HERMITAGE PRIMARY SCHOOL

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In This Issue

School News

Class News

Sports News

Pupil Council News

Parent Council News

Drama Club Performance

Moving Forward

Head Teacher Conference

Scottish Afternoon Quaich Winners

School News It is almost the end of another very busy and successful year at Her-

mitage Primary School. I hope you are enjoying our new school website

which we are refreshing regularly to keep you up to date . Thank you to

Mr Craig and Mrs Paterson who made this possible.

Our Scottish Afternoon was enjoyed by local church members, staff and

pupils. There was a variety of Scottish music, dancing and poems per-

formed. Well done to our two Quaich winners; Anna Besenyei P7 and

Kate MacKenzie P3.

We are delighted to report that Mr Mulvenna and the Eco committee

managed to keep our Green Flag for another year. Well done!

Once again we enjoyed a very successful and fun health week. Street

Dance classes provided by Mr & Mrs Joseph were very popular and

quite a favourite! Thank you to Mrs Trotter and Mr Caldwell for all their

hard work in putting together a fun-filled and thought provoking week’s

programme.

In February we enjoyed a whole school Science fair with children pre-

senting their work to the year below to give them a wee taste of what is

in store next year!

Our new pupils for primary one next have joined us for some afternoon

sessions and primary one teachers are impressed already!

Term 4 Newsletter May 2015

Sports News Twenty pupils from the badminton club entered the West Dunbar-

tonshire championships in March. They enjoyed a variety of singles

and doubles games with schools. The girls were particularly suc-

cessful with Anna Besenyei and Elinor Whyte winning the girls dou-

bles. The girls then went to Perth to play in the National finals in

April. Well done girls!

The football team enjoyed playing in the recent Christian Aid com-

petition where they were narrowly defeated in the semi-finals. I am

sure someone moved the goal posts!

The athletics team have won an amazing amount of medals and

trophies lately, the trophy cabinet is overflowing! At the Inter

School Cross Country P6 boys were 3rd, P7 girls and boys were

both 1st, at Helensburgh Toyota Cross Country the results were

the same. At the Primary School Athletics championships a variety

of medals were won across the disciplines. A very fit group of pu-

pils .

Drama Club Performance

Miss Barclay’s drama club practised all year for their production

“Tuishi Pamoja” and invited their parents in to school to watch

them. The school also enjoyed watching their dress rehearsal. A

great achievement in only one hour per week!

Pupil Council The Pupil Council held a talent

show in March for The Make A

Wish Foundation raising almost

£400. Well done to all the primary

seven pupil councillors for hosting

such a great show. Thank you to

all the performers and Miss Bar-

clay for their input too!

The Pupil Council also devised a

primary four to seven pupil audit

to seek pupil views on a range of

matters. They used ‘nearpod’ and

the i-pads and produced some

very interesting results. More out-

door education requested and

honey on the toast for snack!

Talented performers at the Talent Show

Athletics Success

Parent Council Events The parent Council held a successful

family night and Easter discos last

term and plan to hold a fun Summer

Fair on Friday 5th June in the school

grounds. Please support.

Class Assemblies

Primary Three produced an

amazing assembly based on

their topic of Egyptians. Par-

ents were treated to songs,

facts and drama all topic re-

lated by an enthusiastic

stage of pupils. Well done

primary three, you certainly

demonstrated your learning

very effectively!

Primary 7 Events

Primary seven pupils are ex-

tremely busy and very suc-

cessful recently. Thirty three

children won a variety of

maths awards in the Scottish

Mathematical Challenge and

silver and gold award win-

ners are looking forward to

going to Glasgow University

to collect their awards. The

bronze award winners will

have a special treat in

Helensburgh!

Last week proud parents

and grandparents came to

view the pupils’ modern art

pieces displayed in the

evening exhibition. Clever

ideas and profound words

could be found all over the

new music and drama

rooms. Well done to Mr

Redstone for all his mount-

ing of the art work!

Staff from the academy have

started visiting pupils in

preparation for their transi-

tion.

Primary three enjoying a visit to Kelvingrove Museum

Class Outings Since January a number of classes visits to places both near and

far have taken place. The primary one pupils visited the local toy

shop and purchased some new toys for their activity area while at

the same time learning about jobs in the shop.

Primary three visited Kelvingrove Mueum as part of their Egyptian

topic and Primary five visited Loch Sloy power station as part of

their Electricity topic. Primary five enjoyed a second outing to Stir-

ling Castle last week as part of their Scottish Wars of Independ-

ence topic.

Primary Five enjoying a visit to Stirling Castle

Stationery

Shop Prices

Pencils 10p

Rubbers 20p

Rulers 30p

Colourig pencils 80p

Sharpeners 20p

Glue Stick 30p

Gel Pens 80p

Pencil Case 50p

Whiteboard Pen 50p

Dates for Your Diary

Hermitage Primary School

Reading Tutors

Our grateful thanks to the small band of church helpers who support pupils with their reading in

school. We are very grateful for your commitment to support again next session.

Moving Forward

Developments are still moving forward. Staff are very productive during in-service days and at

staff development sessions after school. Recently, staff updated the personal planners intro-

duced this session making changes to improve the quality of presentation and the information

provided to you as parents.

We have also developed our curriculum design during a few meetings and are making good pro-

gress with our plans for Curriculum for Excellence.

We are delighted to report that in moving our playground development forward we received

news that our bid for funding to provide the children with an outdoor gym is successful. Thank

you to Mrs Trotter and Mrs McMurdo for compiling the bid and to the Parent Council who are

providing half the funding.

Presentation at National Head Teacher Conference

Hermitage Primary was identified as good practice in the Government Document “Developing

Scotland’s Young Workforce”. Mrs Jackson presented the school’s work in this area to a confer-

ence of around 200 head teachers from across Scotland.

The conference was in Perth on March 24th.

Wed 10th June Open Afternoon/Book Fair

Thu 11th June P7 Induction Days at Hermitage Academy

Fri 12th June P7 Induction Days at Hermitage Academy

Wed 17th June Parent Council Meeting 7.15pm

Mon 22nd June P7 Valedictory Ball, Victoria Halls 6.45pm

Wed 24th June P7 Valedictory Service, St Andrew’s Kirk

9.30am, followed by Assembly at School

Fri 26th June School closes at 1pm for Summer Holidays