Mrs N’s Notes, 5.3.21

Week 1 Menu coming up! School Lunches: Nursery, Loving Lunches below: PLANNED RETURN TO FULL TIME SCHOOL, MONDAY 15TH MARCH Please click here to read a letter from Derek Brown, Executive Director Like you, we were delighted to hear the First Minister announce the plans to have all P.4-7 pupils back in the classroom from Monday 15th March.  We intend to revert back to the plans we were following before

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Mrs N’s Notes, 26.2.21

Week 3 menus for the week ahead ECO FOCUS WEEK We are looking forward to an Eco focus in the week ahead.  Whether working at home or in the building, all classes have an exciting range of activities planned that can be carried out both indoors and outside.  We are very proud of all our Eco awards and we are not going to let this period of Lockdown get in

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Mrs N’s Notes, 19.2.21

WELCOME BACK Click here to read a letter from Jason Leitch explaining the return to school for some children next week. This NURSERY LETTER is also being emailed to all nursery families today too. We look forward to welcoming back our nursery pupils and those from P.1-P.3 from Monday 22.2.21.  Our staggered drop off and pick up times will continue at the infant gate.  As before, please try to stick

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Learning at Home – Parent Guides

During our survey of parents during this current period of school closure, some people requested ‘how to’ guides covering literacy and numeracy topics. Do you know we have a range of these guides already on our website? Click here to go straight to the right web page. In future, if you want to revisit these, you will find them under the LEARNING AND TEACHING menu at the top of the

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Mrs N’s Notes, 12.2.21

RETURN TO THE SCHOOL BUILDING At this point we have no more information regarding the planned return to school for key year groups announced by the First Minister recently.  We are expecting confirmation of this early next week and we will then be in touch with how this will look at Kirkshaws in both the school and nursery. REMOTE LEARNING We have seen a dip in pupil engagement this week. 

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Mrs N’s Notes, 5.2.21

HOLIDAY WEEKEND Thank you for all your efforts during Week 4 of home learning.  I know this is not easy for anyone and we really appreciate all your efforts at home to keep your children motivated.  We will continue to keep the learning opportunities coming on Teams.  However, it is time for our Mid-term Holiday.  Please walk away from screens this long weekend and enjoy the break.  Don’t expect to

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Mrs N’s Notes, 29.1.21

Week 3 of Remote Learning complete!  Thank you for your continued support.  We are delighted at how well our pupils have adapted to our new, temporary method of schooling and we know that is due to all the support they are receiving at home.  While much of our communication needs to take place using Microsoft Teams, we would continue to remind you that we do not expect pupils to be

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Mrs N’s Notes, 22.1.21

Another Remote Learning week over and a few more to come. The announcement from the Scottish Government this week means that we will be planning a few more weeks of Remote Learning, taking us up to mid February.  Each day and week that passes, we are becoming more confident in using different digital tools to bring our learning to life!  I keep thinking back to where we were when we

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Mrs N’s Notes, 15.1.21

THANK YOU ALL! What else can I say?  We all approached this week with some trepidation, not sure how it was going to work, but we’ve nailed it!  As a school community, everyone has played their part and we are now in a position where more than 90% of pupils have engaged with their online learning this week.  What an achievement for week 1! However, we know things are not

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Mrs N’s Notes; Home Learning, January 2021

Happy New Year and welcome back to a new way of learning to kick start 2021. As outlined by the First Minister, next week we begin another period of remote learning; with Kirkshaws staff teaching and supporting our pupils as they work at home.  All school staff have spent this week planning, to ensure we have a full range of learning experiences ready to share with you, starting on Monday

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