P2 performed ‘The BIG Little Nativity’ for us all in school on Wednesday and again on Friday for parents and family members. Both performances were fabulous and we are so proud of everyone in P2 for doing such an amazing job.

Congratulations to Hazel who celebrated 30 years as a Crossing Patrol officer on Curriehill Road on Thursday. We enjoyed marking this milestone with Hazel and thanking her for making sure everyone crosses Curriehill Road safely every day.

The P6 Christmas Market was lots of fun on Thursday evening. P6 have worked so hard over the last few weeks and it was lovely to see the Market so busy and successful for them. Thank you to everyone for coming along to support this event.

Our Nursery enjoyed a visit from Poppy Scotland this week to thank them for raising money for money for their appeal through the Poppy Seed Kits the children made and sold.

Congratulations to our wonderful choir who won the annual Choir Competition along at St Mary’s, Dalmahoy with these 2 beautiful songs for the second year running. We are so proud of our choir and are looking forward their performance as they open our Christmas Market on Thursday at 4 pm.

A huge thank you to everyone along at St Mary’s for all of the work in organising this beautiful competition and to Mrs McGlynn and Mrs Morrison for their love of singing and leading our choir and for giving up their lunch breaks for rehearsals.

Our Christmas Market raffle has been boosted by a lovely donation from Micro Scooters. They’ve provided scooting accessories, including helmets – thank you!

It was a big day for us in school this morning as Mrs Johnston, Mrs Turnbull (our Digital Learning Leads) and pupils from our Tech Council met with outside assessors from Digital Schools Award Scotland as the final part of the process for us receiving our Digital Schools Award. As you may have gathered from the certificate above Mrs Turnbull, Mrs Johnston and our Tech Council were successful in the process and we are now the very proud owners of a new badge and certificate! It is wonderful to see the work of our staff and pupils receiving national recognition as we strive to embed the use of technology in all of our learning and teaching. The assessor was so impressed with our work, and that of Mrs Johnston and Mrs Turnbull in particular, that he is recommending we become a a mentor school for other schools beginning their Digital Schools Award Scotland journey. Below is a summary of our report;

‘Currie Primary School amply demonstrates a very strong commitment to developing the use of digital learning and technologies to support and enhance learning experiences for all its pupils. It’s quite clear that the school has established digital learning successfully as a natural element across their school community, with a clear, strong desire to continue developing the range and quality of digital experiences. Staff talked confidently, and with enthusiasm, about how and where they were using digital technologies to improve learning and to assist them in their planning and tracking of activities and learner progress. They highlighted the benefits they were noting in the ways their increased use of digital was helping the pupils to connect with organisations and individuals in ways that broaden and enhanced learning. Pupils explained confidently, eloquently and enthusiastically about how they were making use of digital in their daily tasks, and enjoying sharing their skills with others. The school’s Digital Learning Leads provide strong support for the school’s self-evaluation and professional learning processes which were enabling the digital development programme to be well targeted and make good progress. Currie Primary School is clearly committed to embedding digital technologies and ensuring continuous improvement. I believe that Currie Primary School has met the criteria for the Digital Schools Award. I recommend that the school should also be invited to become a mentor school as they have the skills and capacity to do so’.

Our beautiful ‘Winter Banners’ are now up in our main hall. Each class made a banner and as always they are beautiful! Your child / children will be able to tell you which one their class made. Pop into the hall next time you are in school and take a quick look.