LPS Newsletter

Welcome Back to Our Summer Term

We’ve reached the last term of the school year at Leith and what a busy term it is. Here is a list of dates for your diary. Class teachers will also let parents and carers know about the date and time of your child’s class assembly this term.

Date
1st May	Bank Holiday – All off
2nd May	Staff In-Service – Nursery – P6 pupils off
2nd May	P7 Pupils head off to Benmore school residential
8th May	Coronation Monday Holiday – All off
10th May	First Families Connect Session begins (nursery and P1 parents only)
15th – 19th May	School Health Week
22nd May	Victoria Day – All off
23rd May	Class Photo Day
24th May	LPPC AGM at 6.15pm
31st May	Sports Day (back up day 7th June)
5th – 9th June	World of Work Week
5th – 9th June	P6 and P5/6 Junior Tour Guide Performances at South Leith Parish Church
8th June	New P1 Induction Day
12th – 16th June	Proud Week
16th June	P7 Lion King performance for P7 Parents & Carers
16th June	End of Year Reports out to parents and carers
20th – 22nd June	P7 Transition Days at Secondary School
21st June	New P1 Optional Activity Morning
27th June	P7 Leavers Assembly
28th June	Last Day of Term – All finish at 1pm

Calling Parents of Current P1 and August ’23 P1 Parents

We would love parents from our current P1a and P1b classes and parents who have a child starting P1 in August this year to take part in our new Families Connect Programme. The eight-week course will be run by our Family Support Worker Danni Taylor and our nursery EYP Natalia Ramos.

Families connect is unique in that it focuses on three key areas:

• Social and emotional development
• Literacy and language development
• Numeracy and mathematics.

The families connect course is aimed at supporting children aged between 4-6 years old. It is a play based program and introduces games and activities to parents and carers that support their child’s learning at the same time as being fun.

Parents who have attended previous Families Connect courses have enjoyed meeting and making friends with other parents, finding out about how to best to support their child develop and having fun in the activities with their child in the last half of the session.

The course will start on Wednesday 10th May 1pm-3pm until the end of term. We would love to see you there.

End to School Food Pantry

After much deliberation, we have taken the difficult decision to end our weekly Wednesday Food Pantry. We started our Pantry to support many of our Leith Primary families during the height of the COVID pandemic when many families were finding the strain of redundancy, ongoing furlough or zero hours contracts a real challenge. Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to affect, arguably, even more families our small Pantry cannot keep up with the level of need. With less food spread around more organisations offering food support, we felt we were inadvertently adding to the problem.

Any families who require support with food can still be referred to the South Leith Food Bank by Danni, our Family Support Worker. We hope to promote other subsidised or free grocery options to you in the upcoming weeks. We can also support parents with benefits applications or with debt management options. Please get in touch with Danni directly on 07947 580 404 or danni@citadelyouthcentre.org.uk for more information.

Our World of Work – Parents We would Love Your Help!

During the 5th-9th June, we are hoping to have a focus for pupils on the world of work and further learning. We would love any interested parents and carers who have a job of any kind to volunteer whatever time they can to talk to one or two of our classes about what they do. Our children are interested in finding out about different kinds of jobs and the skills that are needed to do them. If you have any photos of your workplace, tools that you use or products that you make to bring in and show us, even better. If you are unsure about what to say, don’t worry as we would be only-to-happy to help you with this. Even five minutes for a question and answer session would be really appreciated.

If you are interested in coming in to school during that week to chat to your own child’s class or another class, then please get in touch with us via admin@leith-pri.edin.sch.uk

Many thanks!

LPPC Needs a New Chair – Could It Be You?

Our brilliantly supportive Leith Primary Parent Council will host its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 24th May at 6.15pm in the school library. Our co-chairs for the last two and a half years, Lauren and Emily, plan to step down due to increased work commitments so the parent council are hoping to elect a new chair or chairs. If you are outgoing, positive, friendly and can spare an hour or so each week and time to chair the six meetings a year, please consider putting yourself forward for this or one of the other roles within the parent council. If you have any questions about the role of chair or other roles you might be interested in, please get in touch by email leithppc@gmail.com

Our Hardworking Leithers of the Week

Two weeks of pupils demonstrating our school values of Kindness, Perseverance and Responsibility.

	Zaha	Primary 1a	Zaha is always a kind and very hard-working member of our class. She did an excellent job remembering some of our new sounds and tricky words when she wrote her Spring poem this week!
	Arthur	Primary 1a	Arthur is a friend to everyone in our class and is always polite, helpful and respectful. We are so proud of you, Arthur!
	Youcef	Primary 1b	Youcef worked very hard on his Spring poem this week and used his senses to describe what he could see and hear. Well done Youcef for showing perseverance with your learning.
	Lena	Primary 1b	Lena has worked incredibly hard in all areas of her learning this week and has grown in confidence when sharing her ideas with the class. It’s been a joy to hear you voice Lena and we are very proud of you!
	Eva	Primary 2	Eva created a super artwork with chalk in the playground, then she looked at it and thought ‘I can make this better’ and she did! Good perseverance Eva and well done on challenging yourself.
	Zerin	Primary 2	Zerin was really creative in her description of a setting this week. She used lots of exciting describing words. Well done Zerin!
	Anthony	Primary 2/3	Anthony has made super progress with his reading  recently.  He has worked hard to learn many new tricky words and can recognize these in the past two reading books he has had.  Well done Anthony – keep transferring those skills!
	Sahib	Primary 2/3	Sahib has made brilliant progress with her reading.  She is reading with more confidence and can recognise lots of tricky words.  She did fantastically in our Tricky word game and read tricky words at lightening speed.  Well Sahib, your skills are getting stronger every week!
	Poppy	Primary 3	Poppy always has a positive attitude to her learning and approaches all tasks with motivation and enthusiasm.  In particular this week she has contributed lots of interesting ideas during our guided reading sessions.
	Stefka	Primary 3	For trying her best in reading today. Stefka is sounding out words to help her read. Well done for keeping so focused.
	Felix	Primary 4a	As well as always being a responsible and respectful member of our class, Felix has made great progress with addition and subtraction and challenging himself with hot activities. Keep up the good work Felix!
	Aarush	Primary 4a	For sharing his ideas confidently and for being a supportive partner in our new topic activity.
	Tempy	Primary 4b	Tempy has been working really hard recently, particularly in writing and maths. She has completed some fantastic, long pieces of writing and shows resilience and perseverance working through some tricky maths questions. Well done Temps!
	Jonathan	Primary 4b	Jonathan has settled really well into P4 at Leith Primary. He has a fantastic attitude towards his work and has been following the school rules well. Keep up the good work!
	Megan	Primary 5	Megan always demonstrates all the values of a Leither. She is kind and respectful to everyone and puts lots of effort into all of her work. Well done Megan.
	Cordy	Primary 5	Cordy demonstrates the school values of kindness, responsibility, perseverance and upholds the school rules: ready, respectful, safe at all times. She is an excellent class mate, friend and Leith Primary pupil.
	Chloe	Primary 5/6	Chloe neatly re wrote some faintly printed questions for a p5 that couldn’t see them clearly.
	Yanis	Primary 5/6	Yanis was supportive of his groupmates during our first JTG session.  His behaviour and reading were excellent throughout too (and he shared his snack!).
	Zara	Primary 6	Zara for always being ready and respectful in class and for her great effort learning Spanish.
	Dine	Primary 6	Dina for her effort and enthusiasm in music – really well done!
	Zara Z	Primary 7	For consistently demonstrating the school values and being extremely helpful to the supply teacher. Well Done.
	Ellia	Primary 7	It was great to see Ellia performing in front of the class confidently singing and projecting her voice.  She felt her fear and did it anyway!  Well done Ellia. 🙂