Enrolment for Nursery and P1

Enrolments for Nursery from August 2024 are now open: Click here for more information.

Enrolments for P1 in August 2024 will open on Monday: Click here for more information.

If you are considering retaining your child for an additional Nursery Year and have not already discussed it with me, please contact me as soon as possible through the school office. This applies to children who turn five between mid-August 2024 and end of February 2025, their parents can choose to enrol them in P1 or retain them for an additional nursery year. The paperwork for the additional nursery year must be completed by end of day on 31st January. There are pros and cons to retaining and you must discuss this with me to get the full picture. Lucy Jess

Gilbert Valentine’s Saturday Football Club

Mr Rose has sent out the information about Gilbert’s Club in a separate email, it is also available here: Advice January 2024

Gilbert has arranged a girl’s football match against Newport PS on 19th January and a Boys match on 26th January. Both will be after school at Waterstone Crook. Gilbert will collect the children from school and walk them along the nature trail. If he selects your child for the match, you will receive a note in their school bag with the arrangements. Please note that the matches are arranged and run by Gilbert as part of his Saturday Football Club – the risk assessment of the outing lie with him and any questions about it should be directed to him  – his contact details are in the advice note.

We very much value our partnership with Gilbert and I thank him for the opportunities his club offers our pupils.

Dates for this term:

Monday 29^th January – P7 Residential Trip to Ardroy until Friday

Wednesday 14^th February – Inservice Training Day – School and Nursery closed to pupils

Thursday 15^th and Friday 16^th February – School Holidays

Tuesday 5^th March – P1-7 Parent/Teacher Meetings 5.30-7.30pm (Info about signing up for an appointment time will follow)

Thursday 7^th March

– P1-7 Parent/Teacher Meetings 4-6pm (Info about signing up for an appointment time will follow)

– World Book Day – P1-7 will do peer supporting reading activities, normal uniform please. Nursery children can wear a costume.

Wednesday 13^th March – P1-7 Parent/Teacher Meetings 6-8pm (Info about signing up for an appointment time will follow)

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

Thursday 28^th March

– Last day of term 3

– 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.

Christmas Dates

Please click here to check you know all the Christmas dates.

If your child is in P5-7 and CAN’T come back to school for the Christmas Fair, please email me at lucy.jess@fife.gov.uk to let us know. All families are invited to the Fair – we’d love to see Nursery and P1-4 families there, it will be a fun evening!

P1-4 Show Tickets

Your tickets will come home with your eldest child today – everyone has been able to have their first choice. Please check you have the tickets you requested and if there has been any error, email lucy.jess@fife.gov.uk by the end of the day on Sunday. We will fix any errors (hopefully there are none) on Monday.

There are tickets left for both shows. These will be sold on a first ordered, first allocated basis – you will order them using a form which we will send at 6pm on Monday 4th December.

Please don’t send any money – you will pay on the night.

Milk Fund

The milk fund is open.

Pantomime Contribution – £4 per child

Just a reminder to pay this by 19th December, if you can, using iPayImpact.

P1 Health Checks

Just a reminder that these are on Thursday next week.

School Uniform

Just a polite reminder that all children should come to school wearing their uniform, including a school jumper everyday. Red and Navy are our school colours and ideally this is the colour there jumper should be. Black and grey are also allowed. School jumpers should be a sweatshirt pullover or cardigan. Hoodies and Fleeces are not suitable for the classroom not or different coloured or patterned items or ones with pictures or slogans.

P7 will get their leavers hoodies in time to wear them to Ardory. Once the Ardroy trip is over, they will be allowed to wear them to school. They will be allowed to wear them in class but the leavers hoody will be the only hoody allowed. I also advise you to make sure they also have a school jumper because the hoody won’t be suitable for the three day visit to Madras.

As we approach Christmas, some children will start to want to wear Christmas jumpers etc to school. Please keep your child in uniform through December. They will be able to bring in party clothes to change into on their party day and everyone will be invited to wear no-uniform/Christmas jumper on the Christmas Lunch Day and panto day. It makes these days more special if everyone is in uniform for the rest of December and it helps us to keep a sense of purposeful calm.

Thank you for your support.

Dates

Please check you have all the Christmas date: available here. The school lunch day is 13th December.

Milk Fund

The milk fund is now open.

Pantomime Contribution – £4 per child

Just a reminder to pay this by 19th December, if you can, using iPayImpact.

Toy Drive

We are participating in this year’s Toy Drive event which will run until 30th November. Wormit Primary will be a collection point for any donations. These will then be collected and distributed to children and families in need. We will be collecting for boys & girls ages between 0-18. Gifts should be new and unwrapped – please drop off by 30th November. Please see attached flyer for more information:

Toy Drive Poster

Newport Festival Light Switch On

Please click here for information about this event on Thursday 23td November. Our Junior Choir are invited to sing in St Mary’s Church at 5.30pm.

Playgroup Christmas Fair

Please click here for details about the Christmas Fair 2023

Pantomime Contribution – £4 per child

Just a reminder to pay this by 19th December, if you can, using iPayImpact.

Toy Drive

We are participating in this year’s Toy Drive event which will run until 30th November. Wormit Primary will be a collection point for any donations. These will then be collected and distributed to children and families in need. We will be collecting for boys & girls ages between 0-18. Gifts should be new and unwrapped – please drop off by 30th November. Please see attached flyer for more information:

Toy Drive Poster

P3-4 Lunchtime Football Club

We have a handful of spaces available in our lunchtime football club for P3-4 children. This runs at lunchtimes on a Wednesday (weather permitting!) – please let Mr Rose know by emailing at jamie.rose@fife.gov.uk if you would like your child to attend and he will let you know if there are still spaces available or add your child to a waiting list. All pupils who attend the club should bring suitable outdoor PE kit, outdoor trainers (no studs please) and a change of socks.

Pantomime Contribution

All children (Nursery – P7) will watch M&Ms production of Cinderella in the school hall on Wednesday 19th December. We are meeting much of the cost of this from school fund plus a generous contribution from Parent Council (who have also offered to purchase a treat for all children). To cover the rest, we are asking for a £4 contribution per child. Please pay this by 19th December using iPayImpact – please choose the fund called School Pantomime. Please don’t send cash but if you have problems accessing iPayImpact, contact Lisa in the office and she will help. If you can’t meet the cost, please email me in confidence to let me know – your child can still attend – no one will miss out!

Tea Towels and Calendars

Orders need to be in by 9th November

Please use this form to pre-order school calendars:

https://forms.office.com/e/fZikMZqP8A

Please use this form to pre-order Nursery-P3 tea towels:

https://forms.office.com/e/fFqVsnYfXU

Please use this form to pre-order P4-7 tea towels:

https://forms.office.com/e/5aY2nPuTL9

Playground Snacks

P1-7 parents – please send your child with a playground snack each day.  We recommend fruit, biscuits, crackers, oats bars cheese. One snack is all there is time for. From Monday, there will be a bowl of apples (funded by Parent Council – thank you!) which any child can help themselves to if they have forgotten a snack. Sweets made purely from sugar or sweeteners (Moan, haribo, tic tacs, lollies etc) are not suitable snacks as they do not fill children up and should not be brought to school. Staff will ask children to put these away if they see them with them at playtime – there will be the option to take an apple if this is their only snack. Many thanks for your support.

Family Charity Challenge

When you wish upon a star, are a charity who do amazing work granting wishes for children living with life threatening illnesses. They are looking for families to participate this winter in the Elf Wish Walk campaign to help them raise money. Details of the campaign are here:

Scarlett’s Wish

Elf Wish Walk Information Pack

If your family gets involved – we’d love to hear how you get on with your challenge. It could be a great way to beat the early winter blues!

Thank you to a parent of the school who brought this to my attention.

Cluster Netball

Please find information below from Fife Active Schools on P5-7 cluster netball:

P1 Photographs

Thank you for taking part in this year’s First Class feature – we have loved to see all the amazing primary one class photos!   We can let you know that your school’s class photos will feature in paper as follows:

Evening Telegraph – Thursday 2^nd November

Courier – Thursday 9^th November

Kind Regards

Lorrayne Brown

Newspaper Sales & Marketing Executive. D.C Thomson.

Thank you to Parent Council

Parent Council are donating £546 to school fund. This is to cover the P4-6 Seesaw Subscription (Fife Council pay for Nursery-P3), a contribution to the cost of the Pantomime (£200) and to the cost of the P7 Trip to the Scottish Parliament (£100). We are grateful for this support.

You can read the minutes of the Parent Council meet held this week here.

Newport Festival Christmas Cheer (High Street Lights On Event)

P5-7 children are invited to enter this competition over the October holidays. Click here for details: xmascompletter2023

Quiet Playground Clubs

We are looking to extend our quiet playground provision by providing clubs and opportunities for children of all ages.  We are looking for donations of unwanted items to support this. If you have any of the following which you no longer need or want, please hand them in to the school office:

picnic rugs (with waterproof backing)

chess sets

Rubik’s cubes

Lego sets

Top Trumps

Large Cones (to use as goal posts)

There may be other items we need in future depending on ideas raised by the children.

P1-4 Christmas Show

After the holidays, the teachers will begin allocating parts in the Christmas Show. All children who want to will be able to try saying a line or section from the show and many will be chosen for a speaking part. No child will have to have a speaking part if they don’t want to and it may well be the case that more children want a speaking part then will be available but no one need worry! Every child will have an important part to play in the show whether or not they have a speaking part – they will all get a chance to shine on stage.

Youth Music Initiative – Pipe Band Drumming

I am excited to tell you that all P5 children will be learning pipe band drumming. This will start on 26th October and continue for the rest of the school year. It is part of their music curriculum and is fully funded by the Youth Music Initiative.

School Tea Towel

In the first week back after the October holiday, all children will be drawing a self-portrait for the school tea towel. their portrait and first name will be printed on the tea towel. If you want to opt your child out of this, please email lucy.jess@fife.gov.uk by 23rd October to do so. If we don’t hear from you, your child’s picture and name will be included.  There is no obligation to buy.

Save the Date

There will be a P5-7 Basketball Cluster League event on  20^th November 2023 @ Madras College 15:30-5:15pm. After the holidays, you will be able to tell us if your child would like to go along and we will pick a team from amongst those who are keen.

Next term will be a busy one, please make sure you have a note of all the dates. Click here to access them.

Tuesday 31^st October

– P1-7 children can bring a costume to change into for an afternoon of Halloween Craft and Activities.

– Nursery children can come to nursery in a costume all day, if they would like.

Pantomime Contribution

All children (Nursery – P7) will watch M&Ms production of Cinderella in the school hall on Wednesday 19th December. We are meeting much of the cost of this from school fund plus a generous contribution from Parent Council (who have also offered to purchase a treat for all children). To cover the rest, we are asking for a £4 contribution per child. Please pay this by 19th December using iPayImpact – please choose the fund called School Pantomime. Please don’t send cash but if you have problems accessing iPayImpact, contact Lisa in the office and she will help. If you can’t meet the cost, please email me in confidence to let me know – your child can still attend – no one will miss out!

P1-7 Parent Teacher meetings 

Don’t forget to sign up for your meetings using the details which came by email on Wednesday.

Cafe Inc – free for all in the October Holidays

Friday 6^th October

– Last Day of Term 1

– Harvest 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.

There are some great activities going on at the Forgan Arts Centre over the holidays. Click here for details.

School Photographer

The Tempest photographer will come into school on Friday 3rd November to take individual and sibling photos. As long as you have given permission for photos, all children and sibling groups will have their photo taken unless you contact us to request otherwise. If any child is reluctant on the day we won’t make them so if you feel strongly that you want the photo taken, please make sure your child knows your wishes. If you have a younger child who is not yet at our school and would like to include them in the photo, please call Lisa in the office to make an arrangement.  If you have an extended family group at the school (e.g. cousins) and would like a photo of all the children, please contact Lisa to discuss – we will do this it possible. There is no obligation to buy.

Fife Active Schools Community Clubs 

Please find below an update message on clubs and activities in North East Fife from Madison Garland at Fife Active Schools:

Firework Safety Competition

A competition has come into school from the SPCA. Its too tight a turn around for us to enter as a school but if your child is interested in getting involved, you can submit an individual entry as a parent. Click here for the competition pack.

Milk Fund Term 2

The milk fund is now open so that you can order and pay for milk for next term. It will close at the end of term and not be open in the holidays. We hope this will make it easier to remember to get your child’s milk ordered and avoid disappointment.

Should you wish your child to have school milk next term (23^rd October – 20^th December) please log into their Ipayimpact account to make the payment before this term ends on 6^th October.

The cost for the term will be £9.75

Please can you make sure you select the Milk Fund account when adding payment, and not the School Meal Fund – as we cannot transfer the payment across.
Once the milk fund closes on the 6^th October, we will not be able to accept payments after that time. Unfortunately, if you miss the cut of time, this means  you will not be able to order milk for your child for next term.

As you are ordering in term time, you can call the office if you have any problems with your order.

If you applied for the free school meal grant your child will get milk for free, so please don’t add payment to their account.

Our school rule is that no toys should come into school from home. It can lead to mix ups and upsets.

Show and Tell: If your child’s teacher wants them to bring something in from home they will put a message on Seesaw so that you know your child is allowed to bring something that day. If there hasn’t been a message on Seesaw, your child is not to bring a toy in, even if they say it is to show.

Fidget items: a few children benefit from having a fidget item at certain times of the day. If this is the case, we will provide them with one in consultation with you. No child needs to bring a fidget toy in from home and we ask that you do not allow your child to do so.

Personal achievements: if your child wins a trophy, medal or certificate outside of school, they are welcome to bring it into school to show the class so they can celebrate their achievement. They are also welcome to share achievements in class even if there is nothing to show – for example you don’t get a certificate when you learn to ride your bike but it is definitely an achievement worth sharing! We love to learn about what the children do out of school. Parents can email me at lucy.jess@fife.gov.uk to share achievements and I will forward onto the class teacher.

Names on school clothing

Please can you make sure all items of school clothing are named – we can’t return lost property other wise.

Message from Active Schools

Dear Parent/Carer,