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Parents who are Key workers should receive an email today from the authority indicating which of the HUB schools your child has been allocated a place in. Please remember to email and let the HUB know of you intend to take up this space so they can ensure the correct ratios of staff to pupils is in place. You will need to take a proof of employment (e.g. staff badge) with you to show you are deemed a key worker when you drop off your child. Please refer to the  flow chart below which indicates if you qualify for a space in the HUB schools. We would be grateful if you could also email us and let us know which HUB your child will be.

Thanks to everyone for sending in these fab photos of everyone busy with home learning activities! We have loved seeing them. Great to see people getting out into the garden and using this space for learning.  Remember to get in touch if you are having any issues understanding what needs to be done with any of the work we are sending home. Keep the photos coming!

P7, with lots of help from all of the children in our amazing school, have managed to raise a fantastic £630.97 for Sports Relief. A huge thank you to everyone who baked and donated money on the day – a great amount of money for a brilliant charity.

P7, Mrs Strange and Mr McArthur

With the schools closing we wanted to ensure we had something in place in the community to provide families who need a little extra help with a local drop in place for any additional food items you might need now the kids are not in school.

A Currie Primary mum has set up (in the last day or so!) a community food initiative.

The details of which are as follows:

Community for food: 

Drop off points for donations of food: Mc Gills Butchers in Currie (Mon-Sat 8am-5pm) and The Village Hall in Juniper Green (Wed eve 4-5pm)

Collection of food will be from The Village Hall in Juniper Green (1A Juniper Park Rd, Juniper Green EH14 5DX) first collection morning will be Saturday 21st March 10am-11am and each Saturday morning and also each Wed eve 4-5pm

Contact number for more information is 07970901563

Email is: communityforfood@gmail.com

To assist with home learning the following guidance and information has been produced. Early Years Home Learning Guidance March 20 This is also available under our Information for Parents TAB.

ASL Information for Parents and Carers

Edinburgh Learns Guidance for Parents and Carers

Please see below a letter from Andy Gray Chief Education Officer regarding the closure of schools.

Andy Gray Chief Education Officer Letter to Parents and Carers

Dear Parents and Carers

Please share this information with anyone you know who has English as an additional language

Due to the changes made to the NHS advice regarding COVID19 on Monday afternoon, Doctors of the World have updated our Covid 19 translated guidance:

English, Albanian, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish are now ready – https://www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/coronavirus-information/

To be updated very soon: Bengali, Dari, Farsi, Hindi, Kurdish Sorani, Mandarin, Pashto, Urdu, Vietnamese, Tigrinya, Amharic, Malayalam, Somali

We have also added more European languages: Polish, Romanian, Russian are ready. Coming soon: Bulgarian, Latvian, and Hungarian!

4 people from P5 went to a Maths Fun day at Merchiston Castle School. The 4 people were Alex, Shree, josh and Kai. It wasn’t too far away. When we got there, we got a drink and a biscuit then we went into the hall. Once we were there we sat at a table. There were around 8 tables in a row and each one was a station. There were different activities at each station, the easiest was making squares with blocks. We also played a game called Flow on the iPads and other maths puzzles. Lunch was delicious. After lunch we had 45 minutes to answer as many maths puzzles as we could – we were spilt into 2 teams and had to answer questions then give our answers to our team mates. This activity was a little stressful as it was timed. At the end a mathematician talked to us about Magic Squares and how they work. All in all, it was a fun day.

Josh, Kai, Alexander and Shree, P5

P7 organised a fun day of activities for us all for Sports Relief as part of the Citizenship Award our older pupils work towards achieving. Each class was involved in a  variety of sporting challenges such as beat the goalie, hockey dribble, basketball shooting, as well as everyone’s favourite, throwing wet sponges at P7! P7 also organised a very successful Bake Sale and everyone wore red to school. A fun morning to support a fabulous charity. Well done P7!