Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 19
It’s the first al Sunday before Christmas and for today’s festive Advent treat join the staff and pupils from Room 12 as they showcase their cycling and musical talents.
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 18
We’ve reached the last weekend before Christmas. For today’s festive Advent treat join the staff and pupils from Room 11 as they share a favourite festive song and dance.
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 17
The big day is getting closer, so get ready to join the pupils from Room 13 as they prepare for a Christmas party!
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Days 15 and 16
Apologies for no Countdown yesterday (Santa’s mischievous elves were tampering with the technology!) so today we are sharing two special festive treats.
For Day 15, please join the pupils from Orchard Brae Nursery@Ashgrove as they show you their drumming talents!
For Day 16, we are delighted to share our Makaton Choir’s performance of ‘I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas’ which was shown at the recent Evening Express Carol Concert at P&J Live.
As Christmas fast approaches, it has been a time for me to reflect on my first four months as Head Teacher. It has been a wonderful time getting to know all the pupils and families better and despite the pandemic we have achieved so much in a short space of time. Following a very supportive visit from HMIE, we can now focus our attentions on driving forward with our improvement priorities. It has been a very busy term for pupils and staff, there been exciting learning and teaching, preparation for our winter festivities, appearing in concerts and making our wonderful digital advent calendar, all of which you will see on our website. Once again, a big thank you to Keith and Emmeline for their continued contribution to our musical endeavours!
Now, we move on to the holidays and I am mindful of the need to take time for ourselves over the Christmas period. We are still faced with the ongoing issues and potentially further restrictions that this pandemic brings. Therefore, it is important that we look after our health and wellbeing as we need to be reinvigorated for the year ahead. We want to be able to welcome our whole school community back in January.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all, pupils, parents, friends and staff of Orchard Brae for your continued support and wish you and your loved ones a restful Christmas and a New Year that brings health and happiness.
Elaine
Important dates
In room 13 we decided to make individual collages to illustrate what we get up to on a weekly basis. As you can see we are a busy lot and love a photo opportunity!
We hope that you have been enjoying the Makaton Charity advent calendar which has been shared via our school Facebook pages. We are delighted to have been asked to participate again this year and can announce that we are demonstrating today’s sign as they countdown to Christmas.
To view our Makaton sign, please follow the link below or head on over to our Facebook page.
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 14
Welcome back to our advent countdown. Today join pupils and staff from Room 8 as they enjoy some sensory Christmas fun.
To celebrate Save The Children’s Christmas jumper day, the pupil council challenged classes to make real Christmas jumpers using as many recycled or sustainable materials as possible. Room 12 used it as a learning opportunity to “respect other people’s choices”. And I’m sure you will agree the results are fabulous.
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 13
For today’s advent treat, join some of our pupils as they participate in some festive dancing with our instructor, Katie.
