Head Teacher: M.R.Tremmel Gullane Primary School

Muirfield Terrace Gullane

EH31 2HL Tel/Fax: 01620 843455

gullane.ps@gullane.elcschool.org.uk http://edubuzz.org/blogs/gullane

Dear Parents/Carers

I hope you are all well and the better weather is keeping you all cheerful. Apparently, snow may

come soon! The children have all been working hard and all seem well at present. There have been a

few bugs around so we are reinforcing hand washing and such like. It is lovely that they are all so

well turned out in their school uniforms-such a pleasure to see all these smart young people.

Following our Meet the Teacher session we have decided that it may not have suited all of you. I

have talked this through with our Parent Carer Council and we will work on something that suits the

majority next session. There were those that liked being here straight after school and others

who were not so keen. Trial and error!

Parent/ Teacher Consultations are next week for the bulk of our families and we are looking

forward to seeing you in and around school. You should all have your appointment times and we hope

all runs smoothly. Please ask any child you bring to sit very quietly in the hall or outside the class

area. Bring a book or quiet game.

School Photographs

The photographer will be in school next Tuesday (8th October). We will coordinate families and

individual children. The afternoon nursery group will also be accommodated. It would be extremely

helpful – and make for a better photo – if all the children were as smart as new pins and carried

some form of brush or comb to ensure they look their best. We do have some in school and use

antiseptic wipes between hair dos. We will endeavour to keep them all as clean as possible!

We would like to welcome you all back after a fabulous summer. For those of you who are new to the school,

the PTA holds a number of events throughout the year to raise money for the school. At the end of each school

year, Mrs Tremmel and the PTA agree on how the money raised should be spent. For the 2012 -2013 school

year, £7,500 was raised – a fantastic amount! The contribution from parents, staff, pupils and the wider Gullane

community was crucial in achieving this. Thank you for all of your support. Mrs Tremmel has used some of this

money to purchase a new sound system, projector and screen for the school hall – something that will benefit all of the

children. We will let you know how the rest of the money is spent as soon as we release the funds.

The PTA committee changes every two years and this year will be the current committee’s last. In April, we will be looking

for volunteers to create a new committee for the period 2014-2016. Please let one of us know if you are interested. The current

committee members are Lucy Mackay (Chair), Lynne Malcolm (Secretary) and Laura Smith (Treasurer) along with Fiona

Ferguson, Kerrie Brown, Caroline Syme, Michelle Liston, Melissa Leadley, Toe Flockhart, Louise Gill, Kirsty Duncan, Gwen

McNeil and Hannah Fyfe.

Our planned events up until Christmas are as follows: -

Quiz Night 4th

October, 8pm at the Golf Inn’s function room

£20 per team (max 5 people). Only a few tables left. Auction and raffle.

Monster Mash 31st October 5.30-7.00pm in the school hall

Children only but parents welcome to stay. £2 per ticket. Snacks, drinks and Halloween goodies for sale

Ticket order forms will be sent home the week beginning 7th

October.

Christmas Hamper Raffle

Sign-up sheet for donations will be available at the parent consultations. Raffle tickets will be sent home from mid-

November.

Christmas Calendar

Order forms will be sent home in November and calendars will also be sold at the school office and at the Christmas

concerts

Christmas Disco 19th

October 7-8.30pm in School hall

£2 per ticket. Order forms will be sent home at the beginning of December

Thanks for your continued support!

The PTA

Harvest Festival

P4 are managing this event again this session. The assembly is open to all and please

feel you are welcome to join us from around 9.15 am in the hall. We have decided to

support a local food bank this year. Many families struggle to feed their households

and there are food banks in East Lothian supporting East Lothian families.

We are happy to accept donations of any canned goods, dried goods such as rice/pasta/pulses, long

life milk or juice, biscuits, jams, marmalades, teabags, coffee, sugar. Please send your donation in

to the class any time from the date of this newsletter. Please do not send fresh fruit and veg this

year. Thank you.

Adopt a School Charity Dinner Tuesday 29th October 2013

Albert Roux, world famous chef, has adopted Gullane Primary as his school in East Lothian. Each

year he has held and funded a charity dinner in Gullane Primary where all proceeds go to a local

cause. The Primary 7 pupils prepare and cook the meal as well as manage the service for the

evening. The school hall is transformed into a cosy, well set out dining room for the evening. The

dinner starts at 7pm and will be concluded by 9.30 pm. The menu has been lovely the last three

sessions. The tickets are £20 per person. Some organise a group to come along.

There are only 75 tickets available, so please book early. If you wish to purchase

a ticket please send your name, how many tickets you would like and the right

amount of money – cheques made payable to East Lothian Council and enclose in

an envelope for the school office’s attention. The charity that has been chosen

by the P7 children is the RNLI in North Berwick.

Walk to School Week 7th – 11th October 2013

This is a focus week again for schools in East Lothian. It is there to encourage families to leave

the car at home and walk. If you are unable to do this – maybe you live outside the village – then

park and stride is encouraged.

Achievements of all kinds outside school

Please remember to let us know if your child has done something out of school no matter how small

or large – we love to know and we put up a card in school and mention the child and the achievement

in our newsletters. We are also happy to accept the text for the information via email.

We also appreciate feedback on the work we do. Please feel free to email or write to school.

Well done!

Well done to…Emma Chapman. Competed in the Wee Wonders British Championships Grand Final

2013 at St Andrew’s this past August. Well done.

And a well done to…Robbie Wallace (P7) has been selected by the SFA to take part in the 2020

football programme. Children from across East Lothian were invited to take part in trials and he will

now go on to participate in 10 months of training with SFA coaches. This is all part of the SFA's

strategy to build a stronger national team in the year 2020.

Kind regards

M. R. Tremmel

26th September 2013

Community News and Information Instead of many flyers going home and adding to a paper mountain we put all such events in this section. If you are organising

an event please write what you would like as information and we will endeavour to include in this section for you. We do not

take any responsibility nor do we screen the quality of any the community projects and events advertised

North Berwick Juvenile Pipe Band

September 2013 North Berwick Juvenile Pipe Band has just finished its first summer of engagements. These have included: The Community Festival in the Lodge, The Colts Football Festival, the weekly Wednesday night performances in the Lodge in July and August, and playing down the street after the North Berwick Highland Games. The Juvenile band continues to feed into the adult band and we have already had three members of the juvenile band graduate to the adult ranks. There continues to be a good number of beginners eager to learn the pipes and drums, but we are always happy to see more people come and learn to play. Practices are on Wednesday evenings in St Andrew Blackadder Church Hall, St Andrew’s Street, North Berwick. Chanter lessons start at 6.30pm, drumming lessons start at 7pm and the band starts at 7pm. Anyone interested can just come along, or for more information contact the President of the Pipe Band, John Starr on Tel. 01620 893500 or by email at nbpb@btconnect.com

26/9/13 P6 Hockey Taster in school

27/09/13 Macmillan Coffee Morning 10-11am in the school hall

October 2013

1/10/13 P6 Hockey Festival NBHS

2/10/13 Vision Screening in school – pre-schoolers only

1/10/13 Parental Consultation Evening – 1800 – 2030 hrs 3/10/13 Parental Consultation Evening 1630 hrs – 1900 hrs

Some specific arrangements depending on staff 4/10/13 PTA Quiz Night Golf Hotel 8 pm

8/10/13 Tempest- Family and Individual Photos-in school

8/10/13 P7 Hockey Tournament Meadowmill 9.30-12

9/10/13 P6 Golf Inn Dessert Competition

10/10/13 Harvest Assembly 9.30 – all welcome. P4 will coordinate the collection of food gifts

later this term.

11/10/13 School finishes, for half term break, closure at usual times. 21/10/13 In- Service for staff

22/10/13 Pupils Resume 22/10/13 P7 Rugby Taster in school

23/10/13 P7 Girls Indoor Football Festival Meadowmill am

24/10/13 P7 Rugby Taster in school

28/10/13 P1 through to P4. Giraffes Can’t Dance – in school (drama/music session)

29/10/13 P7 Charity Dinner with Albert Roux. Tickets soon. £20 per head – great evening!

Tickets on sale now. There are only 75 tickets so be quick!

30/10/13 P7 and P2 to Dynamic Earth

31/10/13 P7 Tag Rugby Meadowmill

31/10/13 P3 and P3/4 Museum Visit – all day.

31/10/13 Monster Mash! PTA Halloween Event- in school hall.

November 2013

Early November Poppies on sale

4/11/13 P1 through to P4. Dance – in school (drama/music session)

13/11/13 Parent Carer Council Meeting 7 pm in Golf Hotel – all welcome

14/11/13 P5 Basketball taster in school

19/11/13 P5 Basketball Festival NBSC am

21/11/13 Saltire Storyteller for P5- in school

27/11/13 P7 Sportshall Athletics Meadowmill am

28/11/13 P7 Ceilidh at NBHS – more details to follow.

29/11/13 Concert Dress Rehearsal from 9.45 am

December 2013

4/12/13 Matinee Performance of concert for P1&2 children only 2pm start

4/12/13 Evening performance of concert – P1-7- 7pm start

5/12/13 Evening Performance of concert – P3-7 only. No P1&2 children. 7pm start

Tickets on sale after October break.

On Thursday 5th and Friday 6th December the children will be allowed to come into school for 10am. All staff

will be in class areas if you have to have them here for the usual time. 10/12/13 Nursery Nativity am – in hall.

13/12/13 Brass Band will visit from NBHS

16/12/13 P3-4 Christmas Party in hall – pm

17/12/13 Church Service 9.45

17/12/13 P1-2 Party in hall pm

18/12/13 Pantomime in school hall ‘Sleeping Beauty’ – cost per child £3. Details of when to

send in money to follow.

18/12/13 P5-7 Christmas Party in school hall pm

19/12/13 Nursery Parties – details to follow.

19/12/13 PTA Christmas Disco – see letter above

20/12/13 School closes for the term at 12.00 for all P1-7 pupils. 11.00 for the nursery class.