Welcome to the Flyer for 28th February
Our next Coffee Morning for parents/carers is on Monday 3
March at 9.00am in the Dining Hall. All welcome!
A huge thank you to our Parent Council for funding which has
allowed us to install rubber grommets to our Football Fencing. This has
deadened the noise considerably when balls are kicked against the fencing. Our
neighbours have noticed a significant difference and have expressed their
gratitude.
Our new water fountains were installed during the February
Break along with repairs to the playground surface and alterations to the
entrance doors to ensure that they close automatically. Please assist us in
maintaining the safety of all by only using the main entrance to come into
school and signing in.
If the weather is very wet, children may come into the
building from 8.40am. P1 and P2 enter by the main entrance and assemble in the
main school hall. Pupils in P3 to P7 should enter the building through the
dining hall doors and assemble in the dining hall. Thank you.
Maths
Masterclass
This week a
small group of P7 pupils attended Fettes College for a ‘Maths
Masterclass.’ Armed with their pencil cases they walked over with Mrs
MacTaggart. The morning was spent working on a variety of problems on the
properties of numbers. It was a challenging morning but we were so
pleased to hear that our pupils performed and behaved exceptionally well.
St. George’s
School Visit
On Thursday,
30 Primary 6 pupils and Miss Barnes went on an exciting visit to St. Georges
School for Girls. After splitting into teams, our pupils were
treated to an exciting series of workshops where they had taster sessions of
different languages. They learnt how to write different words in Chinese
and a Bollywood dance among other things. Well done to Beth in P6a who
also played her Violin in front of a large audience at the end of the
event. Once again we are very pleased to note that Flora’s pupils are a
credit to our school when we are out and about.
The Big Pedal
Look out for
a separate letter that will be coming home with your child providing more
information about ‘The Big Pedal.’ It is a joint project between our
Junior Road Safety Officers and Eco Committee. Over the next two weeks we
will encourage as many pupils as possible to cycle or scoot to school.
Each day your child will participate in a survey about how they have travelled
to school and each time a cycling or scooting journey is made, our school
receives a point. We hope to win as many points as possible.
This serves
as a good opportunity to remind parents that if they are unable to walk, cycle
or scoot to school, that they drop their children off to school in a safe
place. Please do not use the Bank or Royal Mail car parks for drop
offs. Please ‘Park and Stride’ meaning that the area around our school is
safer for everyone.
Fairtrade
Fortnight
Fairtrade
Fortnight is well and truly up and running at Flora’s. There are
challenging and engaging activities going on across the school and pupils have
had lots of opportunities to find out more about the Fairtrade movement and how
it supports growers and producers.
Next
Thursday, P6 plan to share their work at a special Coffee Morning event. They
would like to welcome all parents to the Coffee Morning starting at 11am.
Please bring along some money as there will be stalls, tea and coffee and
Fairtrade products to purchase. Any profit made on the day will be
invested into providing a microloan for a grower or producer in a developing
country.
Art.co.uk
The school has been awarded 18 pieces of art to display
around the building as part of an ongoing national art competition. Each piece will be professionally mounted or
framed before delivery. During March and
April we will continue participating in the competition via the Art.co.uk website,
we need your support in voting for our entry on the website, so that we can be
in with a chance to win £650 - £1000 of art resources. Flora’s is one of only
three national finalists.
Scottish Book
Trust Winners
Many
congratulations to Emmeline P1b and Christopher in P7a. They have both won
prizes in the review competition for Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2013. Emmeline has won First prize in the Bookbug
category and Christopher has won Third prize in the Younger Readers
category. Their awards will be presented
during the ceremony on Wednesday, 5th March at The Mitchell Library
in Glasgow. You can read their reviews
online at http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/scba-book-reviews.
Fundraising for Sport Relief – a note from Flora’s Football
Team Coaches
Five of our Primary 7's have managed to get together and do some fund raising for 'Sport Relief,’ They are even doing it under the name of Flora’s Flyers. Up till now they have managed to raise a fantastic £855 which all goes to Sport Relief. They have to swim 5K between them. If you would like to sponsor this group, please follow this link. Many thanks.
Five of our Primary 7's have managed to get together and do some fund raising for 'Sport Relief,’ They are even doing it under the name of Flora’s Flyers. Up till now they have managed to raise a fantastic £855 which all goes to Sport Relief. They have to swim 5K between them. If you would like to sponsor this group, please follow this link. Many thanks.
