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He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Roy L. Smith

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Charles M. Schulz

Term 2 is always a very exciting time at school and very busy and tiring for both pupils and

teachers. It is a magical time seeing the P1s develop from the summer and gaining in confidence

and having a real sense of place – in the big school. The P7s have a one foot in the Academy, but

still engage with enthusiasm and rigour. There are music, crafts and singing reverberating

around the school and when one young P1 comes to your door and asks for directions for the

reindeer food you realise it’s Christmas.

A big credit to all the teachers and pupils for working so hard when everyone is a bit tired and

with so many illnesses going about. This week we had pupils entertaining at the Bennachie View

to the older members of our community and it was great to see the different generations

mixing.

Thank you to all the staff for the incredible dedication as always this term, the children for

working so hard on their progression jotters and profiling folders and to all the parents and

carers who are so supportive of the school and everything that we are trying to achieve.

Happy Christmas to everyone from Kellands and we wish you a Happy New

Year! See you all back to school on Wednesday 6th January 2016.

Achievements

Panto

Holly auditioned at the dancing

summer school and got offered

a part in the junior cast. Over

100 auditioned for 38 parts and

she was lucky to get offered a

part along with her sister

Katie. She is the youngest and

the smallest in the panto!

There are 2 junior casts and

they each do 10 performances

with her last one on Christmas

Eve night. Well done Holly!

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Kids Gym

It was Kids Gym (Lauras

Gym) first show at the

Garioch Sports Centre

where all levels had a bit of

fun showing us parents

what they can do. They

performed to 80 adults and

they all did amazingly well.

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http://www.facebook.com/GariochCommunityKitchen

Inverurie Gymtastix

A recently established Gymnastic Club in Inverurie still has limited places available for Pre-

school – age 12. Classes will be run by Holly Fromholc, an ex Kellands pupil who has a vast

knowledge of gymnastics and has represented Scotland. For further information please

contact:

inveruriegymtastix@hotmail.com OR Facebook page – ‘Inverurie Gymtastix’

P4G Singing at Bennachie View

On Wednesday 16th December P4G visited the new Bennachie View Care Home to entertain the

residents with a range of Christmas songs and poems. The children enjoyed eating their packed

lunches with some of the people who live there before moving through to the lounge to perform.

After their concert the boys and girls gave handmade sock snowmen and Christmas cards to the

residents which were very much appreciated. P4G performed and behaved so well and were a

credit to Kellands School. They would like to thank the parent helpers on the day and are now

Volunteers Required

We are still looking for volunteers for our after school

badminton club on Wednesdays at 3.15pm and our evening

football for P1-3 at the Academy on Thursday nights. Without

any help these clubs will have to stop which would be a shame.

We also have running club at lunchtime on a Tuesday and

football on a Friday after school. If anyone would like to add a

helping hand or a clean pair of heels please get in touch with

the school.

Thank you for your help

looking forward to performing again at Kellands on Tuesday 22nd December to the whole school.

Miss Glennie and Mrs Brand

The Garioch Basketball Club

Daniel Munro, Steven Strachan and Mikey Nicoll took part in the Regional Development League

Tournament at the International School in Aberdeen. The Garioch Basketball Club have not had

an Under 12 team for a few years so a few parents have taken on the management of the team

to give them some game experience. Their coach Jack Conn was very impressed with the boys

performance too. They won both their games against Portlethen and Fraserburgh Storm which

are long established clubs. They behaved impeccably and had a really good attitude throughout.

They also looked after a couple of younger team members. They train on a Friday with Kenny

Gibb at the Active Schools Programme and on a Wednesday at Garioch B.C and are always

looking for new team members if anyone else is interested.