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SPLASHING FUN AT DALRY SWIM CENTRE

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The children, parents and staff had great fun in the pool at Dalry Swim Centre on Thursday 10th May and Thursday 17th May.

For some children it was their very first time swimming.  Everyone really enjoyed playing with the toys and floats and learning to kick our legs and move our arms in the water at the same time.  There are several Swim Centres in the city run by Edinburgh Leisure.  The summer holiday is a great time to book swimming lessons and help your child to develop their swimming skills.

Gorgie Farm trip for the Nursery

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The nursery enjoyed the arrival of Spring at Gorgie Farm.  We saw goats, ducks, sheep, and lots of pigs and chickens!  We even bought chicken eggs and made them into egg sandwiches for our snack the next day. A BIG ‘Thank You’ to all the parents who helped us make this trip and made it such a great day out.

The farm is a great place for families to visit and is just 10 minutes from the school, along Gorgie Road.  Their lovely café is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Pupil Council Meeting Easter 2018

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Just before the Easter break the pupil council met to discuss a range of issues icluding assemblies and reading areas.

The children all agreed that they would like changes to assemblies. We will continue to have whole school assemblies for sharing learning class assemblies as they really like this, but the building resilience introduction assemblies will be split into age groups. Sharing assemblies for building resilience will still be whole school and we can review this after the next one.

Clan points and certificates will be given out at either stage or whole school assemblies, as the council felt the children were really engaged with this, and also the weekly tea party for Pupil of the Week.

BIg SIng will also change this term as the younger children in particular said they find this a really noisy and unpleasant experience.

The plans for developing a new reading corner in each class sound exciting and the children all reported back with a wee progress update to hear what each class is doing. They are all very enthused with this project.

The two big areas that Pupil Council want to focus on this term are litter in the playground and the toilets.

Singing workshop at Tynecastle High School

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Dear parent/carer,

Singing workshop at Tynecastle High School, 3:30 – 4:30pm, 22nd May 2018

Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival

Come and join a singing workshop on Tuesday 22nd May 3.30-4.30pm at Tynecastle High School, in connection with the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival. No singing or musical experience needed, everybody welcome!

The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF, 7-27 May 2018) is an annual festival to raise awareness of mental health issues (and challenge preconceptions about mental health) through music, film, visual arts, dance, theatre and literature. The theme of this year’s festival is ‘Beginnings’, and it is happening during Scotland’s 2018 ‘Year Of Young People’. Our singing workshop is free and open to everybody in the Tynecastle High School community: students, parents and carers, school staff, and also those in our cluster primary schools (Dalry, Balgreen, Stenhouse and Craiglockhart).

Singing will be led by Caro Overy, who joined us in February to lead a workshop during Children’s Mental Health Week. Caro is a choir leader, singer, and songwriter who enjoys sharing songs old and new from around the world to help people connect and have fun through singing.

 

For more information about this event, please contact Sarah Haywood (Place2Be School Project Manager). For more information about SMHAF and how you can get involved, visit https://www.mhfestival.com/

 

 

With best wishes,

 

 

Hazel Kinnear

Head Teacher

 

Sarah Haywood

Place2Be School Project Manager