Over the past few weeks the school library has taken delivery of many lovely new books. Nearly £300 worth of books have been purchased using commission from our annual Book Fair (this is on top of the £800 commission already spent on books for classes) and we have also received a very generous donation from the PTA. This has allowed us to keep up to date with new releases (Diary of a Wimpy Kid and David Walliams are always very popular!) and purchase books requested by the children – our new books range from fish, reptiles, martial arts and the solar system to Star Wars, Frozen and Pokemon! We have also purchased copies of books written by the Scottish author Lari Don who visited the older pupils recently and other books relating to class projects.

Our most popular book though is the Guinness Book of Records. So popular in fact that this year we have purchased three copies of the 2017 edition, two copies are out to borrow and one copy will be kept in the library for all pupils to enjoy!

We look forward to your continued support at our next Book Fair in March 2017.

It’s year stage parties this week in school as you will see form the dates at the right hand side of this page. The children might like to bring in their party outfits to change into after lunch to wear to their party to save wearing their good clothes all day especially outside at break and lunchtimes. There are plenty of people to help the younger children change of they need help with fastenings, buttons, zips, buckles and laces etc.!

Thank you to everyone for supporting Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day in school today by wearing Christmas jumpers. It was also our school Christmas Service this morning and it was a very bright and colourful gathering. The service this year was led by some of our P7s with Amy, Sean, Charlie, Ross, Rosie, Macy, Eva and Owen doing the readings and Mackenzie and Karis acting out a short play called ‘The Biggest and Best Gift in the World’, that got everyone thinking about love, helpfulness, kindness and manners being the best present everyone can give. We also enjoyed some musical entertainment form our violin and brass instrumentalists as well as from our school choir and P7 Music Ensemble group.

Please remember that tomorrow Friday 16 December is Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day.  Wear your Christmas jumper to school and please feel free to make a donation to the charity by bringing a small donation to school.

Firstly, our new Nursery teacher, Miss Sturrock, would like to say a huge thank you to all the children and parents/carers for the warm welcome she has received here at Currie. She looks forward to working with you all in the future and getting to know the families better.

Christmas Activities

The children have been busy in the Nursery getting into the Christmas spirit through a variety of different activities! You will find them…

• Making festive crafts from materials available in the craft room
• Re-enacting the Nativity using costumes and props
• Singing Christmas songs and listening to Christmas stories
• Playing in the home corner which is now equipped with Santa suits, pyjamas and Christmas stockings.

Christmas Cards

Children are always keen to send Christmas cards to their Nursery friends but we ask that if you are giving out cards, you write one card only to the whole Nursery, which we will then share with children at group time. Thank you for your support in this.

End of term Celebrations

The Christmas parties are fast approaching and we would like to invite parents to come and join in the fun, listening to Christmas songs and getting to meet Santa Claus himself! A reminder of the dates and times:

• Morning children: Thursday 21^st December at 11am
• Afternoon children: Wednesday 20^th December at 2.45am

New Children 2017

We are pleased to be welcoming 12 new children to the afternoon Nursery from Wednesday 11^th January, taking our numbers to full capacity. We are looking forward to welcoming the children and their families in the New Year.

Dates for the Diary

• Friday 16^th December 2016 – Christmas Jumper Day (Save the Children)
• Thursday 21^st December 2016 – end of term (no afternoon session)
• Tuesday 10^th January 2017 – all resume

Finally, we would like to wish a very Merry Christmas to all our nursery families and hope you have a Happy New Year. We are looking forward to continuing to work in partnership with you and thank you for all of your support so far.

Currie Nursery Team

P7’s took a wee trip up to Currie Library today in order to hand over the presents to Forth One’s Mission Christmas Appeal.

Tomorrow, Tuesday 13 December 2016 is Panto day for P1 – P6. The children should bring a snack to eat at the interval of the Panto and a bottle of water (please don’t send juice as this is very sticky when it is spilt) and a packed lunch which we will eat when we return to school. The children can also wear Christmas Jumpers / t-shirts, Santa hats etc. if they would like to.

We have 9 coaches arriving first think in the morning to take us all to the Panto – we would appreciate it if parents do not park on Curriehill Road tomorrow morning so we can leave spaces for the coaches to park and for other cars, buses etc. to get passed. Many thanks in advance for your cooperation with this.

Some people have been asking what our school t-towels look like before they order them so we have attached a couple of photos above. The children all drew a picture of themselves which have been printed onto the t-towels. We only have a few left so if you would like one please order on Wisepay soon to avoid disappointment – they are £4 each and will make a great stocking filler or keep sake!

Thank you to everyone who came along to see our P2 Nativity in school this morning, Och Aye the News. P2 did a fantastic job of telling us the Christmas story with this new Nativity Show which Mrs McGlynn and Miss Perry adapted to fit our school. They acted and sang so confidently, we were very proud of everyone’s performance. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did.