Author: Milton Primary

Tomorrow at 1.30pm Milton Primary School will take part in the Great Plastic Pick up. We invite you to join us and ask that you meet us at school reception at 1.15pm. A short safety talk will take place before we assign areas in the community to each class.

If your children are in different classes, we ask that you take the younger sibling and join the older class. A short safety talk will place before we begin.

All members of the family are welcome and we look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

Good Evening All,

I hope you all enjoyed your Bank Holiday Monday.

A couple of reminders for the week ahead:

• Please return your child’s permission slip & payment for our whole school trip to Evanton Woods. We are really looking forward to providing your child with very different trip experience this year.
• The Staff will be holding a Spring Disco this Thursday to raise money for school funds. This will be a split disco with Primary 1-3 from 5.30-6.30 and Primary 4-7 from 6.40-7.40. Entry will be £1 and there will be a tuckshop on the night with prices ranging from 10p-30p.
• Nursery parents are invited along to the Woods this Friday 11th May. Please let the staff know if you can make it. Woods Visit for Nursery and Primary 1 will still take place on Wednesday.
• We welcome all volunteers to join us as we take part in the ‘Great Plastic Clean Up’ on Friday 11th May. Meet at the School at 1.30pm to help us play our part. Read more about it here: http://www.keepbritaintidy.org/great-plastic-pick

We look forward to welcoming the children back tomorrow after their long weekend tomorrow at 9.00am.

Please click on the link below to download a school uniform order form.

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If you want to place an order through the school please return  your order form with payment to the school on or before Friday 25th May. Mrs Nimmons will collate all orders and ensure everyone is able to access the best possible price. Gilmour Sports have assured us that all uniforms will be delivered to the school in plenty time before the summer holidays.

Visit the office to place your order.

Don’t be stuck for something to do this Saturday, head to this fabulous event up in Inverness. A Polish Heritage Day awaits, marking 100 years of Independence.

Mrs Sinclair popped into Primary 2/3 today to see how they were managing without the lights on.

As you can see there are plenty of “bright sparks” in there…who needs lights and power 😂👍.

On a serious note, we had a good discussion at assembly about what we could do as a school to try and reduce the energy we use. Each class now has an Energy Monitor who will ensure we are all doing our bit to make a difference. All lights will be switched off when the classroom is empty and the Monitors will be checking Smartboards are also off when not in use.

Our next step is to make a huge difference out in the community by participating in the Plastic Pick on Friday 11th May at 1.30 (all welcome).

Come and check out the gym hall display to see how you can reduce energy use in your home. We have 10 top tips to share with you.

Hopefully your child may have mentioned 1 or 2 tips we discussed today with you at home tonight.

We had a very important visitor in Milton this week.

The children and staff enjoyed an assembly from the Moderator of the General Assembly of The Church of Scotland, Dr Browning. It was really interesting to learn more about his role and understand more about the responsibilities that come with his position.

He described pupils as “engaging and motivating”

We would like to extend our thanks in to him for visiting our school and sharing his experience with us.

Please visit the Newsletter tab on the blog if you want to save or print a copy of the Term 4 calendar – you can request a paper copy at the office if needed.

Calling all parents/carers and residents of Milton. The children have reported a huge increase in the amount of litter in the village and down in their woods.

They want to clean the place up by taking part in The Great Plastic Pick Up, they could also be in with the chance of winning an all expenses paid to a Sea Life Centre with TV presenter and wildlife expert Chris Packham.

Please join us to take part in this community clean up at Milton Primary School on Friday 11th May at 1.30pm.

To view our pick up please visit: http://www.greatplasticpickup.org/home/2684#news

We are delighted to share this lovely photograph of the nursery children enjoying their snack outdoors on their beautiful new picnic bench.

We’d like to thank everyone for their contributions to our fundraising efforts which made this purchase possible. I hope you’ll agree the children look quite delighted with the new addition to their garden. 

We are delighted to hear the news of a Youth Club being established in the community again. Your child should have taken home a letter about the upcoming meeting taking place next week. If you missed this letter, please speak to Mairi in the Mercat Centre or Mrs Nimmons will get another letter for you.  We would really encourage you to attend, if possible, as the success of these clubs really does depend on the whole community getting involved.

To get them started, the volunteers would be delighted if you had any boxes, containers, tubes etc that’d be useful for junk modelling. Please hand them into the Mercat Centre.

Many thanks!