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Prestonpans Infant School Newsletter
February 2014
This Friday 21 February 2014, we will be fundrais-
ing to wipe out Polio in the world. It costs 50p to
vaccinate a child from polio. We would invite every
child to contribute 50p on Friday and for every 50p
donated, we will stamp one of their fingers with
purple. This is because when children are vacci-
nated, they are stamped with purple dye, to show
who has been vaccinated. £1 saves the lives of 2 children.
The Pupil Council will count the money and work out how many
children we have saved.
On the Prestonpans foreshore,
there is a famous rock sitting on a
rock. It’s called Johnny Moat. Leg-
end has it that Prestonpans prospers
as long as Johnny Moat stands on its
rock. High winds last week led to
Johnny Moat toppling off its rock.
Tim Porteus, our local storyteller
and friend of the school, is hoping to get local folk to get
Johnny Moat back on its ledge. We’ll keep you posted. You
can read more about this in last week’s East Lothian Courier.
We are delighted that 30 families have come forward to take
part in the Families and Schools Together Project. Thank you
all. FAST will run again in September for another 30
families.
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What a great day of laughter we enjoyed on
Scotland’s Big Laugh Day. We were one of the
schools that led this in Scotland. Thank you all
for the great effort you
put into dressing up your
children. The staff also
went to so much effort to
dress and behave silly, that we had an
impromptu fashion show at assembly.
We listened to the Laughing Policeman
(Google it!) and the children told us lots
of jokes. We also had a visit from our
MP Fiona O’Donnell and 3 Tanzanian
MPs. They loved the craziness and
were impressed with the active learning
the children were involved in.
There is still time to enter this competition. Designs should
be completed by Friday 28 February.
These will be taken on Wednesday 12 March in the morning.
Please put the date in your diary.
Welcome to Mrs Susan Calderhead as our
Business Support Administrator.
Welcome to Sue Kennelly, our
new Place2Be manager.