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Fundraising, Parent Information, Pupil information

Help our school get some new resources!

Merrylee Primary School Project Title – Children’s Play Resources

 

Mrs Allinson has been successful in her application for a grant to the Tesco Community Grants Scheme but we need your help to make this happen!

If you are shopping in store, please vote for our project. The project with the highest number of votes will be awarded the grant.

Please see details below. Thank you for your support.

Tesco In-Store Vote Update!

We delighted to let you know that your application to the Tesco Community Grants Scheme has been successful and your project will be put forward to a customer vote in Tesco stores.

Voting will commence in store from 1st October and continue to 31st December 2021.

The project with the highest number of votes across your region will receive £1,500 (or the amount that was requested up to this value), the second placed project £1,000 (or the amount that was requested up to this value), and the third placed project £500. To re-iterate, if you are first in the vote, you will receive the amount that you requested in your application (or the amount that was requested up to £1,500).

What happens next?

Stores which will vote on your project

Please see below a list of stores taking part in the voting on your project. Feel free to share this list of stores amongst your supporters and within your community.

4803 CROOKSTON ROAD EXP G53 7TZ  Express

5307 GLASGOW SILVERBRN EXT G53 6AG Extra

5367 KILMARNCK RD GLAS EXP G43 2XS Express

5579 CARDONALD EXPRESS G52 3QA Express

6064 GLASGOW VICTORIA EXP G42 8YU Express

6171 GLASGOW PAIS RD EXP G5 8RJ Express

6257 GLASGOW MLBRAE RD EXP G42 9UA Express

6491 GLASGOW CATHCA RD EXP G42 9EA Express

To check the location of any of the above stores, please go to the Tesco website here: http://www.tesco.com/store-locator/uk

To vote, you will need to make a purchase within store of any value. You will receive one token per transaction and it’s not necessary to purchase a carrier bag in order to receive a token.

In the highly unlikely event that voting is suspended in certain locations due to government guidelines, we will notify you and the following action will be taken. At the end voting period, if voting has taken place for at least four weeks, the votes will be counted and grants awarded as per the standings at that point. If voting has taken place for less than four weeks, we will award each of the groups in the vote £1,000 (or the amount that was requested up to this value).

Additional information Please note the below advice in terms of do’s and don’ts before and during the voting period:

Do:

  • – Cast your vote as soon as you receive your token for a project in the current voting round
  • – Only submit Community Grants tokens to cast your vote – Maximise promotion of your project during the voting period by making best use of press and social media guidance
  • Encourage the local community and your supporters to get involved with Community Grants voting

Don’t:

  • Tamper with the voting unit (otherwise your project may be void from the vote)
  • Influence customers casting their vote at the voting unit
  • Take more than one token from the self-serve checkouts
  • Encourage supporters to hoard then submit multiple tokens in the voting unit
  • Promote your project in store without permission from the Store Manager
  • Collect Community Grants tokens from stores that are not within your region to vote for your project

Please note, if you do not adhere to this guidance, this may affect your grant award. Another tip is to add the address mail@grantapplication.com to your email account to ensure that you receive future requests and information.

Communications Guidance and contact details

Please see below a link to communications guidance on how to promote your project during the voting period. Once the vote has taken place, you will be contacted by a local Enabler who will be on hand to provide you with support in delivering your project. https://tescocommunitygrants.org.uk/communications-guidance-21/

If you wish to discuss any aspect of this email please do get in touch with the Tesco Community Grants team at tescocommunitygrants@groundwork.org.uk

Kind regards and congratulations!

Good luck in the voting!

Tesco Community Grants team

Groundwork UK

Covid-19, Parent Information

Covid Safety Update Information

Please find a letter from Jason Leitch outlining further safety information around COVID-19.

Please find letter here.

 

 

Back to School, Newsletter, Parent Information

Back to School

Welcome back!

It is so lovely to see everyone back to school and ready to learn.

Please find August 2021 newsletter here.

This will give information on staff news, school news and information for the coming term.

Kind regards

Colette Haddock

End of Term, Parent Association, Parent Information, Pupil information

Information for end of term

Final week arrangements

It is hard to believe that we are heading towards the summer holidays already!

The teachers will share your child’s final report with you on Seesaw today Monday 21st June. Your child is also bringing home their class photograph today organised and funded by the Parents’ Association. The tea towels should also be arriving this week and will be issued before we finish for the holidays.

On Wednesday the PA have arranged a little summer treat for all of our pupils. They have also arranged a special treat for P7 as we weren’t able to go ahead with the planned P7 party because of Covid restrictions. These treats are being funded from the Break the Rules fundraising day. Many thanks to the PA for organising this and to all of you for your contributions.

Please note that school closes at 1pm on Thursday. Because of our staggered lunch breaks we won’t be able to have a full lunch break but we have arranged two short breaks. There will be a mid-morning break as usual. There will also be another short break for children to have a packed lunch or a school lunch which they will eat in the classroom or outdoors. Choices for school lunch on Thursday are hot dogs or sandwiches.

At 1 o’clock we will ring the bell continuously to send off our P7 pupils who will have the chance to walk through the school to say goodbye before being dismissed to the back of the building as usual. All classes will be dismissed following usual procedures at 1pm. We would respectfully request that parents do not congregate on school grounds at the end of the day.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a safe and happy summer holiday. Thank you as always for your continued support, especially during this most challenging of years. We are all in a much better place than this time last year and can hopefully look forward to these positive changes continuing.

Kindest regards,
Colette Haddock and the Merrylee Staff Team

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Fundraising, Parent Association, Parent Information

Class Tea Towels

Merrylee Tea Towel orders are now open!

 

(Example of tea towel)

Available to buy on ParentPay for £3.50 only until Friday 11th June 12 noon.

There is one design per year group. Each year group design (P1 – P7) has the children’s self-portraits and their drawings of their class teacher.

A fun (and useful!) way to capture the year before the end of the term!

We hope you love seeing your children’s and their friend’s artwork.

Thanks, from the PA.

Parent Information, Uniform

School Uniform

Saturday 5th June  – 10.30am – 11.30am

Many thanks to the parents who organised our school uniform donations. There was a great response to this last week and I am delighted that we are able to recycle good quality school uniform in a responsible way.

If you missed this last week, the parents have organised another opportunity to pick up good quality donated school uniform. This will be laid out on tables in the school car park this Saturday 5th June between 10.30 and 11.30.

Please follow social distancing guidelines. Thanks again to all of you who have donated to this event and to the parents for organising.

Please come along and help yourselves. No payment is necessary.

Colette Haddock

Merrylee Green Fingers, Parent Association

Merrylee Green Fingers

MERRYLEE GREEN FINGERS 

SEEDLING KITS UPDATE

We are really excited to see how all your lovely seedlings are coming on, despite the arctic weather!

We’re almost at planting time 👏👏👏 We would like to invite you to bring any seedlings (spinach, kale or peas) that you want to donate to the school garden on Saturday 15th May from 10.30, where – if social distancing allows – you can help to plant them out.

If your seedlings have been kept inside until now, it would be a good idea to start exposing them to the outdoors gradually to prepare them.

We look forward to seeing you then! If you’d like to know how to get involved with the school garden please email merryleepa@hotmail.com

Thank you.

Fundraising, Parent Association, Parent Information, Pupil information

Break the Rules Day!

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Break the Rules Day – Friday 7th May

Merrylee Parents’ Association are fundraising to provide some end-of-term treats for pupils.

We encourage pupils to break some rules this Friday, and contribute towards some summer fun this term.

This event will be available on Parentpay.

Parents’ Association

Newsletter, Parent Information, Teacher Parent consultations

April Newsletter

April Newsletter 

Please find attached the latest newsletter with school information.  Please find this here.

As always, please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any concerns or require additional information.

Your child was issued a letter on Friday  to request a telephone consultation. I would be very grateful if these could be returned to your child’s teacher on Monday to give us enough time to plan appointments.

Colette Haddock

Back to School, Covid-19, Parent Information, Pupil information

Back to School for P4-7

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are really looking forward to welcoming the rest of the children back to school on Monday. We all know how challenging this last year has been and you’re not alone if you’ve found the current lockdown the hardest one yet. I am sure you will all be glad to hand over the reins for home learning back to their teacher!

If you borrowed a school iPad to support home learning, please ensure that your child returns this to school with any school charger cables or plugs on Monday. I hope these have been useful during this time.

Breakfast Club and After School Care will all resume service on Monday. Please follow your usual arrangements.

Many thanks to everyone who has donated school uniform so far. This has been especially helpful this week as we have had a lot of muddy children enjoying their outdoor learning in some challenging weather!

It is difficult to get school uniform in the shops at the moment due to high demand and limited supply so if you do need anything, for whatever reason, please get in touch with us as we may have something suitable available.

The following advice is from parentclub.scot –
The news that all children are returning to school will probably have been a huge relief, but there is a risk that it could cause an increase in people getting the virus. Here are 5 important things you can do to make sure this doesn’t happen and to help our nurseries and schools stay open.

  1. Wear your face covering at all times when you are dropping your children at nursery or school and picking them up.
  2. Only one parent at a time should do drop offs and pickups.
  3. Stay 2 metres from other parents at the gates and avoid travelling to and from school in groups with others.
  4. Don’t car share with other households and limit using public transport if you can.
  5. Look out for symptoms at home and follow Test and Protect guidance if anyone shows any signs of COVID.

Lots more advice for parents, including information about preparing children for returning to school, is available at:
https://www.parentclub.scot/articles/going-back-to-primary-school

Colette Haddock