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Dates for your Diary
Here are some dates for your diary…
Sports Day – 13th June 1.00pm dependent on weather (alternative date 20th June 1.00pm)
Parents Evening –Monday 24th June 3.15-5.00pm. Tuesday 25th June 5.00-8.00pm
Reports to parents – Friday 21st June
End Term School Disco Friday 21st June , 6.00pm
Meet the Teacher afternoon…. TBC
Leavers assembly – Thursday 27th June at 2.00pm
Last day of term finishing time…12.15 Home lunch , 1pm School Lunch
First day of new term…Tuesday 20th August 2019 9.00am.
Clackmannanshire Primary Schools Sports Association Athletics Championship
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.
Vehicles in School Grounds
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.
Letter from the Headteacher
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
Friday Assembly
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.
Friday Merit Award
We were delighted to welcome friends and family to our first Merit Awards of 2019.
Please see below for our ‘Deerpark Stars’ for this week.
Signers of the Week
Jack, Annie, Miley, Logan, Hannah, Dylan P & Rhys .
PE Stars
Jack, Annie, Miley, Logan, Hannah, Dylan P & Rhys .
Numeracy Stars
Lia & Kezmyn,Kailyn, Taryn, Leah, Kian and Keir.
Literacy Stars
Harry & Elise, Daniel, Amber, Hollie, Leah and Chloe Mc.
Star Pupils
Kadie & Garry, William & Jake E, Sophie, Steven, Luke, Leah B.
Merit Award Winners for January and February are:-
Resilience – Robert , Patrycja & Toni-Linn
Fun – Alexander
Safe – Hannah Mc
Respect – Jack & Gracie
Nurture – Kadi P, Chloe F & Leah C
Effort – Kezmyn, Dylan, Charleigh & Annie , Samir & Mirren
Well done to everyone for their efforts and achievements this week. We are proud of you all.
Have a safe and relaxing weekend.
P1W Celebrations
Today was the day we have all been waiting for in P1W.
We are now all 5 
We celebrated that fact (and Chinese New Year 
) by learning how to write the number 5 in Chinese.
Friday Assembly – Primary 4 Class Assembly
Thank you to all friends and family to attended Primary 4 Class Assembly on Friday. Primary 4 shared their learning about Wallace and Bruce and Fun with Food. All of the children were confident in their presentations. We are very proud of you.
Scots Poetry finals took place on Friday morning. Our judges,Councillor Steward, PC Scott Arundel, Rev Shuttleworth and Lochies School said that they found it very trick this year as the standard was so high. The winners are:-
Primary 1 – Kerys
Primary 2 – Jake E
Primary 3 – Billierose
Primary 4 – Katie
Primary 5/6 – Kian
Primary 6/7 – Olivia
The winners will perform their poem at our Scots Assembly on Friday 8 Feb at 2pm.
All classes will perform a Scots song.
We hope that you can join us.
Please see below for our ‘Deerpark Stars’ for this week.
Signers of the Week
Tyrus, Teaghan, Hannah, Xander
PE Stars
Kadie, Jake E , Rosie, Shae and Chloe
Numeracy Stars
Harry, Eilidh, Thomas N, Noah, Aimee C, Layton and Ciaran.
Literacy Stars
Duncan, Nyco , Ross & Kier, Samir, Alan & Katie ,Karli and Harry .
Star Pupils
Casey , Tyrus , Annie , Sophie , Matthew , Arminas and Antosia
Most Improved Clean Classroom for this week – Primary 3
Cleanest Classroom for this week – Primary 6/7
Well done to everyone for their efforts and achievements this week. We are proud of you all.
Burns Day in P1
Making & eating shortbread, listening to The Gruffalo’s Wean and The Reiver Rat, dancing and singing to Scots songs and designing our own tartans. We also voted for our favourite Scots words. Hoolit, Muckle and Bahookie were our winners. #TaeTheBard 
