Dear parent / carer, Happy New Year everyone! I hope you enjoyed the fesve period. We certainly did here at Windyknowe. The lead up to Christmas was an incredibly busy me for all of us. The nursery started the fesvies off with their Christmas sing-a-long. It was lovely to have the opportunity to have grandparents as well as parents come along to share the experience. The P1 Navity was a heart warming and impressive performance which really put us in the Christmas spirit. We received many posive comments from those who came to witness this fantasc producon. The children certainly did us proud! The whole school pantomime certainly went down a treat with the pupils. The Christmas pares all went well and the PSA Christmas Fayre was very successful. Thank you to everyone who was involved in making these events a great success. We have a great team here at Windyknowe; staff, pupils, parents, carers ,volunteers and the wider community all working together to make everything we do at Windyknowe the best it can be for our children. We, at Windyknowe, will connue to work in partnership with you to provide high quality learning experiences for our children. We look forward to working with you all in 2017 and all of the successes it will bring. Thank you everyone for your connued support. Mrs Rita Angus Windyknowe Primary School January 2017 “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar Class Assemblies Details of all classes which are leading assemblies this term are to be found at the end of this newsleer. Children and teachers put a huge amount of hard work and effort into planning and preparing for their class assemblies and are always delighted when parents / grandparents / families are able to support and enjoy them. Class assemblies begin at 9.00am and aſterwards there is an opportunity for you to join the children and their teachers for a cup of tea or coffee. “Challenges are what make life interesng and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful” Joshua J. Marine “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs Our Vision At Windyknowe Primary we strive to create a respecul and trusng community in which all contribuons are valued. We work in partnership to provide a safe, nurturing and supporve environment which encourages each individual to develop to their full potenal to become a healthy, valuable member of society.
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Dear parent / carer,
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you enjoyed the festive period. We certainly did here at
Windyknowe.
The lead up to Christmas was an incredibly busy time for all of us. The nursery started the
festivities off with their Christmas sing-a-long. It was lovely to have the opportunity to have
grandparents as well as parents come along to share the experience. The P1 Nativity was a
heart warming and impressive performance which really put us in the Christmas spirit. We
received many positive comments from those who came to witness this fantastic production.
The children certainly did us proud! The whole school pantomime certainly went down a treat
with the pupils. The Christmas parties all went well and the PSA Christmas Fayre was very
successful. Thank you to everyone who was involved in making these events a great success.
We have a great team here at Windyknowe; staff, pupils, parents, carers ,volunteers and the
wider community all working together to make everything we do at Windyknowe the best it can
be for our children.
We, at Windyknowe, will continue to work in partnership with you to provide high quality
learning experiences for our children. We look forward to working with you all in 2017 and all of
the successes it will bring.
Thank you everyone for your continued support.
Mrs Rita Angus
Windyknowe Primary
School
January 2017
“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar
Class Assemblies
Details of all classes which are leading assemblies this term are to be found at the end of this newsletter. Children and
teachers put a huge amount of hard work and effort into planning and preparing for their class assemblies and are
always delighted when parents / grandparents / families are able to support and enjoy them. Class assemblies
begin at 9.00am and afterwards there is an opportunity for you to join the children and their teachers for a cup
of tea or coffee.
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful”
Joshua J. Marine
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
Our Vision
At Windyknowe Primary we strive to create a respectful and trusting community in which all contributions are valued.
We work in partnership to provide a safe, nurturing and supportive environment which encourages each individual to
develop to their full potential to become a healthy, valuable member of society.
School blog - https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/windyknowe/ Facebook.com
Groupcall messages, where the office will send a message to mobile phones.
“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibil-
ity on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
Booker T. Washington
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Late/Early Arrivals
We have noticed an increase in the number of
latecomers recently. Please be reminded that school
starts at 8:45am and playground supervisors are in place
from 8:25am. We ask that children do not arrive at
school before 8:25am unless they are attending the
breakfast club which starts at 8:15am. P7 classroom
monitors should arrive for their duties in school
no earlier than 8:15am. Children arriving before
these times are at risk as there will not be
anyone available to supervise them.
Scots Poetry Recitations
Over the next two weeks children will be asked to learn a Scots poem for
class competitions. The best two recitations from each class will go
forward to the grand final which will be on Wednesday 25 January.
Mrs Malcolm and Mrs Simpson will join Mrs Angus on the judging panel
and will select the best 3 within 3 categories: Nursery – P1, P2-P4 and P5-
P7. Please encourage your child to participate.
“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me
and I may remember; involve me
and I’ll understand.”
Chinese Proverb
Swimming Assessments
P5 Swimming Assessments will take place on the morning of
Wednesday 1st February. A bus will be provided to take the children to
Bathgate Sports Centre.
Pupil Council
We have a very active pupil council here at Windyknowe. The pupil council reps have been doing a fabulous
job of taking on board the ideas and suggestions from their peers and bringing these to meetings. They have
been working with Mr Barrowman to participate in the schools recent assessment for Level 2 Rights
Respecting Schools, sharing all the good work that goes on within our school. The reps have also been
working on updating the welcome booklet which is given to new pupils starting at Windyknowe. The children had been asked
to consider that information they would like if starting a new school and the booklet is being updated to include their
suggestions. As well as all the other tasks that the children have been involved in they have also been collating the suggestions
that their classes had for Golden Time games. This list has now been passed to the PSA who kindly offered to buy us new
games/toys.
St Andrew’s Day
As always, we marked St Andrew’s Day in various ways in the
school. Our main event was an inter-house Scottish Quiz.
Once again we were very impressed by the knowledge of our
pupils and on this occasion, the Birniehill team were the
champions. Congratulations to Jay P4, Kael P5, Charlotte P6
and Ethan H P7!
Staffing
We would like to welcome Mrs Webber and Mrs Gallagher to our staff team. Mrs Webber will be teaching Primary 7l alongside Mrs Welsh, whilst Mrs Gallagher will be teaching Primary 4b.
Attendance
If your child is going to be absent from
school the absence should be reported to
the school office before 9:30am. Failure to
do this will result in the absence being
registered as unauthorised. We must follow
the West Lothian Council policy. If we have
not been given a reason for your child’s
absence then a group call will be sent. If we
receive no response then the next step is to
contact the safe arrivals team.
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Dates for your diary
Wednesday 11 January—P3k, P3m and P3/2 National Youth Choir Workshops
Wednesday 18 January—P5a No Voice Beats Workshop
Friday 20 January—Lendrick Muir Coffee Morning (Class times to follow)
Monday 23 January—IEP week
Tuesday 24 January—P4 Handball at Armadale Community Centre
Wednesday 25 January—Scots Poetry Recitation Finals in school
Wednesday 25 January—Danceworld performances
Friday 27 January—P6b leading our assembly
Monday 30 January—SSPCA visiting the school
Wednesday 1 February—P5 swimming assessments
Thursday 2nd February—P7c and P7l Generation Science
Friday 3 February— P6c leading our assembly
Monday 6 February—P5a and P5h/s Generation Science
Tuesday 7 February—PSA Evening Meeting
Wednesday 8 February—P3k, P3m and P3/2 Generation Science
Wednesday 8 February —P6 Skiing
Thursday 9th February—P2h and P2m Generation Science
Thursday 9 February—P6 Skiing
Friday 10 February—Holiday for all
Monday 13 February—Holiday for all
Tuesday 14 February—Holiday for all
Wednesday 15 February—PSA Afternoon Meeting
Wednesday 22 February—P4b and P4h Generation Science