Primary 1 & 2  will be performing in our nativity, A Miracle in Town.

Due to the large number of P1 pupils this year, P1B ( Mrs Bloomfield ) & P1C ( Mrs Campbell ) will perform on Wednesday 12^th December at 6.30pm.

P1D ( Miss McColl ) & P1A ( Mrs Smith ) will perform on Thursday 13^th at 6.30pm.

All Primary 2s will participate in both performances.

Look out for letters in bags this week , with ticket details.

Children in our ECC will perform The Sleepy Shepherd on Friday 14th December at 10.00am and 2.15pm.

This year, there will be no charge for tickets for  either of our nativities.

We will be collecting donations at each performance for the East Ayrshire Foodbank in order to support families in our area and provide them with festive food and treats to enjoy at Christmas.

Through consultation with our children, we have created a child friendly display of our school improvement priorities for this session.

We look forward to seeing our flowers bloom as we continue to work together to grow our school.

You can find the full version of our school improvement plan 2018-19 and the standards and qualities report for session 2017-18 under ‘information’ – ‘improvement priorities’ on the main blog.

Developing Our Vision and Values – Part 3

Thank you to everyone who responded to our question last week.  These questions have been influenced by the work of T.J. Sergiovanni (Building Community in Schools).

The final ‘big’ question as part of this consultation process is:

If you could give your child a gift, one that could not be purchased or wrapped, but a gift that could ensure that he or she would develop along the lines of our deepest hopes and aspirations, what would that gift be?

Please take some time this week to consider this question and jot down your ideas in the comments box.  Remember there are no right or wrong answers and your answer may be similar to some of the information you provided to previous questions.

We will collate this information next week, week beginning  19th November. Please give us your responses as soon as possible for them to be included as part of our consultation.

Thank you for taking the time to consider these questions.  Your views are important to us and we look forward to receiving your responses.

A team of children from P6 and P7 took part in the East Ayrshire Cross Country Competition in October.  Our boys won 1st and 2nd place in both the P6 and P7 race.  At Monday’s assembly, the whole team were presented with medals by Cherryl Fulton, our Active Schools co-ordinator as we were the winning school across the authority!

Well done to the team for representing Gargieston so well!!

At assembly this week Mrs. McKee and Mrs. McLaughland were delighted that lots of children were Superstars – the biggest number we have had in one week so far. This is fantastic! Keep it up everyone!!

The GFG wish to say a huge thank you to everyone who ordered Christmas Cards.  There were 339 orders resulting in £600 commission.

Thank you again.

The next meeting for the Gargieston Fund- raising Group (GFG) is on Sunday 18th November from 7.30 – 9pm in The Park Hotel (oval table at the top of the stairs).  The Parent Council will meet in the school meeting room on Tuesday 20th November from 7-9pm following the attainment talk.  Everyone is welcome along to either meeting, you do not need to be a member.

We were delighted that our Intergenerational Project was awarded the most innovative and inspiring project at the Quality Improvement Awards ceremony in Glasgow last night.  Congratulations to Laura Haggerty, the team in our ECC and the team at Springhill Care home who work together on this project.

As you are aware, we will be welcoming colleagues from East Ayrshire Council into our school next week as part of our local authority Learning Visit.  The team will observe learning experiences in our ECC and throughout the school and will meet with a variety of focus groups during their visit.

They would like the opportunity to meet with a parent focus group on Monday 19^th November at 2.30pm.  Please register your interest below if you wish to be part of this group.

Only those parents that are interested in taking part should complete the contact form.

Many thanks for your continued support.

P3A are fundraising for Children in Need this year.  The reason we are supporting this charity is because they help British children.  They help children in need who are disabled, have hard lives, have serious illnesses or are poor.  We are running an enterprise business to try and raise money for this amazing charity.

Items will go on sale from Monday 12th November.

This year for Children in Need we are selling the following products:

Wristbands –  £1

Pudsey and Blush Ears –  £2.50

Light-up Keyrings –  £2

We are also selling Pick ‘n’ Mix sweeties in little bags which P3A have made as part of their enterprise topic.  These will be 30p.

If you wish you can wear spotty or Pudsey clothes  for 50p on 16th November.

Thank you we hope you can help.

Written by Anaya, Andrew, Brodie, Laughlan, Pip, Kyle and Robbie