{"id":2488,"date":"2025-03-03T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:09:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:09:36","slug":"weekly-update-3-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/2025\/03\/03\/weekly-update-3-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update &#8211; 3 March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Pounds for Primaries<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; This is the final week to collect the special tokens from The Courier\/Evening Telegraph.\u00a0 Please send any tokens into school by Monday 10th March.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Book Day &#8211; Thursday 6th March &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/tayportps\/uploads\/sites\/12794\/2025\/03\/03160908\/World-Book-Day-2025-arrangements.pdf\">World Book Day 2025 arrangements<\/a> &#8211; Please note the Book Fair is open after school on Monday and Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pupil Progress Meetings &#8211; 13 and 18 March &#8211; <\/strong>a reminder email will be sent today on how to book you pupil progress meeting.\u00a0 So far 72% of families have signed up for a teacher meeting.\u00a0 If you have any issues just phone the school office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tempest Individual\/Sibling Photo reminder &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Tuesday 11th March<\/span> &#8211; all children should wear full school uniform regardless of it being a gym day or not.\u00a0 All P7s will also have their photo taken as a year group by teachers for submission to The Courier so please ensure they are wearing their Leavers&#8217; Hoodies.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating our Special <strong>On TRACK<\/strong> Certificate winners from\u00a0 for term 4 awarded at Learn to Learn last Wednesday :<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2489 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/tayportps\/uploads\/sites\/12794\/2025\/02\/28093500\/Track-Feb-25-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/tayportps\/uploads\/sites\/12794\/2025\/02\/28093500\/Track-Feb-25-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/tayportps\/uploads\/sites\/12794\/2025\/02\/28093500\/Track-Feb-25-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/tayportps\/uploads\/sites\/12794\/2025\/02\/28093500\/Track-Feb-25-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/tayportps\/uploads\/sites\/12794\/2025\/02\/28093500\/Track-Feb-25.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Online Behaviour<\/strong> &#8211; in school we use our school values to support children in making positive decisions around learning and behaviour.\u00a0 We have heard of a few incidents recently of undesirable online behaviour out with school, particularly sharing photos [in some cases screenshots of children have been taken from their parents&#8217; social media accounts].\u00a0 \u00a0If your child uses social media please monitor closely, ensure all settings are private and insist on responsible and kind online behaviour.\u00a0 \u00a0Digital parenting advice can be found on our website: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/parental-involvement\/digital-parenting-resources\/\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>P1 Applications for August 2025 close<\/strong> on Monday 17th March\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fife.gov.uk\/kb\/docs\/articles\/education2\/schools-in-fife\/apply-for-a-school-place\/enrol-in-primary-school\">information here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Playground update<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0You might be aware that we have made some changes with regards to our playground based on the feedback from children at House Captain Surgeries.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The playground is now divided in half (vertically) with P1-4 and P5-7 alternating daily.<\/li>\n<li>We have also introduced basketball for the P5-7 children in the caged off area. Each class take it in turn to use this resource and 8 children are allowed in the area at any one time.<\/li>\n<li>Other playground equipment has been purchased with the Pounds to Primary money we received, and this is accessible in one area of the playground.<\/li>\n<li>The benches at the bottom of the playground are now a designated quiet P1-7 communal area where children can sit and socialise with anyone from across the year groups.<\/li>\n<li>Free Choice Friday is still happening. This is where the PSAs play some music, and children can choose to go anywhere in the playground.<\/li>\n<li>Several lunchtime clubs are in operation. These are led by pupils for pupils whilst supervised by a few class teachers who have kindly given up some of their lunch to do this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pounds for Primaries &#8211; This is the final week to collect the special tokens from The Courier\/Evening Telegraph.\u00a0 Please send any tokens into school by Monday 10th March. World Book Day &#8211; Thursday 6th March &#8211; World Book Day 2025 arrangements &#8211; Please note the Book Fair is open after school on Monday and Wednesday. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/2025\/03\/03\/weekly-update-3-march-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly Update &#8211; 3 March 2025<\/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-2488","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\/2488","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=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/tayportps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}