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- Achievement, Community, events, parents

Guide Dog Afternoon Tea Sunday 20th March 2016

Our Afternoon Tea will take take place in Busby Church Hall, between 2pm and 4pm on Sunday the 20th of March. You will be able to buy the tartan hearts you created on the Guide Dog takeover day for £1.guide dog– Minimum donation is £3 for adults and 50p per child which includes refreshments and home baking.  All the money we raise will go to Guide Dogs.

Please come along and help support us.

Fran, Lou, Eilidh, Sophie

 

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STEM WEEK!

Busby Police investigate serious crime!

STEM week got well and truly underway with the STEM committee ‘ inspectors’ leading the investigation as to how one of our ipads got broken! The day started with a whole school assembly with some very special STEM ambassadors and visitors finding out about the crime, followed by the STEM detectives meeting with DI Hunter & PC Cunningham to formulate a plan to take forward the investigation.

Over the next few days, each class will investigate a particular aspect of the crime from fingerprint analysis, CCTV footage to DNA and footprint analysis. It is hope from today’s gathering of evidence, the team will be in a position to interview suspects of the crime tomorrow and perhaps be in a position to work out ‘whodunnit’ from there.

In addition to this, we had a very special visit from Mr Carmon, who shared his knowledge of being a radiographer with a number of classes, along with Mr Wallace, who visited some classes and delivered some hands on engineering activities. Dr Blyth also visited classes this morning to discuss parts of the body and how they work.

BUSBY POLICE We have created our own Busby Police logo.  We are all been having great fun learning about science.

Nursery 1 nursery 2 P1 Stem week

STEMM week letter to parents 2016

- Achievement, - Pupils, Health and Wellbeing, Science Week

Super Hero Sports Day 17th March 2016

Following on from a recent homework task, voting is underway to choose our Sporting Super Hero Mascot.

Superhero

Super Hero Sports Day is on 17th March when pupils can come to school dressed as their favourite Sporting Hero or ready to participate in their favourite sport.  P.E. activities will take place throughout the day which will demonstate the Busby Core Values and how they are central to sportsmanshop.  As this will also be STEM week we will also be looking the body and how it responds to exercise and the benefits of keeping healthy.

Early Years, ERC, parents

Consultation on the future of early learning and childcare.

East Renfrewshire Council launched a consultation on the future of early learning and childcare on Monday 11th January 2016 via citizen space.

If this affects you we be very grateful if you could take a few minutes to read the consultation and complete the survey.

The consultation can be found at https://getinvolved.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/education/consultation-on-the-future-of-early-learning-and-c

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The National Parent Forum “In a nutshell”

The National Parent Forum of Scotland has been working with Skills Development Scotland as part of the programme of work underway in Developing the Young Workforce.   They have produced some tailored information for parents, as part of our successful “in a nutshell” series, which covers the new Careers Education Standard launched at SLF 2015.

This new nutshell will provide parents with basic information about the initial role of this programme in schools.

This nutshell has been published and will be heading home with your child via school.  If you would like a preview please use the link below.

http://www.npfs.org.uk/career-education-a-world-of-possibilities/

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Free Office Suite Download

Microsoft Office Pro Plus (Free Office Suite Download for Staff and Pupils)

This allows all staff and pupils free access to the Office Suite: Word, Powerpoint, Excel, OneNote etc.  Remember with the holiday period approaching and new devices being bought, as part of the Education Department’s annual Microsoft agreement, all staff and pupils can download and install 10 instances of Microsoft Office Pro Plus on personally owned devices.  Please note that this includes 5 installs for desktop, laptop and netbook and 5 mobile installs for phones and tablets for each staff member and every pupil.  It might be worth adding this information and the instructions below to your final newsletter of 2015 and indeed to your website.

Disclaimer In order to qualify for this benefit, you must be an East Renfrewshire employee with a Glow account or a pupil attending an East Renfrewshire school. You must understand that you are entering into an agreement with Microsoft and not East Renfrewshire Council.

 To access the Office Pro Plus installation file please follow the steps below:

  1. Login to Glow.
  2. Click the Office Pro Plus tile located on the Shared Launch Pad.
  3. The next window will display the Install button.