Dear Family and Friends of Crossmichael Primary School,<\/p>\n
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Rev. Sally Russell<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Today, it is with great sadness that we let pupils know of Sally’s death.\u00a0 Sally was a valued member of our school community.\u00a0 She came into school every week and took pupils for tea, toast and a talk.\u00a0 She joined us for assemblies and participated in class.\u00a0 She welcomed us to Crossmichael Parish Church for our Christmas and Easter Services.\u00a0 She was a colleague and a friend to many of us.\u00a0 She will be greatly missed by us all.<\/p>\n On Wednesday 25th November, her funeral procession will travel through Crossmichael at 12.05pm.\u00a0 Her daughter, Rachel, has asked if some pupils and staff could be present to give a little wave on the way past.\u00a0 Mrs Stevens, Mrs Glover and I will accompany P6 and P7 to represent the school.\u00a0 (We will seek parental permission beforehand.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2018Poppy Appeal\u2019 Fundraising<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n We raised \u00a333.12 from the Poppy appeal.\u00a0 Thanks to those who donated this year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christmas Dinner – Wednesday 16th December<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n We are having our Christmas dinner on Wednesday 16th December.\u00a0 This will be carried out in two sittings to ensure that we are safely following Covid-19 guidelines.\u00a0 Pupils may wear Christmas jumpers and hats that day.<\/p>\n Our Parent Council are kindly donating Christmas Crackers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christmas Donations for the Food Bank<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n One of our school aims is to BE KIND.\u00a0 We have decided to collect donations for the Food Bank this year.\u00a0 Please send your items in to school by Wednesday 9th December<\/u> where they will be quarantined for three days before being passed to Nicola at Crossmichael Village Shop who will distribute items for us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christmas Cards<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Unfortunately, we are not sending Christmas cards this year because of Covid-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christmas Parties<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Christmas parties will still take place this year!\u00a0 Your child can come to school wearing their Christmas party clothes or casual clothes that day.\u00a0 Normally we try to get all children in one age group together for their parties but this year that would mean unnecessary movement between ‘bubbles’ so we are having parties in our registration classes.<\/p>\n Party dates are as follows:<\/p>\n Tuesday 8th December = P1\/2<\/p>\n Wednesday 9th December = P4\/5<\/p>\n Thursday 10th\u00a0 December = P2-4<\/p>\n Friday 11th December = P6\/7<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christmas Pantomime<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Normally we take pupils to the Fullarton Theatre to watch the pantomime.\u00a0 This year we have decided to buy an online pantomime (Jack and the Beanstalk) so that pupils can watch it in their classrooms.\u00a0 Our Parent Council has kindly agreed to pay for the pantomime and to provide refreshments for pupils.\u00a0 More details will follow shortly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christmas Video Clips<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n We may not be able to invite you in to school\/ church for our Christmas Service so we will do things differently this year!\u00a0 We will create a Christmas video clip to share with you instead.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Best wishes,<\/p>\n Mary E Lidstone-Scott<\/p>\n Headteacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Family and Friends of Crossmichael Primary School, Rev. Sally Russell Today, it is with great sadness that we let pupils know of Sally’s death.\u00a0 Sally was a valued member of our school community.\u00a0 She came into school every week and took pupils for tea, toast and a talk.\u00a0 She joined us for assemblies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}