What?

                      Children’s Mental Health Week – Let’s Connect                                       Take part in ‘Dress to Express‘ to support Place2Be, a charity who raise vital funds to help more children and young people get the emotional support they need.

When?

Wednesday 8th February

How?

Donate to Place2Be and come to nursery or school dressed to express yourself. For example, if you have a bright and bubbly personality you may choose to wear bright and whacky clothing. Remember, they don’t have to match…!

Please no PJs or  football clothing.

Click here to donate

Why?

Place2Be believe every child should have easy access to mental health support whenever they need it. They create safe spaces in schools where students can open up without pressure, arming them with emotional skills to help deal with everything life throws at them. As a charity, Place2Be rely heavily on the generosity and support of the community to continue their essential work in the future and to reach children before it’s too late.

Please note that we have a section on our blog called ‘Mental Health Support for Parents’ It can be found under the ‘Parents’ tab.

Active Schools will be running an afterschool sports club for a block of four weeks for any children in P6 starting this Thursday.

Sports Club

4 week block

10th November until 1st December

3:05 – 4:15pm

It will run outdoors unless the weather is terrible so please come suitably dressed (outdoors trainers, long sleeved top and bottoms and a waterproof jacket). In the event of wet weather, the group will join the P7 after school club in the hall.

Please fill out the form as soon as possible if your child would like to join. Those who have filled out the form will be welcome along this Thursday.

Last Friday P7B ran an event for P2 and P3 called Gargie Go Green. Thank you to all of the P2s and P3s who were full of enthusiam and to P7B who spent time creating activities for them to enjoy. Throughout the day, the children did plastic modelling, listened to a talk about plastic pollution, did a Kahoot quiz and took part in 4 games outside. Great fun was had by all!

P7B are holding an event for P2 and P3 called Gargie Go Green!

It is being held this Friday 10th June and the children will have fun learning about how to reduce, reuse and recycle!

If you child is in P2 or P3, they can come to school dressed in green (no football strips) on Friday. Some activities will be outside, so please bring a jacket to school.

Throughout this week, please ask your child to bring in any cleaned-out recycling items from home. These will be used for some plastic modelling on Friday!

Congratulations to our three relay teams who competed at Grangemouth on Saturday!

The P7 girls team and the P6 girls team both made it to the final with the P7s coming 4th and the P6s coming 7th. Very well done to all! 

After consulatation with parents, pupils and staff, we have put together an updated Establishment statement which can be found below. Thank you again to those of you who took the time to give us feedback on our previous statement, it is much appreciated.

Gargiestion PS & ECC Establishment Statement ’22

For future reference, the establishment statement can be found via the ‘Information’ dropdown tab and then by clicking ‘Policies and Information’. The new policy will be shared at assembly with the pupils.

Our next sporting event is just around the corner! This event is for P6+7 only and details can be found below. As this takes place at a weekend, it would be the responsibility of parents to transport the children to and from the event, however registration must be done through the school. In the past runners have car shared.

*One space left in P6 boys team*

All other teams are full

DATE

Saturday 4th June 2022

VENUE

Grangemouth Stadium, Kersebank Avenue, Grangemouth

RACE TIMES

12:30pm – Heats

3:00pm – Finals

(Times are approximate)

Please complete the form below by Friday 29th April if your child is interested. We can enter multiple boys and girls teams which can be a mix of P6 and P7 pupils. The event is a 4x100m relay race. Each team consists of 4 runners and the children have already had a meeting with Miss Davidon and created these teams.