We have counted up the sponsor money and Mrs Hull is VERY proud to announce that the Jump Rope for Heart event raised over £1283!! Thank you very much to EVERYONE who contributed to the success of this event.
The British Heart Foundation have said we can keep 20% of the money raised to buy playground equipment, to keep us fit and active with healthy hearts. This will be £256.64! (Miss Speirs and the Pupil Council will discuss how to spend it in the next school year.)
We have sent a cheque to the British Heart Foundation for the fantastic sum of £1026.56! This will do a great deal of good work on fighting heart disease and teaching more emergency first aid throughout Great Britain. Well done everyone and THANK YOU!
What a fantastic effort everyone put in to their hopping, skipping and jumping today at our Jump Rope for Heart event!
Top skippers on the 30 second challenge included Bailey, Jay, John-Paul, Josh, Mrs Mooney, Jessica, Courtney, Lewis, Cameron, Ben, Jamie-Lee, Josh and Amy.
Well done to everyone for all your hard work, I know you got your hearts working harder today with all that exercise. The weather was very kind to us, with the first drops of rain waiting until we were ready to pack up the ropes!
Thank you to Primary 6 for all their help in organising the rota, writing the letters to give out, and supervising the different activity stations today.
The next job will be to collect in the sponsor forms and sponsor money! Please return your sponsor form and money raised as soon as you can (perhaps when you get your breath back?) and we’ll blog the total raised when we have it.
This Friday is our Jump Rope for Heart event – a sponsored skip in aid of the British Heart Foundation.
This charity work to save lives and make life better for people with heart disease. The British Heart Foundation also work with schools through their Heartstart programme to train children in emergency first aid.
We are now an affiliated Heartstart school and Primary 2, 4, and 6 have been learning these very important skills with Mrs Hull using resources sent to us by the BHF. Now we want to give something back and help them to continue their work with other schools.
Sponsor forms will be coming home on Wednesday!! On Friday morning each class will take part in skipping activities for 45 minutes using long and short ropes with Primary 6 on hand to help with the counting.
Which class will manage the most skips without stopping? Who will show skipping style on the long ropes? Can the teachers keep up?
Lots of people say to us “What a wonderful school to work in”; “What a lovely building you have”; “What a difference to the old school” and “How much nicer it must be to learn in such a lovely school”. All of these things are true but they don’t mention the biggest reason why we are so lucky and that is – the support that we continue to receive from the communities of Pumpherston and Uphall Station. We couldn’t do it without you.
This was especially true last week during our first Coffee Morning for MacMillan Cancer Care and our Bake Off Competition. The entries to the competition were amazing and the judges had a very hard job, not least due to the sheer number of entries. The quality of entries and the time and care that the children, and their parents, had put into them was absolutely amazing. I am sure many of the adults that saw them could not have done such a fantastic job, so well done to everyone who entered. The winners will be announced during our whole school singing practice on Tuesday 1st October.
Some of the entries in our Bake Off Competition
The coffee morning itself was made possible partly due to the number of donations we received of home baking, tea, coffee, sugar, napkins, juice, cups etc all of which meant more money was raised for our nominated school charity of MacMillan Cancer Care.
Some of the donations for the coffee morning
A fantastic time was had by the pupils, the staff and, most importantly, members of our local community who came and joined us throughout the morning. Some people came for the whole morning, others for a short time. Mrs Andison, the event organiser, kept every class to their time slot and made everything run smoothly.
More Bake Off entries
At the end of the day we raised an enormous £707.17 for MacMillan Cancer Care and everyone who was part of the event had a great time.
Friday was a great day with lots of children doing Mrs Campbell’s job! It started with Mr Campbell and Miss Sweeney both from P1 who were in to teach maths. After break we had Miss Mackie from P7 who was doing the spelling tests and also Miss Gillies who was helping with the weekly reflections. We had P5 pupils who were out doing other jobs! Some were being the janitor, some were teaching in a variety of classes and one was being Mrs Nicolls for the morning. It was a fun way to raise so much money for charity.
Last week we had a food tasting session where we tasted a variety of different types of foods including; mozzarella cheese, avocado, watermelon and mango. At first most of the children weren’t sure about tasting the mozzarella cheese however, in the end it turned out to be the favourite food item we tasted. This week we have been researching where these different foods come from. We have started to gather facts and information to make a poster and a Powerpoint to share with the class.
Today was a very different day in Primary 4 and we had lots of new teachers in our class. Thank you to Miss Mullen, Mr Muir, Miss Marson, Miss Duncan-Hamilton and Miss Sulik for all your hard work and fantastic lessons today. We hope all the boys and girls will have their homework ready for Miss Mullen on Monday!
Congratulations to all of our pupils and staff who did a job swap and made this day a success, I think we all had a great day and all deeply enjoyed it.
Thank you too to everyone for your generous donations. We have raised £295.73.
Mr Lewis Taylor
Head Teacher for the day
Miss Speirs says thank you to all of the other wonderful Head Teachers who took part today; Miss Toal, Miss Neilson and Mr Elder who did a fantastic job.
Our class are very much looking forward to red nose day tomorrow. Angel will be taking on the role of Head Teacher. Louisa and Aaron will be working in the office with Mrs Thom and Hayden will be on playground duty. Donatella is going to be the teacher in primary 3 and she is worried that Mrs Strachan is going to be a naughty pupil!
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We have counted up the sponsor money and Mrs Hull is VERY proud to announce that the Jump Rope for Heart event raised over £1283!! Thank you very much to EVERYONE who contributed to the success of this event.
