: It is an important part of the “can do” ethos and community spirit of the school that, where possible, our pupils come in uniform. You should now have received your order forms for uniform for next session. Please remember the final date for orders for delivery on Monday 22nd August must be received by Monday 30th May.
Category Archives: What’s going down?
Realigning Children’s Services
Survey of pupils in P5 to P7
Realigning Children’s Services is an important programme about the lives of children in Scotland.
This is an entirely new survey, designed specifically to meet the needs of the RCS programme. Children will complete a web-based questionnaire themselves during a lesson at primary school. All children in P5-P7 will complete the same questionnaire, regardless of which school year they are in. The differences in age are unlikely to have a significant effect on how they interpret and respond to the questions.
Children will be asked about:
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friendship and family
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how they find school
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play and what they do in their free time
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health and feelings
Before the Easter holidays further information will be sent out via pupil post with the survey planned to take place after the holidays.
Primary 2 request for help!
P2 are planning a theme based around food and cooking for the summer term. This is a big challenge, as we do not have a lot of cooking equipment in the school. We are now collecting donations of used small kitchen equipment and utensils, including mixing bowls, spoons, scales, storage containers and anything else you might use in your kitchen! It is essential that these items are clean and undamaged. We would also welcome donations of non-perishable ingredients for cooking and baking including flour, sugar, baking powder, dried fruits, tinned tomatoes, herbs and spices and anything else you might have at home. All food products should be sealed in their original packaging. Thanks for your help! P2 and Mrs Budge.
Latecoming
We are all aware of how busy our households can be at certain times of the day, and getting everyone off to their various destinations in the morning can be quite a feat! We continue to monitor those children who arrive at school at least 10 minutes after the school day has started. We would much rather that our pupils were late, but here, than lateness causing a complete day missed. Our school life is pretty hectic and filled with so much that, as long as our young people are well enough to be at school, we really need them to be here and be learning. By the same token, though, the start of the day sets the tone: messages are given, information about the events of the day is shared and things get started. I would therefore ask that your child is, please, at school, whenever possible, for the start of the day. We do letter individual parents of our concerns. If this is an issue for you and your child please do not hesitate to contact the school so that we can discuss support. In accordance with national policy schools do track and monitor attendance. As such, our local authority guidelines are in place. Therefore standard letters are regularly issued to parents regarding this matter. We are always available to discuss any issues affecting your child’s attendance at school.
Fairtrade
Our Fairtrade breakfast club was a great success and we would like to thank Mrs Birrell and the catering team for supporting this event. You may have seen the tweets showcasing some of produce and events. Brake Brothers, catering supplies, donated the additional produce to ensure that we could offer this. Well done to p6 and Mrs Elins who put a lot of work in to ensure this was a success.
Staff News
Both Mrs Ross and Mrs McQuade have been back into school working alongside everyone again. They were using their Keeping In Touch days and both aim to be back with us mid-June before returning to classes for the start of our new session in August.
At the request of the authority we were asked to release Miss Irvine to join a team in another school for the remainder of the session. Mrs Lesley Duncan has joined us on a temporary basis until the end of session, working with P1 to replace Miss Irvine.
Working with the Clackmannan Development Trust
Our Digital Leaders have been in consultation with a group from the Clackmannan Development Trust who are working to put together a Heritage walk around the village. Mrs Donald has been introducing green screening to make videos to be placed around the walk. We aim to create qr codes to direct walkers to the information. Here is a test of the video. What do you think?
Monitoring Latecoming 2016
We are all aware of how busy our households can be at certain times of the day, and getting everyone off to their various destinations in the morning can be quite a feat! However, recently we have noticed a number of our pupils who are persistently coming into school after the school day has started.
Can we remind parents and carers that children should enter the school through the playground doors with their classmates and not be dropped off in the school car park. Anyone entering the building through the front door after the bell will be marked as late unless a previous arrangement has been made with the school. The start of the day sets the tone: messages are given, information about the events of the day is shared and learning started.We would encourage families to get in touch with us if they are having difficulties getting children to school on time, so that we may consider ways in which support may be offered.
We track and record latecoming and our results will be available to view on the school website. We also share this information with our Attendance and Welfare officer who will be assisting us setting up support meetings for families who are persistently late.
Engaging Parents in PE
Dear Colleagues,
Can you please share this event with your community. This event is suitable for parents/carers and school staff. Please could you share this with your Parent Councils or equivalent organisations. If possible can you share this information on your facebook and twitter accounts if appropriate. This event is for parents/carers and school staff.
Lornshill Academy, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Saturday 30th January 2016, 9.30am – 1pm
This event is suitable for both parents/carers and practitioners with responsibility for learners in all sectors. The aim of the event is to enable delegates to develop their understanding of how high quality Physical Education can support learning across the curriculum. The day will comprise of theory and practical sessions* which will demonstrate this, in addition to exemplifying how a strong home-school partnership can extend the learning experience. There will also be opportunities to hear key messages and engage in conversation with presenters, colleagues and parents. Children are welcome – there will be PE experiences for them to participate in.
*Participation in the practical sessions is not compulsory, although is encouraged. Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear.
To register for this event, please sign up using the Survey Monkey Link below.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/engagingparentsinPE
Scots Event
We had a really successful new look Scots Event this week. We changed the format from previous years and invited all our friends and families to join us for a Scottish arts, crafts and musical celebration. We had an art exhibition and a Scottish flavoured Fair Trade cafe while every class entertained with a selection of Scottish songs.
