Meldrum Messages - Friday 12th December 2025

We’ve had a lovely week in school as the festive events continued! Thank you to everyone who came along to our Christmas Fayre, the fantastic total of £860.85 was raised!   P1 – P3 proudly presented their nativity to families and there were lots of positive comments about how well this went.  The children were fantastic!  Children with spoken parts were very clear, P1 remembered their stage directions when moving around and our P2 and P3 choir sang beautifully to share the special story of the birth of Jesus.  Thank you to everyone who made the time to come along and support the children.  P6 took part in a crafting afternoon with the minister and volunteers from St Andrews Church on Tuesday and really enjoyed learning about the Christmas story while taking part in a range of design tasks. Today, we had Crazy Christmas Hair Day and saw some amazing creations and hairstyles!  We had an assembly where we were joined by Mr Boatman, our Active Schools Co-ordinator who talked about the importance of moving our bodies to stay healthy.  We also focused on our value of Respect with each class being set a challenge by Mrs Brown to work on over the next few days.

We were delighted to receive a surprise delivery this week from the team at Rab’s Bar.  They have gifted a selection box for each child in the school.  We intend to send these home on Monday of next week so please look out for these in your child’s school bag.  We thank everyone who supported this initiative for their generosity.

Please find the link to West Lothian Council’s cost of living hub which may be of interest to some families:  Cost of Living Hub West Lothian – West Lothian Council

Next week is our final week of term before Christmas.  We have a lot of things happening so please take a note of anything that involves your child/children!  Most of the information below has already been shared with you in our Christmas Calendar but please note a few small tweaks to timings.

Monday – P4 Enterprise sale.  All classes will get the chance to visit the P4 Enterprise sale, products range from 10p – 20p.

Tuesday – P4 and P5 Christmas Party – any pupils going home to get ready should be collected from our office at 12.20pm

Wednesday – Christmas Jumpers/festive colours can be worn today.  Pantomime performance in the afternoon.

Thursday – P1, P2 and P3 Christmas Party – any pupils going home to get ready should be collected from our office at 12.15pm; P6 and P7 Christmas party – 6pm until 7.30pm.

Friday – Whole school to attend Christmas service in St Andrew’s Church at 9.30am.  Everyone will walk from our school to the church to take part in the service led by our school chaplain Nelu. Our local EE2 consent forms will cover this so no need for any additional forms to be completed.  Please try to ensure that children arrive to school on time on Friday morning as all staff are attending the church service and we will be leaving to walk down by 9.15am.