Our school value focus this week is Achieving. 

Nursery to P1 Transition begins next week with some informal visits by nursery (and playgroup) to the primary 1 classroom.  This is being planned and delivered within a managed Covid-19 risk assessment.  If your child is due to start school in August 2022 please ensure their application is submitted as soon as possible. 

 P7 to S1 Applications – please ensure you have applied to enroll your P7 to your catchment high school before 15th March.  It is customary for children to attend their local school (catchment school). If you don’t want your child to attend the local school, there’s the option within the online form to select up to two alternatives. This request is referred to as a placing request. More information can be found here: Enrol in secondary school | Fife Council  

Parent/Carer Survey issued today – an email was sent to all nursery and school families today with a link to an online survey. We welcome your feedback. Please note the survey will close this Friday 11th March at midday, and not on Friday 18th March (as indicated in the email).

 Individual/Sibling Group Tempest Photos – a new date has been provisionally arranged – Friday 22nd April. This will be dependent on the current Covid-19 guidelines changing before this date. At present we are only able to allow essential visitors into school e.g. community police. Therefore, this new date will be confirmed, hopefully before the Easter holiday. 

 Rugby Taster – a selection of classes are to experience  rugby taster sessions on Tuesday 8th March.  Community Police Visit – our primary sixes will receive an internet safety input from the community police on Tuesday as well. 

 One upper class proudly represented Tayport primary at a hockey festival at Madras College on Friday 4th. 

 World Book Day and Scholastic Book Fair – We had a very successful world book day week and some samples of the learning can be viewed on our school Twitter account. Book sales were also very strong over the week – the school receives a percentage of the sales to purchase books for our library and classes. Thank you for your support with this. 

 Community News: Please take a look at the Tayport Community Blog which has details of an upcoming exhibition at the Larick Centre, sharing the vision for Tayport in 2030.  Tayport in 2030 :: Creative Dundee – Amplifying and Connecting the City