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Nepal update

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Well it’s been a very busy few days at Chandeswari School. I have been working together with the teachers to build a peer programme with nearby Kavre Deaf School. I have also been working with the pupils on different types of activities around hearing impaired individuals.  My style of teaching is quite different from the Nepali way.

 

The pupils have been helping we with some of the challenges set by Letham pupils and I have lots of video evidence to show when I get back!

 

Today we took some of the students to Kavre Deaf School to begin their collaboration. We began the first session by playing some games together.

 

My lunchtimes have been quite right eventful. During a walk in the local town I stumbled across a wedding which I was subsequently invited to and ended up dancing with some of the ladies. The next the wedding was still continuing but this time with a band playing and the men dancing. Fascinating!

 

The pupils have been very thankful for the books and money we donated. I have some more surprises for them tomorrow.

 

Whole School Events

Partnership visit to Nepal

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Miss Rojboonthueng has been lucky enough to obtain further funding from the British Council to visit Chandeswari Secondary, our partner school in Nepal.  Following on from our previously successful visit and project on inclusion last year, we will be collaborating on a project centering around building peer support programmes between our schools and nearby schools for children with additional support needs.  Some Letham pupils have already begun a project working with some pupils from Beatlie nursery.  Our Chandeswari pupils will work to build relations with a nearby school for hearing impaired children.  Through the visit, we are planning to focus on developing the British Council core skills of citizenship, creativity and imagination and communication and collaboration.

Miss Rojboonthueng sets off next Thursday and pupils from Letham have also been setting her lots of challenges related to their interdisciplinary learning.  Primary 4 want Miss Rojboonthueng to find out about animals in Nepal to compare with their current topic on Scottish Wild animals, Primary 5 are learning about Natural Disasters and have asked her to find out how the children prepare for earthquakes and Primary 7, well that’s a surprise ….

Luckily Miss Rojboonthueng has been able to get an extra luggage allowance as she will be taking lots of books, kindly donated by the Letham pupils for Chandeswari school library.  It is a very exciting visit and Miss Rojboonthueng will be keeping us updated whilst in Nepal.

 

 

 

 

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Books for our partner school in Nepal

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At Letham, we have been developing our reading in lots of ways such as enjoying snack and read, taking part in an extreme reading photo event and participating in the First Minister’s reading challenge.  We wanted to support our school in Nepal to further develop their reading too and were recently able to send some books to them.

The books have finally arrived and the  pupils have loved looking through the new books.   We are looking forward to finding ways to develop our reading skills together.

Primary 3

Primary 3 Prom

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Primary 3 were treated to an amazing Prom last Friday night.  We were grateful for receiving so many donations to support our event.  We had an amazing photo booth, candy cart, mocktail counter, magician, caricaturist,  fireworks, disco plus much more!  With a theme of rainbows and glitter, the evening was a colourful and sparkly success.  The children had a fantastic time and the highlight of the evening was when we crowned our prom King and Queen – Dominik and Jasmin.   Lots of great memories made!  #KeepJasminSmiling                                         

Leadership Groups, Whole School Events

A busy week in Primary 4

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Primary 4 have had a really busy week.  We have managed to raise and amazing £96.40 from the Harvest Assembly.  We decided to donate the money to the charity Water Aid who aim to help all of the people in the World get clean water.  We also  got lots of donations of food which we donated to the West Lothian food bank.  Thank you to everyone for being so kind.

 

We have also been lucky enough to win lots of free books for our classroom thanks to our teacher Mrs Burns completing a survey relating to the First Minister’s reading challenge.  Well done Mrs Burns, we are lucky to have such a great teacher!

 

by Isla and Amelia (P4 Leadership Blog members)

 

 

Primary 6, Primary 7, Whole School Events

Play Maker Award

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Mrs Gray and a group of  enterprising Primary 7’s  (Emma, Jessica, Jemma, Alex, Cameron, Aaron and Corey)  are working together to achieve the Play Maker Award.  Along with support from last years successful Play Makers, Shola and Cayden (P6), the group provides a great introduction to leadership; giving learners knowledge of how to organise small games and activities that can be used during curricular and extra-curricular times, lunchtimes, breaks, as well as in sports clubs outside school hours.  The Play Maker Award aims to help learners develop leadership skills such as organisation, communication and teamwork, as well as helping to build confidence and self-esteem as they take on the responsibility of assisting in leading their peers and younger children.  Mrs Gray is looking forward to working with the team and getting them involved in her very successful football after school clubs.

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Primary 7

Update from Primary 7

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The Letham news

The top story today (Friday, 17th March) is that the Primary sevens at Letham Primary are going on a trip to Inveralmond High School and getting shown around and doing workshops in Home Economics and Science and more. The Primary Sevens are so excited to go today and it will be fun! The maths teacher called Miss Mill came to our school and took us in groups and she taught us how to guess numbers using 5 sheets of paper and the trick is to add the first numbers up. She will be coming again soon to take another group out to do another murder mystery and do some more tricks.  Thank you for reading, you are now up to date with what has happened in Primary 7 this week.  Gregor Dainter (P7)

 

Leadership Groups

Leadership Groups Week 3

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This week the International / blog group have been hearing all about the trip to Nepal and how a lot of children in Nepal do not go to school.  They have been investigating the reasons why children around the world do not go to school and are busy producing posters and blog reports.  Everyone was surprised to find out that some children have to get married when they are still children and this stops them from going to school.

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