It is Inclusion Week this week in Drongan PS. Follow the link below to see what Miss Smith and the DFS Inclusion Committee have planned for our pupils. We will be posting pictures of the different activities throughout the week.

Inclusion Week 2021

The pupils at Drongan Primary School have had a great week exploring numbers… everywhere!  Have a look at our photo gallery on the numeracy blog, and within the Maths Week Sway, to find out what they’ve been doing.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/drongannumeracy/

Maths Week Scotland

https://www.mathsweek.scot/

Go to this Sway

Now that we are few weeks into our new school year, and our pupils have had time to settle into their new classes,  we would like to ask them to complete a simple well-being check in form as part of their homework this week. Children will be told about this in school and shown the form.

This form will allow us to check how our pupils are feeling based on the 8 well-being indicators -Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included.

This is a simple form that P4-7 children should be able to complete independently. However, we would encourage parents to sit alongside their P3 children as they complete this and support where needed.

Our P2 pupils will complete this in class.

Our new  P1 pupils won’t complete this activity until Term 3: giving them more time to learn about the wellbeing indicators.

If pupils could click on the link below to complete the form before Friday 1st October that would be much appreciated.

Help us to get FREE gardening equipment for our school!

Drongan Primary School are registered for this exciting promotion.

From September, for every £10 spent in store or online, you’ll get one Grow Token that our school can then redeem for a wide range of gardening and growing equipment.

How it works…

1. Download the MyMorrisons app
2. Sign in or register and select Drongan Primary School as the school to collect for
3. Scan the app at checkout or use online when shopping
4. For every £10 spent you’ll get one Grow Token to donate to our school
5. The school will be able to exchange all of our grow tokens for free gardening equipment after the collection period

More information can be found at… https://my.morrisons.com/blog/community/good-to-grow/

Thank you in advance for any support. We are really excited about this promotion, as it will allow us to continue developing our outside spaces in the school.

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.

Please go to the school information tab on the blog to access our updated School Improvement Plan, Standards and Quality Report and Handbook for the new school session.

We have been working hard during the last year helping our children learn more about their rights.

We took part in Outright 2020 which focused on the affect of climate change, we celebrated International Women’s Day as well as celebrating and embracing Inclusion and Diversity. We placed a huge focus on mental health and celebrated Children’s Mental Health week by sharing lots of videos and activities to support this.

Each month the RRS school committee will continue to choose a ‘Right of the Month’ that will be delivered to each class to focus on and discuss. These will continue to be put on the blog and school app for everyone to  learn about.

Please have a look at our SWAY,  which shows our work so far with Children’s rights Our RRS Journey

Here is a reminders of the United Nations Rights of the Child.

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!