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Weekly Information – 4th November 2022

P1-7 Parent-Teacher Appointments

Please remember to book your meeting(s) by 3pm on Wednesday of next week. Details of how to do this are here:

Please book your Parents Evening Appointment by 3pm on 9th November 2022 | Wormit Primary School (glowscotland.org.uk)

All children will bring home examples of their work on Friday 11th and we ask that you return the jotters on Monday 14th. If you have anything particular you’d like to know on Parents Night, you can use the comments box on the booking system to flag this up to the teacher. If you have a significant concern which will need more than 10 mins to discuss, please don’t wait until the meeting – contact Mrs Jess straight away by phone or email.

iPayimpact Pre-Orders

 

A reminder to please pre-order lunches in advance using iPayimpact. This allows us to ensure we have a lunch order in place in the event that your child has an appointment in the morning or arrives late to school for any reason. Without these pre-orders in place in that instance we may not have the correct numbers prepared.

 

General Permission / Annual Data Check Forms

 

If you have not returned a general permission or annual data check form your child will be given a new form to bring home over the following days. Please complete and return these to school as soon as possible to ensure we have accurate and up to date information in place for your child.

Poppy Fund

Primary 7 pupils will bring poppies round to each class from next Monday (7th November). If you would like your pupil to make a donation to buy a poppy they can bring money with them to do so. Please ensure your child has their money stored safely and remind them to bring it up to class first thing.

Updated First Aid and Medication Policies

Please click on these links to find out how we manage first aid and medication in school

First Aid Procedures | Wormit Primary School (glowscotland.org.uk)

Medication | Wormit Primary School (glowscotland.org.uk)

Saturday Football

If you have a payment outstanding for fees for the August-October session, these should be paid using iPayimpact into the Saturday Football fund. The amount due for the Aug-Oct session was £5.

Please check your child’s hair

We advise all parents to regularly check their child’s hair for nits and lice and treat them if you find them. The pharmacist can offer advice and more information is available here: Head lice and nits – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Weekly Information 28th October 2022

P1-7 Parent-Teacher Meetings November 2022

The system is now live for you to book your child’s appointments. The information about how to do that is available here. If you would like to meet your child’s teacher this term, you must book by end of the day on 9th November.

 

Toy Drive

The North East Fife Toy Drive is running again this year. Toy Drive collects  presents and gifts them to children whose parents or carers will struggle with the cost of Christmas this year. Donations can be dropped off at a variety of points including Wormit Primary School. If any parent wants to donate but can’t make it to Wormit, feel free to drop off at Balmerino and I can take it down for you. There is more info here: Toy Drive Poster.

If your family might struggle financially this Christmas, please contact me in confidence and I will arrange to refer you to Toy Drive – lucy.jess@fife.gov.uk 

 

P1 Health Checks

Just a reminder that these are on Thursday of next week (3rd). Don’t forget to return your child’s form.

 

Halloween

A huge thank you to the Parent Council for organising the parties on Wednesday – what a lovely evening for everyone! P1-7 children are invited to bring a costume in on Monday to wear in the afternoon.

 

Tempest Photographer

The photographer will be in school on Friday 4th November to take individual and Sibling photos. All children will have their photo taken unless you contact me at lucy.jess@fife.gov.uk to request they don’t or if you have previously withheld permission for photos. There is no obligation to buy. If your child is in Nursery but does not usually attend on a Friday and you would like their photo to be taken, you can bring them to school between 8.15 and 8.45 to get that done. If you would like a younger sibling included in the sibling photo, you can bring all your children to school between 8.15 and 8.45 to get that photo taken. The nursery/school aged children will then get their individual photo taken in school time.

 

Please book your Parents Evening Appointment by 3pm on 9th November 2022

You are now invited to make appointments for the school’s next parent-teacher meetings. These will be held Face to Face in School not by video call. We are using the Parents Evening Booking system to allow you to choose your appointment but we will not be using the video call system as we did when Covid Restrictions were in place.

 

Parent Teacher Appointments will be held on:

Tuesday 15th November – 6-8pm

Thursday 17th November – 4-6pm

Wednesday 23rd November 6-8pm

 

Each appointment is 10 minutes long – this is an opportunity to meet your child’s teacher and discuss their progress. It is not long enough to raise new concerns or issues. If there is anything causing you concern, please contact me in advance rather than saving it until the meeting and we will do the same.

 

To make your appointments please login at: Parents Evening Booking System

 

To login you will need to enter your name, your child’s name ([First Name] [Last Name]) and your child’s date of birth. The login details you enter must match those we have on record for you.

 

Appointments are available to book until 15.00 on 9th Nov 2022. If you want to meet with your child’s teacher this term, you must book by then.

 

After you have made your appointments you can choose to print or e-mail confirmation. When the day of your appointment comes, please come to the front door of the school five minutes before your first appointment is due to begin. I am looking forward to welcoming you as you arrive and will direct you to the classroom to meet your child’s teacher.

 

If you cannot login please contact the school office.

N.B. The email address field on the login page is only used to send your appointment confirmation. If you have problems logging in, it will not be because of the e-mail address you entered. If you would like some detailed instructions on how to use Parents Booking, you can download a guide by clicking here. Please disregard the section on joining the video call as you are only using the system for booking.

The system will only allow you to book one appointment per child and time only allows for one appointment per child (except in exceptional circumstances). If both parents can’t attend together, we ask that one attends and the other feeds back to them. If one face to face meeting doesn’t work for your family, please get in touch with me to discuss.

With thanks for your support,

Lucy Jess lucy.jess@fife.gov.uk

 

 

The Term Ahead

Foodbank donation

All children are invited to bring a donation for the Wormit Foodbank at the start of this term, following on from our harvest message of sharing. Please send your donation in before the end of the week.

 

Christmas Cards

At the start of this week, your child will bring home their Christmas Card design again. This is yours to keep now. If you want to order cards, please scan the QR code and you will be able to do so.

 

P1-7 Parent-Teacher Appointments

Parent Teacher Appointments will be held on:

Tuesday 15th November – 6-8pm

Thursday 17th November – 4-6pm

Wednesday 23rd November 6-8pm

All appointments will be face to face in school. Information about booking your appointment will come out soon.

 

Annual Data check and General Permissions

If you didn’t return these forms last term, please do so as soon as possible. The school office will be in touch with you if we don’t have them by the end of this week to see if they can help.

 

Inservice Day

Friday 18th November – school and nursery closed to pupils.

 

Whole School Trip to Panto at the Rothes Hall (Cinderella): Wednesday 7th December

Please make your £10 contribution per child, if you can, by the 28th November. You can pay electronically via iPayImpact or contact Miss Sivewright if you need help to do this.

 

Communication

We know some parents found the volume of emails high at the end of last term. We try hard to send information in one communication like this when we can. The volume was higher than usual at the end of term because I felt there were a number of things that required action and which it might be helpful to have in a separate email with the item in the subject line. But I recognise that this did not work for all our families and I apologise that this was the case.  More details about how we contact you and how you can contact us can be found here.

 

Halloween Disco

Don’t forget the Parent Council Halloween Disco is on Wednesday of this week. Details are in the email sent on Tuesday 4th October.

 

Tempest Photographer

The photographer will be in school on Friday 4th November to take individual and Sibling photos. All children will have their photo taken unless you contact me at lucy.jess@fife.gov.uk to request they don’t or if you have previously withheld permission for photos. There is no obligation to buy. If your child is in Nursery but does not usually attend on a Friday and you would like their photo to be taken, you can bring them to school between 8.15 and 8.45 to get that done. If you would like a younger sibling included in the sibling photo, you can bring all your children to school between 8.15 and 8.45 to get that photo taken. The nursery/school aged children will then get their individual photo taken in school time.

 

Dates for the Year

Just a reminder that dates for the year are available here. There will need to be a change to Sports Day to accommodate the dates we now have for P7 Transition to Madras and this will be updated as soon as possible.

 

Lucy Jess

lucy.jess@fife.gov.uk

 

Christmas Card Fundraiser

We will be carrying out our Christmas Card fundraiser again this year.  The children have been busy this week doing their Christmas Card designs. They have brought them home for you to see. If your child’s design hasn’t come home yet, please contact us to query it.

If you would like to order cards, all you have to do at this stage is send your child’s artwork back to school by Thursday 6th October. This lets us know you are happy for us to share their work and name with the company who make the cards.

We will send the designs away to the company who will link your child’s design their QR code and return them to us. We will send them home again and, at that point, you will be able to scan the QR code and order cards. You will receive your cards in time for Christmas.

Please support this fundraiser if you can.

If you don’t want to order cards, you can just keep your child’s design at home.

Weekly Information – 22nd September 2022

Attendance

Everyone in Fife is committed to supporting school attendance. Please click here to read some information from Fife Council on attendance procedures for our school: Attendance – what you need to know

It’s Just One Day!  Random absences, not just those on consecutive days of school, matter. Before you know it – just one or two days a month can add up to nearly 10 percent of the school year.

#SchoolAttendanceMatters

Nursery attendance is not compulsory in law but Nursery parents should always tell us if their child will be off, just as primary parents do and we will be in touch to check all is well if we haven’t heard from you.

Building Blocks: Attendance matters as early as nursery. Children who miss too many days in nursery can struggle later with learning and friendships.

#NurseryAttendanceMatters

 

Safety on School Grounds

I have recently updated the school Traffic Management Plan which helps keep us all safe on school grounds. Please click here to read the plan and check you know the safety procedures. In particular, please remind your child never to cut through the school car park – this includes when picking up from after-school club. Many thanks for your support.

 

Flu Vaccines

P1-7 and Staff Flu vaccines will be given on 7th October. Your child will only receive the vaccine if you completed and returned the yellow NHS form. You can still return the form to the office if you haven’t done so yet.

Harvest Service

We are going to need to reschedule this as we have the Flu vaccines on 7th. I will confirm the new arrangements as quickly as I can.

 

 

 

 

Weekly Information – 9th September 2022

Assembly

It was a busy assembly today. We started by reflecting on the life of the Queen and the changes that are going to come now.

We spoke about the football match on Wednesday – what a pleasure it was for me to see the pupils from both schools playing so well together. I felt proud of both teams and we celebrated their success and teamwork at assembly today.

We celebrated some children who have been spotted living our school values and we also celebrated this week’s birthdays – we do this each week at assembly now.

Finally, we presented the badges to the newly appointed House Captains and welcomed them to their roles.

Weekly Information – 2nd September

Football Match

There will be a match between Balmerino and Wormit on Wednesday 7th at 4pm on the pitch at Gauldry. Gilbert Valentine has chosen the Wormit team and you will have received an advice note if your child was selected. Gilbert is responsible for the Wormit team – this has not be logged by the school as an outing and all enquires about transport or arrangements should be made to him. I will be at the match for the full time and an looking forward to cheering both teams on! All Wormit families are welcome to come up to Gauldry to spectate.

 

Potatoes

Don’t forget to send your potato photos in by 1st October. They can be sent in either via the Parent Council Facebook page or to Wormitparent@gmail.com If you’ve already harvested and cooked your potatoes and didn’t take pictures, you can still tell Parent Council about your harvest, location/container and your potato recipe. Only photos shared on Facebook or sent to the Parent Council email address will be included in the competition – if you have also sent photos to a school email address, please re-send to Parent Council to make sure they have it. If you have recently joined the school and/or haven’t grown your own potatoes, you can still join in by sharing a potato recipe and picture of your dish.

Weekly Information – 19th August 2022

It has been lovely to welcome everyone back to school this week. A special welcome to our new families. Over the coming weeks and months we are looking forward to having parents come into school. We will be planning dates for the year in advance and these will come out shortly.

Information for P1-7 Parents

I have sent home a sheet today with each child to give footwear and PE arrangement and school holiday dates. Last year parents told us they would appreciate this information as a paper copy. It is also available here: Information for P1-7 Parents

Data Check and General Permissions – for action by all parents

These forms will come home in an envelope on Monday. The data check shows the information we currently hold – please check it is still up to date and make any changes by hand using a coloured pen if possible (it helps us spot the changes if they are not in black!) Please sign the data check on both pages to confirm it is correct. The general permissions form needs to be completed so that we know we are following your wishes while your child is in our care. Please send both forms back in (using the same envelope) by end of day on 29th August. This will help us get all systems up to date.

Netball and Running Clubs – info for P5-7 parents

These after-school clubs will restart at the beginning of September.  P5-7 parents should look out for more information coming home with their child. Netball will be a Monday and Running a Friday. Thank you to our parent helpers who make this possible. If spaces are tight, we will give priority to the older children.

 

 

 

17th June 2022 – Round Up

It feels like a while since I have sent a weekly information sheet. As you know this has been a busy term and I was off sick for a couple of weeks. We have sent a lot of emails because we felt you needed some information directly and quickly, rather than through the weekly sheet. This is a round up of what has been happening and is going to be happening before we break up for the summer.

Things we have done:

  • Nursery staff have been busy supporting transition for the new children coming in and for the pre-school children who are going onto P1. Mrs Steven has also been busy getting to know next years’ P1 class.
  • P7 have had three transition days to Madras.
  • P1-6 have had a transition session where they met their new class and worked with their new teacher.
  • 10 P6/7 pupils attended a football tournament at Leuchars PS where they competed against other pupils and lived our school values to the full.
  • 4 P3/4 pupils attended a Madras Cluster tennis tournament in St Andrews and represented the school well.
  • Running Club has continued after school and netball club has started. The Running Club attended a cross-country event and did very well.
  • Our Girls Can (an initiative to encourage girls to continue to participate in sport) has been running in P7 as a lunchtime club.
  • The boys football team had a match again Liff Primary School and the girls played against Greyfriars and Canongate – thank you to Gilbert Valentine who arranged this through the Saturday Football Club which he continues to run (now back on Big Park) to the benefit of the school.
  • P5 Youth Music Performance
  • P1-7 Run for Refugees which raised a whopping £3050 for Disasters Emergency Committee.

 

Things we are looking forward to:

  • Sports Day – parents invited to attend – information came home via email
  • P7 Show – the children will all see the show in school next week and parents have had an email about seeing it.
  • End of Year Service – you have received information about this via email
  • Finding out who has won the House Cup!
  • Nursery/Playgroup Puppet Show
  • Parent Council Uniform Swap – please drop any further donations into school before 9am on Monday morning. The uniform will be laid out ready for you to collect (free or for a donation to Parent Council fund) on Friday 24th June.
  • Parent Council Treasure Hunt – please see info in the email that was sent today.

 

Assemblies

P1-7 assemblies have continued each week and we have celebrated those children who have been spotted living our school values and they have brought certificates home. When I have not been able to attend assembly, Mr Rose has stepped in to make sure this keeps going.  If you have emailed me to nominate your child for a headteacher award due to an achievement out of school and they haven’t received a certificate yet, this is an oversight on my part – please resend your email and I will make sure your child gets their award next week. My inbox got a little busy while I was off sick so I apologise if any email was missed.