This is the official Twitter account for Laurieston Primary School. 🥇Gold Rights Respecting School 🏃♀️Gold Sport Scotland Award 📱Digital Schools Award
It was a wonderful first week back at school, welcoming our new P1's as well as pupils returning to P2-7. It's always a highlight to see the joy in the playground as pupils enjoy spending time together again.
❄️🎄12 Days of Fitmas🎄❄️
Here is the updated snowball table, we are delighted to share that
@LauriestonPS
are the first school to receive the 12th golden snowball 🤩👏☃️
We're looking forward to seeing more challenges from everyone this week 🤩
@sportscotland
What a fantastic turnout for our 50th Birthday Bash. Our parade was a great way to start our celebrations. It was lovely to see so many familiar faces and so many who have been associated with the school in the past. A big thanks to all who helped make this event such a success
Huge thank you to all of our families who joined us for our school picnic today. It was wonderful to see so many of you! Thank you for all of your generous donations in aid of CHAS. We will share a total with you next week.
#laurfamily
Thank you to all our friends and families who made it along for our Picnic in memory of Emma. We raised a massive £275 for
@supportCHAS
thanks for all of your donations.
Wow what a picnic! Thank you to all of our families and friends who made it along for the picnic today. It was lovely to be back together again
#LaurFamily
A day of celebration at Laurieston Primary! A huge congratulations to our whole school community being accredited for supporting speech, language and communication. Thank you for all of your hard work and support
@KatieaclarkSLT
#BalancedSystem
#partnership
We managed to dodge the rain to have an adapted version of our Sports Day in the playground this morning. There was a brilliant atmosphere and the pupils had a great time! Thank you to Mr Copper and the house captains
@LauriestonP7
for organising 🟡🟢🔵🔴
“This is the best day ever” was a quote from one of our little learners today. We were as glad to have the children back today as they were to be back 🥰🥰
#laurfamily
#welcomeback
We wanted to wish all of our children, family and friends a very happy holiday. We can't wait to see you all in August. ❤🌈 😎 click the link for some LPS Lockdown Memories
Today was a very exciting day for
@LauriestonNC
and 2s Room.
@KatieCl65115568
presented them with the Bronze Award for developing an excellent visual environment! 😁🎉
This P5 pupil recieved some great news this week. She was a winner in her category from the whole of Scotland for the competition 'If you were an engineer, what would you do?'. That thr class took part in in P4. Well done!
#EngineerInTheMaking2020
@Leadersaward
A very entertaining morning with all of our Scots Poetry winners performing for the whole school. Huge well done to all of the winners and finalists who put a huge amount of effort in🌟🌟
Introducing our House Captains and Vice Captains for this year who were announced at assembly this week. A fantastic group of pupils who are excited to get going with their new roles in school.🌟 🔴🟢🟡🔵 🌟
We’re thrilled to have earned a Gold School Sport Award for 2024! This recognises our commitment to continuous improvement in school sport and physical activity
@sportscotland
@ASC_Jen
We had a very festive assembly this week. The pupils and staff all wore their Christmas jumpers and joined in with a Christmas sing-a-long to share the festive cheer 🎄🦌🎶
We have achieved the Digital Schools Award Scotland! An amazing achievement recognising how technology is used throughout the school to enhance learning. 👏🌟
A lovely end to the day to learn that we have achieved our Digital Schools Award here
@LauriestonPS
. 👏🏻🥳 A lovely way to recognise the use of technology in our everyday practice across the school.
@Schools_Digital
We are blown away by our
@LauriestonPS
community. We have raised an outstanding amount of 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
🤩🤩🤩£1735.53🤩🤩🤩
This will all be donated to
@strathcarron1
🩵
We have now reached our target of 3500 Scottish Sun tokens to earn £500 of free books! Thank you to all the friends and families of Laurieston PS and to
@BowhousePS
who kindly donated some tokens 📚😊
Thank you to our
@LauriestonP7
parents who organised the kind donation of a cherry blossom tree from Klondyke Garden Centre. Our pupils braved the elements today to plant it in our garden 🌸🌸
We had a wonderful World Book Day at school today. Thank you to all of our families for supporting pupils to get involved in the brilliant events organised by
@Laurieston_P6
. We were blown away by the Potato Book Character entries, so creative!
Our judges found it really difficult to pick the winners of our Potato Book Character Competition. Here are the winners from each stage in our school. Well done
#BookWeekScotland
Tonight we welcomed staff from across the authority to find out more about Maths Through Stories and Conceptual Numeracy Approaches used in Laurieston. Rona Smith, with input from Darren Cooper, shared our journey so far. Thank you to all who came along!
@LTAFalkirk
#LTAFest24
We are delighted to announce our new house captains and vice house captains for this year. They all delivered high quality speeches to secure votes from pupils in their houses. They are already preparing for their first house meeting and house event.
What a lovely crisp morning for our Children in Need Ramble around Laurieston. Thank you to all our parents and friends who were able to join us for this
#Pudsey
Our House Sponsored Bookathon is well underway. A great buzz around the school with pupils who are excited to share their favourite books 📚 Huge thank you to everyone who donated!
Our Curriculum Events are happening all week at 2.30pm. We are looking forward to welcoming our families into school to hear about the learning this term.
Monday P3/2 and P3
Tuesday P7
Wednesday P2, P5/4 and P5
Thursday P1A, P1B and P6.
With limited resources available in local areas, the school would appreciate the help of volunteers to start to clear snow from school grounds.
If you are willing and able to help then please meet at 11am on Sunday at Laurieston Primary School - bring a shovel and wrap up warm!
It was lovely to see so many of our families at Parents' Evening last night and tonight 😊 and a big well done to our P7 pupil who organised a bake sale to raise money for a local charity, Cars4u 🍰
#cars4u
#parentsaspartners
Our pupils have started running their own lunchtime clubs, sharing their skills with others - fantastic efforts so far in Dance and Cheerleading! Well done 👍🏻.
Mrs Fraser
Here are the items kindly donated by
@BootsUK
in Falkirk Retail Park for our Pudsey raffle. Thank you to Marion the store manager 😊 tickets will be on sale in school for 50p a strip.
We hope you have had an enjoyable summer break and are ready to start the new term. We are looking forward to welcoming our P1s, and our new and returning pupils tomorrow.
We would also like to wish our former P7 pupils good luck as they begin their exciting journey at GHS.
P7 are really looking forward to welcoming our community to our
@strathcarron1
Coffee Morning on 29.9.23 @ 9.30-11am in the school hall.
A and E filmed an advert to tell you all about it. 🌟🌟
We had a special performance at assembly this week from our P6 and P7 violinists. They performed a song with Miss Bradley that they learned during the Benedetti Foundation workshop a few weeks ago. We were all very impressed.
Just a reminder that school and nursery will be closed Friday 14th and Monday 17th February for the public holiday. School and nursery will also be closed to children on Tuesday 18th February for a staff development day.
Wow! A wonderful performance today from
@Laurieston_P6
sharing their learning from their project with
@Illuminateuk2
all about the history of Callendar House. What a talented group of pupils. Well done! 🌟
Feeling very proud tonight after a fantastic performance this afternoon. Thank you again to all of our families and visitors for being a great audience. Also a huge thank you again to Karen and Victoria from
@Illuminateuk2
for all of their work on our show. 🎭👏🏻
@LauriestonP7
Strathcarron Coffee Morning has made it into
@falkirk_herald
! Your support for their event on Friday 29th September at 9.30am is hugely appreciated.
All Falkirk pupils are entitled to FREE Microsoft Office for use at home and on mobile devices – this works on all mobile devices and PCs (on multiple devices per person) – the following link describes how to get it:
We are looking forward to welcoming families for our picnic tomorrow from 12 - 1pm in aid of CHAS. Please make sure you are prepared for the weather with sun cream, hats and plenty of water.
It's is Christmas Jumper Day tomorrow at Laurieston and Christmas lunch. We are looking forward to getting into the festive spirit with all of our pupils 🎄🦌🎅⛄
Callendar enjoyed a hot chocolate and movie afternoon as the termly house award. Well deserved for pupils who have consistently displayed the school values 👏🟢☕🎬
Grab and Go lunchtime meals will be available between 12noon and 1.30pm on week days from any education establishment. No need to prove if you receive free school meals- available for all pupils 🥗 🍴 🥪 Go to your nearest school.
We are very much looking forward to welcoming our pupils back to school next week.
#laurfamily
Currently we are finalising our plans and will communicate more detail as soon as possible. Please see for information.