Important News and Information:
Mrs Fraser’s Last Day Friday 15th May
As you know, today was Mrs Fraser’s last day as Principal Teacher for a while as she begins her Maternity leave. Mrs Fraser’s baby on the other hand, had other ideas and arrived safely yesterday, May 14th! Mrs Fraser is now Mummy to a beautiful baby girl and we were able to share this happy news with the children today.
Mrs Fraser will be greatly missed, but we know that Mrs Dixon and Mrs Campbell will look after things while she’s away enjoying lots of lovely baby cuddles. Congratulations Mrs Fraser and Ben, we can’t wait to meet baby Evans-Steele-Fraser!
Car Wash Saturday 9th May
Thank you to all of those who served food, sold raffle tickets and recipe books and washed the cars! It was an incredibly successful event which raised over £1200 for parent council funds. Our parent council are the ones who pay for the majority of our school trips and other fun stuff, so much would not be possible without their support. Massive thanks and well done to all involved – we are hugely grateful.
Recipe Books
There’s still some recipe books available to purchase – and we’re happy to take orders ahead of the next run. So, if you didn’t get one on the day and would like one, please email enquiries and we’ll arrange getting that to you. They are £9.00 each and have been compiled by the pupils. All funds raised will go to the parent council.
Parents Portal
Please be aware that the new parentsportal, which communication was issued about centrally and from us here at school, went live on Monday. You need to sign up for a mygov.scot account for access to the parentsportal, then you need to link your children. The parentsportal will give you access to edit your child’s information that we hold, complete permission slips online, book slots for parents’ evening and more. If you need any support with this, please let us know.
Rights Respecting Visit- Wednesday 13th May
We were delighted to share with you all that we achieved our Silver accreditation this week, following our assessor’s virtual visit on Wednesday. We are so proud of the children and the work they put in ahead of the visit and on the day. Thank you also to our parent volunteers for their attendance. Most credit should go to Mrs Fraser who pulled together our evidence – it was a massive task and without a doubt a huge contribution to our success. We look forward to sharing some photographs with you when we receive our banner!
Upcoming Events
Great Athlete Assembly Monday 18th May
On Monday Morning all three schools will find out who our visiting Athlete will be on Monday 8th June – we’re looking forward to the big reveal.
You can expect more information to come home about this next week, once we’ve found out who is coming and what our activities are going to be!
P7 Extended Transitions- Tuesday 19th May
Our P7s have their next transition visit on Tuesday 19th when, once again, they will be joined by other local schools. We hope this one is as an enjoyable as the previous one.
Garden Tidy Thursday 21st May
Our follow up Garden Tidy will take place on Thursday 21st May 2.15-3.15pm. For the last hour of the school day we will finish tidying up the school grounds and plant up our raised beds. Please come along and lend a hand if you can (you don’t have to dress up this time)!
We would be grateful of any and all donations of plants, seeds, compost and soil. Please let us know if you can make it or if you have anything to donate. Thank you.
Reminder – In-service day Friday 22nd May and Holiday Monday 25th May
Please keep in mind that next week is 4 day week – no school on Friday for pupils as it is a staff in-service day. We all return on Tuesday 26th May following the Monday holiday.
Hope Spot- Wednesday 27th May
Please note we have our annual Hope Spot on Wednesday the 27th, P1-4 families will have received communication this week regarding their sea swimming experience. Hope Spot have partnered with Seatrek Scotland to deliver this event, and they required some information from participants in advance. We hope that you have now filled in the two online forms, if you require any support with that, please let us know. P5-7 have a workshop arranged with Arist Georgia Crook, which will also take place at Carsaig. All pupils will receive EV5s for this next week, so please look out for those in bags.
This Week’s News
No Tayvallich Times again this week, we’re afraid – so you can look forward to a bumper edition soon!
Contact Us:
As always, we love to hear from you and want to support your young person as best we can, for any enquiries or issues please contact us:
enquiries-tayvallich@argyll-bute.gov.uk or Donna.Scholefield@argyll-bute.gov.uk
