Sandwoodprimary School 0141-883-8367

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January 2018

SandwoodPrimary School 0141-883-8367

Dear Parent/Carer,

Happy New Year to all our families.

We ended 2017 with many wonderful Christmas Activities, a huge thank you to all the staff for the shows and events that they organised for the pupils.

January is well under way and as usual there is lots going at Sandwood.

Our Scottish Poetry Competition Final will be held on Friday 26th January 1.30pm. Our judges for this event are to be confirmed. We thank our judges in advance as I know what a tough decision this is going to be. Families of the finalists will be invited to share in this event with us. Good luck to all our finalists!

Our Scottish Evening ‘Burns Supper’ will be on Wednesday 31st January at 6.30pm – 8.00pm. Tickets are on sale now and we would like to know final numbers where possible by Friday 19th January to assist with catering. Polish your dancing shoes for another guid nicht!

Every child should have a change of shoes for inside school. This will help to keep our classrooms and corridors clean and tidy. Increasing numbers of children are not changing into indoor shoes, which is resulting in dirty corridors and carpets in the classrooms. I would appreciate your co-operation in this matter.

Please check our diary dates for what’s on in the forthcoming months.

As always, if you require any further information please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Kind Regards

Fiona Donnelly

Head Teacher

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Health Spot!

Gym kit

Physical activity and a healthy lifestyle are of great importance for everyone, regardless of age, development and ability. For school children, they are of even greater importance, and have a significant impact on their physical, mental and social development. For safety reasons, it is important that pupils are dressed appropriately for all physical education classes. An increasing number of children are not bringing appropriate sportwear into school to get changed for their PE lessons.

For PE lessons our children require the following:

• Sport shoes and socks
• Sport shorts
• Sport t-shirt No jewelry (earrings, rings, toe rings, necklaces, bracelets, bangles, watches, etc.) or other items that can cause injury or accidents
• Long hair needs to be pulled back and secured tightly

Please ensure your child is well prepared for their gym days. Children may bring kit to school every Monday, leave in school and take home on a Friday for washing. Notification of your child’s gym days is noted in the class newsletter issued earlier this week.

Multi-sports

Our P2 class will have a session of multi-sport coaching from United Sports on Thursday 1 February.

Dance

P1 a and P1b will be receiving a block of Dance lessons from the Determined to Dance Coach. These sessions will be every Thursday for 8 weeks.

After School Clubs

This term the After School Clubs are as follows:-

Mondays – Dance P5-7– starting 15th January for 7 weeks.

Tuesdays–Fun and Fitness– P3, starting 16th January for 4 weeks.

Wednesdays – Fun and Fitness– P2, starting 17th January for 4 weeks.

Thursdays– Athletics – P7, starting 18th January for 4 weeks.

Thursdays – Chess Club

In order to ensure the safety of your child on days when After School Clubs are operating, please ensure you have completed the slip indicating pick uparrangements for your child on these days.

School app

Please remember to install our school app to your smartphones. This is an excellent way of ensuring good communication with families. It is very easy to install and to navigate.

Also, remember to follow us on Twitter.

Eco Spot!

Recycling

We are still recycling textiles, in return for money through ‘Rag Bag Recycling’. We accept (in bags):

• All clothing
• Household textiles such as sheets, blankets, towels and curtains (no pillows or duvets)
• Handbags and belts
• Paired footwear

This year Fairtrade Fortnight is 26 February - 11 March 2018. Our Fairtrade Steering Group will be organising activities for this fortnight and will distribute details of activities in February.

February Holiday

School Closed for children:

• Monday 12thFebruary
• Tuesday 13thFebruary
• Wednesday 14th February

*Please note Wednesday 14th February is an inservice day for teachers.

Emergency Contacts

Please ensure the information we have is correct and up-to-date, and advise immediately of any change.

Lost property

We have a huge amount of Lost Property. Please come and check for your child’s clothing if they have lost anything.Any items that are labelled have been returned. Can you please check that names written in pen on your children’s clothes have not washed out.

Our Parent Council is helping us manage the Lost Property and all named items will be returned to their owners. Any unidentifiable clothing will be donated to the Rag Bag at the end of each month.

Absence

A reminder of procedures regarding reporting of absence. Families do not contact the school to inform of absence. Families are to use theabsence reporting line on 0141 287 0039. Parents will be contacted by text or phone call if their child is absent and no information has been received. If you do not wish to be contacted via text message, please inform the school office. Text messaging is also very useful when keeping parents informed and up-to-date with school events and activities.

Parental involvement

We will continue to involve families in our developments this session. As ever we value you your opinion. Please add any suggestions below:-

My suggestion is:

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Sandwood Stars

Congratulations to:

P2a:-

Crystal Duncanson– won a drama certificate and medal.

Sophie Curran – started gymnastics.

Callum Dallas– won a medal for Tae Kwon Do.

Frazer Goldie– started playing in a football team.

Lily Thomson– won a trophy at dancing.

Stevie Gorham– started dancing.

Amani Ali– started swimming.

P3:-

Dalton Jenkinson– won a medal at his drama club Razzmatazz.

Grace Wright– won a medal at his drama club Razzmatazz.

Karleigh Gilmour - wrote a story about Granny’s Magic Bag and was awarded the 1st ‘special sticker’ from Mrs Donnelly.

Carson Hosie - won a football medal for reaching the semi-finals of a competition with his team.

James Conway– the P3 children selected his super effort in partitioning numbers to go on the Dream-Believe-Achieve wall and he received a special sticker from Mrs Donnelly.

Baylee Jackson– learned how to do the back crawl.

P3/4:-

Alisha Duncanson– won a drama certificate and medal.

Christopher Stewart– is now a yellow belt in karate.

Ayla Hawley– won a trophy for dancing.

P4:-

Lloyd Conway–won a medal and trophy for the end of the football season.

P4/5:-

Adam Parker – earned a brown belt with a yellow tag at Tae Kwon Do.

Sophie Gemmell – has learned how to ice skate.

P6:-

Aleya Stone – is learning to play Auld Lang Syne with both hands on the piano.

Abbie Brown – will be performing a hip-hop solo at her dance club and will be choreographing and performing a hip-hop group dance on 28th January

Hailey Adamson – will be choreographing and performing a hip-hop group dance on 28th January

P7/6:-

Taylor Clark – joined a new football club.

Jamie Paul – won top goal scorer for his football team Palace Park.

All children – came 5th place in the National Festive Sumdog Competition UK .P7/6 became true entrepreneurs with the Make £5 grow challenge They were 1st in Scotland!

P6 boys – raised £202 profit from selling slime.

P7:-

Taylor Walker - learned how to code a password generator.

Keira Adams - is running an Annie themed tap dance with younger pupils .

Maia Watson - participated in 16 shows in the Snow White Panto.

Summer Wilson - performed in a dance show ‘Starlets’ and raised over £200 for Virgin money.

Kenzi Martin - performed in a dance show ‘Starlets’ and raised over £200 for Virgin money.

Hannah Thomson - raised over £200 for Virgin money.

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