Some pupils from Currie Primary School have been redesigning our outdoor Atrium. At the moment it has weeds that are overgrown and toys that are broken. Our head teacher, Ms Hourston decided that we will be transforming it into a sensory garden. Yesterday we went to the garden centre to go get plants for it. They need to smell nice, look nice and feel nice. We got Angels Wings. We also got lavender too. We are so thankful to Riccarton Garden Centre for giving us 3 free bag of compost for our plants. Thank you! Another thank you is to Waitrose for giving us the money to do it – thank you so much!

Olivia and Orla, P5

The Oriam are running some FREE junior tennis activity for the month of June held across each Sunday of the month.

All weekly sessions are bookable ONLY via Eventbrite:

Discover Tennis Events & Activities in Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Eventbrite

Dates are: Sundays 2^nd, 9^th, 16^th and 23^rd June

Sessions and timings are:

10.00 – 10.45am Mini Red (ages 5 – 7yrs).

11.00 – 12.00 Mini Orange (ages 8 – 9yrs)

12.00 – 13.00 Green Ball (ages 9 – 11yrs.

All sessions to be FREE of charge held at Oriam with all equipment provided held on indoor courts 1 and 2.

Numbers limited!

Happy to include tennis@oriam.hw.ac.uk direct email if parents want to get directly in touch prior to booking or have queries of any kind.

Thank you to everyone on the PTA for all of the planning and organising that went into making our annual May Fayre such a huge success again this year, and to everyone for coming along to support this event and our school. It was such a lovely day – we love to see the school and playground so busy. Lovely to see live performances from Simon Says Dance, Hamilton Heel and Toe and La Belle Arts too. All of the money raised is going towards buying some fixed play equipment for our playground. As soon as we have the final amounts raised we will let you know. Thank you to Mr Harrower for the drone shots of the day!

The May Fayre is set up and ready for tomorrow! We hope to see you all there – remember to bring a bag to carry all of your shopping!

Our P6/7 Girls Football Team enjoyed a friendly game against Juniper Green this afternoon as part of their preparations for a tournament they are playing in next week.

We hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend. Just a reminder that school is closed to pupils tomorrow, Tuesday 7 May 2024, as it is an in-service day for staff. We look forward to welcoming everyone back to school on Wednesday 8 May 2024.

We enjoyed sharing our ‘germs’ with the Eye Pavilion recently so staff there could create a display for Hand Hygiene Day at the end of April. Our germs are on display across the different floors of the Eye Pavilion. Thank you to Mrs Tollins for sending us some photos of the displays.

A huge congratulations to Miss Nicholson who ran the London marathon yesterday in 4 hours 40 minutes! We are all so proud of Miss Nicholson for this massive achievement – and for making it back to school this morning!

Scottish Opera introduced the world of theatre to Currie Primary on the 17^th of April. In preparation for this, P6 have been working hard for the last term to perfect Vikings: Quest for the Dragons Treasure. This production tells the story of Vikings setting out on an epic quest to steal a Dragons treasure. This quest has its challenges as when crafty and rebellious sorcerers hatch an evil plan to steal the gems.

On the run up to the performance day, every spare moment we had was spent practising. The sound of singing echoed through the school and around the playground. We were all really excited about the performance and were counting down the weeks with frantic anticipation. 

On the day, Scottish Opera spent the morning rehearsing with us. They taught us the transitions between songs and how to stand during our performances. They were blown away by how hard we had been practicing.

After all our rehearsals, we finally got to perform our show to our parents. Even though the costumes were hot it was worth it to see our parents proud smiles. The show was a huge success. 

“I can honestly say that it was absolutely AMAZING!” remarked Mrs Pope after the show. Our headteacher, Mrs Hourston, said it was the best performance she had ever seen. We would like to thank the Scottish Opera and Currie Primary for giving us the opportunity to preform in this show. A huge thank you also to our teachers who helped and supported us along the way.

Magnus and Oscar 

Last term our P3 and P4 classes entered a colouring competition run by Gordon Nicholson Kiltmakers and children’s author Malcolm the Weaver. We had the lovely news this week that the winner of the competition was Erin in P4! Erin won these beautiful books to take home and £200 for our school! Erin has decided that she would like to spend the money on toys/games for the playground so everyone in school can use and enjoy them. As part of the competition Erin designed this beautiful tartan that we are hoping will be made into a kilt! Congratulations Erin!