Loch Primary School
and
Nursery Class
September 2016
Newsletter
Successes and Achievements!
This month the following pupils have received a Head Teacher
Award:
 All of our new Primary 1 boys and girls for settling in to
school and class routines so well!
 Wiktoria Zuba and Natalia Palarz, both P7, for being
excellent helpers in the school Dinner Hall!
 Nadya Jezierska, P2, for helping one of the Primary 1
children to settle!
 Marcin Sobol, P4, for always being polite and mannerly
around the school!
Citizenship Awards have been selected by the Rights
Respecting School Committees and this month have been
awarded to:
 The Primary 2 boys and girls in Room 2 for being great
helpers with Primary 1!
 Liam Hannah, P3, for helping a new pupil in his class to
learn everyone’s name!
 Hollie Morrison, P4, for helping to pick up litter and clean
the sand pit!
 Amy Smith P5, for making sure all children in the class
are included!
Everyone has taken part in the SLC Road Safety Calendar
Competition ~ good luck!
Please remember that, at Friday Assembly, we love hearing
about all of the pupils’ ‘Amazing Achievements’ outwith school
too!
School Improvement
On 7.9.16 staff participated in a training session to learn all
about the new online resources as part of the Heinemann
Active Maths programme. Further time was spent discussing
the implementation of this on 14.9.16 along with a continued
focus on introducing the new North Lanarkshire Active
Literacy programme. Everyone was busy planning and organising
Modern Languages Awareness Week. Everyone enjoyed taking
part in our French ‘Partnership with Parents’ Session on 21.9.16
and were impressed at how much French the children have
learned and their fantastic singing! Well done also to the six P5
pupils Aron McLeod, Brogan Beaton, Kyle Grieve, Amy Clift, Mia
Wallace and Josh Futter who took part in the Cathkin Learning
Community French Showcase event on 21.9.16. Along with pupils
from the other Primary Schools in the Learning Community,
they entertained everyone with more French singing!
As one of the Scottish Attainment Challenge schools in SLC,
we have been given the opportunity to have a member of staff
trained as a ‘Leader of Learning’. Miss Harrington has taken
this role on and you will hear more about it in future
newsletters.
Miss Simpson and Mrs Smith have continued to attend Spanish
training sessions and Mrs Barrett and Miss Motherwell have
been enjoying French training.
Miss Simpson, PT, represented the school at the Scottish
Learning Festival to show all of the work being carried out in
relation to the Sunshine Room Nurture Group and strategies to
use across the school.
Mrs Roy took part in the Learning Community Nursery Teacher
Network on 15.9.16 where everyone discussed and shared ideas
for planning and running records to use.
An update on our School Improvement progress will be given
each month in our newsletter!
Nursery Update
The boys and girls have all been enjoying learning through our
focus 'All about Me' and have been exploring our emotions and
our bodies. They have looked at hair and eye colour as well as
exploring our senses touch, taste and hearing. The children
have created portraits of themselves and their families. They
have discussed friendship and created our own friendship
chain, handprints and 'wee me' characters which are displayed
at the Nursery entrance. The children have been exploring
numbers both inside and out with a variety of resources such
as a number hunt with gel numbers and digging for magnetic
numbers. All children have been working hard to practice
writing their name with our name card postbox. The children
have also enjoyed role play within our house corner, making
playdough and exploring the outdoor area.
Everyone all greatly enjoyed learning and performing our
French songs at the French café.
As part of our Eco work, the boys and girls have also been busy
caring for the birds by creating bird cakes and hanging them in
the trees within the school grounds.
Thanks once again to Andy Moffat who visited the Nursery on
5.9.16 to read some exciting stories which everyone enjoyed!
Mrs Murray, Oral Health Nurse, who was in to share a story
about tooth brushing.
Thank you to Zoey Richmond's mum who will be taking over our
lending library which starts on 30.9.16.
This month the Tiny Talking Team have been talking about
‘keeping safe’ in the Nursery. The children were very sensible
and were able to talk about not running away, listening to the
adults, lining up with an adult, and telling an adult if someone
doing something which isn’t safe!
Social Enterprise Committee
This year our Class Representatives on the Committee are:
Primary 5: Gemma Grieve, Jamieleigh Scolin, Brogan Beaton
Primary 6: Keir Baird, Jodie McMahon, Kacper Bednarski,
Callum Turner, Chloe Reid, Kirsty Spence
Primary 7: Taylor McCallum, Louise Fellows, Aiden Futter, Kyle
Elder, Aiden Wells, Alisha Dingil, Brooke Shand
After successful applications and interviews, the managers for
the café have now been appointed and are as follows:
Louise Fellows – Manager, Taylor McCallum - Assistant
Manager, Aiden Wells - Finance Manager
As you know, already the pupils have been working extremely
hard and organised our first LP Community Cafe which had a
French theme and took place on 21.9.16! It was once again a
great success and thoroughly enjoyed by everyone!
The raffle prize winners were –
Chloe Reid (French hamper), Kenzie Ollerenshaw (French wine),
Aaron Clelland and William McGleish (Kid's French game packs).
‘Merci beaucoup’ to everyone who took the time to come along
and join in with the cafe and the ‘Partnership with Parents’
session in the nursery and all of the classes, and also to the
Parents Association for their help and support once again! Due
to everyone’s hard work, enthusiasm and commitment this
event raised an amazing £593.32! At the next meeting of the
committee the pupil representatives will decide what they
would like this money to be used for and everyone will be
informed in the next newsletter!
Health and Eco Committee
This year the pupil representatives are:
Primary 1: Jessica Boyle and Sean Paul McGahey
Primary 1/2 : Ruby-Mae Rossi and Rhys Aitchison
Primary 2/3: Sophie Elder and Layton Campbell
Primary 4: Chloe Boyle and Sebi Urban
Primary 5: Amy Clift and Cody Degnan
Primary 6: Shannon McHugh and Daniel Wilson
Primary 7: Lisa Hume and Kyle Elder
Our Nursery boys and girls will also join in with the meetings
throughout the year.
The committee are busy preparing for their first Eco Day of
Action of this term which will take place on 5.10.16! This event
will help address the targets in our Action Plan for our 4th
Green Flag.
Our P5 Junior Road Safety Officers for this session are
Amy Clift and Joshua Lowe. Already the officers have carried
out the SLC Annual Travel Survey, have organised the SLC
Road Safety Calendar Competition and have given a very
informative presentation at Assembly all about Europe Day
Without A Road Death (E.D.W.A.R.D)! The two pupils have
certainly had a very busy start to this year!
Pupil Council
Our class representatives for 2016-17 are:
P1: Naomi McGleish and Callum Thomson
P1/2: Holly Dinnen and Craig Brown
P2/3: Kayla Aron and CJ Murray
P4: Angel McQueen and Aiden Healey
P5: Sophie Boyd and Ben Burnett
P6: Bailey Neilson and Cole Little
P7: Charley Adam and Alex Aenachioaie
The council members are looking forward to their first meeting
on 29.9.16. We will find out more about their focus in our
October newsletter!
Fair Trade Committee
This year our committee is made up of the following class
representatives:
Primary 1: Kayla McLean and Stuart Arnott
Primary 1/2: Ellie Wright and McKenzie Price
Primary 2/3: Abbie Morrison and Aidan McCloskey
Primary 4: Sophie Thomson and Ashton Quinn
Primary 5: Lauren Brannan and Kuba Kula
Primary 6: Cameron Lennox and Jack McLean
Primary 7: Taylor McCallum and Morgan Amy Lowe
In the October newsletter we will learn all about their plans
for this year!
Sports Council
Our Sports Council is new for us this year and we are looking
forward to hearing all about their work next month!
The P4-7 Representatives are:
P4: Morgan Ashton and Carly Carr
P5: Mia Wallace and Callan Strachan
P6: MacKenzie Stewart, Callum Abraham and Amber Lowe,
P7: Aiden Wells, Alisha Dingil and Kayleigh Haggerty
There’s Lots Going On At Loch!
We had a busy start to this new session!
 Miss Dolan has continued the ‘Youth Music Initiative’ with
our P5 pupils each week.
 P6 pupils have been enjoying their block of swimming
lessons which will continue until November.
 Our Healthy Tuck Shop continues to take place weekly on
a Thursday morning. Each week there will also be Fair
Trade items included for sale in the Tuck Shop. Thank
you to the Parents/Carers who have been helping with
this!
 P5 have been enjoying taking part in the Rugby sessions
throughout this month!
 Our P7 pupils have been enjoying learning to play Netball
with Miss Harrington and look forward to taking part in
some Netball Festivals!
 P7 enjoyed their first visit to Cathkin High School for
the Mini Sports on 7.9.16
 On 12.9.16, Ross from the Chaplaincy Outreach Team
came along to assembly ~ thank you!
 Anne Marie, from the Local Library, came along to
Assembly on 16.9.16 to present the Summer Reading
Challenge certificates to the children who took part
during the summer holidays!
 On 29.9.16 P2/3 enjoyed their visit to Fernhill and
Cathkin Church to learn about the role of the minister
and to see inside the building!
 P4 have started their 6 week block of Tennis this month
with Active School Co-ordinator, Tony Gilhooly.
 Our P2 pupils are looking forward to their After School
Tennis Club which starts on 30.9.16 and is organised for
us by Tony Gilhooly, Active School Co-ordinator.
Diary Dates
A copy of all of the school holidays and in-service days for this
year have now been sent home. All of the dates are included in
our school website and a reminder will be given in our monthly
newsletters.
 Our Parents Association meet every Friday morning at
9am in the school meeting room. If you are interested to
find out about how you can help them to support the
school please come along any Friday ~ you will be made
very welcome! Further PA information is also included on
our school website
 Our first Parents Night will take place on Thursday 13th
October ~ further information and appointment slips will
be sent out nearer the time.
 The school closes for the October Week on Friday 14th
October at 2.55pm and pupils return on Monday 24th
October.
 The school will be closed to all pupils on 21.11.16 for an
In-service Day.
 The school will close at 2.30pm on 22.12.16 for the
Christmas Holiday and pupils return at the usual time on
9.1.17.
Please note that all of our School Newsletters and Letters
sent out are uploaded to our School Website for everyone to
access easily ~ hopefully this will help if they are misplaced!
School Contact Details
Head Teacher: Sheena McNeill
Telephone: 0141 634 7217
Fax:
0141 631 3462
E-Mail:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Please remember that you can always see lots of
photographs of nursery and school events on our website.
Take time to visit at:
www.loch-pri.s-lanark.sch.uk
Twitter: @LochPS