Author: Mrs Warden
Cost of the School Day Action Statement
P1 First Week Plan
August 12th – 14th
Wednesday 12th August – For our first day in Primary 1 there is a staggered start 9:00-9:30am and home time 2:40-3.00pm to support a smooth transition for our children. Please see below for your child’s start and end time:
Mull and Orkney: 9am start time, pick up at 2.40pm
Shetland and Skye: 9.15am start time, pick up at 2.50pm
Bluebell and Bramble: 9.30am start time, pick up at 3pm
For the rest of the first week of Primary 1 only, we will have the option of a staggered start to support your child’s transition. You should arrive at our Glencoe Gate (the one beside the car park) for your start time and a member of our team will direct you into the playground, where the Champions will be waiting to meet the Clan.
Thursday 13th August – Our normal school times are 8.40am-3.10pm.
Optional staggered start:
- If you wish to walk your child up to their door you can do this 9:00-9:15am
- If you wish to collect your child before the playground is busy you can do this 2:45-3:00pm
Friday 14th August – Our normal school times are 8.40-11.55am.
- If you wish to walk your child up to their door you can do this 9:00-9:15am
- If you wish to collect your child before the playground is busy you can do this 11:40-11:50am
Please confirm if you would like this option for your child by emailing our school office.
Parenting Smart Course
Place2Be, our in-school mental health support service, has a variety of free resources to help you support your child’s wellbeing and help them deal with childhood challenges.
Their Parenting Smart website offers free practical advice on a range of topics including friendship issues, the transition to secondary/high school, anger outbursts, and anxiety. Visit parentingsmart.org.uk to read more.
Place2Be’s Parenting Smart – Online Course is a free, 4-week online course offering extra parenting tools that are proven to help children manage their emotions better, follow routines and improve relationships with friends and family.
Visit place2be.org.uk/family to learn more about these free resources from Place2Be
You can also access information via this link:
Starting Primary 1 – Transition Social Story
Routines 2025-2026
Nursery Lost Property
We continue to hold a number of lost property items within our nursery entrance. Mrs Lyon has created a Sway to help return items to their owner. Our Sway will be updated regularly. If items are not claimed within 2 months, we may recycle, reuse or rehome.
https://sway.cloud.microsoft/SDEDd8SfHo88fobj?ref=Link
Social Story – adverse weather
Please find a social story that you can use with your nursery child to support them with the nursery closure tomorrow and the adverse weather conditions.
17.1.25 Nursery Chronicle
House Meetings
On Friday morning, all pupils across the school came together in their House groups for our first House Meeting of 2025!
Following on from our Connects on values, the pupils looked at each value and discussed what they might look like, sound like and feel like.
It was great to hear pupil voice and see our values of Caring, Integrity, Resilience and Belonging in action.
