East Renfrewshire Active Schools Team and the Glasgow Ski and Snowboard Centre are offering ski lessons for pupils in P4 – P7. Full details are in the attached letter.
Tag: Parents
Nursery and P1 Parental drop in
Nursery & P1 Only
Please come along to our Drop-in next Wednesday (14th February) where you will have the opportunity to meet Sam Cunningham our Family First support worker. She can offer advice and help on a wide variety of matters (eg Parenting, Health, Money, School/Nursery, Additional Support Needs, Home, Confidence)
You can come along at 11.15am or 1pm to the Family Room. Please enter by the nursery entrance.
There are leaflets available in the nursery cloakroom area or ask a member of staff for details.
You can also follow this link to East Renfrewshire’s own website which has lots of information
http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/familyfirst
We look forward to welcoming you there.
Second email address
The school has been using the Groupcall email/messaging system for some time, during which we have received some requests from families for a second email address to be added to enable both Mothers and Fathers to receive emails. As explained at the time the system could only send one email message to the “main carer” of any pupil in the school but it has now been upgraded and a second email address can be added if required (this can only be a parent/carer).
If you are registered as the “main carer” of your child and would like a second email address to be added for your partner could you please advise the school of the following details by the end of February (only requests in writing can be actioned – either by email or letter).
Name of child/children
Class/classes
Name of second contact to be added
Email address of second contact
Although this facility is being offered, please consider carefully whether you require this service as the school email database is already very large to monitor and maintain. Please be aware that it may take several weeks to update the system depending on uptake of this facility.
Crazy Hat or Crazy hair Day Thursday 8th february
We have been asked by the Parent Council to remind you about their fundraising event “Crazy Hat Day Or Crazy Hair Day” which is being held on Thursday 8th February.
Children are invited to wear a hat or style their hair in a fun way and they could make a £1 optional donation to the Parent Council “playground repair fund”.
Parental Workshops at Braidbar Primary School
Braidbar Primary School is holding a series of workshops for all parents of primary schools in the Woodfarm Cluster. Details are below:
Thursday 8 February
9am and 1pm (two sessions)
Musicality – and how this approach supports children’s phonological awareness.
Thursday 15 February
9am and 2pm and 3.15pm (three sessions)
‘Sleep’ and its benefits – an information/support session led by Sam Cunningham from Family First.
Thursday 22 February
2.30pm (one session)
Library Services to support Young Learners – workshop led by Gillian Bell.
Change to lunch menu Thursday 25th January
We would like to remind you that there is a change of menu on Thursday 25th January to celebrate Burns Day. Haggis, neeps and tatties will replace hot 1 chicken curry for all pupils that day. The rest of the menu will remain the same.
food choices at lunch time
Dear Parent/Carer,
We have been asked by the kitchen staff to remind you that your child must choose an option from the lunch menu each day.
We have discussed this with the children and have reminded them that what they choose in the morning from the menu is what they will get in the lunch hall. The kitchen do prepare the food to order and therefore have limited chance to offer any alternative at lunchtimes.
We would appreciate if you could reinforce this at home.
Many thanks for your support.
nursery newsletter
The latest nursery newsletter can be seen here:
changes to lunch menu
We have been advised by the school kitchen that they will only be able to offer soup and sandwiches to pupils on Thursday 18th January as their water supply is being switched off that morning.
To enable the school kitchen to make up the sandwiches for Thursday, the class teachers will be taking pre-orders on Monday and/or Tuesday. Could you please discuss with your child whether they wish to order a school meal that day and what filling option they would prefer (Cheese, Ham or Tuna) so that they have the information ready for their class teacher at the beginning of next week.
We have also been advised of a change of menu on Thursday 25th January to celebrate Burns Day. Haggis, neeps and tatties will replace hot 1 chicken curry for all pupils that day, the rest of the menu will remain the same.
Primary 1 enrolment
Do you have a child who is due to start primary school education in Primary 1 in August 2018?
If you do, please see important information below regarding making an application for school admission during the week commencing 15th January 2018.
Primary 1 School Admission Application
Monday 15th January to Friday 19th January2018
From 1:45pm to 3:30pm
If your child is aged five between 1st March 2018 and the end of February 2019 you should go along to your preferred catchment primary school between the hours of 1:45pm and 3:30pm any day during the week of Monday 15th January to Friday 19th January 2018
To make an application, you must bring along:-
1. Birth Certificate
2. Mortgage statement or a signed and independently witnessed Rental Agreement for 1 year.
3. Council Tax Notification for 2017/2018
4. Child Benefit Award Letter/Bank Statements showing CHB number
If no longer in receipt of child benefit the school can also accept:
¨ Driving licence.
¨ Utility bill
¨ Bank Statement (with transactions in the last 3 months)
Assembly with P6B this Friday 12/1/18
Giffnock Primary School – Additional Assembly Date
P6B and Mrs Livingstone Friday 12 January 2018 at 09:50
Dear Parent/ Carer,
During the school year each class will present their own assembly.
Your child’s class will send you an invitation in advance to attend; please reply to this so that we know for seating arrangements.
Pushchairs:
Parents/ carers with pushchairs can access the school via the front ramp entrance and pushchairs can then be ‘parked’ in the Brown hall (for Health & Safety reasons please do not leave buggies in the corridors).
Secured entry system:
As the safety of our pupils is a priority at all times and following Health & Safety guidelines, can parents/ carers please remember not to ‘buzz’ other parents into the school building as everyone should gain entry via the main office door. Thank you.
We look forward to welcoming you to share in the children’s learning!
Dyslexia Unwrapped website
Dyslexia Unwrapped is a new website from #dyslexiascotland to support children and young people with dyslexia. The website has lots of useful information and fun activities.
https://unwrapped.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/
Class assemblies and spring church service
Please find information attached regarding class assemblies and the Spring Church Service in March 2018.
Sound Sleep with Sleep Scotland
As part of our continuing work on supporting pupils in their Health and Well Being we offer a variety of information drop ins.
Last term we hosted a session on supporting communication skills and your feedback was very important as we use this to respond to commonly raised issues by offering sessions to address and support these.
From conversations and feedback, the difficulty of supporting good sleep patterns and routines was raised. As Mrs Carney is our fully trained Ambassador for Sleep Scotland at Giffnock Primary, we would like to offer our next session on this area.
We have attached an information leaflet on Sound Sleep for further details.
Mrs Carney will be hosting a Sleep Scotland drop in meeting on Wednesday 24th January 2018 at 2pm at Giffnock Primary in the school library.
If you would be interested in attending we would be delighted to see you.
Please contact the school office either by phone or email to confirm your interest so we know numbers for seating and refreshments.
Giffnock myths and legends
Over the course of January we will be looking at creative ways to celebrate the use of Scots Language, with a particular whole school focus during the week commencing 8th January 2018.
The attached letter provides more information:
Wednesday drop in for nursery and P1
Calling all nursery and P1 parents and carers!
Our Wednesday drop-ins are restarting on the 17th of January in the Family Room.
Please feel free to come along. You will have the opportunity to chat to other parents over a coffee and staff will be there to provide home-link resources like Story Sacks, rhyme bags and maths bags.
They will run from 11.15-11.45am and 1.00-1.30pm.
We look forward to welcoming you there!
HM Inspection of Giffnock Primary School
HM Inspectors from Education Scotland will be visiting us to conduct an inspection during the week commencing Monday 22nd January 2018. You can find out more about inspections from the Inspection and review documentation pages of Education Scotland’s website.
This will be an opportunity for our whole school community to celebrate and share all that we do together. As part of the inspection, Inspectors gather the views of all stakeholders via an online survey which is available through:
https://forms.education.gov.scot/s/3GSOF/
I would like to encourage you to take a few minutes to complete the survey. Inspectors will also be meeting with groups of parents during the inspection, so to be part of that discussion you should complete the survey with additional links provided to indicate your interest in taking part.
You should complete the survey by 12th January 2018 for one child or for each of your children in attendance.
Parent Council Ceilidh Ticket sales
The Parent Council Ceilidh tickets will be on sale in the front playground on Tuesday 9th January from 2.45 pm until 3.15 pm. After Tuesday you can obtain tickets by contacting us direct at giffnockpc@hotmail.co.uk. We would remind you that the Ceilidh will be held on Friday 19th January in Giffnock North Athletics Club.
Last day of Term – Wednesday 20th December
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 on Wednesday 20th December 2017 at 1.30pm. If your child normally has a home lunch it would appreciated if they could remain in school on Wednesday or be returned by 1.00pm at the very latest as the children will be leaving early to walk to the church. All pupils will return to school after the service to be dismissed
Please note that the primary school will finish early at 2.30pm on Wednesday 20th December 2017 and the afternoon nursery class will finish at 4.00pm. There will be no PM wrap sessions that day.
The primary school and nursery will resume as normal on Thursday 4th January 2018.
May we take this opportunity to wish you all a safe and happy holiday.
giffnock primary school burns family ceilidh
The Parent Council invites you all to attend this fantastic ceilidh on Friday 19th January at 7.30pm. The venue is Giffnock North Athletic Club. Full details are on the attached leaflet: