A very warm welcome back to a new school year at Leith Primary School. A special welcome to all our new families who have joined us. You are now part of the Leith Primary family – once a Leither, always a Leither!
A big thank you to LPPC for decorating the outside of the school for the pupils returning. It really brightened up the school for us coming back.
We have been delighted by the enthusiasm that our pupils have brought to their learning over the last week and a half. Thank you for supporting the wearing of school colours on all days of the school week – especially Friday! The children look smart and ready to learn and represent their school out in the Leith community. Please let us know if we can support your child to wear school colours or by purchasing or being gifted a school sweatshirt. We expect all pupils to wear school colours on all days.
News
We wished a fond farewell to Ms Rose our school administrator who takes up her new post at Heriot Watt University next week. We would like to wish her well in her new career and thank her for her support of the school. She will be missed by many.
Whilst we recruit a new school administrator, the main reception area window will only be manned until 9.30am and at the end of the day. If you need to get in touch with the school please either leave a voice message, a text message or an email to the admin email address. Messages are checked regularly throughout the day. We thank you for your cooperation during this busy period.
Free School Meals/School Clothing Grant
If you have not done so already, please re-apply for Free School Meals ASAP. Most children receive a free school meal if ordered through Parent Pay already. However you must apply for Free School Meals to be entitled to free milk, the £100 clothing grant and other subsidies through out the school year. If you require support with this, please request an appointment with Danni, our Family Support Worker.
Data Check, KIC and Photography Forms
If you have not already received this, please check your child’s school bag for these forms which must be checked and completed and sent back as soon as possible please. It is vitally important that we have your current phone number and email address so that we can get in touch with you when required and pass on important information.
Communication
This year, Nursery – P4 will use Online Learning Journals to share individual targets and best pieces of work with parents. You can also contact your child’s class teacher through OLJ. Second level classes, P5-P7, will be trailing the use of One Note to share their work with parents. Parents can also email the individual and admin email addresses when corresponding with teachers.
Regular newsletters, such as this one, will be posted on the school website and emailed to you. You can subscribe directly to the website if you have a WordPress account to get news directly to your inbox.
Home Learning Grids and Class Newsletters will be sent to individual classes next week.
Check our Twitter account @leith_primary for posts about class learning and events. The Twitter feed can also be found on the website.
Some Dates for Your Diary
| September | October | November | December | January |
| 7th One Planet Picnic 11th Harvest Festival 14th LPPC Meeting 16th/23rd Meet the Teacher 19th Monday Holiday 25th Rosh Hashanah | 4th Yom Kippur 10th World Mental Health Day 14th Term Ends 24th Diwali 25th Pupils Resume 31st Halloween | 2nd P1 Open Day 3rd/4th Parent Consultations 5th Guy Fawkes 11th Armistice Day 13th World Kindness Day 14th Anti Bullying Week 16th LPPC Meeting 18th BBC Children in Need 20th Universal Children’s Day | 18th Hanukkah 20th Term Ends 25th Christmas Day | 5th Pupils Resume 18th LPPC Meeting 22nd Chinese New Year 25th Burns Night |
| February | March | April | May | June |
| 3rd/10th Open Classroom Morning 6th Children’s Mental Health Day 8th-10th Lagganlia Ski Trip 14th-17th February Mid term break 14th Safer Internet Day Pupils Return 20th 21st International Mother Language Day 21st Shrove Tuesday 25th International Stand Up to Bullying Day | 1st St David’s Day 2nd World Book Day 2nd/3rd Parent Consultations 8th International Women’s Day 8th Holi 13th Sleep Awareness Week 14th International Day of Maths 15th LPPC Meeting 17th St Patrick’s Day 20th Neurodiversity Week 22nd Ramadan 27th Earth Hour 31st Term Ends | 15th Guru Nanak’s Birthday 17th Pupils Resume 21st Eid Al-Fitr 22nd Earth Day 23rd St George’s Day | 1st/2nd Holiday 2nd-5th P7 Benmore Week 15th Health Week 22nd Holiday 24th LPPC AGM 31st Sports Day | 5th World of Work Week (7th Sports Day option 2) 8th P1 Visit Day 20th-22nd P7 Secondary School Visit Days 27th Leaver’s Assembly 28th Term Ends |
Stress and the Teenage Brain
Following on from a survey we completed with parents about which sessions and courses around children and young people’s mental health would be relevant, we are delighted that a new partnership has been developed to run regular parent sessions again.
VOCAL Parents Carewell, Health in Mind, the CEC Parent and Carer Support Team and other partners are busy planning regular sessions for parents and carers. These will be an opportunity for parents to meet other parents and supportive professionals in a safe relaxed environment. In response to the feedback from parents some of the sessions will run face to face and some will run online.
Please find attached information on the first session-
Stress and the Teenage Brain- Thursday 25th August 6.30-8.30pm at VOCAL Edinburgh Carers’ Hub, 60 Leith Walk, EH6 5HB
This session is most relevant for parents who are concerned about their pre-teen or teenager’s emotional wellbeing and mental health. It will allow parents and carers to explore the impact of teenage brain development and stress on young people’s emotional wellbeing and consider ways we can all manage stress more effectively.
The session will be facilitated by the City of Edinburgh Parent and Carer Support Team and Health in Mind.
Places will be limited. For more information or to book a place please contact Jillian Hart, Parent and Carer Support Development Officer by emailing supportingparentsandcarers@edinburgh.gov.uk or call 07860 736129
Parents and carers can also sign up for the Parents Mind Well Roundup – Information on Mental Health supports for children, young people and their parents and carers
This quarterly newsletter will share the latest mental health news, activities and support available for children, young people, and their parents and carers in Edinburgh. All of the new Mind Well support sessions for this term will be listed in the Autumn edition. The newsletter will be sent by VOCAL (Voice of Carers Across Lothian) and parents can sign up by visiting the following page on their newsletter platform: Sign up to receive the Parents Mind Well Roundup newsletter
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