Meet our Rights Respecting and Health Committee! Today they introduce us to our new SHANARRI Superheroes! Here to help support our wellbeing at school!  

Meet our Rights Respecting and Health Committee! Today they introduce us to our new SHANARRI Superheroes 🦸‍♀️🦹‍♂️ Here to help support our wellbeing at school! @EacEducation @UNICEF_uk @EACHWBteam @eac_east @EACChiefExec pic.twitter.com/AvhymjXYRE

— Drongan Primary School & ECC (@DronganPS) November 10, 2020

Thank you to everyone who ordered cupcakes in support of the Scottish Poppy Appeal. Final orders were to be in for today and at our final count, Mrs Shields and her team have got 444 cupcakes to bake and decorate! This has helped raise an additional £222 for the Poppy Appeal, to go along with the money raised selling poppies.

We are still selling poppies, so if you or your child would like one, our P7s will be visiting classes for the next two mornings to collect any further donations. We will announce a final total on Wednesday 11th.

Thank you for supporting the Scottish Poppy Appeal.

We have created a new tab in the ‘Classes’ page on the school blog for our class termly overviews. You will be able to download the PDF overview from your child’s class to see what will be happening this term. We have also shared these on the school app.

Please see the new tab on our Blog (Christmas Fundraising) for up to date information about activities happening in the school. The Giant Teddy Raffle is just one activity we know the children are looking forward to!

Well done to everyone for making such an effort to make Halloween as special as possible. Here are the children from Drongan PS with their own version of The Timewarp!

Well done to everyone for making such an effort to make Halloween as special as possible. Here are the children from Drongan PS with their own version of The Timewarp! 🧟‍♂️🎃 @EacEducation @EastAyrshire @EACChiefExec pic.twitter.com/8nVT0MSpFA

— Drongan Primary School & ECC (@DronganPS) October 31, 2020

Drongan Primary will be supporting the Scottish Poppy Appeal again this year by selling poppies. Our P7 Head Pupils will be visiting classes with the box of poppies and children are welcome to bring in a donation to put in the tin in exchange for a poppy to wear.

We will also be supporting the Poppy Appeal next Wednesday (11^th November) on Armistice Day. Mrs Shields has volunteered to make poppy themed cupcakes, with all proceeds going to the Scottish Poppy Appeal. If you would like to order a cupcake for your child (you can order up to 4), please complete the slip at the bottom of the letter that was sent home this week and return it to school with the money. Cupcakes will cost 50p each and the final day for order slips to be returned is Monday 9^th November.

Dear parent / carer,

Please click on the link to find a PowerPoint video presentation providing information about Active Literacy Programme.  This is an approach to teaching literacy that is consistent across all stages in the school.

ALP Infant Presentation

As we are unable to invite you into the school at present we are keen to communicate as much as possible to provide you with information about your child’s learning.

I hope you find the presentation informative.  Thank you to Mrs Bradley PT for putting this together.

Thank you

We are delighted to announce that this session’s probationer, Miss Lauren Dyce, successfully interviewed for the Primary 3 vacancy. We are all delighted that Lauren will be staying with us. We have also been told that our probationer, who will cover P6 next session, is Miss Rebecca Smith.  Miss Smith was with us earlier in the session as a final year student.  We are delighted to be welcoming Miss Smith back into the team.

There is always great excitement at this time of year with the many awards that are received by pupils for hard word, perseverance, resilience etc.  Our first announcement is the new Head and Depute boys and girls for next session. Usually this is done at the whole school prize giving ceremony and badges are handed over by the outgoing  out going pupil leaders, sadly this cannot be the case this year.

All staff at the school are asked to give their nominations before the final selection is made.  Many congratulations to our new appointees.

Depute Head Boy: Cyran Alexander
Head Boy: Cole Bickerton

Depute Head Girl: Alex Borthwick
Head Girl: Iona MacDonald

The Drongan Nature Club potatoes were harvested at the weekend, unfortunately not by the children.  The total harvest was 120 potatoes weighing just over 3.3kg.  The largest potato weighed 155g while the smallest (and there were several) weighed just 1 gram.  The average weight of a single potato was 28g.