Upcoming Dates
The Immunisation Team from NHS Fife will be in school on Tuesday 12 September 2023 to administer flu vaccinations to eligible pupils whose parents have given consent.
Wednesday 13th September – Apple Day – All children are invited to come to school in apple colours (no uniform day). Please send £1 per child, if you can, to help cover the cost of the day. We will harvest the apples and the children will do associated activities. Please note there will be food tastings so make sure you have informed us of any allergies or intolerances.
Monday 18th September – P1 and 7 dental checks
Wednesday 20th September – P1-7 Parent/Teacher meetings 5-7pm
Friday 22nd September – Tempest Photographer in School to take individual and sibling photos
Tuesday 3rd October – P1-7 Parent/Teacher meetings 3.30-5.30pm
Please make sure you have logged into Seesaw and made a note of your child’s Parent/Teacher meeting date and time. The targets will come home on Tuesday and examples of your child’s learning towards their targets will begin to appear after that.
Assembly
One of the priorities in our School Improvement Plan this year is to further develop our relationships, behaviour and anti-bullying practice and capture it in policy. As a starting point to involving the children in this, we have started some work today in engaging with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The key learning at Assembly was:
- The UNCRC is a list of promises made by almost all the governments in the world to give children what they need. There are 54 promises called articles.
- Rights are what you need, not necessarily what you want.
- No child can have their rights taken away from them but all children need to act in a way that does not stop other children losing their rights.
- Part of our job in school is to teach children about their rights and about how to respect others’ rights. The key articles for us in school are:
3: All decisions should be made with children’s best interests and safety in mind.
24: The right to health care, nutritious food and clean water.
27: The right to an adequate standard of living.
28: The right to a primary education.
29: One of the goals of education is to teach respect for the environment and for other children an adults.
31: The right to play and relax.
I have asked all classes to discuss this a little further before next week’s assembly and to link the articles to our school values and the Wellbeing Indicators which often talk about in school (safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible, included). You might also like to discuss these articles at home and link them to things you do in your family e.g everyone brushes their teeth before bed (even if they don’t want to!) because you have the right to health (article 24).
Save the Date
Madras College will be hosting a workshop on social media with input from Police Scotland for parents with children attending the cluster primary schools. This will be an opportunity to come along and engage with other parents about Social Media on the following dates:
Tuesday 14th November at 7pm
Thursday 22nd November at 7pm
This is suitable for parents with children of any age. The best time to start to understand your child’s use of Social Media is before they get interested in getting involved. Remember that messaging apps like Whatapp are social media as well as Facebook Instagram, Snapchat and many more.
Below is the outline for the workshop.
- Social Media – the positives and negatives
- Different platforms – Discussion
- Support available
- Questions
An Eventbrite booking link will be sent out after the October break.
Sent on behalf of Active Schools
Dear Parent/Carer,
I am excited to announce that Active Schools in partnership with Kingsbarns Primary School and Cambo Estate are hosting the Cambo Cup. This is a running event for pupils in P1-7 and is set to take place on Friday 29th September at Cambo Estate from 3:45pm-4:45pm. This is set to be a fantastic event for all involved. In order to register your child for this event if you could please complete the below sign up form no later than Thursday 28th September that would be great.
Please note that this event will be extremely busy on the day and that all directions for car parking must be followed. This event is free of charge.
https://forms.office.com/e/MwHJJERdhi
If you have any questions please do just get in touch with me
Thank you,
Madison Garland
Active Schools Coordinator
Madras College Cluster
Madison Garland | Active Schools Coordinator
Madras College| Bell Brae | St Andrews | KY16 9BY
Office:03451 555 555 Ext. 452 904 | Mobile:07864 617 946
