Many thanks to everyone who has bought raffle tickets and donated prizes for the upcoming FOL Christmas Raffle.  Please note that prizes and purchased tickets can still be handed into the office until Wednesday 16th December.

For the most up to date activities from the Friends of Loanhead, please click here.

You can also follow Friends of Loanhead on their facebook page.

At this time I would like to take this opportunity to inform you that Mrs Halbert has announced her retirement from her post at the end of this term.  Mrs Halbert has been a valued member of our team and will be missed by the whole school community.

I am delighted to inform you that we have successfully appointed two new teachers and a Principal Teacher to our school.  I am sure you will join me in extending a warm welcome to both teachers Mr Devlin and Mrs Gilmour-McGuire and also to our new Principal Teacher Mrs Milne who will be taking up their posts at various points over the course of the next six weeks.

Please note that classes directly affected by these changes have been individually notified via a class letter this week.

Voting for the Co-op Local Funding closes on Friday 11th December.   Any funding we are awarded is driven by the amount of votes we receive so if you can help then please make sure you vote by the end of this week.

To place your vote, please click here.

For more information on the funding opportunity, please click here to see our original full article.

Thank you to everyone who has cast their vote already.   We look forward to letting you know how much funding we secure.

The children of P6 are working very hard getting ready for their class assembly and are excited to welcome their guests to come along and watch them perform.  Assembly starts at 9.30am and as children are moving around the school preparing to attend assembly we ask that guests wait patiently outside the school building until the children are ready to welcome you to join them at approximately 9.20/9.25am.

…Yes! So local artist Gemma Coyle came along and worked with pupils from P4, P5 & P6 and that’s exactly what they did.

The children and Gemma spent time together brainstorming ideas to create our wonderful mural design.  It features special landmarks from across Kilmarnock with our school being the centre piece as well as a tree to symbolise growth and development within our school.  I’m sure everyone will agree that our children have created a truly amazing masterpiece in both the design and the actual painting of the mural.  Well done to everyone involved.

Link to Co-op voting page:

https://www.co-oplocalfund.co.uk/vote_good_cause_submission_step1.aspx

Please note details for collecting children at the school after our afternoon at the Panto…

The children of P5 are getting ready to welcome guests to their St Andrew’s Day of Celebration.  The halls have been filled with the sound of Scottish music as they get ready to showcase their fantastic Scottish dancing talents.

As children are moving around the school in the time leading up to the assembly it would be appreciated if guests could wait outside the school building prior to being welcomed into the school from 1.20/1.25pm.  Assembly will start at 1.30pm.

A huge thank you to all of the children who participated in our recent Children in Need activity.  By dressing up or dressing down and making a donation for taking part, the children raised a fantastic £170.05.  Many thanks for your ongoing support with the schools fundraising activities.