Hello to all of our children and families! I hope that all of you are safe and well and that you all had a peaceful Spring Break. The weather has been beautiful. All of the staff in the nursery and school are missing seeing our children and families. We know that we are all in a very unusual situation just now and we hope that you are managing to adjust to this. Thanks to the pupils and parents who responded to our home learning survey. Your feedback was very helpful and has helped us to make improvements to our programme of home learning. Today is the first day of the new school term, it is a strange term but we know this is the way things have to be just now. Our teachers are working hard at home to provide home learning activities. Our P1 to P7 teachers will be providing 3 home learning tasks each day for pupils. This will include a literacy task, a numeracy task and a task within another curricular area. P4 to P7 classes will use google classroom and tasks will be uploaded here and on the school website. Tasks for P1 to P3 pupils will be uploaded on to the school website. Activities and suggestions for our nursery pupils and pupils in our Additional Support Needs classes will be uploaded on the school website. Starting today we are launching new email addresses for each class. This will allow our families to contact class teachers and nursery staff with any questions you may have regarding the home learning materials provided or supporting your child with home learning. Email addresses will be issued today. I hope that you find this enhanced communication helpful.
Best wishes to all everyone!
Kind regards
Mrs Tremble
Easter and Spring Activities and Sensory processing booklet
As the Easter holidays begin we hope that all of our families are safe and well and enjoy the Easter Break in the best way possible. We have added an Easter Activities page for families with ideas of things to do and are struggling for ideas, we will also continue to retweet ideas on our twitter page which can be found at Murray Primary Twitter page, this can also be access through the school app.
We have also added a very useful Sensory Processing booklet , this may be especially helpful for parents of pupils in our additional support needs classes. This document can be accessed by clicking onto the link above or you ca find it in our general school closure information page and in the class pages for rooms 3,6 and 9.
Take care everyone, stay in and stay safe and we hope to see you all soon.
Free School Meals
From Friday 3rd April, Paypoint vouchers will be sent directly to parents/carer via their mobile phone for those families entitled to free school meals. Entitlement will be from the assessment used to provide free schools meals, which is benefits based. This means that universal provision of free school meals for primaries 1 to 3 will cease. This overall scheme will benefit approximately 8,800 children per week and targets those in greatest need.
Therefore the last day of the ‘Take and Go’ lunch bags will cease after Friday 3rd April.
Only children attending the Hubs for emergency childcare purposes will still receive a meal.
Click onto the link for more information Free School Meals
Head Teacher letter and invitation to take part in pupil & parent home learning survey
Please click onto the link below to access a letter to families regarding home learning in the current circumstances that we find ourselves in. We would welcome ideas. comments and suggestions from both pupils and parents/carers in our surveys.
Links to the surveys can be found in the letter, and will also be put onto our school website and twitter page.
Hello everyone
Well it’s the end of the first week of school being closed, we hope that you are all well and finding some things to to to fill your time. There are lots of ideas of things for you to do in our school closure pages, and we are adding or retweeting ideas each day on our twitter page that you can access through our school app by selecting the information button at the bottom of the page and then selecting twitter, or by going to https://twitter.com/MurrayPrimaryEK
Remember you can send us pictures of what you have been doing on our twitter page too. Keep smiling everyone!
