There is growing concern about children being affected by overuse of consoles/devices and the impact of this upon sleep patterns, behaviour and mood.
Linked below is an information leaflet, produced by Internet Matters which offers information, guidance and strategies for parents to help them tackle this.
School will finish for the summer holidays at 12.30pm on Friday 29th June.
Children have permission to dress down on this day if they would like to.
We wish everyone a safe and happy summer holiday!
Just a reminder that Sports Day is this Monday. Children can wear their sports clothes to school. It would be great if they could wear their House colours which are;
Bruce – Blue
Castle – Yellow
James Young – Red
Leyland – Green
Further information is on our website at;
http://www.simpsonprimary.westlothian.org.uk/article/28964/Sports-Day-Monday-18th-June
With thanks
Miss Ferris
Please be reminded, as per our previous Groupcall text, that the date for Sports Day has been moved from Wed 30th May to Mon 18th June. We apologise for any inconvenience caused but the circumstances have been outwith our control. The organisation of Sports Day this year will be slightly different, given the large number of children participating but a letter from the Sports Day organising team will follow with details.
As detailed in the School Newsletter, Simpson Primary will be taking part in #HappyShoesday on Tuesday 22nd May to celebrate Walk to School Month. Children can wear their favourite shoes/trainers to school (no High Heels please) or they can decorate an old pair of shoes with a happy theme – the more creative, the better! There will be no donations required – all we want is for the children to have a bit of fun and to encourage as many as possible to walk to school.
Thank you for your support.
Dear All,
Please note a change of date for The Big Pedal. It will now take place from April 23rd until 4th May 2018.
World Book Day t-shirts and hats may now be worn on Thursday 8th March for Nursery children and Friday 9th March for P1-P7 children, as change to the original date.
P6c parents/ carers,
These are possible activities the children can complete on the snow day.
Either complete the education city activities allocated to your account or some of the activities listed:
Numeracy
*log into www.sumdog.com
*choose a times table to improve and practise
Literacy
*read a chapter of a novel
*update reading Reading Passports
*find out more about your favourite author (date of birth/ death, where they are from, books they have written, who/ what inspired them to write) and create a poster with your information
Have a nice weekend!
Mrs Paradies
Hello everyone,
Here are a couple of ideas linking to what we have been doing in art and music.
ART
If any of the p1s, 2s and 3s want to follow up their Andy Goldsworthy Transient Art from last term, today’s conditions are perfect for creating snow art, either with just the snow, or with snow and greenery/stones/sticks/etc. And because it is transient a photo is what makes it last. With help, you should take photos of your art and post them in.
The older children could also be doing the same – we are looking at line as well as colour… Question, how can you create line with snow/ in snow?
MUSIC
p3/4 have been looking at sound stories for Tam O’ Haggis and we have listened to the Tam O Shanter Overture. And p2/3 last term looked at selecting appropriate music to fit with drama. Can you take a video (with help) of either your snow art OR some dramatic weather and find some appropriate music to put as the background?
Best wishes,
Mrs Gillies
