We enjoyed welcoming Scottish Opera to school to work with our P7 classes on a production of Dragons of the Western Sea! A sumamry of the story is as follows:

The Emperor of Ming dynasty China, Zhu Di, decides to send out an enormous fleet of nine-masted ships, each the length of three football pitches, in order to increase China’s trade and influence in the mysterious lands to the west. Each ship is laden with fabulous treasure which will be distributed wherever they make friendly landfall. The Emperor chooses his old, trusted friend, Admiral Zheng He, to lead the expedition. During the expedition the ships sail to India, Africa and fight with pirates in the Persian Sea before arriving back home in China.

Our P7 have worked hard to learn the songs and music over the last 3 weeks and spent the day on Wednesday with members of the Scottish Opera on the choreography of the show. The costumes were amazing and P7 did a fantastic job performing for our classes and their parents and family members. It really was an amazing show! We were all really proud of the way P7 became so involved with and enthusiastic about this event and so obviously enjoyed it as, you will see from the photos!  Well done everyone!

We enjoyed our annual Scottish assembly in school on Friday with the winners of our Scots verse recital competition entertaining us with their Scots poems. It was fantastic to see so many of our younger children tackling Burns poems! We also enjoyed watching some of our children performing their Highland dancing and for the first time we enjoyed seeing Poppy’s Irish dancing too! As always we love to see and hear our violinist perform for us all too. A big thank you to Jamie Barton who took some time away from Currie Community High School to pipe us all into assembly and to accompany some of our P1 dancers. Our dancers this year were Jessica, Bethan, Sophie, Emily, Poppy, Harry, Toby, Murray, Fraser, Ellie, Kelsey and Caragh. Congratulations to all our Scots verse winners P1 – Hartley, Saul, Madison, Emma, Aisling, and Abi, P2 – Ailie, Cameron and Murray, P3 – Robyn and Jacob, P4 – Lawrence and Benjamin,  P5 – Jayden and Ruaridh and P6 Artie and Fatma. Thank you to all the parents and family members who came into join us for this assembly. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did.

Our Nursery have all been celebrating Burns day and all thing Scottish. We hope everyone enjoys the video of the morning children singing, ‘3 Craws Sat Upon a Wa’.

Please remember about the Online Safety Parents workshop we are running here in school on 7 February 2018. The workshop will last 1 hour and, as it says on the poster above, it will help you as parents and carers to keep their children safe while they are online.

We are very excited to be launching our school Sticker Book  on Thursday 25 January 2018. The children who have ordered a sticker book will be able to pick them up and everyone who wants to will be able to buy packs of stickers to start collecting. P7 will be giving out the sticker books and selling the sticker, priced at 50p per pack on Thursday and at break time every day from Friday onwards so the children will be able to buy some stickers for their collections whenever they want to or have saved up their pocket money. Staff will also have packets of stickers to give out, as prizes in class so there will be plenty of opportunities for everyone who wants to, to collect.

A vacancy has arisen in our school kitchen for a 10 hour per week Assistant Cook Grade 1.  The hourly rate is £8.51.

If you or anyone you know is interested please phone Lee or Penny in the school kitchen who will be happy to give you further details. Telephone number 0131 449 9310

We are all looking forward to the launch of our school sticker book on Thursday 25 January 2017.  The sticker book will be delivered to school on this day and P7 make sure that everyone who ordered one receives their book. There is still time to order a sticker book – if you would like to do so – please click on the link below to place an order.

http://www.wpstickers.co.uk/registration/products/8597bcd6-32e9-48e7-a739-06d71b0c5147

P7 will begin selling packs of stickers on this day too and even if they don’t have a sticker book children can still buy and collect the stickers. They will be on sale every day in Nursery and school for 50p a pack.

We are very sad to be saying good-bye to Mrs Finlayson as she moves to work at Roslyn Primary in Midlothian, which is closer to home. Mrs Finlayson last day is next week, Tuesday 16 Janaury 2018. Mrs Finlayson has taught at Currie Primary School for 11 years and is a valued colleague and friend to our staff team here in school. We wish Mrs Finlayson all the very best in her new job. We look forward to welcoming Mrs Yule to our staff team to take over from Mrs Finlayson teaching P4A on Mondays and Tuesdays until the summer.

On a happier note, we are delighted to let everyone know that Mrs Turnbull is expecting her second baby in early June, a little brother or sister for Chloe. Mrs Turnbull is planning to work until May before beginning her maternity leave.

This week have been delighted to welcome Mrs Kemp to our staff team as a new Pupil Support Assistant. Mrs Kemp will be working in different classes across school supporting the learning of children in class.

This survey has been devised to help us provide your child with a high quality education.  Your views will help us find out what we are doing well and where we could improve.

Thousands of parents and carers have taken part in previous surveys and I would like to encourage even more of you to do so this year.   The views of parents and carers really help us to improve services at the school level and across the city.

If possible, please complete the survey online using the following link:

http://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/pacr17

or complete the paper copy available from your child’s school.

We have not asked you to provide your name.  This is so that you can express your views freely knowing they will be anonymous.

A summary of the results will be circulated to all schools.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Yours sincerely

Andy Gray

Head of Schools and Lifelong Learning

City of Edinburgh Council

Waverley Court

4 East Market Street

Edinburgh EH8 8BG