Five weeks have come and gone very quickly and I’m pleased that all of the children have settled so well into the routines and demands of another session in school. Our new pupils are coping well with life at school and your support in settling the children is much appreciated. I hope that these items of news will be of assistance to you.
Dates for Your Diary
In the information tab of the website you’ll see a list of diary dates for the coming session. We’ll try our best to make sure that we stick to these dates, but should any change be required we’ll communicate these to you.
Data Check and Communication with Parents/Carers
There are a few outstanding annual data checks, so we would ask you to return these if you have not yet done so. Most of you have now given us your email address and we would encourage all those who have not yet done so to let us know for our records. We’ll try to use email addresses as our primary method of communication in the future.
Twitter Feed
And on the theme of school communication, please follow our school Twitter feed @crossarthurlie. You can click on the link to our feed on the home page.
End of the Day Arrangements
Over recent weeks we’ve received a number of phone calls at the end of the school day asking for changes to after school arrangements to be communicated to children by clerical staff. Whilst this is not an issue for us, the volume of these requests has increased quite significantly and is adding to the demands being placed on our clerical staff towards the end of the school day. If children are made aware of after school arrangements prior to the school day this would be very helpful. Thanks for your cooperation in this matter.
Jeans for Genes Day
This coming Thursday, 22nd September, we’ll be celebrating Jeans for Genes Day. During the school day we’ll be wearing jeans instead of our usual school uniform and any donations will be forwarded to this important charity, the work of which you can find out more about by clicking on the following link: www.jeansforgenesday.org Children can ‘dress as they please’, but jeans would be appreciated.
September and October Holidays
Please note that school will be closed this coming Friday and Monday, the 23rd and 26th of September, due to the September public holiday. School will also be closed to pupils on Friday 14th October for inset and then the week following (17th to 21st October) for the October holiday.
Class Blogs
If you haven’t yet done so, please check the class blogs on the relevant tab of the website. I’m sure you’ll all be interested in seeing what classes across the school have been working on so far this session.
Parent Council
Our Parent Council met for the first time this session earlier this month. It was nice to see so many in attendance and, as always, the support and hard work of the Parent Council is so much appreciated by the school. The next meeting of the Parent Council will be on Tuesday 4th October at 7pm in Barrhead High School and all are welcome.
Games and Toys
A gentle reminder that toys and games are not to be brought to school. Over these first few weeks we’ve noticed that a number of our younger pupils are bringing small toys and games to school and, unfortunately, some have been lost or broken. If we could avoid this by not bringing them this would be appreciated.
