Today P1-7 and staff met inside, in school, altogether for the first time since I became headteacher. It is lovely to see the Scottish Government restrictions easing and lovely to have in person assemblies in the school lunch hall.

We welcomed the P6/7s back from Dalguise and shared the news that they had worked hard and all lives our school values everyday.

We shared the news about our school trees. They have been allocated to the selected families who are busy planting them. Once  you have planted them, please return the pot and also send a photo of your tree for the school website. Many thanks!

We celebrated stars who have been living our school values of effort, respect and independence. Well done to: Ruari, Evie and Kaia.

Rugby Taster Follow Up – Message from Active Schools

Dear Parent/Guardian,

I hope you are well?

I am getting in contact with you regarding an exciting opportunity for our pupils in P4-7. In partnership with Madras Rugby Club and Scottish Rugby, Active Schools would like to offer your child the opportunity to take part in an After School Cluster Rugby Club. These sessions are set to start on Friday 18^th March at Madras College, in the games hall, from 4:15-5:15 completely free of charge. Unfortunately, we only have 20 spaces and these will be given on a first come first serve basis. To register please click the link below. 

https://forms.office.com/r/uhgy9u7Gdq

If you have any questions please do just get in touch with me!

Thank you,

Madison Garland 

P1 Parents Survey

Did your child receive the P1 Bookbug bag last year? Taking this survey will help the Scottish Book Trust understand how to make Bookbug better and how parents and children use their Bookbug bags. As a thank you, you will be entered into a prize draw to win a £100 book token from Bookbug!   BBP1 parent survey:    https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/B66G6CP

Free Meal Entitlement and Clothing Grant

If your financial circumstances have changed recently, it is worth checking if you can register your child for free school meals. Click here to find out more. If your child is in P1-5, they get a free school meal anyway but it it is still worth registering them because they also get free milk and a clothing grant.

Good Luck…

…to all the P6/7s and staff heading off on residential trip next week! The forecast is looking pretty kind. But pack those layers and wet weather gear!

It was a busy assembly today with lots of news!

Pupil Council News

The Pupil Council have arranged a litter picking club. There will be a rota made up of those pupils who want to join in. They will pick up litter at lunchtime on Monday (to sort out anything which may have been left over the weekend) and on Friday (to make sure we leave the grounds tidy before the weekend). Everyone will keep trying hard not to drop litter but the club will make sure that anything dropped by accident or blowing into the grounds will be picked up. We have new litter pickers so that we can do this safely.

Dog Poo Campaign

The results of our Dog Poo Competition are in! Everyone who submitted a design won 5 points for their house (plus 5 additional points if they remembered to write the name of their house on the back!) Five entries were selected to go to the Village Hall Committee for the final judging. Those 5 entries also won additional points for their house and they will be displayed around the pitch. The results of the House Competition are:

3rd place: Peacehill – 80 points

2nd place: Little Inch – 90 points

1st place: Logie – 165 points

The individual results are:

2nd place for persuasive writing – Finlay

1st place for persuasive writing – Isaac

3rd place for poster – Holly S

2nd place for poster – Martha

1st place for poster – Joe

Star Pupils

Our Stars have been living our values of independence effort and teamwork. Well done to Edith, Ross, Isaac, Luis and Ciaran.

Upcoming Dates

Monday 28th February – P3-7 are having a Rugby Taster session today organised by Active Schools. Please make sure your child has outdoor PE kit with them.

Tuesday 1st March – Pancake Day. P1-7 children are invited to bring in £1 to contribute towards the day. All children will be given pancake with choice of topping and a hot juice or hot chocolate at playtime. If you child has any allergies we are not aware of or you don’t want them to take part, please contact me at lucy.jess@fife.gov.uk. Nursery children will also celebrate pancake day but their costs will be covered by the contribution nursery parents have already made.

Thursday 3rd March – World Bok Day – All children are invited to come dressed as a favourite book character. There will be activities in school to celebrate reading.

Monday 7th – Friday 11th March – P6/7 Residential Trip

Tuesday 29th March – whole school ‘Spring Fling’ in the woods – more details to follow but all children will need a packed lunch and outdoor clothing on that day.

Friday 1st April – last day of term. School finishes at 3pm as usual. We restart on 18th April.

Well Done to our Stars who have been living our school values of effort, respect, enthusiasm and personal achievement: Lewis, Bonni, Joe, Finlay and Emily B.

We have re-visited the 5 Ways to Wellbeing at Assembly today and we have spoken about Connect. At a little school like ours, it is really important that children feel connected with all others in their year group as they will move up through the school together. It is also important that they feel connected with those in other classes as the year groups might come together in future years. Covid has reduced our chances to connect so to support connections within the year groups and beyond the classes we are going to work with 3 playground zones over the next month or so – P1/3 will be in one zone P4&5 in another and P6&7 in the third. This is just one piece of work we will be doing on connect – more information to follow.

Lunches Next Week

Due to an ordering issue, it will be a ham roll not a turkey roll on Monday.

P1 in August

If your child will be in P1 in August, please enrol them as soon as possible – click here to do so.

We suggest you do this by the end of February.

Don’t Forget

School is closed to all pupils (Nursery to P1) on Wednesday 16th February for an inservice training day and Thursday 17th and Friday 18th for the mid-term holiday.

Thank you everyone who brought their house competition entries in today. I will be asking the Hall Committee to look at the entries and I will announce the results once they have been decided.

If you have an entry but didn’t bring it in, I’d love to see it but the closing date was this morning so we can’t include it in the competition.

Our stars have been living our values of friendship, respect, effort and enthusiasm. Well done to Maciek, Eleanor and Joshua.

Dates for your diary

• 7th February – Last date to bring in your Dog Poo House Competition Entry – Click here for details
• 8th February – P1 Health Check

Polite Reminder

Please make sure your child has outdoor trainers with them on PE days so that they can work on the pitch. We have no indoor facility at present until the repairs on the hall are complete. Children should have kit in school every day so that we can deliver outdoors to suit the weather.

Outdoor Learning

There will be no woods trips until we can assess the storm damage. The Nursery garden is in use but the school garden is out of bounds until work cam be done to make a section of the roof (and the chimney) safe following storm damage.

Message from Active Schools

At Assembly today we introduced our first target day. All P1-7s have brought home their Big Picture Targets for this term today and they are available on Seesaw.  The Targets are the broad areas your child will be working to. I have asked the children to imagine they are standing at the foot of a mountain, the target is the top of the mountain. They can’t get there in one stride, they need to take lots of steps. Each lesson at school is a step towards their target. Their steps in learning will be shared regularly on Seesaw – there will be a piece of work shared about once per week to let you see their progress in school.

We celebrated stars who have been living our values of perseverance, effort, respect and personal achievement. Well done Lexi, Sophie and Holly S.