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.

 

November Newsletter

October/November 2022

Here we go with term 2! All sorts of things have been happening and more planned for the upcoming few weeks! Read on to find out more…

Sponsored Skip

I just want to say a huge THANK YOU for all efforts in this sponsor. A massive £1025 was raised in sponsorship…this is the largest total we have ever raised! As I continually say, every penny put into the school fund goes back to the children in some way or other. This money will be used to support all of our December activities for the children…we have big plans this term!

Staff and Staffing

I would like to congratulate almost all of our teachers who have recently completed level 2 accredited Makaton training! They are an amazing bunch who have worked very hard for this accreditation! All classes are learning Makaton now as an inclusive approach to communicating with all learners. Pupils are learning that we are all different and we ALL have our own needs, but just because we may be ‘different’, we shouldn’t be excluded.

I have happy/sad new also! I am absolutely delighted to say that Mrs Mair is expecting a baby! Baby is due in a few weeks and Mrs Mair will finish for maternity leave on 21st November. We can’t wait to see Mrs Mair come back for a visit to have some baby cuddles! Primary 1 will get a new teacher – the new teacher will be confirmed as soon as I know.

We will be having a new administration person joining Mrs Spence in the school office. Her name is Ms Morrison and she will be with us every Tuesday and Wednesday. We look forward to her starting with us next week.

Halloween

Pupils had a fantastic afternoon at their Halloween party! It was great to have everyone back together dress up and ready to party again! Thanks to the parent council for their amazing tuck shop efforts!

Billy Jean King Tournament

All primary 6 and 7 pupils will be attending the tournament at the Emirates Arena next Wednesday. I think they will really enjoy the experience. Pupils will be transported there and back by bus and will need to take a packed lunch. We are hoping a couple of parents will be able to come along and help to supervise in this busy venue – please get in touch with Mr Steer if you would be willing to help.

New P1 enrolment

Next week is enrolment week for new entrants for August 2023. Enrolments forms should be completed online. If you have any issue with this, please let us know and we will try to help. I can’t believe we are talking about the new session already!!

P7 Transition

I have been talking to many of our primary 7 parents about transition to secondary school. It cannot be assumed that our P7 pupils will automatically transfer to St Roch’s Secondary, although this is the popular choice amongst parents. Our catchment secondary school is Springburn Academy. If you do not wish your child to transfer to Springburn, you must complete an online placement request form. The link to the form has been sent to P7 parents already. You should complete this asap to give your child the best chance of success. St Roch’s will only be able to accept placement requests if they have the space and teachers to accommodate them. If you do decide to put in a placement request form for an alternative to Springburn, you will not hear a decision until April/May time. This means that in order to give our pupils some kind of transition experience, we will do some activities with Springburn Academy. This makes no difference to which secondary school your child will eventually attend.

Homework

New homework grids are ready to come to you and your child on Monday 7th November – first Monday of the month. These will be given to pupils and emailed to you, thus meaning that everyone has a copy of the tasks to be undertaken.

Attendance

I’m becoming a little concerned by our number of absences across the school. I totally appreciate there are times when pupils are not well enough to come to school and need to be at home being looked after. However, we have lots of absence for minor colds, coughs, aches and pains, and we have a number of absences that are not explained at all. It is in your child’s best interests to be in school every day. It is much harder for pupils to settle to a routine when it is continually broken by the odd day absence here and there. When we look at each individual pupil’s progress tracker in literacy and numeracy, it is very clear to see how progress and learning is negatively impacted for pupils who’s attendance is under 90%. Please do send your child to school every day possible. If they are unwell in school be assured, we will call you.

Pupil Interim Report

Interim Report cards will come out to you next week. These are fairly short and will give you an idea of how pupils have settled into the new school year.

Parent Appointments

We are literally over the moon to be able to welcome all parents back into school for formal parent appointments! For 2 and a half years we have spent a lot of time talking to parents on the phone due to virus restrictions…and this isn’t great for you or us!! We look forward to welcoming parents to appointments on Thursday 17th November. Appointments will run from 3.30pm-7.30pm. All parents will be allocated an appointment time. If you are unable to make it to your time, please contact the office and we will make an alternative arrangement. Our appointments for parents requiring an interpreter will be on Wednesday 23rd November. I look forward to seeing you very soon.

Toy Sale

We will be holding our annual Toy Sale on the 25th November. We hope this might give you the opportunity to have a clear our prior to Christmas! Please bring any unwanted toys to the school – any time between now and 25th November!

Winter jackets and shoes

Just a little reminder to ensure your child has appropriate footwear and jacket for wet weather. We don’t stay inside when it rains! Apparently there is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing!! As I say to pupils, we live in Scotland – it rains A LOT! If pupils are well dressed, there is no reason for them not to go outside for exercise and fresh air when the weather is rainy! We will only keep pupils inside during breaktimes if there is a weather risk…eg high winds, weather warnings etc.

Photographer

School photographs will be taken on 18th November. We will be taking individuals, family groups and class groups. I encourage you to dress your child smartly in shirt and tie if you have that.

City wise

CityWise mentors will be re-commencing with us again on Monday 7th November for P7 pupils. CityWise mentors support our pupils to explore themselves – their strengths, what makes them unique, friendships etc. and will also have conversations about future plans. Our mentors are from Glasgow University and come to Glasgow to study from all over the world. It is such a great opportunity for pupils to learn and have time to self-reflect.

Committees and Houses

We are soon to re-commence our committees in school…these have been refreshed to increase pupil interest and motivation. We have the following committees…

Pupil Council

Sport Captains

Eco

Equalities

Health and wellbeing

SNAG – School Nutrition Action Group

RRS – Rights Respecting Schools

Digital Leaders

We have decided to change things a little by involving ALL pupils in a committee. Previously it has been a small group per committee but this session we want to involve all our pupils in one committee each. Our first meeting is 11th November – ask your child about it after school that day!

All pupils are also in a House group – Ruby, Emerald, Sapphire or Diamond. Our house groups P1-7 meet on the last Friday of every month and take part in collaborative activities to give them a sense of House belonging!

Parental Engagement Sessions

Week beginning 21st November all classes will be welcoming parents into class! I don’t know exact days and times for this but these will come out very soon. Classes will decide whether they want their parents to come see some work they have been doing or whether they would simply like you to come and work alongside them! Pupils and teachers are thinking about this just now. Look out for more details soon.

Christmas Fayre

Parent council have their thinking caps on just now – hoping to make this Christmas Fayre bigger and better than ever! It is great to be in a position where we can plan our events again – we have been so restricted for so long. Watch out for more details coming soon.

Christmas

Eek – Christmas is fast approaching and we have lots of exciting things lined up! Many of our activities are things we have done before but not been able to do for a while now…it’s nice to get back to the fun stuff again!!

Mr Doherty will soon be looking for choir members. We have a number of gigs lined up for the group to sing their heart out and shake their bucket! Rehearsals will be starting soon! As soon as we have a finalised list of dates we will share this with you.

P4/3-P7/6 will be attending the King’s Theatre Pantomime on 13th December in the afternoon, to see Beauty and the Beast. Pupils will return to school approximately 4pm.

P3/2 and P1 will be attending Platform Theatre on 14th December to see Sleeping Beauty. This is an afternoon performance but pupils will arrive back to school for 3pm school finish.

The cost for all pupils is £3. This is a heavily subsidised cost for the outing and can be paid any time between now and the panto date as above.

We will be having a refreshed version of our Christmas Grotto this year! Pupils will embark on the journey through Christmas with lots of exciting and interesting activities to take part in! I don’t want to spoil any surprises so I can’t share any more information with you! Grotto dates are 8th and 9th December and are in school.

P1 and P3/2 will be performing in the Christmas Nativity this year! This will be in the morning of the 16th December. More details to follow. 16th December will also be Christmas jumper day!

All Christmas parties will be during week beginning 19th December – more details to follow when we have them!

Jane McShane

headteacher@royston-pri.glasgow.sch.uk

 

September Newsletter

August/September 2022

Welcome back all families P2-7 and a warm welcome to our P1 families just starting out on their primary career! It has been lovely to be back into routine again and pupils have had a smooth start in their new classes…although there are a few tired faces just now! Only to be expected! Please have a read at important information below and, as always, please do get in touch if you have any questions or concerns.

Classes

This session we have 5 classes…

P1 with Mrs Mair (and Mr Thomson on a Friday)

P3/2 with Miss Bonner

P4/3 with Miss Kelly

P6/5 with Mrs Young and Mr Doherty

P7/6 with Miss Johnstone (and Mrs Steer on a Wednesday)

Mr Thomson is working in the Orchard this year

Mr Steer is supporting numeracy across the school.

Mrs Steer is supporting literacy across the school.

As you will see below, our attainment figures are healthy and we continue to seek our new and exciting strategies to keep pupils fully engaged in learning.

Attainment across the school

We are very proud to share our attainment information with you – it demonstrates just how hard our pupils and staff are working every day to achieve the best!

In reading achievement is 76%

In writing achievement is 73%

In listening and talking achievement is 84%

In numeracy our achievement is 80%

Almost all percentages have increased and there is a steady upwards trend…good news!!

Attendance

As we embark on another school session it is important to follow up on the above percentages by addressing attendance. If pupils do not attend school with great regularity, they will not achieve to their full potential. We spend a lot of time in school talking about why learning is important and the purpose of aspects of learning. I cannot stress enough that evidence tells us that our pupils who have the highest attendance in school also have the best achievement. At present our school attendance is around 95% – this is very good and tells us that we do not generally have an attendance issue. This is more great news!

Please do try to get your child to school every single day! I know some mornings can be difficult with tired grumpy children, but once they are here, almost all of the time, they are absolutely fine! Please also be assured that we will contact you if your child is unwell – we do care about the pupils and their health and wellbeing is of utmost importance.

Meet the teacher

Yesterday all parents (apart from P4/3 parents) were invited into school for an informal chat with the teacher, a look at some resources and a wee slice of pizza! This event was very well attended – thank you for taking the time to come along! The food looked good but was all gone when I went for a slice!!

I hope you found it useful. Parental partnership is absolutely crucial in your child’s learning journey. Children who have parents willing to engage with school (as much as they can) will achieve more. Your knowledge of your child is the best and we utilise that to best support your child in their learning. Parents have so much to contribute to the learning process! Pupils only spend approximately 15% of their life per school year in school. This means that they spend 85% of their life per school year out of school. We squeeze in as much learning as possible, but the majority of a child’s learning happens out of school! Parents, you are the main educator – steer your child to be the best person they can be!

Communication

In keeping with our environmentally friendly processes, we are trying to increase our email communication with families. Instead of having paper copies of letters and information, we will regularly email these out. Please check your emails every day if possible as we do always have lots of information to share! We have email contacts for almost all families, please let us know if your address changes.

North Glasgow Community Food Initiative

We work in close partnership with NGCFI. Their gardener Charlotte has already started fortnightly sessions with every class. Charlotte plans and leads each session with the support of class teacher where pupils will learn about food technology and science, in addition to literacy and numeracy. We continue to try to ensure pupils are learning outdoor as much as possible. It is fun, healthy and provides an exciting stimulus for learning.

School Improvement Plan

Every year we write a school improvement plan to keep us on track with the improvements we identify as part of our self-evaluation processes…surveys, questionnaires etc. Some of the work we will be doing…

  • Increasing our attainment in literacy and numeracy – what will we do next to keep this moving in the right direction.
  • LCFE – Language and Communication Friendly Establishment accreditation. This is to ensure effective communication for all learners throughout the school – no matter their level of need.
  • Continue to increase our skills around digital literacy – everything changes at such pace…I think we will always be working on this!
  • Continue good work on our LGBT journey with all pupils. Often with our primary pupils this focuses on ‘What makes Me Me!’ We celebrate our differences… eye colour, hair, hobbies etc.
  • Engage in some new research and development work around ‘Anti-bullying’. We will never be blasé about bullying in Royston Primary, and we seek out consistent knowledge and understanding around the theme.
  • Increase our parent/child working groups…as we now move away from lockdown and C-19 restrictions, we are able to welcome many of you back into school for all sorts of purposes! Look out for information on this! Lots of exciting opportunities for family learning.

Parental Partnership

In keeping with the above theme, I wish to thank those who participated in our parental partnership survey in June 2022. This information is really useful to us. We had 29 responses.

Everyone felt they had a trusting and respectful relationship with staff. The individual comments were very positive.

The majority (20 out of 29) felt they could contribute to their child’s learning. We wish to support parents in this more effectively by engaging in more parent and child learning activities. We hope to see an increase in this number over the coming session. There were a few comments about learning only being for ‘in school’ time. As suggested above, we all work together in the learning journey

Almost all (28 out of 29) felt that school are responsive to their child’s needs. This demonstrates that we have a good knowledge and understanding of your child and their learning style.

Almost all (28 out of 29) felt their child was happy and safe coming to school.

This is extremely positive feedback for us and helps us to strengthen the good work we have been engaging in. I would really like for more parents to engage in surveys. In this instance we had 29 responses out of a possible 88.

Homework

As a result of parental and pupil feedback, we are reviewing our homework procedures. There are aspects of our current homework plan that work well and others needing updated and refreshed. As a staff, we will be addressing this, using the information you shared via survey to help us. In the meantime you can expect reading and spelling homework to be coming out very soon. We will keep you updated on developments.

Sponsored Skip

We will be doing a bit of fundraising between now and Christmas! We have already booked some Christmas treats for the pupils and we need to up our school fund to support this!!

Pupils will take part in a sponsored skip on the 6th October. Pupils will engage in a range of skipping type activities, learn some skipping games etc over the course of the day. It will be great fun and I hope we will raise a bit of money!! Sponsor forms will be handed out nearer the time!

Parent Council

Our parent council is beginning to grow! It is great to see some new members join…still room for more though! The parent council support school in all sorts of ways and we rely on their input.

The parent council will be holding the Annual General Meeting on the 21st September at 9.15am in the school dining hall. All parents will be made very welcome. This is an excellent opportunity to strengthen parental partnerships. What better way to find out about your child’s learning in school than to be in the building and see!

A few usual items…

  • Please remember we are a nut free school. We cannot have any products containing nuts at school. We have people with severe allergies and cannot be in the vicinity of nuts.
  • Royston Primary promotes healthy lifestyles. We only allow water to drink in school – best for the body and best for the teeth. Pupils should not bring fruit shoots, fizzy drinks, capri suns etc into school – these things contain high levels of sugar. We also encourage pupils to bring healthy snacks – fruit or vegetable for example. Some pupils are shocked that we would ask this of them because they do not eat fruit and vegetables. It would be great if you could introduce your child to some healthy foods.
  • Dress down day is ALWAYS the last Friday of the month. If we are on holiday the last Friday of the month then we miss dress down day, it does not get carried over to the following week! Usually dress down day costs 50p per pupil – this money goes straight to school fund!
  • We have a soft entry system in Royston Primary. This means that pupils can arrive at school any time between 8.45 and 9.15am, and their teacher will be ready to welcome them. We do encourage pupils to aim for 9am though! This is good practice for having a time schedule and means that formal teaching input will begin a little quicker!
  • Jewellery is not permitted when taking part in PE. This is not a school rule but one imposed by council. In order to satisfy our school insurance, all jewellery must be removed. If your child is unable to remove their own jewellery, please remove it before they come to school on gym days. I also get a little concerned when pupils wear jewellery to school in case it gets lost. Some items of jewellery are very precious and should always be kept at home.

Jane McShane

headteacher@royston-pri.glasgow.sch.uk

0141 552  2872

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