Mrs N’s Notes, 26.5.22
Week 3 menu coming up!
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT AND PEF SURVEY
Many thanks to everyone who contribute to our survey last week. It is now closed and the results can be seen here:
Responses to Parental Survey, May 22
This will help us to form our school improvements for next session.
HEALTH WEEK HIGHLIGHTS!
I can’t tell you how delighted we were to invite families in to join us with Health Week once again this year. It certainly makes it more memorable for our pupils when they see members of the community taking part.
Our 1K Sponsored walk went down a treat with 102 family members joining us throughout the day. 5 pupils had this guess on their sponsor forms, so Mrs Quinn had to make a prize draw from the correct forms to select the winner of the gift cards. Aaron McG in P.4 was the lucky one who had the correct guess on his card! So far you have raised a total of £566.30! We will be happy to accept any further donations over the coming weeks. Thank you all!
We may not have had glorious weather for our Sports’ Days, but that didn’t dampen the spirits. All infant classes, including our nursery, took part in the wide range of activities set up on the pitch with great enthusiasm and bags of energy. Unfortunately our Senior Sports had to be cancelled as the rain kept coming and the grass was too slippy to go ahead!
Many thanks to the adults and older brothers/sisters who came along to play in the adults vs pupils netball, basketball and football matches. Tight matches every day, with all teams being able to hold their heads high at the end…superb sportsmanship by all!
But there was also so much going on all week that families may not have seen! We have had a Health Fair, an amazing obstacle course, new sporting resources, a cooking room, a Health assembly and a First Aid post all set up in school this week, with every class timetabled to take part.
We will never be able to thank Mr Sharp enough for all the work he puts into Health Week to make sure we all have a ball! He truly is AMAZING!
TRANSITIONS
Our P.7 pupils spent 2 full days at Coatbridge High School this week. They had the chance to meet their new classmates from all the local primary schools and work with their new teachers in a wide range of subjects. In addition, our P.7 staff had the opportunity to work with colleagues from the high school to moderate classwork and ensure we all have shared expectations at this stage of the learning pathway.
We can’t wait to welcome our new P.1 pupils on Monday afternoon to visit their new classrooms too. All families have been invited to join us on Monday afternoon at 2.00pm.
JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS
Next week we will be joining in with the Active Schools plans for the Platinum Jubilee. On Monday we will Jump for the Jubilee, on Tuesday we will Jog for the Jubilee & on Wednesday we will Jive for the Jubilee! So we would suggest all children wear sports kit on Monday & Tuesday and comfortable clothes for all kinds of dancing on Wednesday! 💃 🕺
PARENT COUNCIL
Our Parent Council AGM took place on Monday evening. Thank you to everyone who continues to support this work. If you would like to be involved, please contact me through the school office and I will connect you with some of the members.
SCHOOL GROUNDS REMINDERS
It has been some time since we were able to welcome parents and carers into our playgrounds and as a result it has been a while since I’ve sent out reminders regarding our general code of conduct for all adults in and around our building:
- no smoking or vaping within the grounds, including the car park.
- no dogs inside the boundary fence please.
- please be mindful of the language you use, especially around children (we have had some instances of young children overhearing and repeating swear words they have heard adults say in the playground or at the gate).
- no parking or dropping off in the staff carpark; we do not have the space.
Thank you for your support in this. Working together, we will keep our children safe.
Remember school & nursery are closed tomorrow for the local holiday, then off again next Thursday & Friday for the Jubilee holidays!
