Campie Primary School

The  fundraising group is busy preparing the Summer Fair and it would be great to get as many helpers as possible to make sure the event runs well. Please fill in your slip,  write your details and hand them into the school, or email campieparentcouncil@yahoo.co.uk

We need help on the day, help setting up the day before and home-baking. We are also still looking for raffle prizes. This is our biggest fundraising event of the year and is always lots of fun.

We also need donations of old toys, games, DVDs, books etc. These can be brought to the school at any time and left in the parents room.

Thanks

summer programme 2013 Wallyford Fisherrow etc

Community Learning and Development Summer Programme

……………………….. for the very warm welcome I have been given since starting as Head Taecher at Campie on 07 May.

Like everyone else, I am very busy. I have had the chance to meet with mums and dads, either on a one to one or at Friday’s coffee morning. It is good to have a chance to speak with you and find out about you and your children.

I have challenged myself to try to learn all the children’s names by the end of this month – I appreciate any support you can give me!!

Pre school nursery children, from Campie Nursery and other nurseries, are becoming familiar with life in P1. The children have met their P6 buddies a few times, as well as spending time in the playground and about the school.

Please don’t hesitate to ask any question or query – contact  me directly or throught he school office.

P7 have also begun their preparations for moving on to high school.Children have had the opportunity to attend a range of events at Musselburgh Grammar.P7 classes have also walked Lammerlaw, as is tradition here at Campie.

Children across the school are busy in class – I have joined them to observe a range of experiences including reading activities linked to a class study, children learning the value of money, life cycles, presenting talks, activities linked to John Muir Award, and science experiments.

I am delighted to promote the school’s Music Evening on Wednesday 05 June.

Staff are currently preparing end of year reports. We have also spent time together reflecting on this year’s school improvement plan and identifying next steps for the coming session.This will be shared with you when the plan is finalised.

Class organisation is being devised at present and this information will be available very soon for families whose child currently is unsure of their class for next session. Class teachers for classes will be shared as soon as possible also.

Please put another date in your diary for Friday Coffee and a Chat – please join me in school on Friday  14 June from 09.00.

On Thursday the 16th of May P6 went to Levenhall lagoons to do paddle sports. We had to take a change of clothes, a packedAQ lunch, two snacks and a bottle of water. There were three groups one was a two or three person canoe, the other two groups were kayaks. In kayaking we had a double paddle to steer and we did some tricks like standing up without tipping and touched the tip of the kayak with our nose like an eskimo and the other group that did canoeing had to race each other and held up a sail and try to face the wind so they could move on the water and they all done very well at the end we all got a certificate to say that we have passed level 1 in paddle power.

By Lucy, Alix and Maggie

Its been a hard week in 7a because we have do so much walking and all of are legs are soure.
First we whent to queen margres unaversate and then the high school two times for diffreent things.At the unaversate we done a project called brocken bodys which was very fun and intresting to do and we where spilt into groups of 6 and that was a good size. In the groups they went to all diffrent rooms and learned diffrent stuff like podiatry,stroke,knee surgery and diet watch whick was cool my favrite bit was podiatry and stroke.

At the Grammer we did helth and well being we got split into class on the maths dedpartment I was in A2 and A8.

This has been a long time coming, but please take a look at the film last year’s P7s made about out partnership with the Child Development Centre in Mae Sot, Thailand.

The kids went to London last month to talk about their film, and the Aung San Suu Kyi Eductional Trust has contacted us to find out more. Please have a look at our film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay52MjVaNY4

There will be a parent council meeting in the parents’ room on Thursday. All welcome.

There will be an opportunity to meet our new headteacher Debbie Beveridge on Friday in the school dining hall. Everyone is welcome to attend for a coffee or tea and a biscuit. We look forward to seeing you there. Children welcome.

We started our official transition events this week for the preschoolers getting ready to move on Primary One. You can read more about what we did and see some photos at http://edubuzz.org/campienursery/2013/05/10/this-weeks-highlights-7th-10th-may/. On the nursery blog I have now added a page for Transition 2013, including a copy of the key dates and events.

Many of you have commented on how the willow garden needed a bit of TLC – and this is exactly what it’s had. On Friday morning a small group of parents (and Eleanor) trimmed, moulded, pushed and pulled the willow back into some sort of structure and raked the bark chips to give the entire area a face-lift.

We hope you will agree it looks so much better and the kids wll get lots of pleasure from it. A big thank you to Sue, Mel and Gaynor and most of all to Eleanor for superising and digging.