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What’s on Week Beginning 31st August 2015

	Mrs. Elaine Quate joins the team this week. She will be working as an Auxiliary in the office on a Monday and as an ASNA on a Tuesday and Wednesday. We look forward to having her on the team.
Monday 31st August 2015	Mrs. Scott attending ‘Bi-lateral Integration’ training today. 1.45pm: Mrs. McDonald and Miss Darragh from Calderhead High are visiting to introduce themselves to P7 and meet with Mr. Clark.
Tuesday 1st September 2015	Mr. Clark out of school all day to attend Head of Establishment Meeting at Civic Centre. 11.00am-12pm: Kodaly lessons for Primary 5 begin today.
Wednesday 2nd September 2015	Miss Duffy will be volunteering with P1/2 and P2 on a Wednesday and joins the team today. 9.45am-10.15am: Celebrating Success Assembly 10.15am-10.30am: Tea with Mr. Clark (Gym Hall). 2.00pm: Mr. Clark attending a Nursery Cluster Meeting at Shotts Family Learning Centre. 6.00pm-8.00pm: Parent Council Meeting (all parents welcome to attend).
Thursday 3rd September 2015	9.00am-10.30am: Parent Open Day – All parents/carers invited to attend to share their children’s learning and meet the teacher. Please return the tear-off slip the previously issued letter if you intend to join us. 11.00am-12.30pm: Mr. Clark attending the Cluster Heads Meeting at Calderhead High School.
Friday 4th September 2015	2.15pm-2.45pm: Golden Time

School Lunch Menu this week (click for large image):

What’s on week beginning Monday 24th August 2015

Monday 24th August 2015

9.30am-10.30am: Kilbowie Information Session for P7 Parents (Gym Hall)

Tuesday 25th August 2015

9.00am – 12pm: Mr Clark attending a Nursery Management Course

4.00pm-5.00pm: Kilbowie Information Session for P7 Parents (Gym Hall).

Wednesday 26th August 2015

9.45am – 10.15am: Celebrating Success Assembly

11.00am-12pm: Our new ‘Cybercoach’ System is being installed. This is being funded as part of our Awards for All grant.

3.15pm – 4.15pm: Teaching Staff Meeting. The staff will be learning about a new online Literacy Resource for the school.

Friday 28th August 2015

NON-UNIFORM DAY – £1 per pupil towards School Improvement Fund.

Mr. Clark will be out of school all day for meetings.

2.15pm: Golden Time

PE Timetable from August 2015

Pupils in Primary 1-7 are entitled to two hours of quality PE lessons per week. At Stane Primary School, this is split into two blocks across the week. This session, the class teacher will deliver one PE lesson per week. Pupils in P1-5 will have one lesson per week with Mrs. McLean and P6/7 will have one lesson with Mrs. Scott. The table below shows which day and time each class will have their PE lessons.

Pupils are required to change into suitable PE clothing e.g. shorts, t-shirt and indoor shoes. In line with NLC Policy, children should remove jewellery before participating in PE lessons.

The children in the nursery will have one session in the Gym Hall per week (but are not required to change into PE Kit).

Welcome to the new term!

School re-opens to all pupils on Tuesday 18th August 2015. We are looking forward to welcome back all staff and pupils and meeting the newest additions to our school too.

First day arrangements:

On Tuesday 18th, Breakfast Club will be available to any pupils in Primary 2 to Primary 7 from 8.30am-8.45am. Children should arrive at breakfast club via the P3-7 pupil entrance.

When the school bell rings at 9am, Mr. Clark and Mrs. Scott will collect the children from the playground and escort them to the hall for a short assembly to meet their new teacher and then go to class.

New Primary 1 pupils should arrive via the Main Entrance for 9.45am. A maximum of two Parents/Carers or relatives per child will be permitted to see them into class but we ask you to only stay for a few minutes. Parents of P1 children should return to the hall via the Main Entrance for 2.45pm collection.

All Primary 2s will be dismissed from the infant doors at 3pm. Primary 3-7 will exit via the doors nearest the picnic tables at the red-ash area.

Arrangements from the second day of school:

All children from P1-7 may come to breakfast club from Wednesday 19th August 2015, entering via the pupils doors for P3-7 pupils. Please note that adults are unable to escort the children into the breakfast club, but don’t worry, there are lots of members of staff on hand to assist the children.

P1/2 and P2 will be dismissed from the infant doors at 3pm and P3-7 will exit via the doors nearest the picnic tables at the red-ash area.

Nursery

The nursery session remains unchanged. 8.45am-11.55am for the morning session and 12.45pm-3.55pm for the afternoon session. Returning children should be brought to nursery as normal via the Nursery Door.

The date for new nursery pupils was issued on the offer of place letter (new nursery children start days are staggered to allow individual time with the staff).

On the first day, children should be brought to nursery thirty minutes into the session (9.15am for morning pupils and 1.15pm for afternoon pupils.) For the first day at nursery, pupils will stay for around thirty minutes.

Times for the child’s second day will be arranged between the key-worker and the parent/carer.

Inservice Days

The staff will be working on Friday 14th and Monday 17th August 2015. If you need any information or have any questions, do not hesitate to get in touch with us during these two days.

If you are new to the area, or know anyone with school age children who have moved to our catchment area over the holidays, please get in touch during the inset days and we will be happy to help.

If any of your contact details have changed over the holidays, please let us know.