We would like to highlight our plans to celebrate Reading Schools Week which will take place from 2nd February to 6th February, designed to promote a love of reading and highlight the importance of reading for enjoyment.

Our involvement forms part of our work towards renewing our Reading Schools Gold Award, recognising our continued commitment to high-quality reading experiences for all children.

Throughout the week, pupils will take part in a range of engaging and inclusive activities that encourage reading in different ways – in classrooms and across the school. These experiences are designed not only to celebrate reading, but also to help strengthen skills, confidence and positive reading habits for learners at every stage.

Reading Schools Week also supports our wider school improvement work by fostering enthusiasm, motivation and a shared reading culture across our community. We look forward to sharing some of the highlights with you and would like to thank families for their continued support in encouraging reading at home.

Many thanks to Mrs Mulvey, our Literacy Co-ordinator, and our Reading Pupil Leadership Team in Room 8 for leading this work!

The Junior Road Safety Officer team are going to be running a campaign to Park and Stride. 

The campaign will be running from  Monday the 26th of January to Friday the 13th of February.

We will take a vote in each class to see who currently Parks and Strides.

At the end of our campaign we will do another vote to see if the number of people park and striding has increased.

HAPPY WALKING!

From Arden, Kara and Ayla (P7 JRSO's)

Lanark Primary School and Early Learning & Childcare Parent Council proudly presents the return of the annual Scots Night!

We are holding our ‘Scots Night’ on Wednesday 11th February to showcase our learners’ achievements following our Scots language work in school.

The night also provides an opportunity for some of our musicians, singers and dancers to show off their talents.

If your child is taking part, you will hear by letter from the school but in the meantime, please find the details below:

LPS and ELC Main Hall

Doors open at 6.15pm

Entertainment starts at 6.30pm

 Come along and join us for an evening of brilliant entertainment including Scottish poetry, songs, dancing and music from our talented pupils. Selected children from each class will present their poems for the chance to win the Overall Scots Recitation Award and the award for the best P7 Scots project will also be announced.

• This is a free entry event for adults and children. To ensure safe numbers, tickets will be issued. Performers will be allocated their tickets as detailed in the letter that will be issued soon. Remaining tickets will become available soon (2 per family) - for those who would like to attend. More information to follow on App!

• Interval refreshments (tea, coffee, juice and biscuits) will be provided by the Parent Council. A donation towards Parent Council funds would be welcomed.

• Try your luck at our raffle (drawn that evening).

We look forward to seeing you on the night.

If you have any donations for our Scots themed raffle, please hand them in to the school office or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we would be happy to collect.

Thank you for your ongoing support of the Parent Council in raising funds for our school.

The St.Andrew's Hospice Ambassadors (Ayleigh, Henry, Louis & Poppy Mc) and the Kindness Pupil Leadership Team (Room 4) would like to thank everyone in our school community who donated items for their Pamper Hamper initiative. They have been overwhelmed with the generosity shown which has enabled them to make up 40 Pamper Hampers. Some will be delivered to Healthy Valleys in Lanark and the ambassadors will be visiting St. Andrew's Hospice to deliver the rest. Great job everyone!

We are delighted to congratulate the whole school on achieving the Emotion Works Cogmas Award. This is a fantastic achievement and reflects the commitment, enthusiasm and teamwork shown across the school community.

A huge thank you to all classes for their hard work and positive engagement throughout the Cogmas tasks. This important work will place us in a strong position as we move forward with our application for the Emotion Works Gold Award.

A very special thank you goes to Mrs Morton and Room 3’s Emotion Works Pupil Leadership Team for organising and leading such a successful and engaging programme of activities. Well done to everyone involved!