Dear Parents & Carers,

As you may be aware, our current chair and deputy chair will be stepping down at the end of this school year in June, as their children finish primary school. We are looking for parents who are interested in the role and would like to become part of Currie Parent Council. We have outlined details of the roles in the document here.Role Description – Currie Primary School_Parent Council Chair & Vice Chair

In previous years, our chair and vice-chair have provided support both for school and students, such as New P1 annex, Currie High School review and many others. Parent Council is a great forum to support our school and connect with other parents. If you are interested or would like to know more, please get in touch via email parent_council_currieps@outlook.com

Many thanks,

Your Parent council

We enjoyed a wonderful Scots Assembly in school on Friday celebrating our Scottish and Celtic Culture! The day started with everyone being piped into school by Stevie and Mr Hay. Thank you to Mr Hay for arranging this very special treat for us all. In assembly we were entertained by a variety of Highland and Irish dancing, violins, chanter and pipes and drums from some of our current and exit pupils who came  back to play for us. We all enjoyed hearing the winners of our Scots verse competition reciting their poems – very well done to Lucie, Daniel, Iona, Oliver, Adam, Saliena, Maddie, Brodie, Kairan, Ellis, Poppy, Lexi, Freya, Alexander, Emily, Brodie, Emily, Musaba and Euan.

P3A have been working on alliterations in their writing! We thought you might like to read the class poem that they wrote together ahead of our Scottish Assembly tomorrow.

A Wee Poem by P3A

A haunless hurcheon hingin from a hootlet,

A cauld cuddie chappin on a coo’s door,

Twa tottie tods putting on troosers,

A peerie puggie is pentin a picture,

A broon baudran was booncin on a baffie,

A muckle moose mairried a mingin midgie,

A hummin hurcheon hingin on a hill made of haggis,

A dauncin dug doesnae drap,

A puir peerie papingo pentin a lady and pouin pechs,

A tottie tod is taking a tattie,

A haiverin hoolet howks a hole,

A braw baudran bletherin on a boat,

An eejit earn eating a moose,

A clarty cuddie cowps a coo.

We enjoyed a visit from six Orthopedagogics students from Antwerp in Belgium and one of their professors on Thursday. The students are currently involved in writing up their thesis which has involved them in working with a  with a local primary school in Antwerp looking at inclusive education.

PTA Newsletter January 2020

Merry Christmas from everyone here at Currie Primary School! We would all like to thank you for your continuing support and involvement in our school over 2019! We hope everyone has a restful and enjoyable time over the holidays and we look forward to hearing what everyone has got up to when we are back at school next year!

Remember school starts back for children at 8.45 am on Thursday 9 January 2020!

We had 2 ski Teams representing our school at an event at Hillend recently, one in the Boyd Anderson Team event and one in the Novice Team event. Both teams skied well, taking part in 2 races each. Our Novice Team had a very successful day, finishing second and coming away with the silver medals. Well done Fraser, Murray, Georgia, Grace, Skye and Robyn.

Congratulations to Miss Murray, our Nursery Teacher who had a little boy last week, Fraser George, weighing 8lb 5 oz. Mother and baby are doing well. We are looking forward to meeting Fraser and welcoming him to our school family next term.

Mrs Rubatto our Music Teacher will be taking over as Nursery Teacher after the holidays. Unfortunately, we have not been able to find another music teacher but we are looking forward to working with Miss MacPherson who will be in school on a Wednesday.

A huge thank you to our House Captains who organised our super Inter House Quizzes this week, the P1 – P3 Quiz on Tuesday and the P4 – P7 Quiz this morning. There were a variety of rounds in each quiz, for example Music, TV, Sport, General Knowledge, Science and Nature and Teachers Questions are just a few examples. The scores from both quizzes were added together and the results are as follows:

First – Pine Martins

Second – Golden Eagles

Third – Otters