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Newsletter Oct 09
Newsletter Oct 09
had a baby girl on Tuesday October 20th. She is to be called Anna and
mum and daughter are both well.
The recent Open Evening was very successful in terms of the number of
families attending and I would like to thanks those of you who came along.
Our recent Book Fair did well and we sold about £800 worth of books –
mostly during the Open Evening. This is fantastic.
Literacy Week which was organised by Mrs Frew and Mrs Simpson was
amazing and the children loved it. The activities were really successful
and the Friday afternoon sharing time was great. Children from each
class told the others in school about the things they had done during the
week. We have still to finish some of this for the upper school and it will
be done during assembly time on Friday. Well done to staff and pupils too
who dressed up as a book character – the parade around school was
amazing. My thanks go to those who worked so hard to make this possible.
Class trips will be starting soon and letters will be sent home as
appropriate in plenty of time for any payment to be made etc. Trips link in
to class work normally and are planned carefully taking into account risk
assessments and factors of personal safety for our pupils. We will assure
– as far as is humanly possible – that children are safe and secure while
on an outing from school.
Our football team is currently sitting top of the league so well done boys
and many thanks to Mr Connochie and Mr Bob Niven for making this
possible. Thanks to Mr Cuthell for helping organise the last round of
matches.
Congratulations to our Road Safety team who won the recent competition
within Grangemouth. This is fantastic. The trophy will be presented at
assembly next week. Well done to Gemma Myles, Holly Duncan, Rebecca
Clark and Shannon Henderson.
Future events
Dress down day for funds – pay £1 to dress down : Friday Nov 13th
Parties will be held during the week beginning December 14th and 21st.
You will find attached to this letter an updated policy for Homework. This
has now been discussed with staff and MPP members and is now school
policy. My thanks to Mrs Finlay and her working group for putting
together this policy and also to those parents/carers who responded to
her questionnaire last session. It was one of the highest returns we have
had.
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