Parent Council Lunnasting Primary School The Parent Council’s next meeting is on Monday 2nd February. All Parent Council mem­ bers welcome any feedback, suggestions or concerns which the parents, as members of the Parent Forum, wish to raise. Newsletter

Parent Council members can be contacted on: January 2009 Volume 9, Issue 3

Lunnasting Primary School Chairperson Karen Hetherington 577242 Swimming Vidlin, Shetland ZE2 9QB Vice Chair Elizabeth White 577371 The P5-7 Swimming block finished on Mon- Tel: 01806 577253 Fax: 01806 577298 Staff Member Heidi Magnussen 577253 day 26th January. Email: P1-4 will start their swimming block on [email protected] Parent Member Paul Bendix 577380 Website: Monday 2nd February. Please remember to www.lunnasting.shetland. Parent Member Janis Nicolson 588715 take swimming kit to the school every Mon- sch.uk Co­opted Member Louise Grains 577397 day. There will be no swimming on Monday 23rd March due to the Brae High School Co­opted Member Lorna Hughson 577258 having an Occasional Holiday. Bonhoga The whole school enjoyed a visit to the Dates for your Diary Occasional Holidays Bonhoga Gallery‛s Skirt Exhibition on Thursday 22nd January. These visits Monday 2nd February P1­4 Swimming begins Parent Council Meeting The school will be closed on Friday give the children the opportunity to Friday 6th February Nesting and Girlsta Jarl Squad Visit­2.30 pm 13th February and Monday 16th experience art from a different February for Occasional Holidays. perspective and opens them up to new Friday 13th February Occasional Holiday ideas.

Monday 16th February Occasional Holiday Please send dinner money to the school on Thursday 12th February. The skirts were all very unusual and led Sunday 22nd February Blue Peter Bring and Buy Sale and Coffee Afternoon 2­4pm This will be £6.50 for those taking to much discussion. A follow up milk and £6.00 for those who don‛t. workshop in the school will help Wednesday 25th February Gym Club for P1­4 begins encourage any new ideas this exhibition has inspired in the children. Thursday 26th February Dental Inspections P1­7

Friday 20th March Delting Jarl Squad Visit—9.45 am

Tuesday 24th March Easter Assembly 2.15pm

Friday 27th March Easter Eggstrvaganza School Closes 12 noon

Monday 13th Arpil Occasional Holiday

Tuesday 14th April School Back Jarl Squad Visits Dental Inspections Gym Club Both the Nesting and Girlsta Jarl Squad and the Delting Jarl Squad will be visiting the school this term. Parents and friends are very welcome to come along for both these The North Mainland Leisure Centre visits. The children will all have dental in­ have agreed to run a Gym Club this spections on Thursday 26th February. term for P1­4. Nesting & Girlsta Jarl Squad—Friday 6th February—2.30 pm These are very quick inspections and Delting Jarl Squad ­ Friday 20th March ­ 9.45 am do not take the place of full check ups This will start on Wednesday 25th Feb­ which they should have at their own ruary. dentists. Permission Slips will be sent out nearer the time.

P1­4 with John Arthur Golf Club during the Nesting Up­ Helly­Aa visit in 2006. James Johnston from the Active Nursery Schools Team will be taking the P5­7 class for golf on Thursday afternoons Mrs Christine Adam is helping out as from 26th February until the Spring Nursery Teacher, on supply at the break. moment. The job of Nursery Teacher is to be re­advertised. Blue Peter Appeal We are delighted, however, to have The Pupil Council have organised a Blue Peter Bring and Buy Sale/ appointed Mrs Karen Hetherington Coffee Afternoon. This will be on Sunday 22nd February from 2­4pm. as Early Years Worker. They would like pupils to bring in a maximum of three items each for Unst Trip the sale, any time from now. They would also be grateful if parents Staffing could bake as we will be serving teas and coffees and having a cake This year’s residential trip for pupils in and candy stall. Mrs Johan Pearson’s maternity leave P5­7 will be in Unst. They will be leav­ ends shortly. She will be coming back ing the school on Tuesday19th May The proceeds from the Bring and Buy Sale will go to the Blue Peter to Lunnasting for one day per week. and returning on Thursday 21st May. Appeal. Any other money raised will be paid into the School Fund Rhonda Morgan and Linda Hughson’s which is used for extra items for the school and school trips. contracts have been extended with Please send deposits for this to the reduced hours as ASN Auxiliary and school by Friday 6th February. Classroom Assistant. Ferry Terminal Spring Holidays Easter The Shetland Islands Council has informed us that repairs to the Vidlin Ferry The school will close for the Spring Break at Terminal will commence shortly and may take up to 8 weeks to complete. The Our Easter Assembly with Rev Nigel 12 noon on Friday 27th March, reopening construction work will be limited to the immediate vicinity of the ferry terminal, Barton, is on Tuesday 24th March at on Tuesday 14th April. however, the requirement to bring in quarried rock materials will likely result in an 2.15pm. Parents and Friends are all increase in traffic past the school. They have assured us that the contractor is duty very welcome to come along. bound to carry out the work in a safe manner and will be giving due consideration to the haulage of materials past the school. Our annual Easter Eggstravaganza will be on Friday 27th March.