Primary School Only
Dear Parent / Carer
It has been brought to our attention that parent / carers may not have been notified by East Renfrewshire Authority that from August 2016 a small increase has been levied to our school meal provision for pupils. We have been asked to advise you that this is the first increase for two years.
Primary School – main meal £2.00
Primary School – cold lunch £1.90
The authority has advised us that they are in the process of updating the cost on their website.
At Giffnock Primary, we want our children to have a wide range of learning opportunities and it is very important that they have a variety of ways in which they can participate in the leadership of learning, both within their own classrooms and the wider school community. A broad set of skills for life, learning and work can be developed through such experiences. The letter below details the various ways in which children can participate:
Parents of children in P7 are invited to attend an information evening on Tuesday 20 September.
Full details are here:
The August 2016 Newsletter is now available on the website under the Information tab or through the link below:
Giffnock Sports Hub is having an Open Day on Saturday 27th August at Giffnock Tennis Club. Come and try a range of different sports from 10m to 1pm. For more details click on the link below.
We are pleased to extend an invitation to you to come along and meet your child’s teacher on the evening of Wednesday 31st August 2016. To find out more, please click on the link below:
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.
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
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:
For further details, click on the links below.
Giffnock on street waiting restrictions
Giffnock On-Street W&L Restrictions 2016 – (Public Notice) (Made Order)
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
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.
The summer programme for Eastwood Park Theatre has just been released. Full details can be found here:
On Thursday and Friday last week, Giffnock Primary pupils enjoyed a chance to find out about different types of jobs that you could do. Mr McNeill had arranged for parents to come in to the school and set up a small display so that children could find out about different jobs. We had a doctor, a civil engineer, a baker, a policeman and lots of others. Children enjoyed themselves visiting the different displays and talking to parents about different jobs. P7 pupils also practised their interview skills on each other!
Special Bulletin June 2016 GPS
Gaelic playtime ‘Thig a chluich’ will continue after School summer holidays . The event is in Stamperland Community Centre. More information can be found in the link below.
As a school community we support many charities close to the hearts of our children and families.
The collection from our Christmas Service went to Diabetes UK. Mrs Kitson received the money at an assembly. Children from the school also took part in a sponsored swim for the Charity.
Pupils from Giffnock Primary appeared in a video showing how Type 1 diabetes will not prevent you taking part in sport!
They also appeared in the news on STV:
http://player.stv.tv/episode/3ap1/live-five/
At the end of term service in June the charity collection will go towards Muscular Dystrophy UK.
However as there is a special personal story told by one of our families we encourage you to follow these links to find out more and how to support them further:-
http://www.musculardystrophyuk.org/get-involved/family-funds/funds/nicolas-ninjas/
https://www.facebook.com/nicolasninjas/timeline
Go Team Nicola!
East Renfrewshire Council has built a new travel path in Newton Mearns. The opening day is this Sunday 19th June. There will be lots of activities for everyone and you can find out more here:
Earlier this year children took part in a competition organised by Show Racism the Red Card and Lucy Eccles from P2 won with her design.
This week in school a small group of children took part in a focus group to share their learning about racism, inclusion and respecting other cultures and religions. The session was led by Luke Campbell from the ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ campaign. Luke asked the children to talk about the impact the creative competition had on their attitudes to different cultures and religions in the school and wider community. Our competition winner, Lucy Eccles also talked about her design and attending the awards ceremony at Hampden Stadium.
Giffnock Squash Club is holding an Open Day on Saturday 18 June with free taster sessions for P4 upwards.
Click on the PDF below for more information.
Rocket Science update
We have now uploaded all the results of our experiment to the national database. Once all the results are in they will be analysed by experiments and reported in the new school session. However we won’t have that long to wait until we know which were the space seeds! Tim Peake is due back on Earth in 10 days and will tell us which were the space seeds in the last week of term. Here’s a link to a short film about his mission and time on the ISS:
Everyone enjoyed the P7 Leaving Ceilidh yesterday evening. There was lots of dancing and staff and children enjoyed some tasty refreshments half-way through, giving everyone enough energy to carry on!
