Harvest Day – 11th September
In previous years we have celebrated Apple Day but this year we are broadening the theme to Harvest Day.
- All children (Nursery-P7) will be invited to come to school wearing harvest colours – brown, green, yellow, orange, red – no uniform day
- All children are invited to bring £1 to contribute to the cost of the day if they can.
- All children are invited to bring in a vegetable from home – please support your child to know where the vegetable was grown so that they can share this with the class. (You will usually find this information on a shop label or it may be something your child grew at home)
The learning on the day will focus on food technology, food and health, the child’s right to nutritious food, food journeys and sharing.
Each class will make soup from the selection of vegetables brought in by the children.
Each child will bring home something made from the school apples as well as a bag of freshly picked apples.
Summer Reading Challenge
It’s not too late!
Newport Library is open tomorrow from 10-1pm. If your child has finished reading their six books, they can collect their medal and certificate and get entered into our finishers prize draw to win one of seven £20 Amazon vouchers or an author visit to the school during Book Week Scotland!
If your child did complete the reading challenge, please encourage them to bring their medal into school so that we can celebrate their success.
Borrow Audio Books Online for Free
Listening to audio books is a great way to explore stories as a family. Fife Libraries provide audio books for free through the Libby App. Click here for more details.
School Library
The Parent Council are launching an exciting project to set up a school library. This will give leadership opportunities for children as well as a chance for all children to borrow books to take home. It will enhance reading for enjoyment across the whole school. To run this project, we are looking for Parent Volunteers to join a library committee – the committee member will help keep the library tidy, read stories and/or help the children borrow books. Please email me at lucy.jess@fife.gov.uk if you could get involved – it won’t be a big time commitment and we would be grateful for your help. All volunteers will undertake a PVG check before working with children on their own and we will give guidance and support to you all.
Message from Active Schools
Active Schools are currently running a volunteer recruitment drive within the Madras College Cluster, in which we are looking for volunteers to support us in the delivery and support of Extra Curricular sporting activity.
As you may be aware Active Schools Fife aim to provide more quality opportunities to take part in sport and physical activity before, during lunchtime and after the school day and develop effective pathways between schools and sports clubs in the local community. We are currently striving to recruit volunteers both with or without experience in sport within the Madras College Cluster.
It is important to us to have volunteers input into your school where appropriate to provide a sense of belonging within the school and community.
This year we aim to:
– Increase the number of extra-curricular opportunities within our cluster schools.
– Consider targeted provision that best suits your schools needs.
Could you be a volunteer?
There are a number of different roles volunteers can carry out. These include – coaching, assisting the delivery of activity sessions, supporting events, refereeing, admin, marketing and mini bus driving. Training and support will be provided and volunteers with Active Schools have opportunities to learn new skills, gain experience and often qualifications. You can decide how often you would like to volunteer, we are flexible in our approach and we will work around your availability.
If you have a keen interest in a specific sport or just sport in general please fill out the below application form to begin your volunteering journey at your local primary school or at Madras College.
https://forms.office.com/e/VMFPQYkQ7G
Thank you,
Madison Garland
Active Schools Coordinator
Madras College Cluster
e: madison.garland@fife.gov.uk
