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Children who will be 5 years between 1 March 2017 and 28 February 2018 should be registered for education week beginning the 16th to the 20th January. If you live in the catchment area for Keir Hardie Memorial Primary School please come to school Monday- Friday between 1.30pm-3.00pm.

Bring your child’s birth certificate and proof of address. (Council tax bill/copy of missives or let agreement. The First Stop Shop will give copies of your Council Tax bill if you do not have one)

We look forward to meeting all of our new starts next week.

 

Due to adverse weather forecast for tomorrow (Friday 23rd) we have decided to remain in the school for our Christmas service.  The service will begin at 11:30am and all parents/carers are invited to join us.  The service will last around 30 minutes.

 

The school will close at 2:30pm.

We would like to thank you for all your support in 2016 and wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2017.

Christmas Parties

P1 – P6  Christmas parties will begin at 1.15pm in the afternoon. Children can be collected from school anytime from 12.00pm on the afternoon of their party to go home for lunch and get changed. Children are also welcome to stay in school and get changed during their lunchtime. The party will finish at 3.00pm and children should be collected from school at 3.00pm as normal.

Primary 2 parents are welcome to come back to the party at 2.15pm to see our ‘Special Visitor’.
Primary 1 parents are welcome to come back to the party at 2.30pm to see our ‘Special Visitor’.

 

Monday 19th  pm – Primary 5 and Primary 6

Monday 19th  evening – Primary 7 ( party will be from 3.30pm – 5.00pm )

Tuesday 20th  pm – Primary 3 and Primary 4

Wednesday 21st  pm – Primary 2 (parents 2.15pm)

Thursday 22nd  am – All Nursery children

Thursday 22nd pm – Primary 1 (parents 2.30pm)

 

Christmas Raffle

The children have been buying raffle tickets for our annual Christmas raffle. This will be held on Friday 23^rd December and children have up until Thursday 22^nd December to buy tickets. They are priced at 20p per ticket and all monies raised will be donated to charity. All of the gifts that the children receive in the raffle are donated by school staff.

 

Christmas Sing – a long

As part of our end of term treat, we are having a Christmas Sing-along on Friday afternoon. This is for children only, and is sure to get them in the Christmas spirit!

 

Church Service  

Our annual Christmas service will be held in Newarthill and Carfin Parish Church on Friday 23^rd December 2016 at 11.30am. The children will walk to and from the church with staff. We would like to invite all parents to join us at the church. Any parents wishing to take their children home from the church are free to do so. To ensure the children’s safety, we would ask that all parents request this from the class teacher and ensure they know that the children are leaving from the church.

 

SCHOOL CLOSES AT 2.30PM ON FRIDAY 23^rd DECEMBER

 

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday! We will see all children back at school at 9.00am on Monday 9^th January.

Congratulations to Alfie Brown in primary 1 who won the infant Christmas card competition organised by Marion Fellows, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw.  Alfie’s design was chosen from hundreds of entries and will be used as her official constituency Christmas cards.

Alfie attended a presentation ceremony on Friday and received a framed copy of his design, a mug, cards with his design and a box of sweets to share with his class.

Well done Alfie, we are all very proud of you!

 

Peter Nolan, our local councillor has asked us to inform everyone of a local event taking place on Saturday 3rd December.  Details are below.

Xmas Tree Event at Top of Loanhead Road

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Saturday 3^rd of December 2016

 

The event is due to start at 3.30 PM leading up to the tree light up by the oldest citizen in the village, Mr Mackie, at 4PM.

A children’s choir will lead the carol singing and

Thereafter hospitality and entertainment, including Santa Clause will begin in the Chapel Hall round about 4.30PM.

 

As you will now be aware, our P2 – P7 Christmas Concert is Mamma Mia – The Nativity! Our Primary 1 nativity is called Not Such a Silent Night. The children are all really excited and have been practising like mad in school and have been loving every minute of it! It really helps us out if you can help the children practise at home. Hopefully you will be familiar with the music and you will enjoy practising with them!!

 

Tickets are now on sale at the school office. Please remember that it is 2 tickets PER FAMILY this year. The show dates are:

Tuesday 6th December – afternoon

Tuesday 6th December – evening

Wednesday 7th December – evening

 

Two tickets per family have been allocated. Please choose your performance and send back your form, indicating your chosen date. Any spare tickets will be put into a hat for any families who request any more.

 

A letter will be coming out to classes tomorrow (Wednesday 24th November) to explain about costumes.

 

Happy Practising!!

 

 

Today, the boys and girls at Keir Hardie came to school in their spots! Everyone participated fully in the event in order to raise money for such an important charity. The effort from our families has been immense with a whole host of homemade spotty pudsey t-shirts, along with official pudsey merchandise and countless spots! We would like to thank you for supporting us to raise money for Children in Need and hope you enjoy looking at some of our dotty children!

 

 

Please click on the image below to download a short clip where you will hear us show our support! 

 

The Econschool ground committee have been very busy gathering all of the autumn leaves from the playground. The leaves can become slippy and we want to make the playground safe four our pupils. We recycled the leaves into the brown bin for garden waste.

Some of our committee did a litter pick around the perimeter. We were pleased to find that there was not much to gather and that most of it had come in from outside the school. This showed that the keir Hardie boys and girls are trying hard to put all of their litter in the bin!

Children will receive a letter today regarding after school clubs starting next week.  These letters should be returned to school as soon as possible to guarantee a place within the preferred club.  Extra curricular activities are very popular in Keir Hardie and therefore places are given on a first come first served basis.  Once the club is full, children will be added to a waiting list.  Parents will be informed if your child has a place within an after school club.