We were all very excited yesterday when the SSPCA visited our school to talk to us about and show us what they do to help out the animals across Scotland.

Lee, the Animal Welfare Officer, was very interesting and we all listened intently while she explained how she rescues and treats all different types of wild and domestic animals.

It was great to be able to handle and try on the specialist equipment Lee had brought with her. It was funny when Niamh tried on Lee’s high visibility jacket she wears at night time and near roads – it was slightly too big!

We learned that if we see people being cruel to animals we must tell an adult and someone will be there to help them. The SSPCA do a great job and we really enjoyed the visit. Thank you for our fancy pencils, we really like them 🙂 .

Healthy Families, Healthy Children 2015

P3 Tesco Trip

April 30, 2015 Mrs Murray Leave a comment

P3 had a fantastic day at Tesco Bathgate. We were learning more about the journey our food makes before it lands on our plate! We had already completed a lot of work in class about this topic and the guides, Paul and Tracy were very impressed with the children’s knowledge, but this was a super opportunity to enhance our learning with really practical activities. The rainbow activity showed all the colours of fruit and vegetables and the children got the chance to try some that they had never tasted before. Mango, coconut and avocado were new to some and most children enjoyed them, although Paul was ready with his bag just incase!

We then explored the seafood we eat and learned some interesting facts. Did you know that pearls come from oysters and prawns have ten legs? Moving to the delicious smells of the bakery, we watched the machines working hard to make bread rolls and some of the children linked our recent maths topic of measure to the work of the bakers. You will see in the photos that we then got to take on the role of the baker and made our own bread rolls, topping them with tiger paste, poppy seeds, sesame seeds or cheese. This was a really exciting activity, particularly when Tesco dropped off our rolls to school in the afternoon, still warm from the oven. We visited the warehouse, fridge and also made a brief visit in to the freezer that was -23 degrees!

Our final tasting activity was cheese. This wasn’t as popular as the fruit and vegetable tasting, especially when some tried the stilton! The whole morning was very informative and extremely enjoyable. Well done P3!

Health & Wellbeing, Healthy Families, Healthy Children 2015, Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 3

In P4/3, Every Little Helps :-)

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P4/3 had a great trip to Tesco Bathgate this week to find out more about how food comes from farm to fork related to our previous topic of Healthy Families, Healthy Children. We ate many different fruit and vegetables, made our own bread, held different seafood, stood in the big freezer and even got to try some delicious cheeses- I think the favourite was blue cheese 🙂 Have a look at some of photos from the day! We loved it!

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West Lothian Council, Education Services, Admission Arrangements for Specialist Provision 2014

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West Lothian Council, Education Services, Admission Arrangements for Specialist Provision 2014

In accordance with the Schools (Consultation) (Scotland) Act 2010, West Lothian Council consulted (between 14 November 2014 and 16 January 2015) on the proposals outlined below:

SUMMARY OF PROPOSALS – ADMISSION ARRANGEMENTS FOR SPECIALIST PROVISION

The adoption of admission arrangements set out in the consultation document will ensure equity in the admission of children and young people to specialist provision and ensure high quality decision making regarding admission;

 The adoption of a single catchment area for all specialist provision will ensure equity within West Lothian for all children and young people with additional support needs. This will help the council discharge its duty to meet the needs of children and young people, to the benefit of children and young people with additional support needs, and their parents/carers; and

 The proposed admission arrangements and catchment area will apply to all specialist provision.

The consultation response report is available to download at the following weblink:

www.westlothian.gov.uk/admission-arrangements-report

The report will be available on the West Lothian Council website from Thursday 30 April 2015 for a period of 3 weeks.

Hard copies of the report are available from:

The foyer of the Civic Centre, Howden South Road, Livingston, EH54 6FF

and all West Lothian libraries.

At the end of the consultation period, a final decision will be taken on the proposals by West Lothian Council’s Education Executive on Tuesday 26 May 2015.

Community, Healthy Families, Healthy Children 2015, Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 1, Primary 2

P2/1 Visit to Pizza Express

April 29, 2015 User deactivated 1 Comment

P2/1 were very excited last week when we visited Pizza Express. We traveled by coach and arrived just after 9.15am on Thursday morning. We begun by washing our hands and putting on our aprons. We had to use our hands to carefully roll out the dough and make a nice circle. We kneaded the edges to make our pizza crust.

The chef helped serve the peseta which we spread over the dough by tapping the pizza tray. Then, we were able to add our toppings! We had lots to choose from including cheese, tomato, ham, pepperoni, chicken, onion and mushroom.

We had a drink of juice while we waited on our pizzas cooking. When they were ready, we ate them at our table.

Delicious! Yummy! Mmmm!

Now we know how to prepare and cook a pizza, look out Papa John!

Niamh said of the experience, ”I felt happy when we went to Pizza Express because we got to make our own pizzas”.

Emme also agreed that she really enjoyed the trip – especially the coach journey!