Category: Achievement

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GRAB A SHOVEL – SPREAD SOME GRIT – 5 MINUTES TO A SAFER PLAYGROUND

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As you are aware our playground is icy.  Pupils love this and it is great fun.  In school we encourage pupils to explore different aspects of the world around them safely.

Unfortunately this is obviously not totally safe, and the enthusiasm for ice wears off, even with children, and they just want to run and play again.

West Lothian Council Policy is clear that a single path of entry is gritted to allow safe access to school but that playgrounds and other public spaces are not gritted as this would place an unreasonable demand on the facilities management workforce.

April Edwards, mum of a P1 pupil, and a member of your Parent Council approached me with a novel solution which I think is a great idea and could work – with your support.

On Monday we will receive a delivery of grit-salt which will be in the playground.  There will be a selection of shovels in the shed and some High-Visibility reflective vests.  In order to all work together to solve the problem, which so many of you have discussed with me, we need to muck in – grab a shovel – and spread the grit on the playground.

Five minutes of your time in the morning, or after school would see us working together as a community to fix a problem. What a great idea, and a great chance to be involved in supporting your school and all of our children.  I hope you agree that this is a practical, community-based solution to a problem which we are not able to fix alone.

Steven Eagleson

 

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P6 Blog

P6 have been having great fun in food technology with Mrs Andison. They have been practising making their products to sell at our Christmas Fayre next week. Have a look at the pictures below to see them at work.

In maths, P6 have been planning their upcoming learning. We looked at what we will be learning about next in maths and the children thought about what they would need to do to reach their target, how they would know they have achieved their target and how they could show evidence of their learning.

Mrs Cullum and P6

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Primary 4’s week

We have been practising our assembly this week. Our assembly is about Growth Mindset. There are two kinds of mindsets – a fixed mindset and a growth mindset.  We want to develop our growth mindset in Primary 4. We found qualities that would help us to have a growth mindset and we would like to share all our learning with the school.  Some of us have been learning poems to share, we have made posters, we have some actors learning parts for drama sketches, we have people who have to learn words to narrate our assembly and we have some songs.

We hope you can come on Tuesday 29th November to the Gym Hall to see our assembly.growth-v-fixed

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Primary 5

Today, Primary 5 went to the handball festival at Broxburn Academy. We had been learning game skills with Ms Pender in PE and this was our chance to apply them! We played against children from lots of different schools – Holy Family, St Nicholas, Broxburn, Uphall and Kirkhill.

Miss McLaughlin was so impressed at how well we played – we were fair, supportive and used lots of the handball skills we had learned. Thanks to the 6th year Sports Leaders at the Academy too.

Here are a few photos from today…

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Until next time…

Primary 5 & Miss M 🙂

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Our Values Champions

Last session you helped create a new set of Values for our school:  POSITIVE – UNDERSTANDING – SUPPORTS – CONFIDENT – PERSONAL – SUCCESS

To make the values a meaningful part of our school life, pupils need to understand and use them.  At Pumphie Pals last week, we made up character names to help us understand and use the values more.  P4 worked with Mr Eagleson to create the figures to go with each character, and here they are:

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P 2 / 3 Weekly Blog

Tomorrow is our class assembly and we are all very excited!

We have been developing our drama skills as we have been practising our assembly.  Here are some of the skills we have developed:

‘ When you are on stage it is important not to talk when others are saying their lines’ Olivia P.

‘ We have to listen really carefully so we know when it is our turn to say our lines’ Ryleigh.

‘ When I am finished on stage I need to remember to put my props away carefully’ Jaxson.

‘ When we are saying our lines we need to talk clearly’ Layla.

‘ I have learned how to take on the role of a character when I am on stage’ Eve.

We hope to see you all tomorrow, Tuesday 22nd of November for a 2.15pm start. See you there!

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Primary 1/2

This week Primary 1/2 have been learning all about the emergency services. We had a visit from a firefighter who showed us all the equipment he uses and told us how we can keep safe if there ever was a fire. We also found out about the all the different types of rescues that the fire brigade can do.

We have been acting out emergency calls in Drama so that we know how to respond to an emergency and what to say when we phone 999. We took on the roles of operators and people who need help. After acting out different ideas, we then wrote our own emergency stories.

Here are some of the things that we learned this week:

Mayah: ‘Firefighters have a mask.’

Emily: ‘Firefighters save people from water.’

Olivia: ‘I learned how to add by counting on on my fingers.’

 

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We practised what we would say if we had to call 999 for help.

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Libby wrote a story about rescuing someone in a helicopter.
Libby wrote a story about rescuing someone in a helicopter.
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