parents as partners – St Ninian's Primary School

Last year we received £63,000 funding from the Scottish Government’s Pupil Equity Fund to help close the poverty related attainment gap.

We used this money to:-

Have an extra support for learning teacher (Mrs Scott) to provide extra literacy and numeracy support in all classes
Employ a Polish Pupil Support Worker to support children who are learning English
Run a PEEP (family learning) class for parents and nursery children
Reduce the cost of after school clubs, camps and trips
Employ a Speech & Language therapist to work with identified groups of children from nursery – P3
Provide high quality professional learning for all staff.
Purchase new writing resources for P1-7 to improve children’s attainment in writing
Employ an extra teacher to support us with Number Talks across P1-7
Purchase a numeracy home learning kit for P2-4 pupils – these will be launched in August
Purchase new netbooks and iPads for each class

We will receive £60,000 PEF funding this year.

What do you think our school should STOP, START and CONTINUE to do to help all our children make progress and to support all families?

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This week has been wonderful in St Ninian’s Nursery! We welcomed the arrival of our kindness elves on Monday! They are going to be looking out for boys and girls who can do wonderful things – this might be involved with learning, sharing, confidence or even having super ideas! They are always on the lookout for ‘I can..’ moments but are also really interested in the I Can moments that come from home! Please share any achievements your child has at home with us so we can let the elves know 😉

Welly Wednesday was interesting this week as we discussed the changing weather! Mrs Conway couldn’t see out of her car window and we realised it was because Jack Frost had been out! We talked about the changing seasons and that we are expecting Winter very soon. We watched a lovely clip about birds in winter and learned that it can be hard for them to find food – we decided to make them food to take with us to the woods! The boys and girls enjoyed threading cheerios onto straw and mixing lard with bird seed to make feeders. We seen so many creatures this week! Including squirrels and even a rat!!! How interesting! We are going to go back next week to collect our little pots used for food so we don’t litter the woods.

Thursday brought our Children In Need celebration! We looked great in our spots and stripes – Mrs G and Miss Burns even had a Pudsey eye patch painted on their face! The boys and girls enjoyed talking about how they were lucky to have things that they needed and how their pennies could help Pudsey help other children who need him. We raised over £60! Fantastic!

Thursday PM and Friday AM brought a little bit of a different snack… The boys and girls, along with P1 have been going to the library to listen to the stories up for the Book Bug Picture Book award! We chose Gorilla Loves Vanilla as our favourite and one of the AM group asked if we could have ice cream cones! We joined the P1 group to discuss our favourite flavours which Mrs Martinek ordered – chocolate was the most oooular flavour! The boys and girls enjoyed their wee spoonful of ice cream and the chance to talk about ice cream flavours they might not like – such as worms! As in the story! We look forward to working with P1 on Monday to kick of Road Safety week 🙂

Remember Stay and Play and Come Back and Play next week! We look forward to seeing you all 💜

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Have your say! How can we use PEF to support all children and families at St Ninian’s?

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