After such a long update last week, this week’s is much shorter.
Gardening Party
Firstly, an enormous THANK YOU must go to the parents and children who came to help tidy up the garden above the school so that we will eventually be able to use it for learning activities again. Trees were trimmed and wood was chipped, beds were weeded and tidied and potatoes were even planted!
The weather did not help us but spirits remained bright, particularly when the fantastic lunch came out, generously donated by members of the tidy up group.
All of the spare tables have now found homes and the skip is full and ready to be collected. The garden needs further work to make it suitable for the children to use and will be out of bounds during school hours until it is ready to be used safely.
Check out the photos here.
Cyber Skills Workshop
Simon and Finlay, our guests who visited on Wednesday from the Digital Team for our Cyber Skills Workshop were blown away by the ideas that the children in the P4 to 7 class came up with during their workshop. It is always fantastic when visitors are impressed by the manners, respectful behaviour and engagement of the children and our guests certainly were. We were also delighted that local elected member Jan Brown dropped in to see the workshop; she is a great supporter of the opportunities that our pupils experience through workshops such as this one.
Check out the photos here.
PATCH Project
Our P6 and 7 pupils also worked with Emily Love again on Thursday this week around personal safety and boundaries and her feedback was that they had some amazing conversations and ideas and that visiting was “a pleasure, as always.”
Reports – follow-up
After progress reports went out last week, we are keen to offer you a follow-up conversation with your child’s class teacher/children’s class teachers in the week beginning 27th March, should you feel that this would be helpful. In order that we can plan this, please complete this Google Form that has been sent to you by email by FRIDAY 17th March, to show your preference.
New Mental Health Support Platform – Kooth
I am very grateful to one of our parents for reminding me that there is a new online mental health support service available to 10 to 18 year olds in Argyll and Bute. Please see the poster here for more information about how to access the service.
The week ahead
On Wednesday 15th March, P7 pupils will be attending the drama production “Smoke Free Me” at the Joint Campus. Pupils should make sure that they wear school uniform on Wednesday
Comic Relief
We will be taking part in activities for Comic Relief this Friday. Pupils may come to school in non-uniform, wear something red or even wear a red nose and there will be joke-related activities in classes to make sure that we have a fun day, while raising money for a great cause. We will not collect money in school but if you wish to make a donation, please use the Facebook Just-Giving link here which has been set up by Tayvallich School here.
Mid-Argyll Music Festival – REMINDER AND APPEAL FOR HELP
As you may have heard the Mid Argyll Music Festival is back and will be taking place as a one day event for this year on Saturday 17th June 2023 with the hope that it will return in March 2024 with a week long event. Closing date for entries is 31st March 2023.
Further information can be found on the Festival’s Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/MAMF14/ and website https://midargyllmusicfestival.webador.co.uk/
We would love it if our pupils could take part and will do everything possible to work with staff to make it happen, although we are at slightly reduced capacity just now. If you are able to help in any way, please let me know.
Have a lovely week and don’t forget to get in touch if you need to.
Lena
