Well done

Well done!

This term parents night will be on

Wednesday 9th October.

Active Literacy

The whole school is going to be embarking on an exciting new method of teaching Literacy – specifically, phonics, spelling and reading.

All staff have already been, or about to be, trained in Active Literacy and will be working with the children on this all the way from P1 to P7.

We would like to invite you to an information session and hopefully answer any questions you may have.

Historic Environment Scotland have organised a community event on Sunday 29th September 12-4pm, with a tented village on the castle hill. Actors will re-enact the different time periods of the castle from an iron age chief to the present day. Archaeologists will also be on site for visitors to chat to and see what they have been finding during their digs so far.  

On Sunday 29th September there will be a scarecrow competition at Dean Country Park to celebrate Autumn Fest. Autumn Fest is a free event and runs from 11am until 3pm. The theme is space. After discussion the children in the ECC decided to create Yoda the scarecrow. Yoda will be at Dean Park on Sunday for everyone to meet. Please go along and vote for Yoda as first place will win a prize for the ECC garden.

Good Luck Yoda!

The ECC is delighted to welcome our new early learning and childcare practitioner Miss Blades. Miss Blades will work on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday covering all of the key groups to allow key workers time to complete children’s targets, personal plans and scrapbooks. Miss Blades will cover the orange group all day on a Friday to allow Mrs Cotton to run communication groups in the ECC.