Category: Parents

Film Review Writing Competition Winner

Sam Harrison from P6 has won an award from the Into Film Roald Dahl Review Writing Competition! Last year was the centenary of Roald Dahl’s birth and Into Film invited school film clubs to screen film adaptations of his books.

Giffnock has a long standing film club and last term P6 watched lots of interesting films, including The Witches, a marvellously scary adaptation of Dahl’s novel. Children wrote and posted reviews online and all the reviews were entered into the competition. Lots of clubs from across the UK entered the competition and three winners were chosen from all the reviews. One of the three was Sam’s. Well done Sam!

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Sam with some great prizes from Into Film.

Sam’s review can be seen by going to this web link and clicking on page 9:

https://www.filmclub.org/film/4244/the-witches

Sports volunteers

East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure Department is looking for enthusiastic sports volunteers to assist in our sport and physical activity sessions after school, weeknights, weekends and during the school holidays.

Our next volunteer recruitment night will be on Thursday 26th January at Eastwood High School, PE classroom 6.00 – 7.00pm. This is for students, parents or anyone who would like to volunteer and get more experience working with children.

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Giffnock Primary goes Clubtastic

Extra Curricular Clubs Term 2 2017

There is a range of after school activities being offered at Giffnock Primary School this term.  Many of the teachers are offering their talents and expertise and there are also specialist coaches leading clubs too.  A list of all the clubs is here:

Extra Curricular Activities Term 2, 2017

Letters with details of how to apply will be given to pupils during the week beginning 16th January

So if you fancy becoming a ‘Lego Mindstormer’ or want to practise your Bollywood dancing skills return your form to the school office!

ProJudo – Judo Sessions for Beginners: P1-7

Your child has received a Judo taster session in Giffnock Primary  from Projudo Head Coach, Brian Long. The idea of taster sessions within schools is to give children an opportunity to experience a new sports/activity that they may have not participated in locally. The children really enjoyed the judo session and were enthusiastic about the prospect of joining a judo club in East Renfrewshire. Projudo is offering session in a variety of locations in East Renfrewshire and full details are in the letter below:

Judo Club Letter January 2017

Primary 1 Application Week

all parents/ carers

Primary 1 Registration

Monday 16th January – Friday 20th January 2017

Please note if your child is aged 5 years between 1st March 2017 and the end of February 2018, you should go along to your catchment Primary School between 1:45pm and 3:30pm any day during the week of Monday 16th January – Friday 20th January 2017.

For further information and a list of what documentation is needed, please see the information leaflet here:

P1 School Application Week January 2017

cricket cluster club

Cricket Cluster Club: Thursdays 5-6pm @ Woodfarm High School.

Over the last few years our Active School Co-ordinator has arranged a Cricket club for pupils across the primary schools in P5-7. The club is run by East Renfrewshire Cricket Club and delivered by coach Ammar Ashraf. The pupils will get a chance to play lots of games and learn the basic skills of cricket. The club will run in the small gym at Woodfarm or if weather is nice run outside on the pitches.

Club starts: Thursday 2nd February- 9th March 2017.

Cost of club is £12.00.

Full details and an application form are in this letter:

Cricket Club

Please return the slip if your child is interested in attending the club by Friday 20th January to your school office.

You will receive a confirmation letter to state your child has a place and will be asked to bring payment on the first night.

Long Term Medicine in school

For parents/carers of children with medicine kept in school and nursery: e.g. inhalers or allergy medication.

East Renfrewshire Council has issued new guidelines for the administration of medicines in schools. These can be seen on our website at: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/Giffnock/information/general-information/

Key points to note are:

  • Parents must fill in consent form AM1 to ask for medicine to be given in school.
  • For longer term medicines, such as inhalers, this consent form will be updated three times a year, in September, January and April. This is to ensure that all information regarding dosage etc. is up to date.
  • The guidelines also require all medicines to be taken home at the end of the session so that no medicines are kept in the school over the summer holidays.

Accordingly we are sending home a copy of our current consent form for your child to be given medicine in school, along with a new form. Please check your child’s bag and fill in the new form, returning it to school as soon as possible.

Welcome back to 2017!

On behalf of all of the staff at Giffnock, a very Happy New Year to all of our school community. We hope that you had a restful and especially enjoyable holiday period and we look forward to the exciting year ahead.

Disability/ASN Karate

Marie Baxter, Active Schools Co-Ordinator is working with the Scottish Karate Governing Body to create new karate classes for pupils in East Renfrewshire who have a disability or ASN. Scottish Karate is looking  to develop this in East Renfrewshire and across Scotland to try and produce future athletes that could compete in the Paralympics.

The club will run at St Ninian’s High School and this is open to all pupils in mainstream schools, both primary and secondary and who have a physical or learning disability or visual impairment or ASN.

The club will start on Monday 23rd January 2017 and run from 5.10pm-5.50pm @ St Ninian’s High school. Further information and contact details are contained below:

Karate Jan 2017

Placing Requests

As you may already be aware, the Education Committee today approved the recent consultation on proposed new arrangements to school admissions, the transfer of pupils from primary to secondary school and placing requests.

School admissions, pupil transfers from primary to secondary and placing requests will be administered in line with the new arrangements from January 2017 and beyond.  Any placing request applications for school places in academic session 2017-18 submitted before January 2017 will be accepted however, please note that they will be processed in line with the new policy; there will be no need for parents/carers to submit another application.

As part of the changes to our arrangements, an online facility is now available for the submission of placing requests; please find the link below:

http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/placingrequest

 

Dear parents/carers
Reminder

School and nursery close today at 2.30pm.

Please note there will be no staff or children in the building after this time.

We would like to extend a very warm welcome to all to join us at Orchardhill Parish Church to celebrate with the children and staff at our Christmas service which starts at 1.30pm.

School and nursery will resume as normal on Thursday 5th January 2017.

May we take this opportunity to wish you all a safe and happy holiday from all at Giffnock Primary School and Nursery.

Parent Council Christmas Cards

Dear Parent / Carer

The Christmas cards and gift tags have finally arrived and they will be sent home in the school bags. Unfortunately if you ordered wrapping paper this is yet to arrive!

Until we receive ANY form of correspondence from APFS we don’t know what the cost of the cards will be. If you would rather not be left with this uncertainty, or no longer require the cards/gift tags given how late they have arrived, please return them in your child’s school bag and we will refund you the full amount as per our previous correspondence.

Thank you.

Merry Christmas from Giffnock Primary Parent Council

Best wishes for the seasonal break

On behalf of all of the staff at Giffnock Primary, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a joyous holiday period with your families and the very best of health and happiness for the New Year. We look forward to sharing in all of the wonderful stories and excitement when our children return to school on Thursday 5th January … 2017!

Last week of school term

Nursery – P7

As part of our final week before the holidays, our choir will be singing a few seasonal songs in the playground at the end of the day, from around 2.45pm, on both Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th December.

As you are aware, our church service at Orchardhill Parish Church will begin at 1.30pm on Wednesday 21st December.  This necessitates an earlier lunch in school and therefore if your child normally has a home lunch could you please make arrangements to collect them at 12.15 and return them to school by 1.00pm, alternatively perhaps they could take a school lunch that day.

All pupils will return to school after the church service to be dismissed at 2.30pm that day.