Category: Health and Wellbeing

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NSPCC Visit

Dear parent/carer,

The NSPCC’s Speak out. Stay safe. programme is visiting our school to make sure our pupils have the knowledge and understanding they need to stay safe from abuse.

I’m pleased to tell you that we will be working with the NSPCC, the UK’s leading children’s charity, who’ll be delivering their Speak out. Stay safe. programme on 27th February 2019. This is a nationwide programme for every primary-school-aged child in the UK and Channel Islands. With the help of their friendly mascot Buddy, they’ll be presenting an assembly to the children in our school as well as a workshop for P6 and P7.

“NSPCC has helped me to build the confidence to tell people about my worries and problems.” Child’s feedback

What is the Speak out. Stay safe. programme?

Through child-friendly, interactive assemblies and workshops their specially trained staff and volunteers will give our children information about how to keep themselves safe from harm and how to get help if they have any worries, sensitively discussing issues like bullying and sexual abuse, without using scary words or adult language.

We have studied the content of the materials and heard from other schools who have participated and are extremely confident that they are appropriate for primary-school-aged children. By the end of their visit, we’re convinced children will feel empowered – knowing how they can speak out and stay safe.

“This service provides important information in a child-friendly way – it should be made mandatory in all schools. A brilliant service!” Teacher, Wistaston Primary, Crewe

If you would like any more information about the NSPCC Speak out. Stay safe. programme, including frequently asked questions, you can find it on the NSPCC website nspcc.org.uk/schools or please come into speak to me and I can provide more information.

Talking about the Underwear Rule with your children

The NSPCC’s work in schools will help encourage conversations about staying safe – and they have a number of child-friendly materials to help you carry on the conversation afterwards. That includes ‘The Underwear Rule’, a simple way for parents to help keep children safe from sexual abuse – without using scary words or even mentioning sex.

The guide uses the rules of PANTS to teach children that their body belongs to them and them alone. You can find out more and download the free resources at nspcc.org.uk/pants

If you’d like to know more about the NSPCC’s work, or take a look at the wide range of information and advice which is available for parents and carers, please visit their website nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/

Yours sincerely,

Miss Burton

 

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Day 3 at Dalguise!

On our final day we packed up  our cases and tidied our rooms. We only had one piece of lost property! Miss Burton was very impressed. The rain was very heavy on the Friday, so we were lucky that this was our last day!

Our final activity was Aeroball! It was great fun, and a little bit wet. It was a bit like trampoline basketball. Well done for Team 2 for winning the game.

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Day 2 at Dalguise!

Day two started with a fantastic cooked breakfast, we think we would like one every morning! What do you think Mrs Bonner?

Our first activity today was Climbing!

 

Keeping with the theme of height, we went on to complete the Vertical Challenge! We supported each other to have a go, and to take a risk to climb a little bit higher. Well done to everyone who reached the top.

At Survivor we had the opportunity to make our own shelters, use knives for carving wood and make our own fire.

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Our final activity was one that we were a little bit nervous about – Zip Line but we managed to support each other and the staff to have a go. Mrs Andison enjoyed it so much – she went twice!

 

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Day two finished with the Disco!

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Day 1 at Dalguise!

On Wednesday we set out on our adventure to Dalguise! We got on the bus and waved goodbye to our family and school.

When we arrived we quickly dropped off our bags, divided into our two activity groups and went to our first activity, Problem Solving.

Later that afternoon we braved the Giant Swing, even Miss Burton and Mrs Hamilton had a go (with some encouragement!). This was almost everyone’s favourite activity.

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We also had the opportunity to take part in Archery. Some of us had a very good aim!

That evening we divided into 4 teams to play Robot Wars. We had to complete challenges to earn points to make a robot. Then the robot took part in different challenges. It was great fun and we demonstrated creativity and team work skills.

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Digital Directors Internet Safety Assembly

Our Digital Directors, led by Mrs McJimpsey, gave us a fabulous assembly on Friday.  There were lots of important messages about how to stay safe online.  All pupils had spent the week learning about internet safety.  This week, the Digital Directors have set a special home learning task:

Create a way to share the important messages of staying safe online.  This can be in the form of:

-a poster made on paper

-a digital poster

-a video

If taking part, these should be handed in/emailed to wlpuscps@westlothian.org.uk  by Friday 15th February.

We look forward to seeing these.

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P6’s Ten Top Tips for Staying Safe Online

As part of our Safer Internet Day focus, we have been discussing the importance of consent and caution when posting photographs and videos online.

We came up with our 10 top tips to help you stay safe online.

  1. Keep social media accounts private.
  2. Remember that you can change accounts to private at any time.
  3. Ask permission before sharing photographs/videos of anyone.
  4. Don’t share inappropriate photographs/videos – remember that you are responsible for anything you choose to share online, even if you didn’t create it.
  5. Don’t share personal information online.
  6. You can cover your face with an emoji or blur it out if you don’t want it to be shown in a photograph you share.
  7. Be careful who follows you online – make sure you know who someone is before you accept a follow/friend request.
  8. Remember that you can block anyone who you think is a stranger or who behaves in a way that you do not like.
  9. You may wish to have a public account that has no personal information and a private account that you use to share with friends.
  10. Delete anything that you no longer want online – this list might help you work out what is wise to keep online and what is not!
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Club Wild – It’s never too cold for Blood Orange Sorbet!

We like to make and taste things at Club Wild. Mostly we use what we can find growing seasonally in the school garden or round and about in the orchard and hedgerows, but what could we find that grows at this time in the season?

Sarah-Jane told us that at this time of year she always thinks of citrus fruits,  making marmalade and of blood oranges.  Blood oranges are only available for us to buy in our supermarkets for a very short period between late January and March so we decided to try using them to make a simple blood orange ice  sorbet.

First we cut the oranges in half, some of the colours were amazing. The red pigments that we could see are the same anthocyanins that  are found in red autumn leaves. We squeezed the juice from the oranges and saved all the pips to plant later. Sarah-Jane boiled some sugar and water and then added it to our juice.  We gave it a quick stir and then popped it in the freezer.  In the morning, mashed together, our beautiful pink sorbet was ready. Gillon thought it was delicious and Huriyah gave it a definite thumbs up.  Even though it was so cold outside, it’s never too cold for our sweet and refreshing blood orange sorbet 😊.
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Active Schools

Active School Coordinators have been working closely with the school to put on after school clubs that the pupils would like to attend. There were five different clubs offered in term one which led to 33% of the school roll taking part in a sporting extra-curricular club. This is a fantastic jump from the 18% of the school roll that took part in term one in 2017.

Again this term there will be a range of clubs on offer which started last week. These include multi-sports, dance and football. There are still spaces available in all clubs so if you would like a space speak to your teacher.

If there are any clubs you would be interested in seeing running please get in touch and Active Schools will try to help.

Follow Broxburn Cluster Active Schools on Twitter, @ActiveS_Bburn.

Active Schools Coordinators, Ross Logan and Libby Harris

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Scots Week in the Nursery

The children have had great fun this learning all about all things Scottish. They have had the opportunity to taste different Scottish foods. They have tasted haggis neeps and tatties. They have tasted oatcakes, raspberries and had porridge for breakfast.

Lots of the children have enjoyed listening to bagpipes. We have looked at the kilts and talked about the tartan pattern. Some of the children were interested in the bagpipe music and learned some highland dancing.

We have looked at the Scottish mountains, the highland cows and places in Scotland like castles and the Forth bridges. Maybe the children would like to visit some of these places.

The children have enjoyed this topic so much that we are still continuing to learn about Scotland, singing lots of Scottish songs, reading story books and learning the Scots words.

 

 

 

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Basketball Team Success

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.

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