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It is our second enrolment  week this week (9th – 13th January) If you are looking to join our Royston family, please visit our school office this week.

To help persuade you to enrol your child at Royston Primary School, today P7 wrote persuasive reports to give you relevant information about the school.

Here is what one of our p7’s wrote today:

Welcome to Royston

I have been at Royston primary for 7 years and I’m going to tell you why you should send your child here. Since I have been at Royston I have had the chance to make amazing friends and learn lots of new things to help me in later life.

Food

Firstly, let’s talk about food and things related to food. We have a magnificent kitchen where the primary 7 usually learn to cook different food and practical skills. Another thing to say is that up at the backlands (up Roystonhill) we have been planting different vegetables. We are hoping to use this food in our cooking classes later in the year.

Clubs

Secondly, let’s talk about the school clubs. Now we have loads of clubs at this school: basketball, football, dance, homework club and many more fun activities for your children to enjoy after school.

Staff

Now let’s talk about the staff. The staff are always trying to help you have the best time at school and the Support for Learning staff are doing what they can to help you with everything. Ms Young is the primary 1/2 teacher and she helps teach children in a positive way. She stays calm when she teaches and supports all children in her class. Mrs McShane is the head teacher and has a way of making sure the whole school runs smoothly with lots of interesting events such as trips and visitors to give some variety to our week.

Playground

Finally, our playground is superb. Luckily, we have a bike shelter to keep bikes and scooters safe and lots of playground games on the ground for the children to play on and the PSAs will always have things for you to play with.

Conclusion

Because of the reasons I have given, you should definitely send your child here because they will absolutely love it here and if you have any further questions contact the head teacher or office.

Our computing club started back again for the term and it’s now 3 years since we first started. We have 2 memebers who have been at the club and not missed any since it started well done Bethany and Jack.

Jack has said that he comes to the club because he thinks the mentor is wonderful, and that he really enjoys the activites we do especially using the makey makey. His most memorable moment is when the Danish visitors came to see us and they got to show them what they had been doing.

Bethany said that she comes to the club because it’s different from other clubs in the school and it’s lots of fun. Her favourite thing that we have done is the makey makey as well!!

Both Jack and Bethany would recommend computing to anyone as it’s lots of fun to do.

Parent Evening
This will be held on the 24th November from 3.30-8pm. You will receive an appointment time and more details about this in the next day or two. Interim reports are being written at present and will be issued prior to parents evening. I look forward to seeing you all then.
Staffing
As always in school, there have been more staff changes. This is unavoidable and is something that we learnt to embrace positively. Every new member of staff will bring a new dimension to a team and we can use this to the benefit of the pupils. Pupils are missing Ms Tarbert but have welcomed Miss Bonner to Royston Primary. Miss Bonner is working in all classes and has settled in well. Pupils have been extremely welcoming and helping her feel ‘at home’.
We will be having teaching students start very soon in primary 1 and primary 2. Students do at times have full responsibility for their class however this is very closely overseen by the class teacher. We have also been very lucky to be chosen for ‘literacy clinic’. This is a programme run by Strathclyde University where some pupils are selected to work with teaching students in order to enhance their literacy skills.
We have a volunteer called Mickdona working with various classes. She is there to support pupils where she can, and gain some experience of school and teaching. Continue reading “November Newsletter”

We have been busy at our clubs. Our Scratch club have been making more animations and we will try and get them up on the blog soon to show you them.

At Kodu club we have been working really hard on our entries for the KoduKup competition as we really want to make sure we get into the final again this year.

On Friday our club have been deisgning games so that we can learn a little more Gaelic and also once we are done teach the younger pupils about Gaelic.

We have enjoyed looking at the vistor map this week and have had vistors from around 10 different countries in the world and hope that over the coming weeks we can add lots more to the map.