Fri 12th December

We had a fabulous day at the cinema today. As always our pupils were a credit to the school.

This week has been a busy one. Our show by P1-P4 was a great hit and we will get you your photos and a link to the video next week. it was great to see so many of you come out to support this.

School photos will also be delivered next week. Sorry for the delay this year.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs F

With our children we are using the Take 5 steps to wellbeing, helping us look after our mental health. Friends of Spa are extending this to our parents in the month of January, which can prove to be a difficult, long month. To encourage parents to stay connected we are hosting 4 sessions on every Tues in January. Each one slightly different and hopefully there will be something that you would enjoy. These sessions are free and open to both parents and community. We would love to see you there. More details on each night to follow next week. Please email Joy to book a place. Numbers will be limited.

Love for Life will be talking to our P6 and P7s in January on how their body changes as they grow up (we will send you more information about the content of the talk after Christmas) and we have been offered a Parent information session to support parents in how to deal with this sensitive issue. This session will take place on Wed 7th Jan at 7:00 and is for P6 and 7 parents. We'd love to see you there.

In the new year we are starting a whole school project; Learning to recognise our emotions, understand how they make us feel and how do we deal with them. To launch this we are all going to watch Inside Out on Tues 16th Dec. To make this a special day, pupils may come in their PJs and we will enjoy some hot chocolate together. This has been kindly donated by Teaghan's mum in P2. Please make sure children are dressed warmly, layer up as they will still be playing outside. If they want to bring their slippers they must wear their normal shoes/trainers for outside and change into slippers in school. Pillows, cushions and blankets can also be brought.

We have 4 wonderful Christmas Hampers for our kids to win. Raffle tickets can be bought on Schoolmoney at £2 each. We will make the draw on Thursday 18th. Thanks to Sophia Anderson's Mum for putting them together for us and to Friends of Spa for sending in items.

Click on the link below to see how you can raise free money for school every time you shop online. We received over £500 this year from EasyFundraising.

The preloved sale went so well on Wednesday, we were so pleased! Eco-committee were fab and set out everything for the sale, helped everyone who came up to visit trying on etc and took charge of the money. We had 65 jumpers in total - ALL SOLD! - and raised £164 pounds. Some children even left a donation even though they didn't get any items.

P7 have are open for business. Their mini-company, Beads and Bobs, have been selling bracelets they have made as part of their venture into the world of business. These are still available to buy from Monday at £1.50 each and £2 if you require a gift box. We are very impressed by our entrepreneurs.

Next term our clubs will be as follows:

Mon- Yoga

Tues- Football

Wed- Performing Arts, Hockey and VR

Thurs- Hip Hop and Cross Country

All clubs will start the week beginning the 5th and run for 10 weeks. All clubs run from 2:00 - 2:50 and 3:00 - 4:00, except for Hockey and Cross Country which are only for the senior school. Please pick-up on time. All clubs are available to pay on SchoolMoney from today but you have up until first week back to pay.

As we have several of our lovely families dealing with cancer at the moment we have chosen to support Action Cancer as our charity this Christmas. All money raised from our Preloved Sale and Christmas Jumper Day will be sent to Action Cancer.

We are a cashless school and all payments are made through SchoolMoney. If you have any trouble getting on please email Joy in the office at jwhitley697@c2kni.net.

New menu for October below

Mon 15th Dec- Whole school Christmas Dinner, P4 Christmas Forest School

Tues 16th Dec- Pyjama, Hot Chocolate and a Movie Day, P1-P3 make Eco- Reindeer Food

Wed 17th Dec- Christmas Assembly, Choir go carol singing, P1 Forest School (note change of date).

Thurs 18th Dec- Santa and Parties, Santa Daily Mile, Christmas Jumper Day- £1 to Action Cancer- No uniform needed.

Fri 19th Dec- Last day of term- non-uniform, no Healthy Break, toys allowed and school closes at 12:00