Children across the school took part in activities to raise awareness about Road Safety and recognise the important part we all play in helping to keep ourselves and others safe on the roads.

Please visit individual class pages for photos from the week.

Here are just a selection that have been shared from last week.

We have had such a big response for our competition. Thank you soo much and well done to everyone who took part.

The winners will be announced next week!

Thank you again to everyone for a successful Road Safety Week.

JRSO’s

15th – 21st November 2021

Book Week Scotland is an annual celebration of books and reading across Scotland.

Bookbug (Primary 1) 

During this week Primary 1 children will be gifted with Bookbug bags from the Scottish Book Trust. The bags contain books and other resources for sharing songs and rhymes that are suited to the age of the children.

You can help your child get the most out of their P1 Bag by looking at and talking about the books together, using the whiteboard to play games, filling in the activity book and voting for your child’s favourite book.

On the Scottish Book Trust website you can find films of the books being read, more recommended books for P1s and enter your child’s vote in The Bookbug Picture Book Prize.

To hear the stories read out loud, please visit https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/reading-and-stories/bookbug-picture-book-prize

                                                    Read Write Count (Primary 2 and Primary 3)

Every Primary 2 and Primary 3 child in Scotland receives a Read,
Write, Count bag filled with books, activities and games to enjoy
and keep. The bags are gifted and developed by Scottish Book
Trust in partnership with Education Scotland and funded by
Scottish Government, and provide a great opportunity to explore
reading, writing and numeracy with your child.

Click here to access the Primary 2 Guide for Parents/ Carers

Click here to access the Primary 3 Guide for Parents/ Carers

Hear the stories being read out loud by clicking the links below.

Stories for Primary 2 

The Biggest Story

The Bug Collector

Stories for Primary 3

Octopus Shocktopus

The Last Wolf

Well done to everyone who entered the Dyslexia Awareness Week Competitions. The Inclusive Schools committee had a hard job choosing the winners and runners up.

P1 – 3 Design a Ribbon Competition

Winner: Harry Selman, P3/4

Runner Up: Murray Duff, P1b

Runner Up: Maria Woodburn, P2a

P4 – 7 Poem Competition

Winner: Amber Kerr, P7

Runner Up: Poppy Wyllie, P7 

Runner Up: Ava Murray, P7

P4 – 7 Poster Competition

Winner: Gemma Robertson, P7

Runner Up: Beth Donnelly, P5

Runner Up: Layla Strachan, P5

Well done to everyone! 

Children across the school took part in activities to raise awareness about Dyslexia and recognise the strengths and challenges someone who has dyslexia may face.

Please visit the class pages for photos from the week.

Well done to everyone who took part in the competitions this week. We have received lots of fantastic entries. The winners will be announced next week!

No Pens Wednesday

Jus a reminder that we have two fabulous resources to help children with their literacy.

NESSY SPELLING AND READING

All P3-P7 children have a login to NESSY Spelling and Reading. This is a personalised reading and spelling programme which is great fun and very effective. The children all have the details of how to log in and can access the programme in school and at home.

https://learn.nessy.com/account/login#/accountLogin

MYON

MYON is a huge catalogue of online books accessible to all children in the school. There are over 6000 texts to choose from and the resource has a ‘Read to Me’ function which means no book is off-limits for the children. There are loads of non-fiction books to choose from as well as fiction books.

Your child will have details of how to access the resource – either in their IT passport or on the class blog page.

https://www.myon.co.uk/login/

Dear Parents and Carers,

Some of our innovative Primary 5 children were keen to raise everyone’s general awareness of breast cancer in the month of October.

As such, they have arranged a ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Day’ on Friday 22^nd October 2021.

There is no cost to participate in the day, Children across the school and ECC are invited to wear something pink to mark the occasion. Some suggestions from the girls are pink socks, pink t-shirt or pink shoes.

If you do not have anything pink- please do not buy anything. The girls have made a pink awareness raising recyclable bracelet for anyone who would like one. The class teachers will distribute these on Friday.

Should you need any further advice or support in relation to Breast Cancer please follow the link below:

https://breastcancernow.org/information-support

If you would like to make a donation towards Breast Cancer Awareness, this can be done via ParentPay.

On behalf of the Primary 5 Children, THANK YOU for your support.

Ms Dougan