Curriculum Information – Page 2 – Stane Primary School and Nursery Class

Numeracy Open Morning – Tuesday 20th September

Dear Parent/Carer,

Stane Primary School Nursery Open Day September 2016

On behalf of the teachers and management team, I am delighted to invite you to attend our Primary 1 to 7 Open Morning on Tuesday 20^th September 2016.

The morning will begin at 9am in the Main Hall, where I will highlight our key improvement priorities for the school session and share some updates about the year ahead.

At approx. 9.30am, you will have a chance to visit your child’s classroom to see them working on Numeracy and Maths. At 10am, all parents can either visit their second child’s classroom, remain in the first class or join me in the hall for refreshments. Parents of pupils in P2-7 will depart at 10.30am

Parents of Primary 1 pupils are invited to remain to see an Active Literacy lesson with their child from 10.45am- approx. 11.30am (This replaces the Active Literacy session postponed from the information session last term).

As we have limited space, a maximum of two adults per family may attend, and these must be parent/carers or grandparents. Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate children under school age for this event and ask you to make alternate arrangements.

Class Teachers will not be able to discuss individual children during this time, however, Mrs. Scott and I will be available throughout the session to answer any questions.

I look forward to seeing you at this event.

Yours sincerely

Mr. Scott Clark

Head Teacher

PE Days

Planned Physical Education Days

As part of the Curriculum for Excellence, children participate in two hours of physical education per week.

At Stane Primary, each class have two lessons of one hour as detailed below.

Children are required to bring appropriate gym kit: white t-shirt, black shorts and suitable indoors shoes. All jewellery should be removed for PE lessons.

If your child is unable to participate, please inform the class teacher in writing.

These times will may be subject to change in the event of whole school activities or special events.

Please note that in periods of good weather, some PE lessons may take place outdoors.

Promoting Positive Behaviour

The revised Promoting Positive Behaviour, Celebrating Success and Ethos policy was sent home with pupils today. It explains important changes to how the Good to Be Green system will work this year.

Download an electronic version by clicking on the image below.

Parent/Carer Questionnaire Results 2016

Thank you to everyone who attended the recent Parent/Teacher Consultations. At the meetings on 19^th May 2016, parents/carers were invited to complete the annual Parent Questionnaire which helps us determine priorities for development.

A copy of the results can be downloaded here.

We are delighted to receive such positive feedback and constructive comments for improvement.

As a result of this information, we aim to:

Continue to ensure Parents/Carers are kept fully informed of school news and events.
Review our Homework policy to ensure this meets the needs of the children.
Revisit our Anti-Bullying policy and establish a pupil-led ‘Anti-bullying’ Committee.

Starting Up Micro-Tyco

OUR PROJECT

In school, P5/6 & 6/7 have started a new topic/project on a charity called Micro-Tyco.

Micro-Tyco is a competition that runs every February and November. Micro-Tyco gives a donation of £1 and the school has to raise as much money as possible from that £1. To raise this money, our school is taking part by selling goods made of re-usable waste, which ties in with our Eco topic…

The money made by this project is then invested by a charity called WildHearts who help to give loans to poor entrepreneurs in developing countries by means of a business loan.

In class we have set up our own company

We all have jobs.

There are 2 bloggers who write the posts all the time updating you on the progress of the project.
There is 1 manager and 2 assistant managers who will oversee the project.
There are 2 photographers who will keep a visual record.
There are 3 accountants who will keep track of all the money coming in and out…
There is a resource manager, who is responsible for ensuring that we have enough supplies.
The advertising manager is in charge of the team promoting the goods.
There is a sales and marketing team.
The quality control team ensure that the goods are of good quality and suitable to be sold.
Finally there is the production team – some would say the most important because without them we would have no goods to sell.

We have been busy in class making products that we can sell to the community.

Some people have been making book marks and lots of other creative crafts.

Watch this space for more information…