Weekly Blog

As we say goodbye to Mrs. Mullen, we want to express our deepest gratitude for everything she has done for our school community. Known fondly as the Queen of Craigshill, her retirement has been celebrated in true royal fashion—with not just one event, but a season of appreciation! For the past five years, Mrs. Mullen [...]

As we continue to learn about Spring, we have chosen our April 'Rhyme of the Month' - 5 little daffodils. The children have been creating their own interpretations of daffodils through various art activities which they have proudly displayed alongside our rhyme. Through this rhyme, the children have been exploring and developing their number recognition [...]

Both schools hosted their living museums this week, showcasing all their hard work with their ancient history topics! Parents had a chance to try out a range of different activities from Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, The Mayans, The Celts and more! We are all extremely proud of their amazing work and they fantastically demonstrated how [...]

We have began to explore our new topic of 'Spring'. We have explored lots of signs of spring as we went out local walks and have began discussing this in small groups. This is being evidenced in our nursery floorbook. We will continue to update this over the coming weeks with more Spring based experiences.

We are continuing to explore our Forest Fun adventures each week in both the morning and afternoon sessions. Please have a look at our updated Forest Fun display within the cloakroom where you can see what your child has been up to both on our wall display and floorbook!

Primary 6 had a great visit to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh this week. They took part in an energy and sustainability workshop looking at where energy comes from and completing a range of exciting STEM challenges.

Our pre-school children visited the firepit this week where they joined in with the school to promote our Primary 1 transition as we 'Read by the campfire'. Our children discussed books they enjoy reading and even toasted a marshmallow over the campfire!

On Wednesday 12th March, our Craigshill dancers took part in the West Lothian Dance Showcase. We performed a 'Journey through Dance' covering a range of dance styles. Mrs Lochhead and Mrs Fallens are so proud of all of our dancers. What superstars and a great experience to be part of! Performance details for parents/carers of [...]

At Craigshill Primary Schools, we know how important reading is and had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day! We dressed up as our favourite book characters, made book character puppets, wrote and illustrated our own stories and participated in some fun book related quizzes. We can't wait to get a book with our World [...]

On Thursday 6th March, Letham ELC celebrated World Book Day with a Bookbug session. We had Alistair, a nursery grandparent in to read us a story and we spoke about our favourite books as the children dressed up as different characters! We even had another special visitor in to see all of the AM & [...]