School packed lunches and hot meals update – Wednesday 25 March
All Children Entitled to Free School Meals (including all P1-P3) can collect a packed lunch and a breakfast cereal bar/cereal or have a hot meal at the following schools between 12 noon and 1.30pm.  The list of locations has now been extended and is below.
- All 11 secondary schools
- All of the primary schools are listed below:
- Addiewell Primary School
- Armadale Primary School
- Bellsquarry Primary School
- Blackridge Primary School
- Bridgend Primary School
- Deans Primary School
- Dechmont Infant School
- East Calder Primary School
- Greenrigg Primary School
- Howden St Andrew’s Primary School, Livingston
- Kirkhill Primary School, Broxburn
- Kirknewton Primary School
- Longridge Primary School
- Mid Calder Primary School
- Murrayfield Primary School, Blackburn
- Our Lady’s Primary School, Stoneyburn
- Parkhead Primary School
- Peel Primary School, Livingston
- Polkemmet Primary School, Whitburn
- Pumpherston and Uphall Station Primary School
- Riverside Primary School, Livingston
- Seafield Primary School
- St John The Baptist Primary School, Fauldhouse
- Torphichen Primary School
- Westfield Primary School
- Winchburgh Primary School
- Woodmuir Primary School
Please note that the following schools below provide a packed lunch for collection only.
- Harrysmuir PS, Livingston
- Knightsridge PS, Livingston
- Springfield PS, Linlithgow
- Simpson PS, Bathgate
- St Ninians PS, Livingston
- St Mary s PS. Bathgate
A small number of children entitled to Free School Meals (FSM) who live at remote addresses will be contacted to offer help accessing these centres
Whole School Weekly Challenge 1: Stay at Home Poster
Useful apps/websites
Here are some apps/websites which may help with home learning opportunities:
Literacy
www.spellingcity.com (some games free)
www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
STEM
www.tynker.com (for coding)
www.stem.org.uk (for daily challenges around the home/garden)
www.topmarks.co.uk (free maths games for 5-7 year olds)
Health and Wellbeing
www.actionforhappiness.org.uk (for mindfulness/acts of kindness)
We hope you find these helpful. We will continue to add to this list over the coming weeks.
Sumdog Challenges
All Primary 1-7 children can access Sumdog Maths Challenges.
Primary 3, 4, 6 and 7 can also access Sumdog Reading Challenges.
Creating a Visual Timetable
For a lot of our children routine is important. The visuals below might be useful for creating a timetable.
P4-7 Glow Teams Responsible Use
It is great to see so many children logging into their glow team and accessing learning today.
Please remind your child – the team is for learning and is not for general ‘chit chat’, for example ‘Hi’ or ‘What are you doing?’Â The current level of ‘chit chat’ from some children is meaning it is difficult for children to find their tasks and for teachers to see what has been completed.
Each team has a chat channel, which is a more informal way that children can communicate to each other.
The children decided the following ways to use their Team responsibly:
Thanks for your support with this.
Primary 4-7 Glow Learning
Good morning from Mrs Mooney, Mrs Campbell, Miss McLaughlin and Mrs Andison!
This post is to explain to parents of P4-7 children how learning will be posted.
Each week, staff will post two Sumdog challenges – one for Reading skills and another for selected Numeracy skills. They will be available for children to complete until 12.30pm on the Friday.
Children who use IDL are encouraged to access their account and complete lessons.
We would also encourage children to practise their French daily using the Duolingo app (free to download from the App Store).
Activities across the week will be posted as follows:
Monday – Spelling words & 3 activities from homework grid (this will be posted if children have lost it); PE sessions with Joe Wickes (9.00am every weekday – access via YouTube)
Tuesday – IDL/Topic-themed learning activity; PE session with Joe Wickes
Wednesday – Reading activity; PE session with Joe Wickes
Thursday – Numeracy/Maths activity; PE session with Joe Wickes
Friday – Free Writing activity; PE session with Joe Wickes
Children are free to post learning on their Microsoft Teams account or record it in their homework jotter.
Take care and stay safe.
Primary 4-7 Staff 🙂
A guide to Glow for Parents/ Carers
Ways to Access IDL Literacy at Home
If your child has an IDL login please find attached an updated information sheet outlining how to access IDL Literacy at home. Ways to Access IDL
