Monthly Archives: September 2009

The parent council acts as a link between school staff and the parents. Following each meeting we write a blog to let you know what educational issues you should be aware of, plus what’s going on at school. Check out … Continue reading →

Back into the swing of things now, and already there have been numerous letters kicking around the deeper recesses of the school bag for parents…. or maybe they’re still in your child’s tray, or have been made into a paper … Continue reading →

The P6s will be continuing the use the netbooks they received last year. The long-term aim is that all children in the school have their own laptop. Discussions are currently taking place with East Lothian Council to do with cost, … Continue reading →

For our AGM we were fortunate to have PC Steve Tait come and talk to us about internet safety. In ight of this talk parents are voicing concerns with school videos posted on YouTube instead of just on our school … Continue reading →

Jill Kerr has joined the King’s Meadow Support for Learning team as a result of the recent HMIe inspection last session. She will tackle two areas: increasing the pace of learning and degree of challenge across the curriculum for our … Continue reading →

There has recently been confusion about whether children can take spending money on school trips. Gift shops can be expensive, and some children purchasing and others not can lead to problems so please don’t send spending money for day trips. … Continue reading →

Sustainable Haddington, a community group, is wanting to make Haddington more cycle-friendly. The first stage for this is to apply for funding from the Climate Challenge Fund. To make the application stronger the parent council will be writing a letter … Continue reading →

Staff are always looking to find new and interesting activities for the children to do in what is intended to be reward time for good behaviour. The more manpower available, the bigger variety of things can be offered. School is … Continue reading →

The parent council this year so far is as follows: Alison Anderson P7 Christine Aylward P5 & 7 (vice chair) Nicola Fulton P5 (vice chair) Gael Gillan (teacher rep) CJ Green P4 & 6 Donald McGillivray (head) Alison Meikle P5 … Continue reading →