Category Archives: Classes
P7 Residential Trip – 1 more sleep!!!
Reminder for all parents/ guardians, tomorrow Primary 7 will be leaving at 1pm for their Residential trip to Lockerbie Manor. Pupils should arrive at school at normal time with all their packed belongings for the trip, including a sleeping bag and pillow with pillowcase. Pupils do not need to be in school uniform and can wear their own clothes for travelling.
All medications required for the trip can be handed in to Mrs Hope at the office from 9am. Please ensure that all medications have a pharmacy/ prescription label for your child and parents have completed the relevant medical form.
Parents are welcome to come along and wave the bus off at 1pm from the front of the school. Please keep up to date with our residential fun on our school Twitter page!
Primary 7 Residential 2023
We are delighted to inform our Primary 7 pupils as well as their parents and carers that we have secured a booking for a Primary 7 Residential this session.
Our P7’s will enjoy 3 days (2 nights) at LOCKERBIE MANOR in Dumfries and Galloway! The venue offers amazing facilities and activities including:
- kayaking
- paddle boarding
- archery
- fencing
- zip wire
- cycling
- climbing wall
And so much more!
The provisional dates we have secured are Wednesday 19th April- Friday 21st April.
We plan to fundraise to keep the costs as low as possible for parents, and the school will make a contribution to the cost as well. There will however be a cost involved for parents, which will be finalised in the coming days. A non-refundable deposit of £50 per pupil will be required to secure a place, payable by Monday 14th September.
We would like to invite all P7 parents who are interested in learning more about the upcoming residential to an information evening at the school on Wednesday 7th September at 6pm where we can offer you a presentation, a breakdown of costs and answer any questions you may have.
In the meantime, please check out LOCKERBIE MANOR online at https://www.manoradventure.com/lockerbie-manor.php
PRIMARY 7 Transition Information
We are looking forward to seeing the new S1s this week and hope they are excited about their visit!
In preparation for these days there will be a virtual classroom visit to all P7s to remind them about the format for the two days. During the induction days (Tuesday and Wednesday) teaching staff and senior pupils will be on hand to ensure that they are supervised and supported at all times. As part of the virtual class visit I will be reminding pupils about the following items and bits of information they will need to bring with them next week:
- A schoolbag and stationery
- A note of their new PLP and practical class (eg. 1A1- 1P3)
- Their username and password for logging on to the computers, this is the same one used in the primary school
- A pair of trainers for P.E.
- A snack for interval
- A free school lunch will be available, although you may wish to bring your own packed lunch.
Our school cafeteria has kindly agreed to provide a free school meal for any pupil who would like to sample what’s on offer, although, you may wish to bring your own packed lunch. Please note that our new S1 will have a designated area to eat lunch as a year group and will not be allowed to leave this area at interval or lunch during their two day visit.
Kind regards
P McGurn
Depute Head Teacher
The Robert Burns Academy
FAO Primary 7 PARENTS- School of Football
The first try out is on Monday 20th June, then those who are successful will be invited for a second trial on Thursday 23rd June.
If any of our P7’s are interested in joining, click the survey link here. The MONDAY time of 4pm-5pm will not be applicable to us as we are at Craufurdland Estate, so we are in negotiations to work in a different time. Please still fill in the survey link and we will sort out the timings.
DIARY DATES SUMMER 2022
We are so excited to inform you all about our upcoming events! Due to COVID mitigations recently being reduced we have been able to plan fun opportunities for our children, during this final stretch to the summer holidays 🙂
CLICK HERE TO SEE DATES FOR THE DIARY Summer Term 2022
We are delighted that we can rebuild our partnership with Dumfries house who have kindly found space in their packed schedule for our P1-5 pupils for Farming themed workshops and play, despite having bookings from schools all over Central Scotland! This matches perfectly with our WORLD OF WORK theme, which this year was all about local opportunities, which includes our farming community.
P1a P1b P2 and P2/3 will enjoy the Springwatch workshop at the farm, meeting a variety of animals, learning how to look after them and all about animal life cycles, as well as enjoying time in the STEM playground and new park!
P3 P4 and P5 will be visiting the RHET Festival of farming days at Dumfries House, taking part in workshops where they will be learning about the variety of careers available in agriculture and rural life, as well as enjoying and meeting a variety of animals including horses, pigs, chickens, bees, sheep and cows.
P7 TRANSITION INFORMATION EVENING
Dear parent / carer
I am pleased to share with you the link to our P7 Information Video. As we are currently unable to welcome large groups of parents to the school for a face-to-face information evening, we decided to record a video that you can view with your child instead. This video should answer many of the questions you may have about the final stages of our transition programme.
The video can be viewed by clicking the link below:
Or through our school blog’s P7 Transition section:
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/therobertburnsacademy/p7-transition/
We would also like to invite you to an online drop-in session on Wednesday 25th May from 6.30-7.30pm. There will be no presentation or content shared during this session, this is an opportunity for parents and carers to ask any questions they may have. I would encourage you to watch the information video and look at the content on the P7 Transition page of our school blog in the first instance.
You can join us for the online session via the following link:
https://app-proxy.vscene.net/r/oKANTUMlGp
Meeting room number: 1413569
Meeting ID: 104859
I look forward to seeing you soon!
P. McGurn
Depute Head Teacher
The Robert Burns Academy
Feedback for Video Parent Calls- P1A and P7
We are looking for feedback around the use of video calls for parents evening from P1A and P7 parents.
If you could take a few minutes to complete the survey below, this will help us decide whether to take forward video calls in the future and roll out as an option for other classes.
Leaver’s Hoodies
A huge thank you to our parent council for donating out P7 Leaver’s Hoodies!
We are so excited to wear them around our school and to our transition events at Robert Burns Academy!
Thank you for your generosity!
How to Access Class Blogs and TEAMS Groups
We would like to take this opportunity to remind all parents and carers how to access class blogs and Microsoft TEAMS Groups (P3-7).
Firstly, can we direct all parents and carers to our Remote Learning Policy through the link below:
Links to all class blogs can be found below. Alternatively, you can navigate through the school website as shown in the clips below.
Primary 1A Mrs Johnstone: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/newcumnockprimary1a2021/
Primary 1B Mrs Armour: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/newcumnockprimary1b202122/
Primary 2 Miss McQueen: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/newcumnockprimary2202122/
Primary 2/3 Mrs Elliott: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/newcumnockprimary23202122/
Primary 3 Mrs Frew: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/newcumnockprimary3202122/
Primary 4 Mrs Petrie: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/newcumnockprimary4202122/
Primary 5 Mrs Agnew: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/newcumnockprimary5202122/
Primary 6 Mrs Mair: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/newcumnockprimary6202122/
Primary 7 Mrs Clarke: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/2021newcumnockprimary7/
The Den Mrs Ramsey/ Miss Mason: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/newcumnocknurture202122/
On the main school blog, under ‘Classes and Staff’, select your child’s class.
Once you have selected their class, click on the link highlighted which will take you to the class blog.
Please note that these blog posts are public and do not require a child to log into Glow to access them.
In the event of remote teaching, teachers will be sharing a variety of learning activities across the curriculum on the class blogs. Some of these may take the style of written tasks, recorded PowerPoints, live video links as well as time slots that teaching staff will be available for communication via email/Teams.
As well as work being posted on the class blogs, P3-7 will have the opportunity to access Microsoft Teams in the event of whole class isolation or remote teaching. This will enable them to directly speak with and message their class teacher, share work and ask questions. To access Microsoft Teams, your child must know their Glow username and password. If they do not know their GLOW username and password, there is a contact form below to follow which will enable you to contact the school to rectify this. (P3-7 ONLY)
To access Microsoft Teams, go to your Glow login page and log in using your username and password.
On your launch pad, click on the Microsoft Teams icon.
Each child should have this icon on their launch pad, however, if it is not there you can go to ‘add’ and search for Microsoft Teams in the app library and select ‘add to my launch pad’.
Once you selected the Microsoft Teams app on your launch pad, if you are not using a Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser, you may be greeted with this message…
This will prompt you to download the Teams app from you app/play store.
It will ask you to log in using an email address which is the child’s Glow username followed by @glow.sch.uk
For example: eap.joebloggs@glow.sch.uk
It will then take you back to your Glow log in page where you will re-enter your Glow username and password.
If doing this on a tablet or mobile device, the good news is that once you are logged in, that will you set up for the future!
The attached document below provides advice on how to setup for learning, to be part of online meetings and access learning in Microsoft Teams. Click on the link to view.
PARENT AND PUPIL GUIDANCE – Microsoft Teams
Electronic Device Access:
If your child does not have access to a suitable device to take part in remote learning, please contact the school using the FORM below. Please complete this by WEDNESDAY 15th DECEMBER.
