| Newsletter February 2009 |
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Dates for your diary:
Change of time of school day.78% of parents wish to change the times of the school day. This will have an effect on the nursery times. The education office and the transport department have been informed and we await their decision and then all parents will be informed. Any changes will hopefully be after the Easter holidays.Assembly Dates:-Monday 9 February P4Monday 23 February P3 Monday 2 March P2 Monday 9 March Bug busting talk from school nurse Monday 16 March P1 Healthy Eating EducationFiona Bing from Health Promoting Schools will be visiting the school on Friday 6 February to talk to all children about healthy eating. As a Health Promoting School, we have a responsibility to encourage the children to follow a healthy lifestyle. Fiona will talk to them about different types of food and about cooking them. The children will discuss favourite foods as well as lunchbox food for school.Emma RossA former pupil of Auldearn, Emma Ross, will be with us for a week from 2 March. Emma is presently a Physics Teacher in Aberdeen but would like to visit a primary school to get insight into the differences in teaching methods. We look forward to welcoming her back to Auldearn Primary.Dinner Money Payments.Mrs Macdonald, our cook in charge, has asked me to remind parents that dinner tickets are on sale from 8.30am every morning and that the cost is £1.65. Any cheques should be made out to Highland Council. Thank you.Donation to school funds.Our thanks to Mr Kyle Mackintosh ( a parent of a nursery pupil) who, while on a skiing holiday in Vervier, skied approximately three miles down a mountain side in his boxer shorts and raised £100 for the school fund. We hope to have photos available for our parents’ evening!!Parent Open Evening/WorkshopThe staff are planning an open evening for parents to come into school with the older children on Tuesday 24 March. This is to allow parents to use the computer programmes which the children access for maths etc. Also, there will be a chance to watch the interactive whiteboards being used in P1 and P7. There will be other activities planned but further details will be sent out nearer to this date.Forest SchoolPrimary 3 will be starting at Forest School later in the session. This has been extremely successful and popular with the children in the past. The first of six sessions is on Thursday 23 April. Mr Campbell will be asking for parent helpers nearer the time.Technology for P7The Academy is sending a technology teacher and senior pupils to work with Primary 7 on a technology project. They are to create an environmentally friendly project which has its basis in a local topic. I am sure the children will enjoy this taster of Academy life.Behaviour on the buses.In order to help the school ensure the best of behaviour on the buses as well as the safety of all of the children, the Primary 7 pupils have been asked to keep an eye on the younger ones and to make sure that they are safe on the buses to and from school. I am sure that they will be a great help to us in this endeavour.Yours sincerely, Margaret R Nesbitt |