How are you this week?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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 our return to school.\u00a0 Everyone is working from home or in Hubs to keep Kirkshaws functioning: teachers, nursery staff, office staff, support staff, catering and janitorial staff – all of them!<\/p>\n
We continue to look for ways to keep connected.\u00a0 Many people enjoy using Twitter to keep in touch and we love seeing all of your photos and messages.\u00a0 If you would rather send a more private message, please make use of the email addresses on your child’s weekly home learning sheet. More children are logging onto Glow Teams now and this is going to be one of the best ways we have to keep in touch with each child.\u00a0 If you’ve not done so already, please encourage your child to log on.\u00a0 I know some people went onto Glow at the beginning and found it quite boring, but now that Teams<\/strong><\/span> is up and running it is MUCH BETTER<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 Don’t take my word for it – try it out yourself.\u00a0 If I’ve not been in touch with you for a wee while, expect a phone call; I’m trying to phone around families to catch up.\u00a0 As you can imagine, this is taking quite a while.\u00a0 If you want to speak to me at any point, please drop me an email and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.<\/p>\n As a bit of fun, we are joining with most other schools in the Coatbridge Cluster to have a Uniform Day on Thursday 21 May. We are inviting children to wear their school uniforms that day as they work at home – just to remind them they are part of the Kirkshaws family.\u00a0 We are ONE SCHOOL although we are working in hundreds of different locations right now. We are inviting you to post your photos on Twitter or in Teams to give us all another reason to smile!<\/p>\n Looking ahead to the following week; Friday 29 May is our Sports Day.\u00a0 What can you plan for that day?\u00a0 Once again we would love to see your photos or videos.\u00a0 Will you hold an old fashioned egg and spoon race out the back, or will you set up a Ninja Warrior course around your living room? Get your thinking caps on…I’m sure you’ll come up with plenty of fun ideas.<\/p>\n Transition work continues for our current P.7 and new P.1. I hope you all saw the amazing videos Mr Sharp created and posted last Monday.\u00a0 Well, he’s been at it again!\u00a0 Look out for two more videos appearing on Monday at midday.\u00a0 I am sure our current P.1 pupils will be just as excited to see them as our new intake. Happy memories! The receiving high schools are all working to provide similar experiences for our P.7 pupils, which I know is very much appreciated by us all.<\/p>\n Our Parent Council continues to operate, even through these difficult times.\u00a0 They are also thinking about transition.\u00a0 Normally at this time of year they would provide a range of treats for our P.7 pupils.\u00a0 It has now become clear that none of these can go ahead in the foreseeable future, so they have decided to organise Leavers Hoodies as a gift for all!\u00a0 What a lovely thought! Please look out for more information over the coming days.<\/p>\n It is not exactly business as usual, but Team Kirkshaws will not be beaten!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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<\/p>\n