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Our House and Vice Captains have had the difficult task of selecting the winners for our Christmas card home learning task. The winners will be revealed at assembly on Friday. A huge well done to everyone who submitted an entry, it was very difficult to select a winner.
This week, the Primary 3 enterprise teams were working on their business plans!
We had to make decisions about how our apps would work, which characters would be included, where it would take place and which colour schemes we would use. There was a lot of group discussion and compromise! We used voting to make sure that decisions were fair.
We also designed ‘screenshots’ of what our apps would look like and shared these with Miss Burton. On Friday, Lauren from DYW West Lothian and Michelle from Almond Engineering came to visit us and hear our business plans so far! Thank you for giving us some of your time!
   
Next week we will begin to put our pitches together and create persuasive adverts to encourage people to use/download our apps. Stay tuned!
Until next time…
Primary 3 & Miss M 🙂
On Friday Michelle Quinn from Almond Enginnering joined us for our Celebration Assembly. Michelle shared her own personal journey of working hard at school, and then working her way up in Almond Engineering to become the first female Director.
Lauren from Developing the Young Workforce in West Lothian also joined Michelle. Before our assembly, they visited P3 to find out about their ‘Digital Me’ business plans and they were very impressed.
Michelle sent us the letter below, to say thank you, as she really enjoyed visiting our school.
We would like to thank both ladies for taking time out of their busy schedules to visit us.
On Thursday children and staff joined together for our Christmas Lunch. We shared crackers, told jokes and shared Christmas stories.
Thank you to our pupil support workers for helping to set up the hall, to our dinner ladies for a yummy lunch and to our P7s for serving everyone their lunch.
This morning we held our Term 2 Celebration Assembly.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebration-assembly-term-2
Michelle Quinn from Almond Engineering came along to share with us her achievement of receiving West Lothian Business Woman of the Year. She told us about how she worked hard at school and started with Almond Engineering 12 years ago and worked her way up in the company.
Our Dojo top scorers received a gift voucher.
Michelle presented our STEM Superstars with an award for their achievements in Science, Maths, Engineering and Maths.
Our Awesome Authors received an award for achievements in writing.
Our Basketball Team and Choir also received special awards.
Moira, our librarian had reading awards for children 12 books in 12 days, and for reading their first book.
One of our P4s received a head teacher award for performing in the Panto at Bathgate Regal.
Cozy Corner drew their raffle. 
Congratulations to Breich for earning the most house points in term 2, they will receive their treat at the start of next term.
Children and staff had a fantastic afternoon together watching Beauty and the Beast. The look of excitement and awe on our children’s faces was lovely to see. Thank you to Hopscotch for entertaining us. 
Nativity tickets are now on sale at the office for the whole school community costing £1 each. P1-3 families can also order more tickets if required.
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