Good Luck P7 🤩

If you are joining us in P1 next year, we would love to see you at our Stay and Play sessions for new P1s. Come along with your child and spend some time in the P1 classroom and meeting the P1 staff. You are welcome to come to any or all of the sessions. We look forward to meeting you!

There will be a welcome meeting for all new P1 families on Tuesday the 17th June at 9.15am where we will share more information with you about starting school.

We are on our way home from a fantastic week at Benmore!

As we drove out past all the places we explored this week, it was so lovely to hear all the happy memories being shared of all the adventures we’d had. P7 were such brilliant ambassadors for our school and we are all so proud of you. Last night we chose to relax with a movie, play games or go dance at the disco! A great end to our time here. We are looking forward to telling you all about it!

Our time at Benmore has been absolutely jam packed. Today we had more climbing and abseiling, some of us tackled the ‘high ropes’ aerial assault course, others walked the Camels Hump at Dunoon or explored Shepherds beach at Argentinny. This afternoon some of us had a very peaceful canoeing session at Loch Eck and others walked up the gorge and some even took a mud bath!

Our adventures continue at Benmore! Because we are having such brilliant weather, last night the staff at Benmore got their telescope out for us to look at the night sky more closely. They also had iPads set up with the map of the constellations so we could see what stars, planets and satellites we could see.
Today some of us rowed canoes out on Loch Eck, others went caving, enjoyed walks in the forest building dens and playing in the mud. This afternoon, some of us learned how to build a fire and toasted marshmallows and others explored at the shore. We can’t wait to tell you all about it!

Today was a beautiful sunny day at Benmore ☀️ It was our first day of activities and our groups enjoyed: rock climbing and abseiling, caving, gorge walking and orienteering. P7 really challenged and supported each other to try new and daunting experiences and showed tremendous courage. You should all be very proud of yourselves!

We’ve had a brilliant journey to and first afternoon at Benmore. Our coach driver said P7 were a credit to Tollcross. We have settled in to our dorms and enjoyed our first Benmore dinner. This afternoon we explored Benmore Botanic Gardens and many of us chose to explore the river and clamber through the tunnels. Tonight we are getting ready for a night walk in the dark!

P1 registration for next year is open from 1st November 2024. The link below will take you to City of Edinburgh’s P1 registration website:

https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/school-places/start-primary-school/1

If you would like to visit and find out more about our school, our Young Interpreters will be offering tours between 11am and 12pm and between 1.30pm and 2.30pm on Wednesday 6th of November. We would love to see you there!

Thank you to everyone who was able to make our session on Friday sharing our approach to writing. Please find the slides below as well as our writing process.