Dear Parent/Carer
It was a pleasure to welcome
parents/carers to our assembly this morning. Primary 6b’s assembly on ‘Water’
was informative and very well presented. We were delighted to hear about the
fundraising efforts of P6a, P6b and P5/6 to help provide toilets for children
in developing countries. Their raffle raised enough money to purchase seven
toilets that will make a real difference to the lives of other children. We are
very proud of our responsible, caring children who are thinking of others. Well
done indeed!
Well done and thank you also for
supporting ‘Children in Need.’ The donations for last Friday’s Superhero Day
came to £268.38. Many thanks to
everyone!
Playground Group
We had a super day on Wednesday
when Stephen Mozier from ‘Grounds for Learning’ came into school to talk to us
about some of the exciting activities we could have in our playground. After a
whole school assembly, Stephen spoke with the Eco-committee and the Pupil
Council to gather ideas and thoughts from them about what they like doing now
and what they would like to do during their playtimes in the future. The Parent Playground Group have also been
very busy and will soon have an exciting and informative website to visit.
Thank you to everyone!
Nursery
It was great to meet so many
Nursery parents/carers last night for our ‘Through the Keyhole’ curriculum
evening and hope that this ‘peek’ into the workings of our nursery classes was
helpful!
Book Week
We look forward to welcoming the
author Diana Hendry to launch our Readathon at Monday’s special assembly at the
start of Book Week. Look out for the
letters and forms going home by pupil post on Monday.
All Primary 1 pupils will receive
a lovely pack of three books from the Scottish Book Trust which we are sure our
P1s will enjoy reading with you.
Wider Achievements
We are always keen to hear about
any wider school achievements that your child may have been working on at
home. These achievements could be sporting, musical or even a personal
achievement such as tying shoelaces or cooking a meal. We celebrate
these achievements at Assembly and give pupils Flora’s Achievement postcards to
recognise their hard work.
If you would like to share an
achievement with us, please send in a short note or email with your child’s
name, class and details of the achievement.
Lyceum
Thank you very much to all
parents who volunteered to accompany us to the Lyceum next Friday. We have
had a lot of support, thank you and we will contact parents to help with this
visit at the start of next week. Unfortunately we can’t accept all the
help offered as we only have a limited number of adult tickets. Thanks for your
support and patience.
P1-3 Lunches
After Christmas Edinburgh Council will begin offering free
school meals to all pupils in P1-3 in line with the Scottish Government
initiative. To support our preparation for this, we would be very
grateful if all parents in P1-3 could respond to our survey. This will be in the form of a letter sent out
this coming week. Your responses will
allow us to plan our lunchtime provision according to anticipated demand for
hot meals. Thank you for your help with this.
Best wishes
Irene Brennan
