Today at assembly we launched a whole school competition for the West Lothian Stellar Young Writer Award. Over the next few weeks children will have the opportunity to complete a piece of writing for the competition.
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).
Primary 1-7 Sports Day
Sports day will take place on Thursday 9th May at 1:30pm, on the playing fields beside the school. Sports Day will include potted sports and traditional races. Children can come to school on Thursday dressed ready for Sports Day, please ensure no football colours are worn. We would also request that all children remember to bring their water bottle to school on that day so they can take it to the field with them. To join in with their team spirit we would request if possible children wear a top in their Pumphie Pals colour:
- Almond – Green
- Breich – Red
- Calder – Blue
There will be an area on the field designated for families to spectate the events and we would request that parents/ carers please stay in this area. Dogs are not permitted at Sports Day. Please note, due to health and safety, there will be no access to the school for spectators. Due to photograph restrictions, we ask that you only take photographs of your own child/ children and ensure that no photos or videos of other children are taken, or posted on social media.
At the end of Sports Day, can we please request that all parents/ carers stay on the field until all the children have safely returned to the school building. Then we will open the playground and parents/ carers can collect their child from outside their classroom door.
Should we have to cancel due to the weather, we will Groupcall you by 11.00am on that day.
We look forward to you joining us for a fun and healthy afternoon!
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/
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.
Uphall Station Children’s Gala Day
Our school have been invited to take part in the Uphall Station Gala Day on Saturday 8th June. The theme this year is ‘tropical’. All children at our school can attend and walk in the parade to represent our school.
More information to follow.
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
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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.
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.
Great fun today taking workshops with children from P2-P7 for #WorldAutismAwarenessDay.. Talked autistic superpowers, neurodiversity & meeting each others' sensory needs.. Proud to work with @AutismInit to support people to have control & choice in life ❤https://t.co/IypN9stJQS
— Tom Ullathorne (@TomUllathorne) April 2, 2019
P7 Enterprise at Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
Some of our P7s will be selling items and have organised games on the P6 and P7 decking during the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party to raise money for their leavers celebrations.
Pump Track Photo Shoot
Last week some of our children who are confident on the Pump Track volunteered (with permission from their parents) to take part in a publicity photo shoot for West Lothian Council.
Here are some of the photos below.
Remember! Safety first on the Pump Track, find some tips in this blog post.
Photographs courtesy of Paul Watt.
