Hickory Dickory Dock Makaton

Hickory Dickory Dock Nursery Rhyme sheet

Hickory Dickory Dock is the new nursery rhyme and Makaton sign we are working on, please try this at home as this will help improve your child’s communication skills.

At this Monday’s assembly lots of certificates were awarded to our pupils. The P1-3 Superstars over the last 2 weeks were Sam Cane, Olivia Duffy, Greg McKinlay, Gemma Rankin, Anna Ferrie and Zoe Hammond. The P4-7  Superstars were Frazer Brown, Calvin Cunningham, Jessica Crossan and Arran Swift. The final photograph shows all the boys and girls throughout the school who brought in certificates, badges, trophies and medals which demonstrated their wider achievement in activities outwith school. The certificate each pupil was given was produced from a design by one of our P4 pupils, Alisha Ahmad.  Well done to Alisha and all the pupils who received awards. This was the first wider achievement assembly. This event will take place on the first Monday of every month.

As part of our Rights Respecting Schools programme in the lead up to Harvest, we are again organising a food collection for the East Ayrshire Foodbank. Next Monday, 8th October, David Skilling from the Foodbank will come along to speak at our assembly and will arrange collection of our donations. We would be extremely grateful to any families who would like to make a donation of an item(s) listed on the poster above to allow us to help others in our local community. Donations can be brought to school up until Monday 8th October.

Friday 5^th October is Sportscotland National Active Girls Day.

In partnership with Active Schools, we have organised for dance coach Chloe Wallace to visit Gargieston on Friday afternoon to provide a coaching session for all girls in Primary 5, 6 and 7. 

The girls will learn a fun dance routine and are encouraged to wear something neon for the session.

Mrs McKee will also hold an additional one-off running club session at 8.30am on Friday morning for girls in Primary 5, 6 and 7. 

Mrs Mackay would like to invite any interested Mum’s to join the girls for netball after school on Friday.

Mums are more than welcome to join us!

Please register for the running club below.

The annual schools swimming gala will take place in the afternoon of Saturday 10th November in The Citadel, Ayr for children in Primary 5, 6 and 7.

This is a very competitive event with some children aiming to qualify for the national finals in Glasgow in January. Most children who compete are linked to Clubs and training / compete regularly. However, it is also an opportunity for strong, confident swimmers to experience the excitement of a gala.

Each race is 50m and the children can enter up to 3 individual races. A relay team will be entered if there are enough children participating.

For further details or entries please contact Mrs Lawson. Children with PB times should give these along with their chosen races.

Parents would be responsible for taking / picking up their children from the venue.

Many thanks.

Please be aware that money can take up to 48 hours

to credit into your child’s Parent Pay account.

( possibly longer on bank holiday weekends )

We are aware there have recently been problems with the system

East Ayrshire Council are looking into this.

               Tomorrow is the last day to hand in photo orders !

Miss Davidson’s hockey club will be starting up again on Thursday 4th October for Primary 6 children. There will be eight sessions which will take us up to 29.11.18 excluding 18.10.18 (October holiday).

Please complete the attached form if your child would like to join the club.  We will be training outside whenever possible so long trousers, jumpers and waterproofs jackets are advisable!

We will begin using plastic sticks and balls but will quickly move on to using wooden sticks and harder balls therefore in a few weeks time the children will be required to wear shin guards and a mouth guard. These can be bought inexpensively from sports stores or borrowed from siblings who play football!

Inexpensive shinguards with ankle protection – https://www.sportsdirect.com/SearchResults?DescriptionFilter=ankle%20shinguards

Inexpensive mouthguards – https://www.sportsdirect.com/SearchResults?DescriptionFilter=Kids%20Mouth%20Guards

Thank you so much to everyone who baked and handed in cakes for our MacMillan Coffee Morning. Special thanks to Elaine Kerr and Pat Wilson for their invaluable help on the day.

A final total is still to be finalised, however, we do know that over £300 has been raised for this amazing charity.

Well done, Primary 7 for all your hard work and making it all happen!

Pupils in base 1  have been learning all about FARMS and have been busy making scarecrows which will be on display at the 5th Harvest Festival at Dean Castle and Country Park on Sunday 30th September. There are great prizes to be won and hopefully we have a winner. If you are free on Sunday afternoon why not pop along to join the fun.

Primary 1/2 and their scarecrow

Primary 1B and their scarecrow

Primary 1C and their scarecrow

Primary 1D and their scarecrow