Safe in the sun

From now until the end of September we recommend you apply sunscreen to your child each morning. Nursery staff can top up children if needed but P1-7 staff cannot. If you want them to, P1-7 children can bring a bottle of sunscreen in their bag and top up in the cloakroom at lunchtime but they need to be able to do this independently and you must make sure they know not to share due to allergies. Please don’t send your child to school or nursery with bare shoulders or wearing a cropped top – this includes for PE kit. I recommend longer shorts and skirts to protect the upper thighs which can also burn easily. Please remember waterbottles and sun hatss too.

While talking of PE kit, I’d like to also take this opportunity to remind you that team colours (including football strips) are not suitable for PE nor are t-shorts featuring video games with a 12+ rating or more. Thank you for your support.

P7 Photo Next Week

The Tempest Photographer is coming in on Thursday next week (16th) to take a group photo of the P7s. They should wear their leavers hoodies. All children will bring a proof home. There is no obligation to buy.

Madras Guidance Visits

The Madras Guidance Team will visit on Friday 17th May at 9.30am to meet the P7s and help them learn about their new school. They will also meet with Ms MacLean for face to face handover information.

No Uniform Day today

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our no-uniform fundraiser. Click here to find out about the charity the children chose to support and see the total. If anyone wants to contribute and hasn’t been able to, you can also donate on this page.

Contagious Illnesses

Click Here to see a useful poster which has come into school regarding how long your child should stay off school when unwell. Please follow the advice on this poster if your child is ill.

Free Community Fun Day in July (SAMH mental health charity)

Message from Active Schools

I wanted to share this brilliant opportunity that Fife AC are offering our young people to participate in a series of running events:

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Madison

Playground 

The PSA team have been doing great work with the children listening to what would make the playground better. This week we have invested £200 from school fund to get picnic blankets and cushions to make spaces for children to sit and chat and from Monday, P6/7 children will be running lunchtime clubs for P1-4 children – Art, Rubik’s Cube, Lego and Board Games will run each day Monday-Thursday and we will still have mix-up Fridays (where everyone can play in all parts of the playground). We have more plans and Parent Council have kindly donated £300 to help us get more seating in place to help make the playground feel a more sociable space.

P1-7 Next Week

All children have been busy working on a communication topic and are ready to show off their learning.

Monday

May Holiday – school is closed to pupils and staff

Tuesday and Wednesday

Open days: children will be dismissed as usual. Parents are welcome to drop in from 3.15 until 4.15 to look around all P1-7 classes to look at the displays of work. Come to the main reception door and then make your way upstairs using the main stairwell. There will be no access to nursery, cloakrooms or pupil toilets as they will be getting cleaned. The POD doors will be open and all parents are invited to go in to see the P1’s learning displays. There are toilets in the P5/6 area which can be used if needed. We are really looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible in school.

Thursday

Inservice Day – school and nursery closed to pupils

Friday

No uniform day. Children can come to school wearing clothes of their choice but no pyjamas, cropped tops, vest tops or high heels pleases. And no team colours or inappropriate slogans. Through the week, the children will choose a communication charity to support from the no uniform day. We will let you know the charity once it is chosen. Please send your child with a coin donation if you can. Depending on the charity the children choose, there ay also be the chance to contribute electronically.

The House Quiz for P4-7 children will be held in the afternoon – the questions will be on the theme of communication so the more carefully the children read the displays when looking round with their class and with you, the better the chance of their team doing well in the Quiz!

Dates for the rest of term

Monday 3^rd June – School Holiday

Friday 7^th June – P1-7 Sports Day at 1.30 – parents invited to watch

Tuesday 11^th, Wednesday 12^th and Thursday 13^th June – P7s on three-day Transition visit to Madras

Tuesday 18^th June – Nursery Sports Day at 10am – parents invited to watch

If the planned Sports Days are wet, the back up for P1-7 is Monday 10^th/Friday 14^th. The back up for Nursery is Wed 19^th or Friday 21^st. The times will stay the same.

Wednesday 19^th June – P7 Show at 6.30pm – all P7 parents are invited

Friday 21^st June – P1-7 and pre-school Nursery Children bringing reports home

Friday 28^th June

– Last day of term

– End of Year Service at 9.30am in the Church.* All P1-7 pupils will attend with their teacher. All parents are welcome to join us. Nursery parents can bring their child with them.

Sponsored Run

A huge thank you to everyone who donated to the sponsored run – Team Wormit have raised £1224 to date and the donations seem to keep coming in for Comic Relief. As you know, it was too wet to run today but we all got together to celebrate the total and to do a fitness routine led by the running club.  The run will be held as early as possible in the new term.

Café Inc Easter 2024 

Cafe Inc is a free lunch club for children, and young people. It provides tasty, healthy meals
for our young people, while our schools are closed during the holidays. No need to book, just
turn up. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult, who can also have a meal.
Cafe Inc venues will all be listed on our interactive map, which is available along with other
advice and help with the Cost of Living, at our.fife.scot/gethelp

Active Schools have asked us to share this poster:

Please make sure you have a note of all of next term’s planned dates:

Monday 15^th April

– First day of term 4

– P1-7 will all start a 2 week learning theme on Communication

Monday 6^th May – School Holiday

Tuesday 7^th and Wednesday 8^th May – Open Afternoons – all parents welcome to come in from 3.15-4.15 to look at the displays created from the Communication Learning Theme. This is a nice opportunity for Nursery parents to see round the whole school before their child goes into P1.

Thursday 9^th May – Inservice Training Day – School and Nursery closed to pupils

Friday 10^th May – P1-7 No Uniform Charity Day, Playtime Disco and P4-7 House Quiz

Monday 3^rd June – School Holiday

Friday 7^th June – P1-7 Sports Day at 1.30 – parents invited to watch

Tuesday 11^th, Wednesday 12^th and Thursday 13^th June – P7s on three-day Transition visit to Madras

Tuesday 18^th June – Nursery Sports Day at 10am – parents invited to watch

If the planned Sports Days are wet, the back up for P1-7 is Monday 10^th/Friday 14^th. The back up for Nursery is Wed 19^th or Friday 21^st. The times will stay the same.

Wednesday 19^th June – P7 Show at 6.30pm – all P7 parents are invited

Friday 21^st June – P1-7 and pre-school Nursery Children bringing reports home

Friday 28^th June

– Last day of term

– End of Year Service at 9.30am in the Church.* All P1-7 pupils will attend with their teacher. All parents are welcome to join us. Nursery parents can bring their child with them.

The P7s will be running a fundraising sale after school on the last day of term (Thurs 28th March) outside the main school office. This is to raise money for their end of P7 party! There will be cakes, loom bands and temp tattoos on sale (please remember to bring cash!). Thanks! The Primary 7s

A few reminders:

Please check your child’s hair regularly and follow the advice here if you should find nits or lice.

Please check your child has shoes to change into for indoors so that the mud stays in the cloakrooms.

Please do not park on yellow zig zags or lines around the school.

Wednesday 27^th March – P1-7 Sponsored Run in aid of Comic Relief – children will wear kit all day and can wear red if they want! – Parents are invited to spectate at these times:

P1&2 at 10am
​P3-5 at 1.30pm
​P6&7 at 2.15pm

Click Here to donate via our Just Giving page. Please share the page with friends and family to help Team Wormit reach their target of £1000 – We are over half way there, one last push could mean we make it!

Thursday 28^th March  – Last day of term 3

Thursday 28^th March – Spring Service at 9.30am in the Church.* All P1-7 pupils will attend with their teacher. All parents are welcome to join us. Nursery parents can bring their child with them.

Message from Active Schools

Upcoming Dates – March-May

Wednesday 27^th March – P1-7 Sponsored Run in aid of Comic Relief – children will wear kit all day and can wear red if they want! – Parents are invited to spectate at these times:

P1&2 at 10am
​P3-5 at 1.30pm
​P6&7 at 2.15pm

Click Here to donate via our Just Giving page. Please share the page with friends and family to help Team Wormit reach their target of £1000.

Thursday 28^th March  – Last day of term 3

Thursday 28^th March – Spring Service at 9.30am in the Church.* All P1-7 pupils will attend with their teacher. All parents are welcome to join us. Nursery parents can bring their child with them.

Monday 15^th April – First day of term 4

Monday 15^th April – P1-7 will all start a 2 week learning theme on Communication

Monday 6^th May – School Holiday

Tuesday 7^th and Wednesday 8^th May – Open Afternoons – all parents welcome to come in from 3.15-4.15 to look at the displays created from the Communication Learning Theme. This is a nice opportunity for Nursery parents to see round the whole school before their child goes into P1.

Thursday 9^th May – Inservice Training Day – School and Nursery closed to pupils

Friday 10^th May – P1-7 No Uniform Charity Day, Playtime Disco and P4-7 House Quiz

New Vegetable Bed

Thanks to a parent volunteer, we have a new vegetable bed down on Big Park near the shed. This will be used by the Nursery children to grow their own veg.

Decider Skills Workshop for Parents

This workshop is aimed at helping parents & carers both recognise and support their own mental health, but also develop skills they can use with children. I have done this course and found it hugely helpful – I thoroughly recommend you attend if you can. Please sign up in the following form if you’d like to attend: https://forms.office.com/e/dgFzFCmVm7

Wormit in the News

Click here to read an interesting article linked to our school!

Message from Families First, St Andrews

We would love for families and staff  to be able to come along on Saturday morning to support our coffee morning, it is drop in 10-12 at St Andrews Baptist Church. Also if any parents or carers would enjoy volunteering with Families First there are a number of roles available and the next round of training will be on Friday 19 April 2024. Please see the posters below for further details.  Families First is a wonderful charity supporting children and young people and their families with additional needs. We have lots of student volunteers but are seeking volunteers who are local and able to offer more stability. There are roles available during school hours and out with. We are particularly seeking volunteers who can support families and someone who would be able to help with web design using elementor/ word press. If you would like more information please email Laura Veitch vc@familiesfirststandrews.org.uk .

Sponsored Run

It is time to launch our biggest fundraiser of the year!

Wednesday 27^th March – P1-7 Sponsored Run in aid of Comic Relief – children will wear kit all day and can wear red if they want! – Parents are invited to spectate at these times:

P1&2 at 10am
P3-5 at 1.30pm
P6&7 at 2.15pm

Click Here to donate via our Just Giving page. Please share the page with friends and family to help Team Wormit reach their target of £1000.

Parentwise Survey – Last Chance if you haven’t done it yet!

Please complete the Parentwise Survey – it is open until 8th March. Click here to read more details and find a QR code to scan to go to the survey. Or click here to access the survey directly. All Fife Council Schools take part in the survey and your responses and comments will be collated and shared back to me. Staff and I will use the results to plan School Improvement Priorities for next year. We really value your feedback and I encourage you to take part.

Primary 1 Enrolments for August 2024

Just a reminder that all enrolments must be done by 15th March. You must enrol for your catchment school but can then make a request for another school if you have a preference for a different school. If this is the case you should note that you won’t hear the outcome of your placing request until the end of April. If you are making a placing request to our school, please understand that I won’t be able to give you a decision until then. Click here to complete online.

Rag Bag Collection

There will be a Rag Bag Collection on Wednesday 6th March.  Please can we ask that any donations are brought into school on Tuesday 5th March.  Thank you

Nut-free school

A reminder that due to some children in the school having severe allergies, our school is a nut-free environment. Please do not send your child to school with any items (including snacks) which contain nuts or peanuts as a highlighted allergen. This includes Nutella Snacks. For safety reasons, if snacks containing these items are brought to school we will have to ask children to leave them unopened.

World Book Day – 7th March

Primary children should come to school in uniform as usual, they will do tasks to promote a love of reading during the day. Nursery children can come dressed as a book character to promote conversation if they would like.

Morgan (P2) and Arianna (P5) are fundraising for a cause close to their hearts. If any friends would like to sponsor them, the information is here: Just Giving

Rag Bag Collection

There will be a Rag Bag Collection on Wednesday 6th March.  Please can we ask that any donations are brought into school on Tuesday 5th March.  Thank you

Nut-free school

A reminder that due to some children in the school having severe allergies, our school is a nut-free environment. Please do not send your child to school with any items (including snacks) which contain nuts or peanuts as a highlighted allergen. This includes Nutella Snacks. For safety reasons, if snacks containing these items are brought to school we will have to ask children to leave them unopened.

P3-4 Lunchtime Football

We still have some spaces available for P3-4 pupils at our lunchtime football club on a Wednesday. This club is run by an Active Schools coach and takes place each week on Big Park (weather permitting). Pupils should bring clothing suitable for outdoor PE every Wednesday. If you would like your child to attend and they do not do so currently, please email Mr Rose at jamie.rose@fife.gov.uk.

Madras Transition

Mr Currie (Rector) and Mr Wishart (Depute) will visit P7 on the morning of 12th February. This is the first part of the Universal Transition Programme to Madras and a great opportunity for the children to begin to learn about their new school.

On 26th March, all P7s in the cluster will go to Madras for a ceilidh. This will be a great chance to meet P7s from other schools and it will see the whole of next years’ S1 cohort working together. More info will follow – there will be no charge for the outing as Madras are funding the buses.

No Uniform Day – 13th February

We will be holding a no-uniform day on 13th February. Every family is asked to send a donation in with their child – please pay what you can. The payment will be collected in class and counted at the office with all funds raised going to local charity For the Love of the Child who are travelling to India in February to work with children  and families in tribal villages who migrate to work in brick kilns. More information is available here:

FLOC India brochure

and here

India fundraiser

For the Love of the Child is a charity founded by parents of the school and so is close to all our hearts at Wormit Primary School.

Don’t forget

School and Nursery are both closed to pupils on 14th, 15th and 16th February.

P1-7 Parent Teacher Meetings in March

Please look out for emails coming out to tell you how to book your slot. The system will be open for bookings from 19th-23rd Feb inclusive. Please don’t try to book before then.

Rotary Quiz

We are inviting P7 children to put themselves forward for the Rotary Quiz Team on 28th February. Please complete the form within the email sent today to express interest for your child.

Parentwise Survey

Please complete the Parentwise Survey – it is open until 8th March. Click here to read more details and find a QR code to scan to go to the survey. Or click here to access the survey directly. All Fife Council Schools take part in the survey and your responses and comments will be collated and shared back to me. Staff and I will use the results to plan School Improvement Priorities for next year. We really value your feedback and I encourage you to take part.

Madras Visit

Mr Currie (Rector) and Mr Wishart (Depute) will visit P7 on the morning of 12th February. This is the first part of the Universal Transition Programme to Madras and a great opportunity for the children to begin to learn about their new school.

Don’t forget

School and Nursery are both closed to pupils on 14th, 15th and 16th February.

Parentwise Survey

Please complete the Parentwise Survey – it is open until 8th March. Click here to read more details and find a QR code to scan to go to the survey. Or click here to access the survey directly. All Fife Council Schools take part in the survey and your responses and comments will be collated and shared back to me. Staff and I will use the results to plan School Improvement Priorities for next year. We really value your feedback and I encourage you to take part.

No Uniform Day – 13th February

We will be holding a no-uniform day on 13th February. Every family is asked to send a donation in with their child – please pay what you can. The payment will be collected in class and counted at the office with all funds raised going to local charity For the Love of the Child who are travelling to India in February to work with children  and families in tribal villages who migrate to work in brick kilns. More information is available here:

FLOC India brochure

and here

India fundraiser

For the Love of the Child is a charity founded by parents of the school and so is close to all our hearts at Wormit Primary School.

Flass Road Closure – week beginning 5th February

Flass Road is going to be closed all week in week beginning 5th February for essential work. The contractors will provide access for school taxis at drop off and pick up times and staff arriving and leaving at those times will be able to get in and out of the car park. There will be limited access at all other times of the day and staff arriving or planning to leave outwith those time should be prepared to park on the main road or somewhere else nearby and walk the rest of the way. Parents will not be able to park on Flass Road at all during that week and there will continue to be no access to the school car park for parents. Please walk to school or park at a distance and walk the final section. Please note there will be increased parking on the streets around the school and I must ask everyone not to block driveways or park on double yellow lines or zig zags. I think it will be a challenging week and I thank you all in advance for your patience.

Parentwise Survey

Please complete the Parentwise Survey – it is open until 8th March. Click here to read more details and find a QR code to scan to go to the survey. Or click here to access the survey directly. All Fife Council Schools take part in the survey and your responses and comments will be collated and shared back to me. Staff and I will use the results to plan School Improvement Priorities for next year. We really value your feedback and I encourage you to take part.

No Uniform Day – 13th February

We will be holding a no-uniform day on 13th February. Every family is asked to send a donation in with their child – please pay what you can. The payment will be collected in class and counted at the office with all funds raised going to local charity For the Love of the Child who are travelling to India in February to work with children  and families in tribal villages who migrate to work in brick kilns. More information is available here:

FLOC India brochure

and here

India fundraiser

For the Love of the Child is a charity founded by parents of the school and so is close to all our hearts at Wormit Primary School.

Message from Active Schools

Click Here to find out about community opportunities.

Flass Road Closure – week beginning 5th February

Flass Road is going to be closed all week in week beginning 5th February for essential work. The contractors will provide access for school taxis at drop off and pick up times and staff arriving and leaving at those times will be able to get in and out of the car park. There will be limited access at all other times of the day and staff arriving or planning to leave outwith those time should be prepared to park on the main road or somewhere else nearby and walk the rest of the way. Parents will not be able to park on Flass Road at all during that week and there will continue to be no access to the school car park for parents. Please walk to school or park at a distance and walk the final section. Please note there will be increased parking on the streets around the school and I must ask everyone not to block driveways or park on double yellow lines or zig zags. I think it will be a challenging week and I thank you all in advance for your patience.

SAVE UP TO £456 PER CHILD IN 2024 – Message for All Parents / Carers from Fife Council

Free school meals are available for ALL children in P1-P5 automatically, with no criteria to meet and no need to apply. If your child normally takes a packed lunch, why not encourage them to try a school lunch? It could free up valuable time for you and help you save up to £456 per child over the whole school year.

If you have children in P1-P5 who normally bring their lunch to school, why not earn yourself a break from making packed lunches.  It could be one way to save on the cost of the school day.  At this time of year, everything helps.

During 2024, we’ll be aiming to raise awareness about the kind of food options available and help you convince your children to try a school meal – there really is something for all tastes, textures and dietary needs.

As well as a range of cooked meals, there are healthy packed-lunch options too – filled rolls, sandwiches and wraps.  We try to provide something for everyone, whether that be for plainer eaters or children with special dietary requirements.  We are always striving to improve the quality and variety of what we provide.

Our menus provide a balanced diet over the week and at least one third of the daily nutritional requirements of pupils. You can download the Fife school meals menu and read more about school meals including menu information, ingredients and allergens at www.fife.gov.uk/schoolmeals

Parents and carers of children in Primary 6 and 7, and those with a young person in high school may also be eligible for Free School Meal Entitlement, but you must apply for this. To see if you qualify for this or other benefits go to www.fife.gov.uk/educationbenefits.

This time of year can increase money worries for everyone.  Make sure you’re getting the help you’re entitled to.  There’s also help available for those who aren’t eligible for any benefits – some support is universal, meaning anyone can get it.  Check if there’s anything that might ease the winter pressures for you at our.fife.scot/gethelp. You can see what other benefits you might be entitled to by using the Fife Benefits Calculator, which you’ll also find there.