Magic Breakfast

The breakfast café provides a free breakfast to any primary age child who attends the school.  The Breakfast Café runs between 8.15am and 8.50am each school day. The last order time for food is 8.40am, no food will be issued after this time as cleaning will begin. Children can go outside to the playground at 8.50am or before to play unsupervised, as would be the case for other children who may arrive at school early.  It is important to note that the Breakfast Café is not childcare. This means that the staff involved serve food to the children, they are not responsible for looking after the children during this breakfast time. Any cases of unacceptable behaviour by the children, whilst at Breakfast Café or in the playground after, will not be tolerated, and may result in your child being excluded from this service. Parents/Carers are very welcome to attend with your child/ren.

Attendance

Can you please make sure your child is prompt for the start of school, we are having an increasing number of children arriving late to class, which has a knock-on effect on your child and the children and teacher in the class.

Absence

If your child is absent from nursery or school, can you please ensure you contact the school

by 9.30am either by email, text or telephone. Email – springfieldps.enquiries@fife.gov.uk

Text – 07860 004822 Telephone – 01334 659438

Toys etc. from home

Can we please remind you that children should not be bringing toys, teddies or valuable items from home into School, this causes disruption in the class and the playground or may be lost or damaged.

School lunches

Can we please remind parents to pre-order and/or discuss available meal choices with your child/ren before they come to school. Children can still pre-order in school with their teacher in the morning, however some children are not liking what is available. This helps with the smooth running of the ordering process in the morning and avoids unnecessary upset and phone calls home.

Healthy Snacks

As a Health Promoting School please support us by giving your child/ren a healthy snack/lunch option. Sometimes children can come to school with inappropriate/sugary items for snack and also before school. Can we please ask that you have a conversation with your child/ren to make sure they are not purchasing these at the shop, without parental knowledge, before school. By doing this it will help with your child’s concentration level throughout the school day. No large bags of crisps, packets of biscuits, bars of chocolate, sugary sweets should be brough for snack, these types of items will be removed from children to be returned at the end of the day. Fruit can be offered as a substitute if snack is inappropriate or has been forgotten. Please note we no longer have a school tuck shop.

Indoor Shoes

Please can you ensure that your child/ren have a change of indoor shoes. Increasingly children are not wearing appropriate footwear e.g. boots/wellies within the classroom.

Water Bottles 

Can you please make sure that your child brings a water bottle to school every day. They will have opportunities to refill them as required throughout the day. Unless you have an arrangement due to medical reasons with the school, water bottles should only contain water.

Rag Bag Donations

Our textile recycling bin in school raised £165.20 so far this session. Thank you for all your clothing donations.

Traffic
A reminder: Can we please ask all parents/carers to park away from the school and walk their children to school, this will avoid traffic congestion and any potential accidents from occurring. There have been several concerns raised by both residents and parents regarding the amount of traffic around the school at both drop off and pick up times. Please can we ask parents to avoid parking at Tarvit Terrace as it is becoming heavily congested and therefore unsafe.

Head lice

Can you please remember to check your child/ren’s head regularly for head lice. If there is evidence of head lice, it is important to start treatment as soon as possible. Children with head lice infection should continue to attend school or nursery as long as treatment has started. To help prevent re-occurrence it is advised that children with long hair have it tied back

PE & Outdoor learning days

Children can wear their PE/Outdoor learning clothing to school on the below days. Can we ask that PE clothes match the school uniform colours.

P1-2 = PE Tuesday and Wednesday

P3-5 = PE Tuesday and Thursday

P6-7 = PE Monday and Thursday

Bikes and scooters in the playground

Children have been asked to put their scooters and bikes into the bike cage in the morning (bike shed key is available from the school office) children are not permitted to ride scooters and bikes in the playground before or after school – they have been asked to walk them out of the playground for safety. Please can children be reminded of the importance of wearing a helmet.

Seesaw use

Seesaw is continuing to be used and works really well and is enjoyed by teachers, parents and the children. This is a great way to share and record learning as it happens in the classroom. This resource is used to involve families in your child/ren’s learning and as such can we ask that all related chats are learning based. If you have any other queries or concerns please direct these to the school office 01334 659438 or by email on springfieldfieldps.enquiries@fife.gov.uk and these will be passed onto the nursery staff, class teacher or Miss Rennie.

Important Uniform Reminder

We are delighted to see so many smart pupils, in school uniform colours. As you are aware, we take a great deal of pride in our school uniform and the sense of pride and identity that this gives us. We think it is important for the pupil’s PE kit to also be seen as part of their school uniform Therefore, we would ask that PE clothes follow the school uniform colours:

Our school uniform colours: 

*Please remember to label or mark all school items with pupil’s full name to enable lost property to be returned.

For Your Information

Staff

Miss Rennie – Headteacher Letham and Springfield

Mr Ross Balsillie – Nursery Teacher

Miss Rachel Moggach – Early Years Development Officer

Mrs Melissa McCrabbe – Nursery Early Years Officer (EYO)

Mrs Alison Laing – Nursery Early Years Officer (EYO)

Miss Christine Wilson – Nursery Early Years Officer (EYO)

Miss Heather Fraser – Nursery Early Years Officer (EYO)

Miss Keira Graham – Modern Apprentice Early Years Officer

Miss Stewart – P1-2 Teacher

Miss Fairweather – P3-5 Teacher

Miss Arcari – P6-7 Teacher (Tues – Fri)

Mrs Dunbar – All classes (P6-7 on Mondays and NCCT, non-class contact time)

Miss Binnie – Pupil Support Assistant

Mrs Lister – Pupil Support Assistant

Mrs Miles – Pupil Support Assistant

Mrs Scott – Closing the Gap Teacher

Mr Johnston – Learning Support Teacher (Working across both Letham and Springfield. At Springfield 1 day per week)

Mrs Stewart – School Office

Mr McLaren – Janitor – We welcome our new school janitor, Bob who will be working across Letham & Springfield.

Mrs Patrick – Cleaner

Mrs Gray – Cleaner

Mrs Cumming – Catering

Dates for your Diary 2024/2025

We have created an overview calendar for the remainder of this session, giving some dates to our usual planned events throughout the year. Please note that whilst we will try to keep to these dates some may change if they coincide with other events or events are added throughout the session.

February

Monday 2nd – P1 and P7 National Dental Inspection Programme (parents do not attend)

Tuesday 3rd – RNLI Water Safety Talk at our School Assembly.

Wednesday 4th – Parent Council Meeting in Springfield Tavern 5pm to 6pm – everyone is welcome to attend

Monday 9th – Enhanced Bell Baxter High School Visit 3pm to 4pm (Only for certain P7 pupils)

Wednesday 11th – In Service Day – school closed to all nursery and primary pupils

Thursday 12th & Friday 13th -Nursery and School Holidays

Wednesday 18th – Youth Music Initiative – YMI Wee Big Sing Performance for P3-5 & P6-7 pupils at The Corn Exchange, Cupar, 1.30pm to 2.30pm

Thursday 19th – Burns Competition held in the Cupar Old Parish Church Centre, Kirkwynd, Cupar, family and friends of the pupils are welcome to attend and refreshments will be provided. (parents/carers of participating pupils will be notified)

Friday 20th – NEF Primary School Badminton Festival in Cupar Sports Centre 10am to 2.30pm (parents/carers of participating pupils will be notified)

Wednesday 25th – P6-7 Primary School Quiz at Strathmiglo Village Hall (parents/carers of participating pupils will be notified)

March

Monday 2nd – NHS Fife Orthoptic Eyesight Test (for certain primary pupils, parents have been notified)

Tuesday 3rd – NHS Fife Orthoptic Eyesight Test (for certain nursery pupils, parents have been notified)

Wednesday 4th – Glee Competition in Dundee Caird Hall after school for the P4-7 class (details to follow)

Thursday 5th – World Book Day, nursery and primary pupils can come to school as their favourite character

International School Meals Day for nursery & school (date to be confirmed)

Primary School Parents Evenings (W/C 9th March & W/C 16th dates to be confirmed)

Monday 23rd – Enhanced Bell Baxter High School Visit 3pm to 4pm (Only for certain P7 pupils)

Monday 30th – Thursday 2nd April – P6-7 Residential Trip to Lendrick Muir (pupils not participating should still attend school)

April

Thursday 2nd – nursery and school break off at the end of the day for the Easter holidays.

Friday 3rd to Friday 18th – School and Nursery is closed for the Easter holidays.

Monday 20th – School and Nursery re-opens to all pupils and staff for beginning of Term 4.

Thursday 23rd – P1 Health Review in school (parents do not need to attend)

May

Monday 4th – School and Nursery closed to all pupils and staff (May Day holiday)

Thursday 7th In Service Day – school closed to all nursery and primary pupils

School and Nursery Sports Day – date to be confirmed

June

Monday 1st – School and Nursery closed to all pupils and staff (Holiday)

Parent Council Summer Fayre – date to be confirmed

Nursery Leavers’ Celebration – date to be confirmed (only for nursery pupils/parents who are moving up to P1 in August 2026)

July

End of Year Leavers show for nursery & primary – date to be confirmed.

Friday 3rd – School and Nursery closes at the normal end of the day time to all pupils and staff for the Summer holidays.