The Apple Airpods handed into the school office this week have now been handed into Tranent Police Station. – please contact them directly if these may be yours
P1 Class of 2022 – Stay and Play visit
On Tuesday the 19th of July (10.00am-10.45am) and Thursday 21th of July 2022 we will be hosting a stay and play session in the school playground. This will be a chance for your child to play and meet with other P1 pupils, children who attend SWPS Nursery will be attending these sessions. If unfortunately the weather doesn’t look great please keep a look out for Twitter updates from the nursery team, we will attempt to email out to all parents also. The Nursery team do have access to a mobile number in the holidays, if you have any questions about the stay and play session, please call 07718662056* as you can imagine, staff are with the children so it may not be answered, if this happened please leave a detailed voicemail and someone will contact you, when they can.
Recharge summer programme for new S1’s
Summer Reading Challenge
Dear parent/carer – as part of pilot scheme to increase literacy attainment in East Lothian your child’s school is taking part in an enhanced summer reading challenge pilot. All information is contained in the attached leaflet.
If your child has not received the materials feel free to attend the library directly
Kind regards
Mark
Community Librarian for PSG/Tranent
Have you taken advantage of the FREE bus travel for U22
You may be aware that from the 1st February this year, from the ages of 5 to 21 all young people in Scotland are entitled to Free Bus Travel.
For those under 16 Parents or guardians need to apply on behalf of their children.
The easiest way to complete this is printing off these forms (linked below ) and popping down to your local library or area office for the Customer Services team to process it for them.
with school holidays every 6 weeks throughout the year and the cost of Fuel going up , its the perfect time to utilise this benefit we have in Scotland.
if you need any additional advice or support please feel to contact your local library .
20220119_EL_NEC_V3_Application_Form__002_ (3)Proofs for your child
Early Years Settings for provision outside of term time – 4th July to 12th August 2022
Dear Parent/Carer,
As you know Sanderson’s Wynd Nursery is open during the summer period from Monday 4 July – Friday 12 August 2022, when the schools are closed. During this time, your child will be able to
attend on their usual days, either Monday/Tuesday or Wednesday/Thursday plus the allocated Friday sessions.
- If you have told us (or the NAMS team, when you accepted your place) that you intend to send your child to nursery during [holiday], we do expect your child to attend and staffing has been put in place for this. If your child does not attend, someone will be in touch regarding your child’s absence.
- If your child is unable to attend, please email nurseryattendance@elcschool.org.uk, stating which nursery your child attends, the reason for the absence, and when they will return or phone the nursery mobile number 07718662056.
- Please make sure you have told us of any changes to your contact details.
- Please ensure you have booked your child’s lunches in SchoolPay before Monday 4 July 2022, for days your child is attending.
- During the school holidays centre managers are the responsible person when a Head teacher is absent.
Lastly please do not phone the school number, leave messages, or email the admin and absences mailboxes from Monday 4th July – Friday 12th August 2022 as the school office is not manned during the holidays. The nurseries are also shut on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th August.
Looking for an activity over the summer holidays ?
Look no further than your local Library ..
The Summer Reading Challenge for children this year is Gadgeteers. The challenge opened for children to register on Friday and libraries across East Lothian have activities planned across the holidays.
Chromebook -final call
all remaining chromebooks/ laptop’s need to be returned to school by Monday 27/06/2022 @15.30
they are being collected, they will be returned.
Primary 1 Class of 2022 – Book’s We’ve been reading
We hope you all had a great time with us this morning , meeting your new teachers, new friends and seeing what your classroom will look like.
Mrs Ketchin, Mrs Misselbrook and Mrs Martin have suggested these books for you guys to listen / read with your parents .
We hope you enjoy these books
What day is it ?
The summer holidays can seem like a never ending period of time, to help everyone understand the passing days, Mrs Pitt has created this helpful count down calendar. please feel free to download and print off.
thanks
Team SWPS
Keeping Chromebooks Ready for Learning
all children who have been provided with a chromebook by the Scottish government have been given a letter today , regarding returning them for routine servicing if your child has one , please can you check your child’s school bag and respond by 24th June
letter attached
School Milk 22/23
Two funds have now been setup for School Milk starting on 17/08/22:-
School Milk 22/23 Full Year at a cost of £47.50 (covers Term 1, 2 & 3).
School Milk Term 1 22/23 and it covers Term 1 only at a cost of £20.50.
Both funds are now open and close on 15/7/22. If you require to pay for milk then please select only one of these funds. Both funds will remain open until 15/7/22 and you must pay online through School Pay as no cash or cheque payments will be accepted.
If using a mobile phone and have difficulty seeing the milk fund:-
- Click on the 3 lines on the top right hand corner of the page
- Select Accounts
- Click on your child’s account
The next screen should list all the available funds and you should see School Milk 22/23 Full Year and School Milk Term 1 22/23.
Please do not pay milk to Preorder school meals as this fund is for school lunches only and payment for milk only relates to P1 – P7.