Milton Primary SchoolThe weather was fantastic today and the nursery garden was a sun trap!
We took all our resources outside for the day and the children enjoyed exploring with magnifying glasses, drawing the flowers and playing with our new steering wheels.
Let’s hope for good weather in a couple of weeks time for our summer trip!
We are looking forward to having our Nursery parents with us tomorrow along with the Primary Mental Health Worker Fiona Stoddart and Isla Ramsay Practice Lead For School Years. If any of our school parents wish to join in you will be very very welcome. Mrs Sinclair is bringing the cake tomorrow / looking for some volunteers for next month and a new name for the group. Meet and Greet is a bit dull! The intention is that we will hold this session once a month!
Last night we held our first quiz & cake night to raise nursery funds. It was well attend with 13 teams and lots of amazing home baking. 
The winners of the best quiz name were “Les Quizerables” Here they are with their prize.
The winners of the Wooden spoon were “Two Down” who did fantastic considering they were the smallest team. Only coming last by 2 points.
And our winners were “The Quizards” Well Done!! They were delighted with their prizes.
The winner of the lovely scentsy burner was Melissa Done.
The feedback from the night has been fantastic, everyone entered into the spirit of it and helped us raise a fantastic amount towards our nursery funds. In total we raised £648.
So thank you to all those that came along, donated and bought squares, it really means a lot to us.
We were thrilled this evening following our Parent Contact event and we would like to thank every single Parent/Carer of Milton Primary.
Every single pupil had their Parent/Carer make it along to meet their class teacher in order to discuss progress and achievements! This is a new record and we are over the moon with this superb turnout!
Visit Parentzone to find out why your involvement means so much.
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/parentzone/learninginscotland/posterpostcard/index.asp
“The more engaged parents are in the education of their children the more likely their children are to succeed in the education system”
(Goodall and Vorhaus 2011)
On Thursday 21st April 2016 @ 9.30am we have a 7ft high Starlab coming to the school and several other excellent workshops for the children to enjoy! We are so thrilled to be taking part in the Tim Peake Project School.
These are the workshops P5-7 will be participating in next week:
Train Like an Astronaut
Pupils take part in a series of 4-5 activities in rotation designed to simulate skills tests that real life astronauts undergo during training to go into space.
Find out how dexterous, agile, patient and hardworking astronauts like Tim Peake have to be!
Starlab/ ISS presentation
Meteorites
We will bring our collection of meteorites for your class to investigate. We will tell you all about meteorites while the children handle the meteorites and then ask your pupils to use their observational skills to find the meteorites hidden in our box of rocks.
Rocket Workshop
Work in pairs to design and build a simple rocket. How far will it fly? Can you make changes to your design that will make it fly further?
We said farewell to our cleaner Caroline last week as she looks forward to her very early retirement. After 25 years cleaning for the Council she decided to hand her cleaning apron up for the last time. Everyone at Milton would like to wish you all the best. Thank you for keeping our school so immaculate over the years! Please come and visit any time.
We are also preparing to say our goodbyes to another Milton treasure-Hazel will be officially leaving just after the holidays (she has not managed to escape just yet!)
It’s hard to believe the end of term was a week ago already, hopefully everyone is having an enjoyable break.
Take care and we look forward to seeing everyone on Monday 11th April bright and breezy and ready for Term 4!
On Saturday we were picked up in Milton by a big white D & E coach. It took us through to Dingwall to watch Ross County v Caley. When we arrived in Dingwall we met a very friendly Staggie called Rosco. Ava and I enjoyed having our picture taken with him.
At half time I got to go onto the pitch with Riley, Keigan, Amy and Mrs Sinclair. We won a cheque for £500, we are all still deciding what to do with the money but I would really love new football nets for the playground.
I loved watching the footballers doing their really big kicks. Every time they kicked the ball I blew my really loud horn.
When I grow up I want to be a footballer and I was writing about this today in class with Miss Spicer!
(Thank you to Katriona and Emma for sharing their pictures from Saturday with us)
We went on an egg hunt, we caught some big ones- we weren’t scared 🐰🐣🐔
A huge thank you to Vicky and Jen for hiding the eggs in the woods! We had a super time finding them and all very much enjoyed trading in our plastic eggs for some real Easter eggs.
Don’t forget our End of Term Assembly tomorrow at 2.00pm in the School Assembly Hall. Tomorrow will be the last day to purchase a square for guessing the minion bunny’s name as it will be drawn at the assembly. 50p per shot! See you all tomorrow, tea and coffee served from 1.30pm.
A very well done to everyone who participated in the Milton Mile for Sport Relief this afternoon.
It was brilliant to see so many parents running today. You guys definitely showed us teachers how it’s done! A special well done and thank you to Thomas and Ava’s Dad Dougal who took part on his tea break then went back to work!
Medals will be presented on Wednesday at our end of term assembly. 
Despite Caley winning 3-0 the Milton Staggies had a lovely day out in Dingwall on Saturday. We would like to say a huge thank you to Ross County for our £500 cheque, free tickets and free transport to the local derby. More pictures to follow but here are a few to give you a flavour of our day. We even attempted our first Milton selfie …(more practice needed we feel!)
“Champion” the bear had a great day out too. He enjoyed a nice cuppa in the sun. 
It was a thumbs up from Brandon!
Mrs Sinclair, Riley & Keigan bumped into Staggie just before the game.
Milton Primary School