Thank you to everyone who came along and contributed to the success of our Christmas Fayre on Friday.  We raised a grand total of £ 1036.47! This money will go to the PSFA and school fund to pay for all sorts of activities and items over the whole year. We hope you enjoyed the afternoon. Here are some of the photos of the event.
Assembly
The stars of today’s assembly were Primary 5 who took us back to the days of Mary Queen of Scots and told us all about her life. We learned about her husbands, her travelling and her hopes that her cousin Elizabeth would help her.
The cast coped really well with the glitches in technology, and with the weather trying to take part!
Well done Primary 5.
What was your favourite part of the assembly?
Choir tour – day 2
We were at St John’s hospital today, singing Christmas carols in aid of the charity  ‘Friends of St John’s hospital’.  Those of us who had sung at St John’s before noticed the shiny new decor in the reception area – there’s even a handy new place to plug in our CD player!
We were able to run through our repertoire 3 times and had gathered quite a few fans by the time we finished singing. Â Thank you very much to everyone who came along to listen, our fan club were much appreciated. We heard lots of lovely comments and compliments, so we think everyone liked our singing and we were pleased with our performance. Â Thank you to everyone who donated money into the charity buckets- we’ll hope to hear the grand total raised in the New Year.
Choir tour 2015
Thank you to Pumpherston Community Council for inviting our school choir to sing at their annual Christmas meal. Â We had a lovely time at the Golf Club and we hope your guests enjoyed our singing.
The choir did very well, Mrs Hull, Mrs Campbell and Mrs Andison are very proud of them.
Next stop – St John’s hospital tomorrow! 
Panto Time
Thank you to Hopscotch Theatre company for our Pantomime performance of Sleeping Beauty today.
We had great fun singing along, shouting at the baddies and cheering on the goodies.
Primary 1 had a vote for their favourite character – the winner was The Jester!
Who was your favourite? What was your favourite part of the story?
Anti bullying week – Primary 6
Primary 6 have been thinking about how our emotions and actions can have an impact on our friends and the people around us.  This can be positive and helpful, or negative and sometimes even hurtful.
We thought about times when we free others to be themselves.
Here are some of the fantastic examples:
‘I free people when I tell them to be themselves and be happy. Â I free people when I ask them to play with me and smile. Â I free people when I tell them ‘Whatever they call you, nasty things, it isn’t true.’ ‘ – Sophie Martin.
‘I free people when I can respect how they are and understand how they are. Â I free people when I see they are trying hard to be themselves. Â I free people when they stop doing (things) to me and I can understand how or why they’re doing it.’- Sophie Campbell.
Anti-bullying week
In Primary 5 today we watched the Newsround special debate on bullying. Â The big question was; is it better to PUNISH a bully or HELP them? A vote was held on the Newsround website and 47% said PUNISH, 53% said HELP.
Our vote was 50% PUNISH and 50 % HELP. Â We then thought about what we do here in school already, and whether each thing was a punishment or a help. Â Here are some of the comments from our discussion:
‘If you punish the bully, doesn’t that turn you into a sort of bully too?’
‘The bully gets to talk to the teacher, and they help the bully to understand their behaviour, and understand that we’re all like a big family here.’
‘They need to know there are consequences to what they do.’
‘We need to tell them to stop and give them a signal that what they are doing is wrong, and help them to understand that.’
‘We can set them a good example, that would be a help.’
‘When they get to write a letter of apology it helps the person who has been hurt too.’
What do you think about this question? Would you vote for PUNISH or HELP?
P3 Blog
Thank you to everyone who came to our assembly about the Victorians. Â We do hope you enjoyed it and that you have learned something about life in Victorian times.
News from the Nursery
Assembly awards
Here are the award winners on stage at the end of P3’s assembly this week. Well done everyone for your hard work and perseverance in your learning.
