Category: Health and Wellbeing

Dear Parent/carer,

Every year I make a wish for a calm and smooth June…I’ve not succeeded yet! This year as usual, we have things going on that you will want to know about!

Leavers Event – Our P7 leavers event is finalised for 12^th June 3.45-5.30pm in the Royston Hub. Each P7 pupil is able to bring 2 guests to help them celebrate the end of their primary career! This is such a fun (and emotional) event, and I look forward to it every year!

Primary 7 out again! – We will be taking all our P7 pupils for a special leavers lunch at Cosmos Buffet in St Enoch Centre, stopping off for a wee park visit on the way back! This will be on the 13^th June.

Inclusive Education Day – our equalities committee, along with Miss Armstrong and Mr Thomson, are organising an Inclusive Education day on 14^th June. We pride ourselves on being very inclusive and diverse in our school, and will be celebrating this with some special activities that day. Pupils can come to school wearing any bright colours they wish.

Rights Respecting Schools Award – we will be engaging in an assessment day for our work on Children’s Rights on 18^th June. Pupils work consistently hard in learning, understanding and respecting pupil rights, and we want them to be recognised for their great work with the Silver Award. Keep your fingers crossed we are able to prove to the assessors that we are worthy of the award!

End of Term Prize Giving  – our finalised date for this is 20^th June 10am. All parents, carers, family and friends welcome to come along!

Pupil and Parent Council Fun Day – pupils will be having a fun day on 21^st June – all day!! Lots of fun and games to be had!

I will soon be sending out a parent/carer end of session survey – we would be most appreciative if you could take the time to complete.

Remember to complete your pupil report survey if you haven’t already. This helps us to understand and support your child most effectively.

Kind Regards,

Jane McShane

May 2024

Dear Parent/carer,

I write briefly to give you some information that I forgot to put in the most recent newsletter!

Sports Day is on the 28^th May at St Roch’s Secondary playing field, as per newsletter. The timings were missed out, and they are as follows:

P1-3/2 – 10.00-11.45am

P4/3-P7/6 – 1.00-2.45pm

I really hope you can pop by and enjoy the fun!

School Trips as per newsletter are as follows:

P1-2 – Clyde Valley Farm Park Tuesday 11^th June

P3-6 – Five Sisters Zoo Wednesday 5^th June

Packed lunches needed for trip days.

I forgot to share the cost per pupil will be £4. This can be paid anytime between now and trip day!

Thank you to parents who read the newsletter and let me know of these omissions!

Yours sincerely,

Jane McShane

Head Teacher

Royston Primary

January/February 2024

This session is flying past and Term 3 is no exception…Christmas seems like such a long time ago! Please read on to find out what is going on in Royston Primary.

Staffing

Our staffing situation has been quite fluid this session and continues to be moving forward. Miss Kelly and Miss Johnstone have both had beautiful baby girls! We wish them lots of love and laughter with their little ones! (We don’t tell them about the sleepless nights!!)

Mr Darren has now started in post as support for learning worker. Mr Darren is very familiar with the school and the pupils. He has been a great addition to our staffing and pupils relate very well to him.

Miss Armstrong is now the teacher in P6/5 whilst Miss Johnstone is on maternity leave. She has settled well and is working extremely hard with the pupils in her class.

In addition, both P7/6 and P6/5 have teaching students on their final placements. Miss Slaven and Miss Barton are working hard to bring the pupils exciting and engaging lessons.

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.

Library Visits

All pupils in school are taken to the library once per fortnight. Almost all pupils have library membership now and can chose books to take home to read. Pupils can use the library ANYTIME. When the pupils go with school, the library staff work with our pupils to ensure they are familiar with the library set up. They support them with themes and do activities with them. However, pupils can go change their books at any time – maybe at the weekend! The purpose of this is to encourage pupils to utilise this fantastic resource frequently so please do encourage your child to go to the library sometimes.

After School and Lunch Clubs

At present we have a number of after school and lunch activities running, or about to begin. These are:

P6 EuroQuiz training – Monday lunchtime

P3-5 Art Club – Monday after school

P5-7 Football – Monday lunchtime

P5-7 Basketball – Tuesday lunchtime

P5-7 and P2-4 Dance – Tuesday after school

P2-4 and P5-7 Coding – Tuesday after school

P1-3 Mindfulness – Tuesday after school

Makaton – Wednesday lunchtime

P5-7 Football – Wednesday lunchtime

P5-7 Football – Wednesday after school

P3-5 Board Games – Wednesday after school

P2-4 Fun Sports Club – Thursday lunchtime

P2-4 Multi Sports – Thursday after school

P5-7 Athletics – Friday lunchtime

The majority of our activities are run by school staff and we are extremely grateful to them for doing this out with their contracted working time! Staff undertake activities they think pupils will enjoy and do so in their own time; this is not a requirement for any member of staff. We are so lucky to have the most amazing staff team who care deeply about the pupils and the opportunities they have in school!

If your child wants to join an activity and they haven’t already, please tell them to ask Mr Steer or me about it. There are still spaces in some of the clubs.

School Website

We have been spending some time updating our school website. Please go on and have a peek – there is information for most classes!

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/gc/roystonprimary

 

Anti- Bullying Development work

Following on from last term activities, we have created an action plan to keep us moving forward on the right track. This month we will be launching a first draft of our anti-bullying policy. We will be seeking the views of parents/carers, pupils and staff. We will be looking for a small focus group of parents/carers willing to come and talk to us about it…what they like and what could be better! Please look out for further information on this – coming soon!

Parent Appointments

Parent appointments will be on Thursday 7^th March. This is an opportunity for you to speak with your class teacher and hear about your child’s progress in school. It is crucial for your child that you make every effort to attend – the most successful learners are those who’s parents engage in their learning. If you are unable to attend the scheduled day/time, please contact us; we will be happy to arrange an alternative for you, given the importance.

Primary 7 Residential Trip

Primary 7 pupils will soon be venturing off to Perthshire Dalguise Outdoor Education Centre for their residential experience! This experience will be from 15^th-18^th March. Mr Thomson and Mrs Atala will be the adults attending, and we are extremely grateful to them for giving up their own weekend to accompany our pupils! Pupils will be getting some further information and kit list very soon. There is a small contribution for each pupil to pay of £20; this can be paid any time. (A little heads up, each child needs to take a sleeping bag and pillow this year! If you are struggling with this, tell us and we can help!)

Accreditations!

We have great news to share! As you will know, Royston Primary were working towards gaining accreditation for being a language and communication friendly establishment; and we got it! Pupils and staff have worked tremendously hard on this development and should extremely proud of their efforts. We thank Mrs Steer for leading us successfully through this process. We will continue to sustain the work undertaken as it has made a real difference to consistency across the school.

More great news! Last week we had Glasgow City Council Nurture quality assurance team visit to assess our nurture practice; both in the Orchard and across the school as a whole. This was extremely successful and the team visiting were very impressed with all that they saw. Excellent work staff and pupils; and especially Mr Thomson for leading the way in Royston Primary in Nurture!

Parental Engagement

We have some parental engagement sessions approaching that I would like to share with you:

P3/2 parents are invited into school on 20^th February at 2.30pm. Miss Gilyeat and Mrs Steer have some resources to share with you and are keen to support parents helping their child at home with literacy.

P2/1 parents’ are invited into school on 26^th February at 2.45pm. Mrs Steer has resources and strategies to share with you for literacy.

Mr Thomson is planning for STEM parent and child workshops for Term 4 April-May time. Please look out for further details.

We will soon share with you further details (involving all classes) on parental engagement for week beginning 11^th March – please look out for more information!

Congratulations to those P1-3 parents who completed the Families connect programme over the last few months. They completed a range of activities around maths, languages and well-being that will help them support their child well at home. This programme will run again next year so speak to Mr Thomson if you would be interested.

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.

LGBT Inclusive Education

Primary 7 pupils will be attending a half day workshop at City Chambers on 22^nd February about LGBT Inclusive Education. This is an ALLIES (Action and Learning for LGBT Inclusive Education in Schools) workshop delivered in partnership with TIE – Time for Inclusive Education.

Inclusion, in its widest sense, it a thread that runs through all aspects of school learning; it does not stand alone. It is important that when we use the term LGBT Inclusive education, that we remember this is about educating our children to be INCLUSIVE. It is NOT about encouraging children to make choices about their sexuality, it is simply teaching children that we do not exclude others based on aspects of their personality or who they are, e.g. gender, age, colour, ethnicity etc.

I’m sure you will agree that teaching about equality is important in our world today, and for the future.

Mother Tongue Groups

We have started a new initiative in school to encourage children to speak their home/family language, and celebrate that they can do this confidently! We have approx. 18 languages spoken amongst our pupils and families and this is something we should all be really proud of. What an excellent learning environment where pupils are surrounded by such diversity and culture.

Every second Thursday we invite pupils who speak a different language to English to join with others and engage in activities whilst speaking their family language. The pupils seem to be enjoying these sessions, as are the adults who are in awe of our pupils’ language skills!

We will soon open this out for some parents to get involved. If you speak a different language to English and you would like to get involved, please do let me know!

School Uniform

I have been noticing recently that our standards in uniform have slipped a little. I’m keen to get this back on track and ask for your support in doing so.

We want pupils to be comfortable and ready to learn and so we do not insist on shirt and tie, as some schools do. Pupils can wear shirt and tie or school polo shirt, along with school jumper or cardigan. If you do not have uniform items, please do let us know and we can help.

Pupils wear uniform to represent their school. They wear it to demonstrate their sense of belonging, in addition to safety and security reasons. We want our pupils to be proud of Royston Primary and what it stands for. We want them to wear their uniform to show this. Please support us with this.

We ask that pupils do not wear branded clothing, e.g. Nike, Hugo Boss etc. This clothing is very expensive and could get easily damaged during school activities. It also creates a divide between children who have branded clothing, and those who do not. We simply ask that all pupils wear our school uniform as it creates an ethos of equality for all pupils. Thank you for your support with this.

Jane McShane

headteacher@royston-pri.glasgow.sch.uk

0141 552 2872

 

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…

• 1^st December – Tesco St Rollox 10.30-11.30am
• 1^st December – Glasgow Fort 1-2pm
• 7^th December – Glasgow Fort 3-4.30pm
• 8^th December – Costco Springburn 12-2pm
• 12^th December – Forge Retail Park 12-1pm
• 12^th December – Forge Asda 1-2pm
• 15^th December – Forge Shopping Centre 11.30-12.30 and 1-2pm

Please feel free to pop along to any of the locations to watch our enthusiastic choir perform! (Dress warm for singing outside!!)

Christmas Trips!

This year we are trying out something completely different! We have dodged the whole school panto trips in favour of a Christmas day out for every pupil!

P1-2 will be visiting the Winter Wonderland at Goulding Centre Carluke on 14^th December. Bus will leave school at 11am and return at around 3.30pm – depending on traffic of course! Pupils will enjoy walking the gorgeous Winter wonderland, a visit to Santa’s grotto (where there might be a special gift for them) and lots of fun in the Winter fun fair with fairground rides!

P3-7 will be visiting New Lanark Christmas Spectacular on 6^th December. Buses are leaving sharp at 9am – DO NOT MISS THE BUS! Pupils will enjoy festive ice skating, a visit to Santa’s Grotto, a Christmas show and a ‘Christmas Through the Years’ ride! Buses are expected to return by 3pm – depending on traffic!

Pupils need a packed lunch on their trip day. Pupils should wear school uniform for security reasons. School trips this year are costing around £22 per pupil. We are asking for a small contribution of £4 per pupil to be paid as soon as possible. Many people have paid already – thank you!

Roystonhill Community Hub Christmas Fun Day 12^th December

Whilst the choir are out performing, P1-4 will be visiting the community fun day at Spireview. This is always a great event and is completely free!

Christmas Lunch

This will be on the 13^th 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.

Christmas Grotto

Our Grotto is back again this year…bigger and better! Pupils are in for a treat on 12^th/13^th/14^th 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 15^th December at 9.30am 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 4^th December and draw will take place 15^th 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 15^th December! No money needed – a free event!

Christmas Parties

P3-5 party is on 18^th December 1.15-2.45pm

P6-7 party is on 19^th December 1.15-2.45pm

P1-2 party is on 20^th December 1.15-2.45pm

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 2023

Back by popular demand our school Christmas Fayre on 1^st 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 4.30-6.30pm, 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!

Guess the birthday of BIG TED will run from Monday 27^th November…50p a chance!

Kids raffle with excellent prizes will start next week…50p a strip!

Christmas Holidays

Pupils will finish school at 2.30pm on 22^nd December 2023

Pupils will return to school at the usual timings on 8^th January 2024