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Almond received the most points in term 4 and earned themselves a party, they decide on a Pyjama Party! They had corners, best dancer, pass the parcel, musical statues and food. Thank you to Lauren and Jack, and all the Primary 7s for helping to organise the party.
Almond will have a Pyjama Party on Wednesday 26th June at 11am for winning the house points this term.
As we have the P7 Celebration Assembly in the morning children should BRING their PJs or party clothes to change into for the party.
Sorry for the short notice about the party but we wanted the children to enjoy their treat before the end of term.
On Friday we had our final celebration of the year.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebration-assembly-term-4-151247955
Anna and Holly past pupils from PUSCPS, currently at Broxburn Academy, joined us to tell us about their achievement journey. It was fantastic to hear about all the opportunities that Broxburn Academy gives to children. We are very proud of all Anna and Holly’s achievements, thank you for joining us.
Congratulations to our Top Scorers!
STEM Superstars are those children who have made fantastic progress or achievements in science, technologies or maths.
Awesome Authors are those children who have made fantastic progress or achievements in writing.
Ross Logan our Active schools co-coordinator joined us to give out some medals. First of all to those children who attend our after school clubs, the coaches nominated them for an award.
Secondly he gave medals to our fantastic basketball team for the progress they have made this year.
Jack received Most Valuable Player because of his determination, positive attitude, willingness to work hard and because he has been a great team player. Lauren received Most Improved Player, for being to shoe great basketball skills and a positive attitude towards training. We also presented Mrs Hamilton with a gift for being such an inspiring coach.
IDL is a new literacy programme, some children have been using this session to support learning in literacy. Children who have reached milestones in this received certificates.
We recognised those children who took part in the West Lothian Triathlon.
We presented Eve with an award for her piece of writing which is now representing our cluster at the West Lothian Stellar Awards.
Mrs Montgomery received a West Lothian Leadership Award for completing her Early Years Officer course.
This week was the West Lothian Sumdog Competition. P3, P6 nd P5 ranked in the score board and some of our children ranked within the top 100 out of 2097 children!
Finally the house winner of the term was … Almond! Congratulations! We will organise a house treat for the last week of term.
We started our session by playing a community builder and some of the pre-school children from our nursery joined us, as part of their transition.
On Friday our Pumphie Pals groups used How Good is OUR Good to self evaluation our improvements journey. Each group had one of the areas to evaluate:
The groups sorted statements into agree, not sure and disagree.
Calder selected a Neon Party for receiving the most house points in term 3. Andrew and Charlie created a fun morning of musical bumps, greatest dancer and glow corners. Everyone also had fun dancing with their glow sticks. Thank you to all the P7s in Calder who helped to lead the party.
Congratulations Calder!
The first thing we did at Pumphie Pals was to identify which jobs and careers require skills and knowledge for each of the STEM areas.
Then we used information from British Science Week to have our own paper planes competition.
This week in Pumhie Pals the focus was our playground
We made a list of new toys and equipment we would like for the different zones in our playground.
We looked at different playground scenarios and how the people involved felt. We also thought about how some of the scenarios could be prevented or resolved.
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Our House and Vice Captains have created a house chant to say at assembly when they win the house points for the week, or term. They used our new green screen to record the videos and taught them to their Pumphie Pals group.
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At Pumphie Pals we had a Santa Holiday Challenge:
