All of the staff are looking forward to welcoming  our pupils back to school tomorrow. We have lots of new children joining our Tollcross family and a new teacher too. Miss MacIntyre joins our staff team as our new Primary 2 teacher.

Tollcross staff returned to school today. Work on the boiler is complete  and we hope to benefit from the new heating system when the weather gets colder. Lots of time was spend unpacking boxes and setting up rooms and classroom. All of the staff are looking forward to welcoming our pupils back to Tollcross on Thursday 15th August !

Our school is now boxed up in preparation for  work to begin on upgrading our boiler over the summer holidays. We wish all our Gaelic colleagues good luck in their new school which opens in August. Any news and further updates will be posted over the summer, best wishes and happy holidays from everyone at Tollcross Primary .

We are almost at 20,000  hits on our school blog which is very exciting !

Heriot-Watt University, in partnership with Edinburgh City Council, has been shortlisted in the bidding to host the National Performance Centre for Sport (NPCS) against Dundee and Stirling.

Our aim is to reach 6000 pledges of public support by the final bid deadline of next Friday and you can play a crucial role in helping us to reach that target.

The desire is to create a world class sporting facility that will prepare Scottish athletes for competition on the world stage. If the bid is successful, it will result in better sports facilities for Edinburgh and the local community – putting the city at the centre of sports development in Scotland.

Recently, Scottish sporting figures, Sir Chris Hoy, Gavin Hastings and Michael Stewart, also came out in support of the city’s bid and gave their backing on the Go Edinburgh 2016 pledge page .

The Scottish Government will be investing £25m in the facility and a decision on the winning bid is expected later in the summer.

What you can do to help 

Pledge your support at  <http://www.goedinburgh2016.com>  it only takes a few seconds and could potentially make all the difference to our bid.

Today we said goodbye to our Primary 7 pupils. This was also the last day at Tollcross Primary for pupils in the Gaelic classes, we wish everyone a fond farewell and good luck for the future. Our Tollcross piper provided a wonderful send off for everyone leaving Tollcross today, special thanks !

Please remember that all pupils finish for the summer holidays at the end of the school day tomorrow (Wednesday 26th June 2013). This has been agreed by the Scottish Government. We wish all our families a very happy and relaxing summer holiday.

Everyone had a great time today at our Farewell Fun Day. There were many different activities to choose from and a great big playground picnic.

Scott Louden from Scott Louden Photography has given permission for us to use some of the photographs he took of our ministerial visit for the Evening News. Big thank you to Scott for these brilliant photographs which show our pupils in action.

Hello P7s, hope you are having a wonderful time at High School, we are missing you and looking forward to seeing you all on Friday. Just a quick reminder,  it is the P7 Barbecue at Beecraigs Country Park on Friday morning (21/6/13). Please make sure you wear clothes suitable for playing in the adventure park and  cross your fingers for sunny weather. See you on Friday !

Click here for more information about Beecraigs Country Park.