Congratulations to Mrs Lake who has secured a permanent teaching position with Midlothian Council. Mrs Lake has been with us for 1 year and I would like to thank her for the work she has done in this time.  Mrs Lake will finish up at Currie Primary School at the October break.

We are delighted to be welcoming Miss Sharpe back to our school to replace Mrs Lake. Miss Sharpe taught at our school a couple of years ago before going travelling. It will be lovely to have Miss Sharpe back on our staff and I am sure P2B will enjoy having her as their teacher.

Thank you to everyone who has expressed an interest in placing an advert in our school sticker book. The flyer below shows the details of sizes of adverts and prices for your information.

Pricing and Information Pack

Below is a useful Education Scotland Link for parents/carers to support numeracy at home.

https://education.gov.scot/parentzone/learning-at-home/supporting-numeracy/Introduction

This can also be found on our Information for Parents > Parent Prompt  page of our website.

Parent Prompts

The photographs have now all been taken for our sticker book and look fantastic. I am sure everyone will be delighted with them! P7 have taken on the job of looking for people to advertise in our sticker book which will help towards the cost of printing the stickers. The more advertising P7 can sell for our book the more profit our school will make from the sale of the stickers – all profits will go towards our playground developments.

If you run your own business or work for a company / business or have any contacts with anyone that would be interested in advertising in our sticker book, we would love to hear from you or them. Advertising space starts at £85 and there are various price options from there depending on the size of advert. We have information fliers available in school that we can send out to you or your contacts which will give you more details. Please let us know if you would like one. We hope to hear from you soon!!

Please can you remind your child / children not to ride round the playground on their bikes and scooters at the beginning and end of the school day. The playground is very busy at these times and one of our older boys almost knocked a little girl over riding his bike down the hill earlier this week at home time.

Children should get off their bikes at the gate in the morning and wheel them to the bike rack in the playground. At the end of the day the children are asked to collect their bikes and scooters and wheel them up the path before getting on them at the gate. We spoke to all the children about this in assembly this week and would appreciate your help to reinforce this message at home as it is not always for staff to be in the playground at the end of the day.

The plans for our new extension will be on display in the main hall of our school on Thursday 28 September 2017 from 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm for all parents and members of the public to come and look at. As Head Teacher I will be there, as will people for the authority, the architects and the building company in case you had any questions you wanted to ask about the plans and the development of our school.

A big thank you to everyone who came along to support our Beetle Drive yesterday evening – we hope everyone enjoyed a very competitive event! The Beetle Drive raised £85! Thank you to everyone on the PTA for organising this fun evening!

As you know we have a new exciting activity for your kids this year ~ the school Sticker Books!!!

The P7 pupils will be coordinating this fund raising enterprise for us throughout the year.

Our photographer has already taken pictures of your child on Monday & Tuesday. Anyone who didn’t get their photo taken will have another chance on Sept 22^nd. He has taken great care to ensure the photos are of the best quality possible.

Here is some more information on the sticker books:

• These pictures will be converted into paper stickers which can then be collected for filling the sticker books.
• There will be one book for Nursery, P1, P2 and P3 and a second book for P4, P5, P6 and P7. Each class, Nursery to P7 will have a section of the album and the children will be able to collect the stickers to complete their album or their section of the album.
• You will get a free sticker book with any order of school photographs or you will have the opportunity to purchase a sticker book if you are not purchasing school photos this year.
• Each sticker pack will contain 5 random stickers for and will cost 50p. The sticker packs will only contain stickers for the book your child is collecting. Sticker packs will also be used as rewards in the school where children can ‘win’ sticker books for good behaviour etc. The stickers
• If you want a particular sticker you can also order these individually.
• There are a few examples of these types of sticker books in school if you would like to get an idea of what our sticker book will be like.
• Also as communicated previously only the children’s first names will appear in the sticker album so everyone knows where to sticker the stickers. No other personal details will be included.

If you would like to find out more about our school sticker book or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact school.

Caroline Brown                                                                                                                                       Parent Council

The September nursery newsletter is now available to read here  September 17 Nursery Newsletter

National survey on the expansion of free early learning and childcare in Scotland

 As you’ll be aware the Scottish Government is planning to nearly double the hours of free early learning and childcare by 2020. Because the views of parents and carers are crucial for the success of this expansion, the Government has commissioned independent researchers to undertake a survey of parents. It is now asking for your help in sharing the survey link (www.bit.ly/elc-survey) with as many parents of 0-5 year old children in your community as possible.

All parents taking part will have the opportunity to be entered into a prize draw and have the chance to win one of 10 x GBP100 cash prizes.

The survey is carried out for the Scottish Government by Craigforth, an independent research company. If you have any questions about this survey please send a message to: survey@craigforth.co.uk