Ramadan Mubarak to all our families who are observing this special time. We hope this month lights up your life with faith, peace and harmony!

Here are this week’s awards and achievements!

Star Awards

P1a	Charlie Kelly
P1b	Andrzej Romanczuk
P1c	Paisley Grevatt
P2a	Isabella Ascrizzi
P2b	Jess Wheeler
P3a	Asmin Cakabay
P3b	Harris Devlin
P4a	Rudhraunsh Sreeramadasu
P4b	Leo Hoyland
P5a	Whole Class Award!
P5b	Man Yui Chan
P6b	Ibrahim Nawed
P7a	Kayden Wilson
P7b	Sheeza Kandrikar
ESB 2	Malik Moutaouakil

Big Book of Achievements

Eimear McCourt (P1c) climbed all the way to the top of Arthur’s Seat! Well done Eimear!

Viksha Manjunathaswamy (P6a) developed two programs using Scratch programming. She watched tutorial videos to learn and enhance her skills, which helped her to develop these games independently. Well done Viksha! You can play her games here-

Pong Game Link : https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1107780545

Paint : https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1109402702

House Points

Trinity- 261 points

McDonald- 187 points

Pilrig- 161 points

Drummond- 160 points

Well done Trinity!

Well done to everyone on your achievements! Have a lovely weekend!

P6 Cyber Captains Tobi and Stelios visited P4 this week to collect some photos of learning. They took these photos of P4’s maths work, focusing on directions and pathways. Looks great, P4! Thanks to Tobi and Stelios too!

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Here are this week’s awards and achievements!

Star Awards

P1a	Adam Mohamed
P1b	Asaf Cakabay
P1c	Jasmine Kaur Chalana
P2a	Odette Anstoter
P2b	Lucy Rose
P3a	Wadah Ali
P3b	Miki Bednarz
P4a	Noah Carr
P4b	Rafael Sanz Munoz
P5a	Dylan Chisholm
P5b	Sean Ilechukwu
P6b	Alicia Nicol
P7a	Siobhan Keswa
P7b	Amar Singh
ESB 2	Cameron Barnes

Big Book of Achievements

Indah Collins (P4a) competed at a recent Scotland qualifier dance competition and won four golds for her group dances. They will be entering into the Global Dance open final in the summer, competing against other countries in the world. Well done Indah!

At a recent fencing competition, Ria Collins (P7a) had to compete in the Under 15 category. Being the youngest, she put up a good fight and won a bronze medal. Well done Ria!

Francesca Baxter-Robertson (P1b) has been taking swimming lessons with Big Blue Swim School, and has done really well to achieve her Level 1 Learn to Swim award and her Duckling 3 award. She can swim 5 metres all by herself! Well done Frankie!

Before the holidays, our school Cyber Captains led an assembly presentation about Online Safety. Their input has led to the school achieving a certificate for supporting Safer Internet Day! Well done team!

House Points

Trinity- 1103 points

Drummond- 1072 points

Pilrig- 1033 points

McDonald- 882 points

Well done Trinity!

Well done to everyone on your achievements! Have a lovely weekend!

Here are this week’s awards and achievements!

Star Awards

P1a	Sulafa Alturkistani
P1b	Niamh Laing
P1c	Beatriz Marques Barata
P2a	Leandro Porte
P2b	Rowan Kielty-Jones
P3a	Rosa Kursheid
P3b	Mario Diaz Santos
P4a	Aarya Dasari
P4b	Adam Wawock
P5a	Leon Scott
P5b	Elena Leader
P6a	Peter Rogaczyk
P6b	Vivienne Donn
P7a	Whole Class Award
P7b	Fatima Joof
ESB 2	Ezra Garbowski

Big Book of Achievements

Toby Sewell (P4a) has challenged himself to cook all the recipes from a children’s cookbook and so far he has managed to make bread, scones, a delicious chocolate mud pie, banana bread, and even cook a pasta meal and a vegetable soup. Well done!

Yousef Awadah (P1c) has earned his orange belt at karate! Well done Yousef!

Abdul Hassan (P1c) has started swimming and gymnastics lessons. He is loving them and doing really well! Well done Abdul!

Cohen Mochrie (P6a) completed a 6-bag Lego model in only two and a half hours while he was unwell and absent from school! A good use of your time off Cohen!

House Points

McDonald- 238 points

Drummond- 138 points

Pilrig and Trinty 123 points

Well done McDonald!

Well done to everyone on your achievements! Have a lovely February break everyone! See you back at school on Monday 17th February!

Our House Team launched the new playground equipment they have bought at today’s assembly! A lot of the new equipment was put out at break time today, and it was lovely to see how popular the new games and play equipment was- the Quiet Area hasn’t been this busy for a while! Thanks to our House Team for their great ideas and help in researching and ordering these fab new resources!

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Here are this week’s awards and achievements!

Star Awards

P1a	Vihaan Chitreddy
P1b	Ameera Kaur
P1c	Daniel Turpie
P2a	Man-Ho Chan
P2b	Juno Lamb
P3a	Hamad Salami
P3b	Hassan Iqbal
P4a	Robin Cohen
P4b	Serien Issa
P5a	Nefeli Alysandratou and Summer Jones
P5b	Frankie Devlin
P6b	Tess Lempitskaya
P7a	Lily Giraldas
P7b	Josh Hay
ESB 2	Max Macleod

Big Book of Achievements

Malika Hassan (P3b) has recently earned her blue belt in karate. Well done Malika!

Holly Hatton (P1a) has started swimming lessons and piano lessons. She is loving them! Well done Holly!

Reyansh Saxena (P4b) took part in the Lanarkshire Taekwondo Open Championships, and won 3 medals- a gold, a silver and a bronze, in individual and group performance categories. Well done Reyansh!

Rebecca Turpie (P4b) has shown great commitment to dancing with her ‘La Belle Arts’ dance group over the past 5 years. She has taken part in 4 of their annual shows! Well done Rebecca!

Max Macleod (ESB2) drew a lovely picture of an apple he was very proud of. We think his apple looks very realistic, and although Max thought his first try looked more like a sausage than an apple, he tried hard to fix it and created his lovely drawing! Well done Max!

Cameron Barnes (ESB2) was keen to share his drawing of a cartoon orange in the Big Book of Achievement. Well done Cameron!

Innis Binnie (P5a) successfully achieved Scottish Swimming Swim Skill 2! He is moving up to the next level, and lots of hard work was put in. Well done Innis!

Blyth Hubert (P1a) was very responsible when we were warned about Storm Eowyn, and reminded his parents to tidy away and tie down all the movable things in their garden. Well done Blyth, you may have saved a lot of damage being done!

Ruby Ramsay (P2b) successfully achieved her Stage 3 Learn to Swim award. Well done Ruby!

House Points

Drummond- 586 points

McDonald- 574 points

Trinity- 533 points

Pilrig- 505 points

Well done Drummond!

Well done to everyone on your achievements! Have a lovely weekend!

Our Digital Cyber Captains have been busy collecting different media to share on our website.

Elodie and Evie took some great photos of P7 creating shadow puppets to use in a puppet show task.

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Also, Poppy and Alexia visited P6, to see their STEM challenge using straws and spaghetti to create domes!

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Thanks to our Cyber Captains for taking photos of these fun activities!

Please see the information below to see how you can help with our funding applications to Leith Chooses by voting in-person tomorrow, Saturday 18th January or online from Monday 20th January!