Parent Volunteers Always Welcome

If you are able to support our school either with a regular commitment of time or to help with class outings and sporting events, please contact the school office for further information.

Marty’s Coding Party

Congratulations to our team of P5’s and 6’s for reaching the final of Marty’s Coding Party. They competed against 31 other teams to reach the final six. The final will take place at Foresters High School on Monday the 18th June.

Abbey, Jamie, Yusef, Charlie, Kirsty and Rania programmed a Greatest Showman themed dance routine in the Scratch programming language. They then videoed Marty executing the moves and created an iMovie, which was entered into the competition.

 

Rotary Quiz Success

Congratulations to our P6/7 quiz team for winning the Edinburgh Final of the Rotary Quiz, they will compete in the Scottish Final on Sunday 3rd June. Well done to Sophie, Sam, Ross and Massimo, we are so proud of you !

Thank You

An enormous thank you to all our parents, carers, childminders, former pupils and members of the community who gave freely of their time this weekend to clear the snow, ensuring that school could open on Monday.

There was a great community spirit among all the hard work. Your time and effort is very, very much appreciated.

Scottish Book Week

To mark Scottish Book week we had a whole school home learning challenge to make your favourite book character from either a dolly peg, a wooden spoon or a potato.

These are the results :

 

Macmillan Coffee Morning

The Primary 5/6 class worked hard to organise a Coffee Morning as part of the Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning fundraiser. In addition to a wonderful array of home baking, guests had the opportunity to buy books, guess the height of the cake and guess the teddy bear’s birthday. The children were very well supported by the whole school community, who either baked for the event or came along to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and cake in the hall. Well done to the children for organising such a successful event and raising £384.79 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Measles infection in Lothian

Measles cases have been confirmed in Lothian over the past month in teenagers and young adults.

Please do not send your child to school if they have any symptoms suggestive of measles infection.

Symptoms

The symptoms of measles include fever, lethargy, runny nose, conjunctivitis, cough and a red, blotchy rash which starts at the head spreading over the chest and limbs. The rash generally fades within ten days.

If your child has developed symptoms suggestive of measles, you should keep your child at home and contact your General Practitioner for further advice by phone (or NHS24 if out of hours on tel. 111).

This is very important in order to avoid the spread of measles to other people.

People with measles are infectious from around five days before the rash appears until four days after the rash appears and should self isolate at home during this time.

MMR

The best protection against measles is two doses of MMR.

http://www.immunisationscotland.org.uk/vaccines-and-diseases/mmr.aspx