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Celebration Assembly Term 1

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

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Fun Time Friday

Today we had our first Fun Time Friday of the school year. Fun Time Friday is an opportunity for all our children to select an activity that they are interested in and take part in it with peers across different classes. We had a range of activities to choose from which the children brainstormed at Pumphie Pals last session.

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Club Wild – Autumn Harvest 

As the weather turns colder it is time to harvest our produce in the school garden.

We got a bumper crop of potatoes of all different colours, the biggest red and brown onions we have ever seen and a bucket load of broad beans. The potatoes and onions will be washed, dried and stored so that everyone in the school can use them through the winter.

We tasted fresh peas and broad beans which will make a lovely hummus.

Join us next week for more Autumn adventures.
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Club Wild: Autumn – Fruity Foraging!

Over the last few weeks at  Club Wild we have been making the most of the bumper crop of autumn fruits. Thanks bees and the warm start to summer 🐝

We climbed the hill at the back of the school to find the orchard trees laden with plums🍑 and apples🍏.  Some of the trees were so heavy with fruit that their branches reached the ground.  Brambles 🍇 from the hedgerows around the park added to our bounty.

First we made crumble. One with apples and brambles, the other with plums. We rubbed the butter into the flour with the tips of our fingers and covered the prepared fruit with the sweet breadcrumb mixture.  The bramble and apple was definitely the favourite with the plum crumble a wee bit tart.

This week we used the rest of our fruit to make jam.  The plum jam is an amazing pink colour and the apple and bramble a deep purple. We learned how different fruits and different accounts of pectin, the stuff that makes the jam thicken.

Look out for our Club Wild recipe book and  jams on sale at the Christmas Fayre!
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Primary 4 Class Charter

Primary 4 explored their rights and decided which ones they thought were most relevant for their class charter.  They then talked about what the pupils and the adults would have to do to ensure that these rights were respected.  Finally, they shared ideas for how the charter could be presented in our class.  Everyone agreed that Eve’s idea of displaying it on a Smartboard with everyone watching it would be a great idea.  Here is our display.

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Primary 6

As part of our community fortnight, Primary 6 have been looking at the value ‘Support’. We talked about a time that we have been supported or supported others and we wrote down a list of ways that we can support each other in school.  These included: helping each other with our learning, comforting others when they are sad and treating everyone with respect.

We have also been working on forming our class charter. We looked at the articles from the UNCRC in groups and chose the rights that we thought were most relevant to our class.  We then voted as a whole class to base our charter on the four rights below.

Article 28 – We have the right to an education.

Article 19 – We have the right to be safe and protected.

Article 13 – We have the right to find out information and express ourselves.

Article 14 – We have the right to choose our own religion and beliefs.

We worked together to list positive actions that we should do to ensure that everyone has these rights in our classroom.

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