Category: Headteacher Update

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Head Teacher Update

Dear Parent/Carer,

I am writing to update you on the progress of recruiting a Head Teacher for PUSCPS. I am delighted to inform you that Mrs Joanne Kerr, currently Head Teacher at Seafield Primary, will take up the seconded Head Teacher post on Monday 26th April 2021. Mrs Kerr comes with a wealth of teaching and leadership experience. I am sure you will all make her feel very welcome.

Although I will support the smooth transition of the new management team, my last day as Head Teacher at PUSPCS will be on Friday 23rd April 2021.

I would like to thank you for all of your support, for challenging my thinking, and for your words of encouragement along the way during my time at PUSCPS. You have taught me about the power of community, working in partnership through communication and building relationships, to get it right for our children. We have been through so much together! Snow days to a world pandemic; happiness and laughs to times of great sadness; new staff to retirements. So many significant events on our journey have happened in the last 3 ½ years.

A wise colleague once said to me, your leadership is only as strong as the legacy you leave behind. I hope that what I leave behind at PUSCPS is that our children should always be championed by the adults around them, and that they deserve the best school experience as making memories matters. We all know that l love our school colours and a video, too! 🙂

Our memories are our greatest treasure, and I have loved making memories with you, our staff, but mostly our children. The children of PUSCPS will always hold a special place in my heart.

I wish Team PUSCPS the best of luck in the next part of your journey.

Kind regards,

Miss Burton

 

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Spring Holidays

Dear parent/ carer,
It is hard to believe it is the end of term 3 and our Easter holidays are here. It has been another unsettling time for some, with us starting the year in lockdown but I know we are now all glad to be back at school, finding some kind of normality.
Thank you for your continued support during remote learning and supporting your child with their transition back to school, we really appreciate it.
We recently had some Spring fundraising with our dress down day raising £90, Spring booklets £45.15 and our raffle £300! Thank you to everyone who organised the events and to those who donated – this is a fantastic amount of money for our school funds.
Mrs Barclay joined us this week as Acting Principal Teacher and she has already been a great asset to our team.
We look forward to welcoming our primary children back on 19th April and our nursery children back on 6th April.
I hope you have a lovely Spring break and that we have some good weather!
Kind regards,
Miss Burton
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Merry Christmas from Miss Burton

Dear parent/ carer,

As we approach the end of the term and the festive period, I think it is important as a school to reflect over the past year. 2020 is definitely a year we will all remember – the year of Covid19, lockdown, tiers, loss, uncertainty, quarantine, isolation … the list goes on and on.

Within these uncertain times I am very proud of how our whole school community has rallied together to support each other. School days might physically be different but at the heart of our school and nursey our ethos is still the same. This week we received 80 messages of thanks from families for our staff to share your appreciation of how they have supported your child on their return to school and nursery. I am sure you will agree this is a tribute to all the work that has went in from all our staff to ensure that your child is at the forefront of all we do.

We have worked hard to provide fun festive experiences for our children in their bubbles including Movie Day, Christmas Lunch, Quiz, Santa visit, Class Celebrations, Nativity, Christmas Crafts and an online Christmas Concert. This has resulted in a ‘buzz’ around the school which we love at this time of year and also reminding us as staff in education why we love our jobs so much. The response to our fundraising has been overwhelming with us raising £1344.73 for school funds which is an amazing amount – a huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to this.

I would personally like to thank you as our parents and carers, for your patience as we found our way, your encouragement, and your willingness to support us and our decisions. This really has helped me and our staff team. As Head Teacher, I am very proud of all we have achieved this year.

At this time, we would usually be gathered in our hall, with a piece of shortbread and a cuppa watching our Christmas Concert. Here is the link so you can do this at home:

https://vimeo.com/492223738

I wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a safe and happy time together. Here’s hoping to a different 2021 for us all!

Warm regards,

Miss Burton

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P.E Kit & P.E. Days

Thank you for your support with school uniform and our new approach to P.E. kit.
This is just a reminder of what children should wear on P.E. days as some children have returned this term unfortunately not wearing P.E. kit.
We would request that on P.E. days children wear to school:
  • white polo shirt/ t-shirt – with school logo or plain
  • blue sweatshirt/cardigan – with school logo or plain
  • P7 – black sweatshirt/cardigan
  • plain black tracksuit bottoms/ joggers
  • black trainers
  • girls who are wearing a skirt over their leggings can remove their skirt on P.E. days
  • we would recommend that they don’t wear their shirt and tie on their P.E. days
In order to continue with our inclusive ethos and promoting our school identity we would request that children don’t wear branded clothing. We also have nearly new school polo shirts and sweatshirts that can be purchased for a small donation.
We would request that on non P.E. days children wear their normal school uniform.
Term 2 P.E. Days (same as last term):
  • Primary 1 – Mon/Wed
  • Primary 2/1 – Mon/Thurs
  • Primary 3/2 – Tues/ Fri
  • Primary 4/3 – Mon/ Tues
  • Primary 4 – Mon/Wed
  • Primary 5 – Tues/Wed
  • Primary 6 – Mon/Wed
  • Primary 7 – Mon/Wed

Thank you for your support with this.

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End of Term 1

It has been fantastic welcoming all our children back and we have had a settled, calm and fun start to the new school year. As we approach the end of term 1, I wanted to express my thanks to you for supporting us to ensure our return to school was safe. Thank you for your patience as we refined routines in line with changing and updated guidance.
Just a reminder that the school is now closed until Wednesday 21st October for the October holidays. We will continue to offer take away school lunches to those who are entitled to free school schools between 12:00-1:30pm each day (Monday-Friday) from the dinner hall. If your child is making use of this service please ensue their rubbish goes in the bin and isn’t left lying on the school grounds. The main school office will be closed, meaning there is no access to our main school phone number or email.
Our nursery is open during the October holidays as normal. Please phone 01506 280997 to report an absence or in an emergency. If your child is absent, please phone between 8:00-9:00am. If your child is going to be absent in the afternoon please phone between 1:15-2:00pm. (The previous issue with the phone has now been resolved).
I hope the sun keeps shinning like it is today and you manage to enjoy the October holidays.
Kind regards,
Miss Burton
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Breakfast Club

A gentle reminder that all Primary 1 -7 children are welcome to join us for Breakfast Club each morning. It starts at 8:10am,we would request that you do not send your children prior to this time as they will have to wait outside unsupervised. The doors to Breakfast Club close at 8:30am, so please ensure your child arrives before then.

 

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NHS Guidance on Attendance at School

We know that this is a confusing and uncertain time as we learn how to follow the guidance for Covid 19 symptoms and testing. We would request that all families take time to re-read the guidance below, this should support you in deciding your child’s attendance at school. It is important as a whole school community we follow this guidance to keep everyone safe.

The NHS guidance is:

  • Please don’t send your child to school with symptoms which may be coronavirus (a new persistent cough, and/or a high temperature, and/or a loss or change in taste or smell).

 

  • If your child or anyone in your household has symptoms you should ALL stay at home. Find out how to organise a COVID test on NHS Inform or phone 0800 028 2816. If your child has symptoms but tests negative they can return to school once they have had no symptoms for 48 hours and are feeling better. Please show the teacher the negative test result. This helps monitor cases and keeps the school community safe and reassured.

 

  • If you return from an area with quarantine restrictions keep your child off school and stay at home for 14 days. A negative COVID test will not shorten quarantine as it doesn’t show if you or your child will develop the virus. Updated travel information is on gov.scot

When you phone our office to report your child’s office we will ask if your child or anyone in the house have symptoms and remind you of the NHS guidance.

Please find attached the information leaflet:

parents and carers letter good practice schools

Please find track and trace information:

Test and Protect Leaflet – August Update

Test And Protect Step By Step Guide – August Update

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Positive Relationships at PUSCPS – New School Values

After consultation with our children, families, staff and partners we have finalised our new school values and motto!

Our values are:

  • Kind
  • Confident 
  • Achieving

Our new school motto is:

Growing kind hearts and confident achievers.

We are very excited to launch these and the children will be completing tasks in relation to them over the next few weeks and months.

I hope you will agree with me, that they really sum up what we expect and hope for all our children. Thank you to everyone who supported us with this consultation.

Positive Relationships at PUSCPS (2)

 

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