Our song was played on the West FM Breakfast Show this morning.  Here is a wee video of the song being played by Billy Kirkwood.  Well done everyone and thanks to West FM for kindly playing the song!

Well done again to Kayla for raising money for Combat Stress.  This donation now makes the total £600.  We are very proud of you Kayla!

Our Heads and Deputes were delighted to take the donations to our local food provision ‘Helping Hands’.

Thanks to everyone who contributed this week.

We are delighted to announce that we have achieved our Rights Respecting Schools Silver Accreditation.  A lot of work has gone into this and we are extremely proud.  This has been a whole school team effort but a huge well done must go to Mrs Bradley and the Rights Respecting Schools committee.  We look forward to officially receiving our award and continuing our journey towards gold.

We want to share some pictures of our new foyer.   As shown in the previous post Maybole Upholstery kindly refurbished our bench and Mr Kelly also painted this.  We have also created a display using some amazing artefacts that we had in the school reflecting the proud mining history of the village.

I am sure that you will agree the foyer is looking great, we look forward to being able to welcome you into the school to enjoy our lovely new environment.

We are absolutely delighted with our newly upholstered bench in the front foyer.  Thank you to Mr Kelly for the paintwork and a huge thanks to Alan Green and Maybole Upholstery for the new cushions upholstered in our school colours.  We are extremely grateful for this contribution, it looks great!

Dear parent / carer,

Please find the newsletter for August 2021 attached.

Drongan Primary School August Newsletter 2021

Thank you

Please find a link to our video of some of our children reciting Scottish and Burns poems.  Unfortunately, we are unable to hold our annual celebration and competition this year, but we still wanted to showcase the talents of our children.  A huge well done and thank you to everyone who sent a recitation, we have included them all in the video. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izG4sQYMKmk

Our P6 and 7 children are currently working away on their Burns’ Supper tasks.  We will choose some of their contributions and share our virtual Burns’ Supper with you over the next week or two. 

We hope you enjoy the children reciting their poems, they have all done a fantastic job and as always, we are extremely proud. Well done!

Please find attached a flyer for a great opportunity for children to take part in some free online Karate classes from Senjokai Karate. The details are all on the flyer for sign up which goes directly to the club coach from the parent.

At this time of year we traditionally celebrate the life, times and works of our national bard Robert Burns and have enjoyed some really successful events over the last few years.  We are keen to encourage children to learn about Robert Burns this year despite the current situation.  We are always blown away by the talent of our children.

As we do every year, we have allocated a poem for each stage and encourage children to do their best to learn the poem.  If the children want to they can be recorded reciting their allocated poem and this can either be emailed to their teacher or uploaded to MS Teams to share with their class.

A video will be created of some of the selected performances to be shared with the school community to enjoy.

If you / your child would like to record their recitation please upload or email this by Wednesday 27th January.

Please see the table below detailing the allocated poems for each stage.  For the P5/6 class, if P5 children can learn ‘The Boy in the Train’ and P6 children ‘To a Mouse’.

I have attached links to each of the poems below the table.

Tam o Shanter

THE BOY IN THE TRAIN

TO A MOUSE

MICHAEL

THE SAIR FINGER

MY HOGGIE

UP IN THE MORNING EARLY

The emphasis is on enjoyment and we look forward to seeing and hearing some of the recitations.  They are always very entertaining and make us smile.

If any of our talented musicians would like to send a musical performance, this would also be very welcomed and can be shared with the school community.

Thank you