Author: Miss Burton

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Anti-Social Behaviour

This flyer has recently been issued from West Lothian.

We would like to make the plea that if anyone see’s any antisocial behaviour in our school grounds including people trying to access the playground, or in the areas surrounding our grounds for example the kick pitch and pump track, that they report it. Especially as it is coming into the summer period.

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Club Wild- Seed Bombs Away!

Each year at Club Wild we plant flowers so that we can all enjoy the beautiful colours but also to give all our small winged friends a helping hand.  Flowers attract many kinds of insects, bees and hoverflies working hard and pollinating our crops,  butterflies, ladybirds and many others.

Flowers that are rich in nectar and pollen provide the most food and wildflowers are great as they usually have simple, single flowers which make it easy for the insects to get to the pollen and nectar.

One of the most fun ways of sowing wildflower seeds is making seed bombs.  Here is our Club Wild Seed Bomb Recipe…

• Wild flower seed mix
• Peat-free compost
• Water
• Powdered clay (from craft shops or garden
  centre’s, or use clay soil)
• Mixing bucket

In the bucket we mix together 1 cup of seeds together with 5 chips of compost and 2-3 cups of clay powder.

Slowing mix in the water until everything sticks together,  then will the mixture into firm balls.

Then the fun bit! Plant by throwing your see bombs at bare parts of soil.

We threw some into our wildflower patch in the school cat park and also found some huge patches of bare ground where all the building work has been taken place around around the school. We can’t wait to see beautiful the pinks, purples, blues, oranges and yellows of the wild flowers growing and all the happy insects enjoying them too.
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Extra Inservice Days

Recently “ the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills proposed providing teachers with two additional in-service days in the academic year to support professional learning.”

West Lothian Education Executive have decided that the additional inservice days will be on Tuesday 20th August 2019 and Monday 6th January  2020.

This means that our school and nursery will start the new school year on Wednesday 21st August 2019.

As discussed at the Primary 1 induction evening, Primary 1 children will start at 9am on Wednesday 21st August and should enter the school through the office. They should be collected from the playground at 3:00pm. On the Thursday they will start and end at normal school times, 8:50am and 3:15pm.

 

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Transition Morning Success!

This morning our children were very excited to find out who their teacher would be for next session. They all enjoyed a getting to know you activity with their new teacher and we welcomed our new Primary Ones.

Our new Primary Ones and their families joined us for a Dine Together session, so they could sample our school lunches.

Our Primary 6 children were very excited about receiving their Primary 7 tie!

 

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Class Structure for 2019/20

This morning your child has taken part in a transition activity with their new teacher, there was a fantastic buzz across the school and everyone was excited to find out who their teacher would be next session!

The class structure for next session is as follows:

Nursery

  • Early Years Officer: Mrs Montgomery
  • Early Learning Centre Area Support Manager: Ms Carruthers
  • Early Years Practitioner: Mrs Arthur, Ms Young (am), vacancy for pm
  • Pupil Support Workers: Mrs Watson and Ms Hamil

School

  • Primary 1: Mrs Hardie (Monday, Tuesday): Mrs McJimpsey (Wednesday, Thursday Friday)
  • Primary 2: Mrs Strachan
  • Primary 3: Mrs McConville (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)/ Miss Cave (Wednesday, Thursday & Friday)
  • Primary 4: Mrs Mooney
  • Primary 5: Mrs Campbell
  • Primary 6: Miss McLaughlin
  • Primary 7: Mrs Andison
  • Support for Learning: Mrs Dugan
  • Teacher non-contact time: Mrs Ness/ Mrs McJimpsey/ Mrs Cougan

Pupil Support Workers

  • Mrs Adie
  • Mrs Bonner
  • Mrs Hamilton
  • Mrs Ross
  • Ms Cook

 

Admin: Mrs Thom

Clerical: Mrs Birrell

 

Pupil Equity Funding Staff:

Targeted Support: Mrs Ness/ Mrs McJimpsey/ Mrs Cougan

Speech and Language Therapist: Mr Grant

Cluster DHT for Maths: Ms Allsopp

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Club Wild – Take that nettles!

For all the times we have been stung by nettles we at club wild like to get our revenge and turn them into an amazingingly tasty soup.

Common nettle or stinging nettles are so abundant. You can find them along the edges of paths and hedges, in woodlands and disturbed ground. It’s green leaves with  deeply serrated edges and stems are covered in hollow hairs which can sting.

The nettles sting to protect the plant from predators eating and weakening the plant.  We know they do it for a purpose and we know that nettles are really good for butterflies and their caterpillars but still getting stung is really, really sore!

Here is our Club Wild Nettle Soup Recipe, which just about makes up for all the stings.

Ingredients
• 50g butter/1 tbsp olive oil
• half a carrier bag of nettle tops or large leaves
• 1 large onion chopped
• 2 large potatoes cut into cubes

• 1 litre chicken or vegetable stock

Wearing rubber gloves we picked and sorted through the nettles. Back at school we then washed them and drained in a colander.

Method
Melt the butter in a large saucepan, add the onion and cook gently for 5-7 minutes until softened. Add the stock and potato. Bring to a simmer and cook gently until the potato is soft, about 15 minutes. Add the nettles.

Remove from the heat. Using an electric hand-held stick blender, purée the soup and then season with salt and pepper.

It looks and tastes amazing, so green but also creamy and rich. Some of us were slightly worried that it would still sting but heating the leaves takes all the sting away.  Katie and Kai liked it so much they had two bowls 🥣😊

 

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