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Parking Plea P7S

This is the first in a series of letters written by each class in the school.

Pupils want to highlight their concerns with regards the car park particularly in the afternoon.  These concerns have been raised by pupils to the pupil council representatives, eco committee members and the right respecting group.  In every query, pupils from every class asked these committees to help and to see if there was anything that the group could do to help sort it out.  Parents have also raised the issue with the Parent Council.

The children are passionate about their school, their friends and their safety and this is reflected in the letters they have written.

Please read the attached letter from P7S

Primary 7s Parking Letter Final

Walk to School Week

Just a reminder for today and Walk to School Week.

It’s wear sunglasses and/or sunhat today when walking to school.

Look out for a letter from P7S later today about our parking campaign.

Have a lovely walk and remember to add your walk to the total for the day!

Walk to School Week

From the 20th to the 24th May is Walk to School Week and the school’s Eco-committee and pupils would really like for as many families to join in as possible.  Each day they have decided on and extra element of fun to add in.

Monday 20th – Wear a hat or sunglasses.
Tuesday 21st – Wear bright clothes or accessories.
Wednesday 22nd – Wear Sporty clothes for Sports Day, House colours are optional.
Thursday 23rd – Wear odd socks.
Friday 24th – Crazy hair day
Walking to school helps us all “Exercise to Energise”, helps us be more awake and ready to start learning in the morning and helps the car parking issues we have in school.
Let’s do it!

P7 Residential

The Primary 7 children left this morning for their residential at Ford Castle in Northumberland.  They have lots of great activities planned and will have a busy time.

For parents of children who are on the residential trip:

They have arrived safely and please look out for the email link sent out at approximately 8 p.m. daily with photos from the day.

Reminder Dress Down

On the 14th May we are celebrating diversity.  The over arching theme is we all have strengths and talents so we need to be kind towards each other and respectful of our differences.

We will be having a dress down day on this date.  Please remember that as with all dress down days no football strips should be worn. This includes local, team, national or international strips.

Article of the Month

This month the focused article for our Rights Respecting School is Article 2.

2. No discrimination

All children have all these rights, no matter who they are, where they live, what language they speak, what their religion is, what they think, what they look like, if they are a boy or girl, if they have a disability, if they are rich or poor, and no matter who their parents or families are or what their parents or families believe or do. No child should be treated unfairly for any reason.

The children are interested on how this works in with our values in particular inclusion.

World of Work Week

This week sees many visitors to the school in connection with our World of Work week. We have a wide variety of professions represented. This includes many aspects of our health-related services e.g.  Intensive Care Unit nursing, dietetics, dental nursing, paramedic service, physiotherapy, and other services like police, coastguard service, and RNLI volunteers.  We will also have visits from RHET for farming, a farrier, a pilot, a joiner, a civil servant working with the OECD, someone from hotel management, a stage props creator, a beautician, a head of marketing, and a journalist.

Many thanks go to the fire service personnel, ambulance service personnel and joiner who came in at the end of last week as this week was so busy it was difficult to fit in all the volunteers.  The children really enjoyed your input.

Thanks must go to the teaching staff who organised and pulled together this wide variety of people to ensure every class were timetabled for inputs throughout the week.

Reading Schools Accreditation

We are proud to announce the achievement of our Reading Schools Accreditation.  We have achieved our goals and targets.  The accreditation takes us up to April 2027.  As a school we are continuing our focus on reading for enjoyment and developing our skills and interests in a wide variety of books and texts.  Well done to all of our Reading Star Pupils on the committee your hard work and enthusiasm was very successful.