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Campie Newsletter

June 2010

CLASS ORGANISATION for AUGUST 2010

P1a (24 pupils) Open Plan Miss McNaughton

P1b (24 pupils) Open Plan Miss Quinlan

P1/2 (25 pupils) LNB 3 Mrs Maclean + Mrs Colver

P2 (28 pupils) LNB 2 Mrs Inglis

P2/3 (25pupils) LNB 1 Mrs Napier

P3a (29 pupils) Rm 5 Mrs Dickson

P3b (29 pupils) Rm 4 Mrs Walker

P4a (26 pupils) Rm 9 Mrs Bain

P4b (26 pupils) Rm 10 Mrs Di Rollo

P5a (27 pupils) Rm 14 Mrs Baillie

P5b (23 pupils) Rm 12 Miss Leyland

P5c (24 pupils) Rm 1 Miss Collins (Mrs Polley)

P6a (29 pupils) Rm 15 Mrs Roy

P6b (29 pupils) Rm 11 Mrs O’Brien

P7a (26 pupils) UNB1 Ms Munro

P7b (25 pupils) UNB3 Miss Macfarlane

Your child will be in .

If you have any questions, please contact Ms Laing, Mrs Clarke or Mrs Baillie. P5 parents, we worked hard to keep classes as similar as we could while tak-ing your requests into account.

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We said farewell to Mrs Terri Greig on 28 May as she moved to a post

with City of Edinburgh Council. This week, Mrs Debbie Johnson leaves

us to work in Customer Service in the Brunton Hall. We wish both la-

dies much happiness and success in their future and thank them for

the stalwart work they have carried out at Campie over the years. Mrs

Sharon McKenna comes back to work with Mrs Bird in Campie Office in

August. Meanwhile we welcome Ms Calderhead to work in the office on

Friday mornings.

We are very pleased to tell you that Miss Alcock and Mrs Haldane will

be starting permanent posts as teachers at Wallyford Primary from

August 2010. Mr Shane Gielty is going to teach in an International

School in Thailand. Mr Chetwynd has successfully completed his pro-

bationary year and I am sure you will join me in wishing him every suc-

cess as he applies for permanent teaching posts. We are very sad that

we won’t have any male teachers at Campie next session and have been

encouraging our P7 boys to go into primary teaching!

Mrs June Jeffrey is retiring after many years teaching PE at Campie.

The children will be saying farewell to her at assembly on Tuesday 29

June. We will also say farewell to Mrs Jennifer Laing who retires in

June, having taught the current P7s one day a week since P3. Ladies,

we thank you for the skills you have shared and the commitment you

have shown to Campie School. We know you won’t be strangers and are

excited to think you are hoping to return as volunteers sometime! Mrs

Anne Riding has supported a P7 pupil for many years and is moving onto

high school with him. We will miss her cheery, calm presence but we’re

glad the Grammar will benefit from it, Anne.

Mrs Liz Kerr has been with us teaching P2 since February. Liz has also

organised our early years resources really well and we thank you Liz..

Miss Gauld, our Art teacher is returning to class teaching on Mondays

so we wish her well. To help achieve budget restrictions, we are reduc-

ing our ASN Auxiliary allocation. Mrs Jan Noon will therefore also be

leaving us in July. We thank her for her service to the children of

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East Lothian Council have changed the way we manage per-

mission slips for trips. Unfortunately, this means you will

need to fill in and return more permission slips. Different categories of

trips require different permissions.

Category A activities are those which take place on a routine basis during

the school day eg visits to local shops, panto, some events in local area. They

will be covered by a termly or annual parental consent form.

Category B are not routine visits and may extend beyond the school day eg

museum visits, hillwalks. A parental consent form is required for EACH of

these activities. If it’s a block of lessons eg kayaking course, one form can

cover the 6 sessions. Most Campie outings come under Category B so you will

have to fill in many more forms. We CANNOT let children go on outings

without the consent form being filled in.

Category C is for overnight or overseas activities eg School Camp.

From 31 May, a new 2 course hot meal menu is in

place. Please note, there are no filled rolls in the

new menu. You can see the full colour menu on the

website. On Wednesday 17 June 2010, Karen is

putting on a WORLD CUP FOOTBALL themed menu, which we are

sure children will enjoy.

On Wednesday 26 May, the Campie Primary School

Athletics team took part in the East Lothian Inter-

scholastic Championships at Meadowbank. We are all

very proud of our athletes both for the fantastic indi-

vidual achievements and for the team’s excellent re-

sult of Third Place! Well done to coach, Mrs Jeffrey

too. Way to go, Mrs Jeffrey!

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P3 and P4 Wed 9 June 2010 9.30am

P1 and P2 Fri 11 June 2010 9.30am

P5 and P6 Wed 16 June 2010 9.30am

In the event of cancellation, back up dates are Wed 23 June, Fri

25 June and Wed 30 June. We will notify you of the cancella-

tion dates for each year group on the website and on the no-

tice board in the playground at 8.45am on each Sports Day.

We hope we won’t have to do this!

Children should wear shorts, tee shirt, sweatshirt, trainers or

gym shoes. No other footwear is allowed. They will take their

milk/juice and snack with them to Olivebank.

This year building work is going on at Olivebank so you will only be

able to get there through Campie playground. There will be no

café because of this so please bring your own refreshments.

School toilets can be used, accessed via the school office.

Families are welcome to come and see the Sports. We would ask

you to keep under 5s away from the sports field. Teachers will

supervise the children in their classes.

A First Aid post will be in the dugouts and the school’s first aider,

Mrs Rae, will be there, wearing a red bib with a white cross. 2

stewards wearing red bibs will assist you with any queries. A

member of Campie Management Team will be in overall charge of

the organisation of the Sports including Health and Safety and

will wear a yellow bib.

Let’s hope for lovely sunny weather and 3 great Sports Days!

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Yabadabadoo!

P1 + P2 races — Obstacle race, bat/beanbag race, hat/scarf/

bag race, 2 hoop race, sack race, flat race.

P3 + P4 and P5 + P6 races—Obstacle race, ball/spoon race, 2

hoop race, skipping race, sack race, flat race

Please let us know if your child is unable to take part in any event.

On Monday 31 May, our new P1s enjoyed meeting their teachers

with their families on a Family Learning Funday at a great centre

in Ratho. What a great way to meet your new teacher. Here are

our new P1 classes.

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The whole school are learning about how we feel when our lives

are changing. It’s called EMOTIONAL LITERACY and you will

have received a leaflet about it with some Family Homework for

you to do. DON’T SEND IT BACK TO SCHOOL. It’s just for you

to try out at home.

These changes are huge for our P7s and we hope they enjoy their

last four weeks at Campie because they have really been a fantas-

tic P7—very responsive, caring and working hard at learning.

What more could we ask for?

We want to give them a very special send off so we are changing

how we celebrate their last day, Thursday 1 July. We are inviting

each P7 to bring 2 members of their family to a special P7 CELE-

BRATION EVENT in Campie. Tickets will be issued soon. The

children’s family members are invited to come at 2pm for a

2.15pm start. They will see their children being piped into the

hall to receive their very special CAMPIE YEAR BOOKS.

At the end of the Celebration Event, the family guests will be in-

vited to go to the playground and the P7s will be piped out of

Campie for their last time as Campie pupils. The rest of the

school will be around to cheer you on, P7. This is our way of thank-

ing you P7s for all you have given Campie.

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