Below is a useful Education Scotland Link for parents/carers to support numeracy at home.
https://education.gov.scot/parentzone/learning-at-home/supporting-numeracy/Introduction
This can also be found on our Information for Parents > Parent Prompt page of our website.
The photographs have now all been taken for our sticker book and look fantastic. I am sure everyone will be delighted with them! P7 have taken on the job of looking for people to advertise in our sticker book which will help towards the cost of printing the stickers. The more advertising P7 can sell for our book the more profit our school will make from the sale of the stickers – all profits will go towards our playground developments.
If you run your own business or work for a company / business or have any contacts with anyone that would be interested in advertising in our sticker book, we would love to hear from you or them. Advertising space starts at £85 and there are various price options from there depending on the size of advert. We have information fliers available in school that we can send out to you or your contacts which will give you more details. Please let us know if you would like one. We hope to hear from you soon!!
Please can you remind your child / children not to ride round the playground on their bikes and scooters at the beginning and end of the school day. The playground is very busy at these times and one of our older boys almost knocked a little girl over riding his bike down the hill earlier this week at home time.
Children should get off their bikes at the gate in the morning and wheel them to the bike rack in the playground. At the end of the day the children are asked to collect their bikes and scooters and wheel them up the path before getting on them at the gate. We spoke to all the children about this in assembly this week and would appreciate your help to reinforce this message at home as it is not always for staff to be in the playground at the end of the day.
The plans for our new extension will be on display in the main hall of our school on Thursday 28 September 2017 from 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm for all parents and members of the public to come and look at. As Head Teacher I will be there, as will people for the authority, the architects and the building company in case you had any questions you wanted to ask about the plans and the development of our school.
A big thank you to everyone who came along to support our Beetle Drive yesterday evening – we hope everyone enjoyed a very competitive event! The Beetle Drive raised £85! Thank you to everyone on the PTA for organising this fun evening!
As you know we have a new exciting activity for your kids this year ~ the school Sticker Books!!!
The P7 pupils will be coordinating this fund raising enterprise for us throughout the year.
Our photographer has already taken pictures of your child on Monday & Tuesday. Anyone who didn’t get their photo taken will have another chance on Sept 22nd. He has taken great care to ensure the photos are of the best quality possible.
Here is some more information on the sticker books:
If you would like to find out more about our school sticker book or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact school.
Caroline Brown Parent Council
The September nursery newsletter is now available to read here September 17 Nursery Newsletter
National survey on the expansion of free early learning and childcare in Scotland
As you’ll be aware the Scottish Government is planning to nearly double the hours of free early learning and childcare by 2020. Because the views of parents and carers are crucial for the success of this expansion, the Government has commissioned independent researchers to undertake a survey of parents. It is now asking for your help in sharing the survey link (www.bit.ly/elc-survey) with as many parents of 0-5 year old children in your community as possible.
All parents taking part will have the opportunity to be entered into a prize draw and have the chance to win one of 10 x GBP100 cash prizes.
The survey is carried out for the Scottish Government by Craigforth, an independent research company. If you have any questions about this survey please send a message to: survey@craigforth.co.uk
Wednesday 13th September is our Family Beetle Drive Evening, organised by the PTA. It takes place in the Main Hall from 6.30pm to 8 pm. £1 entry for adults & 50p for kids – refreshments included. We also have a game of stand-up bingo half-way through which is 50p a ticket.
The Beetle Drive is a fantastic fun social evening for both children and parents – if you’ve never played before it’s an easy game! The children will have had a wee game in school prior to the evening to practise!
All welcome, especially those who are new to the school – great way to meet other parents and you are more than welcome to bring other friends and family.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Currie Primary PTA
We are all well at camp! We have had a couple of action packed days with everyone taking part in a variety of activities. Yesterday saw us all starting on some of the climbing challenges with almost everyone making it to the top of the Leap of Faith and everyone working really well on Jacob’s Ladder to get their teams as high as they could – even Miss Nicholson and Mr Mackenzie! This morning saw the first of our groups on the 3G swing, something everyone has been really looking forward to! The weather is good, the food has been great and the dorms are being kept pretty tidy!! It was around 11.20 pm last night when the last dorm fell silent…and 6.45 am this morning before the first of the boys dorms woke….the girls all had to be woken up!
