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Our school Inspection starts on Monday and we’re excited to share our school with the team.  We have spoken to the children about what the inspection means using the powerpoint below.

Some of our pupils may be nervous or unsure of the process and, while we know it will be a positive experience for everyone, it may be useful for you at home to take some time and speak to pupils about what is going to happen.  I have included the Powerpoint here to help you with this.

We are emphasising with the children that their week of learning will continue the same as always, but that team members will be in and out of classes and will sit with them and ask about their learning, their experience of school and their opinions.  All they can do is be honest, open and respectful and they will do us all proud.

We will also be reinforcing our very high expectations of excellent behaviour and attitude to all pupils and would appreciate you reinforcing this at home too.

Steven Eagleson

PUSCPS what is inspection – powerpoint for pupils

At Pumphie Pals last week we asked pupils to share what they think makes our school great and what they think we could improve on together.  The results have been organised below and they make for terrific reading.  Our pupils clearly love their school, and enjoy having a say in how we do things at PUSCPS.

As you know we are being inspected by HMIE next week.  It is extremely important for the inspection process that your views as parents are heard.  At present we have a very low number of parents available to speak to the team and I’m hoping we can encourage more of you to come forward to speak to the team about your school.

We have received notification of inspection from Education Scotland.  Inspections are important events in the life of a school, they are infrequent but vital to ensuring schools are meeting the needs of learners; PUSCPS was last inspected in 2006.  The inspection will begin the week of 13 November.

To ensure that we can focus on the process, we will unfortunately need to postpone the parent appointments by two weeks (until 29 and 30 November), and revert back to the original date for the P7 assembly (10 November).  We appreciate that this is inconvenient for working families and would not take this step unless it was absolutely unavoidable. 

As part of the inspection, Inspectors gather the views of stakeholders via an online survey.  The surveys are available from the following links until 6 November:

PARENTS/CARERS OF PRIMARY PUPILS:  https://forms.education.gov.scot/s/5QN0Y/

PARENTS/CARERS OF NURSERY PUPILS: https://forms.education.gov.scot/s/AN5RM/

The November Newsletter has additional information and has been emailed home.  It can also be downloaded, or read by visiting the NL page of the blog – click here.

I have also emailed to inform you that there has been a delay in the date of my leaving PUSCPS and Sarah Burton taking over as acting HT.  This will still go ahead, but due to the needs of the larger council service it has been delayed until the 24 November.   We apologise for the confusion but I am pleased to have another few weeks working with such a great and supportive group of pupils, parent body and staff team.

Many thanks,

Steven Eagleson
Headteacher

Congratulations to our fantastic community.  Today we raised £144.35 together to support Stand Up to Cancer.  Thanks also to Mrs Allan who suggested the charity and also baked and donated 50 orange frosted cup-cakes for sale today.  Well done to everyone. 

Remember that tomorrow is the last Friday of the month and so dress-down for charity day at PUSCPS.

This month we are collecting for the charity Stand up to Cancer.  Wear something orange and bring a donation.