Author Visit
Author Stuart Reid will be visiting Whitelees tomorrow to read to the whole school. This was a fabulous event last year and the children loved his interactive book reading!
He will be offering his books for sale afterwards.
You should have already received a letter with further information.
Wildlife Area in our School Grounds
Recently Primaries 5/6, 6, 7a & 7b have taken part in designing and creating an outdoor nature area, as part of our Outdoor Learning opportunities. We took the time to make plans for what our area would look like, then gathered all of the natural materials to create the area.
Unfortunately, we had to delay our plans due to the amount of litter in that part of our school grounds. The litter may have been blown in through the fence from the lane leading to Lilac from Whitelees. We have since cleared the area of cans, bottles, crisp packets, carrier bags and cardboard. This allowed us to proceed.
DID YOU KNOW?
A dog could cut it’s tongue on a piece of glass!
A hedgehog could get it’s head stuck in a tin can!
A fox could get it’s head stuck in the plastic that attaches beer cans!
A bird could choke on a crisp wrapper!
We hope this won’t happen in our wildlife area but we need your help!
Please be aware of any litter in the area surrounding our school playground. If you could always put your litter in a bin that would make such a huge difference to our wildlife.
Thank You! From Primary 5/6
Cumbernauld & District Annual Burns Competition
Massive congratulations to our finalists in the Cumbernauld & District Annual Burns Competition.
Pupils from Primary 6 lifted two first prizes and a third prize in the Essay and Senior Artwork competition.
Adam won first prize for his essay entitled “The Walking Nightmare”
Carli won third prize for her essay entitled “The Monster Awakes”
Molly won first prize for her artwork, a fabulous picture of Prince Charles Edward Stuart!
Well done everyone, an amazing achievement!
World Thinking Day 2016
As every year World Thinking Day 2016 is on 22nd February and children who are members of the Brownies or Girl Guides Association are welcome to wear their uniforms to school on Monday if they wish, to help mark this important celebration where we are encouraged to think about our sisters and brothers in all countries around the world!
We look forward to seeing some Brownies and Guides uniforms on Monday!
Email Alerts!
You can now sign up online to receive email alerts from Whitelees Primary School!
As we are an eco school we’re keen to ensure we are being environmentally friendly and hope to issue all correspondence via email in the future.
You can sign up at
https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKNLC/subscriber/new?topic_id=UKNLC_107
Click on the picture above to subscribe!
Look out for the email alerts pop up box or the “sign up for email alerts” link. Choose to sign up to Whitelees and you’re all set to start receiving alerts once this is in place.
If you have already chosen to sign up via the school enquiries email we have already subscribed you.
We will keep you informed when this goes live!
As always your support is greatly appreciated and we hope that you will help us to maintain our Eco School status.
Don’t forget you can catch up with all that’s going on in Whitelees by signing up to our Twitter account too – WhiteleesPS
Whole School Display Council
Whitelees needs your help!
A letter was distributed on Friday from the Whole School Display Council.
Click on the picture above for further details.
Parent Teacher Meetings
Our Parent Teacher Meetings will take place on Thursday 3rd March 2016 from 3.30pm to 8.30pm
Letters were distributed to children on Friday.
Please return your slip to the school by Friday 19th February indicating your preferred appointment choice.
Click on the picture above to see a copy of the letter.
Correspondence
Please check school bags for correspondence distributed today.
A HUGE thank you!
