Mrs N’s Notes, 13.6.20

I hope that our newsletter today can answer some of the questions I know you have around our eventual return to school and nursery.  I have spoken to some of you this week and I know that many of your concerns centre around the numerous rumours flying around social media.  So I hope to tell you the truth as I know it today, mid-June.  Please keep in mind that these

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Kirkshaws Goes Live!

We have exciting news to share! To celebrate Health Week together as a school we have planned to use the video function within Teams to bring some Kirkshaws Live Lessons into the comfort of your own house.  This is the first time we will be trying out this technology but our staff are very excited in sharing some learning experiences with our pupils and further increasing our communication with families.

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Mrs N’s Notes – 16 May 2020

How are you this week? Hopefully you’ve managed to get out as a family a wee bit, making the most of this lovely weather. Sometimes it’s hard, but we need to keep looking for the positives in every day, don’t we. I can’t thank Kirkshaws staff enough for the mountain of work they continue to do behind the scenes to support us all this term, as well as planning for

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P1 Transition Virtual Tour videos

Unfortunately, due to the school closures, new P1 pupils who are planning to join our school next session cannot get the chance to visit our school.  However, every Monday for the coming weeks, we will upload some videos to our app, Twitter and website to give the pupils and their families a Virtual Tour of Kirkshaws! We hope this provides at least a little flavour of what life and learning

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Poita App Problem

There seems to be a problem with the Piota App this morning. We are aware of this and are currently in communication with Piota to try to rectify the situation. However, this will not stop us keeping in touch!  Any urgent communication will be sent out via Groupcall texts and news updates will be posted here and on Twitter. Although many of you may access Home Learning grids on the

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Mrs N’s Notes, 8.5.20

Good Morning! I hope you have plans to relax today and enjoy the VE Day celebrations, all be it a little differently to the way we had planned!  Like so many of our plans for this term, we’ve had to adapt and find other ways to connect, communicate and carry out vital tasks. Over the past week we have been delighted to see some pupils logging into Glow Teams.  This

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