Thursday 11^th – Harvest Day – no uniform required, your child can wear harvest colours (red, orange, brown, yellow, green). Please send a contribution of £1.50 if you can to help cover the cost of the day. All children will have opportunities to cook with the produce grown in our school garden. Please make sure any allergies info is up to date as they will be tasting.

Friday 12^th – P1-7 Targets shared with parents

Friday 19^th – Tempest Photographer in school to take individual and sibling photos. All children will be included unless you have stated ‘No’ to photos on their General Permissions or unless you opt them out by telling the school office. If you have a pre-Nursery child you would like included in a family photo, please bring them into school at 8.30. If you would like a different group shot taken (e.g. a cousin’s group) please contact the office to make an arrangement.

Week Beginning 22^nd – Look out for a link coming home which will let you tell us which times suit you best on Parents Evening.

Thursday 9^th – P1-7 Flu Vaccines – your child will only receive the inoculation if you have returned the NHS permission form.

Friday 10^th – Last Day of Term – School Uniform as usual please

Monday 13^th October – Friday 24^th October – School and Nursery closed for October Holiday

Monday 27^th – First Day of Term 2

Friday 31^st – All children invited to come to school in a Halloween costume – no masks or weapons please! We will hold our usual Pumpkin Carving Competition – bring your Pumpkin to school at 9am. Please contribute £1.50 per child to the cost of the day if you can.

Tuesday 4^th – P1-7 Parents Evening 5-7pm

Friday 7^th – P1-7 Targets shared with parents

Monday 10^th – Learning Partnership Visit – each year we invite other headteachers and education officers into school to support our self-evaluation work. This year the focus will be upon our review of our Relationships and Behaviour and Anti-Bullying Policy and Practice. There will be opportunities for parents to come in and share their views. More information will follow but if you are interested, please save the date.

Friday 14^th – School and Nursery closed to children for inservice day – our PSAs will be doing enhanced Child Protection Training, our Teachers will be working on the review of the Relationships and Behaviour Policy, approaches to feedback and tracking and the pedagogy of digital learning. Our EYOs will be working of self evaluation and development of universal strategies to support learners.

Week Beginning 17^th – P1-7 Parents Evening 3.30-5.30pm day to be confirmed

Tuesday 25^th – P1-4 parents invited into school to join in with some literacy and numeracy learning with their child

Monday 8^th – 1.30-3pm – Christmas Fair – all parents and friends of the school welcome. This year we are developing Enterprise Skills rather than Performance Skills in our learning for the Christmas Event.

Wednesday 17th – Whole School going to the Byre Theatre for pantomime – leaving just after 9am – more info will follow nearer the time.

Friday 19^th – Last Day of Term 2 – Party/Cinema Day – No need to wear uniform

Monday 22^nd – Friday 2^nd January – School and Nursery Closed for Christmas Holidays

Monday 5^th  – First Day of Term 3

Thursday 15^th – P1 Health Checks – you will receive information and a consent form from NHS nearer the time

Friday 23^rd – P1-7 Targets Shared with Parents

Week Beginning 9^th  – Look out for a link coming home which will let you tell us which times suit you best on Parents Evening.

Wednesday 11^th – School and Nursery closed to children for inservice day – our PSAs will be sharing good practice, our Teachers will be working approaches to feedback and tracking and the pedagogy of digital learning. Our EYOs will be working of self evaluation and development of universal strategies to support learners.

Tuesday 17^th – Pancake Day – all children will have a pancake and hot drink at playtime. Please contribute £1.50 to the cost of the day if you can.

Tuesday 17^th – P5-7 parents invited into school at 2pm – the class will be giving a display of learning

Week Beginning 23^rd  – P6/7 Residential Trip to Dalguise

Wednesday 4^th – P1-7 Parents Evening 5-7pm

Tuesday 17^th – P1-7 Parents Evening 3.30-5.30pm

Tuesday 31^st  – P7-S1 Madras – first transition day – children travel and attend with Balmerino Staff

Thursday 2^nd – Last Day of Term 3 – uniform as usual, please

Friday 3^rd April – Friday 17^th – School and Nursery closed for Spring Holiday

Monday 20^th – First day of term 4

Monday 4^th – School and Nursery closed for May Holiday

Thursday 7^th – School and Nursery closed to children for inservice day – our PSAs and Teachers will be working self-evaluation and School Improvement Planning. Our EYOs will be working on report writing and enhanced Child Protection Training.

Monday 1^st  – School and Nursery closed for June Holiday

P7 Mountain Biking Day will be confirmed in term 4

Tuesday 2^nd  – Sports Day – spectators welcome in the afternoon

Tuesday 16^th -Thursday 18^th – P7 – S1 Madras Transition Days – children get school bus and follow their S1 timetable – Balmerino staff do not attend

Thursday 2^nd – Summer Fair and End of Year Event 1.30-3pm – All welcome