I was out of school all day on Monday to attend the Pupil Equity Fund Seminar organised by the Scottish Government and Education Scotland.
You will be aware from coverage in the local media, that the Scottish Government is allocating additional funding to schools to help close the attainment gap for those children living in poverty.
This seminar allowed Head Teachers from different local authorities to find out more about how this funding will work and how we can plan for it when it is received in August 2017.
The next step for Stane Primary will be consulting with parents via the Parent Council, pupils and staff to consider how this will be best spent to ensure excellence and equity for our pupils.
It was nice to be back in school today – especially because I had a queue of children who had achieved Gold on our Promoting Positive Behaviour system. This is a very high level to achieve and take excellent, consistent effort and behaviour. It was a pleasure to give these children their certificates.
I also had the lovely job of escorting some of our P6 Enterprise Pupils to the local Cash and Carry so that they could stock up on sweeties for their Pick’n’mix stall. They were spending some of their profits on more stock – real ‘Apprentice’ style planning! The sweets will be on sale every day for the next few weeks. All money raised will go towards the children’s outing to Edinburgh.
Later on in the day, some of the P6 Enterprise children came to my office to pitch for further assistance with their fundraising. Their pitch was excellent and I was very impressed with the quality of their work and the enthusiasm.
Primary 1/2 and Primary 2/3 had a very interesting morning with visitors from Warburton’s as they learned all about Healthy Eating by making a healthy sandwich. Thank you very much to the ladies for a great morning – and for leaving lots of healthy brown loaves for the boys and girls (and staff) to take home.
The day ended with our after school Multi-sports club for Primary 1-3 pupils. The children had a great time playing all sorts of active games with Ryan, the coach from Active school.
Tomorrow, our new football team will be playing at Calderhead High in the first of four matches in the Sportsman League and we will have our Celebrating Success Assembly where, among lots of other things, 50 children will be presented with 100% attendance for February letters and the children who’ve completed at least one active journey to school each week will be given their February badge.
Don’t forget that the next meeting of the Parent Council takes place on Wednesday 1st March 2017 in Shotts EU Congregational Church Hall. All parents/carers are welcome to attend.
