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Announcements
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| Brownies - Thursday, January 26, 2012Mrs Hogg wishes us to inform you all that Daviot Brownies is to merge with the Meldrum pack due to lack of Brownies in the Daviot Area. An information letter will come out for parents of 6 to 8 year old girls shortly.
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| Good News - Thursday, January 26, 2012
Ms Jane Austin was successful at last week’s interviews and we are delighted to welcome her to the post of P2/3 teacher, maternity leave. She will begin her Mondays and Fridays on Monday 6th February. Many thanks go to Mrs Nicol for swapping her days to accommodate supply availability and to Mrs Alex Middler for helping us out with P2/3.
We are also very lucky to have the continued free and gratis excellent support of a volunteer morning’s teaching form Mr Alexander Malley who comes in every Wednesday without fail to help out teachers and classes throughout the school and even brings his own biscuit! We are very, very lucky to have him.
We have had a flurry of deliveries with the money we have spent on new reading books and new resources. Mrs Anderson is madly covering books and soon we should have lots of new books coming home in school bags. Thanks go to all of you for your support.
Grants
We have been lucky enough to receive a Britannia Building Society Grant of £350 for Maths resources that has been spent on special resources and games for Mrs Bolton to use with pupils on her visits. Thanks go to her for helping spend the money. We have also received money to pay for Generation Science Visits for Science week of £250 from the British Science association.
Stop Press - The Big Lottery Fund (Communities) has awarded the school £2000 to replace our condemned items of PE Equipment. Mrs Stickles will be thrilled and had agreed, if we were successful, to offer a gymnastics club after school to allow us to try out the new equipment when it arrives. She will be very excited when she gets the chance to get out her catalogues tomorrow.
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| School Doctor - Thursday, January 26, 2012The school doctor is visiting the school on Monday 30th January. Appointments have been issued to those pupils and families she has arranged to see.
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| News from P1/2 & P6/7 - Thursday, January 26, 2012
P1/2 will be studying birds this term. Mrs Watt will be supported by visits from Wendy Mayne from the RSPB, beginning on Friday 27th January when the class will be participating in the Big Schools Birdwatch. We have put bird feeders all around the school and we hope we can attract some birds into the school grounds. If you have any interesting feathers we could use for observational drawings we would be delighted to borrow them. Thank you.
This term P6/7 are studying WW2. We have been able to book a workshop visitor who will come and deliver a two day interactive experience to the class to enhance their project focus. We have also been able to secure a visit from Mr Mitchell who will deliver a day of WW2 art. We hope to see the results up on the walls very soon.
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| Fundraising - Thursday, January 26, 2012Petit Filous Yoghurts – Pots make pounds – we have seen advertising for this and hope to register shortly. Please save your pot lids/bar codes for us until we have sorted out the formalities.
Nestle box Tops – Keep saving your cereal box tops for books. They are invaluable to topping up or library annually.
Tesco Vouchers – The scheme will soon be on the off again. Please remind family, friends and colleagues to collect their vouchers for us again this year.
Bags-2-School – Keep filling those bags for us.
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| New updates - Tuesday, December 13, 2011School brochure - new in the documents store. We'd love if you
might have time to look over it and see if there is anything we've
forgotten you would have liked to know or even spot a missed typo! Send us
an email!
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| Parking - Tuesday, December 13, 2011Please do not park behind the bus as this is causing a hazard for pupils walking to the church car park.
Thank you for your help in keeping our children safe.
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| Pupil Illness - Tuesday, December 13, 2011If your child is ill please give the school a quick call to let us know your child will be absent. If you suspect your child has flu we would be most grateful to know as we are required to notify the Scottish Government if more than 5% of our pupils are unwell. Upon their return we would be most grateful of an absence note.
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| Holidays Taken During Term Time - Tuesday, December 13, 2011All holidays taken during term time are classified as unauthorised absences. If you plan to remove your child from school during term time please place a statement of intent/request in writing to the school prior to the proposed dates. All unauthorised absence figures are collated at Local Authority level to measure percentage overall attendance rates.
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| Village Hall - Tuesday, December 13, 2011The village hall committee wish to inform us that they have raised £11,000 already from their brick campaign. The committee is thrilled to have so many school family names on the new wall.
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Announcements
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| Diary Dates - Thursday, January 26, 2012Parent Council Meeting – Thursday 26th January – 8pm
Occasional Day Holiday – Friday 10th February
Half term Holiday – Monday 13th February
In Service (School Closed) – Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th January.
Term Ends – Friday 30th March.
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| Enrolment Week - Thursday, January 26, 2012Next week is the chance for parents of P1 pupils for next year to enrol their children in Daviot school. Brochures and packs will be available during school hours in the reception area. Our handbook is available on the website. School Brochure
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Parent Council
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Parent Council Meeting
8pm Thursday 26th January
Daviot School
Agenda
The rescheduled meeting is due to take place at 8pm in the school. Please ensure that you have contacted the council members (or school) with a note of your intention to attend or apologies prior to the meeting.
Minutes of Meeting 9-11-11
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Jazz
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Jazz Workshop
Mr Gale organised an all day workshop for the whole school.
All classes had great fun and took part in this music-making experience!
 
 
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Playground
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Welcome to our new playground and Eco Garden
(See more pics on Playground page...)
Maths Outdoor Learning
A quiet place to sit
 
Sunshine and rain makes our garden grow!
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Contact Details
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Daviot Primary School
Daviot
Inverurie
AB51 0HZ
Telephone: 01467 671216
contact us on the above phone number or email us at
daviot.sch@aberdeenshire.gov.uk
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Useful Documents
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Links
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Term 3 News
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| Academy Forms - Thursday, January 26, 2012Please return academy enrolment forms to school as soon as possible. Meldrum need to start pencilling in their class arrangements for next session. If you intend to enrol in another school it would be of assistance to the academy if you could inform us and we can relay this information to the academy staff. Thank you.
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| Dash Books - Thursday, January 26, 2012There will be an in class DASH sharing in the classrooms on Wednesday 1st February. Please get those books up to date and we can enjoy hearing about all the clubs and activities everyone has been up to.
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| Clubs - Thursday, January 26, 2012Stay and Play – P1-3
A club for P1-3 is to be offered again this term, it will begin next week on Tuesday 24th January and run until Tuesday 27th March (excluding the In Service on 14th February). Running from 3.15 to 4.15pm. All children will need to be collected at 4.15pm from the school.
The club will be led by Lisa this term and she will be offering street dance for smalls.
The 9 week block will cost £18 which should be paid in advance.
If your child would like to take part in the Stay and Play Club please complete the attached slip.
Art Club- P4-7
Miss Hammond has decided that she would like to offer the art club weekly again after the half term holiday. The club will be open to P4-7 pupils. The club will be from 3.15 to 4.45pm.
The club will start on Tuesday 21st February and run until Tuesday 27th March – being 6 sessions. Miss Hammond plans to work with fabric and try some batik and possibly some silk painting. The cost for the 6 sessions will be £15. All the money goes to be spent on art resources for the school which will benefit every child in the school.
If your child would like to take part in the art club please complete the attached slip.
Rugby – We are again offered Garioch Rugby Club free sessions. P4 and P5/6 will receive rugby on a Friday afternoon. The sessions are free. All the children in P4 and P5/6 will need an outdoor PE kit of joggers, sweatshirt hat and gloves as well as outdoor trainers and a change of socks. If wet or snowy the sessions will be held in the GP room but hardy outdoor play is much the norm so please bring warm clothes for the Friday sessions. We will be taking part in a rugby festival at Meldrum Academy after the sessions are completed and will be seeking some parent helpers at that time to come along and support our teams.
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| Term 3 Projects - Thursday, January 26, 2012P1/2 - Birds
P2/3 - Egyptians
P4 - Victorians
P5/6 - Scotland
P6/7 - WW2
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| Library Books - Thursday, January 26, 2012
Please try to remember to return library books promptly!
Mrs Ingram kindly comes into the school every Wednesday to help the with the library. It would be very helpful if our younger pupils could keep the book in their reading folder for availability for a Wednesday for changing. Many thanks.
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| Art - Thursday, January 26, 2012Art day
We have invited Mr Ian Mitchell to the school for a day to have a festival of art in P6/7. The plan is if all goes well to have an art day in each class.
Stay and Play Club – Started yesterday for P1-3. The club is now a street dance event for our youngest pupils. The club is every Tuesday except for the In Service week.
Art Club – P4-7 please get your slip in if you would like to take part. The club will start after half term.
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| Dalguise Trip - Thursday, January 26, 2012Our Dalguise Trip and Insurance is all sorted out. A draft equipment list and booklet is with us and should be issued to parents just before the half term holiday. Please ensure all payments are with us by the end of February so that we can send them off to Udny Green. Further information will follow as it is co-ordinated by Mrs Hogg from Udny Green and shared with us.
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