It is hard to believe it has already been four weeks since we returned from our summer break. As always there has been lots crammed into the opening weeks.

We had a very successful Open Doors event of Friday with a very good turnout from parents and carers. It is always great for our young people to share their learning with you.

Primary 1 also had their photograph in the paper. Below is a copy for this who did not see it.

Weekly Diary

Important Dates

 Thursday 18th September School Closed to pupils (school used as a polling station)

Friday 19th September Non-uniform day £1 donation

School Dinners

Social Target

This Week in Pictures

As always it has been a very busy week at Longhaugh Primary. The highlight of our week would have to be the residential  trip to Dalgusie many of our primary 7 pupils enjoyed. It was an eventful week and all the pupils and staff had a great time.

Hopefully these photographs will capture some of the fun everyone had

Weekly Diary

What’s on this week?

UN Convention on The Rights of The Child

We continue to discuss the rights of the child at our assemblies. This is very important to us at the school and believe our young people should be aware of their rights and the responsibilities that go with them.

We will be sharing this leaflet with all classes over the next few weeks and hope you will discuss it with your child.

rightsleaflet

School Dinners

Important Information

• Our primary 1 pupils will be with us full time from Monday 8th September. That means they will finish at 3.15pm
• REMINDER: the school will be closed on Thursday 18th September as we are being used as a polling station for the referendum

School Improvement

As part of our on going commitment to ensure we are the best we can possibly be the senior management team have a fortnightly focus for class visits. The focus for the next two weeks is ensuring pupils are always actively engaged.

We are also working our way through year 3 of our improvement plan. A leaflet will be issued soon about working groups within the school which help us achieve the targets within our improvement plan. Below is a copy of our improvement plan for 2014-2015

LPS SIP breakdownyear 3

What has been happening this week

Social Target

Our Social Target for the next 2 weeks

It has been another extremely busy week at Longhaugh. We had our first 2 assemblies of the year. The behaviour of our youngsters was outstanding. Our primary 1 pupils also had their photograph taken for the Evening Telegraph. Primary 7 pupils attended Safetaysiders and enjoyed an fun afternoon learning about keeping safe.

We look forward to another fun filled busy week this week!

Weekly diary

Assembly

At each Monday morning assembly we always discuss one or two articles from The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Last week we looked at Articles 28 and 29. This is about the right to have a an education.

We also watched this video clip  which helps explain a little about the convention.

House Captains

At assembly our house captains, school captains and head teacher rep were announced.

Broughty: Ajay Brissette and Caitlin Barclay

Claypotts : Reece Johnston and Rachel Glen

Dudhope:  Phoenix Gibb and Jessica Saunders

Mains: Cody Logue and Holly Stewart

Head Teacher Rep: Brandon Patterson

School Captains: Bobby Douglas and Rinnell Adams

Dinners

Week 1

Pics of the Week

Click on the picture to see pics of the week

Dalguise

Primary 7 leave for Dalguise on Monday. You can keep informed of how they are getting on through twitter with the hashtag #lpsdal

Social Target

Every 2 weeks we have a focus on a social target. This is linked to our HWB scheme Bounceback and to the general learning and teaching in the school.

This is the social target for this week

Microsoft for Pupils

Pupils in Dundee schools are now eligible to download Microsoft Office ProPlus (instructions attached) for use on their home or personal computer equipment. This is a great benefit for pupils. Access to the software is free for them. Since, however, the computer equipment will most likely belong to parents or carers, schools are advised to inform them, about this opportunity, and pass on the instructions for downloading and installing to them, and not just to pupils.

The software is provided as-is and no support for the installation or use of the software is provided by Dundee City Council. Any incident compromising a computer during installation will not be the responsibility of Dundee City Council.

This version of Microsoft Office is compatible with the version deployed in all Dundee Schools.

Welcome Back

It is great to be back after a seven week holiday. I hope you all had a great summer and are happy to be back at school. All our young people look very smart and have come back to school ready and prepared to learn. It never fails to amaze me just what an absolute credit our youngsters are to our school community.

The summer holiday was a busy one for the school. A lot of building work was going on and most of this is now finished but some work still needs to be completed. One of the on going consequences of the work not being completed is that we will not be able to provide a tuck shop for the next few weeks.

The Longhaugh Support Group is now situated within what was previously our infant department. I know many of you are not entirely sure what service the LSG provides. A future blog will explain in more detail exactly what it is but in short it is a city wide provision for supporting pupils from across Dundee.

As the LSG is now in the main building primary 1 , primary 1/2 an primary 2 are now in the annex.

Weekly Diary

Already, this early in to the session, things beginning to be very busy.

Primary 1

Our new primary one pupils started on Wednesday. It has been a great start and every single pupil has settled in well. They have already begun our literacy scheme, Read Write Inc learning new sounds.

This Thursday the primary 1’s will have their picture taken for the Evening Telegraph. More details will be sent to parents and carers early next week.

Newsletter

Our first newsletter was issued this week and you should have found it in school bags. It is our intention to have a minimum of one newsletter per term. There is lots of important information contained in newsletters.

newsletter 1aug

School Dinners

This week will be week 3 on the school dinner rota

This Week in pictures

As always we try to keep you updated on twitter  (twitter.com/longhaughps) of all that is going on at Longhaugh PS

To see what has been happening at Longhaugh click here

Pic of the Week

Well done Denny!

It has been a couple of weeks since we updated our blog and as always it has been a very busy time at Longhaugh Primary School. Hopefully this blog will sum up everything that has been going on!

Reporting to Parents

Reports have been issued and follow up parent/teacher interviews have also taken place. Feedback from reports have been positive overall. All comments are read and hopefully any concerns have been addressed. If you did not manage to make Parents’ evening but would still like a chance to discuss the progress of your child please put a not in the diary and the class teacher will get back to you to organise a suitable time.

School Dinners

Dinners this week – week 1

Weekly Diary

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Letters

Last week we sent out a letter with a list of important upcoming dates.  Here is a copy just in case it didn’t make it home!

Internet Safety

Currently there are Internet Safety Courses being delivered across the city sharing ways of keeping our young people safe online. Below is a link to a Youtube clip which was shared on twitter last week.

Innternet Safety

Inservice Days

Staff had 2 training days last week, a great deal of work was completed and the staff showed their usual commitment to improving our school and the experience our young people get at Longhaugh Primary. Below is a list of some of the things that happened:

• Learning activity about inclusion
• Working groups update
• Development of literacy
• Identifying priorities for future improvement
• Updating transition details

Supporting Numeracy

As part of the working group developing the delivery of numeracy and maths a list of websites were identified. These may be of help to you if you wish to help your child with maths at home

Early Level (primary 1)

IMM Websites – Early Level

First Level (primary 2-primary 4)

IMM Websites – First Level

Second Level (primary 5-primary 7)

IMM Websites – Second Level

Pic of the Week

Health lesson in p4/5

Week Beginning 12th May

Another busy week ahead at Longhaugh Primary School. As always there are a lot of exciting learning opportunities for our young people. We look forward to an assembly from Mr.Brough on Monday. There is golf lessons for primary 5’s and primary 6’s. We also look forward to welcoming some nursery pupils for stay and play activities. On Wednesday we will be visited by the Read Write Inc team who will look at how we deliver RWI and share good ideas.

Weekly Diary

Information items

Report cards were issued in Friday. You should have also received this letter. Please return it to school by Tuesday if you require an appointment.

parent interview

There will be Internet Safety talks for parents in the coming weeks. This is a city wide event details are below

School Dinners

Week 2 menu

The week in pictures

http://t.co/DX9CUXTE6r

Pic of the Week

Social Target

Week Beginning 6th May

Last week was another really busy week. I know Mr.Munro was a little frustrated as he had a number of appointments out of school which meant he was about as much as he would have liked. However this week seems a little more settled and hopefully there will be more tweets and Mr. Munro able to see more of you all.

By the end of this week report cards will be issued. You will also be offered a time for parent/teacher interview on Monday 19th May.

Highlight of last week was certainly the primary 7  World War II exhibition. Well done to all the pupils and staff for such a successful event.

Netball Team

Well done to our netball team. Each week they represent our school with pride and never let us down.

Football Team

Our school team also played a couple of times this week. On Thursday they had a great match and a fine result against Ballumbie Primary school.

Primary 7 Competition Winners

Recently our primary 7 pupils entered a city wide art competition. This was to design a venue for the Dundee Waterfront. Two of our pupils were winners. Sian and Liam accompanied by family and Mrs. Corstorphine to a presentation in town through the week. We are very proud of them.

Weekly Timetable

School Dinners

Please see attached new menu for this term

Summer Menu

Spring/Summer Leaflet

Week 1 Menu

Social Target

This Week in Pictures

Click here for link to pictures of the week

Pic of the Week

If you follow us on twitter (twitter.com/longhaughps) you will see many pictures of learning and teaching and of the general life of the school.

Pic of the week shows Carly and Leah who have been a huge help to Mr.Munro and Mrs. Jenkins this week.

Week Beginning 28th April

This week is another packed week with alot going on in the classrooms and around the school in general. There are several times throughout the week when it will not be possible to see a memebr of the management team. If you require a member of the SMT to speak to you please leave a contact number and Mr. Munro or Mrs. Jenkins will get back to you as soon as possible.

On Friday afternoon there will be visitors from Dundee House in school to speak with the management team about how the school is performing. This meeting usually takes 2-3 hours and allows us to show off the school and highlight what we do well and what we need to develop. In coming blogs feedback from the visit will be shared.

Weekly Timetable

School Dinners

Please see attached new menu for this term

Summer Menu

Spring/Summer Leaflet

Week 3 Menu

Social Target

This Week in Pictures 

Click here for link to pictures of the week

Pic of the Week

If you follow us on twitter (twitter.com/longhaughps) you will see many pictures of learning and teaching and of the general life of the school.

This picture is a favourire of Mr.Munro as he likes to watch Fintry Athletic (@FintryAthletic)

Yet another busy week ahead at Longhaugh Primary School. We have guest speakers, assembly, staff out on training  and number of students in our school. However the main event of this week is Mr.Bluman will be finishing his time with Longhaugh Primary on Friday. He has been a valuable member of our school community and will be sadly missed. However our loss is certainly the gain of Hayshead Primary. We will all miss him but wish him well in the next stage of his career.

What is Happening This Week 

Photo of  The Week

Commonwealth Dribble

Click here to see video

Social Target

Dinner Menu

Week 2

Welcome Back!

It is good to be back after our Spring Holiday. This is going to be a very busy term with lots going on. We will do our best to keep you up to date with everything that is happening.

What is happening this week:

MONDAY –

8.00am SMT Meeting
11.00am SMT meeting

3.30pm Staff Meeting Rm. 13

TUESDAY

2.00pm P5 Museum exhibition

WEDNESDAY
ASPIRE ‘Surgery’
DEPS in school – timetable to follow

HT out all morning
am DHT at meeting
THURSDAY

Commonwealth Dribble House event – Timetable to follow
DHT at meeting

Miss MacKay out of school pm

2.30pm Mss Bird out if school

FRIDAY – Good Friday -School closed to staff and pupils

Social Target

Important Dates

Friday 18th April – School is closed – Good Friday Holiday

Monday 5th May – School closed May Day Holiday

Friday 9th May – Reports issued

Monday 19th May – Parent/teacher interview

Thursday 22nd May – INSET day school closed to pupils

Friday 23rd May – INSET day school closed to pupils

Monday 26th May – School closed Victoria Day holiday

Friday 27th June – School closes for summer holiday (12 noon)

Newsletter

Click on the link before for our latest newsletter which was issued at the end of last term.

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Assembly 14th April 2014

Photograph of the Week

Primary 3 have been baking bread

This week in pictures

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