Our wonderful parents continue to support our school in many ways and today was no exception. One kind parent has donated a wonderful bespoke hut that we will use to store our Loose Parts Play materials in. Today, it was fitted into our playground and it looks wonderful! I am so grateful for this act of generosity and kindness – it will make a huge difference to our playground.
A small but hard working team of volunteers have also been in the school today to help improve and tidy up some of the office spaces. Thanks to the grandparents and parents who gave of their time this week – we are blessed to have such a supportive community.
This community spirit extended into the evening when the Parent Council held their annual Valentine’s Disco. The children had a great time partying with ‘Looney Tunes’ disco and loved the prizes and certificates too. The children looked wonderful in their disco outfits – it was a lovely night. It was also great to have our school chaplain, Jonathan, join us for the discos too! Thank you to the Parent Council for their ongoing commitment and support.
Today, I was able to visit P5/6 and P4/5 to join in with their Taught Writing lessons. Both classes were working on persuasive writing techniques and were thinking about how to convince their audience with emotive language and succinct key facts. P5/6 were trying to convince their reader to purchase specific types of technology while P4/5 were writing letters to convince their parents to attend the Art Exhibition on Friday. There were lots of Star Writers in the classes – a fabulous achievement.
As P4/5 outlined in their writing, our Art Exhibition takes place on Friday this week and the children are looking forward to their parents coming along to see the work and hopefully to buy some too! You can pop in between 9.30am and 10.30am or 1.45pm and 2.45pm.
Friday will be a very busy day as it is also the first day of our P1 Transition programme. Staff from Allanton, Shotts Family Learning Centre, Dykehead, St. Patrick’s and Stane will be sharing information about moving on to P1. We hope to see as many of our parents there.
Unfortunately, the planned Warburtons Healthy Eating workshop had to be cancelled at the last minute this morning due to an unforeseen problem with the people delivering the session. I hope the children weren’t too disappointed. I’m pleased to say that they have been able to offer an alternate date of 28th February. I’m sure it will be worth the wait.
Tomorrow is my favourite day of the week as it is Celebrating Success Assembly. We will announce the week’s Stane Superstars, count another week on the Good to Be Green Pathway and share any achievements outwith school.
The Junior Road Safety Officers will also share the first in a series of three presentations about crossing safely – this week will focus on Zebra Crossings.
The latest edition of the Stane Primary Newsletter is out now and will be sent home with pupils on Wednesday 8th February. You can download a copy here.
Don’t forget that school is closed to pupils on Monday 13th to Wednesday 15th February 2017.
