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MORAY PRIMARY SCHOOL

INFORMATION TO ALL PARENTS / CARERS

August 2010

I am delighted to be able to tell you that additional Support for Learning

Assistant time is coming our way and this will help us to support the

children here. This is very welcome indeed and I look forward to workingwith some new staff members in time.

Mrs Stewart is settling in well once more following her maternity leave

and it is great to be working with her again. Baby Anna is almost one year

old now and is being cared for by family.

The MPP has a meeting planned for Thursday September 2nd and you may

come along to this in the staffroom at 7.00 p.m. MPP is Moray Parent

Partnership and this group meets regularly to support school and to

discuss issues related to school as a whole.

We are once again asking children to bring in some small change each

Friday at assembly time to help our chosen charities. We call this money

Helping Pennies and once we have £50 the children in each class have the

opportunity to select a charity to receive the money. Last session we

were able to support many charities and in total sent just short of £3000

to various good causes – well done to everyone who supported our Helping

Pennies.

Miss Deans, as you may know, is a gymnast and I’m really delighted to be

able to tell you that she has been selected to represent Great Britain at

the European Championships in October. This is a wonderful achievement

and one which we are all proud of. Julie is looking for some sponsorship

and so if any of you can assist please let me know.

The school telephone works as a system of extensions and there are two

phones in the main office. If someone is on a line the other phone will stillring and so you may think that our number is ringing out. I just need you

to know the situation in case you are trying to call us and think nobody is

in the office. Please keep trying and your call will be answered.

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Please remember our GroupCall system for monitoring absences. We need

 you to phone us in the morning before 9.15 a.m. if your child is absent

from school. We ask you to phone each day until your child comes back to

school. This is also important if your child goes home for lunch and is not

returning. We will also appreciate prior notice of appointments during the

school day so that we can note these in the diary. I must say that most

families are really good in relation to GroupCall and we do appreciate this.Please make sure that we have up to date telephone numbers in case we

need to contact you.

The children appear to be settled in the main and are looking great. A

couple of P1 children this week have been a little bit unsettled coming in

to school but sensitive handling by staff has ensured that they settle

quickly and get on with the activities planned.

I’d like to thank you for ensuring that uniform is being worn – well done to

everyone.

Falkirk Council Education Services have now moved their office staff etc

from McLaren House and various other venues, to Grangemouth. The new

address is Sealock House, 2 Inchyra Road and the phone numbers should

be the same.

We have noticed that some children are not bringing a jacket or coat with

them to school and the weather has been unpredictable to say the least.

Please ensure that your child has some kind of protective clothing to wear

outside in case of rain or a drop in temperature. At times, when the rain

is not too heavy, we do allow the children to go out at break times and so

a jacket is required. Similarly, when walking to and from school your child

could get really wet.

We have a holiday weekend coming up and school will be closed on Monday

September 13th.

Friday 10th will be a fundraising dress down day and children are asked to

bring 50p or £1 if they do not wear uniform. We have these days

periodically here to create some funds for school.

I hope that you are all well and getting back into the “school” routine once

again.