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Dyslexia Awareness Week

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Did you know that 1 in 10 people are dyslexic?

Dyslexia ranges from mild to severe. 1 person in 10 is dyslexic and of those, 1 in 4 has severe dyslexia. It often runs in the family.

Dyslexia can affect reading, writing and spelling. 

If you have dyslexia you may –

  • Have difficulty matching sounds to letter combinations
  • Be confused by similar looking / sounding letters (for example p, b and d)
  • Have difficulty remembering common letter patterns in spelling
  • BUT
  • You may be able to cope well verbally – talking may be a strength.

Dyslexia can also affect:

  • short term memory
  • ability to follow directions or instructions
  • organisational skills

Everyone is different and dyslexia affects people in different ways.  Not everyone with dyslexia will experience the same things.

Dyslexia is not a sign of low intelligence.  Some of the most successful business people are dyslexic.

 

The process of identification of dyslexia involves the child, the class teacher, the parents and the Support for learning teacher. A profile of strengths and needs is developed. Targeted intervention and strategies are put in place, assessments carried out and an identification can be made dependent on progress made and the continuing needs of the child.

Log on to https://www.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/ to find out more about dyslexia

or if you are between 8 and 18, log on to https://unwrapped.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/

 

 

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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.

 

 

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

Blackburn Gala Day – Saturday 9th June

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Come along and join the fun on Saturday. 

All pupils and parents are welcome to come along and join Murrayfield parent council members and staff as they walk around the village as part of the procession, which takes place straight after the crowning ceremony.  Look out for our Super Mario themed school float which is currently under construction…we are hoping to scoop 1st prize again!  As usual there will be spaces available for nursery children and their parents (these spaces will be given on a first come basis)

The school have chosen to go with the theme Super Mario (easy costume idea – dungarees/jeans, brightly coloured t-shirt, pretend moustache) but you are welcome to come along as another cartoon character or approprate gaming character.

We are looking forward to seeing you on Saturday.

 

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Den Building in the sun

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The Den Building groups have so far been challenged to work outdoors in snow, hail, fog and finally, today we were gifted with sunshine!

The pupils from the Stewart House worked together to have fun and develop skills in team work, communication, problem solving and decision making.  They made use of pallets, tarpaulins, camouflage nets, trees branches and canes to build reading dens.

Outdoor learning experiences motivate our children and young people to become successful learners and to develop as healthy, confident, enterprising and responsible citizens.

https://education.gov.scot/Documents/cfe-through-outdoor-learning.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

P7-6, Parents and carers, Primary 6, Primary 7, Uncategorized

Burn scramble

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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.