2017 Head Teacher: M.R.Tremmel Gullane Primary School Muirfield Terrace Gullane EH31 2HL Tel: 01620 843455 gullane.ps@gullane.elcschool.org.uk http://edubuzz.org/blogs/gullane Dear Parents/Carers It is hard to believe that 2017 is drawing to a close and almost half of a school session has gone. I hope that you will all be able to enjoy some family time over the break and factor in some time to relax if that’s at all possible. The Christmas Concerts were superbly well supported and we all felt that they had gone well. The huge amount of work that each teacher and each child put in was evident on the night and sparkling performances were the order of the day. No homework in the last week as we know the children have a lot on outside school. Please remember that we have Christmas Lunch in school on Thursday 14th December. Please do not send in any money as all lunches have been prepaid. P1-3 do not pay but have ordered! Church Service Thursday 21st December at 9.45am in Gullane Parish Church You are very welcome to join us and P6 will be leading the service with Rev. B. Hilsley welcoming us all to his church. For our visit to church we ask that the children contribute to a silver collection and the money will be gifted to the church for heating and lighting. The teaching staff will collect the coins before setting off and place in the offering plate on arrival.
Radio Forth Came to Gullane Primary! After 10 years of applying to be on this Forth One feature, Boogie, Arlene and Marty finally came to Gullane to record the children singing! I was the most excited by the way! The team were so kind and so lovely with the children and we loved having them. Gullane Primary will be featured on Thursday 21st December 2017 around 7.30am on Forth One. The producer has sent the following information:-
Your schools Christmas carol will be broadcast on Forth 1’s ‘Boogie in the Morning’ just after 7:30am. You can listen to Forth 1 on 97.3, 97.6 and 102.2 FM and Digital Radio. You can also listen online at forth1.com/listen or download the Radio Forth App for your smartphone or tablet. If you missed it you can also listen again on our website at forth1.com/carols. The carol will be available the day after broadcast. Boogie, Arlene and Marty are very much looking forward to having your school’s carol broadcast on Forth 1. Message from the PTA The PTA would like to say a huge thank you to all our families for their fantastic support so far this session. The hampers were again a huge success and the calendars are selling well. £5.50 each. Please contact the PTA if you wish a calendar and haven’t ordered one.
Crazy Creation Day Thursday 14th December 2017 The children in P5 have asked the children of Gullane Primary to come up with a Crazy Creation for the day. The donations were to be £1 or whatever families felt they could manage with all proceeds going to Save the Children and Cancer Research. Thank you for taking this enterprise forward P5. Well done! Outing to the Lyceum on Tuesday 19th December 2017 P3-7. It has been a very long time since the school went to the theatre together and we hope that this is a lovely experience for them all. I know many of our families do go to events such as this and that is why I only book something like this every now and again. We mainly stay in school and have a professional company visit us. Morning Nursery and P1-2 classes will have an entertainer come in to Gullane Primary on the same day and information has been attached to this letter regarding this. We are going to see a production of Arabian Nights at the Royal Lyceum. The coaches leave school at 8.45 on the button – all children need to be in school at 8.30am. Staff will take a register and board the coaches. We can’t wait for any latecomers so an early night! We must leave on time as traffic and such like will be heavy. And we will return to school by around 1-1.30pm approximately. The children must be in school uniform and bring a snack and non-fizzy drink for the interval. They will require a packed lunch unless they have already pre ordered a school packed lunch – this was all on the form that was sent out some time ago. I think they will have a lovely day and it will be a different experience all round. Brass Instruction Mr Robb is absent currently due to a close family bereavement. Along with no instruction we will not be welcoming the NBHS Brass Band this year which is sad but understandable.
Milk Money If you have not already paid for this it is due in by no later than the 19th December 2017. The BBC work with P5 and P1 children The school was contacted by the BBC inviting us to create an animated story for their online programmes. The P1 class welcomed a storyteller into the class and the focus was around a beach and the P1 children did not disappoint! Their tale of the Fruity Pirates was wonderful! A team from the BBC then visited the P5 class and the children in Mrs Gordon’s class turned the story into an animated film using the story Mrs Cooper’s class constructed. The results are super, just super. The film was shown to the whole school at an assembly time and they all loved seeing their work on the big screen. There are times when offers from various agencies come in and these opportunities are too good to turn down. The children gain an insight into such a wide variety of fields and have great fun in their learning. The film is available to watch by going to bbc.co.uk LAB section.
General Information Please send in any library books by next Monday – 18th December. All P.E. kits will go home for a whirl in the washing machine. Please remember to return the kits when the children come back on January 8th 2018.
Swimming for P4 children P4 will start their swimming classes on Tuesday 9th January 2018 so pack those cossies, swim caps/goggles and a towel! Thank you to those who have offered their time to supervise – you will receive letters about times etc.
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 happy to accept the text for the information via email. We also value your opinions and comments- please let me know what your thoughts are – email/call or letters are all fine.
Well done to… Fraser Chisholm in P6. He has been scouted for the Hibs Training Academy Squad. We're really proud of him! Well done Fraser. Well done to… Kirsten Newlin and Molly Pepper, Primary 4, both of whom have achieved excellent marks in their Bronze Level Scottish Highland Dancing Exam which was undertaken at Broughton High School on Sunday 19th November. Super news ladies. Kind regards M. R. Tremmel 14th December 2017
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.
The library is moving to a per-term booking system for Code Club from January onwards, so that once a child has a place they are at guaranteed it for the remainder of the term. Parents of interested children can contact the library to add their name to the list now, and the library will select the names in due course and let parents know. There are 6 places available for the Thursday session 3:30 - 4:30 and 6 places available for the Saturday session 10:00 - 11:00. Please let the library know which session you'd prefer. Regards Ian McLaughlin Code Club Volunteer
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Christmas Lunch in School P3-7 Arabian Nights Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh – 8.30 at School please NAM-P2 Peter Pepper Children’s Entertainer cost £2 Church Service 9.45am Gullane Parish Church. All very welcome. Nursery pre-school party in hall am /Nursery ante pre -school party in Nursery pm
School closes for the term at 12.15 pm for all classes.
School starts in the New Year on Monday January 8th 2018 at the usual time. Swimming for P4 starts on the 9th January 2018. Letters have been distributed. Bake Sale Dates 12/01/18 02/02/18 02/03/18 23/03/18
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Merry Christmas one and all and may your New Year be all you would wish for.