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AUTISM AWARENESS

Look out for the attached leaflet in school bag with details of some local events.
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On Friday 9th March, 31 pupils from P3-7 went to Dumfries to represent Hecklegirth in the annual Music Festival competition. All pupils behaved impeccably and were a credit to the School. We came home on the Friday with three seconds, and two shields for second places in Pupil Conducting ( by Grayce in P7), Scots Singing and Boys Choir. On Saturday Joanne and Grayce from P7 performed solo performances and Joanne was placed second in Scots singing. I was very proud of every choir member, who had the confidence to stand up and sing in front of an audience. Well done!!

Miss Dennis

It was a pleasure to take 29 pupils from primary six and seven to participate in the Annandale and Eskdale large schools cross country competition in Lochmaben yesterday, 14th March. All of our pupils completed the races and were encouraging of their team mates. We also had some success. Courtney Barbour came first for P6 girls and the P6 girls team came third. Gabi Nolan cam first for the P7 girls and the P7 girls team  came second. The P7 boys team came joint third with Gretna. Well done to all pupils who participated!

Miss Dennis

The Hecklegirth Stingrays and Hecklegirth Harriers took part in a basketball competition last Tuesday at Lockerbie.  All teams competed well and the Harriers ended up getting all the way to the final and winning the competition beating Newington 2 baskets to 1 in the final.  Well done everyone.

Each class chose one child to recite a poem using old Scot’s language during assembly recently.  The P1-3 winner was Willow Jones and the P4-7 winner was Eva Coupland.  Well done girls and to all those who represented their class in the assembly.  Willow and Eva will represent the school at the cluster competition on the 15th February at St Columbas Primary.

Medal winners receive the class medal by earning the most house points during the week. Points can be earned for demonstrating the school’s values, hard work and positive behaviours, both in school and out.

Certificates are based around the four capacities with one focus each week eg successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens or effective contributors. The teacher selects a pupil who has demonstrated achievement in this area.

Thank you to Tesco who donated a £50 voucher towards the purchase of a Xmas tree for each class. The school then held a ‘best dressed tree’ competition which P3/4 won. Their prize was a trip to the Solway Café on the last day of term.

We collected over 30 shoesboxes for the Operation Christmas Child project. Many thanks to all who donated – this will make a child very happy.

£322 donated to Shelter on your behalf from our Giving Tree and retiring collection at the carol concerts. Many thanks to all those who gave. Learning Council reps Tyler and Sarah presented your donation to Wendy Hamilton from the charity.

We have a few spare tickets left for Tuesday’s matinee performance at 1.30pm- please call office to book. No tickets left for the evening performance – it’s a sell-out! A couple of wee things to remember:

• bring costumes if not already in school
• collect pupils from classrooms after performances- those attending the matinee can take pupils home and the others will be dismissed as usual at 3pm.
• Pupils to be back in school for 6pm for evening performance. If family are not attending evening performance please collect from class at approx. 7.30pm.
• retiring collection in aid of SHELTER
• If you have a young child watching with you and they become unsettled, please feel free to move out of the hall to settle them

A few photos to whet your appetite!

School Christmas Holidays – we close at 3 pm on Thursday, 21st December and reopen at 8.55 am on Thursday, 4th January 2018.

See below for holiday dates for 17/18 and 18/19.

Current school year (2017/18) –

Term 2
First day – Monday 30 October 2017
Last day – Thursday 21 December 2017

Christmas holiday – Friday 22 December 2017 to Wednesday 3 January 2018

Term 3
First day – Thursday 4 January 2018
Mid-term holiday – Monday 12 February 2018
Teacher training – Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 February 2018
Last day – Thursday 29 March 2018

Spring holiday – Friday 30 March 2018 to Friday 13 April 2018

Term 4
First day – Monday 16 April 2018
May Day holiday – Monday 7 May 2018
Teacher training – Friday 1 June 2018
Last day – Friday 29 June 2018

Summer holiday – Monday 2 July 2018 to Monday 20 August 2018

Next school year (2018/19)

Term 1
Teacher training – Friday 17 and Monday 20 August 2018
First day – Tuesday 21 August 2018
Last day – Friday 12 October 2018

Autumn holiday – Monday 15 to Friday 26 October 2018

Term 2
First day – Monday 29 October 2018
Last day – Friday 21 December 2018

Christmas holiday – Monday 24 December 2018 to Friday 4 January 2019

Term 3
First day – Monday 7 January 2019
Teacher training – Thursday 21 and Friday 22 February 2019
Last day – Friday 5 April 2019
Teacher training – Monday 8 April 2019

Spring holiday – Monday 8 to Monday 22 April 2019

Term 4
First day – Tuesday 23 April 2019
May Day holiday – Monday 6 May 2019
Last day – Friday 28 June 2019

Summer holiday – Monday 1 July 2019 to Friday 16 August 2019