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Category Archives: Primary 6a
SMITHYCROFT SECONDARY SCHOOL OPEN EVENING
Important Reminder
We would like to remind families about Smithycroft Secondary’s Open Evening this week on Wednesday the 23rd October 2024 from 6pm. The event is for Primary 5, Primary 6 and Primary 7 pupils and their families. This is an excellent opportunity to see the school, explore the various departments across the campus and ask any questions you may have about the transition from Primary to Secondary School.
OPEN EVENING FOR NEW P1 PUPILS STARTING IN AUGUST 2025
We are delighted to welcome all pupils, parents & carers of our
Primary 1 Open Evening on Wednesday 6th November (6-7pm).
This event is for pupils starting Primary 1 in August 2025.
At our Open Evening you will have the opportunity to tour our fabulous school and ask any questions you may have.
We look forward to welcoming you all!
New Primary 1 Open Evening – Wednesday 6th November 2024 (6-7pm)
Is your child starting Primary 1 in August 2024? Will they be joining us here at Wallacewell Primary. If so, we would like to invite you to our New Primary 1 Open Evening on Wednesday 6th November 2024 from 6-7pm. This is an opportunity for children and families to take a look around our school and ask any questions that they may have about the transition to Primary School. We look forward to seeing you there.
New Primary 1 Enrolment – August 2025
Our Values – What They Mean to Us
We are delighted to share our refreshed school values with our school community. Our Pupil Council worked with Miss Jardine this week to design visuals for our values and have outlined what they mean to us through their values posters.
Our Commitment to Equality
At Wallacewell EVERYONE IS WELCOME. Last year we refreshed our Equality Policy which highlights our commitment to celebrating and promoting diversity across our school community. We believe that all learners have a right to learn in an equitable environment where all cultures, religions, identities and languages are recognised and valued and where the curriculum responds positively to the diverse needs of individual learners, reflecting the uniqueness of their communities.
As you will be aware, last session we focused on developing understanding of racial equality through our health and wellbeing programme. Through self evaluation and quality assurance, including discussions with our children, we have decided to continue to focus on promoting and developing race equality and anti-racist education again this session.
Unfortunately we are aware of racist incidents that have occurred out with school within our local community. We, and schools across the country, also continue to manage a variety of racist incidents involving pupils in school. Whilst we have little control over what happens within our local communities and cannot control the actions of others, we will not tolerate racism of any kind within our school community. As such any racists incidents, such as name calling, will be managed as per our Anti-Bullying Policy.
To promote and develop racial equality families can support us by—
- encouraging positive and open conversations about race and racism at home
- having conversations about race and racism often, not just when it’s in the news or when an incident occurs
- supporting children to understand the lived experience of ethnically minority groups
Families can find lots of helpful guidance on the NSPCC website below. We would like to thank families in advance for their support.
Click on the link below to view our Anti-Bullying Policy.
Click in the link below to view our Equality Policy.
October 2024 Newsletter
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Click on the link below to view our PATHS Parent Info Leaflet.
PARENT COUNCIL FACEBOOK PAGE
At the beginning of the session our Parent Council created a Facebook page to help families keep up to date with the life and work of the Parent Council.
If you have a Facebook account the Parent Council would like to enocurage families to give them a like and a follow.
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SCHOOL TRANSPORT ASSISTANCE
We to remind families about the School Travel Assistance provided by Glasgow City Council (GCC). GCC provide transport for children and young people who live more than 1.2 miles from their local catchment primary school by the shortest suitable walking route and more than 2.2 miles from their local catchment secondary school by the shortest suitable walking route. This is slightly more generous than the statutory obligation.
Further information about School Travel Assistance, and details on how to apply if you think you may be eligible can be found on the following webpage –
https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/5505/School-Travel-Assistance
We would like to encourage all families who believe they are eligible to apply. This will also help to alleviate some of the road traffic issues we see at the beginning and end of the school day.
