P3 PUPIL TACKLES HIS FIRST MUNRO

Pictured above is one of our P3 pupils on his way down from his first Munro (The Cairnwell, Glenshee).  He faced 60mph winds and driving sleet/hailstones at the top, and had to be held very firmly to stop him being blown away at the top section.   The Cairnwell is 933m or 3061ft!!!  What a fantastic achievement!

DANCING SUCCESS

Next we have one of our P2 pupils, a member of Pam Dignan Dancers, who passed a test in the UNITED award scheme.  Here she is proudly showing her trophy and badge.

SWIMMING SUCCESS

Two talented P2 swimmers are pictured showing certificates they earned respectively from Aberdeen Aqua Splash and Cults Otters Swimming Club.

CULTER SPORTS CENTRE

Two new classes are being held in Culter Sports Centre so why not go along and give them a try.

Dance Step – Saturday 10.00 – 11.00 – A step class with a difference.

Badminton – Thursday 16.00 – 17.00 – For 10 – 15 yr old – Mixed ability. Phone 732069 to book a place.

REMINDER

SPREE BOOKS

Please return all unwanted spree books or payment to the school by Monday 6th September at the latest.  The Spree Company will be uplifting the books by Tuesday 7th and any not returned may need to be paid for.

WEBB-IVORY

4th ABERDEEN (CULTER) COMPANY – BOYS BRIGADE

Boys Brigade starts the new session tonight (Thursday 26th August).  If your child would like to join the Boys Brigade, they are most welcome.  The various sections are detailed below:

ANCHOR BOYS -is for boys in Primary 1, 2 and 3 and they meet from 6.30pm to 7.30pm in the school canteen.

JUNIOR SECTION-is for boys in Primary 4, 5 and 6 and they meet from 6.30pm to 8.00pm in the school gymnasium.

COMPANY SECTION-is for boys in Primary 7 and above and they meet from 7.30pm to 9.30pm in the school canteen and the gymnasium after Junior Section has finished.

New recruits are welcome in any of the sections.  Just go along to the school at the designated time.  PE kit should be taken (shorts, t-shirt and trainers).  If you require any further information, please contact Captain Mike Reid on 735742 or by e-mail: mikereid47@hotmail.com

VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED

We are urgently looking for volunteers to help out with Cycling Proficiency instruction for our senior pupils. Please contact the School Office if you would like further information or you are available to help.  If we do not have the required amount of helpers then the cycling lessons may not go ahead.  All Parent Helpers require to have a Scottish Criminal Records Check and these forms are available at the School Office.

REDWING SHOW CHAMPION

We are proud to show you a picture of one of our P3 pupils with her horse Tufty.  She is the ‘REDWING SHOW CHAMPION 2010′.  In addition to receiving the much coveted cup, she won 8 rosettes including a 1st for ‘Fancy Dress’.   Fantastic result.  Horse of the Year Show – watch out!!!

CULTER BOYS CLUB

7 Goals and good football skills earned one of our P2W pupils this cup.  He is a member of Culter Boys Club and information about the club can be found at:

http://www.clubwebsite.co.uk/culteryouthfootballclub/

Well done to him.

If your child has had success and you would like to showcase it on the blog, please complete the ‘Celebrating Success’ form which can be found in the PARENTS section of this blog.

One of our P2R/G pupils, who is a member of Mid-Strath Equiworld Club took part in a ‘Fun Day’ recently.  Here she is proudly showing us her rosettes.  She earned one of them for having a Clear Round and the other was for Grooming.  Well done!

CATCHLITE PHOTOS

Please remember the Catchlite Photo Session on Sunday 27th August and Peterculter Sports Centre.  Great kids or family portraits.  Some time slots still available.  Please see the school noticeboards for times already booked and contact Jane Hall on 732983 if you want to book a slot.

CHILDRENS NEARLY NEW SALE

PETERCULTER VILLAGE HALL – SATURDAY 11 SEPTEMBER FROM 10AM – 12PM 

If you wish to sell items, please contact Fiona on 01224 739076 / 07775 955250 OR fiona@seajays.org.uk

For further information, please download the poster HERE

COMMUNITY LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT – ADULT LEARNING

Interested in day or evening classes for leisure or to make that first
step towards employment? Our new Autumn/Winter 2010 Adult Learning
Programme for the Cults to Culter area is attached. Contact Alison May
at Cults Community Centre for more details on 01224 868858,
CultsAdultLearning@aberdeencity.gov.uk

Courses include Italian, Spanish, German, French, Computing, Digital
Photography, Watercolour Painting, Family History, Jewellery Making.
For full details of course times and venues, please download the Programme HERE

ACTIVE SCHOOLS NEWSLETTER

The Cults and Harlaw ASG newsletter is available to read HERE  The aim of the newsletter is to highlight some of the Active Schools’ events and activities that have taken place in the Associated Schools Group.

 ’ClickCEOP’ application

We wanted to let you know of a new initiative launched this week that will make young people safer when they are using Facebook called the ‘ ClickCEOP’ application .

If you have children or work with teenagers, you’ll know that many of them are active in this social networking site.  You’ll also be aware that where children go online, so do those who seek to groom and abuse them.

CEOP and Facebook have developed a new free application or ‘app’ that will make young people safer within Facebook.  ‘ClickCEOP’ is a new ‘app’ which links the young user and parent directly from their Facebook home page to help, advice and reporting facilities of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre

The ‘CLickCEOP’ app is a three stage application that asks young people to: -

·        Add the app – and the ClickCEOP tab will appear at the top of your profile page

·       Share the badge – and you can share the app with your friends via their newsfeeds

·       Bookmark the app – and an icon will appear on your profile page making it easy for you to access the help and advice from the ClickCEOP app

By adding the app, young people and parents can get support from CEOP on a range of issues – viruses, hacking, dealing with bullying online and they can report someone who is acting inappropriately towards them online. 

The ‘app’ is the outcome of collaboration between CEOP and Facebook who have combined Facebook’s expertise in connecting and communicating online with CEOP’s expertise in helping young people stay safe.

Once added to their profiles, young users will receive regular messages from CEOP and its partner organisations who operate ‘behind the button’ to make children safer. CEOP’s new Facebook page (  www.facebook.com/ClickCEOP  ) will also contain polls, news alerts and status updates. The page will look at topics that teenagers care about, such as celebrities, music and exams and will link these subjects to questions about online safety.  The move is also being supported by an advertising campaign on Facebook that will encourage take up. This will include an automatic advert appearing on every profile of users aged between 13-18 years inviting them to add the app.  

We would like to ask you that if you have a Facebook profile, app, share and bookmark the app.  If children in your care are on Facebook, get them to search ‘ClickCEOP’ in Facebook and give them to chance to be one click away from help –  if  they  should ever need it   www.facebook.com/clickceop   

If you work with children or young people, please share the information with them and similarly if you have internal or external communications channels within your organisation, it would be great if you could help share this important message with colleagues and audiences of your organisation.   There is some information below that can help you to share this important message and the CEOP Communications Team can support you in providing some further lengthier information if you so wish – just email  press@ceop.gov.uk   

Thank you for your support in making children safer online

EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SPORT COMMITTEE

Learning Estate Strategy (Secondary School Provision)

Stakeholder Engagement July-October, 2010

The date of the special Education, Culture and Sport Committee has now been confirmed as Thursday 28th October, 2010.

As a result, the period of stakeholder engagement on the Learning Estate Strategy (Secondary School Provision) has been extended until Monday 4th October.
A covering letter and updated timeline can be downloaded from the links below.

Covering letter

updated timeline 010710

SPREE BOOKS

Spree Books are on their way home to you.  Your child may have a book in his/her bag already but if not, please be on the look out for it in the coming week. 

This is a huge fundraiser for the school and the 3rd year we have taken part.  Over the last two years we have made in excess of £1,500, which has purchased plasma screens for the dining room and foyer, also an amplifier system and headphones etc.  This year we will split the profit between classes, so that the children can choose something for their own classroom. 

We would really appreciate your help in buying a book and encouraging your family, friends and work colleages to do the same.  If you sell 5 books, you get one FREE.  Books cost £23.00 and will be on sale from our school until w/b 6th September.  If you require more books, please e-mail b.polson@culter.aberdeen.sch.uk

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

MESSAGE FROM OUR HEAD TEACHER

BACKPACK PROJECT

Four years ago, Miss Murray visited Liberia through links with the charity SIR (Scottish International Relief).  As well as providing a service called “Mary’s Meals�? where children who go to school are given a hot meal every day, the charity also operates the Backpack Project, a project which provides poor children with the things they need for school.

Culter School would like to take part in this enterprise project, so as we reach the end of term, could we please ask you to hold on to your child’s schoolbag this summer and then return it at the beginning of next term?

The bags will be sent through the charity to Liberia, Uganda or Haiti to support the children there.

Suggested items to put into the bag include a pencil case, exercise book, pencils, pens, crayons, pencil sharpener, rubber, toothbrush, toothpaste, ruler, soap, towel, shorts/skirt, T-shirt, small ball.  This may seem quite a lot to donate, but some of the items can be second hand.  For those who cannot donate all the items, any small donation of one or two items would be gratefully received.

Please help us to help others who are not as fortunate as we are.

PARENT COUNCIL

Minutes of the Parent Council AGM, Chairmans report, Fundraisers report and  Accounts Records are now available to read on the Parent Council page in this blog.

PARENT COUNCIL – CATCHLITE PHOTO SESSION

‘The Parent Council have organised Catchlite to come and take family or individual photos on Sunday 29^th August at the Sports Centre.  Please see Jane Hall in the playground or call 732983 to book a time.’

CELEBRATING SUCCESS

Here is one of our P1 pupils proudly showing us his World Cup Sovenier from ‘Footstars’ held in Peterculter Sports Centre.  Footstars is coaching to introduce children to the game and rules of football.  It is fun and educational and teaches skills and control of the ball.  To find out more about this club click on this link

http://www.footstars.co.uk

GYMNASTIC STARS

Two of our Primary 6 pupils, who are members of Stonehaven Gymnastic Club, had success at the weekend.  The girl on the left is the Girls Champion for 2010/11 and in addition to receiving this magnificent sheild, earned 5 Gold Medals in floor, vault, bars, beam and overall performance.  The girl on the right had brilliant success also receiving 3 medals for beam, overall and vault.  One word sums this up ‘WOW’! Fantastic results.

CULTS OTTERS ASG

Here we have Cults Otters  ‘Most Stylish Girl’ for 2010.  The coaches assess the swimmers throughout the year.  A well deserved award!

CELEBRATING SUCCESS

We love to celebrate our childrens’ achievements by sharing their successes on the blog.  Occasionally however, children can be a little forgetful of the exact details.  To encourage full participation and to avoid any errors I have devised a simple form for parents, available to download.  If the child brings this in with their trophy, I can post the information on the blog.  If you also have a photo at the actual event, or the prizegiving, please e-mail it to me at b.polson@culter.aberdeen.sch.uk

We would like to celebrate every achievement, no matter how small.

The form can be downloaded below but will be available anytime in the ‘parents’ section of the blog.

‘TELL ME ABOUT’.

SCHOOL UNIFORM

JUNIOR BADMINTON AT CULTS

CELEBRATING SUCCESS

One of our P5 pupils, a member of  Aberdeen Pony Club, achieved success on Sunday 20th June, with her horse Titch.  She achieved 1st place in her ‘first ever’ Jumping Class with a time of 48 seconds over 6 hurdles.  In the Working Hunter Class she acheived 5th by clearing 6 out of 9 hurdles.  Here she is proudly showing us her rosettes and trophy.  WELL DONE to her and Titch!

CULTER SCHOOL IS OFFICIALLY ‘BIRD-FRIENDLY’!

We have adopted a Red Kite from RSPB.  To decide on a name for her each class was asked for suggestions.  Various names were submitted to the Eco Council and the final choice was ‘Culter Galaxy’ suggested by P7C.

The Eco Council

Paul Lawrie MBE came to Culter School yesterday to declare our wonderful new library open. The Parent Council Fundraising Group raised over £6,000 to provide the library. The Head Teacher conveyed grateful thanks to everyone who was involved in the project over the last two years. A P1 pupil presented Paul with an Elmar the Elephant thank you card for giving up his valuable time for visiting our school.

Click on picture to enlarge

Here are some of our pupils celebrating recent success.

READY STEADY READ

As you are aware pupils are being encouraged to take part in a ‘Sponsored Read’ on Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th June.  All time spent reading or being read to counts towards their total.  This includes time spent reading in school.  In addition each class will have a storytelling session on either Thursday or Friday and this can also be included in their reading log.

COMMUNITY BOOK PLEDGE

Visitors to our new library will be given the opportunity to donate a book to help with the restocking of the library, which is an on-going project.  In return each book will contain a book plate with the name of the person donating the book.

AND FINALLY THANK YOU!

We would like to say a big thank you to a number of supporters of the library project who have made very generous donations to help make it all happen:

• Culter School Parent Council

• Jim Buchan

• Dulux

• Culter Community Council

• Culter Gala Committee

• Red Spider

• Enovate Systems

• Usborne Books