Friday 29th August 2025

Our first full week back together for our learners and we are so proud of them all.

Today we held our first full assembly. The theme for this week’s assembly was ‘Hope’. We talked about our hopes for the school session ahead. This is a particularly important theme as we continue to observe the Church’s Jubilee Year and the theme of Pilgrims of Hope.

Big Shout to our Golden Book nominations. Each week staff nominate learners have demonstrated one or more of our school values across the week.

Harmony; Kasey

Equity; Farrah-Grace

Ambition; Karah, Aili, Harvey, Aurora B, April, Russell, Kaleb

Respect; Jennifer, Lia, Carson, Luna, Aaylah, Lewis, Jessica

House points (week ending 29/08/25)

Wildcats (Blue ) – 220

Red Deer (Red) – 257

Golden Eagles (Yellow) – 306

Well done to everyone who took part in the house challenge of Hula Hooping this week.

Staffing Update

We continue to have no cover in our office. Thank You so much for your patience with this. This will be the same for this coming week. We have resubmitted recruitment paperwork for a vacant classroom assistant post that has arisen again due to the successful candidate being unable to take up post. Until we fill this post we will endeavour to bring in bank staff when we can.

Parent workshops and Open afternoon

Information has been sent out via the school app. There is an electronic form to complete to let us know if you will be attending any of the sessions. Please complete this to allow us to make plans to accommodate everyone.

Sandshoes

We will be stopping selling sandshoes as we use up the stock that was have in school. Not all sizes are available and where we have been unable to provide sandshoes payment has been refunded. As Mrs Reid has not been in the office we have missed some purchases. We worked through these today and should have everything sorted on Monday. Thank You for your patience.

Active Schools

Barry, our active schools coordinator has been in for a meeting and we will notify you of opportunities in the coming weeks. Football training will soon be starting – information and permission slips will be given out. We also hope to have football training for girls this session. If you have any experience in sport and wish to volunteer to run after school sessions please let us now and we can put you in touch with Barry who will support you with this.

Parent Council

Our first Parent Council meeting of the session tales place on Thursday 11th September at 6pm in the school. This will be the AGM. All parents and carers are welcome. More information about the role of parent councils in Scotland can be found here. https://education.gov.scot/parentzone/getting-involved/parent-councils/about-parent-councils/

Sharing the Learning

It is said that to be able to teach someone else means you truly understand something. That is what our P6/7s do. Well done to our older learners this week supporting P2/3 with digital learning. There is a programme in place to allow this to happen across the school regularly.