The life of the school - Uryside School

The life of the school
                 Week Ending: Friday 11th January 2019

Happy New Year to our Uryside Community. We trust you had a
super Christmas holiday and wish you all a happy and healthy New
Year.

Mrs Dodd, Uryside Head Teacher
I’d like to thank everyone for their lovely welcome to Uryside School. I
have thoroughly enjoyed my first week and look forward to meeting
everyone in the near future.

Primary 1
Primary 1 have been busy making new year resolutions. They have
picked something that they want to get better at in school this year. We
will all be working hard to try and keep to them!

Afternoon Nursery – Primary 2
All pupils in our afternoon nursery to Primary 2 will be receiving some
African drumming instrumental sessions this term. It was a very noisy
and active start to the sessions but some tremendous sounds were
coming from our GP room on Thursday. The classes hope to share their
experiences later this term.

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Primary 5
After reading chapter one of the Iron Man by Ted Hughes, Primary 5
tried making their own Iron Man. By working together and following
instructions, they were all very successful in creating their own models.

Primary 3/4 and Primary 4/5
P3/4 and P4/5 have begun their dancing sessions in P.E. this term.
They were working together to create different shapes and explored
different movements.

Primary 7
Today our Primary 7 pupils were given the opportunity to wear their
leaver’s hoodies to school. This was a great opportunity to model this
year’s design. Thank you to our Parent Forum for purchasing these for
our P7 pupils, a nice keep-sake of their final year at Uryside. Hoodies
may be worn on school trips, sports events and other special occasions
when you will be notified by the school.

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Primary 4/5 and P4 swimming
A letter was distributed today in order to receive parental consent for all
pupils in P4/5 and the P4 pupils in the P3/4 class to attend swimming
lessons starting next Friday 18th January. A copy of the letter is available
here. Please can you return these by Wednesday 16th January to your
child’s class teacher. We ask for a small contribution of £3 per pupil to
cover the cost of transporting the pupils, the remainder is funded by our
Parent Forum. The remaining pupils from P4 will begin their swimming
sessions from Friday 22nd February, more information to follow.

School Trips 2019 – P6 and P7
A gentle reminder of the recommended payment dates for the two
residential school trips we have booked for 2019.
Primary 6 pupils to Alltnacriche, Aviemore March 2019:
£60 deposit paid in October 2018
£50 end of January 2019
£50 by 22nd February 2019
£160 total must be received by 22nd February.

Primary 7 pupils to York and Scarborough June 2019:
£30 initial deposit by Thursday 28th June
£70 by Friday 7th September 2018
£70 by Friday 5th October 2018
£70 by Friday 2nd November 2018
£70 by Friday 8th February 2019
£70 by Friday 8th March 2019
£380 total must be received by Friday 8th March 2019.

Please contact the school office if you require an update on what
payments you have already made. Travel Grant forms and information is
available here. Please contact us and we can be very flexible on any of
these payment dates, our aim is to support you to allow your child to
enjoy themselves on their residential trip.

Indoor Shoes for PE
A reminder that all pupils should bring indoor shoes which they are
required to change into before participating in PE lessons in our gym
hall. This is for health and safety reasons. Please can the indoor shoes
be named and have non-marking soles. Thank you.

Wow Travel Tracker
Next week will see our trial begin of the WOW Travel Tracker. A
presentative from Living Streets will be speaking to the pupils at
assembly next week. Uryside School has signed up to a Scottish
Government supported scheme that awards pupils who travel actively to

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school. Active travel includes walking, scooting, cycling and Park and
Stride. Pupils who travel by bus can be encouraged to walk to the bus
stop to earn their active points. Pupils log their daily journeys to school
each day. Those that travel actively at least twice a week for a month
earn WOW badges. The hope is that promoting active travel to school
can eliminate some of the parking difficulties in our car park. More
information on this can be found here.

School Car Parking
Please can we remind all parents to respect the disabled parking bays.
We understand, especially during school events, that the school car park
area can be very congested but these bays are for blue badge holders
only. During drop off and pick up times, school transport and partner
providers may use the bays to collect pupils. This has been identified as
a safe pick up area for our pupils.

The car park area is monitored by CCTV cameras, please report any
dangerous incidents to the local police who have permission to access
these images. Thank you.

Active Schools
Active Schools Network Programme Term 3
Active Schools In-service Programme Feb 2019
Inveruie Hip Hop sessions

Please find here forms from Joan Prieur, Badminton Development
Officer in relation to the weekly coaching sessions at Inverurie
Academy. Places are available at both the Primary and Secondary
sessions.

JD Performance Schools Applications 2019
Applications for the 2019 intake of Scottish FA JD Performance School pupils are
now open.
We are pleased to announce the application process for the Hazlehead Performance
School programme for 2019. This is a four year programme that is aimed at players
who have the potential to play at the highest level. Applicants must currently be in
Primary 7 moving in to S1 in August 2019, and must be eligible to play for
Scotland.
Please visit the following link for more information and to submit an application.

https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/performance/jd-performance-schools/applications/

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HOLIDAY DATES:
FRIDAY 8TH FEBRUARY 2019 - OCCASIONAL DAY Holiday
MONDAY 11TH FEBRUARY 2019 - MID TERM HOLIDAY
TUESDAY 12TH FEBRUARY 2019 - IN-SERVICE DAY
WEDNESDAY 13TH FEBRUARY 2019 - IN-SERVICE DAY
FRIDAY 29TH MARCH 2019 - SCHOOL CLOSES FOR EASTER BREAK
MONDAY 15TH APRIL 2019 - SCHOOL RE-OPENS
FRIDAY 19TH APRIL 2019 - GOOD FRIDAY HOLIDAY
MONDAY 6TH MAY 2019 - MAY DAY HOLIDAY
MONDAY 3RD JUNE 2019 - OCCASIONAL DAY Holiday
FRIDAY 5TH JULY 2019 - SCHOOL CLOSES FOR SUMMER HOLIDAYS
MONDAY 19TH AUGUST 2019 - IN-SERVICE DAY
TUESDAY 20TH AUGUST 2019 - SCHOOL RE-OPENS for pupils

More school holidays can be found online:
https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/schools/parents-carers/school-term-dates-and-in-service-
days/

School closure advice, how to obtain closure information and how to register for any
updates, can be found here on our school website.
https://online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/Apps/schools-closures/
School Information Line (Tel: 0370 054 4999) School Pin No. 021900

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