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Lent Challenge – Wednesday 8th March

Charity begins at home, where we daily make the choice to give our time, our attention, our affirming smile, and give generously. But charity must not stop there, because for Catholics “home” is universal, and our family is as big as the world.

Today’s challenge:

Join in our ‘Bags for Malawi’ campaign (details in this week’s Weekly Update)
We are looking for donations of small and light weighing items, for example: pencil cases, bars of soap, notebooks, toothpaste, toothbrushes, sponge balls, pencils, pens, gym rubbers, sharpeners, erasers, small bags of Haribo’s, bubbles, etc
Bags can be brought in during Lent and given to Mrs Roy.

Lent Challenge – Tuesday 7th March

Fasting is a path to peace and happiness. That’s right: fasting, the practice of abstaining from food or drink for meals, days, and even weeks at a time, is one of the most powerful ways we have of becoming closer to God and finding true joy. Self-denial leads to a greater sense of wholeness. That’s why Christians have fasted for thousands of years, and it’s why Lent, the 6-week period between Ash Wednesday and Easter, is a time of serious fasting.

Today’s challenge – Give up something you really like. (chocolate, crisps, biscuits, coffee.)

Remember to comment below and let us know how you get on.

#LentChallenge

Lent Challenge – Monday 6th March

Prayer, fasting and almsgiving : the three pillars of Lent.

Today we focus on prayer. Take a few moments to talk to God.

Loving God,
you call us back to you with all of our hearts.
I feel your call for me deep in my heart
and I know you want me back
as much as I want to return.
Please, Lord,
give me the wisdom to know how to return.
Make my journey back to you this Lent
one of grace, forgiveness and gentle love.

Pray together as a family.

Lent Challenge – Day 3

Saturday 4th March

Join us for a photo challenge! Take a photo to show ‘JOY’ and share it with us.

You can tweet us @StNinianPS , send it via the school Facebook page, sent it via Dojo or e-mail me (lisamaria.purdie@westlothian.org.uk)

#LentChallenge

Primary 5 Weekly News

Primary 5 have been working very hard this week and as part of their topic they have learnt all about what happened to the people who were living in the Highlands at the time of the Highland Clearances. They have been learning about decimals in Maths and they have been reading and talking about their reading.

Here are some of their comments:

Charlie: We were planning how to make our cottages (Blackhouses) for our Highland Clearances topic.

Rachel: We learnt how to use an index to find places on a map and we located different places in Scotland.

Toni: This week we had an assembly for Ash Wednesday and everyone received their ashes.

Vanessa: We also enjoyed Pancake Tuesday (Shrove Tuesday)!

Chloe: This week we started our new maths carousel and it was really fun, especially the maths games. I really enjoyed the decimal bingo.

Beth: We were learning about decimals this week.

Cole F and Lucas: We were learning how to convert tenths fractions to decimals.

Lorena: In P.E we made up our own games.

Cole F: My group made Ninja ball and it was very fun.

Chloe: We also made a game a bit like Rounders, which we called Mountain Climber.

Bea: Yesterday we had World Book day and lots of people dressed up as their favourite book characters. I was dressed up as Amber from ‘The Midnight Gang’ by David Walliams.

Thomas: In Writing we made our own book cover!

Taylor: We took selfies with Mrs Reeves!

Have a great weekend!

Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves

Lent Challenge – Day 2

#Do1NiceThing – 3rd March – Say thank you to someone as they work and say how much you appreciate them.

Lent isn’t always about giving up things.

Remember to post below and tell us how you get on with the challenge.

Lent Challenge – Day 1

Call an elderly person in your life to check on them.

Let us know how you get on!

Primary 5 Weekly News

A short but busy week in Primary 5! As part of Catholic Education Week we each wrote and decorated a Faith Community poem.

We were delighted to have Father Kenneth attend our whole school assembly yesterday and he told us all about his visit to Jerusalem. We learnt lots of interesting facts and enjoyed looking at his slide show.

We also started to discuss our new topic about the Highland Clearances and we were sharing our ideas about what we would like to learn about and what activities we would most like to do.

Our writing this week involved learning the important aspects of the layout of a report. We wrote about our recent 40^th anniversary school concert.

During our P.E. lesson we created some of our own gymnastic sequences and performed them in front of the class to the music from a James Bond movie! We all were very enthusiastic and we had lots of fun!

Have a great weekend.

Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves

40th Anniversary Celebrations

We are holding an Open Afternoon to celebrate the school’s 40th Anniversary.

Please pop along for refreshments and a trip down the St Ninian’s memory lane!

Thursday 9th February

1.30 – 4.00pm

St Ninian’s Primary School

All former pupils, families and staff members are welcome to join us.

RSVP Mrs Black 01506 414612 jackie.black@westlothian.org.uk

How do you stay active?

This month’s Health and Wellbeing focus is ACTIVE.

How do you keep active as a family?

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