We are enjoying the ‘Eat Them to Defeat Them’ campaign in our lunch hall right now! The campaign encourages our children to try different fruits and vegetables. The ladies in our dinner hall have been working with a group of pupils to prepare for this event over the last few months and it will go one for weeks.

We are so lucky to have staff that always go to so much trouble and effort to make lots of delicious new recipes and goodies to try. The stall is proving very popular and it is great to see lots of children trying new things!

We had 40 children from P6 and P7 taking part in an Edinburgh City Cross Country event held at the Meadows on Monday. There were around 150-200 children in each race and we are so proud of how well all of our runners did with everyone completing the course. A very special well does to the following children who came in the top 20 of their events –

P6 boys Mark 9th, Joey 11th and Jamie 18th

P6 Girls   – Ella 7th, Flo 14th, Iona 16th

P7 Boys – Rhys 11th

P7 Girls  – Ellie 16th

It was a very exciting evening on Thursday as we were invited to take 6 P7s to the Saroj Lal Awards at The City Chambers. Our P7 classes have been involved with the work of this award for the last couple of years and it was wonderful to see the amazing work of our pupils on aspects of challenging inequality, perceptions, stigma and celebrating diversity on display at such a prestigious event. We were thrilled to win the Award of ‘Proud to be Me’ for the beautiful quilt P7 made. You will see the trophy we won displayed in the entrance next time you are in school. A huge congratulations to all of our P7s and their teachers, Mrs Turnbull, Mrs Jack and Mrs McGlynn.

World Book Day is always a fun day at school with amazing costumes and activities related to reading and books. This year everyone made a book crown. Lots of people dressed up as a word, a character from a book or story and Mrs Morrison came as a book worm eating her way through the novel her class are currently enjoying! Here are just a few of the photos from the day! Thank you to Finlay R. in P7 for helping with the photographs this year!

Last week we invited our grown ups to come to our ceilidh. First we skipped around the hall. We performed the Canadian Barn Dance, Strip the Willow and The Military Two Step. Then we got our grown ups to dance with us too. Afterwards we had shortbread and the grown ups had a cup of tea or a coffee.

By Preet, Luna, Mohammad, Jacob, Cora and Inaaya

Our chess team were in action on Saturday down at Broughton High School taking part in the Lothian Junior Chess Competition. We had a mixed day with some great wins, some draws and a couple of close games where we just missed out on a win. Well done to Saahir, Kughan, George, Tariq, Cameron, Johan, Arran and Mohammed who did a fantastic job of representing our school at this event.

Congratulations to Amelia, Murray, Eve, Amber and Emma who represented our school in the annual Primary Schools Burns Festival run by Edinburgh & District Burns Clubs association on Saturday morning. Our team did an amazing job reciting their Burns poems and we are very proud of them all.

P5 enjoyed a visit from their families on Friday who came to have a look at the bedroom designs the children have been making as part of a technology topic.