{"id":1459,"date":"2025-01-31T13:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2025-01-31T14:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:23:47","slug":"weekly-information-31st-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/2025\/01\/31\/weekly-information-31st-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Information &#8211; 31st January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear parent\/carer,<\/p>\n<p>Another busy week has gone by and we are now at the end of January. This week across the school we have been exploring themes of perseverance and determination, and learning about the traditions of the lunar new year!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nursery Applications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A reminder that applications for 3 and 4 year old places in nursery for 2025\/26 should be completed by midnight today (31st Jan) to be included in the first placing rounds:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fife.gov.uk\/kb\/docs\/articles\/education2\/early-learning,-childcare-and-nurseries\/preschool-and-school-nursery\">https:\/\/www.fife.gov.uk\/kb\/docs\/articles\/education2\/early-learning,-childcare-and-nurseries\/preschool-and-school-nursery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>P7 Photograph<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><b>The <span class=\"mark4hdkzhfwx\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Courier<\/span><\/b> and <\/span><b>Evening Telegraph<\/b> will again be running their <b>Last Class Supplements <\/b>featuring P7 pupils\/classes and we would like to send them a picture of our P7 class to appear in the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The special edition will then be released on the following dates:<\/p>\n<p><b>The <span class=\"mark4hdkzhfwx\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Courier<\/span> &#8211; w\/c Monday 12<\/b><b><sup>th<\/sup><\/b><b> May 2025<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Evening Telegraph \u2013 w\/c Monday 19<\/b><b><sup>th<\/sup><\/b><b> May 2025<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You should have received a permission form for including your child in this photograph, if you have missed this or do not wish your child to be included please contact the school office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P7 Transitions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Primary 7 parents we would like to share a link to Madras&#8217;s transition timetable &#8211; it lays out some of the events to come in the next two terms for our P7 pupils: <a href=\"https:\/\/madras.fife.sch.uk\/Primary-7-Transition\/\">https:\/\/madras.fife.sch.uk\/Primary-7-Transition\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Illness and absence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A reminder that if your child has been sick or has diarrhoea they should stay off school for 48 hours from the last episode of diarrhoea or vomiting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Junior Saints Dance<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><i data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Dear Parent or Carer,<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><i>Junior Saints are offering pupils across P1-7 the opportunity to engage in a block of dance lessons delivered by their qualified dance union team. The sessions start on the 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0February and run until the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0of April at a cost of \u00a336 for the block. The sessions will take place in their newly refurbished dance studio and are set to be great fun.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><i>If you would like to book onto these sessions please contact Junior Saints directly via the information on the poster\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><i>Thank you,<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><i>Madison Garland<\/i><\/div>\n<div><em>Active Schools<\/em><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/12737\/2025\/01\/31141945\/Junior-Saints-Dance-1.pdf\">Junior Saints Dance 1<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear parent\/carer, Another busy week has gone by and we are now at the end of January. This week across the school we have been exploring themes of perseverance and determination, and learning about the traditions of the lunar new year! Nursery Applications A reminder that applications for 3 and 4 year old places in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/2025\/01\/31\/weekly-information-31st-january\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly Information &#8211; 31st January<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/balmerinoprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}