School Newsletter November 2014
Thank you!! I wanted to start by saying thank you for all the support since taking up the Acting Head Teacher post. I have appreciated how welcoming everyone has been and look forward to working with you all in the coming months. School Website Our school website has had a spring clean so you may notice some small changes in appearance and layout. We have checked all of the links to other useful sites to make sure they are live and brought all the information up to date. We now plan to set up a blog for each class to replace the Class Information page. The blog will contain informative posts and photos, bringing you up to speed about what the children are learning. Pupils in P4-7 will be writing their own posts. We will put an announcement on the school website as soon as these blogs are up and running. Please visit and leave a comment – always a great way of encouraging children. The Feedblitz software – which sent out emails when the website was updated – has been discontinued by East Lothian Council. It has been replaced by a similar (and improved) service called Feedburner. This is on the front page of our website – enter your email address and click the button to sign up. There are lots of new posts and slideshows to see on our home page, so please check them out. This is where you‟ll find the latest information. Copies of newsletters are still available via the website, now moved to the „About our School‟ section.
Issue 2
St Andrews Day Rev. Joanne Evans-Boiten is organising the annual service to commemorate this important day in our calendar. She welcomes children from our school to attend the service at 11am and take part in the event afterwards. Rev. Evans-Boiten would be very glad if children participating could wear their school uniform. This year the theme is “Role Models”. As well as St Andrew being an important role model to his Christian brothers and sisters in the early church, it is also the theme of the project our P4-7 class is exploring this term. All classes are contributing work on this theme for the event and this will be displayed in the church. Children who wish to talk about their writing or picture are welcome to do so, either by just explaining what they have produced, or – if they prefer – answering questions put to them by the minister. The service will last for about 50 minutes, followed by singing the Saltire Anthem outside the church immediately afterwards. There will be a rehearsal for those taking part (if free to do so) at the church at 12.30pm on Friday 28th November. Nativity and P4-7 Drama Our annual nativity play for P1-3 is called The Donkey Seller and it will be followed by a lively performance by the P4-7 class. The date for this has had to change and is now on Monday 15th December at 2 pm. More details will follow but we look forward to seeing many of you there!