Assembly – Celebrating Our Uniqueness
Today at assembly we celebrated how we are all unique and that we should respect everyone for their uniqueness. We watched a video which made us think about we accept others for who they are.
Congratulations to Primary 3, who have completed their Fun Start Sessions with Broxburn United, and a big thank you to the team there for delivering the sessions.
A big well done to all our children this week who have been Living Our Values.
The House Points for the term so far are …
Pumphie Pals Meeting
Primary 1 Stay Safe Online
 We are learning to … stay safe online.Â
- I can … name some things that use the internet.
- I know … what to do if I think something is wrong.
- I can … name adults that I can speak to.
We talked about what we like doing on computers or ipads.
Maisey – “I like playing ‘Minions’ on my ipad”
Connor – “I like going on You Tube”
Christopher J “He might see something he doesn’t want”
We heard a story about Smartie the penguin who got a new computer for his birthday. Something popped up on the screen and he didn’t know what is was or what to do. We talked to our partners to think of some help for Smartie. We had a vote and decided he should tell a grown-up.
We learned a song to help us remember what to do:
Before you click, click, click
You need to think, think, thinkÂ
AND TELL SOMEONE!Â
Glorious Recording
West Lothian Courier
This week our school featured in the West Lothian Courier.
One last Scots treat from P1!
Scots Celebration Assembly
Today we held our traditional Scots Assembly to celebrate Scots and Burns. We invited our grandparents along to share this special celebration with us.
Our nursery am children joined us at the assembly to sing some songs and pm children sent us some videos to share.
Over the past few weeks we have been learning Scots and Burns poems and each class selected 2 pupils to present at today’s assembly. On Monday we will find out the names of the pupil at each stage who will now go through to the West Lothian Burns Competition. The Vice Captains and Mrs Dickie were a tough judging panel to impress!
Primary 6 have been learning Scottish Dancing in P.E. and their class selected a group of pupils to share their dance a our assembly.
We all took part in a Scottish sing song sharing the songs we have been learning.
A big thank you to Mrs Campbell and Mrs Dickie for organising the assembly, and to everyone who came along to help us celebrate.
Scots in Primary 1
We are learning to … perform a poem using good volume and eye contact.
I can … say the words clearly
I can … look at the audience
I can … stand still.
I can … use a volume of voice so people can hear me.
We are learning to … mix primary colours to create new ones and creat patterns with colour.
I can … choose colours to mix and describe what new colour I make
I can … experiment with a repeating colour pattern using art materials.
In talking & listening this week we have been trying hard to learn ‘Mince & Tatties’ and ‘Robin Reidbreist’.  Everyone had a go of reciting the poem they had chosen to the class. Some people felt a little bit nervous and scared before they performed but afterwards felt proud! Hannah, Christopher, Connor and Iona were chosen to perform at the Scots Assembly.
In art we learned to mix colours to make brown. Floraidh remembered that we needed to mix red, yellow and blue.  We also designed new tartan kilts for Katie Morag.  Ruiraidh said we had to make a pattern using crayon lines.
We learned about a famous Scottish book character, Katie Morag. We had to write a description about her. We used descriptions like: curly, red hair / black boots / green kilt / rosy cheeks. We tried hard to use our sounds to write lots of this by ourselves.
We self-assessed our work by explaining what was good about it.
Keep learning your sounds and blending at home everyone – you are becoming very good writers and readers!
Here are a selection of children reciting their poems:
