Entries from May 2012 ↓

We had a busy week last week: On Monday most of the class went to visit the Money Museum. We got to see a roll of £800 in £20 notes and learn about old coins and early forms of money. On Tuesday we had a visit from Musselburgh Firemen to tell us about Home Safety. [...]

On Tuesday some teachers came into our classroom. We knew most of the teachers and we soon learned the names of the ones that we didn’t. They were Miss Burke, Mr Scott, Mrs Clarke, Miss Lavelle, Mrs Dalglish, Mrs Gill and Mrs Baker. Two teachers came in at a time and they looked at our [...]

The ongoing work to improve our playground moved on again today with the ‘planting up’ of the planters in the front playground adding yet more colour to the front of the school. We would like to thank Canon McMullan for donating the money to buy all the beautiful plants. We hope to see them flourish [...]

A few days ago we each wrote a letter to enter a competition. If you are the winner you get to go to Glasgow and get a front row seat listening to Oliver Jeffers. He is an author who has written books like How to Catch a Star and The Way Back Home. Our class really like [...]

DRESS DOWN DAY & BURGERS This Friday (25th May) will be a dress down day. No theme this month. Remember everyone dressing down needs to pay £1. We will also be doing burgers this month. They will be on sale from 12.15pm at the back door of the dining hall. Prices still £1.50 for a [...]

East Lothian Council have advised schools that there will be an additional holiday on June the 5th to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. This is in addition to the Monday holiday on the 4th of June. All pupils will break for the holiday on Friday 1st of June at the normal time and resume on [...]

This morning we have been doing stuff about Moshi Monsters. It was quite fun. We got a piece of paper and drew circles around the Moshi Monsters. We are trying to count how many there are all together. After we put circles around the monsters we made a note of all the different colours. For [...]

As part of the plans for the playground project the Parent Council wanted to create an open-air classroom in the wooded area of the rear playground.  Late last year we commissoned the making of a storytelling chair.  The chair was designed and hand-made by one of our parents – Andy Mangan, Dad of Kyle in [...]

There has been great excitement in Primary 1/2, where we have seen the awe and wonder of new life. As we learn about Living Things we have observed chicks hatching in class. We have hatched 10 chicks and 5 ducks and all are doing well. Chicks in Primary 1/2 on PhotoPeach

We would like to give all parents notice that our Annual General Meeting will take place on Tuesday 19th June 2012 at 6.30pm in the school dining hall. As all office bearing positions have become vacant we would welcome any nominations to fill these posts.  If you would like to put yourself forward for the [...]