Thank you to everyone for coming along to support our May Fayre yesterday, on the most glorious of days. A big thank you to all of the dance teachers and dancers at Simon Says Dance, Hamilton Heel and Toe and Balerno Dance Academy for the wonderful performances and to our fabulous choir who sang so beautifully.

The event could just not happen without the hours and hours of preparation work our amazing PTA put in throughout the year planning and organising everything – we are so, so grateful for the work you do and a huge thank you to all of the staff and volunteers who came along on the day to help set up, run stalls and activities and tidy up at the end of the afternoon. The May Fayre just could not happen without all of your help and time.

We enjoyed a lovely Street Party at lunch time today as we celebrated the 80th Anniversary of VE Day in school.

It was great to have Fitness Friday back last week – thank you to everyone for coming along and earning houses points for each lap completed!

We have lots of amazing prizes for our raffle and silent auction coming in.

Thank you, Micro Scooters, for your donation of some scooter and bike accessories to our raffle. As well as safety accessories, their range includes the iconic 3 wheel scooter that revolutionised travelling to school – the Mini Micro.

The nursery children were excited to see and play on the new track,  hopscotch, dragon number line and coloured shapes in the playground. 

Thank you to the PTA for kindly donating the funds for us to enjoy these experiences.

Kind regards 

The Nursery Team.

It was a colourful end to term at school with all of our beautiful Spring Bonnets on parade! Thank you to everyone for making such a huge effort with what has become over the year our traditional end to the Spring term. Our House captains chose the winners from each class of our Spring Bonnets this year and judged our Spring Colouring Competition entries along with some of our other P7s. Thank you to the PTA for the providing the prizes for the colouring / drawing competition.

Our Nursery children have been taking part in a Bunny Bounce this week to raise funds for the Nursery!

On Monday 17 March our Air Pollution competition winners and some of our Eco Committee went to the Parents4Future Scotland event which was held at the Edinburgh City Chambers. 

This event was the culmination of our school’s excellent work on Air Pollution and was a chance to showcase some of it to other school, charities and members of Edinburgh City Council. 

The morning opened with a variety of people who spoke on the topic of air pollution and was followed by some time to browse a range of stalls. Our children spoke confidently and passionately about the work carried out across our school. The children were also invited to take part in a range of activities within this context including Eco badge making and making their own smoothie on the smoothie bike. They had to use a lot of energy to power the bike which in turn created energy to power a blender and blend the fruit into a delicious smoothie.

It was a great morning enjoyed by all children, staff and parents.

On Monday we went to the building site of the new houses in Currievale Park. We went to the building site to see where the houses will be built and to see all the nature and eco-friendly things there. We saw a squirrel up a tree. We took photos and got ideas for our school project.

By Rachel, Esme, Finn and Layla 

Our ‘Eat Them To Defeat Them’ pupil group enjoyed a morning working with our dinner ladies last week making pizza with a range of toppings for us all for lunch and then serving it to us. The pizzas were delicious and very popular! A huge thank you to Miss Blackwood and all of the ladies in our dinner hall for making this happen for our pupils.