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Today we spent a lovely sunny afternoon out in the school garden with Sarah-Jane. She taught us about the different vegetable families, including which parts of the plant we eat, what different seeds need to grow and how gardeners plant them. We then had the chance to get our hands dirty (some dirtier than others!) by helping out with jobs in the garden. We planted potatoes, sweetcorn, pumpkins, kale, onions, garlic, leeks, brussel sprouts and sunflowers. Thank you Sarah-Jane, it was great fun!
Thank you to everyone who collected and donated Sainsbury’s  Active Kids vouchers. These have now been counted up and sent off with an order for some cooking and food preparation equipment and a big bag to keep the Kitchen Kit in.  This will be in use a lot next year in the classes across the school as we learn how to peel, chop, grate, mix, make – and taste- lots of different types of food. Yummy!
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.
Bienvenue au café! À la cantine, vendredi 29 mai, à 1115h.
Vous pouvez manger des croissants, boire du café, et parler français!Â
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.
We had a Seder meal today – we had kind of the same food the Jewish people would eat. It was very tasty. We tasted parsley and bitter herbs (horse radish) , matzo bread, salt water and charoset (mixed chopped apples and cinnamon). Â We drank juice instead of wine. The Seder meal is eaten at Passover to celebrate Jewish freedom from slavery.
Thank you to everyone who donated Morrisons ‘Let’s Grow’ vouchers to our school. We collected 1595 which will let us order more trowels, forks and planting equipment for our Ground Force box, and a couple of items to build up our food preparation equipment to help in our learning about Food and Health.
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!
This week, Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 have been looking at food journeys. First of all, we looked at how milk makes its journey from the farm all the way to our fridges at home (ask us to explain it to you!).
On Friday, we began to think about how vegetables grow and come from the farm to us. We got ‘green-fingered’ and planted lots of different vegetable seeds (carrots, peppers, sweetcorn, lettuce, cabbage, broccoli and leeks). We are looking forward to seeing how they grow!
We have left our seeds in our library corridor/greenhouse, so keep an eye out for any shoots peeking through!
Until next time…
The P1 & P1/2 Farmers 🙂
