Category Archives: Primary 7

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 7

This (short but busy) Week in P7

What a whirlwind few days it has been. Miss Lenathen has been squeezing in lessons in between all the other activities, including practising for our assembly today. Thank you to the parents who attended and for their positive comments and feedback.

The highlight of the week had to be our visit to The Risk Factory. The class have been continuing to reflect on the scenarios they encountered and on what they would do better/more safely next time. It is a great learning experience for P7 pupils as they begin to be more independent and venture further afield. Thankfully, at The Risk Factory, they are allowed to make risky decisions in a safe environment – was your child one of those who went onto the railway line to get a £20 note, or did they run back into a burning building?

Just a reminder for pupils that the latest Sumdog National Competition started today, and that all pupils have been entered. It is easy to log on and join in from home. As soon as they start answering questions it will count towards our school total.

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 7, Sporting Activities

Fantastic Footballers!

Congratulations to Toby, Liam, Sonny and David who had their places at the Inveralmond Academy of Football confirmed today.

The boys were selected after 2 rounds of football trials and an informal interview. The course is not just about improving football skills, it is about developing the whole footballer so sportsmanship and friendship are key attributes. The boys also have to show that they can maintain high standards of work across all other subjects in order to remain on the course.

Really well done boys!

Class Posts, Early Learning and Childcare, General Information, Primary 1, Primary 2/1, Primary 3, Primary 3/2, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7, Sporting Activities

Moving On

Dear parent/carer

 

From June 4th, I will no longer be the PE teacher at Livingston Village Primary school. I have accepted the post as Principal Teacher of the Scottish Attainment Challenge schools in West Lothian. This promoted post was too good an opportunity to turn down and I am very excited for this new challenge. I will be working between St Thomas’ Primary School in Addiewell and Bridgend in Linlithgow.

 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your support over the years. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here and I will miss the children, staff and yourselves incredibly.  I have so many happy memories and I have no doubt that PE and school sport will continue to flourish in my absence.  I will be back at the end of term to celebrate all our fantastic sporting achievements this year at the Sports Committee Assembly.

 

My last day at LVPS will be on Tuesday the 29th May. I will also be ensuring that our application for an unprecedented 3rd sportscotland school sport gold award will be completed and if successful I hope to come back in November 2018 for the presentation.

 

I am also delighted to announce how much we raised at SportaFUNd. Abbie, our former pupil, raised £360.00 with the bake sale, the ELC raised £395.00 and the school raised a whopping £1724.20.  This demonstrates all the hard work, dedication and commitment from everybody connected to this fabulous school.

 

Thank you once again.

 

Kind regards

 

Mr Stewart.

Class Posts, Early Learning and Childcare, General Information, Primary 1, Primary 2/1, Primary 3, Primary 3/2, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7, Sporting Activities

SportaFUNd Thursday 19th April

Below is information which has already been circulated through letter, email, facebook and twitter about our upcoming SportaFUNd day. Any donation, no matter how small, will make a big difference.

 

SportaFUNd

Dear parent/carer

As you will be aware, the school’s SportaFUNd Day is on Thursday 19th April within the school. We are holding a Sponsored Mile long obstacle course, various stalls in the playground including face painting, beat the goalie and soak the teacher amongst others and a Bake Sale to support former pupil Abby Cowan on her trip to Rwanda to build a new school.

All monies raised within the bake sale goes to Abby’s trip. All monies raised by the nursery will go towards new nursery play equipment. All monies raised by P1-P7 and the money from the various stalls goes to the school for new playground equipment, new PE equipment and towards the cost of transport to various sporting events.

For all of this to happen we need your support please. We are looking for baking donations, volunteers to help at the various stalls and volunteers to support the obstacle course. All 15 members of the Sports Committee will be supporting the event too.

Below is a timetable for the day.

Assault Course                                                        Stalls

9:00am-9:15am                      P6                            9:15am – 9:30am                   P6

9:30am – 9:45am                   nursery (am)           9:45am – 10:00am                 nursery (am)

10:00am – 10:15am               P5                            10:15am – 10:30am               P5

11:00am -11:15am                 P1                            11:15am  – 11:30am               P1

11:30am -11:45am                 P2                            11:45am – 12 noon                 P2

1:15pm -1:30pm                     nursery (pm)           1:30pm – 1:45pm                   nursery (pm)

1:45pm – 2:00pm                   P4                            2:00pm – 2:15pm                   P4

2:15pm – 2:30pm                   P3                            2:30pm – 2:45pm                   P3

2:45pm – 3:00pm                   P7                            3:00pm – 3:15pm                   P7

If you can help out at all please attend a short meeting in the school gym hall on Monday 16th April straight after school with Mr Stewart and the Sports Committee. If you cannot make the meeting please give your name to Mrs Young at the school office and Mr Stewart will contact you before the event. Even if you can only help for a short while we would really appreciate it. If you cannot support you are welcome to come along and support your child at the appropriate time above.

Children are encouraged to wear sports kit from any clubs or teams they represent out with school. Football strips will be allowed on this day. Those children who represent any of the school teams will be allowed to wear a school strip. PE kit or a tracksuit are also allowed. The assault course is outside so please ensure your child has a change of clothing as they may get dirty.

On the day the bake sale will take place in the gym hall from 9am – 12.  All of the other stalls will take place in the school playground. Most of the stalls will cost between 50p and £1.

Can you please ensure your child’s sponsorship money is delivered to the school office as soon as possible.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mr Stewart, Ms Taylor and the Sports Committee

General Information, Primary 6, Primary 7

Make the Most of Your Snow Day

I hope you are not all too cold and are managing to have some fun in the snow.

When you are back inside, don’t rush to your X-box or whatever gadget too quickly – think about your poor show script sitting all curled up and forgotten at the bottom of your schoolbag.

Why not get it out and have a go at learning some more of your lines?

Show day is coming up fast and we need to be off script by this time next week.

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 1, Primary 2/1, Primary 3, Primary 3/2, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7, Sporting Activities

Sportshall Athletics East Regional Championships

On Wednesday, 20 members from our P7 class took part in the Sportshall Athletics East Regional Championships at the Jack Kane Centre in Edinburgh. This is where the top two schools from City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian and the Borders take part in activities which include: 4 x 100m, over/under relay, obstacle relay, 6 lap parlauff, 2 lap relay, 1 lap relay, javelin, speed bounce, long jump, vertical jump, triple jump and chest push.

Our team placed 8th overall. Kirknewton Primary finished 10th which means although we were not crowned Champions on the day, we are the top performing school out of 67 in West Lothian. Another fantastic achievement. On the day our children demonstrated resilience, perseverance, motivation and superb sportsmanship. We cheered on the winners and all the other competitors and enjoyed a really great event.

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 7, Sporting Activities

Livingston Netball League

R1
4 V 5
Meldrum
1
Toronto
1
R2
3 V 1
Parkhead
4
Livi A
8
R3
2 V 3
Livi B
8
Parkhead
4
R4
1 V 4
Livi A
4
Meldrum
12
R5
1 v 5
Livi A
8
Toronto
3
R6
2 v 4
Livi B
4
Meldrum
2
R7
4 v 3
Meldrum
2
Parkhead
5
R8
5 v 2
Toronto
0
Livi B
9
R9
1 v 2
Livi A
3
Livi B
12
R10
3 v 5
Parkhead
11
Toronto
0
 
3 pts win, 2 pts draw, 1 point loss
 
1st          Livi Village B 12pts
= 2nd     Livi A and Parkhead 8pts
4th         Meldrum 7pts
5th         Toronto 5pts
We took part in the second round of the Livingston Netball League yesterday at Parkhead Primary school. We had 15 members of the team so we decided to have two teams. The results above show the strength in depth we have at the school. This is testament to the hard work and dedication our players put in. Not only are they all great players but they are fantastic role models too who display sportsmanship at all times. Well done team. We are all very proud of you at LVPS.