LPS Newsletter

Scotland Manager Visits Leith Girls Squad

The Manager of the Scotland Women’s Football team, Melissa Andreatta, came to visit the Leith Primary School girls football team last Wednesday in the school’s library. The girls had prepared questions for Melissa about her role as a manager and the role of a professional football player. Melissa was delighted to share her experiences of working within women’s football with the girls and was impressed with their passion for the game.

Farewell Mrs Stiven

Our beloved Pupil Support Assistant, Mrs Edith Stiven, will be retiring tomorrow after nearly twenty-seven years in the job. As one of our most experienced and dedicated PSAs, Mrs Stiven has helped thousands of children at all stages across the school from nursery to P7. She has also skilfully supported pupils with a wide range of abilities, some of whom have managed to overcome times of real crisis in their lives thanks to her calm, understanding and endlessly patient care and support. Mrs Stiven has volunteered her own time for free to support children on numerous residential trips, such as the recent one to Lagganlia. She has led nurture groups in The Loft and most recently has been supporting individual children in The Oak Room. Over the years, Mrs Stiven has been the embodiment of our school values: kind, responsible and persevering through both challenging and good times. She will be greatly missed by colleagues and children and leaves enormous shoes to fill. We wish her all the best on her very well deserved retirement and hope that she knows that she has affected the lives of many, many Leith Primary children for the better.

Pupil Voice in Action

Well done to our Primary 5 pupils who delivered letters to local MSP Ben Macphearson. The letters provided an opportunity for the children to demonstrate their powers of written persuasion. Primary 5 asked Mr Macphearson to use his powers as an MSP to grant all children a day off school after the Scotland-Haiti football game at the World Cup. A few of the P5 children delivered the letters in person to Mr Macphearson’s office in Leith – accompanied by Ms Aitken. We will report back if they get a response to their request.

Leith Connections Launch

Well done to the P6 and P7 pupils who took part in the Leith Connections launch at Sandport way last week. The children travelled along the cycle route (below) before posing for photographs with the Cabinet Secretary.

Want to Work at Our Breakfast Club?

A position has become available to work at our ELOSCN privately run, popular school breakfast club. The role, which pays £15/hr, is for a Breakfast Club Practitioner for 9 hours a week.

If this is something that you feel you could do and would suit your current circumstances, please apply through this link: https://myjobscotland.gov.uk/childcare/edinburgh-and-lothians-out-school-care-network/jobs/leith-breakfast-club-practitioner-463581

Brown Belt for Jayden

Health Week 2026

Easter Activities

What’s On in Leith

Active Schools Edinburgh are excited to share some additional Easter ASN Holiday Sports Sessions, specifically designed for pupils with an Additional Support Need across both mainstream and special schools. Below you’ll find information about tennis and cricket sessions running during the holidays. Both sports also offer ongoing regular ASN sessions term time, so if your child enjoys these sessions, there will be opportunities to continue after the Easter break.

Please click the booking link for more information and to sign up. Bookings are now live.

Activity	Age	Day	Time	Venue	Code
ASN Tennis	5-9yrs	Monday13th April	2:00 – 2:30	Oriam sports complex	SEN-98Dhttps://getedinburghactive.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/EVSESENQ?SETLVL=&RNI=237941
ASN Tennis	11+yrs	Monday13th April	2:30 – 3:15	Oriam sports complex	SEN – 99Dhttps://getedinburghactive.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/EVSESENQ?SETLVL=&RNI=237943
ASN Cricket	S1-6	Wednesday8th April	2:00 – 3:00	Forrester High School	SEN-97Dhttps://getedinburghactive.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/EVSESENQ?SETLVL=&RNI=236249

Active Schools: Leith Learning Community: Newsletter Term 2 2025-26

Young Leaders in Action: Sport Council Shine

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P7 Transition Clubs/Various Clubs at Leith Academy

Our Primary 7 Transition Clubs at Leith Academy will run throughout Term 3, giving P7 pupils a fantastic opportunity to experience high school life before joining us after the summer. Pupils are invited to come along and take part in a range of high school clubs, helping them discover new interests and build confidence in a familiar setting. They’ll meet the coaches who run the activities and get to know pupils from other primary schools who may be in their classes next year. It’s a friendly, supportive way to ease the transition and get excited about the move to high school and the extra-curricular opportunities offered here at Leith Academy.

• Please Click the link below to see the clubs that are running, times and days.
• Once registered you will be sent an email from myself with the details for the club a few days before.
• Booking Opens: Thur 26 March 2026
• To BOOK, click or copy and paste the link: https://forms.office.com/e/j8eVNx7RVT

Read Our Current Nursery Newsletter

Leith Primary School Nursery

Welcome to Leith Primary School Nursery! We are proud to represent and serve the diverse area of South Leith in Edinburgh.

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Our Right & Metaskill of the Month

Our Recent Leithers of the Week

Amelia O	Primary 1/2	For her hard work in writing this week and for always having a positive attitude towards her learning
Ben	Primary 1a	For being responsible and showing a massive improvement when tidying up. Good job Ben!
Zhyon	Primary 1b	Zhyon has been trying very hard to become a more fluent reader recently and has impressed Mrs Young by remembering so many tricky words! Well done Zhyon!
Aaliyah	Primary 2	Aaliyah is a fantastic team player and is always very helpful around the classroom. Well done!
Allannia	Primary 2	Allannia has shown fantastic effort in Literacy this week! Well done Allannia.
George	Primary 3A	George has made lots of progress with independent writing.  Well done!
Zite	Primary 3B	Zite has made brilliant progress with reading.  He is using different forms of punctuation very effectively and can read new and context words confidently.  Well done Zite!
Tamara	Primary 3B	Tamara has put a big effort into listening to and following instructions this week. She’s using her knowledge of how long tasks can take, to line up in class order and do the carpet countdown quickly. Well done Tamara!
Clova	Primary 4	For achievement in swimming
Maci	Primary 4	For fantastic achievement in learning fractions
Arthur	Primary 4/5	Arthur always has a fantastic attitude to his all his work and demonstrates the school values of perseverance. He also always shows respectful listening.
Najah	Primary 4/5	Marya has been putting lots of extra effort into her learning and has been completing work at home too. Great work! Keep it up!
Bradley	Primary 5	For always trying his best and showing kindness to others.
Elijah	Primary 5	For consistently demonstrating our school values and showing kindness to others.
Blake	Primary 6	Superb use of descriptive language, paragraphs and punctuation in her creative writing.
Joe	Primary 6	For his perseverance and effort in understanding how division and multiplication are related.
Austin	Primary 6/7	Austin worked extremely hard writing notes on tornadoes for our explanation text piece. He was extremely focused and wrote down lots of super information. Keep up the super work, Austin!
Henry	Primary 6/7	Henry did a fantastic job of editing and improving his writing this week, with particular focus on his handwriting and layout. He also worked very hard with Ms Henderson. Keep up the super work!
Robert	Primary 7	For producing some excellent pieces of persuasive writing.

Happy Easter!