Transition Events
On Wednesday 14th June and Wednesday 28th June, there will be chance for next year’s P1-7 children to meet their new teacher and work with their new class.
On these mornings, the children who currently go to Nursery but who will be in P1 in August should line up with Miss Diplexcito’s current class at 9am and the current P4s should line up with Miss Bowman’s current class. The new P1/3/4 class will be brought in by Mr Pellow and will have some time getting to know him, the new P5/6/7 class will be brought in by Miss Diplexcito and have some time getting to know her. The nursery children should bring a school bag, snack and water bottle as they will in P1. They will go out to play with their new class and then come back into Nursery at the end of playtime.
The current P7s will be at Madras on 14th and will use the time to do a separate transition activity with Mrs Robertson on 28th.
Message from Active School
Dear Parent/Carer,
I am delighted to say that for the first time the Madras College cluster are running a cluster running event for all pupils Primary 1 to 7. This event is set to take place at Newport Primary School on the 20th June from 15:50 to 16:45. This event will consist of 3 races , P1-2, P3-4 and P5-7 and it would be great to see pupils from every school in our cluster at this event.
If this is something that your child would be interested in attending please fill out the below registration form no later that Monday 19th June.
https://forms.office.com/e/Buh1aZP7HB
Please note that pupils are to make their own way to and from the event and should be supervised throughout by an adult – there may not be staff from your school at the event and if there are, they will be there to organise not to specifically supervise – this is a community event.
If you have any questions please do just get in touch with me
Thank you,
Madison Garland
Active School Coordinator
madison.garland@fife.gov.uk
Newport Festival
Dear Parent/ Carer,
The Rio Centre is organising a RagTag Parade on Saturday 24th June as part of Newport Festival celebrations. Betty from the Rio has been in to tell all the pupils about this event and the challenge of creating a costume or outfit to wear in the parade.
Anything goes, it’s all about reusing and recycling! Wear a favourite costume or create a new one. The pupils are invited to come into the thrift shop, now located in the Rio Centre and select 10 items for £1. They can use these to make their own creation.
The parade will be led by local piper ‘Joe’ and will start in the Rio at noon. It will progress down the High St and the lower road, before returning back along the upper road to the Rio. There will be prizes, creativity and lots of noise! We look forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes,
Newport Festival Team & Betty at the Rio
Visitors at Assembly
Betty from the Rio joined us at assembly today to explain the Bag Tag parade on 24th June.
Last week – Pauline from the Library came in to tell us about the summer reading challenge – this is great and FREE(!) event running in the summer holidays. It is a super way to keep your child’s interest in reading high during the holidays – you can visit any Fife Library to get involved.
The week before that, Lesley from Wormit Boat Club visited to tell the children about the club and gather some ideas from them on how the club can be developed.
It is lovely to be widening our community links in this way.
Attendance/Know Your Number
As you will know, we have placed a big focus on monitoring attendance this session to ensure best attendance and engagement for all pupils as part of Covid Recovery. I have used ‘Know Your Number’ to monitor attendance for all Primary children and to share their attendance rate with their parents. The average attendance across the whole school is now 96.6% which is above the National Average and is an improvement on last year’s rate of 94.8%.
Moving forward, I will no longer be using ‘Know Your Number’ for all primary children, only those whose attendance rate on their report is below 95% and therefore falls into the satisfactory or cause for concern categories. If your child’s attendance is just below 95% it will be recorded as satisfactory but I will not continue to use ‘Know Your Number’. There will be a note on yoru child’s report to let you know if I will continue to use ‘Know Your Number’ for them next year.
As we get towards the summer holidays, it is tempting to think that attendance is less important but we encourage all children to ‘Attend to the End’. The last few weeks of term may look different but there are lots of important events which support their transition into the next year of learning and which build team and a sense of belonging. Click here for a message from Fife Council: https://sway.office.com/CVMxE7TzCOeaWWEG?ref=Link&loc=play
Summer Fair
We are looking forward to this event on 29th June (an email came out earlier this week) but it can only go ahead if we have parent helpers. Please contact the school office if you can help.
