We enjoyed a lovely assembly on Friday celebrating being Scottish! We enjoyed hearing the winners from each class recite their poems and seeing some beautiful Scottish and Irish dancing. We hope all of our family member who came along to join us enjoyed it as much as we did.

Congratulations to our Sports Hall Athletics team who came in second last week at the city wide competition. A tremendous achievement and our best result ever! we are incredibly proud of everyone who took part!

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We were delighted to be asked to make decorations for the C & B News Christmas Tree for the Balerno Christmas Tree Festival this year. I am sure you will agree P2, P3 and P4 did a beautiful job!

P2 performed ‘The BIG Little Nativity’ for us all in school on Wednesday and again on Friday for parents and family members. Both performances were fabulous and we are so proud of everyone in P2 for doing such an amazing job.

Congratulations to Hazel who celebrated 30 years as a Crossing Patrol officer on Curriehill Road on Thursday. We enjoyed marking this milestone with Hazel and thanking her for making sure everyone crosses Curriehill Road safely every day.

The P6 Christmas Market was lots of fun on Thursday evening. P6 have worked so hard over the last few weeks and it was lovely to see the Market so busy and successful for them. Thank you to everyone for coming along to support this event.

Our Nursery enjoyed a visit from Poppy Scotland this week to thank them for raising money for money for their appeal through the Poppy Seed Kits the children made and sold.

Congratulations to our wonderful choir who won the annual Choir Competition along at St Mary’s, Dalmahoy with these 2 beautiful songs for the second year running. We are so proud of our choir and are looking forward their performance as they open our Christmas Market on Thursday at 4 pm.

A huge thank you to everyone along at St Mary’s for all of the work in organising this beautiful competition and to Mrs McGlynn and Mrs Morrison for their love of singing and leading our choir and for giving up their lunch breaks for rehearsals.