Week 3 Menus for next week. Nursery Loving Lunches: See School Menu below: WELCOME BACK What a treat it has been this week to have everyone back in the building together. What a team! ARRIVING AND LEAVING Many thanks to all adults who are adhering to our safety rules in and around school premises. All adults are asked to maintain a 2m distance from other families and wear a face-covering
Each year, we receive Pupil Equity Funding (PEF) from the Scottish Government. This must be spent on the pupils in the school, with the aim of closing our attainment gap. Click here to see how we have made use of this year’s fund.
Here we have Week 2 menus for next week; Nursery Loving Lunches above and the school menu below. RETURN TO THE BUILDING FOR P.4-7!! At last, the time has come for us all to get back together in person. Our Nursery – P.3 pupils have settled in well over these past 3 weeks and I expect the same from our older pupils as we get back into a new
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
