We are delighted to share the lovely news with everyone that Mrs Pope is expecting her second baby in August 2017, a little brother or sister for Hannah. Mrs Pope is keeping well and is planning to start her maternity leave at the summer holidays.

This week’s expression of the week or ‘expression de la semaine’ is

‘À demain’

which means see you tomorrow. As always it would be great if you could encourage the children to use this expression plus our previous expressions of the week at home as well as in school – merci beaucoup!

It was lovely to host the annual Primary School Rotary Quiz for the area here in school this morning. We had 3 teams entered and they all did really well with our Currie Gold Team coming third equal with a team from Ratho Primary. Congratulations to Dean Park Primary whose teams came first and second. Out teams all worked really well together throughout the quiz and it was lovely to be complemented on their good behaviour and manners from the score keepers with each team at the end of the quiz.

We met this afternoon with the Robbie Crockatt from the Schools Estates Team and Elaine Watson one of the planners for the council to begin to discuss an extension to our school as the role is predict to rise over the next few years. This would initially mean an additional 2 classes from August 2018, taking us to 17 classes, with more classes being added in the following year / years.  At this point we really have no further information about where the extension will go or what it will look like.  There are to be further planning meetings, one more before the Easter holidays, when hopefully we will be able to tell you more and an open meeting for all parents at some point after that.

We are looking for 2 parents that would be interested in being involved in the discussions over the extension as plans are formulated. If you are interested in being part of this group and available to attend meetings during the school day please contact us at school either by popping in to let us know, by telephone on 0131 449 3359 or email us a note of your interest on our school admin email  –  admin@currie-pri.edin.sch.uk.

In the meantime, if you have any concerns or comments about the planned extension please do not hesitate to speak to us and we will do our best to answer any questions you may have.

We have been successful in our application for funding for our playground developments through the Tesco Bag’s of Help project!

Currie Primary is one of 3 projects in a selection of Tesco stores that has been shortlisted to receive a cash award from the Tesco Bags of Help scheme. Voting is open in stores throughout March and April. Customers cast their vote using a token given to them at the check-out in store each time they shop at the following list of Tesco stores:

CORSTORPHINE EXTRA  EH12 7UQ

EDINBURGH METRO       EH8 9EW

CAUSEWAYSIDE EDIN EXP            EH9 1PR

EARL GREY ST EDIN EXP EH3 9BN

EDINBURGH BRUNTSFIELD METRO           EH10 5DN

CRAIGLOCKHART EXP     EH14 1AT

EDINBURGH DAVIDSON METRO EH4 6AA

EDINBURGH HERMISTON             EH11 4DG

EDINBURGH SOUTH EXP                EH1 1LS

EDINBURGH FOUNT EXP               EH3 9QG

EDINBURGH HOLYROD EXP          EH8 8AU

EDINBURGH HAYMARK EXP         EH12 5LQ

EDINBURGH QUEF RD EXP            EH4 7QD

EDINBURGH ROSBURN EXP          EH12 5NG

EDINBRGH PRNCS ST EXP              EH2 4BL

EDINBURGH STENHSE EXP            EH11 3DQ

Please remember to ask for a token when you are paying for your shopping at any of the above names Tesco stores! We would also be grateful if you could encourage family and friends to vote for our project too – the more votes we get the more chance we have of winning the top prize of £5,000 which will make a huge difference to our playground developments, both as a play and learning area.

We will be celebrating Word Book Day in school this year on Thursday 2 March 2017. Each class will be involved in different activities associated with reading and books throughout the day. A couple of whole school events are planned as follows:

Come to school dressed as a character from your favourite book

and

A book exchange – bring a book to school you have finished reading and swap it for a different one (books must be in good condition).

Both of these activites are optional – children do not need to take part if they do not want to.

This week’s expression of the week or ‘expression de la semaine’ is

‘a bientot’

which means see you soon. Once more we would be grateful if you could encourage the children to use this expression plus our previous expressions / words of the week at home as well as in school – merci beaucoup!

Remember school is closed all of next week for the half term break. We will see everyone back in school on Monday 20 February 2017 at 8.45 am. We hope everyone enjoys the week off school.

We are trying a new way of sharing the work our pupils are involved in, in school, with parents and as a result we would like to invite you all to a House Coffee Morning on Friday 10 March 2017, to have a coffee with your child or children and the chance to look through all their jotters and work and chat with them about their progress. We are arranging the coffee mornings as follows

Eagles – 9.00 am in the Main Hall

Otters – 9.00 am in the Gym Hall

Pine Martins – 11.00 am in the Main Hall.

We hope you can make it along at these times. If you can’t we will send the work home over the weekend but will need it back on Monday 13 March 2017. This will replace the week of Wonderful Work jotters that normally come home just before Parent’s Evenings as many people have commented that they would like to see all the work, not just a snap shot.