The staff and children at Currie Nursery Class are very proud of one of their pupils and friend, Lina, age 5,  who has done something extremely kind and selfless. Lina has donated her hair for best friend Ethan was recently diagnosed with leukaemia and she wanted to do something positive to support him and his family.

Lina has donated 30cm of her hair to the Little Princess Trust (her first ever haircut!) and has been raising money for the local charity LoveOliver who have been so supportive to Ethan’s family.  She has received lots of generous donations so far and it is currently sitting at £7650 and increasing!
Lina and Ethan will take a BIG cheque to the charity hub on the 1st July.

Well done Lina we are very proud of you! We would also like to send our get well wishes to Ethan.

On Wednesday 12 June 2025 our P7 classes took to the stage with confidence and charm in their end-of-year musical, ‘The Next Big Step’. The performance was a vibrant celebration of talent, teamwork, and transition as our P7 pupils prepare to move on to high school after the summer. The musical followed a lively storyline centred around a group of friends as they celebrated primary school life whilst looking forward to the exciting challenges of moving on to high school, with catchy songs, memories, heartfelt moments, and plenty of humour and tears.  As P7 prepare for their next big step in life, this memorable show served as a fitting send-off, full of promise and pride. We are so proud of all of our P7s and can’t wait to hear how they get on at high school after the summer.

My name is Daniel and I am 11 years old. I play ice hockey as a goalie for Murrayfield Juniors Ice Hockey Club and Scotland. I play ice hockey because I like the speed of the sport, the physical hits, team work and having fast hand eye co-ordination.

I started in September 2023. In my first season as goalie I got my  first shut out (means o goals conceded), when we beat North Ayr 6-0.I won 4 man of the matches in my first season (18 games) as well as Spirit of the game for my team at the awards night.

In my second season I won quite a lot more man of the matches and was selected by Murrayfield head coach, mark hay, to attend the national development programme and was chosen to play for the Scottish national team U12s in a Tournament vs England. Just last weekend I played a tournament for under 14s. We got to the final and although we did not win I won Most valuable U14s Goalie of the tournament. This was a real honour as it was the coaches of the other teams that voted for me. I also got a silver medal as we came second in the tournament. 

Playing for the national squad is a big commitment as we train every month for a whole day with 2 on ice practices, lunch, a gym session and a classroom session on the technical part of the game and also how important nutrition, water and rest is in a sport to fuel your body and prepare to play.

My goal is to play in the elite league (highest league in Great Britain), Czech league, European Hockey or hockey in Canada. My dad was the one who got me into the sport. Dad is still playing and is the captain of Edinburgh Knights. I hope I am still playing when I am my dad’s age!

Daniel Laidlaw

P7, Currie Primary School

We built models that could, in real life, save farms and people from droughts and floods. This is part of Global Goal 13, to help countries with natural disasters. We used junk to build the models after we planned our designs and thought about what they would be made from in real life.

By Alayna and Oliver, P4B

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Wsste Free Wednesday was a big success in school today – huge thank you to Miss Mckay’s and the Eco Committee for organising this day for us. It was great to see so many of our younger pupils taking it so seriously and getting involved inveighing the plastic wrappers after break today. Our 3 winning classes with the least amount of waste had only 1g of weight between them. Well done to

• P1A 6g
• P3B 7g
• P5B 6g

These classes had about only 4 wrappers each.

We had a really fun ‘Swap Shop’ in school on Thursday organised by six of our P6 and P7 pupils. The children had been learning about fast fashion and organised a clothes swap. It was a huge success and lots of our pupils went away with a new top, trousers, outfit to wear!

We had a fun Sports Day in school today followed by our annual family picnic. Thank you to everyone for coming along to support this event and cheer our athletes on! Congratulations to the Otters who are this years Sports Day Champions!

P4 have been working on a block of persuasive writing. They used litter as a topic for this work. We thought you might like to read a few!

Keep The World Clean

Do you want to eat a fish that has eaten rubbish? Well that’s what happens if you litter.

Keep a fresh, clean and tidy environment.

Firstly, every year the world produces 141,000,000 tones of litter. That is the same weight as 35,000,000 elephants. In the uk 250,000 litter is dropped a day. 

That is terrible, harmful and dangerous for the environment.

Secondly, green sea turtles think that a jellyfish is a plastic bag so sometimes a turtle eats a jellyfish. In my opinion it is unfair that animals die or get injured because of the rubbish we drop. 

Last of all, recycling one tonne of paper can save 70 trees. So recycle! 

For these reasons, I think we can all stop littering!!

We must stop harming poor animals homes. What do you think?

By Cara Harrower

Do Not Litter!

Imagine going on a walk and all you can see is litter. Would you want that?

Litter is smelly, messy and ugly.You can trip over it and hurt yourself.

Some animals mistake litter and plastic as food or a home. Then eat it and get sick or die.🥀🤧

Did you know two million pieces of litter is dropped everyday just in the U.K!

Every year 141,000,000 tones of plastic is made. That is horrible for the environment.🪺

A lot of turtles think plastic bags that have been dropped in the sea are jellyfish then the turtles eat the plastic bags and die.

This is why you should save the environment by not littering and

cutting down on plastic and overly packaged products.🥡

By Ava Wilson

Keep the World Clean!

Imagine going to the beach and all you see is litter. Would you like that?

Firstly, we can harm animals by dropping litter. More than 70,000 animals are hurt by litter every year. Animals looking for food can get trapped in plastic or hurt on sharp edges.

Secondly, imagine eating a salmon, tuna or catfish that had eaten plastic. You just ate plastic! In the UK every day litter is dropped the same weight as 350,000 elephants.

These reasons show that by littering it hurts animals and people. So stop!

By Holly Russell

Interscholastics (12th of May Meadowbank)

13 pupils competed in the Interscholastics on Monday. This was our best result in my time at Currie Primary. We managed to qualify for the Mixed 4x100m Relay Final, Girls 4x100m Relay Final and Girls 80m Final. We managed to get 2^nd place overall, a silver, in both the Girls 4x100m Relay and Girls 80m. This was a superb effort as it was against both state and private schools from across Edinburgh.

4x100m Girls Relay Team

Ella Tatum P6A

Abigail Brown P7A

Karys Wylie P7C

Ellie Pye P7B

80m Girls

Ellie Pye

SSAA Primary Schools’ Cross-Country Championships (Saturday 26^th of April Kircaldy High School)

Two pupils competed in the Scottish Schools Athletics Cross-Country Championships against pupils from all over the country. Ella Tatum finished 19^th in the P6 Girls race and Mark Hendry finished 18th in the P6 Boys.

Mr Donaldson, PE Teacher