It was lovely to see school so busy on Saturday with everyone who came along to take part in our annual May Fayre organised by our PTA and to support the fundraising for our playground developments. We hope everyone enjoyed themselves and had a good afternoon! We are counting the money raised on Monday evening and will let you all know how much we made once we have a total.  Thank you to all the parents, staff and friends of school for helping to set up, run the stalls and tidy up at the end of the Fayre.

A huge thank you from everyone connected to Currie Primary School to our wonderful PTA for all their time, effort and ideas to ensure the smooth running of events such as the May Fayre which results in additional resources for our school. Our pupils have some fantastic ideas for things they would like to have in our playground and all the work the PTA have put into the various fundraising events organised throughout this year will help us to achieve these plans!

Great news – we received an email yesterday from Tesco with the following message:-

‘We are delighted to let you know that following the Tesco Bags of Help vote in your local Tesco stores, your project came first and has been chosen by Tesco Customers to receive a grant award of £5,000.00!’

Thank you to everyone who took the time to pop the voting tokens into our box in the Tesco stores when you were in shopping. Once we know where our extension is going to go we will be able to make a start on our playground developments!

If your son or daughter is interested in the Hibs summer football camps please click on the link below for further information.

Hibs Summer Camp

It was great to see many people coming back to school on Friday afternoon for the Magic Show organised by our PTA.  We all really enjoyed it and it was just lovely to see the children getting so involved! A huge thank you to everyone on The PTA for organising this event for us and to all the parents who came along to help supervise during the show.

Weather permitting Sports Day is planned for the morning of 8 June 2107 and we hope as many of our parents and carers are able to come along and join in the fun of cheering on our houses for this event. We aim to get started as soon as classes are registered and out on the field ready.

The family picnic on the field after Sports Day last year was really successful and we loved having everyone stay for lunch so we plan to extend this invitation to everyone again this year. If you would like to and are able to stay for a picnic lunch with your children after Sports Day please bring a picnic, picnic rugs etc. with you. School lunches on the 8^th of June will be a picnic lunch so we can all join in.

P6B had a great couple of days and overnight stay at Fordell Firs this week! The days were packed full of caving, climbing, orienteering, night walks, wide games and campfires!

Dear Parent/Guardian,

One of the biggest highlights of the May Fayre is the raffle. For the last couple of years as well as 3 ‘main’ prizes we have made hampers with donations from the children. These are really popular and we hope to do the same for this year. We have a hamper for each school year group, each with a theme.

We would appreciate it if your child could bring in a donation towards their year’s themed hamper – we’ve given a couple of examples of suggested donations below, but could be absolutely anything related to the theme – this is of course, completely voluntary.

As a wee thank you to the children for doing this, we are having a ‘dress down’ day on Friday 19^th May. If your child can bring in their donation on this day, we’d be grateful so that we can get the hampers made up before the Fayre on Saturday 27th. Donations can be brought in via school bags, Ms Hourston has kindly offered to store them in her office.

Many thanks for your help and support,

Currie Primary PTA.

Nursery -a.m. – Craft Theme, e.g. Glue sticks, coloured paper, stickers

Nursery – p.m. – Gardening Theme, e.g. magazine, seeds, plant

P1 – Scottish Theme, e.g. Scottish sweets, tartan hair clips, book

P2 – Baking Theme, e.g. dry ingredients, sprinkles, baking magazine

P3 – Holidays Theme, e.g. sun cream, comic, hat, book, sunglasses

P4 – Kids Theme, e.g. toy, book, game, cards, comic

P5 – Sports Theme, e.g. ball, skipping rope, water, football stickers

P6 – Pampering Theme, e.g. toiletries (male & female), magazine, candle

P7 – Sweets Theme, e.g. chocolates, sweets

                Our ‘expression de la semaine’  is

‘Je ne comprends pas’

which means, ‘I don’t understand’.   Once more it would be great if you could encourage the children to use this expression plus our previous expressions of the week at home as well as in school – merci beaucoup!

Would you like your child to come along to Oscars@ Currie Breakfast Club for a free taster session?

We have 10 available places every Friday on a first come first served bases. One session  per child.

If interested please e-mail currie@oscarschildcare.com  or text 07827 336 664

If you have any Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers lying around at home please send them into school. We are keen to get our order for playground resources away in the next few weeks!