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The stars of today’s assembly were Primary 5 who took us back to the days of Mary Queen of Scots and told us all about her life. We learned about her husbands, her travelling and her hopes that her cousin Elizabeth would help her.
The cast coped really well with the glitches in technology, and with the weather trying to take part!
Well done Primary 5.
What was your favourite part of the assembly?
Here are the stars of yesterday’s assembly- Primary 7. Â They shared what they had learned about World War 2 and told the story of two children who were evacuated to safety. Â Thank you for helping us to mark the season of remembrance Primary 7. The picture shows the cast at the end of the show.
We have been learning about chicks this week. We were drawing chicks today; we drew yellow dots and then we put on legs, eyes, beak and made every chick a little bit different. Â In our groups we made big pictures to show what we know about the life cycle of a chicken, and what they need to grow big and strong.
We were learning about caring people as part of Rights Respecting schools. We know children have the right to live with their parents or someone who cares for them.
Thank you again to everyone who donated goods to our Harvest table today. We were very grateful for all the food and produce brought in to school, and glad to be able to help our local community in this way. This year the table also included some of our OWN grown produce- the leeks were freshly pulled out of the raised beds this morning.
We hope everyone who joined us enjoyed our Harvest assembly and we wish all the best to everyone receiving a bag of Harvest goods. This year we were able to give bags to everyone nominated by our school family, and to send many bags to the West Lothian foodbank to help families in crisis. Thank you to the group of helpers who sorted out the bags for distribution. Your help is much appreciated.
We learned at Assembly how our money has helped our friends in Uganda to buy Braille machines for the school and orphanage in Magale, and we saw how happy the children were to receive a pencil each.
We can make a difference!
At today’s Assembly we heard who had won the Poster competition organised by the JRSOs. Here are the winning designs which will be adapted into posters for display around our school, to encourage everyone to park smart or to travel to school without the car.
Well done to Sophie, Bayleigh, Kyle, Bailey, Molly, Nia, Freya, and Jonathan.
Have you been practising your entry for the Eco Talent show next week? The Eco Committee will be hosting the Eco Factor and judging the best two entries from each class to find the best Junior and Senior Eco acts in school. In class Auditions will be held very soon – the Big Final is on Thursday 20th at Assembly. Remember, if you want to win, your act MUST contain and very clear ECO message…
Primary 3 had a great time performing their expressive dance last week to Katie Perry’s song, “Roar”. The class enjoyed it  so much they have asked if they can perform the dance again when they have their class assembly soon.
Well done to Ciaran and James who were picked to recite their poems at the Scots assembly. Well done also to Dolce, Hollie, Liam and Eilidh who gave a super performance when performing ‘Strip the Willow’ with the P7 dancers. It was a super afternoon which we all enjoyed. We hope the senior citizens who attended enjoyed it as much as we did!
This week the children took part in our Scottish Assembly. Well done to Nathan and Oliwia for reciting their Scottish poems and to Lucas, Cerys, Callum and Kamila for performing The Canadian Barn Dance with pupils from primary three.
We have also been learning about 3D shapes and have used them to make models.  In literacy we have been learning about magic ‘e’ and how it changes the sound of the middle vowel, for example, cap becomes cape. Can you find some more words that can be changed by adding magic ‘e’ to them?
Here are links to the powerpoint presentations about Lord Lister shown at assembly this week. They were created by Primary 6.
Lord joseph Lister by ciaran,craig and liam FOR ASSEMBLY
Lord Joseph Lister for ASSEMBLY
use of antiseptic today production team molly leyla finlay c
