Entries from September 2011 ↓

This week we have had a former pupil, Niamh Kelly, coming for her work experience in our class. Niamh was a great help and carried out tasks for Miss Pottie and helped  us out with our work. Thank you, Niamh! We have continued to work on our World War 2 topic.  We have been building Anderson Shelters in pairs and it has been great [...]

Next week is Walk to School Week. Please support your children to walk, scoot or cycle to school. If you have to bring the car, try to park and stride!

Primary 6 and Primary 7 have brought their bikes along to school and over the next six weeks they will learn how to become safer cyclists. PC Dougie Smith is helping with the training, which is being delivered by Miss Pottie and Miss Williams. We hope that all our cyclists will take care bringing their [...]

Now that everyone has settled back into school it is time to resume our dress down and burger Fridays.  The first one will take place this Friday 30th September 2011.  For new parents who have just joined us we would like to explain that on the last Friday of each month we have a ‘dress [...]

This week P7 have continued to enjoy watching a DVD called ‘Britons at War’ which links into our topic. We are also still enjoying reading Goodnight Mister Tom as our class novel. We have been busy writing poems, in pairs, about the Blitz. We had to imagine that we were trying to get to sleep in an Anderson [...]

Congratulations to Liam Doyle of P6 who came runner-up in a national competition he and his class entered earlier this year to design a new egg box! Liam has won a certificate and £500 for the school to spend on art materials. Well done!

LORETTO RC PRIMARY SCHOOL PARENT COUNCIL CHEESE & WINE EVENING Wednesday 5th October 6.30pm-8.30pm Following last year’s huge success, your Parent Council would like to invite you to a cheese and wine evening, to be held on the 5th of October 2011, in the school dining hall from 6.30pm-8.30pm. Please take this opportunity to come [...]

This week……P7 were writing evacuation postcards. We had to pretend we were an evacuee child and we were writing to our mums and dads. Our focus in maths this week has been 3D shape. The orange and green group have been playing lots of active games relating to 3D shape. The red group made cuboids [...]

‘Get Going’ is a new family lifestyle programme, which aims to encourage children to get active, eat well and work towards a healthy weight.  The programme is delivered in partnership between NHS Lothian, East Lothian Council and enjoyleisure and is available free of charge to East Lothian families. For more information email Get.Going@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk   

Guidelines for parents of children with Dyslexia are available in school. Please ask at the school office.