P3 pupils, their teachers and Ms Anstruther are congratulated on a hugely successful project which allowed all the P3 pupils to plan, lead and organise the whole school event.
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Sunday, 30 October 2016
P3 Led Foodbank Harvest Appeal P1-3 Assembly
P3 pupils, their teachers and Ms Anstruther are congratulated on a hugely successful project which allowed all the P3 pupils to plan, lead and organise the whole school event.
Friday, 28 October 2016
P3 Led Foodbank Appeal WE Scare Hunger Assembly
On Friday 28th October, Ewan from Edinburgh Central and Northwest Foodbank thanked all the pupils and families for their tremendous generosity in donating non perishable food items in response to the P3 led whole school Harvest Assembly. Ewan explained to the pupils how their donations will make a real difference to families across Edinburgh. P3 pupils, Ms Anstruther, Mr Scott and Mr Reid helped Ewan and his team load up their van at the end of Assemblies.
WE Free the Children is a charity sponsored by the Queen's Trust that we have been working with and the P3 Appeal linked very well with their 'WE Scare Hunger' Halloween Foodbank campaign.
Parent Kirstin Unger contacted us to let us know about the 'Carve A Heart' in a pumpkin campaign for Syria. Families wishing to take part can text HEART to 70060 to donate £3 and can use the hashtag #carveaheart to Tweet their support.
Pupils sang along to a Spanish song "Los Monstruos" suggested by Miss Stewardson and learned a new song about self belief by Will.i.am.
We were delighted to see that even more pupils have taken up the challenge of joining a library and we continue to aim for all our pupils to become members as part of the First Minister's Reading Passport Challenge.
We shared exciting news that Google Expeditions will visit school on Wednesday 30th November with special Virtual Reality Google Goggles!
P7 will begin selling poppies to classes on Monday 31st October for the next two weeks and will accept any donations offered. (Our poppies have stickers rather than pins.) Mr Howie told everyone about white poppies and explained how money raised in our poppy appeal will help ex-service people, as well as showing that those who lost their lives in war are remembered.
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The right to have a good enough standard of living.
Saturday, 15 October 2016
P4-7 Foodbank WE Scare Hunger Assembly
On Friday 14th October Mrs Noble led the P4-7 Assembly and told everyone about the forthcoming P3 led whole school Foodbank Appeal. Our Harvest Assembly will take place on 28th October when representatives from the North West Edinburgh Foodbank will collect donations of non perishable food items.
Ms Owen was congratulated on her seconded appointment to City of Edinburgh's 1+2 Languages team and everyone wished Ms Gaffney well as she begins her maternity leave.
Safe and happy holidays to all our families and we will welcome pupils back to school on TUESDAY 25th OCTOBER.
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The right to have a good enough standard of living.
Friday, 7 October 2016
Challenge Yourself! P4-7 Assembly 7.10.16
On Friday 7th October we issued the First Minister's Reading Challenge Passports to P4, P5 and P6 and reminded pupils what is involved in the Reading Challenge. P7 pupils have already received their passports and have begun using them.
One of the entries in the Reading Challenge Passport asks pupils to name their local library and librarian and we again encouraged all our pupils to join their local library. There are many free resources to pupils and families through the Library Service via the Overdrive app - eBooks, audiobooks, free Mathetics maths resources and games, language resources. Not signed up yet? A great challenge to complete in the Ocober holiday!
Ms French's Reading Challenge continues to be a great success with many more of her pupils achieving Gold awards for reading 15 books!
We congratulated many pupils on recent achievements and enjoyed a wonderful, confident performance on guitar from Kevin, Riley, Hannah and Eloise.
Our P3 whole school led Harvest Appeal for Foodbank launches next week and the P3 teams are busy organising. A collection will be made on Friday 28th October and ties in with international charity WE Free the Children's 'Scare Hunger' campaign. Free the Children will visit school in December and we are looking forward to welcoming them back again to help us with pupil led social action.
Class Teachers in P4-7 will inform pupils if and how their classes will celebrate Halloween this year.
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