January 13th -24th
We have had a lovely and very productive fortnight in school with lots of learning and activity going on.
It has been lovely to see so many of our families in and about the school for various activities this week. This has been a highlight!
We have thoroughly enjoyed seeing our families at the nursery ‘Wee Blether’, P5 Showcase of learning and of course P1 enrolment week.
We greatly appreciate whenever you are able to come into the school and would like to thank you for this.
We want families to feel welcome when they come into Maxwellton and for our school to be a place for our families and community.
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We do hope that you have had an opportunity to visit our school blogs and see all that is happening within our school
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 always start of our week together with an assembly on Monday afternoons. This is an important opportunity to come together as a school family and spend time together at the beginning of a new week.
During our ‘Climate Change’ focus at assembly we continued to discuss the Australian bush fires. Harry in P7 did an excellent PowerPoint presentation on this. Harry had created this at home and it included many images which really helped us all to understand the severity of this situation.
We continued to discuss ‘Rights of the Child’ with our continued focus on articles 28. ‘All children and young people have a right to free primary education’ . This linked well with Harry’s PowerPoint as we learned that many schools have been destroyed as part of the bush fires.
Beat The Street 
At assembly on Monday we also heard about a brand new initiative coming to East Kilbride called ‘Beat The Street’ . Our visitor Val and Craig from Active Schools told us all about how we can take part.
Please see some information below regarding it. We are all very excited and know that Maxwellton is going to do really well when it is launched in a few weeks time!
We can’t wait to get all the information delivered to our schools.
https://www.beatthestreet.me/eastkilbride/
What is Beat the Street?
Beat the Street is a fun, free initiative that will see East Kilbride transformed into a giant game!
See how far you can walk, cycle and run in just 6 weeks. There are great challenges to enjoy and prizes up for grabs.
Play the game from 19 February – 1 April 2020
Earn as many points as possible for you and your team by walking, running or cycling between Beat Boxes across East Kilbride Wednesday 19th February 2020 – Wednesday 1st April 2020.
Set Up
Children aged under 11 play with a Beat the Street fob, which they will receive from their school. Anyone aged 12 and above plays with a Beat the Street card. Soon you’ll be able to register online. Use the Beat Box map to plan your route.
The game in East Kilbride runs from 0.01am on Wednesday 19th February 2020 until 7pm on Wednesday 1st April 2020.
Playing the game
- Find Beat Boxes nearest to you on the map.
- Tap the Beat Box with your card until it beeps and flashes.
- Walk, cycle, run or scoot to a different Beat Box within an hour.
- Tap the Beat Box with your card and fob until it beeps and flashes to score 10 points.
- Now carry on your journey and score more points for each extra Beat Box you tap.
Win Beat the Street
The teams at the top of the leader board at the end of the game win hundreds of pounds worth of vouchers. There are leader boards for school & community teams. Highest average and highest points prizes are available.
Registered players can also win weekly Lucky Tap prizes such as vouchers and Beat the Street goodies for taking part.
Children can also complete challenges and receive stickers and certificates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJbOghMQ5ZM
P5 – Youth Music Initiative
We were all super proud of P5 as they delivered their P5 YMI showcase to us. The amount they have learned through this project was incredible and we loved the way the pupils had learned such technical musical terms and concepts but had learned it in such a fun way through games and activities! We all learned a lot and they kept us all entertained as the delivered their showcase to parents and P4. The pupils were an absolute credit to themselves, their families and the school. We would like to say a huge thank you to Ms Hollinger who taught P5 music every Wednesday from August -January. We will certainly miss you! We look forward to embedding all with have learned within our classroom.
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.
Please note there will be no tickets sold on the door. Tickets must be bought in advance.
Breakfast Club- All Welcome! 
Just a reminder that Maxwellton has its own breakfast club with runs from 7.45am-9.00am Monday to Friday. If your child would be interested in attending the breakfast club then application forms can be picked up at the office. This is a free breakfast club and no charge is applied. Children are welcome to use the breakfast club whenever needed once the application has been completed.
Please note that it is the parental responsibility to ensure your child is at breakfast club. Breakfast club staff do a register on arrival. It is the parental responsibility to ensure your child enters breakfast club and staff recommend all children are accompanied in the morning to the door. Staff do not contact families if children do not attend breakfast club and are working on the understanding that all children have been put into breakfast club by an adult.
P1 Enrolment Week 
What a delight it was to register our new P1’s and welcome their families to Maxwellton.
The journey towards starting school in August has now fully began.
Maxwellton will host some P1 transition days for our new children .
The dates of these transition days are …
- Thursday 30th April @ 1.15pm – 2.30pm
- Wednesday 6th May @ 1.15pm- 2.30pm
- Wednesday 20th May @ 1.15pm -2.30pm
- Tuesday 2nd June @ 9.15pm -10.30am
We look forward to welcoming everyone on these dates.
Additional Support Needs Meetings 
It has been a delight to see so many families in the school over the past few weeks attending additional support needs meetings for their child. Mrs Brown our Principal Teacher is the Additional Support Needs Coordinator in Maxwellton and has been leading in all of these meetings.
If you have have concerns about your child’s learning or would like to discuss it further then please do not hesitate to contact the school.
P7 Transition Meetings
It was also been wonderful to meet with Ms Owens the new Depute Head Teacher from Calderglen High School this week. Some of our P7 transition meetings took place this week and it was good to work with her and our families in preparing our pupils for transition. If you have any concerns regarding your child’s transition to high school, please do not hesitate to contact the school also.
Attendance Monitoring
At Maxwellton we believe that excellent attendance is key in raising attainment and developing healthy and happy relationships in school. We monitor the attendance of all pupils closely and work in partnership with families to support better attendance and time keeping at school.
If pupil attendance falls below 90% then the school will issue an attendance letter to parents. Thank you to all our families that have received a letter this month and have telephoned the school to work in partnership to improve attendance.
May I take this opportunity to remind all parents that if your child is going to be absent from school then you must phone the school office before 9am to report the absence. There is the option to leave a message to report an absence so this can be done as soon as you know your child is going to be off.
The school office staff are still having to phone round a large number of parents that have not reported their child’s absence. This task takes staff a long time to do and could be avoided if absence procedures are followed by all. I thank you in advance for your support in this matter and in helping to maximise the office staffs time.
Head Teacher Coffee & Chat
This Friday sees our first HT Coffee and Chat of 2020! Come along for a coffee and tea and to hear about all the workings of our school!
Friday 31st January 9.15am
Playground – Health & Safety 
Please note we will be closing over one of our gates in the playground for health and safety reasons as of week beginning Monday 27th January. Pupils can enter the school through the main gate at the front of the school and the back gate at the Mugga pitch area.
May I also take this opportunity to remind parents that there are no adults in the playground until 8.45am. The support staff enter the playground at this time. There should be no children in the playground unaccompanied before this time 8.45am.
February Holidays and Inset Days 
Please take note of the following holidays and inset days coming up in February …
- Friday 7th February – Inset Day – School closed to pupils
- Monday 10th February – February Holiday
- Tuesday 11th February – February Holiday
- Wednesday 12th February – Inset day – School closed to pupils
School opens up again to pupils on Thursday 13th February
After School Clubs
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 27th January – Mr Harris Guitar Teacher in
- Monday 27th January – Lego, Drama and Netball After School Club
- Monday 27th January – P4 Review Meetings
- Monday 27th January – Assembly
- Monday 27th January – Australia Day
- Tuesday 28th January – Athletics After School Clubs
- Tuesday 28th January – Mr MacDonald Drum and Percussion Teacher in
- Tuesday 28th January – Head Teacher @ Learning Community Meeting
- Tuesday 28th January – P2 Review Meetings
- Wednesday 29th January – Scottish Asseembly 1.15pm
- Wednesday 29th January – Team Sports After School
- Wednesday 29th January – Parent Council Meeting 6.30pm
- Wednesday 29th January – Teaching CAT Night 7
- Thursday 30th January – Boys Football After School Club
- Friday 31st January – HT Coffee and Chat 9am
Menu for the Week beginning 13th January…
The Nursery menu for this week is Week Three from the Winter Menu . Please see link below.
CEN_PDF Go Fresh Nursery LUNCH winter 2019 parent flyer (A2924017)
The School menu for this week is Week Three from the Winter Menu also. Please see the link below.
