I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year. It is great to see the children back and hear their Christmas stories. We have another busy term ahead where the children will continue to learn new skills and develop their knowledge and understanding. The themes this term are Scotland and Chinese New Year.

Children will also be visiting the school library on a weekly basis and there will be a story telling session from the Skoobmobile on 19^th January. A group of pre-schoolers will be embarking on their Forest Kindergarten journey starting on 20^th January.

Our pre-schoolers enrolled for school on Wednesday 13^th January and Thursday 14^th January. If your child is due to come to school in August please ensure that you have enrolled.

The staff are working closely with our pre-schoolers to support their journey from nursery to school. We will be handing out a leaflet in February which gives you some guidance on the expectations for new pupils in August. We are grateful for any information you can provide us regarding which school your child will attend and we will access school websites and handbooks to familiarise the children with their new school. If your child is not coming to West Primary School we will ensure that we access the transition programme available at their new school.

There will be an opportunity for you to play alongside your child in the school nurture room during February and time in March to visit the school library with your child. We want to encourage parents to be part of their child’s nursery experience and welcome comments on the parent’s whiteboard in the cloakroom area.

We will be celebrating Robert Burns with our annual Burns supper and the children can wear tartan to nursery on that day. We will also be celebrating World Book Day and children can dress up as a character from a book.

There were 10 replies to our questionnaire about coffee mornings. Six people expressed an interest in our coffee evening and that will take place on Wednesday 20^th January between 6.30pm and 7.30pm. We will try to give you a flavour of the subjects we were discussing during the Friday coffee mornings such as healthy eating, Five to Thrive, Forest Kindergarten and Bookbug (as well as some coffee and biscuits).It would be great to see you there. Six people also said they would like to have the Friday coffee mornings every month. The next one will be on Friday 5^th February. Everyone welcome.

Dates for your diary

25th January 2015

Burn’s supper – children to wear tartan to nursery. Usual times for nursery today.

Profile Reviews/ Parents Meeting–

Tuesday 2^nd February- Mrs.McIntosh

Thursday 4^th February Mrs.Donaldson/Mrs.Johnston

Friday 5^th February Mrs.Simpson

Your child’s key worker will arrange a specific time to review your child’s care plan with you on these dates.

Visits to the nurture playroom– Parents / carers are invited to stay and play in the school nurture room with their child. Morning parents should attend from 9.15 am to 10.15 am and afternoon parents from 2pm to 3pm.

Monday 1^st February Mrs.McIntosh’s group

Monday 8^th February Mrs.Simpson’s group

Monday 22^nd February Mrs.Johnstone/Mrs.Donaldson’s group

Thursday 3rd March– World Book Day – Children to dress up as a character from a book.

Parents/carers will be invited to go to the school library with the children on this day. Morning parents should attend at 10.45am-11.15am o’clock and afternoon parents at 2.00-2.40pm

Easter Holidays– Nursery will be closed on Friday 25^th March and Monday 28^th March for the Easter weekend.

Friday 1^st April– Nursery closes at 2.30pm. Nursery will reopen on Monday 18^th April.

Thank you for your continuing support.

Mrs.Ormond and the staff of West Nursery Class

P3 Term 3 Newsletter

February 10, 2016 Mr Carson

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year. It’s great to see the children back and to hear their Christmas stories. We were so proud of them when they sang at the Brewers Fayre and it was great to see so many families coming out to support them.

We have a busy term ahead in Primary 3 where we will be continuing our Hanukkah topic for the next few weeks. This will be followed by a Healthy Eating topic where we will be making healthy snacks for the school enterprise challenge. We will then go on to learn about major organs in the human body and through this, we will gain some Heartstart skills.

Children will be enjoying some art work based around a famous artist and will learn about the festival of Easter.

We would really appreciate more volunteers from Primary 3 parents to come in and talk about their job at World of Work week. We want the children to hear about as many different occupations as possible and I would encourage you to play a role in this. Teachers are on hand to ask relevant questions and the sessions are very short and informal. If you are interested please contact Mrs.Wiszniewski. The week starts on Monday 22^nd February.

Teachers are keen to work in partnership with parents and strive to keep you informed. There will be a parents’ evening in April, however please do not hesitate to contact us with any concerns before that. We would like to see parents in and around the school on a more regular basis and would like to offer library sessions during World Book Week for you to visit the school library with your child during this week.

We are pleased to say that the children in Primary 3 are great at bringing their gym kit. They continue to become successful learners and effective contributors as they grow and develop throughout the year.

We appreciate all the support for homework as this really enhances your child’s success.

Thank you for your continuing support.

Mrs.Ormond and P3 staff

P2 Term 3 Newsletter

February 10, 2016 Mr Carson

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year. It’s great to see the children back and hear all their Christmas stories. We were so proud of their wonderful Nativity performance and I know they all enjoyed meeting Santa at the end of last term.

This term we will be teaching skills and knowledge and understanding through the themes of Sun, Moon and Stars and Eid Il Fitr.

We will also be looking at Chinese New Year and Robert Burns. The children continue to have regular reading, spelling and maths homework and your support in this is vital to your child’s success. Could you please ensure that your child brings their reading book to school every day as they may use this in class even when it is not a reading day.

We would really appreciate more volunteers from Primary 2 parents to come in and talk about their job at World of Work week. We want the children to hear about as many different occupations as possible and I would encourage you to play a role in this. Teachers are on hand to ask relevant questions and the sessions are very short and informal. If you are interested please contact Mrs.Wiszniewski. The week starts on Monday 22^nd February.

Teachers are keen to work in partnership with parents and strive to keep you informed. There will be a parents evening in April however please do not hesitate to contact us with any concerns before that. We would like to see parents in and around the school on a more regular basis and would like to offer library sessions during World Book Week for you to visit the school library with your child during this week.

Thank you for your continuing support.

Mrs.Ormond and P2 staff.

P1 Term 3 Newsletter

February 10, 2016 Mr Carson

This term we will be teaching skills and knowledge and understanding through the themes of “Welcoming a Baby”, “Winter” and a “Grandparents” topic. The children will be asked to investigate aspects of the past at home from elderly relatives. We will also have a special Grandparents afternoon where grandparents will be invited to come in to class and share activities with the children.

We have a special Scottish Assembly and will learn more about Robert Burns for this. The children continue to have regular reading, spelling and maths homework and your support in this is vital to your child’s success. Children are beginning to put sounds together to create words and writing independently in the classroom. You can use the individual sounds at home to encourage this.

As yet we have no volunteers from Primary 1 parents to come in and talk about their job at World of Work week. We want the children to hear about as many different occupations as possible and I would encourage you to play a role in this. Teachers are on hand to ask relevant questions and the sessions are very short and informal. If you are interested please contact Mrs.Wiszneiwski. The week starts on Monday 22^nd February.

Mrs.Ormond and P1 staff