November Newsletter

November/December 2023

We had an incredibly busy term 1, with term 2 is shaping up much the same! How can we be nearly in December already! Please do read on as I share some current information and dates that you will want to know about.

Staffing

Miss Kelly has now started her maternity leave so is no longer in school. We wish her lots of luck as she embarks on the new and exciting adventure of being a parent!

Mrs Mair has now returned from maternity leave. She works three days each week; Monday-Wednesday, and is teaching mainly in P7/6 and P6/5 (with a little bit of work in P4/3 also) We are delighted to see her back in the Royston team!

Mr Doherty has increased his work pattern from three days to four. His working week is now Tuesday-Friday and he is class teacher for P7/6. Mr Doherty is a valued member of staff and we are pleased that he has increased his working days!

Miss Gorrell has now left her post as support for learning worker. We currently have a vacancy which is advertised, and we hope to interview and fill this post as soon as possible.

In addition, we have a number of ongoing students working with pupils. Strathclyde University teaching students provide a literacy and numeracy clinic for individuals across our school and give pupils some extra intensive teaching time to support their development.

We continue to work in partnership with Re:Hope Royston, who provide volunteer reading partners on a Tuesday and Wednesday. Some pupils have been selected to have their own volunteer who will read with them and support their understanding.

Our main priority is that our pupils know who the trusted adults are in school and what their purpose is. This is very important to us; pupils need to know why they may be working with individuals and what the expected goal is. Please do let us know if you have any questions or concerns regarding staffing, I am happy to talk this through with you.

Gardening

Currently our gardening work in partnership with North Glasgow Community Food Initiative has currently paused.

Class teachers are still engaging pupils in outdoor learning, so please continue to ensure your child has appropriate clothing for learning outside.

Parent Portal

Thank you to all parents who have successfully managed to sign up for parent portal. It is really important that we get everyone signed on as soon as possible. Any future consent forms will be completed via parent portal due to GDPR restrictions, and any updating of parental information needs to be done through the portal. We will soon have outings for ALL children in school; please get signed up asap so that you don’t miss their consent form for this. We well also soon be adding various school communications to the portal such as newsletters, letters etc.

If you are having difficulty or are unable to do this successfully, please do pop into the school office or speak to me – we can help!

Head lice

We appear to be having a little flair up of head-lice at the present time. Please do check your child’s head (boys and girls) regularly for the eggs or creatures and go straight to the pharmacy for advice if you spot anything. It is absolutely impossible to keep head-lice completely out of primary school, especially for small children, but quick treatment helps to keep instances to a minimum.

Bullying Development Work

As per our school improvement priorities this session, and listening to our parent voice, we are undertaking development work around anti-bullying. Staff have undergone intensive training on anti-bullying in order to ensure consistency in knowledge and understanding school wide. All staff have completed various e-modules with organisation ‘RESPECT ME’. We continue to deepen our knowledge and progress with our research around this theme.

Anti-Bullying week is coming up (13th-17th November) and we will be launching our anti-bullying theme in all classes. Pupils will be learning about bullying; what this looks like, how it can make people feel, what to do if they feel they are being bullied etc. Class teachers have a week full of excellent activities in line with this year’s Anti-Bullying 2023 Focus ‘Listen up: Respect our Rights’. Pupils will share their thinking and opinions on Bullying in school and be actively involved in designing suitable strategies to manage incidents as they occur. We will also be seeking the views of parents. It is incredibly valuable to hear your thoughts on this important matter. Staff only see things from school perspective, but you see things much more fully! Pupils only spend 15% of their time in school, they spend 85% under your care outwith school! We need to work together to combat bullying for our Royston pupils!

Parental Engagement

In relation to above, we would like to invite all parents into school on Friday 17th November from 10.30am – 12.15pm. This is to go into your child’s class and see some of the anti-bullying work they are doing. Your child can explain what they are working on and share their learning; all pupils love it when their parent/carer is able to come along!

Once you have spent some time in class, we will then gather all our parents together for a short presentation based on the work we have done around anti-bullying. We are also hoping to create a parent focus group to support this development and we will discuss this at our presentation. We really hope to have a great turn out for this event as I know you will be keen to engage in such crucial work.

Breakfast Club

Just a wee reminder for parents. Breakfast club is open from 8am every morning in the dining hall. We have very small numbers just now and I wonder whether parents/carers know this service is available. Pupils who are in receipt of free meals are entitled to a free breakfast. Otherwise, the standard cost is £2.

Secondary Transition

Parents of pupils in primary 7 should now be thinking about transition to secondary school! I know it can be difficult to come to terms with your child moving on from primary, but we need to start making plans now.

ALL P7 pupils are currently in the Springburn Academy catchment. All pupils have been allocated a place at Springburn. If you wish your child to attend a different secondary school, you are required to complete a placing request form online. Many of you have done this already and we have helped some people to do this. If you are finding it difficult to complete the online form, please do let us know, we can help. If you do not complete a form for your child, they will automatically attend Springburn Academy.

School Communication

I just wanted to give a wee reminder that most communication from school will come via email. We have email contacts for every pupil’s parent/carer and we regular send out communication this way. We also get a notification if an email cannot be delivered to a particular address. Recently we can see that all emails are being received by all contacts. I would urge you to open and read the contents of the communication, as there is often very important information contained. If you wish to change your email contact, please just let us know.

Sponsored Sports Day

I wish to formally thank all parents, carers, families and friends for supporting our event with great enthusiasm! The pupils had such a fun day, enjoying a range of activities from yoga to obstacle courses! Your sponsor money goes a long way in supporting our up and coming festive events! Thank you so much!!

Parental Surveys

Thank you very much to all those who took the time to complete our parental survey at the end of term 1. We really appreciate all the comments made and aim to work on these to make the improvements you and your children would like to see.

Toy Sale

We will be hosting our annual Toy Sale on the 23rd November. If you have any pre-loved/new/used toys that you want to clear out, please bring them our way! In addition, if you have any carrier bags that you want to clear out, we will take these too! We are always struggling at these events to have enough bags for pupils – any donations gratefully received!

Pupils can bring money on that day and all pupils will get a chance to go and buy some things! It is always a little crazy, but pupils appear to love it!!

Christmas

We are planning out a month of fun for pupils, with various different activities for each class.

We have booked whole day outings for every pupil as follows:

P3-7 will be visiting New Lanark Christmas Experience 2023 on 6th December. Pupils will leave sharp in the morning and travel by coach. They will be involved with the singing elves, trying out some ice skating, visiting Santa’s grotto, and watching a show in the festive room! Sounds like a great day ahead!

P1-2 will be visiting Goulding Winter Wonderland 2023 on 14th December. The buses will leave sharp in order to maximise the day. Pupils will walk through the wonderland trail and visit the singing penguins. They will have a visit to Santa’s toyshop and have unlimited rides on the fun fair rides. They will also get to visit Rudolph and the donkeys!

The cost per pupil is around £30 – most of which we can use sponsor money, dress down money and other contributions. However, we do still ask that each child pays a contribution of £4 for the day.

We have many other Christmas plans which are not yet finalised…we will share these with you soon!

Jane McShane

headteacher@royston-pri.glasgow.sch.uk

0141 552 287

Summer School Trip Information

Dear Parents/carers,

We have a very busy and exciting week this week!

  • Tuesday 6th June – P1 P3/2 and P4/3 trip to Almond Valley.
  • Thursday 8th June – P6/5 and P7/6 trip to Blairdrummond Safari Park

Buses are leaving at 9am sharp. Pupils need a packed lunch and suitable clothing. The lovely weather is set to continue so please remember to apply sun cream to your child prior to arriving at school and bring a hat! Packed lunches are required (in a plastic bag so that all rubbish can be discarded and lunch boxes don’t need to be carried around). Pupils should bring any medication they may require. Buses will return at 3pm approximately – traffic dependent. If you have not done so already, please remember to return signed permission slip and £4.

Additional trips have been organised to take part in the Wee Write Literacy Festival. Pupils should wear uniform and take any medication they may require. Pupils DO NOT need a packed lunch. Glasgow consents will be used for this purpose. Trips as follows:

  • P1 – 7th June – p.m.
  • P3/2 – 7th June – p.m.
  • P4/3 – 8th June – p.m.
  • P6/5 – 6th June – p.m.
  • P7/6 – 7th June a.m.

All pupils will be back in school for collection at 3pm.

All literacy outings are located at the Royal Concert Hall and pupils will walk to and from location.

There is no cost to parents for these outings.

Please do get in touch if you have any queries or concerns.

Kind Regards,

Jane McShane

Headteacher@royston-pri.glasgow.sch.uk

 

May Newsletter

May/June 2023

Term 4 is flying past! We have a few important dates and useful information to share with you…read on!

 

Staff and Staffing

Our current staffing is settled – our only difference being our student Miss Hilton in P7/6.

At present, I have no confirmed staffing arrangements for next session – August 2023. This always take a little while to settle due to the size of the council. I do hope we don’t have much change but I will let you know as soon as I know!

Transition

At this time of year we engage in a variety of different transitions. We welcome our new entrants into P1, we make plans to say goodbye to our P7 pupils and we arrange in-school transitions for P1-6.

We have a very healthy primary 1 intake for August and looking forward to meeting everyone! If you have a child due to begin with us in August, you should have received a letter inviting you and your child along to a variety of events…a family meeting, Teddy Bear Picnic, Sports Day and an Induction afternoon. If you have not received this, please do let us know.

Our primary 7 pupils, as is normal each year, will be going in different directions for high school! We are preparing all their transition information to pass on to secondary school and engaging with secondary staff on key aspects of our P7 learning and progress. We are looking forward to welcoming secondary school staff into school soon to meet their future pupils. Information has already been given out regarding transition days for each high school and we hope pupils will enjoy these reassuring days in secondary school.

 

School trips

We are delighted to be able to offer a summer trip to all pupils! On Tuesday 6th June P1-4 pupils will go to Almond Valley in Livingston, and on 8th June P5-7 will go to Blairdrummond Safari Park! School trips and transport costs have increased dramatically this year so we are asking for a small £4 contribution per pupil to attend. This can be paid at any time from now until trip date.

 

Rights Respecting School

We are delighted to report that we have successfully been awarded a Bronze Award for our work on Children’s Rights. This is thanks to pupils for their hard work and engagement in learning about their rights, staff for promoting rights and Miss Bonner for leading the process with her Right’s Respecting pupil committee. We will now move onto the hard work of gaining our Silver Award!

 

LCFE

As part of our school improvement plan this session we have been exploring how language is used across the school. To guide us in our thinking, we have been using the document ‘Language and Communication Friendly Establishment’. Mrs Steer has been successfully leading us in this improvement which has ensured consistent practices across the school.

 

Committees

At the present time we have a number of committees operating in school. Committees are small groups of pupils, of varied ages, who come together for different purposes to lead our school to improvement. Committees align with our current school priorities and give all pupils the chance to have their voices heard and take ownership and responsibility for their school.

Our committees are…

SNAG (School nutrition action group)

RRS (Rights Respecting Schools)

Equalities

ECO

Digital Leaders

Pupil Council

Sport Captains

Health and Wellbeing

As we have a relatively small school role, all pupils engage in one of the listed committees. Ask your child about the work of their committee! We have one more committee meeting to occur before the end of session and we look forward to continuing our committee work in the new session.

 

Sports Day

Sports day this year will be on the 31st May along at St Roch’s Secondary school playing fields. Primary 1-4 will be in the morning starting at 10am. P5-7 will be in the afternoon starting at 1.20pm. All friends and family welcome to come along and spectate! Pupils should come to school that day in sporty comfortable clothing. Depending on the weather, pupils may need to bring a hat/cap and wear sun cream. Please be mindful that they will be outside for a few hours. We are ever hopeful the rain stays away!!

 

P7 Leavers Celebration

Our P7 leavers event will be held on 13th June 4-5pm at Roystonhill Community Hub. P7 pupils will be able to invite 2 guests to this event where we will celebrate the end of their primary school career! Some may be sad to be leaving…but they are all ready for a new challenge, and I’m sure will be excited about secondary too! We look forward to welcoming our amazing primary 7 pupils and their guests to this fun celebration!

 

End of year prize giving

Our prize giving event will be held on 15th June at 10am. Each class teacher will identify a star and worker of the year! Our star of the year award will go to one person in each class who has demonstrated our school values consistently throughout the year. Our worker of the year will be awarded for consistent effort in all aspects of learning throughout the year. Class teachers always find it incredibly difficult to pick just one person for each award! In addition, we will have some merit awards for effort in each class.

This is always a lovely event and we would be delighted for family and friends to join us! We will have tea, coffee and some nice cakes! Please do come along if you are able.

 

Reports

End of session reports will soon be issued. They are nearing completion just now and we will have these distributed by the end of May. Please do share your thoughts on the survey that will come electronically to you the day after reports.

 

Evaluations and Surveys!

I must give my thanks to all those who take the time to give us feedback via surveys etc! We do really need and use it! It is crucial for us to learn your thoughts in order to fully support our parental partnership working. It is important to acknowledge parents as the main educators…pupils spent approximately 85% of their life away from school! We only have your children for 15% of their life so we have a limited role in their learning! Therefore, we need to hear your views and adapt our methods to ensure a smooth learning journey for each pupil. So thank you…keep doing the surveys!!

 

Pyjama Day!

Pupils are requesting a pyjama day! We are happy to accommodate this on the 24th May. Pupils can come to school wearing their pyjama’s…if they wish! If they would prefer, they can just wear dress down clothes.

 

Diary Dates

May seems to have been full of holidays! Our next bank holiday weekend is coming up. Pupils will be off school Thursday 25th May for In-service day, and then on 26th and 29th May for the bank holiday weekend.

School will close for the summer break on Friday 23rd June at 1pm.

 

Adult First Aid class

We will be hosting a first aid class for adults on the 7th June at 1pm. The session will run for 90 minutes and will show you some basic understanding of first aid. It is important for everyone to have some knowledge in first aid as we never know when it might be needed!

We will also be hosting a first aid session for P7/6 pupils on 14th June. I’m sure pupils will find this interesting and informative.

 

Jane McShane

headteacher@royston-pri.glasgow.sch.uk

0141 552 2872

Information for Our New P1 families (2023/2024)

 

Dear Parents and Carers 

Transition to Primary 1 at Royston Primary School 2023 

We are delighted that you have chosen Royston Primary School and are looking forward to welcoming you and your child to start school in August this year. In preparation for starting school we have arranged some visits and activities as detailed below. 

 

Family visit  

We would like to invite you and your child to come and visit the school for a family visit lasting around 20 minutes. You will meet your child’s teacher, have a brief tour of the school and be able to ask questions.  

Please come to the main entrance through the front playground and ring the bell for the office. 

 

Classroom visit and parents meet  

You and your child are invited to visit the school on Thursday 18th May from 1:30 to 3:00 PM. You will be able to meet other parents and hear more information about starting school. We have invited some of our partners to come and share with you how they can help too. During this time the children will go and spend some time in class with their new teacher and other pupils already in school. 

 

Sports Day  

You are invited to bring your child to join our Sports Day on Wednesday 31st May at 10:00 AM. The children will be able to join in with a variety of activities along with our younger pupils. This will be on St Roch’s Secondary’s 4G Football Pitch. 

 

Teddy bears picnic 

We invite you to bring your child (and their favourite Teddy!) to our Teddy Bears’ Picnic on Wednesday 7th June from 1:30 to 2:45 PM. There will be games and a snack will be provided. 

 

We look forward to meeting you and your child and welcoming you to the Royston family. Please do not hesitate to contact the school if you have any questions. 

 

Countdown to Christmas Newsletter

It’s beginning to looking a lot like Christmas!! Santa’s busy elves are hard at work preparing for a magical festive season in Royston Primary! See below for things happening!

Christmas Choir

The choir are practising like crazy…and they sound amazing! We have lots of locations for them to sing at…and shake their bucket! See below…

  • 1st December – Buchanan Galleries 12-1pm
  • 2nd December – Fort Retail Park 1-2.30pm
  • 7th December – Springburn Tesco (St Rollox) 10-11am
  • 8th December – Fort Retail Park 3-4.30pm
  • 9th December – Forge Asda 1.30-2.30pm
  • 14th December – Buchanan Street 1-2pm
  • 15th December – Asda Robroyston 1-2pm
  • 16th December – The Forge Shopping Centre 11.30-12.30pm and 1-2pm

Please feel free to pop along to any of the locations to watch our enthusiastic choir perform! (Dress warm for the Fort – outdoor only!)

Christmas Panto – Oh yes we are!!

Hooray will! We all love a panto!!

P1 and P3/2 will be attending Platform Theatre in Easterhouse to watch the panto – Sleeping Beauty on 14th December. Pupils will have an early lunch and leave school by bus at 12.30pm, returning in time for 3pm.

P4/3, P6/5 and P7/6 will be attending King’s Theatre Glasgow to watch Beauty and the Beast on 13th December. Pupils will have an early lunch and leave school by bus at 12.20pm. Please note: the show doesn’t finish until 3.30pm so pupils will not be back in Royston until 4pm APPROX.

The total cost for this is around £2000 this year and we ask that each child brings in a small contribution of £3 for the outing. Pupils can take a small pocket size snack with them.

Roystonhill Community Hub Christmas Fun Day 13th December

Whilst the upper school are attending panto our younger pupils (P1 and P3/2) will be going along to the above community event. There will be real reindeer, Santa and hot chocolate to be enjoyed!

Christmas Lunch

This will be on the 15th December. Pupils can enjoy a three course lunch with crackers and music…all served to them at their table by the staff! Order forms were sent out last week – please return this if your child wishes their lunch that day.

Santa’s Grotto

Our Grotto is back again this year…bigger and better! Pupils are in for a treat on 8th/9th December with Christmas crafts, stalls, a Christmas movie and hot chocolate! The grotto is decorated beautifully for the pupils…always the WOW factor!

Pupils can bring some money to buy some lovely Christmas gifts if they wish!

Infant Christmas Nativity!

Our primary 1 and P3/2 pupils will be performing their very own Christmas Nativity. There is always a fun theme to this and pupils give a huge effort with singing, dancing and narrating. The nativity will be held on 16th December at 10am and we invite parents, family and friends along as our audience. I do hope you can manage along; it always proves to be a memorable event! Tea/coffee and cakes for all adults!

Christmas Parent Hamper

Tickets for this year’s parent hamper will go on sale 5th December and draw will take place 21st December. Tickets for parents are £1 and can be bought from the school office. If you are sending money with your child please tell them to go to the school office to get tickets.

Christmas Jumper Day

Christmas jumper day this year is on the 16th December! No money needed – a free event!

Christmas Parties

P1, P3/2 and P4/3 Christmas party will be on the 20th December.

P6/5 and P7/6 party will be in the 19th December.

Pupils can come to school dressed for their party in the afternoon. If you would prefer to take your child home at lunch time to get them dressed please let us know by calling the school office beforehand. We can let you know collection and drop off arrangements when you call.

School Christmas Fayre 2022

Back by popular demand our school Christmas Fayre on 1st December! Our Parent Council are working very hard in preparation for this extravagant event linking in with the Royston Christmas Light Switch on! Christmas Fayre will be from 5-7pm, with the lights going on at 5.30pm. There will be lots of games, things to buy and prizes to be won! Please do come along and bring friends, family and neighbours!

Christmas Holidays

Pupils will finish school at 2.30pm on 22nd December 2021

Pupils will return to school at the usual timings on 4th January 2022.

 

Report a Glow concern
Cookie policy  Privacy policy

Glow Blogs uses cookies to enhance your experience on our service. By using this service or closing this message you consent to our use of those cookies. Please read our Cookie Policy.