Welcome to East Craigs Primary School. We hope you like our new website. Please feel free to have a look around. Our class pages can be found under “Sharing Our Learning”.
October 2018 Newsletter
Please take a look at our October newsletter to find out what we have been doing this month.
Lagganlia Residential Experience 2018
Here is a selection of photographs from our exciting residential trip to Lagganlia with Primary 7 this year.
Easy Fundraising
As mentioned in the September newsletter, our PTA have registered with Easyfundraising. By using the link below when ordering online, you can earn the school up to 4% of your sale. Easyfundraising have links with many different retailers so please have a look and see if you can help East Craigs Primary School earn some extra funds! Many thanks.
Meet the Teacher- Cancelled 19.09.18
Dear Parents and Carers
Due to the Amber weather warning, we are postponing the Meet The Teacher session planned for this evening, 19.9.18. We will update Parents and Carers with further information as soon as possible.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Gymnastics Success
A huge well done to all of the children who participated in the Gymnastics Showcase at Broughton High School tonight. The team performed a fantastic routine, and won best choreography!
Thank you to all the children for all of your hard work this year and congratulations!
Miss Niven
Health Week 2018
We are having a great Health Week so far! Activities have included Mindfulness and Relaxation, Dance, Gymnastics and a healthy walk around the local area. Please follow us on Twitter to see photos and short clips from the week.
Our theme this year is ‘Health for All’; promoting the message that everybody should have equal access to a healthy lifestyle.
We are really enjoying our morning Wake and Shake sessions – thank you, Mrs Ali! These take place at 8.30am each day, with the exception of Thursday.
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World of Work Week: Monday 30th April – Friday 4th May 2018
Friday 4th May 2018
We have had a great World of Work Week, with lots of interesting visitors coming to East Craigs to tell us about their jobs. We would like to say a big thank you to all of the volunteers. Please watch the video below to see some photo highlights:
Lots of photos of classes engaging with WoWW have also been shared on Twitter. Parents/ carers are encouraged to follow East Craigs. Alternatively, scroll down on this page to find the live Twitter feed.
Monday 30th April 2018
It is World of Work Week (WoWW) at East Craigs! All classes are engaging in a programme of talks and workshops led by various visitors. Thank You to all of the parents who have visited to talk about their jobs, as well as the volunteers from STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths): https://www.stem.org.uk/
Photos and updates from P1-7 are being posted on Twitter throughout the week.
Community Learning Team Performance
We enjoyed watching the School of Rock and Dance Community Learning Teams in a collaborative performance this afternoon – well done to Miss Niven, Miss Mowat and all of the pupils involved! Please click on the photos below to enlarge them:
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Please watch the School of Rock performance in the video below:
Here is the Dance group’s part of the performance:
P3/4 and P5/6 Disco Update
The P3/4 disco will now be held on Wednesday 28th March in school 7-8.30pm. The P5/6 Disco has been moved to 25th April 7-8.30pm in school. These changes are due to the Snow Closures and the need to reschedule events already planned. Information about these events will be issued by PTA in due course.
World Book Day at East Craigs: 9/3/18
We had a great time coming to school dressed as our favourite book characters today, for a belated World Book Day!
Watch the photo collage below to see some of our costumes:
Great effort with the ’10 Minute Read’ challenges too – thank you to everybody who sent in photos from home.
Finally, we would be very grateful if parents/carers could take a few minutes to complete a short feedback survey about the Book Week experience. This will be helpful to us when planning other school focus weeks in the future:
