Thank you to everyone who made our Family learning events possible. We have worked and learned together about Literacy, Numeracy, Health and Well being including mindfulness and emotions.
We will be evaluating these events in the coming weeks to plan for more after Christmas. Please make sure you take part!
Last session we asked parent’s what we could do to improve parental engagement in children’s learning. Many of our parents asked for information sessions in the evening.
Please come along to our first Family learning event on Tuesday 27th August at 6:30pm.
We look forward to seeing you all there!!
All parents are invited to a focus group on Monday 21st January at 3:15pm led by Mrs Rowley and Brian Donnelly . At this group we will be looking at our new Anti-bullying: Respect Me Policy.
Throughout Term one we consulted with all staff, pupils and parents what our anti-bullying policy should include.
We have taken into consideration all views and have created a first draft of this policy.
We would appreciate as many parents views on this draft policy and make any amendments required to ensure that all views are represented in our final policy.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Father John had the great honour of speaking at the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday 20th November.
Father delivered a wonderful reflection about young people and St. Fergus’ even got a mention!!
His reflection ended with a thought of us encouraging our children to grasp the possibilities of tomorrow. This is a thought that we do daily in St Fergus’.
Well done to Aiden and Hailie for sharing their achievements with their class, Mrs McDonald and Mrs Rowley yesterday.
Aiden has had a very successful year playing football for his boys club. At the weekend he won Player of the Year!!
Hailie worked with her family on her space topic and created this wonderful rocket!! One day Hailie would like to go into space.
We are looking forward to them sharing them with the whole school at our assembly on Monday.
As part of our School Improvement Plan we are looking at our School Aims and Values.
Thank you to all parents who took the time to read and offer their feedback at our Parent’s Evening last night.
Our next step in this process is to consult with our children and staff to make our aims and values are written in a more child friendly language.
Please show your support for your children and save the date…..
Wednesday 7th November- 3:15- 5:30pm
We have been working with Brian Donnelly who is an independent consultant who has been involved in anti-bullying work since 2007. He led the national anti-bullying service respectme, for 10 years and helped write the Nation Policy on two occasions.
Brian operates independently now and he does not represent the school or the Council. Within St. Fergus’ his role is to come in and engage with parent’s, carers and pupils to gather their views and experiences. He will deliver workshops to the upper school and then meet with parents and carers at the school to share the context for his work as well as answer questions and address concerns you may have about bullying and how it can be dealt with effectively.
Brian’s aim to help develop environments where bullying cannot thrive, this requires input from parents and carers especially. Schools that deal with bullying well have listened to parents and they agree ways to respond and deal with bullying.
On 7th November the children will deliver a presentation on bullying and then teaching staff will work with them to allow Brian to meet with parents and carers on his own. After this session there will be pizza and refreshments for everyone.
Brian wants to hear what you have to say. This is a vital part of the school creating a new policy and the school community creating an environment where bullying cannot thrive. He is there to listen and share his experience. Brian is not there to speak on behalf of the St. Fergus’, Renfrewshire Council or The Scottish Government but to listen to you and incorporate this into the work the school will be doing on anti-bullying.
Brian has created a short survey that is designed to gather your thoughts as well, he would really appreciate you taking 5 minutes to complete this as it provides a chance for those who cannot come along to still share their views . Please click on the link below:
More information will follow this week along with a tear of strip to indicate attendance which will allow the school to purchase enough Pizza.
We really hope to see as many as possible there.
I know it’s been a year but we have just received permission to share our video about our journey to the new school.
Last session all the children were involved in creating this video. Sit back ,relax and see if you can spot your child?
On Monday we talked about respect and how we all need different supports to succeed.
We watched a short clip about fairness.
We realised that we all don’t need the same in school to succeed. We compared school to medical care.
We decided that we would all try to live out our school values daily as this would help us to understand each other’s needs.
We now know that:
Click the link below to look at our Assembly PowerPoint.
We are a nut free zone as we have children with a severe nut allergy. I would ask for your co-operation and ensure that no nuts are brought in to school, please check all labels of your child’s snacks.
This includes chestnuts collected from the park, especially during this time of the year.
Please note that we are unable to accept birthday cakes to be shared out in class as there could be traces of nuts.
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