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Thank you to Tesco for the very kind donation of 20 copies of both the ‘Guinness World Book of Records 2017’ and ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Unlock the Weird 2017’ which arrived on World Book Day. We have put copies in the library and in the classrooms so everyone can enjoy these fantastic books. The Guinness World Book of Records is always a favorite with our pupils – watch out for these books coming home over the next few weeks and months!

A little reminder that the voting is now open at Tesco Hermiston Gate for our school playground developments. If you are shopping at Tesco in March and April remember and ask for a token when paying! Thank you everyone who has dropped a token into our school box already – ours is the box on the left!

We have just come from Merchiston castle school from a maths competition. There were 32 different schools competing at the competition and Currie Primary group A came 10^th and Currie Primary group B came 29^th.

To get there we had to take the 45 public bus. When we arrived we went into their dining room and had some juice and we were given our teams for the day. We went to the grand hall and found our table and our teams. At first we got a puzzle sheet and we had to complete it. There were lots of hard questions and lots of easy questions. After a bit an adult came over to our table and we had to do some problem solving. When we were done that task we moved onto the next table and so on. After the morning round Currie Primary school were 3^rd but it all changed in the afternoon. All of the schools went to have lunch and it was very fancy food. We could choose from chicken legs, mushroom soup, fish, pasta and sandwiches.

After lunch we did some more Maths but we did it in pairs. Basically the group you were in for the morning from that group you were spilt into pairs. One pair would go up to an adult and collect a question and they would take it to the other pair. Once the pair completed the question they would take it back up to the adult and collect a question for the other pair. After a while we changed to just getting your own question and that worked much better.

When we had finished the maths the results were announced. Currie Primary A team came in 10^th place. Currie Primary B team were 29^th. We all had a great day. Miss Mackay and Miss Mackay were extremely impressed with how we gave it our all and persevered during the tricky parts.

By Ailie Dodds and Abbey Weller

Below is the link to the results of our Homework Consultation undertaken October 16

Parent Consultation on Homework October 16

To book a place on any of the above please click on the link to get more information and complete the application form. Multi Sports Easter Holiday Programme

We are delighted to share the lovely news with everyone that Mrs Pope is expecting her second baby in August 2017, a little brother or sister for Hannah. Mrs Pope is keeping well and is planning to start her maternity leave at the summer holidays.

This week’s expression of the week or ‘expression de la semaine’ is

‘À demain’

which means see you tomorrow. As always 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!

It was lovely to host the annual Primary School Rotary Quiz for the area here in school this morning. We had 3 teams entered and they all did really well with our Currie Gold Team coming third equal with a team from Ratho Primary. Congratulations to Dean Park Primary whose teams came first and second. Out teams all worked really well together throughout the quiz and it was lovely to be complemented on their good behaviour and manners from the score keepers with each team at the end of the quiz.

We met this afternoon with the Robbie Crockatt from the Schools Estates Team and Elaine Watson one of the planners for the council to begin to discuss an extension to our school as the role is predict to rise over the next few years. This would initially mean an additional 2 classes from August 2018, taking us to 17 classes, with more classes being added in the following year / years.  At this point we really have no further information about where the extension will go or what it will look like.  There are to be further planning meetings, one more before the Easter holidays, when hopefully we will be able to tell you more and an open meeting for all parents at some point after that.

We are looking for 2 parents that would be interested in being involved in the discussions over the extension as plans are formulated. If you are interested in being part of this group and available to attend meetings during the school day please contact us at school either by popping in to let us know, by telephone on 0131 449 3359 or email us a note of your interest on our school admin email  –  admin@currie-pri.edin.sch.uk.

In the meantime, if you have any concerns or comments about the planned extension please do not hesitate to speak to us and we will do our best to answer any questions you may have.

We have been successful in our application for funding for our playground developments through the Tesco Bag’s of Help project!

Currie Primary is one of 3 projects in a selection of Tesco stores that has been shortlisted to receive a cash award from the Tesco Bags of Help scheme. Voting is open in stores throughout March and April. Customers cast their vote using a token given to them at the check-out in store each time they shop at the following list of Tesco stores:

CORSTORPHINE EXTRA  EH12 7UQ

EDINBURGH METRO       EH8 9EW

CAUSEWAYSIDE EDIN EXP            EH9 1PR

EARL GREY ST EDIN EXP EH3 9BN

EDINBURGH BRUNTSFIELD METRO           EH10 5DN

CRAIGLOCKHART EXP     EH14 1AT

EDINBURGH DAVIDSON METRO EH4 6AA

EDINBURGH HERMISTON             EH11 4DG

EDINBURGH SOUTH EXP                EH1 1LS

EDINBURGH FOUNT EXP               EH3 9QG

EDINBURGH HOLYROD EXP          EH8 8AU

EDINBURGH HAYMARK EXP         EH12 5LQ

EDINBURGH QUEF RD EXP            EH4 7QD

EDINBURGH ROSBURN EXP          EH12 5NG

EDINBRGH PRNCS ST EXP              EH2 4BL

EDINBURGH STENHSE EXP            EH11 3DQ

Please remember to ask for a token when you are paying for your shopping at any of the above names Tesco stores! We would also be grateful if you could encourage family and friends to vote for our project too – the more votes we get the more chance we have of winning the top prize of £5,000 which will make a huge difference to our playground developments, both as a play and learning area.