Cuthbertson Primary School 

Celebrations

Our Christmas Market takes place on Friday 8th December with children visiting the stalls on Friday morning and parents/carers attending the market in the afternoon.

Parent Council

Our Parent Council meet most Thursday mornings in school. Please feel free to pop along for a cuppa.

Feedback from Parent/Carer Survey

Thank you to the parents/carers who completed our Two Stars and a Wish survey recently. It is lovely to receive positive feedback about our improved playground space. Please look out for a survey in the coming months from our Pupil Council.

Uniform

Almost all of our children are wearing school uniform. Please note that non-uniform items such as jeans are not acceptable as school uniform. Thank you for your continued support in this area.

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Parent/Carer Evenings

Thanks to all who attended our recent Parent/Carer Evenings.

Parent Pay

Parent Pay is now live and the council requires that parents/carers use Parent Pay to pay for items such as lunches and trips. You will have received instructions on how to do this. Please contact the school office if you have any problems as the school will no longer be able to accept cash payments.

Dates for Your Diary

Wed 6 Dec: Santa’s Grotto (details to follow by email)

Fri 8 Dec: Christmas Market – children in the morning and adults in the afternoon

Tue 12 Dec: School Christmas Lunch (turkey*, fish and Quorn fillets options – *halal available)

Thur 14 Dec: Christmas Concert (details to follow by email/Seesaw)

Tue 19 Dec: P1 & P5 Christmas Party (children can dress down or wear party clothes on this day)

Wed 20 Dec P2, P6 & P7 Christmas Party (children can dress down or wear party clothes on this day)

Thur 21 Dec P3 & P4 Christmas Party (children can dress down or wear party clothes on this day)

Fri 22 December: School closes 2.30pm

Mon 8 January: School reopens 9am

 

Kind regards   

Lesley Murrie,

Head Teacher

Cuthbertson Primary School

Welcome back after the October holiday. It is lovely to see everyone back and looking so smart in school uniforms.

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Diwali

Our children and parents can enjoy our Diwali celebrations on Friday 10 November. More information to follow.

Parent/Carer Evenings

These will take place on Tuesday 14 November and Wednesday 22 November. You will receive an appointment in due course.

Financial Inclusion

We have a finance officer in school every Thursday morning. Her name is Emma Furnish and she is available to help families with a variety of issues including housing, benefits, employment and training etc.  Please drop in on a Thursday morning to speak to her or to arrange an appointment. All information shared with Emma is confidential.

Celebrations

See below for dates of further events this term. More information will follow as we get closer to the dates for these events.

Parent Pay

Parent Pay is now live and the council requires that parents/carers use Parent Pay to pay for items such as lunches and trips. You will have received instructions on how to do this. Please contact the school office if you have any problems as the school is no longer be able to accept cash payments.

School Lunches

School lunches are free for children in P1-5 and for children in P6-7 who have successfully applied for free school meals. If your child is in P6 or P7 and is not entitled to free school meals the options are to provide a packed lunch or to pay for a school dinner via Parent Pay. This will avoid building up debt which will require to be repaid to Glasgow City Council. The school cannot accept cash payments.

For support in either applying for free school meals or in accessing Parent Pay please contact the school office in the first instance.

Seesaw Family

This is our main communication platform so please contact the school if you have issues downloading, accessing or using this app.

 

Dates for Your Diary:

Fri 10 Nov: Diwali celebration

Tue 14 Nov: Parent/Carer evening

Wed 22 Nov: Parent/Carer evening

Fri 8 Dec: Christmas Market

 

Kind regards   

Lesley Murrie , Head Teacher

 

Cuthbertson Primary School

Parent and Carer Evenings

Thank you for coming along to speak with your child’s teacher. We had excellent attendance on both evenings.

Twitter 

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School Playground

Unfortunately, due to a delay with the company, the playground markings have still to be completed. This will be rescheduled in the near future. Thanks to the parents who attended on Tuesday 28 March to work on our garden area.

Late-coming

Please make every effort to have your child arrive to school by 9am. On occasion, we can have as many as 50 children arriving late which disrupts the class and your child’s learning.

Reports

Progress reports for your child will be issued in term 4.

Dates for Your Diary

Friday 31 March – School closes at 2.30pm for holiday

Monday 17 April – School re-opens

Thursday 27 April – Eid Celebration (more info to follow)

Monday 1 May – Holiday – May Day

Monday 8 May – Holiday – Coronation Day

Thursday 25 May – staff development (school closed to children)

Friday 26 May – Holiday

Monday 29 May – Holiday – Spring Bank

Friday 23 June 1pm – school closes for summer holiday

 

Kind regards   

Lesley Murrie , Head Teacher

Cuthbertson Primary School

House System and Values: 

This session our new House Captains and Vice Captains have led their first House Meeting of the year. All classes have a school values chart and children are awarded house points against our values. Our values were revamped last year and voted on by children, staff and parents. Our values are Honesty, Everyone is Kind, Achieving, Respect and Teamwork (HEART).

Our new Vice Captains and House Captains are noted below:

Barbour House

Vice Captains – Ianis Plumbas and Abuzar Muhammed

House Captains – Zeenat Hussain and Kadijah Jaiteh

Hoy House 

Vice Captains – Jason Malek, Grace Miller and Aiza Anum

House Captains – Rehan Ali, Talha Ahmad and Kuba Baig

Azzudin House 

Vice Captains – Shazaib Akram, Hadiya Hassan, Umama Asif

House Captains – Simon Lacatus, Harry Singh and Fakiha Asif

Haining House 

Vice Captains – Sean Malek, Terezia Isztojka and Hasan Akram

House Captains – Anisa Abukar, Kaif Malik and Taha Hussain

 

Parent Council

Our Parent Council, supported by our House and Vice Captains, organised a coffee morning to raise funds for the Pakistan Flood Appeal. They raised £1157.69. Thanks to those who organised, attended or donated to this appeal. Our Parent Council are looking ahead now to the planning of a Diwali celebration event.

Students

Over the coming months there will be a variety of teaching students joining us at Cuthbertson. You may see them around school or in the playground.

Twitter

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Parent Evenings

Our Parent Evenings will be held on Tuesday 8^th and Wednesday 16^th November from 3.30 until 6pm.

South Seeds charity, based on Victoria Road, will have a representative at both evenings to discuss concerns around gas/electricity bills.

Seesaw Family

This is our main communication platform so please contact the school is you have issues downloading, accessing or using this app.

Download the app here: Android or Apple or visit app.seesaw.me

What’s on

Fri 14 October:  School closed for staff training – no children to attend

Mon 17 Oct:       School closed all week for holiday

Mon 25 Oct:       School opens and children return

 

 

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February 2022 Newsletter

Covid Guidelines:

We no longer require to minimise groupings of children in school so our assemblies will return to their old format of P1-3 and P4-7 rather than by stage. All other restrictions remain in place at the moment and I will update you when I receive updated advice.

Uniform:

Under current Covid guidelines we are required to open windows for ventilation. If your child is feeling it colder in school and would like to wear a hoodie or sweatshirt etc. over their uniform in class, this is perfectly acceptable.

Twitter: 

Please follow us on @cuthbertsonpri for Twitter updates.

Parent Pay:

Parent Pay is now live and the council requires that parents/carers use Parent Pay to pay for items such as lunches and trips. You will have received instructions on how to do this. Please contact the school office if you have any problems as the school will no longer be able to accept cash payments.

School Lunches:

From March 2022, children will be expected to select their lunch choice at home, prior to coming to school. Guidance on how to do this will follow when we receive it. You will require to access Parent Pay to do this.

School Playground:

Miss Kennedy and I met with a landscape architect last week as a green space is planned for the playground. Unfortunately, the resurfacing of the remainder of the playground will not happen until the summer holidays. We have received confirmation that the fenced off games area will also be installed during the summer holidays. We are in the process of ordering new benches, planters and a shelter for the playground and the children will begin to see these items being installed in the coming months.

Dates for Your Diary:

Friday 2 April – School closes at 2.30 for holiday

Tuesday 19 April – School re-opens

 

 

Kind regards    Lesley Murrie , Head Teacher