Milton Primary School

Additional information for this term which accompanies the calendar:

1. Mrs Christie returns to work following maternity leave on Friday 17th January, you will receive a letter regarding staffing arrangements at Milton next week.
2. Bag Packing will take place in Morrisons Alness on Sunday 19th January. We need all P7’s to get involved with an adult helper if possible. This event will also involve Park, Newmore and Southlodge. Miss Crew needs to finalise the rota this week so PLEASE get involved. The money raised will reduce the cost of the P7 ASG school trip to Loch Eil.
3. We have successfully applied for another fully funded Hopscotch Holiday. This year the holiday will take place from Monday 1st June—Friday 5th June. There are 12 places in total for 6 boys and 6 girls. To be eligible your child must be aged 7 or over, have no other planned holidays for the rest of the year and finally they should not have been on a Hopscotch holiday before. Please talk to Mrs Sinclair ASAP for more information. This is a charity organisation, in the past the trip has been a big hit with the children. We need to finalise names with the centre asap so if you are interested let the school know next week.
4. Super Skills will continue this term each Friday—let us know if you want to get involved and share your skills with the children.
5. Our P6/7 pupils will access The Shieling Project this term. Our PEF allocation had been planned to be used for The Prince William Award but the company went into liquidation. We have discovered The Shieling Project instead , it will increase          Resilience for learners, Confidence and Problem Solving skills. Children will be  outside in the weather, work out how to          construct things, use tools, & develop new physical skills. Children will all obtain the John Muir Award—Discovery Level  and build raised beds to compliment growing at school . They will also be working together as a team to develop leadership skills and construct a new building for pizza oven! This promises to be a very exciting project. Please ensure you return your child’s consent letter . Please note they will require a packed lunch each Friday—complete the appropriate part on the permission slip if they require a school packed lunch. We will keep you posted on the progress of  the project. Super Skills Friday promises to be ultra super this term! Check out their website for more info! 

If you are free tomorrow morning at 9.45 please come and give our school CSW Stacey  a hand. We had a HUGE delivery of Foodshare food today which we would like your help to sort and distribute.

There is quite a lot of shoes and clothes which have been left unclaimed since before the holidays.

Please pop in to have a look through any items and claim them before it’s too late.

Could all parents / carers please check with class teachers that their child has indoor gym shoes that fit and are safe for the gym.

Looking forward to welcoming everyone back to school for the new year tomorrow.

We are excited about the learning, enjoyment and achievements to be celebrated as we move forward on our learning journey!

Happy New Year everyone, let the next chapter commence 🎉🎉💗💗

Please visit the school on the first week back to retrieve any of the Lost Property below which may belong to your child. Anything not claimed by the end of the week will be donated to the Mercat Centre.

I had the pleasure of accompanying the wonderful choir to Morrisons yesterday to spread some Milton Christmas cheer. We may have been small in numbers but we were big in spirit. The children raised a fantastic £103.26 with just 45 minutes worth of singing.

We would like to thank the members of public for their generosity as well as the staff at Morrisons for being so accommodating. We returned to school with a fantastic selection of goodies from Morrisons too which were very much appreciated by, both, the staff and children. We hope to see you next year.

The choir raised £103.26 by Carol Singing in Morrisons yesterday. This will benefit P7’s who are looking forward to their residential trip! Well done all.

The side gym door will be open from 1.15 today for families/friends. Raffles will be on sale at the door.

Please feel free to come through into the school after assembly, there is a lot of lost property which we would love to be claimed before the holidays.

Can’t believe it’s the last school day of 2019, let’s make it and awesome one!

We have Ms Brewer and Mrs Christie as guest judges this afternoon. We look forward to wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas later today.