Giffnock Primary School September 2018 Newsletter

Welcome to our September 2018 Newsletter. This is our first newsletter of the new school session so I would like to take the opportunity to again welcome all of our new families to the scho…

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Thank you to all of our parents who attended this morning’s drop-in session which we hope was useful. Other events of interest are below:

Giffnock Nursery and Primary Support Team Parental Events Aug18

We are very excited about participating in the national Scottish Maths Week beginning Monday 10th September. We hope all of our families can enjoy and support this learning at home too!

Maths Week Giffnock Parental Information Sep 2018

Next week all of our classes will be supporting the national ‘Maths Week’ initiative. All of our children will have a range of additional experiences in numeracy and we look forward to an exciting week ahead. Look out for more information in the coming days.

Sharing of our inspection findings was also in the Extra today:

Please see the link below for useful information about how we handle data that is shared with us:

Data Protection and Privacy

 

The following article went out in the Barrhead News today:

Please see the links below for important information on these matters:

Pupil Equity Fund Parental Letter Aug 18

PEF FME request Flyer

As part of our transition activities, Woodfarm High School will be showcasing a range of activities and information about the move to High School and learning there. The families of all of our P6 and P7 children are invited to attend between 4- 5.30pm on Thursday 13^th September 2018. We hope to see you there.

WFHS Learning Festival Flyer Sep 2018 final

Our RRS Committee are again supporting this important initiative. If you are able to help please follow the guidance below; thank you in advance:

RRS Marys Meals Parental Letter Aug 18

At Giffnock Primary, we are fortunate to work with a variety of staff who support the learning needs and wellbeing of our children and families in a wide range of ways. We would like to offer the following opportunities for you to come along and find out more:

Giffnock Nursery and Primary Support Team Parental Events Aug18

Please see below for information on our Meet the Teacher event at 6-7pm on Wednesday 29th August 2018:

Meet the Teacher Parental Note Aug 18

Our Parental Calendar is now available through the calendar icon on the home page. This will be routinely updated and thereby develop throughout the year. We hope that you find it useful.

 

 

 

Please be aware that our ERC colleagues from Culture & Leisure will be handing out brochures/ leaflets for our parents and carers during this week at the start and/ or end of one of the days. They will be clearly identifiable in their Active Schools uniforms and/ or with an ID badge visible for those not in the Active Schools team.

To help our families with being able to put ‘names to faces’ we have updated our staff section to include photographs. We hope you find this useful. Simply go to the ‘Information’ tab and ‘School Staff 2018-19’ page from the home page.

Our parental leaflet has now been updated, including ‘PE Days’, which we hope you find useful:

Health Wellbeing Parent Leaflet Term 1 2018 19

Welcome back to all of our children and families. The school has come alive again this morning and it is great to see everyone back!

Dear Parent / Carer

We previously shared information and the date for this event which we very much hope that you will be able to attend. Following our November 2017 Parental Survey, we have tailored some of the sessions to meet areas of interest that you highlighted and so we hope that you will find the information very useful.

There will be seven sessions available to you, with the opportunity for each parent/carer to attend one of these sessions at each of the three separate timescales (17:30 Session / 17:50 Session / 18:10 Session)

 Homework – Maths

 Reading

 Using a Growth Mindset

 Curriculum and Learning Pathways

 Sleep

 Technologies and Digital Learning

 Talking & Listening

Each session will run for 15 minutes and will focus upon sharing information about how your children learn, and about how you can support that learning.

To organise the evening, we are using the same electronic booking system as we have done for our Parents’ Evenings. Please visit http://giffnock.parentseveningsystem.co.uk to book your session. As you are already aware only the main carer can log onto the system but they will be able to book a maximum of 2 sessions per timescale if both parents/carers would like to attend the same or different sessions. Please login with the following information:

Student’s First Name

Student’s Surname

Date of Birth

If you require assistance with booking your sessions please contact the school office. I look forward to seeing you at this event.

Yours sincerely,

Rob Lawson

Head Teacher