Malawi Fundraising

Dear Parent/ Carer

Fraser Gilmour, our Active Schools Coordinator is one of a group of people going to Malawi this year, representing the city and helping the children in Malawi. Malawi Leaders of Learning (MLOL) has been established to improve education in Glasgow and Malawi. It is a project and Scottish partnership that has been forged between the council’s education services and Malawi’s South West Education Division. It’s a two-way charity and development scheme aimed at sharing good practice, resources and teaching expertise between the two countries and ultimately improve the quality of learning and teaching in a challenging environment. Fraser has to raise funds to pay for his travel and has asked all the schools in the Learning Community to help. Fraser is responsible for organising Sport and Physical Activity sessions in Royston and he has been successful each year in securing Lottery Funding for Lunchtime and After School coaching. This is why all the clubs are free. The money Fraser secures pays the coaches, and we feel that we want to support and help him fund his trip to Malawi.

We will be organising fundraising events in the coming months and all money raised will go to Fraser to help fund his trip. As you know, through our Healthy Fruit Tuckshop, Malawi is supported, as the beneficiary from our profits. This is another way we are supporting Malawi, as well as Fraser.

Fraser’s contact details are below if you would like to find out more about the project or you would like to get involved with the fundraising.

E-Mail: FGilmour@smithycroft-sec.glasgow.sch.uk

S Kelly
Headteacher

February Newsletter

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Dear Parent/Carer

Yet another month is past and the term is well under way. There is a lot of things happening in school in the coming weeks, please keep this newsletter safe.

Parent CouncilThanks to the members of the Parent Council who were able to make the latest meeting. The members of the Council are busy working with the school for the benefit of all the children. Hopefully in the coming weeks and months things around this work will be more apparent, especially in the playgrounds.

After School Clubs Our clubs are once again proving to be very successful, with full attendances at almost all the clubs. Can I remind parents and carers that pupils who sign up for clubs are expected to be here every week. If you have to take the pupils away, can you please provide a letter/ note letting us know. This ensures that everyone is kept safe at the clubs.

Scottish Showcase A huge thank you to everyone who made both the Burns Supper and the Scottish Showcase such a great success. It was fabulous to see the confidence in all our pupils, as they sang songs, recited poetry and danced their way around the hall. The showcase events are a marvellous way to highlight the hard work of both staff and pupils, and a chance for parents and carers to share in that work.

Website – Over the past few years, we have tried to embrace the digital age and the use of Social Media such as Twitter, to keep parents and carers fully informed of life in the school. Pupils have shared their learning through the Twitter account (@RoystonPrimary) and the computing club have been blogging about their work too. With this in mind, we have changed the school website to make it easier to add things to and more accessible to more parents and carers. Please take time to visit the new site (https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/gc/roystonprimary/) Part of this new site is a facility to translate letters and information into various different languages. Hopefully, this will prove to be useful in the school. Thanks also to the handful of parents, carers and grandparents who were able to come along to this year’s Internet Safety Discussion. I know from speaking with them, they found the afternoon to be very informative and well worthwhile.

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