Weekly Blog

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 [...]

Some of our P3 and P4 children are lucky enough to visit to our neighbours at Spark every week. We read our books together with our buddies from Spark and they help us to practise our key words too. At this weeks session, we were lucky enough to receive a special Halloween treat. Thank you [...]

Over the last few weeks lots of classes have visited the Craigshill Community Garden. Despite the rain, We loved learning about different plants, getting to taste different fruits and micro-plants. We were very lucky to have a shot at growing our own which was a great success. We hope you enjoy tasting the leaves with [...]

We are so grateful to Nathan Evans for visiting us this week. He shared how he began singing and playing guitar from a young age, inspiring us all with his story. Nathan's music and kindness lit up our hall for the afternoon, reminding us that we are all capable of great things when we put [...]

It's been almost a month since our Primary 6 children went on their exciting camping adventure. Have a look at the links below to see a gallery of pictures showing what both groups got up to. Group One: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/bKOdijFDcF6OGNPX Group Two: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/m2nPuICDjAmnofag?ref=email

Masterclasses are back and we are so excited about it! We are looking forward to sharing our talents, learning new skills and growing creatively with our peers over the next 4 weeks.

As part of 'Our Local World' topic, some P2-4 classes visited the library this week.We met Sarana, who told us all about what the library offers for our community and clubs/activities we can access. We were lucky to get a class library card and take away a book each to enjoy reading in school. Thank [...]