Castleview Primary School, Edinburgh

Date	Title
Jul 1 2009	Last few days of Primary 7 Take a look at our graduation disco. We all had a great time and made some shapes on the dance floor! There's also a class photo at the graduation assembly.

Jun 10 2009	Launch of Junior Tour Guides at Craigmillar Castle It was the long awaited launch of Craigmillar Junior Tour Guides on 10th June. Historic Scotland and Castleview sent some special invitations out for people to attend the special event. A piper piped the tour guides and visitors up to the entrance of the castle. It was a very special and proud moment.

Jun 2 2009	Architecture Project with Edinburgh University Primary 6 have been chosen to do a project with Edinburgh University Architecture Department to design a wall to be built in Castleview Playground.

May 1 2009	Health Week 27th April - 1st May Castleview pupils enjoyed a variety of healthy activities including Gaelic Football!

Apr 23 2009	P7 Benmore Residential Experience Check out P7's class pages for some images of our fabulous trip to Benmore. We had an amazing time and are currently preparing our assembly to tell the rest of the school all about our experience.

Apr 3 2009	Spring Activities Morning The pupil council requested more whole school activity mornings so we had a special spring morning on the last day of term before the Easter holidays. Children brought in 50p to wear spring coloured clothes instead of uniform and worked in mixed age house groups on various fun spring themed activities.

Mar 23 2009	Family Learning Group looking for new parent volunteers The Tuesday family learning group is currently busy preparing an easter egg hunt for P1 and P2. It will take place on Tuesday 31st March at 9:30. Parent helpers are very welcome. We meet in the community room on Tuesdays from 8:45. so feel free to drop in.

Mar 19 2009	Bug Busting! We had a headlice awareness, treatment and prevention workshop led by our local student Health Visitor in the community room. Three primary 3 children handed out flyers to encourage parents and carers to come along.

Mar 16 2009	Fischy Music Concert & Words to the songs At Castleview we have an excellent emotional literacy programme. We teach children about emotions and promote emotional well being from nursery to Primary 7. We use a lot of Fishy Music to promote emotional resilience through singing and music. Primary 6 and 7 got to go to the Fischy Concert at Liberton Kirk. It was an excellent concert. Click here to go to the fischy website.

Mar 13 2009	Red Nose Day 2009! We had a non-uniform day today and everybody wore red and donated 50p each. Primary 5 did a healthy tuck shop (with all profits going to comic relief) and there was red hair spray and red face paint. In total we raised £201.36. FANTASTIC!

Mar 2 2009	Photoarch competition The whole school entered this photography competition. Leigh in Primary 4 won with her photo of The White House.

Feb 13 2009	Fun in the snow! A lot of people were complaining when the snow came but Castleview pupils certainly weren't!

Feb 2 2009	School Meals Parents Survey Please take some time to fill out this parents survey about school meals Thank you very much for your time and effort. Any feedback and suggestions are much appreciated.

Jan 28 2009	Northern Lights Team come to Castleview Craig Mathieson and Dr Richard Smith came in to Castleview to do a very special assembly for us. They told us all about their forthcoming expedition to the Arctic which will link Inuit pupils in Greenland with Castleview Primary.

Jan 27 2009	Castleview remembers and enjoys Robert Burns! 2009 is the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns. At Castleview we have been learning some of his songs and poems and some children from P4-P7 are entering the Burns School and City Competition. We wish you all lots of luck!

Jan 26 2009	Happy Chinese New Year! It is the Chinese New Year today. 2009 is the year of the Ox!

Jan 20 2009	Outdoor Activities for Kids at Bridgend Community Allotments From January 30th, Bridgend Allotments will be running Friday afternoon sessions for kids aged 6-10 who want to learn how to grow their own food and try other outdoor activities. Sessions will run from 1.30 till about 3pm .

Dec 15 2008	Nativity Performance - Baboushka The nativity was on Thursday 11th December. It was a fantastic show! Well done to everybody involved!

Dec 7 2008	Castleview Christmas Fair This year the school fair made £976.58. Well done to Parents, Carers, Pupils and Staff who helped to make it such a success!

Dec 1 2008	Castleview Pupils at the Jubilee Park Launch Pupils from Castleview went along to the opening of the new adventure playground in Craigmillar on Friday 14th November 2008. We sang the song 'Craigmillar Now'. One of the lines from that song is 'Adventure playgrounds on the way, to practise living as well play'. Well, it's actually here!!

Nov 28 2008	St Andrew's Day Morning - Kilts for Kids Day On Friday 28th November Castleview had a Scottish morning in celebration of St Andrew's Day. This helped to raise money for the charity Children 1st. Pupils came to school dressed in tartan and enjoyed the scottish themed activities.

Oct 31 2008	Bacon Buttie Parents Morning We had a buttie and tea morning. As soon as the morning bell rang parents and carers came into the school.

Oct 16 2008	The Calcutta Cup comes to Castleview! The upper school participated in rugby last session which was sponsored by the Scottish Rugby Union and the Food Standards agency. They did so well that SRU reps came into give us our certificates and they brought with them a very special cup - The Calcutta Cup!

Oct 15 2008	SPARK celebration! Castleview has been working on drama and dance with Wils from the Lyceum Theatre Company this term.

Oct 8 2008	Castleview pupils will soon be Craigmillar Castle Tour Guides Pupils at Castleview Primary are working in partnership with Historic Scotland to become Pupil Tour Guides for Craigmillar Castle. It is a great opportunity for the children to be part of the local historical community and for them to have ownership over their local castle.

Sep 25 2008	We go wireless! Castleview Primary School is now wireless.

Sep 13 2008	Castleview Baby Boom! Castleview Teachers Ms Langley and Mrs Boyd have babies on the same day Saturday 13 September 2008

Sep 10 2008	School Launches Homework Policy at "Meet the Teacher" Event Meet the Teacher Event - launch of Homework Policy

Aug 26 2008	Headteacher Flies to Skye in Helicopter & Meets First Minister

Jul 31 2008	We are in the Chronicle again!

Jun 18 2008	We are in the Chronicle

Jun 17 2008	LEPRA

Jun 16 2008	Chest Heart and Stroke

May 22 2008	Healthy Focus Week 2008

Apr 9 2008	Sammy Smith wins Michael Rosen Event Prize

Mar 19 2008	Nursery Easter Parade

Mar 18 2008	A Touch 'O' Craigmillar

Mar 3 2008	Primary Five visit Edinburgh Castle

Feb 26 2008	Craigmillar Cluster Art Gallery

Feb 25 2008	Castleview Art Gallery

Feb 8 2008	Paper Boat Launch

Feb 6 2008	Primary Seven Art Exhibition

Feb 5 2008	Science Week

Feb 1 2008	We are in the Chronicle

Jan 25 2008	Roman Signer Exhibition