Weekly Blog

Our Reconnect children are aiming to achieve their very own JAS award. We want to say a huge thank you to the parents who attended our showcase and who continue to support our learners in their achievements towards their JAS award.

Primary 2/3, 3/4 and 4 had a brilliant day at the Museum of Rural Life. We saw lots of farm animals including lovely baby calves, piglets, horses and highland cows. We spent some time looking at the different machinery once used around the farms. Most excitingly we got to make and taste our own butter. [...]

Both schools had a brilliant assembly this week celebrating Robert Burns and all things Scotland. We had a whole school quiz on Scots language, we sang Scottish songs with enthusiasm and enjoyed the poetry recitals from our amazing finalists. Huge well done to our winners!

This week, both schools had a visit from PC Drummond to learn more about the role of the Police and keeping us safe. P1,2 and 3 learned about what police do, different resources and modes of transport they use to keep our community and others safe. Primary 4-7 learned more about the importance of being [...]

What a final week of exciting festive activities. Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of the staff at Letham and Riverside Primary School!

We had a super week this week celebrating all things Christmas at both Riverside and Letham Primary. Our Primary 1 and 2 children performed a fabulous 'Twinkly Nativity'. All Primary 3-7 children at both schools took part in a Christmas singalong performance. Our school choir were also lucky enough to be invited along to sing [...]

Our aim is to encourage EVERYONE to read for pleasure so every class took part in our annual book corner decoration competition. All classes worked hard to create cosy, inviting reading spaces and gave the judges a very difficult job! After a lot of deliberating they choose 2 winners from each school. The winners from [...]

We had a great week this week celebrating all things books and reading. Each class took part in an outdoor scavenger hunt looking for well know book characters and authors. Thanks to Mrs Smart, we were lucky enough to toast a marshmallow and read our favourite book around the campfire. Primary 2 at Riverside visited [...]

First level classes and Primary 5 and 6 had a brilliant morning at the Into Film Festival. The children loved the experience watching Lilo and Stitch with their friends and was a great end to our week!

This week, Primary 7 at Letham visited the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. We had a fantastic time exploring one of our school value of creativity in a wider context. We explored the beautiful galleries and were given the opportunities to sketch in our new sketchbooks kindly gifted to us. We then had to create [...]