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P4 have been working on a block of persuasive writing. They used litter as a topic for this work. We thought you might like to read a few!

Keep The World Clean

Do you want to eat a fish that has eaten rubbish? Well that’s what happens if you litter.

Keep a fresh, clean and tidy environment.

Firstly, every year the world produces 141,000,000 tones of litter. That is the same weight as 35,000,000 elephants. In the uk 250,000 litter is dropped a day. 

That is terrible, harmful and dangerous for the environment.

Secondly, green sea turtles think that a jellyfish is a plastic bag so sometimes a turtle eats a jellyfish. In my opinion it is unfair that animals die or get injured because of the rubbish we drop. 

Last of all, recycling one tonne of paper can save 70 trees. So recycle! 

For these reasons, I think we can all stop littering!!

We must stop harming poor animals homes. What do you think?

By Cara Harrower

Do Not Litter!

Imagine going on a walk and all you can see is litter. Would you want that?

Litter is smelly, messy and ugly.You can trip over it and hurt yourself.

Some animals mistake litter and plastic as food or a home. Then eat it and get sick or die.🥀🤧

Did you know two million pieces of litter is dropped everyday just in the U.K!

Every year 141,000,000 tones of plastic is made. That is horrible for the environment.🪺

A lot of turtles think plastic bags that have been dropped in the sea are jellyfish then the turtles eat the plastic bags and die.

This is why you should save the environment by not littering and

cutting down on plastic and overly packaged products.🥡

By Ava Wilson

Keep the World Clean!

Imagine going to the beach and all you see is litter. Would you like that?

Firstly, we can harm animals by dropping litter. More than 70,000 animals are hurt by litter every year. Animals looking for food can get trapped in plastic or hurt on sharp edges.

Secondly, imagine eating a salmon, tuna or catfish that had eaten plastic. You just ate plastic! In the UK every day litter is dropped the same weight as 350,000 elephants.

These reasons show that by littering it hurts animals and people. So stop!

By Holly Russell

Interscholastics (12th of May Meadowbank)

13 pupils competed in the Interscholastics on Monday. This was our best result in my time at Currie Primary. We managed to qualify for the Mixed 4x100m Relay Final, Girls 4x100m Relay Final and Girls 80m Final. We managed to get 2^nd place overall, a silver, in both the Girls 4x100m Relay and Girls 80m. This was a superb effort as it was against both state and private schools from across Edinburgh.

4x100m Girls Relay Team

Ella Tatum P6A

Abigail Brown P7A

Karys Wylie P7C

Ellie Pye P7B

80m Girls

Ellie Pye

SSAA Primary Schools’ Cross-Country Championships (Saturday 26^th of April Kircaldy High School)

Two pupils competed in the Scottish Schools Athletics Cross-Country Championships against pupils from all over the country. Ella Tatum finished 19^th in the P6 Girls race and Mark Hendry finished 18th in the P6 Boys.

Mr Donaldson, PE Teacher

Thank you to everyone for coming along to support our May Fayre yesterday, on the most glorious of days. A big thank you to all of the dance teachers and dancers at Simon Says Dance, Hamilton Heel and Toe and Balerno Dance Academy for the wonderful performances and to our fabulous choir who sang so beautifully.

The event could just not happen without the hours and hours of preparation work our amazing PTA put in throughout the year planning and organising everything – we are so, so grateful for the work you do and a huge thank you to all of the staff and volunteers who came along on the day to help set up, run stalls and activities and tidy up at the end of the afternoon. The May Fayre just could not happen without all of your help and time.

We enjoyed a lovely Street Party at lunch time today as we celebrated the 80th Anniversary of VE Day in school.

It was great to have Fitness Friday back last week – thank you to everyone for coming along and earning houses points for each lap completed!

We have lots of amazing prizes for our raffle and silent auction coming in.

Thank you, Micro Scooters, for your donation of some scooter and bike accessories to our raffle. As well as safety accessories, their range includes the iconic 3 wheel scooter that revolutionised travelling to school – the Mini Micro.

The nursery children were excited to see and play on the new track,  hopscotch, dragon number line and coloured shapes in the playground. 

Thank you to the PTA for kindly donating the funds for us to enjoy these experiences.

Kind regards 

The Nursery Team.

It was a colourful end to term at school with all of our beautiful Spring Bonnets on parade! Thank you to everyone for making such a huge effort with what has become over the year our traditional end to the Spring term. Our House captains chose the winners from each class of our Spring Bonnets this year and judged our Spring Colouring Competition entries along with some of our other P7s. Thank you to the PTA for the providing the prizes for the colouring / drawing competition.

Our Nursery children have been taking part in a Bunny Bounce this week to raise funds for the Nursery!

On Monday 17 March our Air Pollution competition winners and some of our Eco Committee went to the Parents4Future Scotland event which was held at the Edinburgh City Chambers. 

This event was the culmination of our school’s excellent work on Air Pollution and was a chance to showcase some of it to other school, charities and members of Edinburgh City Council. 

The morning opened with a variety of people who spoke on the topic of air pollution and was followed by some time to browse a range of stalls. Our children spoke confidently and passionately about the work carried out across our school. The children were also invited to take part in a range of activities within this context including Eco badge making and making their own smoothie on the smoothie bike. They had to use a lot of energy to power the bike which in turn created energy to power a blender and blend the fruit into a delicious smoothie.

It was a great morning enjoyed by all children, staff and parents.