what they had to say:

We arrived at Blawhorn Moss on Tuesday 24^th October.  Sammy, David and Amy took us up there.  When we arrived Sammy went through the rules and then we walked through the puddles to the bog!  A Labrador even tried to eat us!  (Miss Reid says this isn’t quite true!)  We got clipboards and some sheets and we had to identify as many plants as we could.  We did a bounce test on the solid ground and then on the peat bog to compare.  When we were doing it on the peat bog it was vibrating like jelly because it soaks up so much water.  When we were on the bog we were talking about what different plants were used for.  The plants were heather, sphagnum moss, star moss, sundew and cranberry.  We learned that the plants can only grow on the moss because they have adapted to the environment to get all the nutrients they need.  The sphagnum moss helps the other plants because it soaks up all the water and gives them the amount of water they need and soaks up the rest.  We had to try to identify the plants we had seen to see if we remembered them.  Soon after when we went on the bog David got a handful of sphagnum moss and showed us how much water was in it.  We measured how far down the peat goes and it was 3 metres.  That means the bog had been there for 3000 years!  We saw that there used to be a farm and we saw a ruined house.  David told us that there was a part of the ground where it went up and down and that was where the farm was.  The furrows were where the farmer watered and the ridges were where they planted the crops.  We did a game at the end called Bats and Moths, we were blindfolded and tried to catch the moth using echolocation.

We loved our day at Blawhorn Moss. Thanks David, Amy and Sammy!

Since we came back we have been learning about how plants stay alive in the rainforest and how they have adapted to their habitat. We have been linking our learning to plants on Blawhorn Moss!

We’ll be back next week so look out for a further update and some photos!

Please follow this link for the newsletter:

October/November Newsletter Blackridge PS

As you can see we are continuing with our ‘SWAY’ newsletter this month!

Go to this Sway

Today Primary 6 enjoyed a history re-enactment workshop about life as a Jacobite.  Costumes Interpreter Hugh reminded us about the Jacobite campaign and then showed us some objects from the 18^th century.  We certainly had some interesting ideas working out what they were!  Then we dressed each other up in a féileadh-mór – a great kilt, which was a lot harder to put on that you might think!

Thank you to everyone who supported the school by walking with the school in Blackridge Gala Day.  The super heroes were super and the villains were mean (especially those with the super soakers)!

Also, a very big thank you to those who have helped to decorate both of the floats – a job very well done.