Nativities
There has been a wonderful atmosphere around the school as we have prepared for the Nativities. Thanks to all staff and pupils from P1-P5 for all their hard work and dedication– their performances were fantastic and certainly helped prepare the school community to celebrate Christmas.

P7 Enterprise Day
Thanks also the P7 staff and pupils for organising a whole day of activities, competitions and events for all pupils. A staggering £5, 270 was raised on the day which will be donated to various local and national charities including Syrian Refugees (via SCIAF), Nil By Mouth, Mary’s Meals, Age Scotland, SupERkids and Cosgrove Care. Well done!

PSA
The PSA have worked hard this term in organising Reindeer Day, PSA Fayre and selling tea towels at P1 and P7.

An overwhelming £7,000 was raised for school funds and will go towards Science workshops, subsiding school trips and buying playground games. A huge thank you to the PSA for all their hard work and to the school community for supporting these ventures!

Congratulations to:

• Orlaith O’Donnell came 3rd in the road safety competition. Her brilliant drawing is included in the annual East Renfrewshire calendar. It can be found within the month of November.
• Marwa Sattar received a highly commended certificate in the road safety competition.
• Holly Cochrane was a runner up in Jackson Carlaw’s Christmas Card Competition.
• Lily Cook won the Ashleigh Building Company Competition to design her dream house.
• Badminton team is through to the Renfrewshire finals.

Registration
The Education Committee yesterday 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 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

ParentPay
All parents/carers have now received their Activation Letter. All parents are requested to use our e-payment method to pay for dinner money, trips etc. This can be done online using a very secure website called ParentPay or in cash at local stores where you see the PayPoint Logo. This system is now live. The current cash machine will still be available to use for the moment for the children to top up lunch money.

Dates for Your Dairy

Thursday 5th January	School reopens at 9am
Tuesday 10th January	School Pantomime Robin Hood
Friday 10th February	In Service Day- pupils do not attend
Monday 13th-Wednesday 15th February	Mid-term break
Thursday 16th February	School re-opens
Friday 31 March	School closes at 2.30pm