Good afternoon everyone,

Please see below a letter from our Pupil Council about a planned fundraiser we’d like to hold next term to support people in Ukraine.

We are planning a sponsored run/walk/skip on Friday 29^th April at Craigroyston Football Pitch in St.Mark’s Park.

Each class will have an allocated time for their run. These times will be shared nearer the event.

We are aiming, as a school community, to try and reach 1435 miles, which is the distance from Leith to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.

Parents and Carers are invited to attend at your child’s allocated time and are welcome to run/walk/skip to help us reach our mile target.

We are aware that some children may also be collecting sponsors for the Edinburgh Marathon Festival around this time too, so please don’t feel pressurised to collect for both events. Senior pupils fasting at that time will not have to take part.

Ukraine Fundraiser Letter

Paper copies of this letter have gone home today, as there is a sponsor form attached.

Thank you for your support!

Good afternoon everyone,

Please see below a letter from Ms Gowans about Ramadan 2022.

Ramadan 2022

Thank you.

Thanks to everyone who came along to the third of our weekly training practices for the Edinburgh Marathon Festival (Sunday 27 March, 10.30 am). Thanks to Shona Campbell for leading the session and to Ivon Bartholomew for photographing the practice. Perhaps a little quieter this week. The 10.30 am start felt a little more difficult after the clocks going back the night before!

Next Sunday (Sunday 03 April, 10.30 am) same time, same place, Pilrig Park, open to all – you don’t need to have entered the EMF to join in at Pilrig Park! Younger /older siblings welcome. All levels of running ability welcome. It’s about fun and taking part!

You may remember our Pupil Equalities Group sent a letter to parents and carers to ask about languages spoken at home. They were keen to find out how many different languages are spoken by the families in our school. They have now collated the responses, and wanted to show the results by sharing how to say ‘Hello’ in all the different languages. One of our pupils from ESB2 created the map of the world for the display background! He drew it all from memory! Their display is below!

Thanks for making the map! It’s fab!

Star Awards

P1a- Ada Hansen

P1b- Rafa Sanz Munoz

P2a- Max Slowey

P2b- Atticus Crozier

P3a- Ilyas Karaallal

P3b- Wiktor Wodnicki

P4a- Adeline Lewis, Domo Johnnie, Elodie Avison, Carl Nyoni, Tiana Daley and Bruno Adamow

P4b- Fede Wilcken

P5a- Olivia Zieniewicz

P5b- Harrison Hood

P6a- Flynn Powers and Joshua Winterstein

P6b- Kacey Fisher

P7a- Alice Avison

P7b- Orla Pendry

ESB 2- Ellis Moloney

Big Book of Achievement

Tiana Daley (P4a) called in to Forth One as part of their ‘Every Day’s A School Day’ feature, and shared what she has been learning about the Egyptians. Boogie and Arlene were impressed with her knowledge!

House Points

Here are the House Points for this week-

McDonald- 455 points

Drummond- 365 points

Pilrig- 361 points

Trinity- 260 points

Well done to McDonald!

Congratulations to everyone on their achievements this week! Have a nice weekend!

Please see the attached letter below which outlines the mitigations for schools and Early Years settings from 18 April.

Thank you.

Letter to Parents and Carers from Jason Leitch National Clinical Director – 21 March 2022

Many thanks to everyone who came along to the second of our BPS Pilrig Park weekly training practice runs for the Edinburgh Marathon Festival Junior Races on Sunday. Thanks again to Shona Campbell for leading the session and to Ivon Bartholomew for photographing the practice.  It’s lovely to see a couple of the former BPS runners, now in secondary school, coming along too, to support the activity. 

Next Sunday (Sunday 27 March, 10.30 am) same time, same place, Pilrig Park, open to all – you don’t need to have entered the EMF to join in at Pilrig Park! Younger /older siblings welcome. All levels of running ability welcome. It’s about fun and taking part!

Please see a message below from Ms Gowans about this year’s Comic Relief!

Comic Relief: Friday 18th March

I’d like to say a huge thank you for your support for Comic Relief last Friday.  I don’t think I have ever seen so many cakes.  The contributions from families were incredible and made it a fantastic event.  P6b worked hard all morning serving cakes to every child in school.  

P6a also worked incredibly hard in the playground making sure every child had the chance to have some fun and take part in the activities they had organised.  I was so proud of our primary six pupils for their hard work and positivity throughout the morning.

We raised almost £300.00 on the morning in cash!  An outstanding amount of money.  In addition to that, we had £116.00 donated through ParentPay making a grand total of £416.00.  Thank you all so much for your contributions –  dressing your children up, giving cash and baking cakes.  It was the first event like this we have had in two years and all your support made it a great success.

Maria Gowans

What a busy day we’ve had!

As well as seeing lots of lovely costumes for our dress down day, P6 organised some special events to mark our participation in Red Nose Day 2022.

P6a organised an outdoor fun session with classes from P1-P7. See some pictures below…

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Meanwhile P6b ran a bake sale for all the classes in our dining hall. We were absolutely amazed by the generosity of our school! There were so many donations of delicious baking, we had lots to sell…

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Huge thanks to P6 for organising these events, and thank you if you donated any baking today, or made a donation through ParentPay! We’ll let you know how much money we have raised for Comic Relief once P6 have counted up all our bake sale money and added it to the ParentPay donations!

Star Awards

P2a- Henry Parry

P2b- Aaron McLaughlin

P3a- Dalton Slater

P3b- Danvanth Laxman, Celia Gray and Abigail Makunganya

P4a- Lily Giraldas

P4b- Julia Smykiel

P5a-Blair Malcolm and Aya Yasin

P5b- Emiliano Amato and Amy Hernandez Suarez

P6a- Maya Skarzynska and Kayla Gasser

P6b- Alfie Gaukrodger

P7a- Erin Walton

P7b- Mustafa Azam

Big Book of Achievement

Maya Marcinowicz (P7b) made a stop motion animation for one of her home learning tasks- the theme was ‘5 tips to help stay safe online.’ Very creative Maya!

Carly Law (P3a) won a medal for coming in 4th in a baton twirling competition. Well done!

Joey Wright (P7a) shared a picture showing how he made pancakes at home for pancake day, all by himself with no help! He was even managing two pans at once! Well done chef!

Alexia Kiokpasoglou (P4a) shared a ticket she has been sent from NASA for their next mission to the moon! She shared how the Artemis 1 mission is the first uncrewed mission to the moon, and will pave the way for the first person of colour, and the first woman on the moon in future missions!

House Points

Here are the House Points for this week-

Trinity- 783 points

Pilrig- 759 points

Drummond- 672 points

McDonald- 610 points

Well done to Trinity!

Congratulations to everyone on their achievements this week! Have a lovely weekend!