December Newsletter

There are a number of important outings and events happening over the coming weeks. I do hope you can join with us and support your children at as many as possible…

Christmas Choir
The choir have been practicing very hard with Mr Doherty during lunch times and now have a full set of Christmas carols and songs to perform. Dates for performances are:

• 7th December – Forge Shopping Centre 11.30-12.30 and 1-2pm (at the Primark end)
• 9th December – Glasgow Fort – 2.30-4pm (near to Next)
• 17th December – St Rollox Tesco 11-12pm
• 18th December – At school service – 9.45am
• 21st December – The Forge Asda – 1.30-2.30pm

It would be great if you could come along and see the pupils sing for a short time in order to show your support. Continue reading “December Newsletter”

November Newsletter

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”

Creating Landmarks

Over the past few week we have been working on a project about creating Scottish landmarks in Minecraft. However before we get to Minecraft we need to plan our drawings first. We did this by first sketching out the various views of our landmark, before moving on to drawing them on A4 squared paper.

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We were about to go create them in Minecraft and the technology beat us us. Our newly imaged Raspberry Pi’s didn’t want to talk to our monitors so we went to plan B which was make the models using real blocks. To do this we had to go round all the classes and borrow the blocks they all use for counting. However it was helpful to see our pictures start to come to life and we are really excited about getting them created in Minecraft soon as the pi’s are now sorted out.

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Free Meals/Clothing Grant Entitlement

Please can I remind all parents to apply for clothing grant and free meal entitlement, if you are eligible to do so. Even if your child is in P1-3 and receives a free meal anyway, you should still apply in order to access clothing grant. If your child has recently progressed to primary 4, they will now no longer automatically receive a free meal, you will have to apply for this. Please contact the school office for the correct paperwork, and if you require assistance in completing the information, please do let us know. We know from statistics that there is quite a significant gap between those eligible for grants and those taking up the grant. Further information can be found on the Glasgow City Council website  or please contact us for more information.

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