{"id":839,"date":"2021-10-25T11:22:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/?p=839"},"modified":"2021-10-25T12:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T12:31:24","slug":"newsletter-w-c-25th-october-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/2021\/10\/25\/newsletter-w-c-25th-october-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter &#8211; w\/c 25th October 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Families and Friends of Crossmichael and Gelston Primary Schools,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome<\/strong> <strong>Back<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is lovely to see our children looking so happy.\u00a0 I hope you had an enjoyable October break and I look forward to term 2 and all that it brings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will update you on all things Covid-19 related once I meet with the Director of Skills, Education and Learning this week.\u00a0 For the time being, all mitigations remain in place as they were at the end of term 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Halloween\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday 29th October, children are welcome to wear Halloween costumes (without accessories) or non-uniform.\u00a0 Each class will engage in Halloween themed games and have some fun!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christmas Cards Designed by Pupils<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our Parent Council has arranged for each pupil to design their own Christmas Card and we are selling these to raise funds to build our outdoor classroom.\u00a0 You can order copies of your child&#8217;s design by accessing the online portal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All ordering and payment is completed online through the &#8216;My Child&#8217;s Art&#8217; company.\u00a0 Please see details in the posters below.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-839 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/2021\/10\/25\/newsletter-w-c-25th-october-2021\/1-6\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/gelston\/uploads\/sites\/7653\/2021\/10\/25111437\/1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/2021\/10\/25\/newsletter-w-c-25th-october-2021\/4-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/gelston\/uploads\/sites\/7653\/2021\/10\/25111435\/4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/2021\/10\/25\/newsletter-w-c-25th-october-2021\/3-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/gelston\/uploads\/sites\/7653\/2021\/10\/25111433\/3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/2021\/10\/25\/newsletter-w-c-25th-october-2021\/2-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/gelston\/uploads\/sites\/7653\/2021\/10\/25111430\/2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gelston Parent Council&#8217;s Christmas Fair<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our Gelston Primary School Christmas Fair will take place on Saturday 27th November from 10am &#8211; 2pm in Castle Douglas Parish Church Hall.\u00a0 \u00a0If you would like to find out more then please contact our Parent Council via their Facebook page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gelstonprimary.parentcouncil<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-839 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/2021\/10\/25\/newsletter-w-c-25th-october-2021\/5-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/gelston\/uploads\/sites\/7653\/2021\/10\/25112652\/5-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n<p>Mary Cruickshanks<\/p>\n<p>Headteacher<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Families and Friends of Crossmichael and Gelston Primary Schools, &nbsp; Welcome Back It is lovely to see our children looking so happy.\u00a0 I hope you had an enjoyable October break and I look forward to term 2 and all that it brings. &nbsp; I will update you on all things Covid-19 related once I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/2021\/10\/25\/newsletter-w-c-25th-october-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Newsletter &#8211; w\/c 25th October 2021&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/gelston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}