Parent Letter April20

Please click on the link at the top of the page to access a letter from Mrs Webster.

Take Care and Stay Safe!

Assembly 22.04.20

Hi everyone!

Please join us in our assembly today, click the green link at the top of the page!

Good Morning everyone and welcome to our Easter Assembly. This is much different to our usual Whole School Assemblies because we can’t be with each other and sing together.

Hopefully you have someone with you who will help you take part in our Assembly today. They could read some of the harder words, ask you questions about the Easter Power Point Presentations and help you join in with a song or 2!!

If you can remember the words, try singing our Firpark Song –

“Welcome to our Firpark Family where you can be you and I can be me…….”

Press play below to listen to our song – 

Now we’re going to think about Easter, what we usually do around this time and what might happen in different parts of the world.

We have included powerpoints for Infants and one for Juniors however you might want to have a look at both and think about the pictures and words that you see and hear.

Easter Assembly – Juniors

Easter Assembly Infant

Some thoughts might be:

1. What do we know about Easter?
2. Have we heard about the Easter Story?
3. What people were involved in the story and what happened?
4. Think about the time of year, the Season and what we see?
5. What about traditions – what do they give each other (Easter eggs!!) and what do we like to eat?
6. How do you celebrate Easter with your family? Some people may not celebrate Easter but may enjoy the holiday instead. We are all different and make choices that work for us and our families.

Can you remember one of our favourite Easter songs – “We have a King who Ride’s a Donkey…..” try singing along.

We Have A King Who Rides A Donkey – Click Here

As you know we have been collecting money for charity over the past few weeks by having Crazy Hair Day and our Easter Raffle – we’ll count the money raised and send it to SCIAF when we get back to school.

When we finish for our 2 week holiday on Friday it will be very strange as we haven’t been together with our friends in school, for the last few weeks. Hopefully we can put our school work away and have some fun with our families before getting back to work at the end of 2 weeks.

We’re now going to finish our Assembly as we always do by joining in with “Shalom my Friend……” these words are really important to us just now as we are all really looking forward to meeting up again!!

Shalom – Click Here

Happy Easter and Best Wishes to all our fantastic children and their families from all the staff in Firpark Primary.

Take care and be safe until we can all meet up again xxxx

The links for assemblies above will allow you to download the Infant and Junior Easter Assemblies and talk through this with our boys and girls! These may not download on mobile devices unless you have the Microsoft PowerPoint app on your phone but should be easily accessed on a Laptop or Desktop Computer. Thanks!

Infant Assembly Song

Good morning friends, good morning friends,
We’re glad that you are here today,
We have a busy day before us,
With lots of work and lots of play

*Repeat very quietly then again very loudly!

Infant Assembly

ASSEMBLY SONGS

Juniors Assembly Song
(Written by the P7 pupils of June 2012)

Hello boys and girls,
Hello ladies and gents,
We’re here to listen to everyone today and the next.
We’re sitting in assembly to see whats going on,
Maybe a story and lots and lots of songs,
So welcome to Firpark School,
Our Junior Assembly
We hope you have a nice nice time and never want to leave

Click Here For The Assembly

Hi all,

We are hopeful that this toolkit will help support your child at home during this time of uncertainty. For a child with autism, visual supports can help to decrease anxiety and increase independence across all settings. This toolkit provides you with all that you will need to help structure your child’s day at home, no matter his/her age.

Click Here to Access Support Kit

We are missing everyone today and are available for support through ClassDojo if you need us!

Thanks

Firpark Primary School

Dear Parents /Carers

Following advice from the Scottish Government to close educational establishment today, we fully recognise that from today children and young people may be at home for a long period of time and we have produced a suite of materials to support their learning – further information about materials will be sent to you in due course.

Understandably, this is an unsettling time for children, young people and their carers and many people will be feeling anxious about the current situation and the impact that it may have on the health and wellbeing of family, friends and colleagues.

For this reason we have also included information to help you reassure your child.  Many of these resources have been developed in collaboration with South Lanarkshire Council.  The attached document provides some advice and guidance.

We will continue to up-date this resource and ensure that it is widely available online.  You will be notified of these updates next week.

Thank you for your on-going support during these challenging times.

Regards

Derek Brown
Executive Director

Click Here- Supporting Children Interactive

Siemens Mobility STEM Ambassadors visited Firpark Primary School last Thursday. They hosted lots of engaging workshops that all of our pupils thoroughly enjoyed.

The STEM Ambassadors had a fun day teaching us how complex signalling can get used using a large wooden layout.

Thank you so much to @BRIO_UK for donating their SmartTech Trains that made the workshop possible and so @SiemensMobility(Glasgow) who donated the resources to the school after the workshhop!

Click here to see pictures of our amazing day!