P2 put on a wonderful Nativity Show for us all this week, ‘Christmas with the Aliens’! The singing and acting were just fantastic, and everyone did a super job. We hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did!

Georgia (P7) was a star last Sunday  at the Edinburgh and Midlothian Schools Swimming Championships. Being the only pupil, whose times were fast enough to qualify  she competed in the 50m free style and the 50m butterfly representing CPS.

Unfortunately, Georgia’s goggles came off as she turned in the butterfly, but she showed her resilience and swam on finishing the race. Goggles sorted, her determination showed in the freestyle where she got a PB. 

Georgia represented Currie wonderfully and was very social with the other swimmers she knew and met.

The great news is Georgia can compete for CPS again next year as she is not 12 until next year. Hopefully we can have some other swimmers to join her.

December is always a busy month in school and no day more so than Christmas lunch day! A huge thank you to all of the ladies in the dinning hall who went to so much trouble and effort creating such a wonderful lunch experience for us all.

Congratulations to Mason who received the runner’s up prize in the recent Pentland Book Group P7-S1 cluster writing competition for 2019. The children were tasked with writing a short story based around conflict resolution. 2nd place is a massive achievement with so many entries from across the cluster schools.

We have been asked by NHS Lothian to disseminate the following information:

You will probably be aware that we have seen a large number of respiratory outbreaks in nurseries and schools in the past few weeks. These have caused service disruption with staff shortages and many pupils being absent from school/nursery.

The main symptoms being reported include:

– Fever- Cough-

Sore throat

– Muscle aches

– Sore tummy

– Cold/Flu like symptoms

– headache

These symptoms are consistent with respiratory viral illnesses such as the common cold, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza.

Respiratory viruses are spread by breathing in droplets produced when a person coughs or sneezes. You can also catch the virus by touching the surfaces that the droplets have landed on if you pick up the virus on your hands and then touch your nose or mouth.

 Key advice for parents and carers

In the home the risk of catching or spreading flu/cold like illness can be reduced by:

• Regular hand washing with liquid soap and running water
• Covering nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing
• Using a disposable paper tissue, disposed off immediately after use.
• You can teach your child to sneeze into the ‘crook’ of their arm rather than their hands, if they don’t have a tissue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQINuSTP1jI
• Good general cleaning of surface that everyone touches often e.g. TV remote, light switches, door handles, toilet flushes and tap heads.
• https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/infections-and-poisoning/common-cold
• https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/infections-and-poisoning/flu

Children should  not return to school until completely well and 48 hours after symptoms have ceased

Congratulations to our choir who performed beautifully at the St Mary’s Choir Festival on Friday morning.

You can also access the survey here at Out of School Care in Scotland

Primary 6 took part in a touch rugby tournament at Malleny Park on Wednesday 20.11.19. It was organised by Currie Chieftains.  7 schools were invited: Juniper Green, Nether Currie, Currie, Dean park,  Kirknewton , Kirkliston , and Ratho . We came third overall. Nether Currie came second. Juniper Green won. There were two teams per school which were separated into 2 pools pool A and B. Each team played 6 games.

We received a Glasgow warriors bottle in a Glasgow Warriors bag.

It was a great afternoon and we really enjoyed ourselves!

By Rohan and Finlay P6a

Friday 22 November 2019 is Miss Murray’s last day in school as she goes on maternity leave. We are interviewing at the beginning of next week for a replacement teacher for the Nursery and will let everyone know who the successful person is then. We all hope Miss Murray gets lots of opportunities to put her feet up and rest and relax before baby is born!

Congratulations to Mrs Jack and Mrs Strange who will both be acting Principal Teachers during Miss Murray’s maternity leave. Mrs Jack will take over responsibility for our literacy curriculum and Mrs Strange will be developing our STEM programmes and also the skills of Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) across the curriculum. Mrs Jack will be out of class on a Monday and Mrs Strange on a Tuesday to give them time to carry out these additional duties. Mrs Laird will be covering these days with P6A and P7A.

Dear CPS Parent/Carer,

Our next Parent Council meeting will be held on 20th November 2019 in the staff room from 7-9 pm. The meeting program is enclosed. We look forward to seeing you.

Currie Primary PC Agenda – 20th November 2019

7:00 – Introduction / Approval of last minutes

7:10 – Head Teachers update

7:30 – Chairs Update – including High School update

7:50 – Parent Council Reps

8:15 –  Accounts Update

8:20 – AOB

8:45 – Close

Kind Regards,

Your Parent Council