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This flyer has recently been issued from West Lothian.
We would like to make the plea that if anyone see’s any antisocial behaviour in our school grounds including people trying to access the playground, or in the areas surrounding our grounds for example the kick pitch and pump track, that they report it. Especially as it is coming into the summer period.
Recently “ the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills proposed providing teachers with two additional in-service days in the academic year to support professional learning.”
West Lothian Education Executive have decided that the additional inservice days will be on Tuesday 20th August 2019 and Monday 6th January 2020.
This means that our school and nursery will start the new school year on Wednesday 21st August 2019.
As discussed at the Primary 1 induction evening, Primary 1 children will start at 9am on Wednesday 21st August and should enter the school through the office. They should be collected from the playground at 3:00pm. On the Thursday they will start and end at normal school times, 8:50am and 3:15pm.
On Tuesday 11th June, on behalf of West Lothian Council you will receive a groupcall about Parents Portal.
We would request that all of our families sign up to this facility to support our continued efforts in becoming a paperless school.
Thanks in advance.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/star-writer-awards
Thank you to our Literacy Leaders for leading the Assembly.
Congratulations to the winning entry at each stage.
Congratulations to this Primary 4 whose story will be entered to represent our school at the Stellar Awards.
You can hear the winning entries below, thank you to our Literacy Leaders and senior children for recording the stories for a surprise at the assembly.
https://vimeo.com/340488128
https://vimeo.com/340488019
https://vimeo.com/340488030
https://vimeo.com/340546095
https://vimeo.com/340547089
https://vimeo.com/340550042
https://vimeo.com/340552174
Each session West Lothian issue a parent ethos survey for families to complete about your child’s school. The findings of this questionnaire, along with our school evaluations, help us to plan future improvements.
Thank you to everyone who has already taken part in the questionnaire. We would value if you could take ten minutes to complete the survey using the link below.
https://www.esurveycreator.co.uk/s/9a2f12c
All the children in P1-P7 created a piece of writing for the West Lothian Council Stellar Writing Competition (previously known as Young Writer of the Year).
Our Literacy Leaders had the difficult task of selecting the best piece of writing for each class, and then an overall winner for the school.
On Thursday 6th May at 2:30pm, we will have a special Star Writer Assembly to celebrate and announce those children who have been selected (the children don’t know). Parents/ carers of these children have been informed but everyone is invited to the assembly. We look forward to seeing you!
This letter will be sent out to P1-7 families today.
iPayimpact was brought into West Lothian Council a few years ago to make it easier for parents/ carers to pay for school related payments as a more efficient way for office staff to handle money.
We still have a number of families who do not use this service. From August 2019, we require all families to use iPayimpact to pay for lunch, milk, residentials, nursery snack and any trips over £5. This is due to a reduction in the hours in the office, meaning we have less time to handle money therefore we need to take advantage of this service provided by the council.
If you do not use iPayimpact or have lost your log in can you please fill out the form below so we can issue you with a new log in. If you need some advice on how to use iPayimpact can you please tick the box below and Mrs Birrell will arrange a time for you to pop in or a phone call for support. If you currently use iPayimpact you do not need to complete the form below.
We appreciate your support with this.
The text from the original letter about iPayimpact is below.
We have now introduced a more convenient way to order and pay for primary school meals, trips, activities and other significant school purchases, using a secure internet service called iPayimpact.
You can pay your nursery child’s snack money for the term online. You can order your primary child’s meal for the day/weeks online and pay your meal and milk accounts and other activities directly instead of sending cash to school in your child’s pocket. You can put lump sums on your child’s meal account and as meals are taken it will be reduced by the cost of a meal each time so you don’t have to log on each day to make payment.
iPayimpact offers you the freedom to make payments whenever and wherever you like, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – safe in the knowledge that the technology used is of the highest internet security available.
You will have a secure online account, creating your own unique username and password; with a secure activation via your email address. Once activated, you should keep your username and password safe and secure. Making a payment is straightforward and iPayimpact holds a payment history for you to view at any time; no card details are stored in any part of the system. Once you’ve activated your account you can make online payments straight away.
If you have more than one child at the same school or children at different schools in West Lothian, you will be able to connect all the children to your unique username and password and be able to make payments for all purchases in one single transaction. You may have already opened an account if you have a child at secondary school. (All secondary schools have been ‘live’ since February and all primary schools will be ‘going live’ during April/May).
I hope you will support us in achieving our goal to become a cashless school. Introducing this system provides you with the convenience of being able to pay at home whilst also removing potential risks to your children from carrying cash.
As you are aware Thursday 23rd May is the European Parliamentary election. Our school dinner hall is a voting station but our school and nursery will be open as normal.
Children attending Breakfast Club should enter through the main office and go into the gym hall.
School lunches that day will be green tray only (packed lunch) or children can bring their own packed lunch to school.
As we are lucky to currently have such beautiful weather can we please offer you a few gentle reminders about sun cream:
Long may the sunshine continue!
Each session West Lothian issue a parent ethos survey for families to complete about your child’s school. The findings of this questionnaire, along with our school evaluations, help us to plan future improvements.
We would value if you could take ten minutes to complete the survey using the link below.
https://www.esurveycreator.co.uk/s/9a2f12c
