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
