MESSAGE FROM OUR PA

Girls’ Football Team Final

A huge well done to our Girls’ Football team for an excellent performance in the East Ayrshire Girls’ Premiership final yesterday. They worked hard to secure second place in East Ayrshire, which is a wonderful achievement. We would like to say a massive congratulations to Lainshaw in achieving the 6-1 win.

Thank you to Mrs Mason and Miss Hunter for all you have done to support our team and to our Stewarton Annick Football Coaches for training our girls and in promoting respect, teamwork and fun at all times. We can’t wait to see what next session brings for our football team!

JRSO final update for this session

I would like to say a huge THANK YOU to Arran, Finn, Aimee & Rosie for their dedication and hard work over the last year. They have made my job as JRSO Co-Ordinator a privilege. I have been very lucky to be supported by them. Thank you also to our Sub Team who helped with assemblies and poster making. Your help was extremely valuable on our journey.

Here is just a small re-cap of what has been achieved in a short space of time.

They organised this years’ Hands up for Scotland Survey and presented at many assemblies promoting all things to do with road safety. They created and ran a campaign for safer parking in and around our school grounds. They supported our Parent Council with new parking signs as well as producing many informative notice boards that are displayed in the gym hall full of valuable information for our pupils. They also created a Road Safety Charter back in August incorporating the families of our school. We were successful in receiving a Road Safety Magic Show for P1-P4 (which was well received and great fun). They signed up for the Big Walk and Wheel fortnight as well as the recent Walk to School week. On top of all this, they have kept an informative floor book of their JRSO journey.

My proudest moment was when one of the HMIE Inspectors joined one of our weekly meetings back in January and the feedback from her was that our JRSO Team was the best she had ever seen in Scotland as well as our floor book being very detailed and capturing our journey so far. She said we should be very proud of ourselves.

Such a jam-packed year they’ve had and their last duty was to choose next years’ new team. Together, they wrote application forms, spoke to the Primary 5 pupils and interviewed all of the applicants.

They have now chosen your new JRSO Team and I look forward to introducing them to you in the new term in August.

Thank you to everyone for their continued support.

Miss McMillan

Girls’ Football Team Final

We are delighted and proud to share that our girls’ football team won their match yesterday against St. Andrews Primary. They played a strong game, with the final result being 5-2. Please support our team in joining them in playing Lainshaw Primary at the East Ayrshire Girls’ Premiership Final on Thursday 20th June (tomorrow) at the Synergy Arena (Bonnyton Thistle) with a 6pm kick-off. Girls should arrive 5pm for 5.30pm warm-up.

We would like to invites parents/carers, family members and pupils to support our team!

 

BONNET GUILD HOCKEY CHALLENGE!

🏑 Bonnet Guild Hockey Challenge 🏑
📅 Saturday 1st June 2-4pm, Stewarton Academy
📢 Calling all age 8-14 year olds – come along and join in the fun and games….test your hockey skills through a series of fun challenges to win points for your team and book your place in the final for a shot at the trophy! 🏆
😋 Tuck shop available.
🏑 Sign up at https://forms.gle/tcqw5dgEvSThDnh69 by Friday 31st May
£2 per entry, payable on the day.
See you there!

JOHN KNOX SUMMER HOLIDAY CLUB

JRSO Magic Roadshow

P1 to P4 thoroughly enjoyed Allans Magic Road safety Show on Tuesday. Our special guests, Miss McMillan and our JRSOs, joined the show as they have been working hard to drive forward road safety at our school.

Thank you to Allan for a great magic show that taught our children all about road safety in a fun way and to Ayrshire Roads Alliance for organising this for us.

Red Nose Day

A reminder that Red Nose day is this Friday 15th March. The RRS group have organised a fun afternoon with lots of activities for us all to enjoy. We ask that for your child to take part in these activities a donation of £2 for each child is donated via Parent Pay. Additionally we would like to thank those that have already donated for RND, if anyone else has bubble machines, bubble solution, bicarbonate soda or food colouring they are happy to donate we would be extremely grateful.

Football Sponsorship

We are over the moon with our new home and away football kits!

On behalf of the school football teams, Mr Hyslop and our whole school, we would like to send a massive THANK YOU to Andrew Bicket from Bickets Barrhead Butchers and Grant Chalmers from Drumclog Off-Road Centre, for sponsoring us!

 

Aristos Partnership

Our P6 cohort have been lucky to have received fitness sessions over a six week period by our local gym, Aristos, with the last session taking place at the Aristos gym. Every pupil involved have had a great time learning about fitness and ways of keeping healthy and out class teachers have gained some great tips and hints to incorporate ideas in their future lessons.

We are delighted to share that Aristos have donated skipping ropes and we have been busy using these to promote fitness during our PE lessons.

Thank you Kirsty and staff at Aristos for organising these sessions for the second year and for supporting us to promote fitness and wellbeing in our school.

 

JRSO Road Safety/Drop-off Campaign

Dear Parents and Carers,

As you will be aware, we announced in our last JRSO blog post that we will be starting a Road Safety Campaign. We would like to highlight that we feel that road safety in our school could be improved upon if more families use the drop-off service. We would now like to take this opportunity to share our ideas and plans with you.

At most schools, there is always problems with parking, especially in the morning when children are coming to school and at the end of the day when school is finishing. School related traffic congestion poses a risk to the safety of the pupils, staff, families, motorists and residents in and around our school. As your Road Safety Officers, we would like to highlight some of the dangers that we have witnessed.

  • Some cars are parking just outside the school grounds on Pokelly Place making it difficult for our buses and taxis to safely enter our premises. This is also a hazard for other users trying to access our designated drop off area.
  • Children are often spotted walking through the car park with an adult and we would strongly advise for you to use the paths around the perimeter of the school to safely enter the playground. This may add a few extra minutes to your commute, but walking through a car park must be discouraged at all times.

We have also witnessed parking at our bin cage and parking in the staff car park making it hard for our teachers, support staff and visitors to access.

Most concerning is when our emergency exit is blocked.

Over the next few weeks, you will be able to easily spot us around the playground in the morning as we will be wearing Hi-Viz tabards and have signs encouraging you to think before you park. Look out for Phizz and Blair too who will be displayed outside and will be supporting you to park safely. We are again very grateful to Physioflexx and Blair Garage for sponsoring our signs.

We are very lucky at Nether Robertland as we have Miss McMillan who is one of our Pupil Support Assistants, offering a valuable service at our drop off area. She is there to welcome you and help to get us safely into our playground from vehicles entering our school area.

We would like to encourage as many families as possible to use this service. Rain, hail, sleet and snow, Miss McMillan is always there with a smile!

 

FAMILY BOOKSHELF BORROW

Family Borrow Bookshelf

Our Reading Schools Pupil Group have created a Family Borrow Bookshelf  and it can be found in the Main Reception Area.  The plan is for the Borrow Bookshelf to sit outside the main door to allow for easy access but for now it will remain indoors until the weather improves.  We would like to encourage parents/carers/grandparents and families to borrow a book or two and also add one or two of their own that they have finished with.  The children are really excited about this venture and we are hoping it will allow families to access a variety of books for free.  Please feel free to pop in and have a look!

Thanks

The Reading Schools Group

JRSO Update

We would like to say a big thank you to our local businesses, Physioflexx and Blair Garage, for sponsoring our new JRSO team members. We will be thanking our supporters in our own way very soon. Watch this space.. We would like to introduce Blair and Phizz. Alongside ourselves and Miss McMillan, we will be carrying out a Road Safety campaign, focusing on safe parking and use of the drop off option, in the morning of week beginning 5th February. More information will be coming your way soon.

 

Rosie, Arran, Finn and Aimee

Our Vision – January 2024 Challenge

LEARN TODAY, LEAD TOMORROW

In January, we will be thinking about our vision and what it means to us.

What is a vision?

  • Our goal
  • Something we strive for
  • Future tense and ambitious

What does our vision mean to us?

  • Importance of learning
  • If we learn, we will be ready for the future
  • Learners today are leaders of tomorrow

As all of our children are leaders and lead in different ways, in January we will be exploring our vision in class and at home. We ask that you discuss the following questions with your child at home to prepare them for the class task.

As our vision is something we strive and work towards, think about the following:

  • What you think you’ll be leading in the future?
  • What job would you like to do when you grow up?
  • Why do you think you will be good at leading in this?
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