Sanderson’s Wynd Primary School

 Each class chose a Christmas theme to decorate a board for the school hall. I think you’ll agree that the pupils did a wonderful job with their creative and festive displays. The bright art work instantly transformed our hall and helped to create a cheery atmosphere for all our Christmas events.                

P5 and the nursery had the opportunity to watch a dress rehearsal of the nativity that the P1s and 2s have been working very hard on for the past few weeks. Both groups enjoyed it very much and all the P1 and 2 parents are in for a big treat when it is their turn [...]

Although bitterly cold, the P7 pupils had a wonderful sporting morning taking part in the Tag Rugby festival at Ross High Rugby club. They played against several other teams from schools in the Ross High cluster. Two out of our three S. Wynd teams managed to get through to the second round. Unfortunately they had to play [...]

The fire brigade are in our school this week to teach us about fire safety. P5 visited the Community Safety Vehicle and did a fire safety quiz. We scored 65% today and we are going to do the quiz again on Wednesday to see how much we have learned. We are aiming to get 100%

- Poly bag mountain
- Old CD’s and games
- Yellow pages challenge
Sanderson’s Wynd Eco Committee are trying to stop the amount of poly bags being used in Tranent because poly bags take up to much room in the land fill sites. We need to stop using poly bags and use sustainable bags instead. The other thing is [...]

This week our school went to see Cinderella at the Brunton Theatre.
This is what we thought of it

Pupils were divided into groups to work on designing a piece of merchandise that they thought would be a best seller for future St Andrew Days. The classroom was buzzing with ideas, and the children worked really hard in their teams to think of clever and original products.  They had to think carefully about who [...]