Welcome Back and Happy New Year!
We are delighted to have returned to school this week and would like to wish all our families a very happy new year for 2020!
We trust everyone enjoyed the holidays and had a lovely time with family and friends. It has been wonderful to hear all the children’s stories of their time over the Christmas break.
We look forward to working hard and settling down to a brand new term and year.
Blogs!
New for this year are our school blogs! We want to keep our families up to date in all that is happening in Maxwellton. We piloted this last year and now we are ready to go in all classes!
Every week there will be an updated HT blog just like this one with school news.
Each class will also have their own class blog and will post photographs and contents of what they are learning in their classrooms each week.
The link to each of our classroom blogs is below for you to click on. Please do view your child’s classroom blog and ask them about the photographs and all that they are learning each week. The children love showing the photographs and talking about their learning!
We hope you enjoy!
We started off our new term with an assembly on Monday and a time together.
At this assembly we recapped our 3 School Rules…
- Respect Others
- Respect Yourself
- Respect Learning
We also discussed standards of behaviour and taking in a pride in who we are at Maxwellton. We recapped our 3 Relentless Routines …
- Meet and Greet
- Wonderful walking
- Hands up for silence
The children gave full answers and explanations in discussing our school rules and routines. Please ask them to tell you all about it at home too!
Every week at assembly we also have a ‘Climate Change’ focus. This is at the pupils request. This week we spoke about the bush fires in Australia and the devastating events that are taking place there just now for families and wildlife.We discussed all the ways we can help and respond and will be thinking about this more for ‘Australia Day‘ at the end of January. The idea of global citizenship was discussed and that we are all citizens of the one planet.
At our assemblies we also discuss ‘Rights of the Child’.
Our focus this week was articles 28 and 31. ‘All children and young people have a right to free primary education’ and ‘All children and young people have a right to relax and play and to join in a wide range of activities. We discussed our new year resolutions and targets and goals that we would like to set to challenge ourselves. We agreed to keep each other accountable, especially about making beds and keeping bedrooms tidy!!!
Huge well done to P7 who won class of the week at assembly for P4-P7!
P1-P3 all won class of the week as their behaviour during assembly was outstanding. Well done!
The class of the week receives 5 minutes extra play on a Friday!
Dates for your Diary – January -April 2020
Please find below a link to the dates for your diary sheet for January to April 2020.
P1 Enrolment Week
If your child is due to start school in August of 2020, please telephone our school office on 01355 222 521 to arrange an enrolment appointment.
Dates of enrolment at Maxwellton Primary School are…
- Monday 13th January 1pm-3pm
- Tuesday 14th January 9am – 11.30am
- Wednesday 15th January 1pm-3pm
- Thursday 16th January 3pm-5pm
Please remember to bring
- Full birth certificate for your child
- 2 x proof of residence with dates within the last 3 months. This may include council tax bill, mortgage/bank statement, utility bill.
We look forward to welcoming you!
P5 – Youth Music Initiative
Primary 5 have been receiving music tuition from the YMI teacher since school started back in August.
P5 are now coming to the end of their block of input and look forward to showing parents all they have learned at their P5 YMI Showcase on Friday 17th January at 10am. We extend a warm welcome to parents/carers to attend this event. We look forward to seeing you there!
Scottish Assembly
We look forward to welcoming families to our Scottish Assembly on Wednesday 29th January at 1.15pm.
Each class will perform a Scottish song and poem and entertain you with all they have been learning regarding this.
Tickets will go on sale from Monday 13th January and P7 will be leading us in this whole event and developing and showcasing their leadership skills along the way. Tickets cost £2 and are limited to 2 per family at present.
We will also be holding a Scottish raffle and are greatly appreciate of any Scottish produce donations.
We look forward to celebrating this day with you.
Parent Council – Burns Boogie Night!
Our Parent Council have organised a family ‘Burns Boogie Night’ on Friday 24th January 6.30pm-8.30pm in the school. A family ticket cost £5 and tickets are available from the school office. This is a wonderful opportunity to come together as a family and have a dance and a ceilidh together as well as lots of fun with school friends! Please see the parent council twitter page for more information . Twitter @MaxwelltonPC
Achievements!
We love celebrating pupil achievements within and out with school. This week we celebrated Amy and Mitchell!
Mitchell has gained a football contract and we are absolutely delighted for him that he is following his dreams.
Amy received a dance award for best hip hop dancer. Great examples of pupils following their goals and great achievement out with school. Well done to Amy and Mitchell! We love hearing about the children’s hobbies, interests and clubs out with school.
If your child has an achievement that you would like us to celebrate at assembly, please just send your child in with an achievement slip. These can be obtained from the school office, classrooms or on the link below.
Classroom News – Social Studies
Our classes have started studying their new Social studies topics this week.
All classes will be studying a mini Scotland topic as they prepare for our whole school Scottish assembly. This will involve them developing their understanding of the history, heritage and culture of Scotland as they learn and prepare for our assembly.
Below allows you to see what each class will be studying this term in Social studies…
P1 – Transport and Mapping – People, place and environment
P2 – Toys through the generations – People, past events and societies
P3 – The Rainforest – People, place and environment
P4 – The Vikings – People, past events and societies
P5 – Titanic – People, past events and societies
P6 – Scottish Parliament – people, society, economy and business
P7 – World War II
After School Clubs
Just a note to say that out after school clubs will be starting back up again week beginning Monday 13th January .
Please speak to your child so they are certain if they are going to the club on the day. Please also speak to your child about the highest standards of behaviour at all after school clubs to ensure everyone gets the best possible experience from our after school clubs.
- Monday Lego Club P2 & P3
- Monday Drama Club – P4 & P5
- Monday Netball Club – P5, P6 & P7
- Tuesday Athletics Club – P6 & P7
- Wednesday Team Sports – P5 & P6
- Thursday Boys Football – P5, P6, P7
Week Ahead
The Week Ahead…
- Monday 13th January – Mr Harris Guitar Teacher in
- Monday 13th January – Lego, Drama and Netball After School Club
- Monday 13th January – P1 Enrolment Appointments 1pm-3pm
- Monday 13th January – Assembly & Learning Conversations & Pupil Voice Groups
- Tuesday 14th January – Athletics After School Clubs
- Tuesday 14th January – Mr MacDonald Drum and Percussion Teacher in
- Tuesday 14th January – P1 Enrolment Appointments 9am – 11.30am
- Tuesday 14th January – Ms Harper in EAL Teacher visiting nursery
- Wednesday 15th January – P1 Enrolment Appointments 1pm-3pm
- Wednesday 15th January – Multi sports After School
- Thursday 16th January – HT attending Cost of the School Day & Inclusion Conference
- Thursday 16th January – Netball Festival
- Thursday 16th January – P1 Enrolment 3pm-5pm
- Thursday 16th January – Boys Football After School Club
- Friday 17th January – P5 YMI performance 10am – Parents welcome to attend
- Friday 17th January – Sporthall Athletics
- Friday 17th January – Last day for P1 Enrolment
Menu for the Week beginning 13th January…
The Nursery menu for next week is Week one from the Winter Menu . Please see link below.
CEN_PDF Go Fresh Nursery LUNCH winter 2019 parent flyer (A2924017)
The School menu for next week is Week One from the Winter Menu also. Please see the link below.
