Here is our final awards and achievements announcement of the term!

Star Awards

This week’s Star awards were presented to these children for being successful learners!

P1a- Harrison Jevons

P1b- Sajith Manikandan and Zoe Bell

P2a- Akal Singh

P2b- All the McDonald house pupils!

P3a- Oscar Ni and Cihangir Ates

P3b- Ibrahim Nawed, Yahya Iqbal and the whole class!

P4a- Tiana Daley and Ege Ozener

P4b- Josh Hay

P5a- Robert Wawock

P5b- Luke Evans

P6a- Lewis Dimelow

P6b- Houssem Hamza

P7a- Danny Coleman, Mikaeel Ely and Erin Walton

P7b- Roland Sheta, Harlow Irvine, Tyler Evans, Emi Wodnicka and Esteban Mucindo Flores

ESB2- Ellis Moloney

Big Book of Achievement

Evie Oosthuizen (P4b) painted a beautiful picture of our school in her free time at home. Beautiful painting Evie, and what an excellent likeness!

We also must give a mention to the P7 members of our Equalities Group, who led the assemblies about Ramadan this week. They explained what Ramadan is like for them, and what fasting is. They also took questions about Ramadan from their audiences. Well done Nur, Armaan and Mariyah! Here they are presenting at the P1/2 assembly, their 3rd assembly of the week!

House Points

Here are the House Points for this week-

Pilrig- 875 points

Drummond- 802 points

Trinity- 689 points

McDonald- 610 points

Well done to Pilrig!

Congratulations to everyone on their achievements this week!

We’d also like to say well done to all our pupils for their hard work this term. We are very proud of you!

Thanks also to our wonderful staff for all of their continued hard work through what has sometimes been a challenging term! You are all amazing!

We must also thank our lovely parents and carers for your continued support!

We hope you all have a safe and restful Easter break. You have permission to eat lots of chocolate!

We look forward to seeing you all when school returns on Monday 25th April! Stay safe!

We decorated eggs using traditional Ukrainian designs and have displayed them in our windows.  This is to let the children of Ukraine know we are thinking of them.

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Miss MacPherson has been running a lunchtime netball club for P6-7.

She has been impressed with their efforts, and would like to share some photos of them in action!

The club members are Jude, Flynn, Cole, Lola, Jagna, Harry, Craig, Bo, Sukhtaj, Diego, Vaneeza, Alice, Hazel, Nadia, Assia, Mariyah and Frankie. Well done team!

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Good morning everyone,

Please see below a letter from Ms Gowans outlining some changes to COVID restrictions we should see after the Easter break.

Term 4 COVID restrictions

Thank you.

Thanks to everyone who came along to the 4th of our weekly training practices for the EMF on Sunday. Thanks to Shona Campbell and Naomi Sandilands for leading the session. A nice surprise drop in from Sandra Bagnall, who used to lead the sessions in years gone by! A good turn out and lots of kids enjoying the run!

We are keeping going over the holiday period. Both next Sunday 10th April at 10.30 am and Sunday 17th April at 10.30 am. Same venue at Pilrig Park, and as always, open to all – you don’t need to have entered the EMF to join in! Younger /older siblings are welcome, and all levels of running ability. It’s about fun and taking part!

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Star Awards

This week’s star awards were presented to these children for being responsible citizens!

P1a- Arya Gamez Gonzalez

P1b- Patrik Cirpaciu

P2a- Leon Scott

P2b- Rainer Kinsey O’Neill

P3a- Oscar Ni and Viksha Manjunathaswamy

P3b- Alicia Nicol

P4a- Pinky Ni

P4b- Adam Winterstein

P5a- Alice Chisholm

P5b- Kevin Kielak

P6a- Cole Weatherly

P6b- Alfie Gaukrodger

P7a- Megan Weatherly, Christine Watson, Keenan Lewis, Martyna Kabala, Hazel Gibson, Francesca Campopiano and Alice Avison

P7b- Roland Sheta

Big Book of Achievement

Ria Collins (P4b) took part in a fencing competition last weekend and won a gold medal in her category! Well done Ria!

Seren Ferguson (P4b) passed her red belt at her Kuk Sool martial arts class! Well done Seren!

Bo Schogler (P6a) made a puppet at home from a range of recycled materials! Very creative Bo!

House Points

Here are the House Points for this week-

Drummond- 804 points

Pilrig- 718 points

McDonald- 675 points

Trinity- 522 points

Well done to Drummond!

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

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!