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.

‘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!

Hatty Christmas!!

Here are some of the amazing hats produced by our children for their Christmas homework.

Well done everyone we are blown away by the fantastic range of designs and the artistic skills you’ve shown!

A hat parade will be part of our Christmas singalong on Tuesday morning at 9.30.

Christmas Card winners!

Primary 1-7 took part in a recent competition to design Christmas cards to be used by Pumpherston Community Council this Christmas. The entries were judged by a panel of Community council members and we are now proud to be able to show you the winners!   Each prize winner has a copy of their printed design, and received a Christmas treat from the Community council as a prize. To see the winning designs, click on the links below. Congratulations to all our artists.

p7 winner p6 winner p5 winner p4 winner P3 winner P2 winner p1-2 winner p1 winner

Nativity

Over the past few weeks, Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 have been learning about Nativity.

First, we heard the Nativity story, and tried to relate what we learned to our own ‘Wriggly Nativity’ story. We also looked at different versions of the story and talked about what was the same and what was different.

Then, we moved on to creating the programme for our own Nativity performance. We drew a picture of ourselves as our character, wrote our own name and tried hard to write our character’s name. They looked great! We photocopied them for our grown-ups to enjoy too!

Finally, after lots of singing and acting (and wriggling!) came our performance of ‘Wriggly Nativity’. After a slight delay from the fire alarm, we were ready to go! We loved the songs, especially the parts where we could wriggle! Mrs Andison and Miss McLaughlin were very proud – we’re sure we saw tears in their eyes! We really enjoyed our learning over this topic!

Miss McLaughlin and Mrs Andison would like to thank Nia Mullen (P5) and Lewis Paterson (P4) for being wonderful narrators; Liam Cavanagh (P7) and Zoe Evans (P7) for being super with our sound; Rebecca Lawrie (P7) and Alexa Renwick (P7) for selling our programmes; Miss Speirs for keeping the performance going; Mrs Hull for all the song rehearsals; all of the grown-ups who came to see our performance and bought the programmes, and finally, to the children in Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 who worked so hard to make the performance as special as it was. Thank you.

Merry Christmas from Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 🙂

The Christmas Extravaganza

Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun at the Christmas extravaganza today. It was a great success. Congratulations to the choir for singing so sweetly and starting the afternoon off in style.  We sent a roving reporter round the busy stalls to record some of the activity for the Blog. 

  More details, including a total for the funds raised, to follow soon.

P6 Christmas Fair goodies

In P6 we have been looking at persuasive writing. Molly Gilles and Kristinna Sharp produced a fantastic advert each to persuade you to come to our Christmas Fayre. The children have been working with P7 to produce a range of goodies to sell at the fair. Also P5, P6 and P7 have been practising some lovely Christmas carols to entertain you with at the Fair! See you on Friday!

Molly's writingKristinna's advert

P1 and P1/2 Enterprise

This week, Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 have started their enterprise project: to design a ‘sweet treat’ to sell at the Christmas Fayre.

First, we talked about the foods that we eat at Christmas. Then, we looked at Christmas magazines and cut out all the sweet things that we could find. After that, we worked in groups to think of things we could make to fit into small sweetie cases. Some of the ideas we came up with were, gingerbread men, marshmallow snowmen, truffles and reindeer biscuits.

Next week, we will decide our top products and plan how we are going to make them.

Homework task.. If you have time this weekend, could an adult bake or make ‘sweet treats’ with their children to practise baking skills.

P1 and P1/2

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