Dear Parents and Carers,<\/p>\n
It has been delightful to have all the children back in school this week. They have all settled well and are getting used to the daily school routine.\u00a0 I have been very impressed with how all of the children new to P1 have transitioned and are rising to the challenges of the school day.<\/p>\n
The school diary is filling up quickly so please keep an eye on the dates below and for further information when it comes out.<\/p>\n
There have been some small changes to the way we work in school to tell you about.<\/p>\n
Visitors:<\/strong>\u00a0 We are very pleased that we can now welcome parents and visitors back into school for meetings and events.\u00a0 There is a new visitors signing-in process which is designed to\u00a0 protect \u00a0information and also ensure that \u00a0visitors \u00a0are identified by wearing a lanyard.\u00a0 If visiting the school please make sure you sign in at Reception.<\/p>\n Class Names:<\/strong> The children all had fun during their transition days choosing a name for their class, here is what they decided upon.<\/p>\n P1\/2 Class as Tammie Norries.<\/strong><\/p>\n P2\/3\/4 Class as Orcas<\/strong><\/p>\n P4\/5\/6 Class as Draatsis<\/strong><\/p>\n P6\/7 Class as Mareel<\/strong><\/p>\n Numeracy and Maths<\/strong> lessons are now all happening at the same time for the whole school. This is so Mrs Leslie and myself can work with groups of children from different classes to support their learning. We are also trialling a new Maths scheme which we are running alongside all the other resources that teachers already use.<\/p>\n Jewellery and PE<\/strong>:\u00a0 As you already know, for health and safety reasons, children are asked not to wear any jewellery except plain studs in pierced ears, to school.\u00a0 In my time working in schools, I have seen some nasty injuries causes by jewellery such as necklaces which have got caught on something.\u00a0 This week our PE specialist teachers have been informed that the Health Safety Executive have updated the regulations regarding jewellery, particularly ear rings in PE lessons, informing us that children are not allowed to do any PE whilst wearing earrings of any kind.\u00a0 This has come as a bit of a surprise to me and until I can find out more information from the Health and Safety Executive, I suggest that children do not wear any type of earring on the day they have PE which is Tuesday.\u00a0 The PE specialist teacher will support children in taking earrings out and putting back in, but if this is not possible, they will be given activities to do at the side<\/p>\n Assemblies:<\/strong> We plan to have a regular weekly assembly, something that the children asked for when we did a whole school focus event, where we can celebrate learning and invite members of the community to share various topics with the children.\u00a0 So far for this term we have two visitors planned:<\/p>\n 20th<\/sup> September – Dr Armitage in his role as Councillor talking about looking after the ocean environment<\/p>\n 4th<\/sup> Oct – Rev. Fran Henderson sharing thoughts about Harvest and Food Journeys<\/p>\n NOOSC<\/strong> after school club – has got off to a really positive start with lots of fun activities available. There are spaces everyday so please get in touch with the office if you would like to use this provision.\u00a0 We do need it to be well used if it is to be viable for the longer term.\u00a0 At this time it seems unlikely that we will be able to start a breakfast club as this will not be supported by the council and the school budget would not be able to support the staff to run it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dates so far:<\/p>\n 29th<\/sup> August P6 Bikability\u00a0 lessons for 5 weeks.<\/p>\n 5th<\/sup> September\u00a0 P4 Bikability to start for 4 weeks- more information to follow<\/p>\n 21st<\/sup> September\u00a0 Orcas class visit to the recycling depo.<\/p>\n 23rd<\/sup> September P4 visit to live performance by Tom Percival \u2013 Children\u2019s Author at the Shetland Museum<\/p>\n 26th<\/sup> September\u00a0 Book fair<\/p>\n 28th<\/sup> September \u00a0\u00a0P7 John Muir Day 1<\/p>\n 26th<\/sup> \/27th<\/sup> September Parent \/Teacher consultation\u00a0\u00a0 4pm to 6.30pm<\/p>\n 7th<\/sup> Oct\u00a0 Last day\u00a0 of Term 1<\/p>\n 26th<\/sup> Oct\u00a0 Term 2 begins<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Best wishes,<\/p>\n Gina Finch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Parents and Carers, It has been delightful to have all the children back in school this week. They have all settled well and are getting used to the daily school routine.\u00a0 I have been very impressed with how all of the children new to P1 have transitioned and are rising to the challenges of … Continue reading Newsletter 26.08.22<\/span>