Category: Partnership Working

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West Lothian Gardening Awards Success!

Sarah-Jane and Miss Burton attended the West Lothian Council Gardening Awards on Friday 25th October. Our school received two awards:

  • Best Container Gardern
  • Best Decorative Garden

We received the beautiful plaque below and a gift voucher.

These awards for a fantastic recognition for all the work Sarah-Jane and our Gardening Club have done in the past year.

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Magical Mediators Trip

Our P7 Magical Mediators took part in a special training event at Tynecastle in Edinburgh on Thursday.  Schools from across Scotland came

together to enjoy a circus themed day and to brush up on their mediation skills.  Mrs Ross and Mrs Bonner said our P7s were a credit to our school.

 

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Our Award Winning Garden!

Last week judges from West Lothian Council visited our school to judge our school garden for the Primary School Gardening Competition.

We are delighted to announce that we received TWO awards!

  • Decorative Garden
  • Container Garden

This is a huge achievement for our school,  and a tribute to the work of Sarah-Jane and our gardening club, a big thank you to them. Well done!

 

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Celebration Assembly Term 4

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.

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Our School Garden

Over the last few months we have been working hard in our school garden. After school garden club, Club Wild and the P1s and P2s have all been busy using their green fingers to prepare the beds, plant seeds and make signs ready for the growing season. This year we are going crazy for colour to brighten up our playground.
In the vegetable patch we have been looking at the different plant families, roots, tubers, fruits, leafy, bulbs, stems, flowering and pulses. Gardeners use these families to group plants with the parts that we eat. Our potatoes, broad beans, onions and peas are already looking great. The broad beans have a beautiful dark pink flower which is attracting lots of bees and if you watch quietly you might see the sparrows feeding babies nesting in the bird box.
Around the playground colours are popping up everywhere. At after school garden club we have been thinking about different colours and what things we see in nature are that colour. We started with red and planted poppies, strawberries and nasturtium and we painted coconut ladybirds to decorate the fence. Mrs Brady gave us some red sunflowers. I wonder how tall they will grow. We went on to think about and plant blue, green, pink, purple, orange and yellow zones in the playground.
This year we have also been using the herbs that we have growing in the garden and school grounds. The P2s learned about the healing properties of plants such as lavender, willow bark, eucalyptus, feverfew, and sage amongst others. The children made their own medicine for Molly, the class doll who was unwell.
We have also been working on our wild flower patch that we planted a few years ago. Club Wild had great fun making seed bombs and throwing them, along with making butterfly feeders.
Our rich and colourful garden is wonderful for the children and all our visiting wildlife. Please help us to look after this valuable and well loved resource.
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Summer BBQ

Come and join us for our summer fundraising BBQ. There will be rugby games with parent Mr. Black from 6:15 pm, adult and child tug of war competitions at 7pm, along with sensory games, a treasure hunt, crafts, music and party games. All food will be cooked on the barbeque by parent  Mr. Mellor, who is chef and there will be options for vegetarian and gluten free diets.
All food and games are included in the ticket price of £3 for an individual ticket or £10 for a family ticket. These can be purchased beforehand at the school office or on the day at the door. If the weather is not great, all the activities will be set up inside the school. Hopefully the sun will shine 😎
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Parent Partner Meeting

The Parent Partners will hold their AGM on Thursday 30th May at 6pm. At this meeting they will discuss the constitution for our Parent Partners Group. Miss Burton will also discuss our class structure and staffing for next session.

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Parent/ Carer Questionnaire

Thank you to everyone who has already responded.
We continually gather the views from our parent/ carers and other partners in a range of ways. We have developed this questionnaire to enable us to seek feedback on specific areas of the life, ethos and culture of our school. We will use the feedback from this questionnaire, the West Lothian Council Ethos Survey and other feedback we have, to celebrate our positives and continue on our improvement journey.
Thank you for taking time to complete this questionnaire.

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Basketball Team Success!

A big well done to our basketball team in making it to the West Lothian Wolves playoffs on Friday. This is a huge achievement for our newly formed team!

Thank you to Mrs Hamilton who has passionately coached the basketball team and inspired the team to persevere, and to Mrs Ross for supporting the team on Friday.

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