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Beat the Street

Today all of our children were issued with their ‘Beat the Street’ pack. All the information you need is contained within this pack including your child’s fob and a card for your family. There was a lot of excitement at today’s assembly as the initiative was explained to us by Mr Whiteside who has been organising the packs for our children. In school we will be emphasising the importance of safety as we take on this challenge. If you have any questions which aren’t answered in the pack please feel free to contact the school.

We look forward to looking at our school’s score at next week’s assembly.

Clicking the link below will take you to the website!

https://northlan.beatthestreet.me/UserPortal/Northlan

 

 

Outdoor Learning

Never let it be said that the January weather holds back the learning at New Stevenston Primary. Our outdoor space is a major part of the learning experiences for our pupils. Already today we have had upper school classes outside completing their daily mile, Primary 2 visiting the Riccard Johnston Site (The Coby)  and below are pictures of P4 taking part in a ‘Space’ themed orienteering challenge and P5 learning some karate stances as part of their Japan topic.

 

 

 

Dates for your diary

Dates for your diary!

Term 3

Parent Council Meeting – Tuesday 26th Jan 2pm

Mid-term Break Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th February

In-service Day Wednesday 10th February

Parent Council Meeting – 23rd Feb 2pm

Parent Consultations 24th and 25th Feb

Primary 5 Swimming begins on 16th March for 12 weeks

Spring Show: Evening 17th and Afternoon 18th March

Easter Service 23rd March – Wrangholm Kirk 9:30am

Kilbowie Information Meeting – 23rd March 3.15pm

Easter weekend:  Friday 25th March and Monday 28th March

Parent Council Meeting – 29th March

Spring break:  Monday 4th April to Friday 15th April (inclusive)

London Marathon 2016

On Sunday 24th of April Mrs Hendry will be running in the London Marathon 2016, a 26.2 mile race round the city of London.
Once again she will be part of the running team for The National Autistic Society. The National Autistic Society supports people and families living with this lifelong condition and is close to the hearts of many of us in our school community. Mrs Hendry ran for The National Autistic Society in the London Marathon 2015 and raised a massive £3300.

School Support
Last year we supported Mrs Hendry in many ways as a school community. We encouraged her with our well wishes through her training and on the day of the big event I know our positive thoughts helped keep her going through those difficult miles. We also helped in the fundraising process. Last year our pupils were encouraged to ‘guess the birthday’ of Mr Twizzle, a cuddly character knitted by Mrs Hendry herself. In return it was very beneficial to use Mrs Hendry as an example across the school of many of the aspects of our Health and Wellbeing curriculum. It has helped emphasise the importance of setting goals and having the determination to achieve these.
Fundraising
Mrs Hendry spoke at last week’s assembly and introduced the children to Scotty and Morag. Both knitted by herself.

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They both live in Glen Sunnybogle in the Highlands. Scotty is a keeper of wild haggis and Morag is an expert knitter of the clan tartan. She comes with her own knitting bag including knitting needles and wool.

 

Pupils can win these toys by trying to guess the clan name for each toy. It costs 50p for each guess. Children can buy as many clan names as they like.

The clan names will go on sale on from Monday 11th January to Thursday 28th January.   Primary 7 children will be selling the clan names.

 

The draw will take place on Friday 29th January at our whole school assembly.

End of term information

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P1 and P2 & 3 Party children can be taken home for lunch at 12:15pm to get ready

on their party day. If children are staying in school for lunch they can wear party

clothes all day or bring them and change at lunchtime.

 

Church Service

Our church service is due to begin around 9:30am or the length of time it takes us to get

from the school to the church after morning registration. Parents are welcome to join

us for this at the church. Could we ask that to help the school stay together we get our

classes fitted in first of all and then parents fit in around us. Please note if the weather is

bad we will have the service in school and unfortunately cannot invite parents. We will

text in the morning.

 

Christmas Jumpers

To help brighten up the shortest day of the year, Monday 21st December, all staff and children are encouraged to come to school in Christmas themed clothing (Christmas jumpers/t-shirts etc.). No donations necessary!

 

Packed lunches

As we inevitably amass left packed lunches throughout the year all packed lunches will be cleared from packed lunch trolleys on Monday 21st and sent home. Any unclaimed and unnamed boxes will be disposed of. On Tuesday packed lunch boxes will be kept in class to keep the trolleys clear for January.

 

 

NB School closes at 2.30pm on Tuesday 22nd December & re-opens Wednesday 6th January