Issue 4 17/03/17

Red Nose Day Is on Friday 24th March – look out!! We plan to have a fun

morning of red noses and jokes galore!! Pay £1 and wear red or tell a joke at

Assembly!!

Pupils from the school recently went on a visit to the Lady Haig's Poppy

Factory in Warriston. The pupils had been making and selling poppies in

the school last November and were invited along to have a tour of the fac-

tory.

On the 1st March we had our annual Ca-reers Fair called Footsteps to the Future. We had 17 providers and agencies attend-ing to share their information and advice with parents, carers and pupils from Pilrig

Park as well as other Special Schools and local Inclusion Re-source Bases. A hugely successful morning. Thank you for attending.

Dates for your Diary

Easter Holidays

Monday 3 April 2017 - Monday 17 April 2017

PARENTS MORNING

After last successful open discussion

for parents, another date has been

made to continue this good practice.

Parents are invited along to add their

ideas/suggestions on the topic of

TARGETS, in preparation for the deliv-

ery of pupil IEPs. Please let the office

know if you would like to attend on

Friday 24th March 10.30am –

11.30am. We’d love to see you!

As I type, FAIRTRADE

FORTNIGHT is still in

full swing and I would

firstly like to thank all

parents and carers

who have kindly sent

in Fairtrade wrappers and packets –

it’s been fantastic! There has been a

lot of Fairtrade work been done not

only in classrooms but also looking

for Fairtrade products in the local su-

permarket. Several classes have en-

joyed eating FAIRTRADE chocolate

too, but don’t tell everyone!!

We are delighted that our application to be involved in the City Vision 2050

Film Making Project with Screen Education Edinburgh (SEE) was successful!

This means Screen Education Edinburgh will provide Pilrig Park with:2hr

film learning workshops, 1 full day equivalent of shooting support in your

school and 1 full day equivalent of editing support in school (tech provided

by SEE).

BAFTAS here we come!!

The Festival Theatre have invited the Special Schools to put on another ‘Awfey Huge Variety Show’, after the huge success of last year’s Show.

Pilrig Park are going to perform a dance routine and auditions for dancers will be taking place in the next few weeks!! We are fortunate enough to have the support of Dancebase once again and Nico has started coming here on a Friday to teach some funky moves!!

The date of the Show is Friday 16th June 2017 at 7pm. Tickets can be purchased through the Edinburgh Festival Theatre Box Office.

Any further details from Mrs Ferguson.

JAZZ JIGSAW

‘Awesome’ is a great word to describe the performance last night at the Queen’s Hall!!

Daniel, Lauren, Mason, Magnus, Josh and Sam played alongside pupils from the Edin-burgh Schools Jazz Orchestra as well as a small group from Braidburn School - in front of a live audience! They can now say they have performed in their first real ‘gig’!!

The atmosphere was amazing and our pupils did themselves proud. Well done!

World Book Day took place on March 2nd. All pupils

were given a £1 book voucher that could be ex-

changed for a World Book Day special edition book or

used as a £1 voucher against the cost of any book.

The tokens are valid until March 26th and can be used

in participating bookstores.

By the end of next week all the senior classes will

have visited a bookstore and chosen a book to take home.

Stem

On Tuesday 21st March Fife College and Business Dynamics are run-

ning our first STEM project morning for our S4-S6. Pupils will take

part in various practical problem solving workshops related to sci-

ence, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Sustainability Project

The Green group have managed to sources and install a curtain in our new work pod.

Thank you for the generous dona-tions of fabric and curtains.

Green group and Miss McLarty

Clothing

Our school is looking to replenish our stock of spare jogging bottoms that we use in emergencies. If you have any unused or out grown jogging bottoms in good condition both girls / boys or unisex please can you send them in. Also please can you wash and return any school jogging bottoms/ clothing items that your child has borrowed. Many thanks.

Visit

The Acting Head of Children’s Services, Andy Jeffries visited our school on 28th of Febru-ary. Pupils, Frankie and Zeeshaan were total stars discussing Children’s Rights and per-sonal issues such as racism and abuse of children. I only wish I had recorded it all!! Thank you to Ms Kirkwood for working with them and Ms Kirkwood and Ms Saywer for the work on Children’s Rights with the Pupil Council. Andy was then given a quick tour of the school.