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There are still tickets available for our Scottish Celebration Assembly on Friday 25th January at 9:15am. These can be collected at the office or requested by returning the slip on the recent letter sent home. We are now opening the tickets to more than two per family if requested.
This morning we held our Term 2 Celebration Assembly.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebration-assembly-term-2
Michelle Quinn from Almond Engineering came along to share with us her achievement of receiving West Lothian Business Woman of the Year. She told us about how she worked hard at school and started with Almond Engineering 12 years ago and worked her way up in the company.
Our Dojo top scorers received a gift voucher.
Michelle presented our STEM Superstars with an award for their achievements in Science, Maths, Engineering and Maths.
Our Awesome Authors received an award for achievements in writing.
Our Basketball Team and Choir also received special awards.
Moira, our librarian had reading awards for children 12 books in 12 days, and for reading their first book.
One of our P4s received a head teacher award for performing in the Panto at Bathgate Regal.
Cozy Corner drew their raffle. 
Congratulations to Breich for earning the most house points in term 2, they will receive their treat at the start of next term.
We celebrated our Term 1 achievements at our Celebration Assembly on Friday.
David Donnelly-Kay, a football coach from from Broxburn United joined us on Friday to tell us about his personal achievements and his career stepping stones. 
The first award we gave our was the Top Scorer Award for each House. They received a book shop gift voucher.
One child from each class was nominated by their teacher for the STEM Superstar Award, for achievements in Science, Technologies or Maths.
One child from each class was nominated by their teacher for the Awesome Author for their achievements in writing. This is a new award this session as writing is part of our school improvement agenda.
The P7 Young Leaders who helped at our recent consultations received a Head Teacher Award.
Almond won the House Points for this term and have decided on a pyjama party on Wednesday.
We watched a video of our Term 1 achievements.
https://vimeo.com/293037405
We also shared a surprise video for World Teachers’ Day.
https://vimeo.com/293433798
Come along and join us!
Congratulations to all our P7 children who took part in the House Captain Election, we had a very high standard of entries this year.
Almond
Introducing Jack as Vice Captain and Lauren as Captain.
Breich
Introducing Kamila as Vice Captain and Callum as Captain.
Calder
Introducing Andrew as Vice Captain and Charlie as Captain.
Today our classes shared at assembly what are school values mean to them. There was presentations, posters and singing.
Thank you to the families who came along to join us, and the children and staff for their preparation for the assembly.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/living-our-values-assembly
https://vimeo.com/287890399
https://vimeo.com/287890399
Can you make into the top 50 for Maths Week Scotland? 
Miss Mulhern leaves us tomorrow to take up a post at Carmondean Primary in August. Today at assembly, Primary 4 surprised her with a video of their favourite memories.
We would like to thank Miss Mulhern for all the work she has done not only with Primary 4 but across the school. We will miss her smiley, caring, energetic nature and wish her every success for her future career.
https://vimeo.com/277450089
