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West Lothian Sumdog Champs!
In the recent West Lothian Sumdog Competition we had 3 children who came in the top 50 out of 3379 competitors!
- 6th Place – Lucas in P6
- 10th Place – Rosa in P4
- 41st – Calum in P4
Out of 157 classes, our classes placed:
- 46th – Primary 4
- 63rd – Primary 6
- 70th – Primary 5
- 79th – Primary 3
This is a huge achievement for our school. A big well done to everyone who took part.
Term 3 Celebration Assembly
Today we had our first Celebration Assembly to celebrate all our achievements during Term 3.
We had our first Dojo Top Scorers for each of our houses – they received a £10 gift voucher for WH Smith.
Each teacher nominated a child in their class for the Remarkable Reader Award for making progress in their reading.
They also nominated a child in their class for the STEM Superstar Award for making progress in Science, Technologies, Engineering and Maths.
We gave out Sumdog Awards for the Top 5 in Reading and Maths during our Snow Days.
P7 Young Leaders who took part in the Families Reading Together session received a Head Teacher Award.
The children who took part in the West Lothian Burns festival received a Head Teacher Award.
Miai and Jessica told us about representing our cluster on a trip to London.
Almond won the house points for this term.
Well done to everyone who received an award, and thank you to the families who joined us.
Fundraising Friday! – Friday 23rd March
On Friday 23rd March the Magale Group have organised:
Movies for Magale
Children have a choice to watch one of 7 different films on Friday morning, for a contribution to our partner school in Magale. They can also purchase popcorn for 30p.
As world autism day is on 2nd April, for the dress down day on Friday 23rd March we are asking children to #LightItUpBlue and wear blue to raise awareness of autism for a small donation.
All money raised on this day will go to Magale.
Families Reading Together in Our Community Library
Due to the success of our Families Reading Together sessions during World Book Week, our community library would now like to offer them every Thursday during term time.
We look forward to seeing you there!
WL Sumdog leaderboard so far …
Out of 86 classes:
- 28th – P4
- 58th – P5
- 61st – P6
Out of 1908 pupils, the top 50 score board is:
- 14th – Ola in P2
The competition closes on Thursday.
Celebration Assembly – Thursday 15th March 2018
On Thursday 15th March we are holding our first Celebration Assembly to mark our achievements this term.
Teachers have nominated children for a STEM Superstar and Remarkable Reader Awards in each class, if your child is receiving one of these awards you should have received a special invite last week.
We will also be giving out Head Teachers Award, Sumdog Awards, Top Scorers and the House Winners, so please feel free to come along and and join us at 9:15am if you wish.
West Lothian Sumdog Maths Competition
Today West Lothian started their Sumdog Maths competition, until Thursday.
All children are invited to take part at home as well as at school.
We will present certificates to our children who come within the top 50.
Good luck everyone!
World Book Day: Supertato
In our workshop, we looked at the book ‘Supertato’ by Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet. We talked about the main character and looked at a short video about how the authors created the caped potato superhero!
We then discussed the next book, ‘Supertato Veggies Assemble’. In this book, the vegetables decide to work together as a team of ‘Super Veggies’! All of the children then created their own super vegetable character.
Primary 2
For ‘Pumphy Book Day’, we took part in activities linked to different stories.
So, what did we do?
Miss McLaughlin – We were looking at ‘This Book just ate my dog!’. We made our own greedy books and created our own titles (‘This book just ate…’).
Mrs Strachan – We were looking at ‘Aliens love Underpants’. We got to design our own aliens or our own pair of underpants!
Miss McLennan – We were looking at ‘Blown away’. We got to design and make our own kites!
Mrs Dugan – We were looking at ‘Supertato’. We got to make our own ‘Super’ vegetables!
We also got to dress up as our favourite book characters!
What did we do at home?
Some of us took part in the ‘Families reading together’ sessions. We got to make bookmarks, models and masks. Some of us tried to make our own books at home, with nice and nasty characters. We also made use of our ‘Book Bug’ and ‘Read, Write, Count’ bags. We’ve been doing lots of extra reading at home too!
