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As part of our anti-bullying focus in school this week, Primary 1 have been learning about what bullying is and how we can get help if we are affected by it.  We made a poster to show ways to stop bullying.
Sophie-Rose: I would tell them to stop and if that doesn’t work, I would tell an adult.
Kian: I would tell the teacher and my Mum and Dad.
As part of our anti-bullying week, P6 have been discussing how to stand up to bullying. We thought about strategies for standing up for ourselves and also for standing up for others. P6 then shared their learning with the P3 class as a way of helping others stand up to bullying.
The P6s did a great job of talking to P3 about their strategies and showed that they have great potential as next year’s P7 buddies! Mrs Cullum was also very impressed with how well the P3s did when talking to the older children about bullying.
Well done to P6 and P3.
Every week teachers select one or two pupils in their class who have an achievement to celebrate. If pupils have successes from home to share they can do this at assembly on Tuesday or singing practice on Thursday. Â Where possible, we try to post some photos of these achievements.
Assembly certificates – 22 November 2016
Assembly certificates – 29 November 2016
One of our P3 pupils has a special award from his badminton club to share. 
Primary 3 planned and prepared letters to send to our local garden centres to ask if they would be able to donate some bulbs for us to plant on the 10th December during our Tree Planting event. Maja and Matthew walked to the post office, bought stamps and posted the letters on behalf of their class. We hope to hear from the garden centres soon.
https://youtu.be/MUfBEk7OZYw
On Friday Hallie, Liam, Katy and Katie represented our School at the opening of the new sports changing pavilion at Uphall Station sports field.
This new community run facility will be a great boost to sport in our community.
Primary 1Â had a visit from Officer McCartney who is our Community Police Officer. We found out lots of interesting things about how he helps people in his job. After his visit, we drew and labelled some of the important items he carries with him everyday to help him in his work.
Thank you to everyone who came to see our assembly! We hope you had as much fun watching it as we did performing it.
‘ I enjoyed going out to get my Mum because that bit was funny!’ Eilidh
‘ I enjoyed watching Connor being a camel’ Ryleigh
‘ I enjoyed watching Mitchell trying to attach the fish to the fishing rod. I thought that was funny’ Jaxson
‘ I liked it when I was catching the fish’ James
‘ I liked saying my lines to everyone’ Layla
As you are aware our playground is icy. Â Pupils love this and it is great fun. Â In school we encourage pupils to explore different aspects of the world around them safely.
Unfortunately this is obviously not totally safe, and the enthusiasm for ice wears off, even with children, and they just want to run and play again.
West Lothian Council Policy is clear that a single path of entry is gritted to allow safe access to school but that playgrounds and other public spaces are not gritted as this would place an unreasonable demand on the facilities management workforce.
April Edwards, mum of a P1 pupil, and a member of your Parent Council approached me with a novel solution which I think is a great idea and could work – with your support.
On Monday we will receive a delivery of grit-salt which will be in the playground. Â There will be a selection of shovels in the shed and some High-Visibility reflective vests. Â In order to all work together to solve the problem, which so many of you have discussed with me, we need to muck in – grab a shovel – and spread the grit on the playground.
Five minutes of your time in the morning, or after school would see us working together as a community to fix a problem. What a great idea, and a great chance to be involved in supporting your school and all of our children. Â I hope you agree that this is a practical, community-based solution to a problem which we are not able to fix alone.
Steven Eagleson
P6 have been having great fun in food technology with Mrs Andison. They have been practising making their products to sell at our Christmas Fayre next week. Have a look at the pictures below to see them at work.
In maths, P6 have been planning their upcoming learning. We looked at what we will be learning about next in maths and the children thought about what they would need to do to reach their target, how they would know they have achieved their target and how they could show evidence of their learning.
Mrs Cullum and P6
