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June

New Payment ~ Parents of Eligible P1 Pupils

09/06/2019 Mrs Johnston Leave a comment

A brand new benefit for low income families is now open for applications.

The £250 School Age Payment is for families with a child old enough to start primary school this August.

The payment is part of the Best Start Grant, a package of three payments for families in receipt of eligible benefits – including Universal Credit, Income Support, Housing Benefit and tax credits – to help at key stages in a child’s life.

More details can be found here:

https://www.gov.scot/news/new-school-payment-launches/

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P6/7 Into Film Creations

05/06/2019 Mrs Johnston Leave a comment

P6/7 have been working with Scott from Into Film and used their new skills to create adverts to encourage our school community to join our Race for Life event on Friday 6th June.

Into Film is an educational charity that puts film at the heart of children and young people’s learning.

View all 4 adverts below.

P6/7 used their new film making skills to create adverts to encourage the rest of our school community to join our school #raceforlife event for @CR_UK on 6th June. 4 adverts to share over the next few weeks. Here's the first! @intofilm_edu @ActiveClacks https://t.co/IsW5X8mpCJ pic.twitter.com/UXMR0Xm9dU

— Deerpark Primary School (@DeerparkPrimary) May 17, 2019

Here is the 2nd of P6/7s adverts, created to promote our whole school #raceforlife on 6th June. They have worked really hard to organise this event & can't wait to see the whole school joining together to raise funds for such a worthwhile cause @CR_UK @CRUKScotland @ActiveClacks pic.twitter.com/M5tp5jLM2I

— Deerpark Primary School (@DeerparkPrimary) May 27, 2019

Here's video 3 of 4. With 2 days to go before our school @raceforlife P6/7 have been very busy finalising arrangements for their event. Incredibly proud of the determination and resilience they have shown in organising this event. @CR_UK @CRUKScotland pic.twitter.com/RGOnmMskcu

— Deerpark Primary School (@DeerparkPrimary) June 4, 2019

The final of the 4 adverts created by P6/7 to promote their @raceforlife event. Great use of the new skills they have learned throughout their participation in the @intofilm_edu project. Wishing you all the best of luck with your fundraising for @CR_UK @CRUKScotland #proud pic.twitter.com/ih9iCHI05D

— Deerpark Primary School (@DeerparkPrimary) June 5, 2019

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Norovirus ~ Important Information from NHS Forth Valley

Gallery 04/06/2019 Mrs Johnston Leave a comment

Events, June

CANCER RESEARCH RACE FOR LIFE

27/05/2019 Mrs Johnston Leave a comment

P6/7 are organising a whole school fundraising event for CancerResearch UK. Our Deerpark Race for Life will take place onThursday 6th June, 2019.

This will be an all day event with classes timetabled to be out on the track (timetable will be shared nearer the time).

Throughout the afternoon there will be a variety of fundraising events (guess the bear’s birthday, sweets in the jar,CRUK stall etc) on the field as well as music and hopefully a sunny,fun atmosphere.

All children who take part AND raise sponsorship will receive a medal in our medal ceremony at around 2:15pm.

Parents/carers are welcome to come along and cheer on their child’s class, as per timetable to be shared, however we would encourage as many people as possible to attend in the afternoon to add to the atmosphere/fundraising efforts. Please feel free to invite a friend!

Sponsor sheets are coming home today and there is also an online fundraising page available at

https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/deerpark-primary-school

Please share far and wide!

P6/7 have worked incredibly hard on this event and we hope you can all come along and support their fundraising efforts on 6thJune.

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May Newsletter

24/05/2019 Mrs Johnston Leave a comment

View a copy of our current newsletter

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Dates for your Diary

24/05/2019 Mrs Johnston Leave a comment

Here are some dates for your diary…

Sports Day – 13^th June 1.00pm dependent on weather (alternative date 20^th June 1.00pm)
Parents Evening –Monday 24^th June 3.15-5.00pm. Tuesday 25^th June 5.00-8.00pm
Reports to parents – Friday 21^st June

End Term School Disco Friday 21^st June , 6.00pm
Meet the Teacher afternoon…. TBC
Leavers assembly – Thursday 27^th June at 2.00pm
Last day of term finishing time…12.15 Home lunch , 1pm School Lunch
First day of new term…Tuesday 20^th August 2019 9.00am.

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Clackmannanshire Primary Schools Sports Association Athletics Championship

22/05/2019 Mrs Johnston Leave a comment

Today a group of Primary 6 and Primary 7 pupils took part in the Clackmannanshire Primary Schools Sports Association Athletics Championship at Lornshill Academy.

WELL DONE to all our pupils who took part, they all showed so much effort and resilience at today’s event.

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Vehicles in School Grounds

26/04/2019 Mrs Johnston Leave a comment

We would just like to take this opportunity to thank all the parents, carers and family members who continue to follow our policy of NOT driving vehicles into the school grounds to drop off children.

This has been very much appreciated. This has meant that congestion in the car parks has been kept to a minimum and of course supports our ultimate goal of keeping everyone safe.

We ask for your ongoing support with this.

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Letter from the Headteacher

22/03/2019 Mrs Johnston Leave a comment

Dear Parents and Carers,

I am Rhoda MacDougall and will be the interim headteacher of Deerpark Primary until June 2019. I have had a super first week working in the school and have been made to feel very welcome indeed!

I am really keen to get to know our children and families over the coming weeks and so I hope you are able to come to our Sharing the Learning event which will take place on Wednesday 27th March from 6.00pm -7.00pm. This will give you an opportunity to spend some time in your child’s class and see the work they are doing each day at Deerpark. I look forward to meeting you all next week!

After the spring holiday I will sending out questionnaires to our children and families to find out what you like about Deerpark and also how you think we could improve our work at the school too. This will help shape our school improvement plan for Deerpark and your views will be very valuable and welcome.

In the meantime please get in touch with me at the school if there is anything you would like to discuss further.

Many thanks

Rhoda MacDougall

Headteacher

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Friday Assembly

01/03/2019 Mrs Johnston Leave a comment

Catering Services have asked Clackmannanshire children for new ideas for the school lunch menus. Leah in P6 wrote down some of the ideas and will be taking more ideas over the next few days.

Dylan B also took down some ideas for how we could raise money and have fun for Comic Relief day on Friday 15 March. If you have any suggestions, please comment below.

Please see below for our ‘Deerpark Stars’ for this week.

Signers of the Week

Hannah

Xander

Kerryn

PE Stars
Mona

James

Leah B

Numeracy Stars
Gracie

Shannon

Thomas N

James

Rachael

Kadi

Kerryn

Anastasia

Karli

Charlie

Literacy Stars
Kadie

Hannah

Damien

Andrew

Lacey

Taylor

Karli

Declan

Star Pupils
Lia

Nyco

Chloe F

Tavia

David

Dylan B

Antosia

Most Improved Clean Classroom for this week – Primary 5/6

Cleanest Classroom for last week – Primary 6/7

Well done to everyone for their efforts and achievements this week. We are proud of you all.

Have a relaxing weekend.

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