World Book Day📚 As per our annual overview, pupils are welcome to come to school dressed as their favourite book character on Thursday 5 March. Please note that Football strips are not permitted.

Our Parent Council have arranged a Dress Down Day for tomorrow.

Upcoming dates for your diary.

We would be really grateful if pupils came to school prepared for all weathers with jackets (names on labels help us a lot.) We strive to have outdoor breaks and lunches as often as we can,jackets help to ensure your child is comfortable in colder weather. Thanks for your support.

Upcoming dates for your diary.

P1-P3 Assembly 🎶👏 Our Top of the Chart Stars and our Playground Superstars! 🌟💜 @beancross.bsky.social

P6 are now leaving Lockerbie Manor 👋🏼 Please look out for Groupcall with more information on arrival time/pick up arrangements. @missjlesko.bsky.social @missrisk.bsky.social @mrblairbps.bsky.social @missjohnston.bsky.social

Lockerbie 🏕️ Please follow: @missjlesko.bsky.social @missrisk.bsky.social @mrblairbps.bsky.social @missjohnston.bsky.social For all updates. Staff are limited in WiFi access but will update as and when they can for you all. 💜

We hope you all enjoyed your break! We reopen to staff and pupils tomorrow. Could all pupils please ensure they are prepared for the cold weather at breaks and lunch time. 🧥🧢🧣 P6 and 7 pupils- fully charged iPads should be brought to school as well.

Reminder of important dates for December. For Christmas parties pupil are welcome to: 💃🕺Come to school in party clothes 🎒Bring their clothes to change in to after lunch time. 🏡Be collected at the office at 12pm for a home lunch and return to school in party clothes at 1pm.

🌟PROUD TEACHER ALERT🌟 I have no words to describe how proud I am of every single person on that stage yesterday and today. 4 shows in 2 days! Absolutely outstanding! You’ve blown be away P5-P7! Performing Arts at BPS isn’t just a subject, it’s a way of teaching that goes above and beyond!

Huge well done to P5-7 for their wonderful performance of Dare to Dream today. Another performance tomorrow! ✨

Remember, school is closed to pupils tomorrow (Friday 28th November) for staff inservice day. We reopen on Monday 1 December to pupils.

Thank you to the adults at home who came to parents’ night last night and tonight. We appreciate you taking time to discuss your child’s learning and also your feedback.

Christmas Lunch Letters have been distributed to pupils to order their Christmas Lunch. Please complete and return to your child’s class teacher as soon as possible. Thank you.

With the predicted temperature drops this week, we would be grateful if pupils came to school prepared for outdoor breaks with warm outdoor clothing where possible.

Our pupil leadership team are selling poppies for Remembrance Day.

We would be really grateful if pupils came to school prepared for all weathers with jackets (names on labels help us a lot.) We strive to have outdoor breaks and lunches as often as we can,jackets help to ensure your child is comfortable in colder weather. Thanks for your support.

As advertised in our annual overview, pupils are welcome to dress up for Halloween tomorrow if they wish to. We kindly request no weapons, no masks and no football colours are worn.

👋🏼We look forward to welcoming everyone back to school tomorrow morning and hope you’ve all enjoyed the time off. ❄️The weather is definitely colder now, we would be grateful if pupils brought jackets to school for break/lunch times. 📲P6&7 pupils will require their charged iPads tomorrow. Thanks

As the weather is becoming more unpredictable, we would be really grateful if pupils came to school prepared for all weathers with jackets. We strive to have outdoor breaks and lunches as often as we can,jackets help to ensure your child is comfortable in colder weather. Thanks for your support.

A small plea for our next science experiment - the digestive system (01/10/25). We are looking for old pairs of tights that you are willing to have cut up/binned after use (things will get messy!). Please and thank you, from Mrs Swan & P4SL @beancross.bsky.social @mrslangbps.bsky.social

Reminder: P5-7 will have their school photos taken on Thursday 18 September. P1-4 have already had theirs taken earlier this month.

School photo day tomorrow!

🎭SCHOOL SHOW🎭 We are hosting auditions for our upcoming school show, which will be held in October (More details will follow shortly). All audition materials have been taught by Miss Niven in class and children will complete a Microsoft form to detail which part they would like to audition for.

Please sign up using the Class for Kids link below. Please make sure you sign up for the correct day, see the poster for details. beancross-primary.classforkids.io

We are very much enjoying the warm weather! We would encourage that during the warm weather, that pupils: 🧴Have sun cream applied before school. 🚰bring a full water bottle with them. 🧢bring a sun hat to wear when outdoors. Your support is always appreciated.

Looking forward to seeing all of our families tomorrow morning. As it’s to be warm, we would encourage: ☀️ sun cream to be applied before school. 💧Full water bottles be brought to school.

We look forward to welcoming our pupils back to school on Wednesday 13th August. 😊

🔫 P7 WATER FIGHT 🔫 It wouldn’t be the P7’s last day without the pupils v parents water fight! 💦 What a fantastic way to make their last day not only special, but fun! 🤩 Huge thank you to our parents for organising the Piper 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 & for such a great turn out 💜 @beancross.bsky.social

🙏🏻 What a brilliant assembly to finish this year - I will miss our singing together 🎵 and sharing your many achievements at Beancross ✨ @beancross.bsky.social

✨ LAST ASSEMBLY 24/25 ✨ 🫶🏻 A huge thank you to our amazing Playground Buddies! We're so grateful for the time you've given up this year to support our younger pupils during playtimes & lunchtimes - you’ve made such an impact 💜 Thank you for being incredible role models! 🌟 @beancross.bsky.social

✨ LAST ASSEMBLY 24/25✨ 📣 A massive thank you to our incredible Pupil Leadership Team at Beancross Primary! 🙌🏻 You are an absolute credit to our school & amazing role models 💜 So proud of you all and I have no doubt you'll go on to achieve wonderful things in High School! ✨ @beancross.bsky.social

'The Churn' 2024/25 is ✨COMPLETE✨! A huge thank you to all of our Falkirk P7s and their teachers for their hard work preparing and taking care of their devices for the new owners! We love having you as part of the Connected Falkirk Team for the day. Wishing you ALL the best for your S1 adventure! 🙌

Dates for your diary.

🌟 P7 LEAVERS ASSEMBLY 🌟 So proud of our wonderful P7’s 🥹 They put on a fantastic assembly this afternoon, full of memories, laughter and of course, some tears 🥲 🙏🏻 Thank you to those who were able to join us and thank you to our brilliant P7 teachers 👩🏼‍🏫 @beancross.bsky.social

This girl done me so proud today running the 5K race for life in 50 minutes today and how much money she raised for charity 🥰 @beancross.bsky.social

💜P7 LEAVERS💜 P7 leavers celebrations continue with shirt signing on Wednesday. If you are wishing to get your shirt signed please come prepared on Wednesday 25th June. 👔

Information on Children’s Day👇🏼

☀️ P7 LEAVERS CELEBRATIONS ☀️ Some snaps from their time on the inflatables 🤩 More photos to follow soon 📸 from Miss Meikle & Miss Lesko 👍🏻 @beancross.bsky.social

A busy Friday @beancross.bsky.social! Fun Day, P7 Leavers Party, Children’s Day Preparations and lots of sunshine! ☀️ 😎🎉🥳

📣 SUPERSTAR SHOUTOUT! 📣 These two lovely P5 pupils shared their latest persuasive text about their upcoming school trip ✏️ The quality of their writing was outstanding! 🌟👏🏻 Ambitious vocabulary, clear structure & paragraphs ✅ And the girls wrote it in their free time! 🙌🏻 @beancross.bsky.social

🏆GOING FOR GOLD🏆 At long last @beancross.bsky.social have officially been awarded their GOLD Sports Scotland Award for their effort & commitment to developing sport within the school. We are now only the 7th school in Falkirk, including secondaries, to be award this level of School Sport Award.

🙌🏻 ASSEMBLY SUPERSTARS 🙌🏻 Lots of proud pupils this morning who reached ‘Top of the Chart’ 🚀 We also heard from some of the pupils who took part in Children’s Day Races 🏃🏼 Thank you to the P6 pupils who helped assist at today’s assembly 🌟 @beancross.bsky.social

👏🏻 AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT! 👏🏻 🌟 Huge well done to all the staff involved in helping achieve Gold status 🥇 🏀 And of course the pupils who participate in a wide range of sports @beancross.bsky.social ⚽️

🚲 BIKE BUDDIES PROJECT 🚲 A huge thank you to FEL Scotland who delivered brand new bikes & accessories to some of our P7’s 🚴🏼‍♂️ This project aims to encourage P7 pupils to cont. cycling for leisure & everyday journeys 🚴🏼‍♀️ Our P7’s are very grateful for their bikes 😊 @beancross.bsky.social

We have our fun day tomorrow. Please see email for details. As it’s to be very warm, please could children also: ☀️have sunscreen applied before school. 🧊bring water bottles with them. Thank you.

📣A special shoutout to our incredible Sponsors for this year’s Beanie Cup and Fun Day. 📣 Your support helped us make it all possible and help be another great event! THANK YOU 💜🎉⚽️ -Connor Roofing - Merkland Tank @beancross.bsky.social @missjlesko.bsky.social @mrblairbps.bsky.social

🎉 ASSEMBLY SUPERSTARS 🎉 📣 Lots to celebrate this week at assembly including: 🚲 P6M achieving Level 2 of Bikeability 🌟 Top of the Chart 🥋 Wider Achievements 🫶🏻 Playground Superstars @mrsmacfarlane.bsky.social also shared some exciting opportunities for our P6’s 🤩 See below ⬇️ for details 👀

🎉 ASSEMBLY SUPERSTARS 🎉 🗳️ At this week’s assembly we revealed who won the recent P7 election - results were counted & verified with the overall winners being … 🧘🏼‍♀️ Wellbeing Warriors Party 🛝 Playground People Party Huge well done to all parties who took part in the election 👏🏻