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PTA Newsletter January 2020

Merry Christmas from everyone here at Currie Primary School! We would all like to thank you for your continuing support and involvement in our school over 2019! We hope everyone has a restful and enjoyable time over the holidays and we look forward to hearing what everyone has got up to when we are back at school next year!

Remember school starts back for children at 8.45 am on Thursday 9 January 2020!

We had 2 ski Teams representing our school at an event at Hillend recently, one in the Boyd Anderson Team event and one in the Novice Team event. Both teams skied well, taking part in 2 races each. Our Novice Team had a very successful day, finishing second and coming away with the silver medals. Well done Fraser, Murray, Georgia, Grace, Skye and Robyn.

Congratulations to Miss Murray, our Nursery Teacher who had a little boy last week, Fraser George, weighing 8lb 5 oz. Mother and baby are doing well. We are looking forward to meeting Fraser and welcoming him to our school family next term.

Mrs Rubatto our Music Teacher will be taking over as Nursery Teacher after the holidays. Unfortunately, we have not been able to find another music teacher but we are looking forward to working with Miss MacPherson who will be in school on a Wednesday.

A huge thank you to our House Captains who organised our super Inter House Quizzes this week, the P1 – P3 Quiz on Tuesday and the P4 – P7 Quiz this morning. There were a variety of rounds in each quiz, for example Music, TV, Sport, General Knowledge, Science and Nature and Teachers Questions are just a few examples. The scores from both quizzes were added together and the results are as follows:

First – Pine Martins

Second – Golden Eagles

Third – Otters

P2 put on a wonderful Nativity Show for us all this week, ‘Christmas with the Aliens’! The singing and acting were just fantastic, and everyone did a super job. We hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did!

Georgia (P7) was a star last Sunday  at the Edinburgh and Midlothian Schools Swimming Championships. Being the only pupil, whose times were fast enough to qualify  she competed in the 50m free style and the 50m butterfly representing CPS.

Unfortunately, Georgia’s goggles came off as she turned in the butterfly, but she showed her resilience and swam on finishing the race. Goggles sorted, her determination showed in the freestyle where she got a PB. 

Georgia represented Currie wonderfully and was very social with the other swimmers she knew and met.

The great news is Georgia can compete for CPS again next year as she is not 12 until next year. Hopefully we can have some other swimmers to join her.

December is always a busy month in school and no day more so than Christmas lunch day! A huge thank you to all of the ladies in the dinning hall who went to so much trouble and effort creating such a wonderful lunch experience for us all.

Congratulations to Mason who received the runner’s up prize in the recent Pentland Book Group P7-S1 cluster writing competition for 2019. The children were tasked with writing a short story based around conflict resolution. 2nd place is a massive achievement with so many entries from across the cluster schools.

We have been asked by NHS Lothian to disseminate the following information:

You will probably be aware that we have seen a large number of respiratory outbreaks in nurseries and schools in the past few weeks. These have caused service disruption with staff shortages and many pupils being absent from school/nursery.

The main symptoms being reported include:

– Fever- Cough-

Sore throat

– Muscle aches

– Sore tummy

– Cold/Flu like symptoms

– headache

These symptoms are consistent with respiratory viral illnesses such as the common cold, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza.

Respiratory viruses are spread by breathing in droplets produced when a person coughs or sneezes. You can also catch the virus by touching the surfaces that the droplets have landed on if you pick up the virus on your hands and then touch your nose or mouth.

 Key advice for parents and carers

In the home the risk of catching or spreading flu/cold like illness can be reduced by:

• Regular hand washing with liquid soap and running water
• Covering nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing
• Using a disposable paper tissue, disposed off immediately after use.
• You can teach your child to sneeze into the ‘crook’ of their arm rather than their hands, if they don’t have a tissue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQINuSTP1jI
• Good general cleaning of surface that everyone touches often e.g. TV remote, light switches, door handles, toilet flushes and tap heads.
• https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/infections-and-poisoning/common-cold
• https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/infections-and-poisoning/flu

Children should  not return to school until completely well and 48 hours after symptoms have ceased