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Longniddry Primary School Kitchener Crescent LONGNIDDRY EH32 0LR

Telephone: 01875 853161 e-mail:[email protected] website: http://edubuzz.org.blogs/longniddry Head Teacher: Miss Sheona Skinner June 2013

Dear Parents Well it really is hard to believe that we have all very nearly made it to the end of term! I can’t believe that I’m already at the end of Thank you to everyone who donated home my first year at Longniddry. The time has baking for Sports Day and to Jennifer Dunn just flown by and I can honestly say I have for organising the refreshments. A total of loved every minute. £172.25 was raised for Parent Council funds

We say a fond farewell to our P7’s who have What’s On been a great group of young people to get to It has been a very busy end to the term as know. They have been fantastic ambassadors predicted with lots of trips and outings as for the school in all they have done this year well as all our sporting activities. and you as parents should be very proud of them. We wish them good luck in their new We were represented fantastically at adventures at High School and beyond. Meadowbank Sports by our team of P6’s and 7’s. A special mention goes to Cameron Smith Nursery Care Inspection in P7 who won gold in the 150m. Well done. We had an unannounced visit from the Care Inspectorate on Wednesday 5th & 12th June. Well done to all our talented musicians (and A huge well done goes to the Nursery Team their teachers/tutors) who provided us with as it was a very positive report. We look such a great evening of entertainment at our forward to sharing the full report with you Musical Evening at the end of May. early in the new term.

Congratulations to Hamish McCrae in P5 who won first prize in the Rotary Club Inter Schools Music competition playing his trumpet School Evaluation Visit We also had another evaluation visit from The Nursery children have been out and Alison Wishart our Quality Improvement about exploring Gosford Woods and the officer. She spoke with children, staff and morning children also visited the beach. parents and again was very positive about all the good work going on in the school. In addition the pre school children have been getting ready for school by lining up to come School Sports into nursery, changing for gym and visiting Congratulations to Douglas House on winning and playing in the P1 area as part of their the school sports trophy for this year. Well transition programme. They also met with the done to everyone for taking part and making P6’s who are going to be their buddies for it a great afternoon and for all the parents, next year. friends and family for coming to support us. Primary 1 visited the Seabird Centre in North In particular thanks go to our Scotland Reads Berwick and had fun learning all about the volunteers who come in regularly to help animals that live on the seashore. Primary 1 support the children with reading in various say thank you and goodbye to Linda Ross our classes across the school. Your input makes a student who has been working with them. huge difference. We are always keen to have more helpers who can offer us a regular slot. P2, P2/3 & P3 finished the year off with a trip to Gosford Wood to test out their senses as part of their class topic.

Primary 4 have been learning all about their Thanks as always go to our wonderful Book village of Longniddry, going out and about to Shop volunteers Alyson Skinner, Ailsa the library and church. They have also been Monaghan and Ally Birss who come in weekly doing a comparison with a village in Africa. P4 to collect and count the savings and update shared their assembly and film making skills the stock as well as run our book shop. with us at their ‘Hollywood premier’ assembly. Following another very successful Book Shop What a great job you did P4. this term they have donated the fantastic sum of £500 to the school to help purchase Thank you to our P4’s and all the parent new reading resources. volunteers who have painted and spruced up the seating and planting areas in the I’m sure you would also want me to thank all playground. the staff in school who do such a great job day in and day out to make Longniddry such an exciting place to work and learn.

Parent Council Primary 5 completed their John Muir Award Following our recent AGM we are very pleased and have had a fun packed term with trips to to announce that Shona Kallestrop and Ailsa John Muir House and Country Park as well as Monaghan have agreed to take up the position Coasteering at North Berwick. They had a of Co-chair of the Parent Council. photography workshop and also had their own art work displayed at Prestongrange Museum Thank you to all the parent council members as part of their work on John Bellany. who have been such a support throughout the year. We are always keen to have new parents Primary 6 were recorded when they worked join us to hear your ideas. Please contact with Charades on their music project and your year stage reps if you have any queries appeared as guest presenters on East Coast or concerns for them to take forward. FM. Once again some of the pupils also appeared in the Toun Cryer to ‘Take 5’. Details of the parent council members and minutes of meetings can be found on the Primary 7 delighted us with their end of term noticeboard in the playground and on our blog. show and survived a trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park for their end of term outing. Reminder Can we remind all parents that it is your Thank You’s responsibility to supervise your child/children Thanks as always go to all our helpers and at the start and end of the day particularly if volunteers who support us throughout the they are using the playground equipment. year with trips and activities in school. We just couldn’t do it without you. Can we also please ask Nursery parents to be mindful of their little ones particularly when the older children are out playing at lunchtime and at the end of the day. Staff Updates On behalf of all the staff we wish you a very happy and sunny summer (hopefully) and thank you for all your continued support. We are delighted to be able to tell you that Mrs MacFadyen gave birth to a lovely We look forward to seeing you all in August. baby girl on Friday 7th June – Olivia Martha.

Our thanks go to Mrs Wright who has been teaching P7 to cover Mrs MacFadyen until the end of term.

We welcome Mrs Susan Liddle to our staff team in August. She will be working full time Kind regards with P3 this session. Sheona Skinner Headteacher Class Arrangements for 2013/14

Nursery – Ms Linton

P1 – Mrs Henderson/Mrs MacIntyre

P1/2 – Mrs Morgan / Tbc

P2/3 – Ms Hood

P3 – Mrs Liddle

P4 – Miss Hart

P5 – Mrs Hyndman

P6 – Mrs Boog

P7 – Miss Bertram

Dates For Your Diary Monday 19th & Tuesday 20th August – In Service Training Days for Staff

Wednesday 21st August – All Pupils Start Back To School (please remember the P1’s have a staggered start with ½ days until 2nd Sept)

We welcome a number of new children to Longniddry in August and also say goodbye and good luck to a few children and families who are moving on to pastures new.