Please click on the link below to complete an online review of Parent/ Teacher interviews

https://getinvolved.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/education/review-of-parent-teacher-interviews/start_preview?token=e2cef2f9331f2ebed550e3650cf8f430fab2b7b5

We have received a number of queries with regards the use of EducationCity.com on mobile devices. The activities within EducationCity.com are built using Flash technology which enables the rich animated and highly interactive nature of each activity.

To allow pupils to easily access this resource on tablet and mobile devices for free, Puffin Academy, a ‘Mobile Flash Browser’, can be download via the iTunes and Android stores. Please be assured that his app always enforces site filtering by only allowing whitelisted educational websites such as EducationCity.com to be accessed.

Note: EducationCity do not have any connection with the service detailed above or any other streaming services.

It is important if you choose to use such technology to access EducationCity.com that you check that these work well with your own wireless network set up, particularly in school environments where you might have greater demand on your network than in a home environment.

Thanking you for your continued support,

Angela McConalogue

Principal Teacher

Delighted to announce that we managed to raise a fantastic £883.57 for East Renfrewshire Good Causes.

Thanks to all who participated and contributed.

As previous advised, please note that the following extra-curricular activities led by class teachers will NOT take place next week due to Parent Interviews:

Monday:  P4 Craft Club
Tuesday:  P5 German Club; P6/7 Panto Club ; P5/6 Running Club; P6/P7 Netball Club
Wednesday:  N/a
Thursday:  P3 Singing; P3 Drawing Club; P5-P7 Choir
Friday:  N/a

The remaining clubs will be held as usual.  Information will be posted on our website:

www.ea.e-renfrew.sch.uk/mearns

and on twitter:  @Mearns_Primary

We look forward providing updates at Parent/ Teacher interviews on Tuesday and Thursday next week.

Children will bring home their Literacy and English, Numeracy and Mathematics and Health and Wellbeing jotters on Thursday evening.

Please take  time to read and discuss learning with your child.  Please ensure that jotters are returned to school on Friday.

Jotters will also be available before/ after Parent/ Teacher interviews.

Thank you for your continued support.

Please click on the link for further details

School Holiday Arrangements 2016-2017

Please click on the link to the E-Brochure and link to e-brochure http://bit.ly/SportsProgrammeNovMar2016

The booking line will open on 9^th November.

On behalf of the School and Duhita Ma’am, I thank you for hosting us so warmly in your school during our visit. We felt so very comfortable at every phase of our stay that we did not feel we were out of our country, Mearns Primary sort of became a second home to us:)

Mrs Dillon-Ruddy, we really appreciate the positive school culture, the outcome of your leadership and connect with teachers and students. And we thank Mr Rodgers for organizing everything, just the perfect way, for both of us.

I am appreciative of so many things that we saw and observed in your school and shared the same with Seema Ma’am and Mrignaini ma’am. I  am now going to share my learning with the English Teachers this coming Thursday.

While we appreciated so many things in your school, below are the few that we loved the most:

What we loved about the Scottish classrooms:

1. Very colourful classrooms with lots of learning resources on walls. You could just read the walls and get to know what the students are learning currently.

2. Very organized classrooms with everything organized in labelled folders and files.

3. Lots of resources in classrooms; each class had a computer and a printer.

4. Lots of stationery in classrooms like highlighters, sketches, pencils, coloured sheets, and other required stationery items.

5. Very well behaved children.

6. Children were highly focussed towards learning.

7. Teachers were very clear with their instructions.

8. All the writing tasks were supported by value points/audio/video for guiding students towards effective writing.

9. Each class began with the discussion of ‘Learning Intention’ and the teachers ended the class by discussing the ‘Success Criteria’. 

10. Teachers focused a lot on developing the skills rather than merely focusing on content and knowledge. This was clearly visible in all the classes that we attended.

11. Some very good practical sessions were happening in Science classes.

12. Children worked very well in groups and showed respect to their group members.

13. Children got ample of opportunities to self assess their work.

14. Children got a lot of opportunities to assess their peers.

15. Teachers’ comments in the notebooks were very specific and focussed towards achieving the learning intention.

16. What surprised us was the fact that teachers checked the notebooks on the same day.

Once again, thank you for everything you have done.

Hope that both of our schools sustain this partnership with new projects, as discussed, in the coming year!

Warm regards

Anjali Mittal

The ER Convoy to Calais has had magnificent support from the schools and nurseries in our communities. I’ve been amazed and made proud by the generosity of schools and parents.  The convoy leaves this Thursday evening and, as we promised, there is an open invitation to pupils, staff and parents to come along to the departure. We leave after school hours, so I know this will be a decision for each family to make.

The East Renfrewshire Convoy to Calais leaves this Thursday at 8pm from the car park of ER Council HQ in Eastwood Park, Giffnock. They are taking the largest single donation from anywhere in Scotland.  Schools and nurseries from all over East Renfrewshire responded with overwhelming generosity to the appeal.  All parents, children and staff are invited to be there for the send-off. The convoy organisers want to give the families who contributed the opportunity to see their donations leave, and to send the convoy off in style.

 We hope you can join us.

Please click on the link for further details.

Entries should be sent to the school office by Thursday 29th October

POETRY COMPETITION