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.
When dropping off and collecting children from the school please ensure that no dog is brought into the grounds. This is to ensure the health and safety for all, especially those with severe allergies. We appreciate your co-operation and understanding on this matter. Thank you.
This month the focused article for our Rights Respecting School is Article 2.
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.
Just a quick reminder to all parents that the school is closed on Monday 6th May for the May Bank Holiday. The children return to school on Tuesday.
Have a lovely long weekend.
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.
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.
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The children, staff, parents and carers in attendance this morning enjoyed an excellent Easter Service in Galston Parish Church, conducted by Reverand Lacy. A well-deserved “Thank You” goes to Reverand Lacy for conducting the service. Helping him were Penny, Struan, and Harry who told the Easter Story and Myka who recited the Jellybean poem. A huge thank you to them and to all of the children who sang in their classes.
Thanks, must also go to Jim Hewitson, our crossing patroller, for the donation of creme eggs for pupils. It was very much appreciated by all.
A huge thanks to everyone who brought in tissues and wet wipes as part of our dress down day yesterday. It was an excellent turnout, and everyone appeared to have enjoyed the day.
From all of us here at Galston Primary we hope you have a safe and happy Easter break. We look forward to seeing the children back to school on Monday 15th April.
Thank you to all the parents and carers who came along to our Easter Crafts after school today. It was lovely to see you enjoying crafting with the children and all of those smiling faces on such a wet day. Thank you to the staff members who organised the crafts and the afternoon. It was very much appreciated by everyone who came along.
Chromebook Pilot Project
By Erin and Hibba
Digital Leaders
In Primary 5/6 and Primary 6W have recently been practicing using Chromebooks in daily school life.
This has been helping by improving our productiveness, and independence for we are able to research to our hearts desire.
We have been in tailored lessons for this resource, to improve our technological skills. We are soon planning a digital art lesson using our Chromebooks. Furthermore, we have been introduced to new apps and websites, which has extended our knowledge. Most importantly, we have been taught valuable lessons on how to look after things.
Soon after the Easter holidays if the permission form was signed, we will be able to take them home to do further homework and classwork for those who don’t have access to technology.
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