A huge well done to everyone in P2 for their fantastic performances of Bethleben, our Nativity this year! The classes have all worked so hard over the last few weeks to learn the songs and their lines and during their rehearsals to get ready for the performances. It was wonderful to welcome so many of our P2 parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters and friends to school over the two performances. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did!

All Parents,

As per the letter from the Education, Children and Families Committee regarding the proposal to close Currie High School.

Thank you all so much for your tremendous response to the Parent Council Survey. We have collated the results and will be sharing high level themes and results with you shortly.

The next stage of this feedback process is to make your views heard or for you to supply feedback to Edinburgh Council on this proposal – please find the link below.

We have only until the 12th of December to do this, although we are aiming to get this date extended:

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/20263/edinburgh_schools_review/1660/west_and_south_west_schools_review/2

As the website is timing out after 15 mins please write up your feedback elsewhere initially and then copy this into the form.

If you have any questions about these proposals or if you wish to get involved with your parent council please contact us at parent_council_curriePS@outlook.com.

Caroline Brown (Communications on behalf of the Parent Council)

After P6’s very successful Christmas Market the children walked up to the bottle bank to recycle the wine bottles from the water and wine stall. This type of thing helps the school to maintain their eco Green Flag Award.

Extra-Curricular Clubs Form

We had an exciting afternoon at The Pentland Book Group event held at Currie Community High School on Saturday. Our P4/5 Choir had their first performance and sang beautifully – we were all very proud of them. In addition, we had three winners from the Pentland Book Groups P7 short story competition where all the P7 pupils in all the schools in the Pentlands area were asked to write a short story of no more than 500 words entitled Peace At Last. Huge congratulations to Hannah and Christopher who were awarded a merit certificate for their entries and to Mary for coming 3^rd out of all the school who took part!

This year, P6 ran the Christmas Market on November 29^th. It was really successful and we made a profit of over £1300! Thank you if you came along – we couldn’t have done it without you.

We had a wide range of items on sale including cake, Snow Slime and handmade decorations. There were fun games like Water or Wine, Carrot Dip, Santa Search and many more. The Tombola and Raffle were very popular, with both selling out before the end!

On Thursday, we sold the left over cakes to the school and then spent time counting up all the money and calculating the profit. It was a relief to find we had made one!

We all enjoyed the responsibility of running the Christmas Market and we hope you enjoyed it too.

Sam Beaton

P6a

December is a busy month in school so below is a reminder of what is happening when. Fridays, in December in school over the last couple of years, have become Christmas jumper days so if the children would like to wear their Christmas jumpers to school on Fridays that is fine with us. For Christmas Parties the children can bring their party clothes to school and change after lunch before the parties. There are lots of staff in school to help the children get changed and ready.

December Dates

Thursday 7 December 2017 P2 Nativity – 6.00 pm

Friday 8 December 2017 P2 Nativity – 10.45 am

Tuesday 12 December 2017 – P1 – P6 Panto (wear Christmas jumpers, Santa hats, etc.)

Wednesday 13 December 2017 – Christmas lunch in school

P7 Lyceum (meet in Foyer at 6.50 pm)

Thursday 14 December 2017 – P4 Healthy Living event for Parent’s – 1.45 – 2.45 pm

Friday 15 December 2017 – Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day (if you can, bring a small donation to be sent to Save the Children)

Monday 18 December 2017 – P5 and P6 Christmas Party (1.00 pm – 3.15 pm)

P7 Christmas party (1.00 pm – 3.15 pm)

Tuesday 19 December 2017 – P3 and P4 Christmas Party (1.00 pm – 3.15 pm)

Wednesday 20 December 2017 – P1 and P2 Christmas Party (1.00 pm – 2.45 pm)

Thursday 21 December 2017 – pm Nursery Christmas Party

Friday 22 December 2017 – am Nursery Christmas Party

12.00 pm – Christmas holidays

We have received confirmation from the authority that the plans for our extension are now available on the Planning Department web site  for people to view and comment on.

The reference numbers are as follows:

17/05182/FUL – extension with up to eight classes (pitch option)

17/05183/FUL – two storey extension with up to eight classes (the embankment option).

The period to submit comments is now open and closes on Tuesday 19 December.  Comments can be made via the planning portal.