Spring Oscars (a childcare supplier supported by Action for children – https://springchildcare.co.uk/spring-oscars/) have expressed their ability to provide an after school and holiday club at Yester Primary.
In order to understand how many families might be interested in an after school and holiday club at Yester, a short multiple-choice questionnaire (link below) has been sent for parents/carers to complete. This survey will be open until 9th March.
Yester Primary School would appreciate donations of buttons, jam jars and wine bottles (empty!) for pupils’ craft projects. Please hand items in to 4 Papana Cottages or use the contact form to arrange collection.
Memory sharing coffee mornings and 50 Festival. Details below. All welcome.
National Books Tokens are running a competition to win £5,000 of National Book Tokens for your chosen school – enough to buy hundreds of new books for their library.
Enter the competition at: www.nationalbooktokens.com competition.
Yester Primary’s Christmas Fayre is this Thursday from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. Why not pop along. There will be lots of stalls – perfect for some Christmas shopping!
Congratulations to the winners of the Garvald Children’s Poetry Competition. What a wonderful variety of poems we had this year, all on the theme ‘Light’. You can read the winning poems on the Poetry Competition 2015 page.
We would like to thank poet and playwright Donald Campbell for judging, the Scottish Poetry Library for providing books and postcards as prizes and Garvald and Morham Community Council for funding book token prizes and printing of the poetry books.
Well done to the children who took part for producing some fantastic poetry this year. We hope you enjoy reading them!
To celebrate National Poetry Day on Thursday 8th October we are running our annual poetry competition for local children aged from 7-12 years old. The theme this year is ‘Light’ and the competition is being supported by Garvald & Morham Community Council and the Scottish Poetry Library. For more information on how to enter, please see Poetry Competition 2015.
Congratulations to all the Garvald children performing in the excellent show ‘Olivia’ by Yester Primary School years P4-7 last Wednesday and Thursday, performed with great panache in the grand surroundings of Loretto School Theatre. The play was filled with drama, comedy, songs and surprises and was enjoyed by parents, siblings, grandparents and friends alike. Well done to all!
