Wednesday mornings from 9 – 9.30 remain Open Drop-In time. Please feel free to come along any time you can to see what’s happening in your child’s class.

There are lots of class activities going on today to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Pics later.

To celebrate Burns Day, the school lunch menu is changing for the day to a Scottish theme. See attached for details.
Burns Day Menu flier

MONDAY, 23rd
9.15 P7 Farmhouse Breakfast (Dining Hall)
10.15 Target Assembly
2 HT / DHT Briefing re new Support Staff Development and Review
2.30 Support Staff – EPDR Briefing (see email)
3.30 CPD – SfL/DEPS Workshop (identifying and assessing additional support needs)

TUESDAY, 24th
9 HTs Meeting with Director (EDS)
2 HT / Nici Burke – School Health Review
2.30 DHT / Pupil Network Meeting (in school)
3.40 Mrs Burns, Mrs Dashwood, Mrs Thompson – ENABLe Network (St Joseph’s)
3.45 Mrs Fleming – Cluster NAR Working Group (at Barnhill PS)
4 DHT and Mrs Thomson – Catholic Teachers’ CPD (Pastoral Centre)
4 Mrs Dammer – Cultural Champions’ Meeting (DCA)

WEDNESDAY, 25th
Music Specialist
11.30 HT / Section 70 Supervision Review
12.30 HT / U.S.A. Protocol Briefing (Whitfield SWD)
3.30 HT / Leadership Focus Group (Dundee House)
4 Basketball Festival (Lynch Centre)

THURSDAY, 26th
Holocaust Memorial Day
PE Specialist am
Music Specialist am
9.50 P7s to Caird Hall HM Event
11.30 HT / CP Case Conference (Seymour House)
1.30 Mrs Burns / ABLE Champions network (EDS)
1.30 School Review
3.30 Allergy / Epipen Briefing for staff
4 Catholic Schools Football AGM (St Mary’s)
5.30 HT / Holocaust Memorial Event (Caird Hall)

FRIDAY, 27th
Department Assemblies
9.30 P5 Class Mass in church
11 HT / SCSS Review (in school)

P5-7 classes are attending the Scottish Country Dance Festival at St Andrew’s Primary School on Friday, 3rd February. This is always a great, fun filled event where we can celebrate our Scottish culture together. Attached is the letter the children will get in schoolbags.
Scottish Country Dancing Feb 2012

After discussions, we’ve decided to try a different system for sending family letters home. There has been an issue with some older children not giving parents/carers the letters, so we’re going to try ‘youngest and only’ instead of ‘oldest and only’ for one per family letters. Hopefully this will work better – please remember to check schoolbags every night for letters or other stuff from school. 🙂

Attached the latest edition of the New School Newsletter, with some exciting news on start and finish dates. Copies are in schoolbags. It’s all coming together at last! 🙂
New School News 2 January 2012

Attached information letters for upcoming P1 and P7 trips. Copies in schoolbags.
P1 Trip to Chinese Buffet 30th January 2012
P7 Holocaust Memorial 26 January 2012

This month’s Healthy Friday is in full swing, with Basic Moves, Basketball, Aerobics and Gaelic Football all on the programme. Photos soon.

Attached a letter which went out in schoolbags this week regarding snow/ice arrangements for the school.
All Parents re Snow-Ice Jan 2012