The Primary 7 Burns Supper will take place on

Tuesday 29th January at 7pm

They have already started practising their poems and two adults per child are invited to come along and enjoy the night.

Oral health order forms will be going home with pupils over the next few days .

This gives parents and carers an opportunity to purchase oral health items at reduced prices.

If you wish to order any items, please complete the form and return it to school with payment ( cheque or cash only ) in a sealed envelope with pupils details on the front.

Orders will be collected Thursday 24th January.

Thank you.

Our next nursery book bug session will take place on Thursday 17th January 2019. If you would like to attend this session please add your name to the list on the communication board.

Tea and Coffee will be provided for adults after the session is finished.

We will be beginning our transition into P1 programme with an exciting topic based on the new “Harris McCoo” story books. We will be taking the pre-school children in groups along to Base 1 to allow them to spend time learning with the P1 teachers and P1 children. The timetable below shows when your child will be attending Base 1.

Primary 6 Swimming

Primary 6 are going swimming for  6 weeks starting Thursday 10th of January until 21st February.  We are looking for any parents or grandparents who are free to help on these mornings (10th January is covered at the moment).    We will be leaving the school at approximately 8.45am returning about 11.30am.  Please contact the office if you are free any of those Thursday mornings. 

Thank you.

We are excited to announce that The Parent Council of Gargieston Primary School & ECC have been selected to participate in Tesco’s Bags of Help Fundraising Initiative!

VOTING IS NOW OPEN IN BOTH KILMARNOCK STORES!!

This is such an exciting opportunity for our fantastic school to secure funding from Tesco which will allow us to purchase a fitness trail for our playground with monkey bars, tyre swings and lots more.  There are three very deserving projects in the running:- Gargieston PS & ECC, Kilmarnock Acrobatics Club and Bonnyton Thistle Football Club.  All three projects will receive a cash boost, with the winning project receiving £4000, 2nd place £2000 and 3rd place £1000.  We would like to encourage as much support as possible amongst family and friends of the school and ask that whenever you shop in Tesco you post your blue coin into our slot.  You do not need to purchase a plastic bag to pick up a token – just ask for one whenever you shop.

We are going to need everyone to get behind our school as we’re sure it will be very competitive and the more money we are awarded, the better our fitness trail will be for our children!  Voting in stores takes place from 1st January – 28th February 2019.

We will provide an update at the next parent council meeting, but so far can advise that the contract for the project has been awarded to Scot Play. The design will be finalised over the next few weeks with the plan for fitting of the Trim Trail to take place around Easter 2019.

Many thanks in anticipation of your support!

From All at Gargieston Parent Council & GFG

We hope that you have all had a lovely Christmas and New Year and enjoyed the holidays.

We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back to school tomorrow morning for our new term.  2019 is already shaping up to be a busy and exciting year for everyone at Gargieston PS & ECC – we can’t wait to get started!!

Early nights for everyone tonight and we’ll see you all back in school at 9am tomorrow 😁

 Congratulations to our final Superstars of 2018 who were awarded their certificates at our Christmas sing-a-long this morning – well done everyone!

We had no shortage of vocal superstars this morning who were more than happy to take the microphone and entertain us during our sing-a-long.  Gargie’s own special version of ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ was a particular highlight although the P1’s and I were absolutely exhausted by the end of the song!!

Merry Christmas to you all and I look forward to seeing everyone back at school on Monday 7th January 🙂

In P6/7 we would like to invite any parents or grandparents to assist us with our reading. If you can spare any time during the week to read to us or let us read to you in school  that would be great!

If you can help us out please get in touch with Mr McDowell below.

Thanks,

P6/7

Thank you to everyone who supported our Christmas charity this year.

Your contributions raised a total of £297.46 which will be donated to

Cash for Kids.