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.
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:
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.
Thank you to everyone who managed to add some items to our recycling unit for the Rag Bag Collection last week. Your help is much appreciated 🙂
Today P7 welcomed Fiona Shaw who is a Development Officer for Education Scotland. Her role is to work with schools to ensure everyone has equality of opportunity, particularly with careers and subject choice. We engaged with a variety of tasks which raised our awareness of stereotypes . There was a lot of thought provoking conversations which really made us all think about unconscious bias. Many thanks to Fiona for joining us.
We had a fantastic time on our first family trip. We went to Almond Valley Heritage Centre for the day. The wet weather didn’t stop the children from having lots of fun with their family and friends, splashing around in the puddles, visiting the animals, jumping on the trampolines, digging in the sand and exploring all the new outdoor adventures.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our families for their continued support throughout the year and wish the nursery leavers all the very best in their new adventures at school.
Have a fantastic summer, hopefully with lots of sun!
We will look forward to seeing our nursery returners in the new term.
House Point Winners 2018-2019
The house points for this school session have been counted and the overall winners are….. CALDERHALL. Well done!
If your child is in Calderhall House they will receive their ‘house treat’ on Thursday afternoon (27th June). The house treat this year is a DVD in the hall with a small snack provided for them. If your child would like they can bring in a small blanket/cushion or cuddly in with them on Thursday to take to the hall for the DVD.
It was very close so well done to all our pupils on receiving so many house points throughout the year for their effort, positive attitude and behaviour in school.
What a week for Primary 7 last week! Due to their fantastic fundraising skills all pupils raised enough to cover the cost of their party! The evening was a huge success (even Miss Conner and Mrs Stewart had a bounce).
They were well and truly spoilt with an hour of play, hot dogs or pizza and lots of sweet treats too! Despite all the energy used on Wednesday night they still managed to pull off two outstanding performances in their Leaver’s Assembly on Thursday!
Well Done P7!
Today Primary 5J had a fantastic day in the sun. Last week, we took our learning about instruction writing and created our own new games as part of our Health learning. Today, every child taught a short lesson about their game. We then evaluated their instructions and provided them with Stars and Wishes. We will be putting all of our fantastic ideas into a book to provide pupils and staff with different games that they can play!
The sun was shining on Tuesday for our Morning Sports Day. The children had great fun and were all stars! Thank you to all the families that came along to cheer their children on, we appreciate your continued support.
We are looking forward to our Afternoon Sports Day on Thursday at 2pm. Photo’s of this will follow.
