Dear Parent/Carer
A very warm welcome to school for the academic year 2016-17. We hope you all enjoyed a wonderful summer. It was lovely to see everyone this week and to extend a very warm welcome to our new Primary 1 children, new children joining us throughout the school and to our new members of staff. Our new Primary 1 children have settled extremely well and start school full-time on Monday.
We like to keep in touch with parents through this Flora’s Flyer which is posted weekly, through our Twitter account and through Parentmail. Please ensure that the office staff have your most up to date email address for Parentmail. Thank you.
Several classes are looking forward to visiting the Edinburgh International Book Festival next week to hear from their favourite authors.
Please send in orders for Week 3 lunches on Tuesday. Thank you.
Best wishes
Irene Brennan
Edinburgh 20mph Speed
Limits - Go Live
From Sunday 31 July, the legal speed limit in streets across
much of Edinburgh’s city centre and rural west area went down to 20mph, the
first phase in a planned rollout of lower speeds across the Capital.
The new speed limits are designed
to increase safety for all road users in Edinburgh as well as creating a
calmer, more people-friendly environment in shopping and residential
streets. A network of key arterial roads across the city will be retained
at 30mph and 40mph, resulting in a modest impact on journey times overall.
Our phased 20mph rollout between now and early 2018 brings
to fruition many years of planning and public consultation and the network has
been designed in line with robust criteria in partnership with key stakeholders
such as Police Scotland and Lothian Buses.
Police Scotland will enforce the new limit, focusing on
areas where particularly high levels of contraventions are recorded. Anyone
caught breaching the limit risks a £100 fixed penalty and three penalty points
on their licence.
We have long recognised that a majority of city residents
want to see speed limits reduced in the city centre, around residential areas
and in busy shopping streets.
Phase 1 ‘go live’ marks the start of sharing these benefits
right across the Capital. Further information and a detailed map of the
20mph network is available at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/20mph
or visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/edin20mph.
Regards
20mph Team
