Head Teacher: M.R.Tremmel Gullane Primary School

Muirfield Terrace Gullane

EH31 2HL Tel/Fax: 01620 843455

gullane.ps@gullane.elcschool.org.uk http://edubuzz.org/blogs/gullane

Dear Parents/Carers P1 Enrolment This will take place on Thursday 6th November. Times will be 0900-0930, 1130-1200 and 1500-1530. East Lothian Council have provided an information leaflet which you should have received. What we require on enrolment day is a birth certificate, a recent utility bill (dated within 6 months), and your most recent council tax assessment letter (if you do not have this you must obtain a copy of this from East Lothian Council). This is essential. PTA Information Monster Mash 30th October - hope you have a monster of a time tonight! Christmas Hamper Raffle Have you signed up for donations. The donation sheets were available at the parent consultations. Thank you if you have. Raffle tickets will be sent home from mid- November. Christmas Calendar Order forms will be sent home in November and calendars will also be sold at the school office and at the Christmas concert. Thanks for your continued support! The PTA Christmas Concert 3rd and 4th December 2014 Please ensure that you have received your ticket order form. It came home in school bags on Monday this week. Send in your ticket orders as soon as you like. The form may have confused some but it meant that the tickets would be sent out after the 6th November.

Please note that P1&2 will perform their nativity on Wednesday 3rd in the afternoon during school time. The P1&2 children will then perform their piece again in the evening with all the other classes. They will not be performing on the Thursday evening. The P1&2 children will perform a nativity called `The Sleepy Stargazer`, the P3&4 children are working on their piece called `The Stars Come Out At Christmas’ and the P5,6&7 children will work together on `The Snow Queen`. All very different and all very exciting. The school reverberates to the sound of beautiful singing and there is a flurry of hemming and pinning on-going in the costume team! We will allow pupils to come into school up until 10am on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th December as is per usual. If you are unable to allow your child a later start, for whatever reason, the staff are in school at their usual time and will be in their classes.  Coats and Kit Yet again, the weather has been mild for this time of year. I ask that all children bring (and wear) a coat to school. If the weather changes during the day, and it does, then the children will be appropriately attired to play outside. Thank you. We are very, very short of spare gym kit for emergencies-shoes, shorts, tops. Do you have any your child has outgrown? We would be very grateful.  Keeping Parents/Carers Informed – School Website Updates Our website can be found at www.edubuzz.org/gullane. Please note that you can now do the following: Subscribe for email updates for any new posts on the Main Site (Enter your email address on the right of the website).Subscribe to the School Google Calendar with your Gmail Account. This should sync diary dates to your phone, tablet or computer.

Achievements of all kinds outside school Please remember to let us know if your child has done something out of school no matter how small or large – we love to know and we put up a card in school and mention the child and the achievement in our newsletters. We are also happy to accept the text for the information via email. We also appreciate feedback on the work we do. Please feel free to email or write to school.

Well done!

A very well done to… Anna Wait in P5. Anna auditioned and was selected to be in the pantomime ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ at the Brunton Theatre which runs from November to January. A big commitment and lots of hard work. Super news Anna.

And a well done to … Innes Donachie in P6. He has secured a place on ‘The Basketball Future Starz’ programme. Well done Innes! Well done to…Skye Sievwright, Anna Duncan and Lucy Lucas for raising £60 for Breast Cancer. The girls decorated glass candle holders, created and sold beautiful jewellery, sold some clothes they no longer wanted and baked delicious cookies. All instigated, created and designed themselves. Fantastic work And a well done to… Emily Mae (P3) and Jake Thomson (P1) on achieving their level 5 & 4 Scottish Gymnastics Awards, respectively. The family are very proud of them. Kind regards M. R. Tremmel 30th October 2014

Community News and Information Instead of many flyers going home and adding to a paper mountain we put all such events in this section. If you are organising an event please write what you would like as information and we will endeavour to include in this section for you. We do not take any responsibility nor do we screen the quality of any the community projects and events advertised. "Gullane Athletic AFC are holding a Race Night on Saturday 22nd November at Gullane Village Hall from 7.15pm (first race at 8pm). Licensed bar, food, raffle and auction. Tickets cost £5 and are available from Cools or Hannah Fyfe (07539 302426). Please come along and support your local football team and help them raise funds to purchase much needed equipment. " On Saturday 15th of November Enjoy.a.Ball East Lothian will be 10 years old. To celebrate this milestone we will be holding parties in parks across East Lothian with all monies raised being donated to Children In Need. The parties will be age appropriate with all Nursery and Primary 1 Children attending 9.45-10.45 and Primary 2,3&4 11-12. They will run in the following areas Cockenzie Primary School grounds, Lauderdale Park Dunbar, lodge Grounds North Berwick and Millfield Park Haddington. The cost of the session will be a donation(minimum £3.50) To book for either party call Scott on 07894571028 or emailScott.mckenzie@enjoy-a-ball.com Save the Children Christmas Fair The Marine Hotel, North Berwick Sunday 16th November 2014 11.00am to 4.00pm A great local event, in aid of Save the Children, with a range of stalls to get you started on your Christmas Shopping! Spice Pots, a locally based business offering fabulous food gifts, is offering free local delivery to all families at the school. See www.spicepots.com and enter coupon code GULLANE14 at the checkout for free delivery. Blood Donors Alert. Sports centre in North Berwick. Thursday 13th November 2014. 2-4pm and 5.15-7.30pm.

October 2014 30/10/14 Monster Mash – 5.30-6.30 Nursery-P3 - 6.45-8pm P4-P7 November 2014 Early November Poppies on sale 05/11/14 P1 Autumn Walk 1.30pm 06/11/14 P1 Enrolment (Year 2015) at school office see Nursery noticeboard 11/11/14 P4/5 9am & P5 10am Club Golf 11/11/14 Lauren Rodger Head Teacher P7 followed by Dounans talk 6.45-8pm 12/11/14 PCC Meeting Golf Inn 7pm 13/11/14 P4/5 John Muir Day with ranger 9-3 25/11/14 P6 to Hopetoun House 27/11/14 P7 Ceilidh North Berwick High School 6.30-8pm December 2014 03/12/14 Matinee Performance of concert for P1&2 children only 2pm start 03/12/14 Evening performance of concert – P1-7- 7pm start 04/12/14 Evening Performance of concert – P3-7 only. No P1&2 children. 7pm start

On Thursday 4th and Friday 5th December the children will be allowed to come into school for 10am. All staff will be in class areas if you have to have them here for the usual time. 09/12/14 Nursery Nativity am – in hall 11/12/14 P4/5 Visit to John Muir Birthplace Dunbar 12/12/14 Brass Band will visit from NBHS 16/12/14 Church Service P1-P7 9.45 16/12/14 P3-4 Christmas Party in hall – pm 17/12/14 Pantomime in school hall ‘Dick Whittington’ – cost per child £3. Details of when to

send in money to follow. 17/12/14 P5, P6 & P7 Party in hall pm 18/12/14 Nursery pre-schoolers party in hall am 18/12/14 P1 & P2 party in hall pm 19/12/14 Nursery ante pre-school party in hall am 19/12/14 School closes for the term.