Primary News Session 2019-20 No. 9 Friday 10 January 2020

Welcome New Year – new faces! A very warm welcome to  Emergency food supplies for new class teachers Miss Rachel MacLennan malnourished children and Mr Jamie Macdonald who will be teaching  Teaching resources for 80 children in P2/3MB and P4/5M respectively.  3000 Pencils We also welcome new pupil, Lucas Campbell Altogether, an impressive legacy that will who has joined P5MM. We hope that you are all impact on the lives of hundreds of children in settling-in well at Cradlehall Primary! the developing world. Well done everyone!

Tracksuits Foodbank Appeal A huge thank you is due to Mr Derek Mackay, Many thanks for all your donations to the Director of McGowan Environmental above. As a result of everyone’s efforts no Engineering Ltd for his company’s very fewer than 16 hampers-worth of food was generous donation of £1000 which has enabled collected by the charity just before the the school to replace its well-worn set of holidays. Yet another excellent example of tracksuits used for sporting events by school many people working in a small way to achieve a teams. The official handover took place on the great deal. Well done to all! Wednesday before the Christmas break. The new items - forty outfits in a variety of Enrolment for P1, August 2020 sizes- are in the school colours of gold and If your child will be five years of age on or black and carry the school logo on the front before 28 February 2021, they are eligible to and the McGowan logo across the back. All enrol for Primary 1. together very stylish, our sports teams will now very much look the part! Their first outing This takes place in Room 14 between 3.00pm will be at the Swimming Club Gala on and 4.00pm during the week beginning Monday 5 February. 27 January. Please be aware that places are not allocated on a first come first served UNICEF tot al Collect ion basis! Huge thanks to all who supported last term’s Nativities and Carol Concerts. Ticket sales and Additional to the after-school enrolment times donations realised a very impressive total of noted above, Jane MacKenzie, Principal £1346.13 Teacher will also be available to meet you in Pupils at their class meetings made choices the school library on Wednesday 29 January from UNICEF’s Inspired Gifts list and these after your drop off time. (8.30-8.45 am, 11.30- were confirmed by the Pupil Council as follows: 11.45am or 12.30-12.45pm) if this is more  Water Pump installations for two convenient. schools  Malaria Busting Kit for a whole Children resident within the catchment area community but not currently attending the school Nursery  Measles vaccinations for 40 children can be enrolled throughout enrolment week  5000 water purification tablets between 3.00pm and 4.00pm in Room 14. Please ensure you bring your child’s birth certificate

- 1 - and a utility bill/council tax statement with Futsal Success you. On the 5th of January, Cradlehall’s football team went to the Inverness Leisure Centre to Children currently attending their pre-school play a Futsal Tournament. There were 8 teams year in our Nursery and who live within the in the tournament including us. The first game school’s catchment area, will shortly be sent we played Drakies and we won 5-0. The second enrolment information. The completed return game we played and beat them 4-0. slip should be returned to school by Friday 17 The third game was against which February. was a big game and we won 4-0, another great result. Then our next game was against There is also an on-line facility for enrolment which we beat 6-0. Our next game available at www.highland.gov.uk was against Holm which was a tight game, but (www.highland.gov.uk/info/878/schools/11/sch we still won 1-0. The next game was the ool_enrolment). This facility also enables you decider who would win the tournament so we to check that you are within the school’s had to win it and we won 3-0 so we had to draw catchment area. However we would prefer or win to win the tournament. The last game we parents to come to the school to enrol in won 11-0 against Central so it was a clean sheet person, if at all possible. If the above times all round! are not suitable please get in touch to arrange We had to wait for the last game to finish and an alternative time. we would be the Champions. Then after the last game was finished, we went up to get our Parents of children resident outwith the medals and went home being the 2020 Futsal catchment area who wish their children to Champions. We never conceded a goal the attend Cradlehall have to make a Placing whole tournament, and won every game and Request via the Area Care & Learning Office. scored 33 goals. We played really well as a Application forms and guidance booklets are team and are proud of ourselves. available from the Head Teacher or online at Ryan Walker and Zak Rankin P7M http://www.highland.gov.uk/downloads/file/75 /school_placement_request_form Please be For the record, those who played were: aware that you must also enrol your child in Jude Fraser, Zak Rankin, Ryan Walker, Oliver your catchment area school. Please do not Lamont, Caelan Lumsden Oscar Beattie, Jayden attend an enrolment meeting if you are not Stewart & James Lawrie resident within the school’s catchment area as (all supported on the sidelines by young Ryan we will not be able to proceed with the Fraser fully kitted out in his Cradlehall kit!) enrolment. Details of the catchment area can be found in the school handbook, a copy of which appears on our website: P1-4 Running Club www.cradlehallps.wordpress.com The active schools running club will start up th Parent Council News again this coming Monday 13 3.15 – 4.15pm. It’s back – Beat the mid-winter blues with our This will be an indoor session led by parent Burns Bingo Night fundraiser on Wednesday 22 volunteer Lynn Patience and community volunteer Olga Hansen. Sessions will be in the January 6.30-8.30pm, in the school hall. A fun event for all generations of the family! school hall for all P1-P4s currently on the Tickets are £3.00 per adult, £1.00 per child. running club register from last term. There is no need to complete another consent form, Inclusive of teas/coffees/ juice and home- however if your child is not on the running made shortbread. Full details and ticket booking slip enclosed with this newsletter. register and you would like to be on the waiting list please pick up a form from the school

- 2 - office. Please make sure your child brings PE House Points competition ‘alive’ throughout the kit for this after school club along with a year. water bottle. Contact the Active Schools Coordinator Lynne Fraser on 07795825603 for Book Launch further information on this club. Celebrate Scottish and Chinese culture and Lynne Fraser join local author Pauline Mackay for the launch Active Schools Coordinator – Culloden ASG of her picture book 'Wee MacNessie and the Tel: 01463 796130 Mob: 07795825603 Lion Dance' there will even be some local children reading in Mandarin! This is a free Parking Appeal event. Inverness Town House, Saturday 25th of Once again the school has received complaints January, 15.00-16.00, Doors open at 14.30. about inconsiderate parking from residents who live in Cradlehall Park. Please can School Calendar parents/carers show consideration and refrain Friday 17 January from blocking house driveways? First class Achievers assembly of 2020 On a similar vein, can I please remind the Wednesday 22 January community that the school car park is for Parent Council Burns Prize Bingo Night visitors, official transport taxis and minibuses Please find enclosed a booking form for tickets and staff only. Dropping your child off within which will be available on a first come, first the car park creates unnecessary congestion served basis. and is potentially dangerous for your child. Friday 24 January Your cooperation with these requests is sought Holocaust Memorial Day Assembly for P4-7 and appreciated. Monday 10 -Friday 14 February Across the Pond Nursery enrolment week. Details in next P6 may remember creating a play called The newsletter. Weird World of Weather, which Mrs Next Newsletter: Friday 24 January 2020 Henderson wrote based on ideas from the As always, more information available on our website children. She shared the script with American www.cradlehallps.wordpress.com Lawrence Sutherland Drama resource site The Drama Notebook. Out Head Teacher Tel. 01463 791195 of the blue, she got an email from a drama teacher in Oklahoma: “ I wanted to reach out and let you know that my school, Piedmont Intermediate in Oklahoma, is performing your play, The Weird World of Weather. My students have been having a blast with the playfulness of it, and are truly enjoying it. Thank you for all your hard work! Well done. Cradlehall Creativity has made it across the Atlantic!”

Moray Pencil Winners Congratulations to all pupils in Moray House who have been awarded their special House pencils for coming in first place for Term 2. These rewards were chosen by the Pupil Council as part of their campaign to keep the

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