Parking at Papdale Poster Competition Winners

The poster competition organised to support the Parent Council's safe parking initiative around the school was judged recently with four winners chosen. The winning posters will be made into permanent signs and displayed around the school to reinforce the safety message.
Look out for the posters which should be in place for the start of the new school session in August 2015.

P6/7 Inter house Football and Netball

On Tuesday 23 June the Annual P6/7 Inter House Netball and Football competitions were held.
As always the the matches were keenly contested and very close with the P7 football ending up in a three way tie with all the teams equal on points and goal difference.

Scroll down to see all the teams who competed and how they go on.

P6  Netball Winners - Erlend

P6 Netball Runners Up -  Magnus

P7 Netball Winners - Magnus

P7 Netball Runners Up - Erlend

P7 Netball 3rd Place - Sweyn

P7 Football Joint Winners - Erlend

P7 Football Joint Winners - Magnus

P7 Football Joint Winners - Sweyn

P6 Football Winners - Magnus

P6 Football Runners Up  - Erlend

Fit, Clean and Healthy!

Both our P6 classes have recently completed a six week course organised by Scottish Rugby and the Food Standards Agency which combined rugby training with teaching on healthy eating and food hygiene. At the end of the course all the children were presented with a certificate and draw string bag with some goodies inside.

No Cars Day!

The Eco Club  pose below the Eco Schools Green flag 

The Eco Clubs annual Eco Action Day was held on Friday 12th June and this year there idea was to support their transport target and organise a "No Cars Day"at Papdale.
Posters went up around the school and letters went home to parents requesting that cars don't use the car parks at Papdale School on that day and that children walk to school wherever possible.
Even the school bus was redirected that morning to let all the children off at the BB Hall so they can walk the last part of their journey supervised by school staff.
As you can see from the photos the day was a great success so thank you to everyone for making it a Fume Free Friday at Papdale!

8.50am and not a car to be seen in the main car park!

The upper car park is deserted too.

The cycle racks seem busier than normal

The Eco Club celebrate their success with Mrs Dufort

Meet the Starlings!

Our Janitors got a surprise today when they were checking the roof space and discovered a family of starlings had completed their very own loft conversion and moved in!
Under a vent in the wall was a huge mound of grass and twigs with a small nest on top. Inside the nest snuggled together were what we think are two tiny starling chicks. While the chicks seemed excited to see Mr Mackinnon and Mr Linklater they would have been much happier if it had been their mum or dad with some more food!

The starlings have been very busy creating their very own scale model of Maeshowe!

Two chicks snuggle up to sleep again when they realise Mr Mackinnon has brought no worms for them to eat!

New ECO code launched

At the Business meeting on 1st June the Eco Club Class Representatives launched their new Eco Code highlighting three specific areas they were wanting to target.

The new poster which the Eco Club had designed to remind everyone about these targets was also introduced to the whole school by the Class Reps, 

We would like to share with you our new Eco Code.

L is for Litter but also Love

T is for Transport but also The

E is for Energy but also Earth

So our focus is Litter, Transport ad Energy but to help everyone to remember this easily we have turned it into ‘Love The Earth’.  We hope you think it is quite clever, we like it.

Pupil Council advise on Cycling Safety

After the Pupil Council raised concerns about cycling arrangements with Head Teacher, Mrs Bruce, a meeting was requested with the Business Manager, Mr Balfour to discuss the childrens ideas on how things might be improved. The Pupil Council considered the options discussed and agreed changes to existing arrangements which were then announced to the school at the Business meeting by the chair of the Pupil Council.
These changes were:

Children cycling to school 

• should enter and leave the car park by the car entrance at the end of the school day and not go through the gates onto the patio.
• should not cycle on school grounds (including in the School Car parks)
• should use the cycle/ walkways around the school whenever possible
• should not cycle the wrong way on one way stretches of road around the school

S    The school advice for cycling to school is that children should not cycle to school before starting cycle training in P6 (term 1) however the responsibility for deciding when a child can safely cycle on the roads will always rest with the parent / guardian irrespective of whether they complete cycle training or not.