It’s Sainsbury’s Active Kids time!

I am pleased to tell you that we are taking part in Sainsbury’s Active Kids again this year. This represents an excellent opportunity for us to acquire extra equipment and experiences that we may not usually be able to provide.

Last year, you helped us to collect a fantastic 11,897 Active Kids vouchers (AKVs) which meant that we could choose some brilliant things from the Sainsbury’s Active Kids catalogue.

In fact Sainsbury’s Active Kids has donated an amazing £70 million of equipment and experiences for young people across the UK since 2005.

A brief re-cap of how Sainsbury’s Active Kids works.

From 11^th February to 3^rd June, you will receive one Sainsbury’s AKV for every £10 you spend at any main Sainsbury’s store or every £5 you spend in Sainsbury’s Locals or Centrals. You can also earn AKVs at Sainsbury’s petrol stations and when you shop online at sainsburys.co.uk.

You can also choose to convert your Nectar points into AKVs by visiting nectar.com (please select the right option from the drop down menu and follow the on-screen instructions).

Please help us make this year even better! Active Kids enables us to claim lots of excellent things – at no extra cost to us.  This year, we’ve got our eye on more things that’ll be invaluable to us!

You will find the box for the vouchers at the front of the school.

P5/6 have set up heir own Enterprise business called “The Scotch Shop”. They will be opening up a Scottish Café which will serve homemade Scottish Stovies. They will also be selling Scottish artefacts such as candles, photo frames and coasters.  The shop will be open for orders from Monday 2^nd March and will also be set up while the classes are having their stovies.

Children are invited to come along to the café with their class during the school day within the next few weeks. Teachers will be told which day their class are invited to attend.  Children should give their class teachers £1 to come along to the café.

Parents are also invited along to the café between 12.15-1.15 pm on the dates shown below for a lunch of Scotch Broth, Stovies and Oatcakes and Shortbread at  a cost of £5 per head.  Your child does not have to be in P5/6 for you to join us. If you would like to come along, please complete and return the tear-off slip below.

Miss Buchan

Class Teacher

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THE SCOTCH SHOP

PARENT’S LUNCH

I would like to come along on the following day –

(please tick appropriate box)

Thursday 12^th March  T

Thursday 19^th March  T

Pupil’s Name _____________________________  Class _________

Signature Parent / Carer ___________________________________

School Class Photos

We hope that you are happy with your child’s class photograph.

Please remember that if you return your order to school within 10 days, you will avoid postage & packing costs so if you would like to purchase the photograph please return your order to school by Friday 6^th March.  If you miss this deadline you will have to order direct and incur a £2.50 p&p charge.

You may or may not be aware that throughout the school year we get many requests to support a great variety of charities.  It is clearly not possible to help them all.  Decisions are made at the beginning of the school year about what our involvement will be.  Consideration is given to the timing of different appeals and this is one of the criteria for supporting Comic Relief and in particular RED NOSE DAY.  We also use the materials produced by the charity to fit in with our delivery of the Citizenship and Personal and social Education areas.

This year Red Nose Day is on Friday 13^th March.  We (John the Janitor) will be selling red noses on Monday 9^th March in the hall from 9.00am.  420 noses have been ordered and will be sold at £1.00 each. This will happen again on each day of the week until all noses have been sold.

We are inviting pupils to take part in the Red Nose Day theme –

DO SOMETHING FUNNY FOR MONEY

Instead of wearing school uniform, pay £1.00 and come to school wearing clothes that make you and everyone around you happy!  It could be hair, clothes, face, socks or ALL of these and MORE!!! It’s up to you and your child/ren change the way you look and the donation will be used to spread laughter to others in this country and in Africa.

It may be that individual classes want to organise additional fund-raising activities on the day – we will see what happens.

Hope you can help to make Friday 13^th March a laughter filled day and to contribute towards a big total for Comic Relief.

Please remember that school is closed on Monday 16th February 2009 for half term holiday and to pupils on Tuesday 17th February 2009 for a teacher in-service day. 

L McIntosh

Headteacher

Loirston School will be closed from lunchtime on Thursday 5th Feb.  children who go home for lunch should not return in the afternoon.

Children who are having packed lunches or school dinners can be collected after lunch.

You will probably have been aware that Mrs Ritchie has been taking P1B full time since the Christmas holidays and you may have wondered what has happened to Mrs Senior.

Happily she is expecting not one, or two but three babies!!  As you can imagine, this is physically putting rather a strain on Mrs Senior. She has taken medical advice and gone on extended sick leave until she begins her maternity leave.

We know that the children will miss her and that you will wish her all the best for the impending rather large addition to her family.

We all look forward to seeing the triplets once they are here and I am sure that Mrs Senior will try to make every effort (with an army of helpers) to visit the children in P1B.

In the meantime Mrs Ritchie has full responsibility for P1B.  The children are already used to Mrs Ritchie taking the class and have easily adapted to the change in circumstances.

If you have any queries regarding this please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Click here to view the minutes of the January Parent Council Meeting.

30^th January 2009

SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHER

The school photographer will be here on Tuesday 10^th February.

This time round it will be class photographs and we ask that pupils make an extra special effort to wear uniform on that day.

You may wish to ensure that your child has a comb/brush with them, as not all classes will be photographed first thing in the morning.