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With the wind whirling it feels like late autumn today. I always say this, but once again the term has simply flown past and the last week of term if fast approaching.

P 3/4/5 and P 5/6/7 were disappointed once more this week, as they were not able to go to Auchterawe. The rain poured down and making dens in the rain is not so much fun! Unfortunately we are unable to rerun this trip before the holidays, so we will see if we can manage this early next term.

Thank you to all the parents who joined us at parents night. It was lovely to see you all.

I hope that everyone now has a copy of the Quality and Standards report and the school newsletter. If you did not get a copy please ask for one from the school office. They will go live on the website later next week.

A quick reminder to all parents, that for PE lessons children should have shorts, a t- shirt and a pair of suitable indoor shoes. Mrs Campbell comes in every Thursday and expects all the children to be suitably dressed so that they can access all the activities.

P5/6/7

We are enjoying finishing off our model village, complete with garage, corner shop, cinema, floating boathouse, skyscraper, skateboard park.. powered by solar panels and wind turbines.

Sadly for us this was our last week of swimming for a while...it's one of the highlights of our week. We've had a brilliant time, and we've gained a lot of confidence from our lessons.

We are looking forward to seeing our new junior road safety officers back from their training session at Kirkhill Primary....we're going to ask them lots of questions about being safe near roads, especially now that the nights are beginning to get darker.


P 3/4/5

The children began thinking the big C word... sorry yes, I did mean Christmas!!! As part of the Blue Peter Whizz kids appeal we created Christmas cards. The cards have to be sent back at the end of next week. The children did some super decorations. These cards will be distributed through out the UK and sold in Tesco Extra stores. Look out for the packs, one of them may contain your children's card! All money raised will help to support wheel chair assessment clinics. If you want to find out more, log onto the Blue Peter website.

The children also wrote letters to Mr Salmond, about the state of our beaches, with rubbish. We will have a go at redrafing some of these next week and send them to the man himself! I await his response!


P 1/2/3

Did a salt water experience with Laura from the Nursery. We should see the results next week. The children have been singing about Mice! Discussing hand- washing and making posters. We had a vote for the Pupil Council. The rest of the new toys arrived the dolls house and the garage are very well equipped. We have been learning about blurbs, and about using headings when writing reports. We also read about lady pirates too.


Nursery

The nursery ate some of their harvested brussel sprouts for snack. The children have been looking at patterns in nature, and one wee one painted a beautiful fish. Another child painted a super picture of a shell with all the ridges and bumps on it. The children have had great fun with lengths of guttering in the playground, running water through the pipes. Mrs Macleod came into nursery and helped the children make plant pots with shells stuck on to them.

I wish you a happy weekend.

Kindest regards

W S Scollay