Blackfriars Primary

RED NOSE DAY

We would like to say a big thank you to everyone for their help in supporting Red Nose Day ( Comic Relief).

We have raised a fabulous amount of £160.97, which beats the total for previous years.

We ran a successful “Design your own Red Nose” competition. The upper school winners came from Primary 5 and 6, Primary 5 also won best class. They have won an extra play in the Trim Trail playground. Lower school winners came from, Primary 1, 2 and 3 which was excellent.

Well Done Everyone!! Mrs Gilchrist

Parents as Partners!

We are looking for a parent volunteer from each class to be the link between parents and the school.

This would involve 2 main roles:

Being the link to the Head Teacher to flag up any queries parents of your child's class may have, which would be answered quickly. Your role would be to share this information with the parents of that class so that information reached everyone quickly through class WhatsApp groups or whatever means you already have set up with parents of your child's class.

Coming along for a cup of tea and a chat with the Head Teacher twice a term, where you can discuss matters affecting your child's class. We are keen to work alongside parents to build the links between home and school. Any ideas are welcome and will be discussed. The timings of these chats can be agreed when we have a list of volunteers so we can find a time to suit all 13 parents of the 13 classes.

We want all classes to be represented and all parents and carers to feel a part of our school, and hope that this way, all parents and carers will be kept up to date, have a go-to person for each class, and that the school and the Parent Partners can build a strong relationship, supporting our pupils in their education.

Please email headteacher@blackfriars-pri.glasgow.sch.uk, or call the school on 0141 429 2444 if you would like to find out more. If you need an interpreter to take part in this, we can arrange this, so please consider volunteering!

 Thank you to those parents who have already volunteered for this. We will be in touch next week to arrange a suitable day and time to meet.

 Ms Crossan

Motivational Mondays!

We are introducing a new initiative as part of our School Improvement Plan to engage everyone in their learning in Blackfriars PS. Each pupil will take part in activities from 2-3pm on Monday afternoons from 13th January . The activities will be run by staff, partners, and hopefully some of our talented parents too!

Volunteers would meet with a small group of children each week to help them develop skills in your chosen area. This could be a sport, craft, musical instrument, team game, reading for pleasure time, creative writing, dance, fun with multiplication, inventing your own song for a chosen topic...this list goes on!

If you would like to be involved in this, please email headteacher@blackfriars-pri.glasgow.sch.uk or phone the school office on 0141 429 244 for more information.

Our children will find out about this once we have the list of workshops finalised.

It would be lovely to have your support in making Mondays even better for our pupils!

Ms Crossan