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World Book Day is always a fun day at school with amazing costumes and activities related to reading and books. This year everyone made a book crown. Lots of people dressed up as a word, a character from a book or story and Mrs Morrison came as a book worm eating her way through the novel her class are currently enjoying! Here are just a few of the photos from the day! Thank you to Finlay R. in P7 for helping with the photographs this year!

Last week we invited our grown ups to come to our ceilidh. First we skipped around the hall. We performed the Canadian Barn Dance, Strip the Willow and The Military Two Step. Then we got our grown ups to dance with us too. Afterwards we had shortbread and the grown ups had a cup of tea or a coffee.

By Preet, Luna, Mohammad, Jacob, Cora and Inaaya

Our chess team were in action on Saturday down at Broughton High School taking part in the Lothian Junior Chess Competition. We had a mixed day with some great wins, some draws and a couple of close games where we just missed out on a win. Well done to Saahir, Kughan, George, Tariq, Cameron, Johan, Arran and Mohammed who did a fantastic job of representing our school at this event.

Congratulations to Amelia, Murray, Eve, Amber and Emma who represented our school in the annual Primary Schools Burns Festival run by Edinburgh & District Burns Clubs association on Saturday morning. Our team did an amazing job reciting their Burns poems and we are very proud of them all.

P5 enjoyed a visit from their families on Friday who came to have a look at the bedroom designs the children have been making as part of a technology topic.

P7 have been learning about our solar system. They made planets using salt dough and used them to create a Stop Motion movie to show the differing speeds of the planets’ orbits. 

Thomas in P3B went back to Japan to visit family and got to visit his old school Matsuno Elementary School in Hachimantai City. He spent a week with his former classmates at the school and enjoyed lessons in Japanese. On his return he did a wonderful presentation to the class about his time in Japan and the children loved hearing all about it!

P3B then decided to make and send Christmas cards to the children in Japan. The children in Japan then wrote cards back to P3B in Japanese wishing them a Happy New Year. They decorated the cards with wonderful illustrations. Mrs McAndrew also received a lovely letter in both Japanese/English from Yukiko Muto the teacher. 

Thomas’ mum Satomi came into to class on Monday 17th February to give a talk about Japan and to translate the messages on the cards to the children. The children enjoyed listening to Satomi’s presentation and asked her lots of questions! Satomi also showed some of the children how to write their name in Japanese. 

Congratulations to Freya in P7 who had her hair cut this week for charity! We took some before and after photos to share.