As part of their work towards the John Muir Award primary 5 planted 425 trees yesterday forming a new hedge along the school path.

Our Cross Country Team proudly sport new jackets, we thank Granger Hairdressers and Davidson’s Mains Dental for their sponsorship

The P5 football team have had an excellent first half of the season. The team, coached by 3 parents of P5 children, have trained enthusiastically on Wednesday evenings, leading to great results in matches played against other local schools on Saturday mornings. In the eight matches played so far, the team have recorded five wins and one draw, with only two narrow defeats. The team have scored an amazing 59 goals in those eight matches, led by Aidan Miller (P5A) who has scored a remarkable 31 goals! The team were delighted to receive new strips recently, which we feel sure contributed to the positive results achieved! Thank you to the school and PSA for helping fund these strips.

We had a very successful Christmas Fair on Friday .  The Parent Staff Association , teachers and primary sevens all worked very hard to make it a very happy experience for all concerned.  The atmosphere was lovely and we raised a huge amount of money to help the school, currently around £4,500 !  Well done to everyone fo this massive effort.

We had a great turnout for our maths curriculum evening last week. As promised the slides and other documents shared with you are available for download here

A belated thank you to parents and pupils who made a great job of painting the school railings.

We have received a letter of thanks from Edinburgh North West Foodbank. We collected 336.9kgs of food. Your generosity will allow 17 families nutritionally balanced food packs covering 3 meals for 3 days and more!

Measles infection in Lothian

Measles cases have been confirmed in Lothian over the past month in teenagers and young adults.

Please do not send your child to school if they have any symptoms suggestive of measles infection.

Symptoms

The symptoms of measles include fever, lethargy, runny nose, conjunctivitis, cough and a red, blotchy rash which starts at the head spreading over the chest and limbs. The rash generally fades within ten days.

 If your child has developed symptoms suggestive of measles, you should keep your child at home and contact your General Practitioner for further advice by phone (or NHS24 if out of hours on tel. 111).

This is very important in order to avoid the spread of measles to other people.

People with measles are infectious from around five days before the rash appears until four days after the rash appears and should self isolate at home during this time.

MMR

The best protection against measles is two doses of MMR.

http://www.immunisationscotland.org.uk/vaccines-and-diseases/mmr.aspx

Follow P6’s adventures in Benmore here