I am delighted to share with you the details of our Meet the Teacher event to be held on Wednesday 6th September. In response to feedback from parents the format will be different this year with class teachers delivering a short informative talk about the year ahead. This will cover plans for the year as well as homework expectations. Talks will last around 10 minutes to allow parents with more than one child to move between classes.
Primary 1: 5pm
Primary 2: 5.15pm
Primary 3: 5.30pm
Primary 4: 5.30pm
Primary 5: 5.45pm
Primary 6: 6pm
Primary 7: 6.15pm
Following the Primary 7 talk there will be a presentation about the Loch Insh trip.
During the evening I will be hosting ‘Meet the Head Teacher’ in the hall. Tea and coffee will also be available. This is an ideal opportunity for me to meet as many parents as possible and enable parents attending more than one presentation to pass the time between meetings.
Each Friday we would like every child to try to bring a piece of fruit for their snack. The class with the most children eating fruit for their snack will get an extra 10 minutes of playtime one day the next week! Come on Wallace – let’s get healthy!
The Wallace Fairtrade Group started in 2014. It is their job to promote Fairtrade within the school and organise events during Fairtrade Fortnight. They have organised events such as
1.Smoothie Cycle Cafe
2.Fairtrade Bake Off
3.Invited a speaker from Traidcraft to speak at assemblies
If you have any ideas for Fairtrade events within the school please suggest them to your Fairtrade Representative.
Article 31: Every child has the right to play.
Thursday 20th November 2014 was the 25th anniversary of the ratification of the UNCRC. Our Rights Respecting Group led an assembly and we celebrated the Rights of the Child by having an extra playtime!
Article 28: Every child has the right to an education
The boys and girls of Wallace Primary School have been helping the children of William Village in Malawi to get an education.
There are no schools in William Village and the nearest school is too far to travel to so no-one goes to school. A group of volunteers from Renfrewshire Council plan to travel to Malawi in September to build a school for the children.
We helped by collecting aluminium cans – we collected 6403 altoghether! The cans were sold to a recycling company and the money raised will help to buy building materials for William Village school.
On Thursday 28th May we had some visitors from Utange, Kenya! The group were part of a school choir, raising money for their school back home. They treated us to some singing and dancing during assembly, played with us outside, visited us in our classes and stayed for some lunch. We celebrated their arrival with an out of uniform ‘Chuck it in the Bucket’ day which raised £400!! Click below to see a video of the Kenyan choir perform during assembly.
The Kenyan choir and Wallace Primary choir also performed together at Renfrew Town Hall. We all had lots of fun and hope to meet our Kenyan friends again soon. For more information visit www.educatethekids.com
The Rights Respecting Schools Committee have the responsibility of letting all the children in the school know about their rights. We organise assemblies and events and make sure that there are signs around the school reminding us of our rights.
Click here to download a summary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Eco schools is a programme for promoting environmental awareness. It is linked to most subjects in the curriculum, and will involve all children in cross curricular areas such as Citizenship, Health Education, and Social Justice
Eco Schools offers Wallace:
1. The opportunity to make environmental issues an intrinsic part of the life of the school.
2. The opportunity to develop young people’s decision making skills.
3. Materials and ideas for projects and events.
4. Access to a network of support agencies across Scotland.
5. Potential for financial savings, and opportunities to secure additional funding for the project. Action Plan.
We have completed our annual Environmental Review and have decided that the topics we will develop in session 2014-2016 are:
This looks at 10 main areas:
1.Litter
2.Transport
3. Health/ Well Being
The Eco Schools Committee would welcome any suggestions and ideas that would help with environmental improvements in our school.
Wallace Primary School has a very successful Eco Committee that leads Eco Activities in our school. We are now working towards our fourth Green Flag Award!
The committee includes pupils from Primary 1 to Primary 7. The Eco Schools committee is committed to encouraging whole school action to improve the environment of our school.
