Dear Parents
We are now at the end of a very busy term. All the children have been involved with lots of interesting activities and hopefully this newsletter will give you a taster of what life at Lundin Mill has been like in recent months.
Achievements
Primary 2/3 took part in the Fife Festival of Music in St Andrews. They sang their songs beautifully.
Primary 6 took part in the Primary Schools Euroquiz in the Auchterderran Centre. They represented the school very well with their knowledge of Europe.
Primary 6 and 7 took part in the Fife Creative Dance Festival at the Lochgelly Centre.
Their dances were exciting and innovative (a big thankyou to Miss Herd, Teaching
Student, who during her time in P6, worked with them on their dance with a Scottish theme).
A team from P7 were runners up in the Rotary Quiz. They represented the school very well and demonstrated an excellent general knowledge.
Primary 6 and 7 took part in the Kirkland Cluster Festival of Arts, which this year had a theme of “Homecoming”. The children danced, sang and recited poetry. There was also an Art Display which including art work from some pupils in our nursery and P1-7 classes.
Some Primary 6 pupils took part in the Adam Smith College Techno Games in
Kirkcaldy. The team enjoyed the opportunity to be creative with techno robots.
Primary 7 had a visit from the Molli Bus from the Adam Smith College as part of their
I.T. work.
We were represented at the Fife Burns Festival by Ellis Kirk and Campbell Fleming who took part in the Instrumental Class. Congratulations to Ellis who achieved third place. Katie Morris took part in the Singing Class with Josh Marsh and Molly Barrass taking part in the Speakers Class. We were very proud of these pupils who performed very well to a very large audience.
Health and Wellbeing
Primary 7 pupils have been leading the school on a Friday morning in a Wake Up
Shake Up routine.
Primary 7 have had lessons on drugs and alcohol from DELTA and the police. They have also been finding out about the Digestive system and Liver and Alcohol. Primary
6 and 7 were visited by the Fife Environmental Health team with their Kitchen Calamity
Roadshow. The pupils found out about health and hygiene in the kitchen.
The school has become a Heartstart school with a number of staff being trained to deliver Heartstart training to pupils.
The Fire Service have visited P6 to talk about fire safety.
P6 have been swimming every Friday. Thanks to all the parent helpers.
Visits and visitors
The nursery have had regular visits to the local library.
Primary 1 have also visited the library. We are promoting reading for enjoyment for all our pupils.
As part of their WW2 topic P7 attended a special P7 viewing of The Boy In The
Striped Pyjamas.

A number of classes have had talks on road safety from Fife Council’s Road Safety
Team.
The nursery had a visit from two lambs. Thanks to Douglas and his family for this.
Mr Findlay spoke to P7 about his experience of WW2.
Primary 3/4 visited Hopetoun House as part of their Victorian project.
Curriculum for Excellence
Primary 5 were given the challenge of raising Titanic from it’s watery grave.
Throughout the topic pupils were given secret missions. To be successful, they had to fulfil a number of criteria. The first mission involved carrying out research to discover what the ship looked like and then, in groups, children reconstructed the ship on the classroom wall.
The class thoroughly enjoyed the topic. As well as learning lots of interesting facts about Titanic, they also developed a number of important skills including teamwork, problem solving and independent thinking. The children enjoyed the opportunity to share what they have been learning with parents and friends.
A group of four pupils from P6 and P7 have been visiting Kirkland High School on a
Thursday afternoon to be part of a Cluster Algebra Group. The children have been working on extending their knowledge of maths.
On a Friday the children in the school and nursery have been meeting with their buddies to share a Book Buddy time. This time is for reading favourite books, sharing non-fiction books and looking at rhyme. The children and staff have enjoyed this opportunity to get together. Next term the focus will change to a Maths Buddy time.
Eco Schools
Earth Hour
– Lundin Mill signed up to support the World Wildlife Fund.
P6 mad a power point which was shown to parents at Open Start. Everyone was encouraged to turn their lights off on Saturday night. 54 pupils and adults took part.
P4 used the money they made from selling bulbs at the Christmas Fayre to buy shrubs which they planted in one of our playground tubs outside their classroom.
We raised £69 for our Rab Bag appeal. Thank you to everyone who contributed.
The children planted a cherry tree in the playground. this had been purchased with the money staff donated instead of giving Christmas cards.
Homecoming Scotland
The art work displayed at Kirkland had a Scottish theme as part of our year long
Homecoming celebrations. When it comes back we will display it in the School
Entrance area.
We had an informal Burns afternoon with children sharing their knowledge of Burns and Scottish traditions.
Reverend Nisbet spoke to P7 about Burns and Burns Suppers.
Primary 7 organised a Burns Supper and invited a guest to share this. The food which was cooked by the children with help from Mrs Mowatt, Mrs Ovenstone and Lesley, the school cook, was excellent. The speeches and entertainment were also of a very high standard.
Whole School Activities

World Book Day was again celebrated in the school with pupils and staff dressing up as their favourite book character.
£227 was raised by the school for Red Nose Day. The children wore red and enjoyed tel ling jokes as part of this year’s theme “Do something funny for money”.
A huge thank you to Mr MacArthur and Mr Mach who have been taking a lunchtime football club and organised an Inter house football tournament. The pupils in P4, 5, 6 and 7 have enjoyed developing their football skills.
Mrs Thompson has started an After School Netball club.
Primary 7 entertained us with their fundraiser for Children of Ineu on Valentines Day.
The pupils dressed up as famous couples and the school were invited to guess who they were.
Thanks to the Parent Council for organising a very successful Ceilidh. As you know, a large sum of money was raised and everyone enjoyed the evening.
We have a new group of Pupil Playleaders who have been trained to lead play activities in the playground.
We also have had new Peer Mediators trained.
All classes have access to new playground equipment, provided by Sainsbury’s voucher scheme. Please help us by collecting your vouchers. This is a great scheme with a real benefit of top quality equipment.
Outdoor Learning
The nursery continue their trips to Silverburn as part of Forest Kindergarten. They love the opportunity to explore the wooded trea. They especially enjoyed the day that they were joined by Primary 7.
Primary 1 have enjoyed a visit to the Nursery garden and also lots of opportunities for outdoor play.
The children of P5 are taking part in the John Muir Award Scheme. It involves conserving wild places in a spirit of fun, adventure and exploration. Pupils are very enthusiastic about the project and have been visiting the Serpentine in Lower Largo.
So far, they have been exploring and studying the environment and they have written to the Woodland Trust to ask permission to make improvements by planting trees, litter picking and generally improving the area.
As I am sure you will agree, school has been very busy and next term will no doubt have lots of exciting things to report on too.
Have a lovely Easter!
Anne M Urquhart
Headteacher