All posts by Mrs Millar

P1 Photos

Just a reminder that West Lothian Courier will be in school tomorrow morning to take photos of our new Primary 1 pupils.  Don’t forget to brush their hair and send them in with a smile!  We will try our hardest to keep them as pristine as possible for the photos.

 

Switched On – a leaflet for parents

Here is a useful leaflet with suggestions for you to use with your children at home.  As the ways in which our children access information through digital technology continues to increase, it can become harder to keep up with what they are accessing online and what is influencing them.

https://www.risingstars-uk.com/media/Rising-Stars/Free%20Stuff/Computing/Switched%20on%20Online%20Safety/Switched-on-Online-Safety-at-home.pdf?ext=.pdf

Burn scramble

An invigorating walk through the burn at Dounans.  Guaranteed to wash away any cobwebs!  These action photos were taken by Mrs Sneddon using her GoPro.

Dounans 2018

We hope you have all had a lovely weekend!  On behalf of the staff who attended Dounans this year, we’d like to thank our happy campers for their excellent behaviour, lovely manners and great company over the week.  It was great to see you achieve things you doubted you would be able to do, to see you overcome fears and support each other in so many different ways.  Your children were a credit to you and it was wonderful to hear the praise from instructors and other adults who  commented regularly on what a lovely group they were.

Here are a few more photos which I have just downloaded from the Ipad.  Sorry they are a bit later than the others.  Before anyone panics, I’d like to point out that the photos which look as though there are children falling from trees are actually a highly controlled descent facilitated by one of the instructors who encouraged the children to adopt a Superman pose on the way down!  They loved it!  I think you will also agree from the looks on their faces at the raft building activity, they had so much fun, even though the water was, to quote Zander, “a bit fresh”.

Glad to see that you have enjoyed sharing our experiences throughout the week.

 

Euroquiz postponed

Unfortunately the West Lothian heats of this year’s EUROQUIZ which were due to take place tomorrow have had to be postponed due to the snow.  Hopefully a new date will be set soon and our Euro-tastic team will be able to put all their hard work to use.  Thank you all for all your hard work and commitment so far Lewis, Mia, Zac, Robbie, Emma and Eryn!  It has been a pleasure to work with you all – and fun too!

Difficulty accessing files from our blog

Thanks to everyone who let us know that they have been having difficulty accessing files from our blog today.

We think that the problem could be due to Word documents being uploaded.  I’ve asked staff to upload files in PDF format going forward.  In the meantime, please remember that if you do not have Word downloaded on your system at home, your child will be able to download the whole of Microsoft Office for FREE  on up to 5 devices – yes FREE – through Glow.  Not often you can say that nowadays!  So, if you have put off paying a huge amount to buy Office, just look for the icon when you first log in to Glow, on your launch pad and set about downloading it.

If neither of these solve your downloading problems, please let us know.  Thanks to Laura Compton for helping out!

Move down the page on the launch pad to the tiles below

Click on Office 365 Home to download