Please check your child’s school bag for an information pack about school routines, reminders and policies. One pack was issued per family.
Flu Vaccine
School Calendar: Term 1 & 2
Residentials
Primary 5 and 7 families please check school bags for payments letters and kit lists about school camps.
We will have an information session about the camps for families in January.
Welcome Back Assembly
This morning at assembly Miss Burton told us about how when she went to the Lion King with her mum in the summer it reminded her of our school. This is because we all should take pride in our school and have no worries!
We sang our school song and listened/ sang to some songs from the Lion King as well.
She was VERY impressed with our Wonderful Walking at assembly.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/welcome-back-assembly-2019
https://vimeo.com/355417131
Visit My Class
Welcome Back!
It was lovely to welcome back all our children today, including our new families, Primary ones and our new nursery families. There was lots of excitement, smiles and hugs in the playground this morning!
Over the next two weeks staff will be getting to know your child and rebuild their class community. They will making their class charters based on our school rules of ‘Ready, Respectful and Safe’ and these will be shared with you.
Our priorities for this session are:
- Ensuring all children receive regular, well-planned learning in one plus two modern languages.
- To provide all children with access to numeracy and writing learning experiences of a consistently high standard, with robust assessment of progress.
- To refresh our vision, values and aims in consultation with the whole school community.
- To embed the Career Education Standard across learning.
- To continue to embed digital approaches to improve learning and teaching.
We look forward in working with our Parent Partners in achieving these priorities.
We will have a Visit My Class workshop on Wednesday 11th September at 6pm, which will give you the opportunity to visit your child’s class, meet their teacher and find out more about their learning.
I hope that we can continue to work together in the best interests of our children. I believe in having an open door policy, so if you have any suggestions, ideas or concerns, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Ultimately, I hope that our children take away happy memories from their primary school experience and that they will remember the events, people and the learning that made school memorable for them, enabling them to develop and demonstrate our school values.
Here’s to what I know will be a fantastic year!
Kind regards,
Miss Burton
(Primary 1 photos to be added once permissions are checked).
Positive Relationships at PUSCPS
Last term staff and children evaluated current approaches to managing positive relationships at PUSCPS. We also took part in career long professional along with our cluster using research from Paul Dix’s book, When the adults change everything changes.
Using our evaluation and research we have now came up with a consistent approach, which is shared below. We will also explain this further at our Visit Our Class workshops (watch this space!).
Our approaches are based on reinforcing positive choices, using restorative approaches and helping to support children be responsible for their choices. We wanted our corrective actions to be immediate to give children time out to think about their consequences rather than waiting until the end of a day or a week. We also wanted 30 minutes of together time to be available each week for all children, as this is an important part of their social development with peers.
We hope you find the information below useful, and if you have any questions we look forward to answering them at Visit My Class.
Below is also information about our playground.
Nearly New Uniform Sale
We will have our nearly new uniform on sale in the school dinner hall on:
- Monday 19th August at 2:00-3:00pm
- Tuesday 20th August at 9:30-10:30am
All donations will go into school funds.
If you have any donations of old school uniform that is still in good condition, please hand it in to our office.
P1 – P7 Back to School Arrangements
We hope that you are all enjoying your holidays!
We have missed you all and are excited about welcoming you back next week. Your teachers have been busy setting up your new classroom and planning exciting getting to know you activities for the first two week of term.
Wednesday 21st AugustÂ
- 8:10am – 8:30am: Breakfast Club for Primary 2-7.
- 8:30am: Pupils can enter the playground.
- 8:50am: School starts: Primary 2-7 children should enter their classroom through the playground and line up at their classroom door at 8:50am as usual).
- 3:15pm: School finishes, families are permitted into the playground to collect their children. Children up to Primary 4 should be collected by an adult unless the office is notified.
Primary 1
- 9:00am: Enter the school through the office and meet in the hall
- Opportunity for the parents/ carers to bring their child into the classroom and take a photo, etc. (This will take 30-40 minutes).
- 3:00pm: School finishes, families should collect their child from the Primary 1 classroom door.
Thursday 22nd August
Normal routines resume
- 8:10am-8:30am: Breakfast Club for Primary 1-7 (children should not arrive at school before this time as there is no supervision).
- 8:30am: Pupils can enter the playground.
- 8:50am: School starts: Primary 1-7 children should enter their classroom through the playground and line up at their classroom door at 8:50am as usual. Only children who arrive after 8:50am should enter through the office (and they will be marked as late).
- 3:15pm: School finishes, families are permitted into the playground to collect their children, children up to Primary 3 should be collected by an adult unless the office is notified.
