P1/2 will again be going out a walk tomorrow afternoon. Please ensure your child is wearing a warm waterproof jacket and suitable footwear.

Mrs Schendel

P2 will once again be going out a walk for PE tomorrow afternoon.  Please ensure your child is wearing a warm, waterproof jacket and suitable footwear.

Mrs Schendel

P2 really enjoyed their walk this afternoon. We went to feed the ducks. We learned that bread isn’t very good for ducks so we fed them oats instead.  We had a great discussion about where oats come from. Maybe you could ask your child if they remember what we discovered.

P1/2 will again be going a walk for PE tomorrow. Please ensure your child comes to school with suitable jackets and footwear.

Mrs Schendel

Weather permitting, P2 will again be going a walk tomorrow (Wednesday 11th November) during their PE time.  Please ensure your child has on a warm waterproof jacket and suitable footwear.

Mrs Schendel

Weather permitting, P1/2 will again be going a walk tomorrow afternoon as part of their PE programme.  Please ensure your child comes to school with a warm, waterproof jacket and suitable footwear.

Mrs Schendel

P1/2 will once again be going a walk tomorrow during their PE time.  The pupils are excited to go and see their art work in one of the shop windows and are very keen to go and visit the pumpkin patch in the square.  Please remember warm, waterproof jackets and suitable footwear.

Mrs Schendel

During our PE time tomorrow (Wednesday 28th October) P2 will be going on an autumn walk.  Please ensure your child comes to school with a warm, waterproof jacket and suitable footwear.

Mrs Schendel

Primary 1/2 are hoping to go an autumn walk tomorrow during their PE time.   Please ensure your child is dressed for the weather in a warm waterproof jacket and suitable footwear.

Mrs Schendel

This week your child will be issued with a Home Learning Toolkit for you to keep at home.  These kits contain lots of materials to allow your child to complete homework tasks set by their class teachers.  We hope you and your child will enjoy using them.  The toolkit includes pencils, rulers, colouring pencils and much, much more.  Please encourage your child to look after all the materials and put everything back together in the bags once they have completed their tasks.

Teachers will begin issuing homework tasks this week.  Every class will be slightly different and teachers will post the tasks on the individual class blogs.  Due to current Covid-19 restrictions we are unable to have jotters or completed work coming back and forward to school, however the teachers are very keen to see what you and your child are doing at home.  You can share pictures or tell us what you have been doing  through GLOW, either by emailing the class teacher or posting on your child’s individual GLOW blog. Step by step instructions on how to post on your child’s glow page will be in the toolkit.

We will also be posting ideas every week on how to engage your child with different spelling strategies.  These link to the Active Literacy Programme we use in school.  Look out for ‘syllabification’ this week.

Homework reinforces the learning taking place in class and allows you to share in this with your child.   We understand children are tired after a full day at school so try to spend only short periods of time a few nights a week completing the tasks with your child.

If you have any questions regarding homework or accessing GLOW please email me at:

roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk

Have fun

Mrs Schendel

This past week many of you have been participating in the East Ayrshire Sumdog competition and I just had to share our successes with you as I am so proud of your achievements.

On Wednesday P4/5 were the daily winners!!  That’s out of 35 other classes across East Ayrshire…what an achievement!

At the end of the week P4/5 finished in 2nd place overall and P5/6 finished 9th.  Wow!!

429 students took part in the competition and 3 of our pupils made the top 50.  These were:

Robbie P4/5 – 13th place

Jayden P4/5 – 17th place

Daryl P5/6 – 34th place

Very well done to the three of you!  Some of you also did extremely well so thank you too for your contributions which put us so high up the leaderboard.

Can I take this opportunity to say thank you to all of you for working hard at home and doing your very best as always.  It has not been easy being away from your friends and family, having to turn your homes into classrooms and missing out on all the activities you love to do.  I have loved seeing your blogs, reading your emails, talking to you and parents on the phone and seeing your efforts online.   I am so proud of you all. I have missed you so much and I can not wait to see you all back in school in August.

Have a great summer and stay safe.

Mrs Schendel

Well done to those of you who have managed to get set up on Teams and have left Miss Burleigh and I a message.

A reminder that I will be hosting a meeting for P7 pupils tomorrow at 11am.  This is a chance for you to get set up on Teams and have a practise before speaking to staff from Robert Burns Academy.  Please see the post below to see how to set up Teams on your computer, phone or tablet.  Remember you can email myself or Miss Burleigh for any help.

I look forward to speaking to you tomorrow.

Mrs Schendel

Mrs McPheator and Mr Tickner from the academy would like to set up a transition meeting for the P7 pupils.  This would give pupils an opportunity to ask any questions they may have about starting Robert Burns Academy in August and for staff to pass on any information.

To do this the staff would like to use Teams.  Some of you may not have used Teams yet so Miss Burleigh has kindly made some help sheets for you.

If you are using a computer/laptop:

If you are using a phone, iPad or tablet:

If you have any difficulties please email myself (roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk) or Miss Burleigh (cheryl.burleigh@eastayrshire.org.uk) and we will help out any way we can.

Miss Burleigh has left you a message on the team.  Please reply and let us know when you have accessed it.

We will set up a meeting for Thursday at 11am to give you a chance to practise.  Look for a message about this on the Team and in your emails and try to join in.  This will let you know if you can work it ok before you meet with Mr Tickner and Mrs McPheator.

Good luck!

Mrs Schendel

Good morning and welcome to Term 4!

I hope you have all managed to enjoy your Easter Holidays.  Despite staying at home I have had a lovely time with family, enjoying the sunshine.  We’ve used our one exercise time a day to go walks and rides on our bikes and I am discovering new areas of our beautiful countryside.   I am keeping in touch with my mum and other family members through social media and we have set up a Bingo game every Sunday night.  We even managed to have an extended family Easter Egg Decorating Competition over social media (and we ate our boiled eggs for lunch the next day so that they didn’t go to waste).

Last week Mrs Govans and I phoned all our parents and it was great catching up with everyone and hearing how you are all getting on.  I even managed to speak to some of the pupils which was lovely.

Today would have been the beginning of term 4 and many of you will be getting back into the routine of doing some school work.  Remember to try and continue to log in to ReadingWise, Sumdog and ActiveLearn.  Your teachers (and me!) can look on these sites and see what you are doing and will be setting specific challenges for you.  You can also click on your class tab at the top of this page and your teachers will be continuing to set challenges on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  Remember these will also be on this new Glow page. Mrs Govans will continue to set you a challenge on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

We love seeing what you are getting up to so remember to post on your personal Glow page or email us with pictures or descriptions of what you are doing.  We want to keep in touch as we are missing you all very much.  My email address is roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk

It looks like the sun will be shining again this week so enjoy being outdoors when you can.

Stay safe!

Mrs Schendel