{"id":238,"date":"2021-11-08T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/?p=238"},"modified":"2021-11-08T15:20:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T15:20:43","slug":"weekly-update-8-november-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/2021\/11\/08\/weekly-update-8-november-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update &#8211; 8 November 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ardroy &#8211; <\/strong>Miss Narauskaite, Miss Gallacher, Mrs Heggie and myself attended the first P7 Ardroy residential in over 2 years with 33 children last week. The trip was a huge success and provided unique learning experiences, not just physical activities such as abseiling, but also developing independence and life skills. I was very proud of everyone who attended, they supported one another, had great humour and fantastic manners throughout the week. I would also like to thank the staff who gave up their own time to make the trip possible. There are some photos on our Twitter feed: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tayportps\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/tayportps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>November is always a busy time with important national events often overlapping each other. Here is a rundown of how we are doing things at Tayport this year!\u00a0\u00a0<strong>There have been a few changes to dates so please check the calendar section of the website <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/calendar-tayport-school\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Flu Vaccine<\/strong> in school Tuesday 9th Nov<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poppies <\/strong>are for sale in school this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inservice Day 3 \u2013 Friday 12<sup>th<\/sup> November<\/strong> \u2013 School closed to pupils.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anti-Bullying fortnight<\/strong> commences Monday 15<sup>th<\/sup> November with an Odd Socks Day.\u00a0 Children and adults should come to school sporting their oddest odd socks. No donations please as we are supporting Children in Need later in the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-239\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/files\/2021\/11\/odd-sock-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the fortnight the whole school will be sharing learning and key messages around bullying.\u00a0 We will ask our families to join the \u2018<strong>5 Days of Kindness\u2019 challenge<\/strong>.\u00a0 The \u20185 Days of Kindness\u2019 challenge is a social media campaign which runs alongside Anti-Bullying Week. It\u2019s a simple and impactful challenge for schools and everyone across Scotland to participate in to help share kindness \u2013 no matter how big or small, kindness helps to spread kindness. . By spreading kindness, we champion how kindness can halt hurtful behaviour in its tracks.<\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0<\/u><u>Need some inspiration<\/u><u>?:\u00a0 <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donate to a foodbank<\/li>\n<li>Start a conversation with someone new<\/li>\n<li>Tell someone they are doing a good job<\/li>\n<li>Hold a door open<\/li>\n<li>Ask someone if they are okay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Children in Need<\/strong> \u2013 We have moved the dress down day for <strong>Children in Need to Friday 19<sup>th<\/sup> November<\/strong>. Please donate \u00a31. We have created a Just Giving Page, directly linked to Children in Need, to avoid cash coming into school. If possible please donate here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/tayportps?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=fundraising&amp;utm_content=tayportps&amp;utm_campaign=pfp-tweet&amp;utm_term=1afe9d29f1194a2998d31cbe2a93277c\">Click here to go straight to Just Giving<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Week Scotland<\/strong> also runs from 15 \u2013 19<sup>th<\/sup> November. P1-3 will receive their Read, Write Count bags during this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fundraiser &#8211; Calendar for 2022 &#8211; <\/strong>All children will contribute to designing a whole school monthly calendar which will be on sale shortly. The calendar is a month to view and in colour. It will cost \u00a36. We plan to order 200 calendars and will be available on a first come basis.\u00a0\u00a0<em>More details to follow.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ardroy &#8211; Miss Narauskaite, Miss Gallacher, Mrs Heggie and myself attended the first P7 Ardroy residential in over 2 years with 33 children last week. The trip was a huge success and provided unique learning experiences, not just physical activities such as abseiling, but also developing independence and life skills. I was very proud of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/2021\/11\/08\/weekly-update-8-november-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly Update &#8211; 8 November 2021<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}