Achievements
- Elodie C in P5B performed amazingly well at the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics competition. Fantastic!
- Silas Ng in P7D has qualified in both the Butterfly and Backstroke events for the Scottish Schools Finals in Aberdeen on Friday 5th June. As he is only permitted to compete in one event, he has chosen the 50m Backstroke. We wish him all the best!
- Bruntsfield entered 4 teams of boys and girls from P6 and P7 into the Edinburgh Cross Country. The P7 boys team came second! Congratulations to them and all the teams for competing so well!
- On Wednesday 29th April a combined P6/P7 Bruntsfield football team took part in the first round of the Inspectors Cup at Wardie playing fields. A total of 46 teams took part from across Edinburgh with only 20 able to go through to the next round. The Bruntsfield team won two of their three matches meaning that they have qualified for the second round! This is a significant achievement considering the high standard of players so congratulations to Josh V (P6A), Joshua H, Elliott S (P6C), Oscar L, Max L, Luca P (P7A), Jack R (P7B), Jack C, Ralphie D and Max W (P7D). They play the next round on Wednesday 13th May at Meggetland.
Dates for the Diary
- 4th May – May Day Holiday
- 5th May – Inservice – School closed to pupils
- 6th May – return at the usual times.
- w/b 11th May – Parent Consultations
- 18th May – Victoria Day – Edinburgh School Holiday
- 19th May – Everyone return to school
- 23rd May – Summer Fair
- 27th May – Sports Day
- 28th May – Sports Day fall back (in case of bad weather)
- w/b 1st June – Lagganlia Group 1
- w/b 8th June – Lagganlia Group 2
- 16th-18th June – P7 at High School.
- 19th June – Bruntsfield Prize Giving
- 22nd June – ‘Meet your new class teacher’
- 24th June – P7 Show
- 26th June – Leavers Assembly; End of Session.
Assembly
On Monday, we celebrated ‘Earth Day’ and discussed some of the challenges we have as global citizens to protect our planet. We celebrated different recent achievements with some of our children. Class of the Week was P5B.
Scooters
We have lots of scooters which have been left unlocked in our bike shed. Please ensure you take your child’s scooter home, or lock it up in a vacant space in the bike shelter.
Any scooters left uncollected and unlocked for a period of time will be removed from the bike shelter.
Summer Fair
The Bruntsfield Primary School Summer Fair returns on Saturday 23rd May, 12pm-3pm. Come watch the performances at the festival of rock, play some games, enjoy delicious baking and have a fun afternoon supporting the school. This will be a cashless fair; payments can be taken by card or using our token system. The fair relies on the school community to make it a success and we will need lots volunteers to help on the day with donations, setting up, manning stalls and clearing up. Thank you to those of you who have been in touch already. We particularly need some additional first aiders to supplement our current pool. If you know you will available to help on Saturday 23rd May the links to sign up are in the most recent announcement on WhatsApp or
email bruntsfieldevents@gmail.com. We hope that as many people from the school and wider community are able to join us on the day.
Bruntsfield Parents Football
We raised an incredible £600 for our chosen charity – Cancer Care last Saturday at our charity match v Eskbank Dads at Dalkeith Campus. Thanks to all the parents who took part in an exciting 8-8 draw!
School Ceilidh – Thank You!
A huge thank you to everyone who attended the School Ceilidh last Saturday – everyone had a great time with CeilidhKids leading the way through the dances. We saw so many happy faces and raised over £500 for our school!
Clerical Assistant Opportunity at Bruntsfield
Mrs Hanson is moving to a school nearer to her home. We wish her all the best and thank her for the amazing job she does in our Office. Therefore, we are looking for a new Clerical Assistant with the same high standards. If you know of someone who may suit the role, please encourage them to apply: https://iaghme.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/jobs/preview/14362/?location=Edinburgh%2C+Midlothian%2C+United+Kingdom&locationId=100000006411287&locationLevel=city&mode=job-location&radius=25&radiusUnit=MI
Kind regards,
Stephen Gilhooley