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St Elizabeth’s Primary and Nursery School
Head Teacher, Miss Christine MacPheeWilliam Drive, Hamilton, ML3 7RQ, 01698 285080
Learn Together, Laugh Together, Be the Best You Can!Monday 5th September 2016
Is your child a member of a library? Fairhill Library is keen to work with our school and it would be wonderful if every child had a library card. We are promoting reading very strongly in our school and will be organising library visits.
Our vision is ... in St Elizabeth’s we strive to excel in all that we do through working hard and having
respectful relationships based on Gospel values in a safe, happy and nurturing environment embracing a love for lifelong learning.
Welcome to September’s Newsletter. We have all settled well in to our new classes and are looking forward to having you come in to school next week to have a look around and see our work. The days are starting to turn that little bit colder and darker as we begin to head towards Autumn...jackets are needed and can we ask you to double check that your child’s name is written on their jacket please. Thank you.
We have appointed our Head Boy and Head Girl for this year from P7 and will shortly be appointing our Depute Head Boy and Depute Head Girl from P6. Congratulations go to Head Boy Kian James Hainie Head Girl Leah Donald
Enjoyment
Faith
Kindness Love
Persevere
Respect
*** Lots of info on our school website ***
https:blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sl/stelizabethsprimary/
****** Open Night ******
14 th September, 6-7pm. Come along, see your child’s classroom, meet our staff and have a look around our school. We look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible.
We have been lucky enough to have secured drama lessons free of change from Garry King. Garry will be working with all of our children on Thursday in school and each class has been given a slot.For anyone who is interested, Garry’s drama classes are in New Douglas Park every Thursday from 4.30-5.30pm. He also runs classes every Tuesday- same venue-from 5.30-6.30pm for autistic children and their siblings.
Annual School TravelThe week beginning the 12th September is the week when an annual survey takes place of how our children travel to school. Our Junior Road Safety Officers – Eva Burns and Becky Deuker will be responsible for helping to collate the information from each class.If your child brings a scooter to school, they should also wear a helmet. Scooters are not allowed to be used inside the school gate.
We are very proud to represent our school.
Mrs Campbell, our Acting Principal Teacher is busy working away on setting up a Twitter account for our school. We are hoping to have this set up relatively soon and this will be another way of us sharing information with you about the learning that’s going on in our school. Watch this space....!
We have been successful with funding bids and request letters!
Further to a request letter we wrote, we have received a cheque for £100 from Tunnocks inUddingston. Many, many thanks to Tunnocks forthis donation, greatly appreciated!Mrs Emmett has also been successful in herapplication to Greggs and we have received£2,000 to be used for our school garden area. We are absolutely delighted with this and areexcited about our garden area developing!
Recycling LinksRag Bag Collection Date....Fri 7th October. Please hand any items in to the school office as our collection bin in our playground is already overflowing. Thank you for all donations.
We are hoping to raise enough money from our Hallowe’en Disco and Christmas Fayre for the following items Literacy Plant or Education City Subscription £500Class supplies £450ICT Resources £600Thank you all so very much for all support you give to our fundraising on an on-going basis.
Mrs Emmett is off to York on Tuesday school at an important conference taking place to discuss school involvement in future space events. No...we won’t be heading in to space...not just yet..but we are hoping to link in with agencies, universities and other schools for the next space adventure scheduled for 2017 concerning the James Webster Telescope Mission.
Community Partnership Update
Thank you to everyone who was able to make our first Community Partnership Meeting of this new session. Dates for diaries for 2 fundraising events
Hallowe’en disco, Tues 1st November, in our school hall 6-7pm P1-3 children, 7.15-8.15pm for our P4-7 children. £2 entrance which includes a Spooky Bag full of goodies.
Christmas Fayre (sorry to mention Christmas at this time!) – Friday 25th November 3-5pm in our school.
Our Community Partnership have an approximate balance of £2, 628.88 in their account. We will receive £1,400 of this very soon which will cover£600 for swimming costs£400 for alphabet boards, letters and literacy resources for our infants £400 for reading comprehension resources, including dictionaries for our P3 and P4 classes, in particular.
Our Community Partnership proposed that we implement Request Forms which will then be considered at each meeting and the request either approved or rejected at each meeting. The Request Form can be completed by anyone – a pupil, parent, teacher, support staff, and popped in to the box in our reception area. The forms will be collected and then considered at each meeting. Forms are available from our entrance way and our website. Many thanks for all the great work done by our parents and families in helping to support our school and raise much needed funds.
Parent Helpers/Volunteer
Thank you to everyone who has offered to help in our school in any way. We have 23 parents offering to help with trips, in classes, do art work, come in and talk about their job, etc. This is fantastic and I will be in touch with you. If you can offer to help in any way, please let us know...we would really love to hear from you and any offers are greatly appreciated.
All helpers need a PVG disclosure, we have forms in our school office should you need one.
Miss Waters is running a lunchtime multi-sports club for our younger children and an after school gymnastics club for our older children. The children are thoroughly enjoying this and many thanks to Miss Waters for her work in this area.
Do we have your emergency contact forms returned? Are your contact details up-to-date?
Covey BefriendingWould you like to become a Covey Befriender? Covey are desperately seeking volunteers who can be trained as befrienders/mentors for this important service.
If you would like more information about this, please contact Stuart Gallacher on 01698 454077 or email [email protected]
Our sponsored trot escorted by Taylor Wimpey, on Friday was a great success and the children enjoyed walking around our local community trying to spot things that began with letters from the word ‘perseverance’. I will let you know how much we have raised from this event, thank you so much to everyone who sponsored or donated any money towards this.
Head Teacher’s e-mail address is
Office e-mail address is
Pope Francis’ Monthly Intentions for Sept
Universal: Centrality of the Human Person
That each may contribute to the common
good and to the building of a society that
places the human person at the center.
Evangelization: Mission to Evangelize
That by participating in the Sacraments
and meditating on Scripture, Christians
may become more aware of their mission
to evangelize.
In order to share successes and achievements out of school and for us to keep building up our knowledge of your child, please find a sheet attached that we ask you to complete and return for your child. We will keep these in a folder and celebrate your child’s success at a special Assembly each month. Any time your child or family are celebrating something and you would like us to know, please either drop us a note, or an e-mail or pop in to let our office staff know. We are delighted to hear any good news and will proudly celebrate too. Thank you to those who have completed and sent one in...your child was very proud at our assembly...and we were all delighted! Next Newsletter - Mon 3rd October
Assessing our ChildrenWe have been busy assessing our children on their reading and spelling skills. You will receive information this week about their reading age, and spelling age. Many factors influence children’s skills in these areas. These include lateness, absence and extended holiday periods, being tired or distracted. We all want the very best for each child and it is important they are in the right frame of mind for their learning each day.
Attached to our newsletter is a leaflet from the Scottish Government called Read, Write, Count, giving ideas to help children with reading, writing and counting skills. For parents accessing our newsletter online , the web address for the information is www.readwritecount.scot
Children from our school attended a Celebratory Organic Garden Event at the Blue Triangle, the homeless unit in Hamilton. Thank you to our children, parents and staff who attended and enjoyed a lovely afternoon. Our children were a credit ,with very positive comments made by the gathered MSPs , Services and Education Employees.
Rag Bag collection bags home today...please feel free to hand your bag into the school before the 7th Oct. Thank you.
