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Choir tour – day 2

We were at St John’s hospital today, singing Christmas carols in aid of the charity  ‘Friends of St John’s hospital’.  Those of us who had sung at St John’s before noticed the shiny new decor in the reception area – there’s even a handy new place to plug in our CD player!

We were able to run through our repertoire 3 times and had gathered quite a few fans by the time we finished singing.  Thank you very much to everyone who came along to listen, our fan club were much appreciated. We heard lots of lovely comments and compliments, so we think everyone liked our singing and we were pleased with our performance.  Thank you to everyone who donated money into the charity buckets- we’ll hope to hear the grand total raised in the New Year.

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What a Wonderful Wig Walk!

Thank you SO much to everyone who contributed to the success of our ‘Walk your Wigs Off’ walk today.  This was our part of West Lothian Walking week, and what lovely weather we had for our walks. Thank you to Pumpherston Community Council and the West Lothian Council NETS team for the  loan of litter picking equipment – Pumpherston was looking very tidy today.  We had a fantastic team of helpers with us on the walk, thank you for coming along with us.  We hope you enjoyed it, we were very pleased to have you with us today.

Back at school we were raising money through our Dress Down Day pounds for Team Jak, a local charity raising money to build and improve facilities for young people with cancer – we are very proud to say we raised £200!

Well done everyone – remember, as it says in our song, ‘ I can, you can we can make a difference! ‘

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Le Café Français

Merci! Thank you to all our customers at the French café on Friday. We were so busy when we opened it was hard to find a seat! Thanks to your generosity we raised over £53 for our partner school in  Magale. Merci beaucoup!

Well done also to all my French-speaking staff, the waiters, waitresses, chefs, helpers and especially Mrs Adams, Ms Young and Mrs Dugan (all volunteers) for all their help.

 

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P6 café français- come along for a taste of French!

Bienvenue au café! À la cantine, vendredi 29 mai, à 1115h.

Vous pouvez manger des croissants, boire du café, et parler français! 

In the dining hall, Friday 29 May from 11.15am. You can taste some croissants, drink coffee and talk a little French! Open to parents and friends of the school- pop in and take part in our week exploring cultural diversity. All proceeds will go towards our partner school in Magale.

Part of the school 1+2 language development project
Part of the school 1+2 language development project
Bienvenue au café
Bienvenue au café
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Red Nose day Total

comic_relief_logoMrs Thom and her team have been counting.  They have done all their sums and have a final answer.

Our Red Nose Day activities raised £211.61!!

 

That’s fantastic, thank you to everyone who joined in and gave money, time and talents to help raise this much. The UK government has promised to double all money raised by schools for this year’s Red Nose Day campaign, so our efforts will be worth £423.22!!

Money raised by schools this year will be used by Comic relief to help get 300,000 children in Africa into education and learning.

I can, you can, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!

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Red Nose Day

We had lots of funny faces in school today, as part of our mission to raise money for Comic Relief on Red nose Day.

Both Bake sales ran out of stock before they ran out of customers, raising almost £100 from the sale of cupcakes, macaroons and rocky road.  Here are some pictures of the new members of staff on duty today:

Someone new at Miss Baillie's desk
Someone new at Miss Baillie’s desk
Lots of marking to do in Primary 3
Lots of marking to do in Primary 3
This candidate put in a very strong application to teach in Nursery today.
This candidate put in a very strong application to teach in Nursery today.
Primary 1's new teacher
Primary 1’s new teacher
The new Primary 7 teacher looks a bit strict!
The new Primary 7 teacher looks a bit strict!
Busy in the Head Teacher's office
Busy in the Head Teacher’s office
Keeping the school looking spick and span
Keeping the school looking spick and span
Funny Faces in P5
Funny Faces in P5

We’ll add more pictures and the final total of the money raised next week! Well done everyone, you looked very funny!

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‘Thank you’ from The Friends of St John’s Hospital

We received a lovely thank you card in the post from the Friends of St John’s Hospital, thanking us for our contribution to their fundraising. Our choir sang Christmas Carols in the foyer of St John’s on December 9th and £108.10 was raised during our singing!  The charity is dedicated to promoting the comfort and welfare of patients, staff and visitors at St John’s hospital in Livingston.  Our support will help them to provide services throughout St John’s for the benefit of all patients, staff and visitors.

We are very proud to be able to help such a worthwhile cause in our local community. Well done to the choir for singing so well!

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Harvest Service

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!

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Showing our school values to the world

At Assembly this week we were delighted to hear about the fundraising Cerys and Nia had done for our partner school in Magale. The girls worked with their family and organised a coffee morning at their grandma’s house last weekend.  They served tea and coffee, held a raffle, sold home baking and made loom bands for sale.  The total raised was over £400! Wow!  We added on the money already raised here in school last term and presented the cheque to Mrs Comrie after assembly.

The girls present a cheque to Mrs Crosbie

We were also treated to a slideshow presented by Molly, about her exciting trip to Malawi this summer with the charity Mary’s Meals.  This charity encourages children to go to school by making sure there is a meal for them to eat there during the day.  Molly took donations of toys and gifts, and met lots of new friends in Malawi.  She also got the chance to try the meal, called Pala, with the children, and she said it tasted a bit like porridge- but even worse!

Closer to home, we heard how Freya was a good and kind friend to Lauren when Lauren fell off her bike on her way back from school. Well done Freya.  We’re glad to see your leg is feeling better now Lauren.

These girls are great examples of our school values, showing respect and consideration for other people.

Have you seen any other good examples you would share with the world?

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