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A very Happy New Year to all our readers.

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

All pupils and staff returned to school eager to start work in 2022.

A big warm welcome was given to Mrs Macpherson, our new headteacher. The pupils are enjoying getting to know her and they look forward to sharing lots of new experiences with her as Headteacher of the school.

We hope you will love your time at Crawford Primary, Mrs Macpherson!

We were all sad to see Mrs Orr leave us on the last day, heading for her retirement.

We held a final assembly with here where she received Star of the Week and a Bingo Ball Blether sheet to take home.

The children sang a song they had written for her and she was very pleased with that.

Mrs Orr was presented with a lovely picture from the children of both schools and a book of best wishes and a scrapbook of memories.

We all wish Mrs Orr a very happy retirement and we know she will keep in touch.

A very Merry Christmas to all our readers.

We have had a lovely run up to the holidays with a very successful Carol Service, a great fun filled party and lots of Christmas activities.

Happy New Year to everyone

Buddy the Elf arrived back in school on 1st December. All pupils were pleased to see him, the staff not so much!!!

He has set up home in the house corner……but is never there in the mornings when we arrive in school!!!

All pupils and staff are hard at work creating Christmas crafts for selling at the Carol Service in the village on Friday 17th December.

The children have created Christmas wrapping paper and gift tags, gift boxes and Christmas decorations. They have also been learning Christmas carols to sing on the night.

It was wonderful to welcome Mr Johnstone back into school this week. We had a great time singing around the piano…..just like old times!

We have begun rehearsals for our Carol Service around the village Christmas tree on Friday 17th December.

We are very lucky to have our very own author working here in Crawford Primary!

Ms Cassels writes her own books for children and agreed to read us the first chapter of her new book.

As you can see everyone was hooked from the beginning. We all loved the story and can’t wait to hear the next chapter!

November 15th-19th was Book Week Scotland.

For book week 2021, we planned a variety of activities to celebrate reading for pleasure. We chose this week to launch our “drop everything and read” programme. This will take place once a week at random times and all staff and pupils will be encouraged to read for fifteen minutes.

This is a plan of the week’s activities:

1. Book bag introduction (P1-P3). Monday
2. Paired reading book review. Tuesday.
3. Open floor reading session. Wednesday.
4. Introduction to DEAR. Thursday.5. First DEAR Session. Friday.

On November 11th at 11am we took part in a 2 minute silence to remember those who have lost their lives in wars. The pupils were very respectful and mature whilst observing this silence.

P1-7 were introduced to curling for the first time last week. They all took to it very quickly and made great progress. What a skilled bunch of pupils! They are all looking forward to working in teams in the next session and having a real tournament.