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Class Community Contracts, Health & Wellbeing, Primary 7, Uncategorized

P7/6 Class Charter

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This week in Primary 7/6 we have been extremely busy creating our Class Charter. We started by looking at The United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child and decided which ones were most important to us within the classroom. We selected four Rights which include:

Article 16
You have the right to privacy.

Article 28
You have the right to a good quality education.
You should be encouraged to go to school to
the highest level you can.

Article 29
Your education should help you use and develop
your talents and abilities. It should also help
you learn to live peacefully, protect the environment
and respect other people.

Article 31
You have the right to play and rest.

From our rights, we created a Class Charter to follow in the class. Some of our rules include:

We will listen the opinions of others and respect other people’s property.
We will take on our roles within the school seriously.
We will always try our best and celebrate our achievements.
We will be kind and support each other.

To demonstrate these rights, we created a freeze frame to show what our rules should look like. We had a lot of fun acting these out. We look forward to you coming into our classroom and seeing our Class Charter.

Class Community Contracts, Health & Wellbeing, Primary 7

Life of P7

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During the first two weeks in P7 we have been working on our House Captain Election presentations. It has been a lot of fun, creating our own posters to put around the school, making videos and having fun when we were doing the presentations. We worked with other team mates to help them with their video, Powerpoint and speeches. We were nervous but we all really enjoyed it. We were all very supportive of each other and we are looking forward to celebrating the results at assembly.

We are very excited about the start of a new year in P7. This week we created our P7 Class Charter and we have been working hard to follow it throughout the week. We hope this will help us have a successful and enjoyable P7.

Class Community Contracts, Health & Wellbeing, Primary 3, Uncategorized

P3 Community Contract

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Primary 3 have had a fun first two weeks getting to know each other and building our class community. We have been demonstrating our team work and creative skills through a series of challenges, as well as showing off our maths, writing and digital abilities.

To help us to have an amazing year in Primary 3, we created a community contract. We discussed each of our school values and what they meant to us, thinking carefully about how we could show each of the values both in school and in the playground. We all designed our own emoji to add to our contract to make it colourful and eye catching in our classroom.

Newsletter, Nursery, Nursery Newsletters, School News

Nursery Newsletter August

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Dear Parent/Carer,

It has been a busy and exciting first week in our new nursery building with the return of our preschool children and welcoming new families and children to our school.

Our nursery motto is ‘playing to learn, learning to play’ and that has been evident as the children explore their new building and resources. The staff worked hard over the holidays to ensure the learning environment was set up and ready for the new school term, and it lovely to hear positive feedback from you all.

It is great to see so many of you choosing to wear our new nursery uniform, which was designed by a pupil last session. This helps to give the nursery a sense of identity in the larger school community.

We would like to welcome Mrs Williamson and Mrs Murphy who are new early years practitioners in our nursery team.

We look forward to seeing you all at Meet the Teacher on Thursday 7th September at 6:30. This is a session for parents and carers, which will let you find out about learning in the nursery and how you can support your child at home.

Miss Burton

Depute Head Teacher

Nursery August Newsletter

Newsletter, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, School News

September School Newsletter

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Dear Parent/Carer

When we left school for the holidays in June everything seemed in place for the start of the new school session, but we have begun the session with no P7 teacher. We are very pleased Miss Tuke has secured a permanent position as principal teacher in East Lothian but it has altered the planning we had in place for our upper primary children. However, we have been very fortunate to have Mr Clancy return to the school and he will work with Mrs Redmond to teach the P7 class until we have a new Acting PT in position. Despite this setback we have had a very good start to the new term and the children seem very settled in their new classes. The new Primary 1 children have already embraced the school routine for coming in with Miss Prior and Mrs Walker having lovely quiet classes to begin the day.

The children have been looking at the school aims, with each class taking an aim and looking closely at what it means for us in our school. They will present to each other at our assembly this week so everyone will be aware of what the aims mean to the children and staff and that these are the aims we will live and learn by.

I have high expectations of what I believe our children can achieve and having spent a lot of time in classes over the first few days I believe our children and staff have high aspirations of what they can achieve. I thought I would share a poem about always doing your best and if we all do our best then we can reach these aspirations we have!                                                                                                                                                                                                    Mary McKenzie

2017.08.27 Ist newsletter of 2017-18

2017.8.28 page 2 ist newsletter 2017 – 18

 

 

Class Community Contracts, Community, Health & Wellbeing, Primary 1, School Values, Uncategorized

P1P Class Charter

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During the first two weeks, Primary 1 have been looking at the story of the Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. This story is all about being kind and friendly to others through sharing. We thought this linked well to our own classroom expectations and some of our School Values.

Through various activities we have explored the Rainbow Fish further and have also shared our thoughts and ideas on our school’s values. We used these brilliant ideas to create a Rainbow Fish themed Class Charter that also linked to the UN Rights of the Child.

Each bubble contains something that we think is important for us in and around the classroom and each shell contains one of our school values. We have all signed a scale on the Rainbow Fish to remind ourselves that we have agreed to our Class Charter and will use this throughout Primary 1. Brilliant work Primary 1!