Pupil Achievements for this Week…

Another week of Springfield successes!

-Thank you to all of our P7 pupils, Mr Logan and Mrs Reid for organising and running a brilliant Sports Day on Wednesday.

-A special mention to Anna in P5 for being a ‘sporting hero’ and to Mrs Hutton too for leading our school Boccia Club for the whole of this year.  We continue to work hard to promote fairness and equity and to include all children in sport across school. We are so proud of you A! 💫⭐️

-Well done to all children who received a sports award (including A, mentioned above) at The Sports Personality of the Year Awards which we held in school yesterday. Congratulations to Sam in P7 for being recognised for his all round sporting excellence and good sportsmanship.

— A super effort from our Springfield children has resulted in ZP in P6 gaining first prize in the Transition Linlithgow ‘Reduce the use of Plastic Straws’ poster competition.  We also have the third place winner, MMc in P6 too! In addition, a number of childen had their work  commended.  See the photo below for all children who were successful in the competition. We will have a special visitor in school next week to present Z with her prize. More news to follow…

-H in P2 came along to see me this week after further success in gymnastics. Well done H!

-H in P2 wrote a brilliant acrostic poem this week about keeping healthy which tied in nicely with Fitness Week. Great work H!

Have a super weekend everyone! Remember that we have no school next Tuesday for Marches Day.

Miss Baillie x💖

 

Pupil Voice Committees Assembly

We held out annual committees assembly today where our P4-7, ‘pupil voice’ groups fed back their work from this year to the wider school.

Our Pupil Council have held a variety of fundraisers to raise money to buy things for our school.

Our Rights, Respecting Schools Committee have worked to embed our Level 1 status and help us to move towards gaining Level 2 next session with a possible link with an international school being made.

Our Junior Road Safety Committee have worked hard this year to get less cars making the ‘school run’  and more children walking or cycling  to school instead.

Our Eco Committee have formed partnership links with Burgh Beautiful and the Transition Linlithgow project and have worked hard to garden, litter pick and encourage us all to reduce plastic waste.

Our Sports Commitee have helped to organise fitness week, promote sport across school and support staff to deliver P. E lessons.

Our Health and Wellbeing Committee have increased understanding of how to stay fit and active and how to promote positive mental health.

Our Digital Learning Commitee have supported the use of Education City and Sumdog across school and have recently piloted the use of ‘Scratch’ as a tool to teach coding.

We are delighted with the work that all of our children have led to improve all aspects of our school and thank our staff for supporting this.

Next session we aim to include our infants in committee groups. Watch this space for more news come next session…

Miss Baillie x💫

Grounds Clean-Up!

Thank you to OF in P5 and his Mum for helping to tidy up some of the shrubs in our school grounds last weekend.

 

What a great job and how thoughtful of you both!

We really appreciate it!

Miss Baillie x

Our Weekly News from SPS and Bonnytoun…

I started the week off at camp with P7 this week and what fun we had! The weather was just gorgeous and all children were an absolute credit to their parents and school. Thank you so much P7 for being superstars! 

Victor and Jack our two little nursery Guineas Pigs got a new home yesterday which Mrs T and I went to buy and is in the proceess of being assembled. It’s an amazing home and will allow the piggies to spend more time in the nursery garden enjoying the sunshine and grass.  The piggies also had their first bath with the help of Mrs Brass to ensure that they remain clean, fragrant  and healthy!

We held an assembly today on the last  of our Wellbeing Indicators  to be discussed this year, which is also one of our school values, ‘ I am included.’  We talked about how we always include others at Springfield regardless of their skin colour, religious belief, gender, dress sense etc etc. We learned about the power of being unique and of celebrating our individuality. We continue to promote the message that it is not okay to leave people out of our play nor is it okay to make negative comments about another person.

Here are the achievements for this week:

-Well done to O in our infant department for lots of success in gymnastics! Keep it up!

-Congratulations to all of the children in our embroidery after-school club and thank you to Mrs Tulloch and her helpers for running it. These children took part in a local competition and are featured in the latest edition of The Black Bitch magazine! We are very proud!

-Well done to James Hammond whose STEM design is through to the next stage of the Scottish Young Engineer Awards. We are rooting for you James!

Have a great weekend everyone! Next week is fitness week and we have lots going on so it will be action-packed.

Miss Baillie xx💖🌞

 

A Hugely Successful Week All Round!

What a week we have had here at Springfield and Bonnytoun! Our nursery has recently been visited by the Care Inspectorate and we have had extremely positive feedback. The report and more information will follow shortly but we are delighted with our feedback and really excited to share our news when it comes!  In school we have had a quality improvement visit this week from  fellow headteachers and our Education Officer and they were delighted with the progress that the school has made in all areas. We are so grateful for the hard work of all staff and the  support of all parents, carers and friends who make up the whole Springfield community. We couldn’t have achieved what we have without you all! Thank you!

Mrs Kennedy and P1B held a lovely assembly today about keeping healthy. The children all spoke confidently and looked so sweet as they sang and danced in their sports clothes.

Here are the achievements for this week:

-Well done to Mrs McAlpine and the Junior Road Safety Commitee for helping Springfield to achieve the ‘cycle friendly school’ award. Great news!

– Congratulations to a number of our infants for success in swimming! Here they are below with their certificates…

-Well done to I and A in P1 for continuing to make progress in gymnastics! Great effort girls!

– Finally, congratulations to R in P2 for her work at Girls Brigade! Super news R!

 

Another great week at Springfield and Bonnytoun!

Enjoy the weekend!

Miss Baillie xx⭐️💖

 

 

 

 

Springfield and Bonnytoun News…

We held a highly successful STEM curriculum evening this week which Mrs Tulloch expertly ran. Thank you to all families who came out to learn about our approach to STEM at Springfield and Bonnytoun. The marble challenge proved a big hit with families competing against each other to make the fastest run!

 

Did you know that STEM starts in our nursery through our block play and use of loose parts? We are proud of our approach to block play and this week worked with the authority to hold a successfully training session on the benefits of this type of play in early childhood development. We had early years practitioners attending from both council run and private nurseries.

Here are some of our nursery children engaging in block play and drawing their designs.

P2A and Miss Mudd worked hard to deliver a lovely Charlie and the Chocolate Factory themed assembly this morning. We loved seeing the children all dressed up and performing their lines with confidence!

 

Here are the achievements for this week:

Well done to M and G in P1 for coming along with the products of their free play. M made a knight’s outfit and G made a super model. Free play and allowing children to express themselves in early years is part of our Play Strategy which Mrs Kennedy has helped to lead all year. Thank you Mrs Kennedy for your efforts.

Have a happy weekend!

Love Miss Baillie x💫

British Champions in Orienteering

We are delighted to announce that two of our amazing pupils have recently been named as British champions in orienteering within their age groups. Amazing work from both R and J Hammond! What a talented family! We are so very proud!

Miss Baillie xx

 

George Allan Winners!

What a fantastic show for Springfield at the George Allan event this morning. We are so proud of each and every child who played football to their highest ability and also to our Springles cheerleaders who turned out this morning to add some sparkle to the proceedings. Thank you so much to Mr Logan and Gail Rankine for coaching our footballers to success.

Well done to everyone and thank you to all parents, family and friends who came out to cheer us along. Springfield shone!

Miss Baillie xx ⚽ ⭐️💫💖

Round Table Marches Magazine Winners

We are so proud that for another year, our Springfield children have again won the Marches Magazine drawing and writing competiton.

Our winners for this year are A in P5, L in P6 and K in P1.  Unfortunately our little P1 winner is on holiday so is not in the picture below, but all of the children’s work is featured here and also in the magazine. You can buy a copy of the magazine at various local shops and business up until Marches Day. K drew a wonderful picture of the Burgh Halls, A wrote a story called ‘The Hedgehog who Loved’ and L wrote a poem about Linlithgow. Thank you to you all for your hard work!

We really do have the most amazing children!

Miss Baillie x💫⭐💫⭐

Springfield and Bonnytoun News…

This week started with a special visit for P4-7 from the Deacons Court of Linlithgow and an introduction to our new Provost. We were happy to meet our Provost and on behalf of our school, we wish him all the very best for his first Marches Day next month. Some of our children and Mr Wells even got to dress up as Baillies!

We also talked about the Decorated Bicycle competition on Marches Day  which two of our lovely pupils won last year. We’d love it if lots of our pupils could enter this year with the help of some talented Mums and Dads! 😉

Our assembly today was an important one led by the NSPCC. All children were reminded of how to keep safe and how to speak up and use their voices if something in their lives isn’t right. We also reminded ourselves of the Childline number in case we needed to speak to a safe grown up about a problem. The NSPCC will be back in school next eeek to run workshops for our P6-7 classes to follow-up on the issues mentioned in assembly. It is our job at Springfield to safeguard all children and protect children’s rights.

We have had a number of pupil achievements this week. Here are our latest successes:

-To I, E and A congratulations for taking part in the Sunny Stars show! I especially loved E playing the part of Princess Jasmine as I’d quite like to be her myself! I loved the costume too! 😊

-C in P2 ran a a fun run recently and deserves a ‘well done’ for doing very well.

– A in P5 has completed the recent Race for Life with her Mum and we are proud of her.

-F in P3 has been very busy gaining some more Girls Brigade badges. Super work F!

-E in P5 got a brilliant silver medal in a recent gymnastics competition. Well done E!

-H in P5 continues to do brilliantly in rugby. You superstar H!

Finally a very ‘Happy Birthday’ to three of our infant children including M and one of our gorgeous sets of twins!

Good luck to our school football team and our Springles cheerleaders who will perform at the George Allan match on Sunday. You will do us proud, of that we are sure!

Have a lovely weekend in the sunshine!

Love,

Miss Baillie xx💖🌞

 

 

 

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