LPS Newsletter

Open Classroom – Meet the Teacher

Thank you to everyone who was able to make the Meet the Teacher event today. We had a brilliant turn out from every class. It was such a wonderful sight to have our parents and carers back in the building again talking about learning and finding out a bit about what happens at school. Our next whole school event will be Parent-Teacher Consultations on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th November. The booking link will be sent out in the next few weeks.

Funding Suggestions – The Big Vote on Tuesday

Another big thank you to everyone who took the time to share their brilliant ideas for how we should spend the £20,000 gifted to Leith Primary School from a local charitable trust. We have now consulted with all pupils, parents and staff and are ready to take the best suggestions to a big vote on Tuesday 20th September. Parents and staff will be sent a link to a voting form. Voting will be open from 8.30am – 6pm. Pupils will vote on a paper form. We will announce the final results of The Big Vote next Friday. We hope that all our parents and carers will take part in this important piece of participatory budgeting.

Financial Support – What We Offer Already

Some of the excellent suggestions from our parents mentioned a few things that the school already currently offers pupils and families. Here is a brief summary of how we can help:

Free school uniform/school sweatshirts/school bag/ gym kit for those who need them
Free healthy snack/breakfast items for those who need them
Free winter jacket and school shoes
(Previously and hopefully coming back soon again) fully funded places at our breakfast club for those who need them
Cycling proficiency lessons for all children with access to free bikes to borrow
Heavily discounted places for residential trips for older pupils and funding to buy appropriate clothing
Free Christmas packages with toys and food hampers for families this would help
Free financial support and support with housing issues
Coming: Free School Meals for Nursery to P7
Free weekly food bank, The Leith Primary Pantry, for anyone who needs this
Referral to the local Leith food bank
Support to apply for a free child bus pass (all children in Edinburgh are eligible)

We are committed to reducing or eliminating the cost of the school day for as many families as we can. Ideally, we would love to have universal supports to reduce any stigma and where we can do this, we will. We are aware how many of our families, including working families, are already financially stretched and facing uncertainty with the cost of utility bills. As a school, we cannot pretend that we will be able to support you directly with household bills but we can plan to take away as many school related costs as possible. And if you are worried about your money and bills, we can refer you to our partners at Maximise, who have full time money advice workers ready to support you with these concerns. Please just let us know how we can help you and your family.

In This Week’s Recognition Book…

Anton	Primary 2/3	Anton is developing his attitude to learning and has listened and focused well on his tasks this week. Well done Anton, you can do it!
Jayden	Primary 3	Jayden works hard, sets a good example to others and is helpful to all his classmates. Well done Jayden!
Noor	P4a	Well done to Noor who showed great confidence speaking to one of her class teachers – keep that great work up, Noor!
Diego	Primary 4b	Diego is always one of the first people to show me he is read to learn every morning. He moves around the school sensibly, safely and silently and is always very polite towards other people around the school by holding doors for them. Well done, Diego!
Hakeem	Primary 5	Hakeem has been taking doing his work and trying his best – Great job! He has also been very helpful to both Miss Christensen and his classmates helping organise devices and solve ICT issues 🙂
Nico	Primary 5/6	Nico is in the recognition book for his ‘What Makes a Good Friend?’ HWB task which he put a huge amount of effort in to.
Jude	Primary 6	Well done to Jude for making great progress in his reading this week. Keep up the super attitude to your learning, Jude!
Mya	Primary 7	Mya has had some fantastic ideas for our Mock Court project. She has shown enthusiasm, taken in lots of information and come up with creative ideas on how we can win our case.

Don’t Forget!

Remember that we are all off school on Monday which is now a national day of mourning for the late Queen’s funeral. All pupils and staff return as usual at 8.50am on Tuesday 20th September. Have a lovely weekend!