Month: August 2016

Alarm Fault

This afternoon there was a fault with the school’s alarms systems which triggered our fire evacuation procedures.

It was not a drill and the procedures were followed to ensure the pupils’ safety.

Thankfully it was just a fault in the system and there was no fire but unfortunately it happened to occur on a wet afternoon.  All our teachers have supported the children to remain warm and dry once returning to class, hence some of them now wearing their PE kit.

Welcome to our new school session

I am delighted to begin the new school session at Giffnock Primary School as Acting Head Teacher.

It has been great to get to meet all of our children this week and, over the coming days and weeks, I look forward to meeting many of you and the wider school community. In the meantime, if you do have any particular questions then please do not hesitate to contact me.

We will be maintaining our parents/ carers ‘drop in’ session on Friday mornings between 9-9.30am, where a member of the Senior Leadership Team would be available to discuss any specific matters regarding your child’s learning.

I look forward to our year ahead,

Yours faithfully,

Rob Lawson

New Orchard Park one-way & Academy Road parking

On 17 June the Council approved the making of both the East Renfrewshire Council (Giffnock Area) (On-Street) (Waiting and Loading) Order 2016 and the East Renfrewshire Council (Orchard Park, Giffnock) (One Way) Order 2016. Both of the new traffic regulation orders (TROs) will come into effect 1 August 2016.

Two items affect Giffnock Primary and Nursery:

  • Orchard Park will become a one-way road with traffic only allowed to travel from Academy Road towards Fenwick Road (no more turning onto Orchard Park from Fenwick Rd)
  • New parking restrictions around the school and nursery will largely remain the same but the largest change will be the addition of new yellow line school zig-zags along Academy Road at each the pedestrian crossing build outs

For further details, click on the links below.

Giffnock on street waiting restrictions

Giffnock On-Street W&L Restrictions 2016 – (Public Notice) (Made Order)

Orchard Park One Way Order 2016 – (Plan)

Rocket Seeds from Space

Rocket Science Project

The wait is over… On Wednesday we finally found out that the rocket seeds which were in the blue packet were the ones which were on the ISS! As the Rocket Science team were enjoying rocket ice lollies (of course!) they watched the video of Tim Peake announcing which colour of packet contained the space seeds. You can watch it for yourself by following the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV6bXBt4Ug0

Result 2

Those you who have followed our updates here will remember that our seedlings from the blue packet did not grow as well as those from the red packet: they were slightly smaller and had fewer leaves. It will be into the new school session before we know the results from the whole experiment and whether or not the differences are significant for plans to grow fresh food in space. If the number of children at our recent Careers Fair saying they want to be scientists is anything to go by, Tim Peake’s mission to inspire the next generation has been a success.