Christmas Arrangements

We are going to ask each family to make a donation towards the cost of Christmas at school if they are able. The suggested donation is £2 per child. We will be giving half of what is collected to ‘Save the Children’ and retaining the other half in school fund to contribute towards the cost of Christmas Craft and fun activities. Please send your Christmas Contribution into school by 10th December. Please put cash in an envelope marked with your child(ren)’s name(s). You can give the envelope to your child to hand in or pop it through the school letter box. We are grateful for your support. Please note the following dates:

Friday 10th December – Christmas Charity Day: we will invite all children to wear a Christmas Jumper for Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day and bring in one item for the Wormit Food bank. If your child doesn’t have a Christmas Jumper they can wear a jumper of their choice – please don’t buy anything especially for this day.

Wednesday 15th December – Christmas Lunch – details about ordering will follow

Friday 17th December – all children will bring home a wrapped gift they have made in school to give to a parent for Christmas. This replaces the traditional Christmas Boutique and will be our habit moving forward.

Week Beginning 20th December – we will send a recorded version of the show home for you to watch with your child (ongoing Scottish Government restrictions do not allow us to invite an audience to join us) and there will be some fun activities – more details to follow.

Message from the Laidlaw Music Centre at the University of St Andrews

Here is information about musical opportunities for children in P4 and above: StAMP Choir and Orchestra poster

Is your child interested in a Karate Club?

Details are available here about a new club: Karate – St Andrews

Responsible Citizens

As part of their work on climate change, P3/4 asked if they could do a litter pick around the village to reduce the amount of plastic in the environment.  The woods were relatively free of plastic but there was a lot of litter around the village.  They did a second litter pick around the village on Wednesday. 

Today at Assembly we celebrated Star Learners who have been living our learning values of independence and enthusiasm.

Well done to: Ross and Jessica D.

We also celebrated some Wellbeing Stars who have lived our values of:  personal achievement, friendship, respect and inclusion.

Well done to Martha, Sebastian, Holly, Emily B, Eleanor and Lewis.

This week is Road Safety Week. The whole school is going to work on aspects of road safety and Friday will be a High Viz Day – all the children are invited to wear the brightest colours they can to school to highlight the importance of ‘Stay Safe, Be Seen’.  No team colours, please.  Each child will be gifted a reflector for their bag – thank you to the Parent Council who are funding this.

Finally, I have invited all P7 House Captains to apply for a post as peer mediator. If your child is interested, they should email their note of interest to me at gw15jesslucy@glow.sch.uk by the end of the day on Tuesday 16th November. They can use their glow account to do this.

Christmas Show

We are going to be staging a Christmas Show this year. All children win the school will be involved. We don’t anticipate being able to invite parents to see the show but we are going to film it and share it electronically and the children will still benefit from the excitement and enjoyment of being in a performance, developing skills in drama, music, art and literacy. We are looking for donations of the following items:

Message from Dollar Academy

Every year, there are bursaries available at Dollar Academy to support families who could not otherwise afford the fees.  These bursaries apply to pupils who will move to S1 next August. We publicise the bursaries on our website but it would be helpful if you were able to forward this letter to any parent who you think might be interested and whose child might benefit from this opportunity.  The Governors aim to maintain the confidentiality of these awards, and the names of successful applicants are not publicised. Further information is available for interested parents on the Dollar Academy website – www.dollaracademy.org.uk  or by contacting Marion Campbell in the Bursar’s Office – campbell-m@dollaracademy.org.uk. We are still planning to hold our entrance assessments, for admission to Form 1 in August 2022, on Saturday 22 January 2022. Parents will need to submit an application for enrolment prior to that date and the form may be downloaded from our website.

Today was a very busy assembly.

We started by reminding ourselves of Our School. Our Future. which is the Vision Statement for our school and lays down our aims and values. You can read Our School. Our Future. on the home page of the website here.

We celebrated some star learners who have been living our school values of perseverance, effort and enthusiasm. Well done to Leo, Annie and Lexi.

We also celebrated Emily B’s personal achievement in gymnastics and trampolining.

I would like to invite all parents to contact me by email if their child has a personal experience we could celebrate in school.

I then introduced a new school script called ‘Stand Up – Get Help’. This is being developed alongside our Relationships and Behaviour  and Anti-Bullying Policies which are currently under review. As a staff, we are working on these (taking into account Pupil Voice) and after Friday’s Inservice Day, we will be sharing draft versions with parents and looking for your input into the finished policy. You can read Stand Up – Get Help! here.

Miss Diplexcito then spoke to all children about the Pupil Council which will be re-starting in the next few weeks. She has asked all children to consider if they would like to be a Pupil Council member.

And finally, we spoke about the significance of the poppies some of us are wearing this week and I told the children they will all be given a poppy to wear on Thursday if they would like and I invited them to bring in a coin for the Poppy Appeal.

Lucy Jess

In-service Day

Just a reminder that the school will be closed to all pupils (Nursery-P7) on Friday 12th November for the in-service day. Staff are taking part in training on Body Image, supporting children with autism and sensory difficulties and we will be carrying out self-evaluation work with a particular focus on learning, teaching and assessment.

11th November

We will respect a 2 mins silence in school and all children will be given a poppy to wear if they would like. We invite you to send a coin in with your child for them to put in the Poppy Appeal box on 11th.

All children who have returned a consent form will receive their flu vaccination in school on 11th.

PE Kit

P1/2 children should bring their PE kit on a Tuesday and Friday each day this term. They will change in school but then come home in their kit. P3-7 children should have a kit in school everyday at the moment. Thank you for your support.

Pumpkin Competition

Thank you to everyone who took part – here are the four class winners! There was no charge for the competition so if your child did bring £1, it will come back home in their bag.

P1-7 Flu Vaccinations

These will be held in school on Thursday 11th November. Your child will only be vaccinated if you have returned the form and given permission. Please return the form as soon as you can if you haven’t and still wish them to receive the nasal vaccine.

Christmas Card Fundraiser

Please click here for a reminder about the fundraiser.

Looking to work within the council?

Fife Council jobs are now advertised here. Facilities management are actively recruiting in this area. There will also be a PSA job for Wormit PS advertised soon.

Holiday Event

Please click here to find details of an event for primary aged children happening in the school holidays:

St Andrews Botanic Gardens FREE event schools invitation

Milk Fund

The milk fund will be open until midnight on 24th October – please order and pay for your child’s milk for next term before then.

Covid reporting in the holidays

If your child should test positive for Covid during the holidays, you do not need to report it to the school, only to Public Health. If your child will be absent on 25th October with a Covid related reason, please contact lucy.jess@fife.gov.uk to report their absence. All other absences should be reported to the office in the usual way on the Monday morning.

School closes today for the October holiday and we look forward to seeing everyone back on 25th October.

Dear Parents,

We will be carrying out our Christmas Card fundraiser again this year.

The children are busy this week doing their Christmas Card designs. They will bring them home on Thursday 7th October for you to see. If your child’s design doesn’t come home on that day, please contact us to query it.

Over the holidays, you can decide if you would like to order cards. If you do, follow the instructions on the sticker on the back of the design to order and pay for your cards online. You should do this by Sunday 24th October.

You must then return your child’s design to school on Monday 25th October so that we can send it away – if you don’t return the design on that day, your order won’t get processed.

The cards will come to school in the second half of November and we will put them out straight away. You will receive your cards by the end of November.

Please support this fundraiser if you can.

Friday 8th October 2021

Friday is the last day of term and we look forward to seeing the children return for Term 2 on 25th October.

Parent Council

There will be a meeting on Wednesday of next week – please refer to the email that come home earlier this week for details of how to join.

Community News

Click here to find information about  Open Studios October 2021.

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

There will be an additional school holiday in 2022 on Friday 3rd June.

Annual Data Check

Please return your child’s form ASAP, if you haven’t already. This is so we can check details are up to date.

P1 Courier Photo

This will be published on Monday 4th October.

Apple Photos

We would love to see photos of how you used your apples at home – please send them to gw15jesslucy@glow.sch.uk. I will collate them into a presentation at teh start of next week to share in classes and at home.

Outdoor Learning

P5/6/7 Parents – please remember to send your child with outdoor learning clothes on a Thursday – some weeks the class will go to Brownie woods and others they will work in teh school garden to meet learning targets. As part of their work as House Captains, the P7s have identified a few areas of improvement they would like to help with in the school garden. This includes repainting some of the woodwork, building bird boxes, improving the pond and making signage for the younger children. The work will meet learning targets within Health and Wellbeing, Technologies and Sciences.  This work will take place as part of outdoor learning on a Thursday so P7 parents should send their child with very old outdoor learning clothes and perhaps an adult sized old shirt to use as a painting shirt.

General Permissions and Data Capture Forms

Please return these as soon as possible if you haven’t already done so.