Culter School’s Weblog

Some of our classes and individual pupils took part in the Aberdeen City Music Festival last week.  As you can see from the following results, we did really well.  A huge thank you to our Voice Animateur, Mrs Simpson for her valuable coaching.   Well done boys and girls!

RESULTS:

To celebrate Paddington Bear’s 50th Birthday, P4/5I would like to invite all pupils to take their favourite soft toy and a 50p donation to school on Friday 20th June.  Proceeds will be split between Action Research and Red Cross.

• Achievers for June in Achievement pages.
• Hockey Page with match results

• HOCKEY COACH WANTED
• Next year we would like to continue the hockey club and play more tournaments.  Unfortunately I will no longer be able to coach as I am leaving for the Netherlands.  So if you are free one afternoon a week, enjoy working with children and are willing to give up some precious time why not contact Jenny Black (01224) 346301.  The Council will provide training courses, equipment and some resources are available too.  It is not scary at all.  The players are wonderful and all admin will be done by Jenny.  You only have to coach.  Pauline de Koning.

Emily is currently lying 4th in the National Child Book Review.  You have until 30th June to vote for her.  If Emily wins, not only will she get a prize, the school is awarded a well needed cash prize, so come on GET VOTING - her review is fantastic so she really deserves to win.  Click here to vote.

As the end of term approaches and the P7’s prepare for their move up to Cults, we would like to make a short film to present to them, which they can look back on in years to come.  To help make this film, we need a few ‘props’.  We are in the early planning stages so at the moment we need 2 Sumo Wrestler suits, or fake male chests, a belly dancing costume and a large stuffed cuddly dog.  Not sure if you can guess from this what the theme of our film is, but all will become apparent.  If you have any of these items and you don’t mind lending them for a few days, please e-mail me at b.polson@culter.aberdeen.sch.uk  

We will probably need more items as we progress so I will no doubt hassle you all at a later date. 

Thanks for your help.

Please accept my apologies as I stated wrong time and venue for the Bingo night.  It should have read

Thursday 12th June @ 7.00 pm in the G.P. Room 

Don’t forget to raid your cupboards for groceries or roll up your sleeves and do a bit of baking.  It will be much appreciated by the Fundraising Team and also those attending Bingo.

Emily Thomson in P7H has been shortlisted for the National Child Book Review in

 the 8-11 category.  You can find her entry on: 

http://www.nobbytravels.com/BookReview/reviews_8to11.html#19 

The book she has reviewed is called ‘Hannah’s Gift’ by Maria Housden

You will be able to vote for Emily’s entry there, but only one vote per computer is allowed. All votes need to be in by 30th June, 2008!  Please   tell your family, friends and colleagues to take a look at the site and read/vote Emily’s entry.

LETS GET VOTING!

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They really do need groceries as prizes and homebakes too.  Please donate whatever you can.

Also, why not come along for some fun? 

Thursday 12th June

7.00pm in the GP Room

It really is good fun!

We are going Yellow to go Green

We are taking part in the Yellow Woods Challenge, the environmental competition run by Yellow Pages, working with the Woodland Trust and the local council.

From 12th May until 27th June, our challenge is to collect as many old front covers from Yellow Pages as possible.  It’s only the covers we need, the rest of the directory should be recycled via the council’s kerbside collection.

Schools that collect the highest number of old directory covers per pupil will be awarded a cash prize.  For every pound given to schools, Yellow Pages will give a matching pound to the Woodland Trust to help plant and care for new woodland across the UK.

Please ask your family, friends and work colleagues to help our school by donating their old directory  covers too.

Please help us with this challenge.  Thank you.

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Two important items added today -

June Newsletter which can be read on the School Newsletters page in this blog

and

Alan Veale’s report on the AGM of the Culter Parent Council Meeting which can be found within the Parent Council pages.