It’s becoming a tradition to begin these end of term messages with phrases like, “In a term like no other,” and I sincerely hope that this is the last time I’ll say it. However this term has seen more of us having to isolate, or stay off school for other illnesses, than any other time in the last two years, and with so many changes to guidance in our everyday lives it has been another rollercoaster few months.
On saying that, and I’m always happy to repeat phrases like this: your children and our staff have achieved amazing things this term! Learning has continued to progress and as our thoughts turned towards Christmas at the start of December, the application of skills and indeed all of our school values were very much in evidence as classes planned, practised, budgeted for, measured up for and created some wonderful winter art and crafts. Huge thanks to P6-7 and their teachers for providing the Winter Fayre platform for selling their wares and for all classes to add their songs for all to view.
Amongst the excitement of the class parties over the last couple of weeks, we managed to come together as a whole school to share our songs in real life. Traditionally we would do this in church at the end of each term but this time it was, of course, socially distanced and outdoors. Despite the low temperatures it was such a joyous shared experience and here’s a short clip of our final song:
Thank you all for the kind words, messages and gifts you have sent in over the past few weeks, whether in connection with classes isolating or Christmas. Your support is invaluable and one of the vital factors in keeping our community strong and ready to cope with whatever comes our way!
School closes today until Thursday, 6th January 2022 and we do not expect to communicate any changes around Covid guidance or indeed any other aspect of school life before then. If there are changes to any of our Crown-specific guidance, this will be shared with you on Wednesday 5th January.
We hope you have a wonderful Christmas break, doing things that you as a family love to do. Please stay safe and have fun!
Mrs Bev Douglas
CROWN PRIMARY SCHOOL 