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Best Start Grant

Best Start Grant is a new package of three payments from Social Security Scotland intended to give extra money to lower income families during the early years of a child’s life.

Applications are already open for the Best Start Pregnancy and Baby payment of £600 for a first child and £300 for subsequent children.

The new Best Start Grant Early Learning Payment is £250 for children aged two to three and a half.  Applications open 29 April 2019.

The Best Start School Age payment (a one off payment of £250 available to children due to start P1) – applications open on 3 June 2019.

These grants are separate from the school clothing grants available from West Lothian Council.  If eligible you can receive both.

For more information or to check if you are eligible to apply,you can contact West Lothian Council’s Advice Shop 01506 283000 option 4. Or you can apply online at https://www.mygov.scot/best-start-grant/

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P7 Transition

It’s that time of year when our P7 children find out their high school destinations and hopefully you have received or will be receiving your letter shortly.

This term our Primary 7 children are taking part in an interdisciplinary learning project that will support them with transition to high school. This project will include five workshop visits to Broxburn Academy on Fridays which all pupils will attend (regardless of their destination high school). The dates and information about the sessions are included in the attached letter below.

A bus will collect the children from PUSCPS at 9am and they will return in time for the end of the school day, at 12:25pm. An EE2 form will be sent home, please complete by Wednesday 1st May.

Children who are not attending our catchment school of Broxburn Academy will receive a letter from their school notifying of their transition days or please contact their school office for further information.

 

Broxburn Academy Transition Letter

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Easter Assembly

On the last day of term Mrs Cougan and our House and Vice Captains organised our Easter Assembly.  Mr Povey joined us to share the Easter message, as well as some of our families.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the assembly and to those families who could join us.

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National Digital Learning Week: Developing the Young Workforce

National Digital Learning Week is 13-17th May.

If you have a job/ career/ interest in an aspect of digital technologies we would love for you to come and work with our children during this week. This could be a chat about your job and the skills and knowledge you require, or a workshop to show a class how to use an aspect of digital technology, for example, an app, photography, coding, etc.

Please complete the form below and we will be in touch with you. (Your data will not be shared with others).

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Movies for Magale

On our last day of term Mrs Strachan and the Global Group organised a Movies for Magale Day. Children could opt into a movie they wanted to watch and also dress down in their own clothes.

We raised an amazing £200 for our partner school in Magale. A big well done to the Global Group and to everyone who donated.

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Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

On Thursday after school we opened our doors to our community for our Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.

This event was organised by our Parent Partners, with support from the school staff.

Our children created art work to decorate the hall and we used our home learning task to decorate the tables.

The entrance tickets allowed access to the tea party and a range of different activities including:

  • sensory dips
  • caucus race
  • treasure hunt
  • crafts in our community library
  • decorate an egg
  • guess the bunny’s birthday
  • croquet
  • selfie photos
  • face painting

Thank you to Asda, Morrisons and Tesco for donated some items for our tombola, prizes and items for the teas party. It was lovely for some of their employees to also come along.

A huge thank you to our Parent Partners, Parent Craft Club, staff, everyone who donated home baking and to everyone who came along to join us. We will update you with the total raised as soon as possible.

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Spring Home Learning Task

 

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to our Spring Home Learning task. It was lovely to use the placemats and table decorations as part of our Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. You can see some of the designs below.

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World Autism Awareness Day

Today we celebrated World Autism Awareness Day.

We all wore our favourite colours to show how we are all different.

Mr Ullathorne, one of our parents who works with Autism Initiatives took workshops with P2-7. They discussed autistic super powers, neurodiversity and sensory overload.

A big thank you to Mr Ullathorne for giving up his time to come and work with us.

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