Parent Council Meeting
Agenda
January 29th 2020 7p.m
Category Archives: Whole School
Awards 10.1.20
It was good to welcome back after the Christmas holidays and Mrs Duncan talked to the school about the new year ahead. Many successful learners, effective contributors, confident individuals and responsible citizens were also presented with their much deserved Head Teacher’s awards.
Head Teacher’s Awards and Environmental Awareness
At our assembly today, our pupils from each class were awarded with their Head Teacher’s certificates and pencil as prizes. Also, we were delighted to welcome three senior students from the High School who gave the primary school children a presentation as part of their work for Environmental Awareness week. The power-point was very informative and stimulated some good discussion. We are sure some of the messages will now be taken more seriously as a result of the example shown by these older students. Well done and thank you! By the end of Friday, Christmas decorations arrived but the children haven’t seen them yet….
Head Teacher’s Awards and Achievements
Well done to all award winners this week. Lots of positive achievements throughout the school.
Well done to Eve for being the first pupil in P6,P6/7 and P7 to have read 1,000,000 words as part of Accelerated Reader Programme.
Well done Aulay on his achievements at the regional swimming competition. Aualy represented the school very well.
Head Teacher’s Awards 15.11.19
Here are this week’s deserving awards winners, each receiving their certificates and pencils as prizes. Lots of successful learners!
Children In Need
Today, we ended our successful fundraising week for Children in Need with a Joe Wicks workout, wearing our bright and sporty clothing. The raffle prizes were also drawn. A very big thank you to all who have supported this worthy cause so well. At time of writing we have raised around £650 and a portion of this will go to the Janice Jamieson Memorial Trust Fund to sponsor a student in Malawi. Thank you to the High School for letting us use the Heughan Hall. Thank you all for supporting the spotty raffle with such enthusiasm and thank you to our school pupil councillors for helping to organise the spots! We are also very grateful to Molly Houston (and mother too) and to Andrew for making and selling cakes to staff. This raised £28.35 which has been added to funds too. Please see facebook for more pictures.
Award Winners
Well done to all those presented with their Head Teacher Award 10.11.19. Some great learning taking place in all classes this week. Spooky writing and poetry featured this week as did good manners from one pupil on a recent school trip. Well done everyone keep up the great work.
Tidy cloakroom award this week went to Primary 5.
Eco Schools Project Edina Bulbs
The Eco Committee and their buddies (4 from each class) have been planting the daffodil and crocus bulbs which we have received as part of the Edina Science Project. We discussed a fair test and how every plant pot had to be planted in the same way. We planted 59 pots – each with one daffodil and one crocus bulb, clearly labelled. A further 20 bulbs are being planted directly into the ground. Starting from next week, we need to start recording the weather and inputting this into a database. By the end of the project, all the information from all schools taking part, across the UK, will be pulled together and conclusions drawn about how levels of sunshine or rainfall have had an impact on the growth and flowering of the bulbs.
Head Teacher’s Awards
Today, on the last day of term we were pleased to present Head Teacher’s Awards to more successful role models and successful learners. Well done all! Two children, Sofia and Leah were also recognised for their effort in fundraising for our sponsored walk. The school has now raised over £2400 which is a super amount and a significant amount of this was raised by these two girls. However, our thanks go to all our young people who worked so hard to help raise this excellent amount, which will help with future school trips and other resources. Many children were also recognised for their participation in a recent Sumdog competition.
Harvest Assembly and House Captains
Today we held our harvest Assembly, albeit made shorter by an unplanned fire evacuation! We were delighted to welcome Reverend Fiona Wilson to our service. The children had brought in lots of donations for the foodbank, for which the local church will be taking away items for us. Mrs Duncan showed us some pictures from our very own harvest in school: ‘soup at snack time’ photos showed our soup made by the eco group ad Mrs Howie with Mrs Houston in the Hospitality Department, made from our own home grown vegetables. Out eco committee and school council also received their badges. Three primary 7 children were awarded with their Head Teacher’s Award certificates (they will not be here on Friday due to Operation Safety) and our Houses Captains were also announced.
