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MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING 27TH SEPTEMBER 2024

We are delighted to invite you to our Macmillan Coffee Morning on Friday 27th September 9:30am – 11:45am. All donations raised on the day are made to Macmillan Cancer Support. Children are asked to bring a donation (cash) and they will be given juice and a piece of home baking. Baking will not be on sale for children, it is available for adults only. If any baking is left over, children will be offered it after lunch.

We will be very grateful for any donations of home or shop bought baking. Donations can be brought to school from Wednesday 25th September. Please ensure any containers are labelled with the name of your child and their class so that they can be returned after the Coffee Morning. Due to allergies, we kindly ask that you avoid baking containing nuts. The school cafeteria will kindly provide a piece of baking for any pupil with an identified food allergy.

Due to allergies and personal preferences, we would be grateful if you could complete the permission Form below for your child. If you have more than one child in the school, please complete an additional form.

Each class will visit the Coffee Morning for a short time to enjoy a piece of baking and a juice. Please see timetable below for the time slot each class will visit.

If you would like to make an online donation towards Macmillan Cancer Support, please click the link – Donate to Macmillan Cancer Support

Coffee Morning Pupil Permission Form

Many thanks

Class Time
P1B and P1W 9:30am – 9:50am
P2H and P2S 9:55am – 10:15am
P3M, P3T and P4H 10:20am – 10:40am
Playtime Playtime
P5L, P5/6F and P6MG 11am – 11:20am
P7D and P7H 11:25am – 11:45pm

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!

 

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