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!

Please see below a report from Rachel Blythe, chair of the Parent Council, on the first of our Sunday fun runs in preparation for the Edinburgh Marathon Festival in May.

Many thanks to everyone, who came along to today’s BPS Pilrig Park weekly training practice towards the Edinburgh Marathon Festival Junior Races (Sunday 13 March, 10.30 am).  Well done to Shona Campbell for leading the session.  Thanks to Ivon Bartholomew for the photographing the practice. 

Next Sunday, same time 10.30 am, 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!

Good afternoon everyone,

Please see below from Rachel Blythe, chair of our Parent Council, reporting on the successful playground tidy up and gardening event at the weekend…

MANY THANKS to everyone who came to our Playground Big Tidy Up / Gardening Day on Saturday.  A good turn out!, Nice to see everyone!  Particular thanks to Chris Willmott and Gael, P3, (made and used barbecue); to Anne Hay and to Karina Karaagacli, (ran the tea and hot chocolate stall); to Catriona Hay (now S2), Marsha Purdie, Rebecca Winterstein and others (demolishing the storm damaged buddleia); to Tammy Doig, (brought extra plants for planting) and to Alasdair, P7 (ran treasure hunt)

There was a story in the sheltered area, about a boy, some pirates and a brightly coloured macaw.  The book became the main prize at the end and there were chocolate prizes for good listening.

Thanks to Daniel Winterstein for organising some football playing, and to Pauline Oh and Ritchie Collins, who donated the charcoal for the barbecue.  Many thanks to Mrs Gowans, who came along and to Essa, the Janitor, who opened and closed the gym hall.

Here are some photos of the event below…

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Thanks to all who came along and helped!

P6b are organising a Bake Sale for Comic Relief next Friday 18th March!

See below a poster and letter with details for your information.

Comic Relief Bake Sale Letter

Comic Relief Bake Sale Poster

Star Awards

P1a- Lucy Draganova

P1b- Humaira Hussain

P2a- Summer Jones

P2b- The whole class!

P3a- Ruby Tennant and Emre Gear

P3b- Danvanth Laxman

P4a- Adeline Lewis

P4b- Seren Ferguson

P5a- Meriem Bousbaci

P5b- Jarvis Leung

P6a- Filip Guagliardo

P6b- Sukhtaj Chalana

P7a- Hebron Tennant

P7b- Alasdair McCallum

ESB2- Nikolas Dudziak

Big Book of Achievement

Nathan Drever (P4b) wrote all the numbers from 1 to 9999 in Kanji, which is a form of Japanese language characters!

Adam Winterstein (P4b) found a pumice stone, and carried out an experiment at home to show it can float on water!

Phong Thanh Dao (P3b) ran 10 miles in one day!

House Points

Here are the House Points for this week-

Trinity- 1132 points

Drummond– 975 points

McDonald- 904 points

Pilrig- 900 points

Well done to Trinity!

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

Good morning everyone,

Please find below the latest newsletter from CEC Adult Learning Services.

Thank you.

CEC Adult Learning Services Newsletter February 2022

Our Friends at Broughton parent and carer group are holding a Playground and Bowling Green Big Tidy Up / Gardening Day this Saturday 12 March from 1.00 pm to 4.00 pm.

Here is a link to a poster promoting this event-

Big Tidy Up Day poster

Come along and help, and have fun too!

Help out with planting and weeding. Or if you’re not a gardener, you can help to tidy and litter pick, or help serve food and drinks. Or just come along to chat to others!

We will have a barbecue set up, and drinks available, including hot chocolate.

A children’s Pirate Treasure Hunt will take place, and also an outdoor story with prize for smaller kids at 2.00 pm.

Access to the gym hall is available for toilets.

All are welcome: parents and carers, and children of any age.

See you then!

This Sunday 13 March sees the first weekly fun run as we start to prepare for the Edinburgh Marathon Festival in May. The fun starts at 10.30am at Pilrig Park, to run or walk some laps. Some will be staying to play in the play park after too. The fun runs are open to all – you don’t need to have entered the EMF to join in, younger and older siblings welcome, and all levels of running ability welcome. It’s about fun and taking part!

Click on this link to see a poster promoting these-

BPS Pilrig Park Fun Runs Poster

See you there!