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Our Lady of the Missions Travel Tracker Challenge!

Our current statistics for travelling to school at the beginning of November for P4-7 pupils are:

Walking: 157 pupils
Bus: 68 pupils
Car: 216 pupils
Cycle/Scoot: 23 pupils
Park and Stride: 19 pupils
Other: 16 pupils

Check back at the end of December to see if we have managed to make a difference in how we travel to school using our new Travel Tracker tool.

SWAP THE SCHOOL RUN FOR THE SCHOOL WALK!

Curriculum Evening – Tuesday 15th November (P1, 3, 5, 7) and Thursday 17th November (P2, 4, 6)

Curriculum Evening

Please come and join us at our Curriculum Evening. Details as follows:
P1, 3, 5 and 7          Tuesday 15th November (Literacy)
P2, 4 and 6               Thursday 17th November (Numeracy)

The Curriculum Evening will run from 6.00-7.00pm on both nights.

There will be two presentations/workshops at each stage which will be a duplicate of each other so please feel free to drop in to either one. Please note that these presentations/workshops are for parents/carers only and therefore pupils should not attend.

Workshop 1- 6.00- 6.25
Workshop 2- 6.35-7.00

Please see attached letter for more details.

Curriculum Evening

Walk to school in partnership with Living Streets Scotland

Our Lady of the Missions Primary School is encouraging pupils and parents to walk to school in partnership with Living Streets Scotland (https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/). Pupils who walk to school at least twice a week are rewarded with a monthly badge, helping build healthy habits for a lifetime. Daily journeys are logged by pupils on our interactive Travel Tracker. For November and December, we would like you to join us and thousands of pupils across the country to make walking the natural choice and part of every child’s daily routine. We are aiming to reduce congestion and improve safety at the school gate as well as creating better local air quality and reduce CO2 emissions.

Gardening Club Volunteers

Gardening Club

On behalf of the School the PSA is enquiring to the level of interest there would be within the school community for a Gardening Club to maintain the garden that sits parallel to the Junior Department playground.

The gardening club would be open to parents, carers, grandparents and wider family who have an interest in gardening and could perhaps supply tools.  It would be out-with school hours with a commitment of perhaps a fortnightly or monthly rota dependent on time of year and work required and ideally the child would help also.

If this would be of interest could you email the PSA email address olm-psa@hotmail.com  or message us on Facebook (OLM PSA) advising what you would be able to commit to and obviously any suggestions you may have to how this could work.

Many thanks for your interest.

Bernadine Nordmann, Victoria Drugan

OLM PSA Co-Chairs.

Christmas Fair (3rd December) – Raffle Donations

The PSA have started their planning for the biggest fundraiser in the school calendar, the Christmas Fair.  One of the main aspects of this day is our annual raffle and for this to be a success we rely on donations.

So we are appealing to you for any donation, be it a voucher, bottles of wine/champagne, memberships, tickets, beauty products, electrical goods etc. Funds raised at the Fair all go towards activities and equipment that otherwise the children would not be able to benefit from and it really does make a difference.

If you are able to help, or can persuade your employer to donate a prize, it would really help ensure the raffle continues to be one of our major fund-raising successes.

The Fair is well attended by local families and is a great occasion for everyone to get together. We advertise the prizes ahead of time and would like to promote the donations, so an early donation is appreciated.

If you would like us to collect your gift, please contact the school on 0141 570 7280, olm-psa@hotmail.com, drop it by at the school office, or ring Bernadine Nordmann on 07977596802  and we will arrange for a parent to uplift.

May we take this opportunity to thank you and we will be in touch soon.

 Yours sincerely,

Our Lady of the Missions PSA.

 Scottish Charity SC041564

Christmas Nativity dates

Friday Dec 9th
P1A/B AM
P1C/D AM
P1E/F PM

Mon 12 Dec
P2A-5A performance
P7 Disco pm

Tues 13th Dec
P2B-5B performance

Wed 14th Dec
P2C-5C performance

Thurs 15th Dec
P2D-5D performance

Fri 16th Dec
P1-P6 parties

Mon 19th Dec
P7 Enterprise Day

Tues 20th Dec
Advent Assemblies

Timings and musical performances to be finalised.