Walk your wings off

On Friday 19th September the school is going out litter picking.The theme is walk your wings off.You can wear your fairy wings or superhero cape.If you don’t have a superhero cape or fairy wings wear your invisible cape or wings.We have some parents/carers who offered to help us on the day.If you are free on the 19th of September please come along and help.We are grateful that we have a lady from our community council who is coming coming to help us with the litter pick.

Thanks from

Mrs Hull, Mrs Bonner and the Eco Committee.

JRSO Weekly Blog

The JRSO’s have been learning how much a driver can see while sitting in the driver’s seat and where the blind spots are on the car model.  P7 pupils got to sit in Mrs Hull’s car (with the keys secure in her pocket) to safely re-create what it is like to be a driver at the wheel and the dangers of being a pedestrian.

by Eilidh and Ellie

Jump Rope for Heart

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!

JRSO Parksmart poster winners

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.

Jump Rope Report

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.

Mrs Hull

Jump Rope for Heart

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?

P6 weekly blog

We are helping Mrs Hull to organise the school ‘Jump Rope for Heart’ event – a sponsored skipping event on Friday 9th May.  We have sorted out a timetable for classes, drafted the letter for parents and counted out the sponsor forms.  We checked how many skipping ropes we have and will be practising our skipping skills.

Tomorrow we are going to Pumpherston Bowling Club. We will need to wear flat plimsolls or gym rubbers.

Our topic for this term is The Local Community and we are currently practising our class talks about clubs and activities that take place in our community.

P5 and P7 get a taste for learning about Food

Primary 5 and Primary 7 came together today to learn from Mr Rose, a chef from the Scottish Parliament.  He showed us how to prepare a range of fresh fruit then gave us delicious fruit kebabs to try with yoghurt, raspberry coulis or granola he had specially made for us earlier.  Then he used more raspberries, bananas, honey and milk blended together into a tasty smoothie for us. These are awesome ways to eat more fruit !

We then got to see a range of the Scottish produce that is served at the Scottish Parliament.  The catering team there use Scottish ingredients as much as possible to show off Scottish food to the MSPs and visitors.  They also reduce the distance food has to travel and the pollution this would cause.  They make sure to use sustainable ingredients – this means that the way the food is grown, made or caught is carefully thought about so we don’t run out.

We saw honey, oil, chicken, lamb, beef, cheese, chutney and salmon, then we got to taste smoked venison! Then for a grande finale Chef showed us different seafood from Scottish waters including rainbow trout, seabass, plaice and cockles.

It was an excellent presentation and Chef inspired us to try new tastes which we loved! Some of us are even thinking about the world of hospitality for our future careers.

A big thank you to Chef for his hard work, and to the suppliers who generous donated the samples for us to try.

P3 with a Chef!

Last week a Chef (Mr Mellor) made ice cream in our classroom and we got to taste it. It was amazing!  He let us ask him questions on how to make food. He told us recipes. 

My favourite bit was:

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