The Film Club at Giffnock Primary is featured in a new promotional video for Into Film, the nationwide organisation that supports the use of film in schools. The video can be seen here:
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Swimming Lessons
East Renfrewshire Council runs swimming lessons throughout the year for people of all ages. Further information can be found on the Council website at the links below:
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:
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:
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.
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:
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
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.
Parent Council – Reimbursement of Christmas Card Money
Dear Parent/Carer,
As per our correspondence of 14th Dec, we have managed to cancel the payment to APFS. Should the cards still arrive, we will give you the option of keeping them but we feel this is unlikely at this stage and we cannot rely on the limited communication coming out from the company.
If you have lost money due to APFS not returning your Christmas Card order, please email giffnockpc@hotmail.co.uk with details of:
- your eldest child’s name and class
- the amount you have paid
- the name you wish the cheque to be made out to
We will collate all the responses and issue cheques after the next Parent Council meeting on 9th January.
Kind regards
Giffnock Primary Parent Council
Head Teacher Post
We are pleased to announce that Mr Lawson has been confirmed as Head Teacher of Giffnock Primary School.
Please see attached letter.
Class Christmas Parties
Primary 1 – Primary 7
You have been advised that your child will be having a “class party” in school before the end of term and we would confirm that pupils can come to school dressed in party clothes on the appropriate days.
Primary 7 pupils will also be going out of school for a Christmas lunch and to a Ceilidh at Woodfarm High School and they can come to school dressed in Christmas finery on those days.
School Newsletter
The latest school newsletter can be seen here:
Fizz Boom Fair Trade P5
Over the past fortnight P5A and P5B have been running a Fair Trade stall in the school. The stall has sold a variety of items which all support small farmers and producers through the Fair Trade scheme.
The children have ordered stock and run the stall, learning to keep an accurate record of items sold. Everyone had a great time and the stall proved very popular with other children. Thanks to everybody for their generous support!
Our final cash total was £1550.88 which includes a profit of £276.78 after we pay the cost of the goods. This money will be donated to charity.
Early Learning and Childcare Consultation
As part of the consultation on the expansion of early learning and childcare in Scotland the Scottish Government wants to hear the views of parents and carers and is running a series of Ministerial engagement events with parents in December. This includes an event in Glasgow at 6pm on Wednesday 7th December. Places for the event can be booked at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/expansion-of-early-learning-and-childcare-in-scotland-consultation-event-tickets-29847825650.
The Scottish Government is also working with stakeholders to organise a series of smaller targeted engagement events across the country in December and January.
The consultation A Blueprint for 2020: The Expansion of Early Learning and Childcare in Scotland was launched on 15th October and runs until 9th January 2017.
More information on the consultation is available at: https://consult.scotland.gov.uk/creating-positive-futures/expansion-of-early-learning-and-childcare.
East Renfrewshire Winter Wander
East Renfrewshire Council is holding a Winter Wander Day for residents aged 50 +. This event will be held in Rouken Glen Park on Wednesday 14th December. Full details are in the attached leaflet:
Christmas Lunch Menu 7th December
We have attached the menu for the Christmas Lunch for pupils for Wednesday 7th December. If your child would like a hot meal that day, the kitchen staff have requested that pupils “pre-order” their selection and therefore your child should today bring home a “pre-order” slip which should be returned to their class teacher by Monday 5th December. Please do not respond to this email with lunch choices as you must use the slip which has been sent home with your child.
The menu can be read in the attached file:
Dress Bright Day and BRAKE Charity
Our recent Dress Bright Day raised an amazing £223.90 for our road safety charity BRAKE.
Thanks to everyone who took part and donated so generously.
You can find out more about BRAKE here:
Smoking in Cars
From 5th of December 2016, a person smoking in a car which is carrying passengers under 18 years of age will be breaking the law. Offenders could face a £100 fixed penalty fine.
The Smoking Prohibition (Children in Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Act 2016, creates a new criminal offence, committed by any adult (aged 18 or over), where that adult smokes in a private motor vehicle in the presence of a child (under 18years of age), while that vehicle is in a public place. The aim of the legislation is to protect children and young people from the harmful effects of exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) in a confined space.
Exposure to second-hand smoke in cars involves higher concentrations of health-threatening chemicals than in larger, open areas. Even if the windows are opened or air conditioning is used, harmful particles can remain in the atmosphere long after the visible smoke has disappeared. The restriction of a vehicle also means individuals are unable to move away from the smoke.
We all have an obligation to protect children and young people from the risks to their life and health, caused by the exposure to second hand smoke and ensure that every child in Scotland has the best start in life. Growing up in a smoke-free environment is an important part of that.
The Scottish Government hope that the introduction of this legislation will help their drive to cut the number of children exposed to second-hand smoke to 6 per cent by 2020. This is a momentous step in pulling Scotland on the path to becoming a tobacco-free generation.
For more information, visit the Healthier Scotland website.
