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Our Basketlball Team played in the West Lothian Wolves tournament on Friday. They won 3 out of the 4 games they played in! This is a huge success for our team. A big thank you to Mrs Hamilton for coaching our team and to her son for coming along to help support them. Also thank you to all the parents and families that came along to support the team.
P6 and P7 have been issues with letters today.
We would like to offer children in Primary 6 and 7 the opportunity to watch Glasgow Rocks Basketball Team play against Worchester Wolves at their Emirates Sports Arena, in Glasgow on Sunday 17th March 2019. There are 19 places available with the first 11 places being offered to the school basketball team.
The children should arrive at school at 3:30pm, the bus will leave at 3:45pm and return at approximately 8:00-8:30pm.Tickets will cost £14; this is at a discounted rate from Basketball Scotland.
Tickets will be offered on a first come first basis with those interested paying a £7.00 deposit to secure their place, and we will set up a reserve list. The final balance should be paid by 1st March.
Miss Burton, Mrs Birrell and Mrs Hamilton will occupy the children on the trip. Children will be permitted to bring a pack lunch and snacks with them to the game. They should wear their school sweatshirt/ P7 Leavers hoodie but can wear they want as bottoms.
This morning we held our Term 2 Celebration Assembly.
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.
One of our P4 pupils has been busy rehearsing for her part in Aladdin and this week she got to demonstrate her talents by performing on stage at the Regal in Bathgate!
Congratulations Layla! We are very proud of you!
Today our Basketball Team played their first friendly games in the West Lothian Wolves basketball tournament.
Congratulations to our team and thank you to the families who brought along their children, and to Mrs Hamilton for coaching our team.
Can you make into the top 50 for Maths Week Scotland? 
At the beginning of the Summer holidays, Mrs Dickie, Mrs Montgomery and I attended a French immersion course in the south of France for a week.
The aims of this course were:
We participated in many different activities and games, all of which can be adapted and used in all stages of primary school. We made board games, new family members for fictional families, found new number learning methods and learned classic French playground games and songs.
We were taken on many cultural tours (for example, the local market) which allowed us to practise our French in real-life contexts and collect any French leaflets and magazines which could be used in the classroom.
At the end of the week, we had to create and present a talk in French to sum up what we had learnt and what we enjoyed about the week we had.
Once we had presented, we were awarded our certificates to say we had completed the week and our training.
It was an incredible week and we would highly recommend it to any other teachers who would like to rush up on their French or find some new activities for in class.
We met so many lovely teachers from all over Scotland and Ireland! We are keeping in contact with each other and plan to meet up again soon.
A huge thank you to Sophie and Angelique who made our week so incredible.
Below are some ideas for summer learning.
Primary 6 received the First Minister’s Summer Maths challenge last week. Please share your solutions on our Twitter Page. @PUSCPS
Today we had our second Celebration Assembly to celebrate all our achievements during Term 4.
Ruby and Meg, pupils from Broxburn Academy joined us to share with us about their achievements and their journey to achievement. They reinforced our school values and how it was important to preserve to achieve your dreams, although at times you might have set backs.
We had our Dojo Top Scorers for each of our houses – they received a gift voucher for WH Smith.
Each teacher nominated a child in their class for the Remarkable Reader Award for making progress in their reading.
They also nominated a child in their class for the STEM Superstar Award for making progress in Science, Technologies, Engineering and Maths.
We gave out Sumdog Awards for the recent West Lothian Sumdog Competition.
Out of 105 classes:
Put of 2,275 pupils:
One child in each of our groups at P5 Camp was nominated for an achievement award.
Iona in P7 was nominated for an award for recently taking part in the Edinburgh Moonwalk and raising over £1000 for charity.
Congratulations to Breich who recieved the most Dojos in Term 4.
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