A huge thank you to our amazing catering staff who cooked and served the most delicious Christmas lunch for 239 school pupils, 44
@CarmondeanELC
pupils and 37 staff 🎄🥰
#teamcarmondean
All of our teacher run after school clubs have no cost attached to them. After only 3 weeks our wonderful ‘Glee’ group have learnt 3 songs. All the actions are chosen by the children and their passion just shines through 🤩
#achieve
@WL_Equity
It was so lovely to have all of our parents and carers back into Carmondean this evening for ‘Meet the Teacher’. What a lovely buzz around our school!
#respect
#achieve
#include
#nurture
Merry Christmas to all our children and their families. We hope you have the most wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for all the support you have given our school in 2021.
🎅💞🌲
A huge thank you to our Carmondean community who supported the Pantry today. Our pupil council will organise all of these items on Monday and update our online order form with what is available for our families to order. We also raised £215.60 for
@ChiIdreninNeed
⭐️
#nurture
P7 have arrived at Ford Castle! 🚌Lunch has been devoured and we are now on our first activities - orienteering and archery. Look out for lots of photos later 😁
P2 went back in time today and experienced a school day in 1923! They recited poetry, used chalk and slates to complete arithmetic and literacy and played traditional games. The teachers were very strict and used ‘the belt’ (strip of paper) to discipline ‘naughty’ children.
P6 took part in their annual Euro Quiz, up against 46 schools in West Lothian and 110 teams. We came in at an incredible 4th place and we’re so proud of our teams and the hard work they put in, well done to you all!
@1plus2_WLC
@SEET_scotland
@CMuir_MSmithCPS
@Mrs_ScottCPS
Wishing everyone back home a good night 😴. All settled into our rooms and excited for our adventures tomorrow. 🤩. We will be dreaming of raft building, challenge course, giant swing and climbing! 🛶🧗
@MrsGilmourCPS
@MsMunroCPS
Well done to this week's certificate winners. All of these children were chosen as they followed our schools values of Respect - Achieve - Include - Nurture 🌳🐿
What do our staff do on a Friday when the children go home? We complete STEM challenges! Who can use a pair of scissors and make the longest paper plate?! ✂️
@Carmondean2b
won!! Excellent lesson idea from
@NickyConnor
@WL_STEM
Primary 2 had an extra special visitor today; Mrs Weir’s Nanna! She told us all about life nearly 90 years ago and how different her childhood was to ours! No televisions, washing machines or hot running water!
What happens at Carmondean PS at the end of term? Watch and see!
(for maximum video quality click on the link and in the play screen select the cog, press quality and change to 1080pHD)
Our final activity of the day - Balloon Splash! 🎈 💦 P7 had to complete silly challenges to earn materials to build protection for their water balloon! The defences were put to the test by being dropped from the balcony! Check below for a wee surprise!
@MrsGilmourCPS
@MsMunroCPS
We are super proud of all of our P4 and P5 stars after their amazing performances yesterday!🌟 The children put in a lot of hard work and effort to make it the huge success that it was. We hope you all enjoyed watching them shine!🎤🎶🎭
Our staff feedback on the use of Twitter was overwhelmingly positive. All year groups will now post 2-3 times a week to keep you up to date with what we are doing in school. Please like, comment and retweet us!
#digitalschools
A fantastic prom last night for P7 class of 2023. 🥳 There was dancing, eating and lots of games.🕺💃 Who knew that balloons could be such fun! 🎈😁. Thank you to all who made it such a successful evening 🤗
@MrsGilmourCPS
@misschristycps
What a lovely chat we had with our certificate winners this week. Delicious biscuits just help the discussions flow!
Respect - Achieve - Include - Nurture
A high percentage of our homework is set via Seesaw or Teams. Did you know we have various iPads in our lending library? If you are struggling for a device for your child to complete their work on, please contact the school office and we are happy to help 💻👩💻
#include
Well done to this week's Special Person Certificate Winners. It is the highlight of our week sitting down and chatting with our successful learners over some biscuits!
Respect-Achieve-Include-Nurture
Last night for P7 at Newby Wiske Hall - A game of disc golf. Unfortunately the wind put paid to any accuracy. It was very frustrating but we still had fun. 💨🥏🗑️😃🪃 A big thank you to Emily, our groupie, for a fantastic week. 🤩
@MrsGilmourCPS
@MsMunroCPS
#pglnewbywiskehall
Don’t go and buy new uniform for the final term. We have a huge selection available within school that we will be bringing out to the gate this week. Help the environment (and your pocket!) by reducing waste and taking some of our pre-loved items for free!
@WL_Equity
Due to restrictions we couldn't go ahead with out usual cookies and juice treat. Instead we provided cookies and hot chocolate to enjoy at home with a little message on them. Our superstars were thrilled! 🌟
Team Carmondean took on an Easter challenge! Using only newspaper and tape, could they make a structure that a Creme Egg could sit on that was at least 1m high! Lots of fun and lots of ideas to use with our children 🐣
#teamcarmondean
P7 had a great time this afternoon at the Carmondean Carnival 🎡. There were lots of games to play and fun to be had. 🥳. Thank you to the PSA for organising such a great event 🥰. The goodie bags were tasty too!😋
Our wonderful P7 played us all into assembly today. A perfect introduction to our discussion around Rabbie Burns 🏴. How lucky are we to have such talented pupils 🥰
#achieve
P5, 6 and 7 had a very enjoyable afternoon with the author Barbara Henderson who told us all about her new novel ‘Rivet Boy’. There was lots of interactive fun with an exciting quiz too! Thank you to Barbara for visiting us.
@scattyscribbler
@MrsGilmourCPS
Carmondean had a laser tag war tonight in the forest. We had to hide, sneak about and try to shoot our enemies! Who had the best tactics 🤔
#pgl
@MrsGilmourCPS
@MsMunroCPS
Friday can only mean one thing... BISCUITS AND JUICE TIME! Well done to our Special Person certificate winners 👏🥰🏆
Respect- Achieve - Include - Nurture
Primary 7 were SO EXCITED to try on and take home their hoodies this afternoon. Don’t they look amazing? 🤩 Thank you to the PSA for helping to fund the cost of these. 💕
@misschristycps
@MrsGilmourCPS
#offtohighschool
Very well done to this P7 pupil who won the Red Nose Day competition to design a new Mr Man or Little Miss. We would like to introduce you to Mr Drippy! Fantastic artistic skills on show.
@MrsGilmourCPS
@MrMenOfficial
Our new dining room for our breakfast, snacks and lunches! We can’t wait to be able to provide lunch for all nursery aged children! (Just waiting on a few chairs 🪑)
@EducationScot
@catherine_cmt35
#earlyyears
Primary 2 had lots of fun today at our 1920s themed tea party! We served our homemade bread and butter, cakes and juice. We even had some extra guests who enjoyed the sweet treats!
A huge thank you to our local businesses who donated to our PSA fun day last week. Thank you to
@Hobbycraft_LSN
for our prizes and
@Tesco
and
@Morrisons
for the sweets. We are so grateful for your generosity.
#community
Group 2 have had a very busy day at Ford Castle. Orienteering was great fun with lots of running about. Archery was also good fun and some of the children were very accurate.
#carmondeancampers
@MrsGilmourCPS
@misschristycps
Outdoor Learning is a priority within our Improvement Plan. Who better to refresh, inspire and motivate us than Rob from
@KidsGoneWildUK
?! We can’t wait to share our plans with our children and families 🌳🍁🍃
'Big Kids Gone Wild' today
@carmondean_ps
!
A massive thank you to the team for having me in for your Outdoor Learning Training today. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and hope everyone got a lot out of it. Here's to the first of many! 🌳
#stafftraining
#outdoorlearning
Well it may not have rained💦but there was plenty water fun for Groups 3 and 4 this afternoon 🌊💧🏊♂️🏊🏼♀️🏄🏻♂️on the aqua park. I think the adults had as much fun as the kids.🤣😂
@MrsGilmourCPS
@MsMunroCPS
#PGLNewbyWiske
Today Primary 2 had an extra special teacher today for their RME lesson. H told us all about his religion and how him and his family celebrate Ramadan and Eid. We learned about fasting, doing charity work and preparing for the big Eid celebration. Happy Eid to all celebrating!
Group 1 & 2 had an absolute blast this morning at the Aqua Park! They bounced, slithered, crawled and swam around the course for hours! With the power of a wetsuit, the water felt as warm as a bathtub! 🛁 Miss Munro even gave it a go!
#pgl
@MrsGilmourCPS
@MsMunroCPS
We hosted the West Lothian Primary gymnastics competition this afternoon and what an amazing afternoon is was. We won team silver in Level 1 and Level 2 and had individual gold, silver and bronze medals too. Just fantastic. Our pupils worked so hard preparing for this. Well done!
Group 2 have had a fantastic first morning on camp! After a yummy breakfast, we had lots of fun Raft Building! There were a few men overboard as the rafts took to the lake! After we dried off, we hit the obstacle course! 🛶
@MrsGilmourCPS
@MsMunroCPS
Heading home! 🚌 🏡 A massive thank you to our groupie Emily and all the PGL staff at Newby Wiske, the group have had a fantastic week! I think there will be a few snoozing on the bus ride home!
#pglnewbywiske
@MrsGilmourCPS
@MsMunroCPS
The wet weather didn't stop Primary 6 from running so well today at our local cross country event 🌧🏃🏻♂️🏃🏽♀️ Everyone did fantastically and a special well done to C in our class who scored 1st place! 🏅
@carmondean_ps
@ActiveS_Deans
#achieve
P5 loved their trip to Bannockburn today as part of their topic “The Scottish Wars of Independence”. The class tried on different types of armour, witnessed a recreation of the battle and visited the Robert the Bruce statue 😀
We have loved visiting the nursery every Wednesday for The Big Bedtime Read! Primary 6 are going to be excellent P1 buddies next year 📚🥰
@carmondean_ps
@CarmondeanELC
Thank you to the SCQF L6 students from Deans CHS for delivering 3 weeks of fun handball tasters to our P5 classes. We look forward to our Active Schools festival next week.
@activeS_Deans
Thank you so much for all your uniform donations. Our stall is looking great! Please visit it tomorrow at Meet the teacher and help yourself. 💚
@carmondean_ps
Our house captains and Miss Millar proudly announced the winners of our school banner competition at assembly this morning. Look out for our wonderful banners at the main road entrance and the office entrance.
#respect
#achieve
#include
#nurture
An amazing morning in the sunshine with our talented athletes at the WL Primary Track & Field Championships. An outstanding effort from all! The 2 relay teams made the final, 3 pupils in the 80m sprint finals and this was topped off with a bronze medal in the Shot Putt.🤩
Group 3 were the Kings (and queens) of the swingers this afternoon. Bet you sung along there!! Lots of screams and giggles on the giant swing.
@MrsGilmourCPS
@MsMunroCPS
#pglnewbywiske
Carmondean Dance Team performed so confidently, showcasing their fabulous skills at the Regal Theatre and making us all very proud. The Sports Council presented the girls with their certificates and another fantastic trophy for our school. Well done girls!
It was great to see a former Carmondean pupil refereeing at the Scottish Handball Championships. She also plays handball for Scotland. This could be some of you in a few years. Get along to the handball club at Deans CHS on a Monday from 4.45pm to 5.45pm.
@scothandball
P7A took part in the first ever learning\sharing breakfast in the history of Carmondean primary! 😳😁. It was a great success and we enjoyed sharing our 3 most outstanding pieces of work with each other. 🤩.
#brilliant
#fantastic
@MrsGilmourCPS
A huge well done to P7 who performed brilliantly at their Leavers’ show ‘I’m an 11 year old get me out of here’. There was laughter and a few tears but happy smiles from all at the end. P7 you are all stars! 🤩
@MrsGilmourCPS
@misschristycps
Miss Millar and Miss Pringle's favourite time of the week! Juice and biscuits with this week's SPECIAL PERSON certificate winners 👏🤩
So lucky to have such AMAZING pupils at Carmondean. Proud HT and DHT 🥰
Our P1-3 classes have input from
@wl_literacy
@MarionCochrane1
virtually each week for a block of 4 weeks. This focuses on particular reading strategies and is great fun too. We love seeing our cluster peers on the screen 📚📖
We loved learning about the skill of clarifying with the other Deans cluster schools today. After the lesson we used instructions to draw a monkey and changed its expression by drawing our own mouth and eyebrow designs.
@carmondean_ps
It was so lovely to welcome our families into school tonight for night 1 of our parent/carer consultations. We are looking forward to night 2 tomorrow 😊
Group 1 had a fantastic morning. First up was rafting building and some got a bit wet. 💦🤭. Then we were on the challenge course where we had to traverse different obstacles 🪵.
@MrsGilmourCPS
@MsMunro
Last term the Eco Committee ran a competition to design a banner to promote safe and healthy transport to/from and around the school e.g. safe parking, switching off engines etc. The winning entry looks fantastic printed and ready to go up! Well done to E from P7!
@CarmondeanEco
So proud of our Netball Team who took part in the Deans Cluster Netball League this year and finished 3rd. It was a fantastic competition to be a part of with great skills, team work and sportsmanship on display. Looking forward to next year already. Well Done!