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Walking to and from school

With the darker mornings and poor weather – if your child is allowed to walk to and from school, now is a good time to have a wee conversation to reinforce the rules about walking straight to/home from school and not speaking to strangers. 

If you are running late to collect your child at the end of the school day, please phone the office and arrangements can be made.

The safety of our pupils is a main priority, and by working together we can help to keep our children safe.

Mrs Govans

 

Class Mugs

Please find below a copy of the class proofs sent to “School Bears” for production of our class mugs. The mugs cost £6.00 each and you can purchase as many as you want. Orders and payment must be paid through ParentPay by Thursday 19 November to confirm delivery before the Christmas Holiday (barcoded paypoint letters can be issued by telephoning the school office). Please accept our apologies for the short payment time but this is to ensure prompt delivery. If you wish any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the school.

Book Week Scotland 16th – 20th November

We are celebrating Book Week Scotland in our classes this week, with lots of focused activities on books, authors, illustrations, characters, story lines and plots…

Your child’s homework will also focus on books and stories, so we thank you in advance for finding the time to read and discuss books with them at home.

Our House Captains Challenge on Friday afternoon will also have a book theme.

Happy Reading!!

 

GLOW accounts for Primary 1 and Primary 2 pupils

Unfortunately, due to national guidance and data protection Education Scotland have directed that parents/carers can no longer have access to GLOW accounts.

As a result of this directive, we have updated all our infant pupil log-in details – this means that pupils can still upload their class work and targets onto their e-portfolio in class, but that parents/carers will not be able to access this at home or upload photos of their child’s homework onto their GLOW account.

Primary 1/2 and Primary 2 homework details will continue to be updated weekly on their class blogs under the ‘Home Learning’ tab. Miss Burleigh and Miss McLean will also continue to regularly post class photos and learning highlights on their class blog.  We are disappointed that these changes have to be made but we must follow the national guidelines

Please note that these changes only apply to infant pupils in Primary 1 and Primary 2.

Please contact the school for any further information.  Thanks for your continued support.

Mrs Govans

 

Getting Ready For Winter

In preparation for snow and ice we have updated our premises priority clearance plan. Our Janitor will ensure that the highlighted areas are cleared on snowy and icy days to let our pupils and staff enter and exit in a safe manner.

All pupils, staff and visitors are reminded to keep to the cleared areas and be respectful of current social distancing guidelines. Please click on the PDF below for further information:

premises priority clearance plan

 

Reminder

Please note that tomorrow – Friday 13th is a dress down day. We will be taking class photographs for our mugs as part of our “festive fundraiser”. Permission forms MUST be returned tomorrow to enable your child to take part. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the school office.

Thank you.

P2 Walk

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.