Milton Primary School

Highland Council has issued a competition for you tell your story of lockdown, to let children of the future know what this time was like. If you would like to take part, please send your entries to the contact number or addresses noted at the bottom of the attached competition page.  Please choose the appropriate competition page below.  One is for Primary school aged children and the other is for Nursery aged children. Have fun!

Once upon a time – for preschool

Letter from Lockdown – primary

May the 4th be with you for all of you Star Wars fans.

Good Morning everyone,

The beginning of another week. It’s lovely to see the sun shining again, hopefully it’s here to stay.

Please see this week’s little challenges below. These were kindly shared by a Teacher online and are just a little bit of fun. Please remember, they are completely optional but if you’d like to share your child’s work with us then please do 😊

Staff are looking forward to another weekly check in this week. If you are unsure when your child’s Google meet is then please get in touch with their class teacher and they can give you a little reminder.

If your child’s meet usually takes place on a Friday then there will be no meet this Friday 8th May as it is a May Day Holiday.

Have a good week everyone.

Good Afternoon all,

Another week of home learning has passed. We hope you and your child(ren) are adapting to this new way of working. School staff have really enjoyed having the opportunity to chat to the children on Google Meets this week. If you weren’t able to join this week, please make an effort to do so next week. These are a great way for the children to catch up with their friends and an adult from school.

Lots of children, particularly in the upper classes, have requested to use Google Meet to speak with their friends while home learning. School staff have no issue with this, however, we urge you to ensure you know when your child is taking part in a Google meet and who with for safe-guarding purposes. Milton Primary and Nursery staff cannot take any responsibility for Meets that have not been previously arranged and are taking place as friendship meets. This is entirely parental responsibility.

I have a couple of pictures to share below that have been emailed to me. The first two are from Peyton’s family who have been busy out in the garden during lockdown. They shared the following about their find: “We recused the frog from an old rock sculpture we were dismantling in the garden it had jumped inside and got stuck (thankfully he was unharmed). There was also hundreds of snails. As for the nest of birds we have been chopping back some trees that have grown out of control and are causing our fence to lean and it was just by luck that we spotted it and we found the baby birds before I chopped the branch. We did find some egg shells but I didn’t get a picture of these.  Peyton and Tehyah have been putting some food out everyday for mummy bird and we will send an updated picture of the nest in a few days when the birds have some more feathers.”

Thank you so much for sharing your lock down story Peyton, we look forward to seeing the updated nest in a few days.

The last one is of Cameron and Finlay who are finding a routine that works well for them at home. Mum got in touch to say the garden was calling when the weather was warmer and they’d complete their school work later in the day. We are delighted to hear they’ve got their own wee routine worked out.

Please get in touch with your lock down pictures. It doesn’t have to be school work related, we’d love to see what the children are getting up to and share it with their friends to see too. I am sure they are all missing the face to face contact.

Have a nice weekend everyone.

Good afternoon,

Please click on the documents below for our absence procedures, in line with Highland Council expectations.  If you have any questions, please contact your child’s class teacher or email suzanne.callander@highland.gov.uk or joanna.christie@highland.gov.uk.

Milton Primary School Absence Procedures during Covid19.

Guideline for Learners and Parents on Distance Learning

…and here is another fantastic piece of Edinburgh Zoo Topic work! Noah in P4 has decided to investigate the Green Spotted Pufferfish. He shared with us what he found in the format of a fact file decorated with a lovely, detailed illustration. A biologist in the making, maybe? 😊

Please do carry on sending pictures of anything you have been working on linked to the Edinburgh Zoo topic. We look forward to seeing it!

Please click HERE for a message from our team at Milton. Stay safe 🌈.

Afternoon everyone,

We just had to share an example of some Edinburgh Zoo Topic work passed on to us. Really interesting poster about the ‘Blue Poison Arrowfrog’ with a fantastic picture to go alongside it. Well done Alex in P7, what a brilliant job!

We would love to see pictures of anything you have been working on linked to the Edinburgh Zoo topic so please send them over to the class teachers 😊

Good Morning everyone,

Welcome to week 3 of term 4. We are looking forward to speaking to everyone on our Google meets this week. It’ll be great to see everyone face to face.

A little bit of fun for you all, Miss Robinson shared these little challenges she found with us so we thought we would share them with you. Feel free to take part and share your results with us. Again, totally optional.

Don’t forget to bring a bag to the Mercat today for their pop up shop, open from 12.00pm-3.00pm.

Happy Monday everyone!

Highland Violence Against Women Partnership (HVAWP) wants to ensure that anyone who is a victim of domestic abuse or gender-based violence gets the help they need during the coronavirus pandemic. Please click on the link below for further information.

Domestic Abuse help from Highland Council