Ethos & life of the school. East Linton Events; Gala Week etc.
After taking part in the RSPB Big Birdwatch P3 have been finding out more about local birds. We have been learning about the different parts of birds, looking at the variety of colours in their feathers and learning some facts about them. We created some detailed line drawings of the birds we had seen and wrote little fact files about them. We then put them on display in our paper plate tree for everyone to enjoy.
AMAZING artwork from our talented P7s!!!
Dear Parents and Carers
Another busy week of learning in school.
P7 were visited by PC Amanda Johnston on Monday as part of their study of drugs awareness.
Miss Warrender and I met with Philippa Barber to plan P6 and P7 Cycle training. P7 will be completing Levels 1 and 2 and P6 Level 1. Today and on 1st Feb we are running a course to train parent volunteers to deliver the programme.
Our PE students from Edinburgh University have re-joined us and will be supporting all classes alongside Miss Gordon.
Today in assembly we are going to be looking at ways to celebrate the school values within our charter that families, staff and pupils have said are most important to them – more information to follow.
On Monday I represented the school at a meeting of The Melting Pot – a group of committed members of the East Linton community looking to make real difference to everyday life in terms of sustainability – please do get in touch with me if you are interested in being part of this.
Good luck if you are taking part in the Parent Council Quiz this evening!!
We had two Pupil Focus groups this week – one being Digital Detectives, auditing use of technology in school and another group assessing Health and Wellbeing in our school and community – our pupils are very confident taking part in discussion of this type – they always have amazing ideas!
This week our teaching and support staff took part in Restorative Practice training with Marie Prior our Family Support Worker and Laura Clark our Educational Psychologist. This was a really interesting session looking at restoring relationships between pupils after conflict and we were all struck by the many links with the Paul Dix approach to behaviour we are implementing this year of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.
Next weekend Dunbar Grammar are holding an Open Doors Day. I was lucky enough to have a tour of the new extension this week – it is amazing – a wonderful , bright, modern space for learning, so I would encourage you to drop in and have a look around.
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Have a good weekend.
Gill Gardner
This week our teaching and support staff took part in Restorative Practice training with Marie Prior our Family Support Worker and Laura Clark our Educational Psychologist. This was a really interesting session looking at restoring relationships between pupils after conflict and we were all struck by the many links with the Paul Dix approach to behaviour we are implementing this year of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.
We hope you can support East Linton Melting Pot’s first Toy Swap!
Some of our pupils took part in a Pupil Focus Group today. We had representatives from across the school looking at Health and Wellbeing in our school community. We used statements and questions from the document How Good is OUR School to help our conversation along – great work everyone – we came up with a small list of actions
Our community police officer came in to visit P7 today as part of our topic, Risks to Health. She talked to us about drug awareness and answered our questions. The highlight definitely seemed to be getting put in the handcuffs!
The next meeting of the Parent Council will be at 7pm on Tuesday, 29th January, at East Linton Primary. All welcome!
**DRAFT AGENDA**
1. Apologies for absence & approval of December minutes
2. Declaration of interest
3. Chair’s update
4. Financial report & funding requests, 50/50 club
5. Head Teacher’s update
6. Working Group updates
a) Events & Fundraising
b) Constitution
c) Playground
d) School development
e) 10 minutes set aside for discussion
7. Parent representative updates
8. Calendar update
9. Any other competent business (AOCB to be notified to elpsparentcouncil@gmail.com by 5pm on the 21st January)
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The DRAFT December minutes are now available on the Meetings & Minutes page .
Note that attached to the minutes are informal updates relating to the working groups (events & fundraising; constitution; playground; school development), and also a response from East Lothian Council relating to the Playground Position Statement.
Many thanks to all Parent Council members for their hard work in 2018, and especially to the events & fundraising working group, who are working hard to set up a fun-filled Quiz Night on Friday 18th January!
As always, if you have any input, queries or feedback, please feel free to get in touch via elpsparentcouncil@gmail.com.
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It’s been very very busy in P1 with the run up to Christmas… the Nativity, the Fair, the Lunch and next week the Party and Church Service!
But we have even managed to squeeze in creating a few crafts to sell at tomorrow’s fair!
Hopefully everyone now knows the time that your children will be manning our stalls from the stickers yesterday.
We have worked very hard to create some beautiful handmade, bespoke and unique wrapping paper and gift tags!
There will be the individual bundle created by your child for you to buy, these are rolled up and ready to go!
Also there are lots of extras hanging up and on the mug trees for you to peruse and buy too!
Prices are-
£1.50 for the rolled up+ribboned bundle = 2 sheets of wrapping paper and 2 gift tags made by your child
Individual sheets of wrapping paper- 50p each or 3 for £1
Gift tags- 30p each or 4 for £1
** Also not to worry if you cannot make it along tomorrow as we will save your child’s bundle and if you send in the money we will happily send them home for you.**
In the meantime we hope you are enjoying our Nativity!
