Congratulations to the following pupils, who found out today that they had been selected by the pupils of Murrayfield to become our new House Captains and Vice Captains. We wish you great success in your new roles.
Well done to all our P7 pupils who applied for the role of House Captain. We were very impressed by your confidence and maturity during the selection process.
Rookie Rockstars are coming to Murrayfield Primary School. Pupils will be learning about anti-bullying through music and performance. School performance on Thursday 22nd September 6.30pm in school, everyone welcome.
Congratulations Murrayfield!!
Well done everyone!
We are delighted to inform you that our school has been awarded a sportscotland SILVER SCHOOL SPORT AWARD FOR 2016-17
The Silver Award is recognition of our school’s dedication to place sport at the heart of our school’s planning, practice and ethos.
The Silver Award also highlights that our school has shown improvement across the core areas of the Award and demonstrated an on-going commitment to increase young people’s opportunities and engagement in physical education, school sport and leadership and provide a clear pathways to life-long participation in sport.
What is Guided Reading?
Within Murrayfield Primary School guided reading sessions will take place 3 – 4 times a week in each class.
3 – 4 sessions per week
Working in pairs to discuss text and make predictions. Reading for fluency.
Teacher works with the group. Focus on comprehension skills, writer’s craft, grammar punctuation. Teaching reading skills and listening to reading and discussing fluency.
Pupils work on follow-up reading/writing activities, relating to the text.Opportunities for independent/paired/group work and collaborative work.
Investigating new/ambitious vocabulary. Finding definitions and using vocabulary within a context.
Following our assembly on Friday parents and carers are invited to our first Biscuit and Blether. Join us for a cup of tea and a chat. Find out more about learning and education in our school!
Each week we will be setting pupils a talk challenge. Through encouraging pupils to talk about a variety of issues we are developing their communication skills, confidence, vocabulary and general knowledge. Please take time to talk with your child and contribute to our BIG TALK!
Theme for this week:
What qualities and skills do our GB Olympic athletes have which makes them so successful?
Wednesday 31st August
4.00 – 6.00pm
Come along and meet your child’s teacher. Find out more about learning plans for 2016-17.
West Lothian Courier photographer will be in school on Thursday 8th September to take a photograph of our new Primary 1 pupils.
I wasn’t able to upload Mrs Wedlock’s terrific video from the party as it was too large, but here are some pics to keep you going until I can get the other ones from the Ipad.
It was a great night and it was fantastic to see everyone have so much fun!
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