The Halloween disco’s were lots of fun on Friday afternoon! Thank you to Mrs Donnachie and everyone on the PTA for organising these and to all the parents who came along to hep supervise. The costumes were as amazing as always as was the dancing!

Big thank you to the ladies in our school kitchen who made a ‘spooktacular’  lunch for us this week!

P5 enjoyed showing off their art work at their exhibition last week as a the final of their topic on art and artists!

On Friday the 4^th of October 2019 Currie Primary School took part in the ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ initiative. We all wore red clothes to school and some people brought in a donation of £1. In assembly and in class we discussed important messages around racism and how important it is to treat everyone regardless of skin colour or religion the same. The Pupil Council counted the money we raised for this charity and we made £217.05! We hope it might help educate people and stop racism.

Macy Ross and Isabella McHaffie

Currie Primary School Pupil Council

On Friday 4 October 2019 we will be taking part in this year’s ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ day by all wearing red to school. Racism continues to be the highest reported hate crime in Scotland with many people suffering abuse each day. By raising awareness of this issue and celebrating our uniqueness as well as our similarities we can make a difference in creating a better more tolerant world. Everyone who would like to should wear something red to school and, if you are able to, make a small donation (suggested donation £1) to this very worth while cause.

We had a lovely evening in school last night at our Annual PTA Beetle Drive. It was great to see so many families come along to support this event. Congratulations to Ruairi for winning stand up bingo, Samuel and his family for winning the Beetle Drive and Mrs Duncan who won  the wooden spoon! A big thank you to Mrs Donnachie and our PTA for organising this event.

We are delighted to let you all know that  our school has been awarded a sportscotland Gold School Sport Award for 2019-2022.

Our award confirmation stated:

‘The Gold School Sport Award is recognition of your school’s achievements in putting sport at the heart of your school’s planning, practice and ethos.

 The Gold Award also highlights that your school has shown excellent practice across the core areas of the Award and demonstrated an on-going commitment to increase young people’s opportunities and engagement in physical education, school sport and leadership and provide clear pathways to life-long participation in sport.’

We would all like to say a huge thank you and well done to Mrs Elliot our PE teacher and the pupils on our  Sports Council last session for collating all our evidence and submitting our application for this award. We are looking forward to receiving our flag and flying it from our flag pole.

To celebrate “European Day of Languages” which is annually on 26 Sept, the P5s, who are learning Spanish this year, were asked to come to school dressed in the colours of the Spanish flag or in Spanish dresses & bring along anything Spanish, e.g. castanets, Spanish fans, etc.

We had great fun learning about Spanish culture, especially flamenco dancing.  Señora Ferguson taught 7 different flamenco movements : rhythmic stamps, clapping, wrist movements, etc.  We watched a short video of Spanish children learning flamenco dancing & joined in.  Then we choreographed our own little flamenco routines with a partner to the music of “Despacito” (the totally Spanish version, of course)!

¡Estupendo!  ¡Fantástico!  ¡Muy bien!