Well done to everyone!

Book Week Scotland is an annual celebration of books and reading that takes place across the country. Yesterday Primary 1 visited the Dick Institute to be gifted a Bookbug Primary 1 Family Bag to take home. They listened to three stories before voting for their favourite. At assembly in the afternoon Primary 2 and 3 were gifted a Read, Write, Count bag. The aim of Read, Write, Count is to encourage families to include reading, writing and counting activities in their everyday lives.

Please enjoy sharing these bags at home with your child.

Order forms for Christmas lunch

will go home with pupils today.

The orders need to be with the kitchen by

MONDAY 25 th NOVEMBER.

Please send the forms in with your child as soon as possible.

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There will be a slight change to  the lunches on Tue 3rd December.

Instead of Steak pie , it will be mince and potatoes.

No Screen Time Day’ will take place on Wednesday 20 November across all schools and early learning and childcare settings in East Ayrshire. The initiative has been jointly co-ordinated by East Ayrshire Speech and Language Therapy Team and East Ayrshire Council.

It’s hoped that ‘No Screen Time Day’ will raise awareness of the positives of reducing screen time and increasing social face-to-face interactions, and play-based interactions which are particularly crucial for early language development.

• Children aged 5-15 spend an average of 2 hours 11 minutes a day online.
• 82% of children aged 5-7 go online for around 9.5 hrs a week.
• 99% of teens spends almost a full day (24hrs) online a week.
• 71% of teens who have a mobile take it to bed with them.
• 69% of teens also have a social media profile.(Source: Ofcom, 2019; Scott, Biello & Woods 2019)
• Research shows that prolonged time spent in front of screens and on social media can negatively affect their sleep, which can have a knock on effect on health, well-being, education and relationships with friends and family.

Thank you for the great response for football tickets. Your child will bring them home in their bags either today or tomorrow. If however by Wednesday if you have not received your request please let Mrs Lawson know.

Fingers crossed for a good result on Saturday!

Please note that our Christmas Tea Towels are available to parents of children in the Early Childhood Centre or in Primary 1, 2 or 3.

Unfortunately cotton bags will not be provided with the tea towels.

All orders MUST be returned to the school WITH PAYMENT by THURSDAY 21ST NOVEMBER.

Your child is invited to take part in our whole school Dress Down Day on Friday 22nd November. This applies to all children in the primary school and ECC.

We are not taking money  as payment for this but would  very much appreciate if everyone taking part would bring to school a donation(s) for our Christmas Fayre which will take place the following week on Thursday, 28th November between 3.30pm and 6.30pm.

Donations could be for our bottle stall, gift stall, Grand Raffle or small items as prizes for our kid’s tombola.

We are also still looking for a few more stall holders and also volunteers from within our parents to help at the Fayre. Please complete the separate blog post if you can help on the day!

Your help in ensuring the success of our Fayre is very much appreciated.

ANGEL EXPRESS – NATIVITY

Primary 2 are looking for any angel costumes, white shirts or silver tinsel that you might have at home that you no longer need. Please hand in to the school office or send in with your child.