There are many ways to find out what is
happening in school. We regularly update
our Twitter feed and Class dojo with
photos and information about learning and
events happening across the school.
Follow us @DeerparkPrimary
As well as this, our school website is
on GLOW . All classes have their own
blogs, which children have the opportunity
to contribute to. Please take a look!

Our main forms of communication are Class
Dojo and via Groupcall Messenger.

Groupcall Messenger is used by most
secondary schools and some primaries and
allows us to contact the right people at the
right time via text message, email,
voicemail, Xpressions App or letter.

If youhaven’t already signed up to Groupcall
please contact the school with your most
up to date mobile number and/or email
address.

In 2018/19 session our 4 priorities are

 to continue to improve learning and
teaching in order to raise
attainment,
 develop effective approached to
promoting positive health and
wellbeing,
 improve family learning and parental
engagement, and
 further develop approaches to
moderation to ensure that teacher
professional judgement of
Curriculum for Excellence levels are
robust

A sketch note of our school improvement plan will be available very soon on our school website. Paper copies of the full plan will also be available from the school office in the new session.

Our Pupil Equity Fund for 2018/19 is £77760. A
proportion of this is allocated for HR and finance which is centrally resourced within Clackmannanshire Council.

We continue to fund our additional learning assistants. We
will also fund Mrs Stevenson to work an additional 2.5 days a week to allow Mrs Kelly (PT) and Mr Patterson (PT) additional non class contact time to lead school improvement, Growth Mindset work with Sonia Grant, Wellbeing Scotland counselling service and family
learning/parental engagement.

As family learning and parental engagement is one of our priorities we’d like to invite parents/carers to meet with Mrs Bernard
at 9am on 7 June or 2pm on 13 June to listen to your ideas about how you’d like to hear about your child’s learning, family learning opportunities that you’d like to see  in school and how you’d like to be moreinvolved.

If you’d like to attend either session please email the school at
deerpark@edu.clacks.co.uk or call the school on 01259 452218 for catering purposes. Each session will take no longer than one hour. Alternatively, if you are unable to attend but would like to share
your views you can complete a short online survey which will be sent out via Class Dojo school story and Groupcall Messenger over
the next week or so.

Welcome back to Deerpark Primary School and our final term of this session. It is great to see everyone after our two week break.

We talked about our special visitors coming into school next week to see what it is in Deerpark Primary School. Our visitors will be visiting classes and meeting with children, parents and staff throughout the week.

Primary 1W talked about their exciting afternoon yesterday experimenting and playing with the milk crates as part of our new loose parts play equipment. Jake E and Connor were able to explain that they used the crates to stand on and try to reach the branches of the trees. Ross explained that he worked with others to build a den for Rosie the cat. Mrs Bernard explained that sadly we had to buy anti-vandal paint to protect the storage shed from people climbing and standing on the roof. It is already buckled but we are hopeful that the anti-vandal paint will help prevent this from happening again.

Stewart House Captains , gave out Numeracy Star awards. Numeracy Stars for this week are Euan , Thomas N , Noah P, Logan & Lacey, Chloe , Kadi and Milly .

Wallace House Captains gave out Literacy Stars for this week. They are Tyler, Jake E, Nikodem & Evie, Ronald , Luke , Harry and Dylan B  and Lewis L.

Star Pupils for this week, awarded by Schaw House Captains  are Kailyn & Corbin , Everyone in P1W! Noah S , Annie , Xander & Taylor, Chloe S and Ciaran .

Makaton Signers of the week are Connor, Billierose , Luke and Kadi! They were presented with their certificates by Bruce House Captains

Well done everyone. We are proud of you all.

Have a happy and safe weekend everyone.