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Police Scotland Survey

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In 2018, Police Scotland launched their first dedicated Facebook page for young people along with re-designing their digital platforms to ensure information is available when they need it.

At the heart of the design was the voice of young people from throughout Scotland and we used their views to provide information to promote better life choices and help keep them safe.

But did we get it right?

Police Scotland is once again calling on the young people of Scotland to review these resources to ensure we have the appropriate material and platforms.  This will guarantee we improve communication methods, ensuring our information is available and relevant to a modern society in the new and ever changing digital age.

You can access both platforms here:

Youth Hub online:    http://www.scotland.police.uk/youth-hub/

YouthHub Facebook :    https://www.facebook.com/policescotlandyouthhub

and a very short survey is available via Survey Monkey at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/NQYGN5G  to give your thoughts on them.  This is open to young people aged up to 19 years old as well as parents, professionals, etc to provide general comments based on their experience.  Share with friends, family, neighbours – pretty much anybody who will benefit from how Police communicate with young people and what information is available for them.

 

The survey is open until 31 MARCH 2019 and the feedback will help shape future changes.

Language Centre, Nursery, P7-6, Parents and carers, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 3-2, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 5-4, Primary 6, Primary 7, Uncategorized

Christmas dinner and Christmas jumpers

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Just a reminder to wear your Christmas jumper on Wednesday 5th December if you have one and also to remind you that it’s that time of year again for a Jingle Bells walk down the corridor, followed by a delicious Christmas dinner, lovingly prepared by our wonderful team in the kitchen!

Always a treat!  What did you order this year?

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Off to the Cinema

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We would like to thank Into Film and Vue Cinemas in Livingston for giving all our pupils from Primary 1 – Primary 7 the opportunity to attend a free screening of “Luis and the Aliens” on Thursday 15th November.  The film was great and our pupils were excellent ambassadors for our school.  I felt very proud walking through McArthur Glen with them on the way to the cinema, watching groups of people smile at our pupils and comment on how well behaved they were.

Thank you also to Vue Cinemas for giving every child a voucher to come and see another film.  Even if just one of our pupils has had the chance to experience something new, then the trip has been a success.

Last and by no means least… we’d like to say an enormous thank you from all our staff and pupils to the Parent Council for paying for the buses to take us to the cinema and to Mrs Strachan for organising.  That meant that the whole trip was free for every child in the school! You work so hard to raise funds for us with your discos, Christmas fairs and fundraisers and to support us in so many different ways.  It was lovely to see new parents come along to the Parent Council meeting on Wednesday night.  You really do make a difference and we appreciate your support more than you realise.

Language Centre, Nursery, P7-6, Parents and carers, Peer Mediation, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 3-2, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 5-4, Primary 6, Primary 7, Pupil Council, Rights Respecting School, Uncategorized, Vertical Groups
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Safer Internet Day 2019

Safer Internet Day 2019 will be celebrated globally on Tuesday 5th February with the slogan: ‘Together for a better Internet’.

Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre the celebration sees hundreds of organisations get involved and join a national conversation about using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively.

The day offers the opportunity to highlight positive uses of technology and to explore the role we all play in helping to create a better and safer online community. It calls upon young people, parents, carers, teachers, social workers, law enforcement, companies, policymakers, and wider, to join together and help to create a better internet.

Each year for Safer Internet Day the UK Safer Internet Centre creates a range of resources to help educational settings and wider to celebrate the day. This includes:

  • Lessons plans, assemblies and films tailor made for all ages
  • Resources to support social media involvement on Safer Internet Day
  • Registration as a Safer Internet Day Supporter
  • National research looking at young people’s use of technology

The UK Safer Internet Centre invites everyone to join Safer Internet Day supporters across the globe to help create a better internet on Tuesday 5th February 2019, and throughout the whole year!

UK Safer Internet Centre

The UK Safer Internet Centre is a partnership of three leading charities – Childnet International, the Internet Watch Foundation and South West Grid for Learning, (SWGfL) – with a shared mission to make the internet a better place for children and young people.

The partnership was appointed by the European Commission as the Safer Internet Centre for the UK in January 2011 and is one of the 31 Safer Internet Centres of the Insafe network.

The UK Safer Internet Centre delivers a wide range of activity to promote the safe and responsible use of technology by children and young people:

  • coordinates Safer Internet Day in the UK, reaching millions every year. In 2018 Safer Internet Day reached 45 of young people and 30% of parents in the UK.
  • founded and operates an online safety helpline for professionals working with children in the UK, including teachers, police officers, GPs and more
  • operates the UK’s hotline for reporting online child sexual abuse imagery
  • develops new advice and educational resources for children, parents and carers and teachers to meet emerging trends in the fast-changing online environment
  • delivers education sessions for children, parents, carers, teachers and the wider children’s workforce, including free events across the UK
  • trains children and young people to be peer educators and champions for the safe and positive use of technology
  • shapes policy at school, industry and government level, both in the UK and internationally, and facilitates youth panels to give young people a voice on these issues.

For more information visit www.saferinternet.org.uk and the websites of the partners: Childnet, the Internet Watch Foundation and SWGfL.

Language Centre, Nursery, P7-6, Parents and carers, Peer Mediation, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 3-2, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 5-4, Primary 6, Primary 7, Pupil Council, Rights Respecting School, Uncategorized

Murrayfield Primary School Website launched

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Murrayfield Primary School, Catherine Terrace, Blackburn – School Website

At Parents Evening, we showed you our Murrayfield website and promised that we would share the link with you.

Here it is!

http://www.murrayfieldprimary.westlothian.org.uk/

As always, please feel free to share any feedback.  We hope you find it helpful.

Nursery, P7-6, Parents and carers, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 3-2, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 5-4, Primary 6, Primary 7, Uncategorized

School trip to Cran Gevrier

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Last weekend, Mrs Millar, Mrs Craig and Miss Gall went for a whistlestop trip to Cran Gevrier, near Annecy in France as part of a visit organised by the Bathgate/Cran Gevrier Twinning Committee, to develop twinning relationships between Bathgate Cluster feeder schools and schools in Cran Gevrier.

We were delighted by the response from our teaching colleagues in Cran Geverier, who came to meet us to talk about how to support our pupils’ learning.  After eating a delicious lunch rhey spent the afternoon with  us, showing us some of the beautiful sights in and around Cran Gevrier and Annecy.  We were then treated to another delicious, traditional meal of “Croziflette” and “jambon cru”, courtesy of the chairperson of the Twinning Committee.  It was a really wonderful weekend and we are all looking forward to sharing our memories with our children at Murrayfield and helping them to learn more about our French neighbours.