Category: Class Learning
EXPLORING OUR COMMUNITY
The children have enjoyed going for regular walks and exploring our local park and library. They have been learning how to
- confidently cope with everyday / new situations
- understand the expectations of behaviour and following rules (holding hands, getting ready to go out and staying close to nursery ladies when out and about)
- demonstrate different ways of being active through energetic play at the park (climbing, jumping, pushing, running)
- be aware of road safety – stopping, looking and listening at roads and crossing safely
- share and look after books when visiting the library.
EE2
The children gain so much from going out into our local community. We would like to be able to offer this experience to all the children in the nursery but we need EE2 (Excursion permission form) filled in by parents/carers before we can do this. These are required for all new children and returning children. We have been handing these out to families of returning children and they would have been in a welcome pack for new children. If you have not filled an EE2 form in please ask a member of staff for the form, so we can include your child in this experience. Many thanks for your support.
P4 Homework Grid
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LOST JACKET
One of our P3 pupils jacket has gone missing. It is a khaki green North Face jacket. The pupil’s name is written on the label inside. Could we please ask that you double check that your child hasn’t brought it back home by mistake.
If found please hand in to the school office. Thank you 🙂
P4S Open Afternoon
Thanks to all our visitors at our Open Afternoon. We had a great time showing them different Literacy activities to help improve our spelling, writing and reading comprehension. We will be developing these skills throughout the year and look forward to sharing with you again.
P5 Residential to Lendrick Muir
Our P5 residential trip to Lendrick Muir is fast approaching. Please click on the ‘Parent Guide’ below to get more information about Lendrick Muir and the activities your child will be taking part in.
We hope your child is looking forward to their adventure at Lendrick Muir. You should have all the information you need and a copy of the activity timetable and kit list. Please ensure we have accurate information about any medical or dietary needs your child may have. If you require any further information or have any questions please contact Mrs Donnelly at the school.
Hopscotch Performance
We are looking forward to welcoming Hopscotch to our school on Monday 2nd September to perform their new show ‘SPRING-Y’ to our P1-7 pupils.
This adventurous tale will show how friendship and bouncing back from adversity can be supported in Scottish schools. ‘SPRING-Y’ will be an amazing way to support our schools resilience message.
‘SPRING-Y’ is a touching tale about friendship, bouncing back and bending with the wind! It follows the story of Ash and Holly who have been best friends for years but now Holly has to move away. How will the two cope without each other? Together they come up with a plan so that their friendship will last forever.
@hopscotch theatre #resilienceready #bounceback #childrenstheatre #primaryschool #resiliencechampions
P4S
We have been very busy in Primary 4 thinking all about the new rules. They are much easier to remember. Then we used them to make our class charter. We each drew ourselves to put on the board. It will help us remember to always be,
Ready, to Respect others and to be Safe.
Nursery – Welcome!
WELCOME
We would like to warmly welcome our new families and children and our returning children and families to our new term. We are passionate about supporting your child’s interests and learning through play and developing our parent/carers partnerships to ensure your child has a happy and fulfilling experience at early years. We take pride in our welcoming, nurturing environment and our staff will do their upmost to ensure your child’s experience of settling in is a positive one. Communication is very important to us and we encourage you to share any information/changes about your child or home that could help us in supporting your child further.
We have new personal plan packs for returning families to complete, these will replace the previous all about me documents that you completed when your child started nursery. The plans will help us to update your child’s details and continue to provide the best care and support for them. These are available beside the sign in/out sheets, please collect a pack and return to us as soon as you possibly can.
SIGN IN/OUT SHEETS
We appreciate how busy our reception area can be and how much of a rush mornings are for our families but can you please ensure you sign your child in (remembering to mention anybody different who may be picking them up) and sign them out again at the end of the day. This register is important for us to know our number of children in the nursery and crucial if we have an emergency evacuation. Many thanks for your support with this.
NURSERY TEAM
Due to the increased hours in Early Years we now have an extended team. We are delighted to welcome Mrs Shemilt, Miss Dolan, Miss James, Miss Vance, Ms Hepburn and Miss Brown to our team.
We are also delighted to welcome back Mrs Walker from 2nd September who has made a remarkable recovery from a recent operation.
Our Nursery Team now consists of:
- Christine Walker – Early Years Officer
- Stacie Young – Early Years Officer
- Celia O’Neil – Nursery Nurse
- Lesley Laing – Nursery Nurse
- Hazel Rafferty – Nursery Nurse
- Kristen Fleming – Nursery Nurse
- Lara Thomson – Nursery Nurse
- Fiona McCallum – Nursery Nurse
- Samantha Campbell – Nursery Nurse
- Charlene Shemilt – Nursery Nurse
- Cara Dolan – Nursery Nurse
- Meaghan James – Nursery Nurse
- Adele Vance – Nursery Nurse
- Angela Sharkey – Pupil Support Worker
- Stephanie Bazely – Pupil Support Worker
- Kennerty Brown – Pupil Support Worker
- Sharon Hepburn – Pupil Support Worker
School Photographs
REMINDER
Tomorrow is our school photograph day. The photographer will be in to take Individual and Family Group photos of the P1-7 pupils.
We’re looking forward to seeing you all dressed smart in your uniforms tomorrow ready for your photo tomorrow.
