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Hello and welcome to Starbright Nursery.
Vision, Values and Aims
Throughout this year, we have been working closely with staff, families, and our children to update our Vision, Values, and Aims to better reflect the work we do here at St. Bride’s Nursery. Our families expressed the desire for a play-based learning approach, opportunities for family and community involvement, a focus on safety and wellbeing, and the development of life skills while celebrating children’s achievements. Our children shared that they love to play, explore, build friendships, work closely with their adult helpers, feel safe, and enjoy when their families are involved.
As a staff team, we have taken this all into consideration alongside our own views, and developed a new Vision, Values, and Aims. I am excited to share with you the updated visual design of our Vision, Values, and Aims below, which reflects the key themes agreed upon by our school community. This visual is displayed at the front entrances of Starbright and Starfish Nursery, ensuring all of our families and children are aware of it.
As we move forward, we will be introducing our Value Bears into the Nursery after you voted for their names. We look forward to welcoming:
- Respectful Rosie
- Achieving Archie
- Believable Benji
These bears will be used with the children in a child-friendly way to discuss the importance of our nursery values here at St. Bride’s.
Cost of Living Support
General Cost of Living
The rise in the cost of living is really hitting but there’s more help out there than you might think. Trying to find out what you’re entitled to, what support is on offer and where to get it can be really confusing. A new website has been launched by Fife Council and partners where you can access a huge range of support, all in one place. With useful information, advice and contact details our.fife.scot/gethelp links to support with energy bills, food, benefits, the family, and home, as well as health and wellbeing, so you should be able to find help that’s right for you. There’s also an online benefit checker -so you can make sure you are getting everything you’re entitled to. #GetHelpFife
Fife Council and partners want to ensure that every Fifer has easy access to coordinated practical information and support, which helps reduce the impact of rising costs when needed the most. Part of this campaign is the Cost of Living Support (fife.scot) website which provides information on the wide range of advice and financial support available to the people of Fife. This site will also be used internally by the staff looking for information on behalf of customers.
With this in mind, the Council team would appreciate you having a look through the site, looking for information, making sure you can find the answers you were expecting, and then reporting back your findings through this Website Feedback Form: https://bit.ly/3MzLxYI
All feedback will be used to inform how the site changes and improves in the coming weeks. #GetHelpFife
Help with benefits and income support
Did you know many of us are not claiming all the benefits we’re entitled to? It’s easy to find out what you may be due – use the free and confidential benefits calculator at https://our.fife.scot/gethelp. Enter your details and you’ll receive an estimate of the entitlements you could be getting. It’s worth checking!! For more information on increasing your income and managing the rising cost of living go to https://our.fife.scot/gethelp #GetHelpFife.
Christmas Diary Dates
Please see link above for dates for your diaries!
- Thursday 5th December – 3.15pm Christmas Fair
- Wednesday 11th December – Christmas Show Dress Rehearsal
- Thursday 12th December – 1.30pm Christmas Show
- Friday 13th December – 9.30am Christmas Show, 12pm Christmas Lunch
- Monday 16th December – P1-3 Christmas Party
- Tuesday 17th December – P4-5 Christmas Party, 3.15pm St Patrick’s Sacraments Group Christmas Activity (Parish have organised)
- Wednesday 18th December – P6-7 Christmas Party, Starfish Christmas Parties (AM Session 10.30am & PM Session 1.30pm)
- Thursday 19th December – 2pm Family Art Afternoon, Starbright Christmas Party
- Friday 20th December – Share a Christmas Story Day (PJ’s Dress Down Day)
- Friday 20th December – Last Day of Term
St. Bride’s RC Primary School and Nursery Staff
School Leadership Team
- Mrs Jo-Anne Angel – Headteacher
- Mr Colm Molloy – Depute Headteacher
Support for Learning
- Jill Logan – Support for Learning Teacher
Teaching Staff
- Primary 1 – Mrs Gail Wilson
- Primary 1/2 – Miss Jemma Jamieson
- Primary 2/3 – Mrs Kim Johnston
- Primary 3/4 – Mrs Deirdre McQuade
- Primary 4/5 – Mrs Arlene Harden
- Primary 5 – Mrs Zoe McWilliam
- Primary 6 – Mrs Keren Sherry
- Primary 7 -Miss Alicia Howatt
- NCCT – Miss Yvonne Milligan
Office Staff
- Mrs Chloe Westwood
- Mrs Lynn Jack
Support Staff
- Miss Erin Conway
- Miss Katey Dow
- Mrs Lynn Jack
- Mrs Marie Maxwell
- Mrs Yvonne Miller
Nursery Staff
- Karen Brindle – Senior Early Years Officer
- Zoe Graham – Senior Early Years Officer
- Stacey Welsh – Senior Early Years Officer
- Emma Wardlaw – Lead Early Years Officer
- Marienne Lethiers – Lead Early Years Officer
- Amanda Carroll – EYO
- Poppy Ferry – EYO
- Samantha Kolander – EYO
- Odette Marr – EYO
- Lisa Moir – EYO
- Louise Paton – EYO
- Cassie Patterson – EYO
- Meghan Roy – EYO
- Danielle Smith – EYO
- Erin Darmody – EYO
- Leanne Smith – EYO
- Tegan Mackay – EYO
- Lorraine Stuart – EYO
- James Dempster – EYO
- Ashleigh McDougall – EYO
- Daniella Alexandru – EYO
- Alex Wardrop – EYO
School Lunches August 2024 – May 2025
Primary One to Five – save over £450 a year!
All children in Primary 1 to Primary 5 are entitled to a Free School Meal. Children in Primary Six and Seven that are not eligible for the Free School Meal Entitlement program can also enjoy the same Two Course Meal choices for just £2.40 per day.
Pupils can have soup or dessert with the main meal as part of a two course lunch, this also includes a drink of either milk or water. They are also entitled to a piece of fresh fruit.
For our main meal options we always have a vegetarian option and plated salad or filled roll/sandwich options with a choice of fillings.
In line with the Scottish Government’s ‘Hungry for Success’ policy, Fife Council provides tasty, healthy meals to young Fifers. All of our meals conform to national nutritional standards which you can read or download on the Scottish Government website.
The national nutritional standards demand that a Fife school lunch provides at least one third of the daily nutritional requirements of pupils. Our menus provide nutritious choices that ensure a balanced diet over the week.
High schools have a cafeteria-style service, where pupils can choose from a variety of tasty and healthy items. Please encourage your child to vary their selections.
Special diets
Should your child have a specific dietary requirement e.g. a specific food that they cannot eat for health or religious reasons, please complete the online Specific Dietary Requirement Form. The school cook and manager will arrange to meet with you to discuss how best to fulfil your child’s needs.
If your child prefers a vegetarian diet there is a selection of suitable dishes on the menu every day and you don’t need to complete a Specific Dietary form.
Fife school meals do not use any ingredients containing nuts but some products may be made in a non-nut-free environment – please check recipes for more details.
We are committed to reducing the impact we have on the environment and are trying to reduce or eliminate packaging and single-use plastics where we can.
International School Meals Day – Thursday 14th March 2024
Celebrating healthy food from countries across the world sourced in a way that protects our planet
Starter:
- Crispy sustainably sourced onion rings with a garlic mayo dip
Main course option:
- Bee Friendly Butternut Squash Curry served with fluffy rice & mini poppadoms
Dessert:
- Energy Friendly Traybake
Water or Milk
Home Learning at St Bride’s
Primary 1 at St. Bride’s RC Primary School
Primary 6b Class Page