Headteacher Update
Liberton Primary School Diving Success
Divers representing Liberton, Royal High, Sciennes, Duddingston, Heriots, Gracemount, and Parsons Green recently took part in the Liz Atkinson Talent Games.
After a highly competitive competition with all divers giving their best, Liberton Primary School pupils took home 4 of the 6 medals for the Year 2 competition!
Year 2 – 9 & Under
Gold: Scarlet D’Mellow (P5a)
Silver: Murren Bain (P4B)
Bronze: Eva Koe (P5b)
Year 2 – 10 & Over
Bronze Sophia West (P7A)
Back in November 2016 coaches from the Edinburgh Leisure diving team visited the school (and others in Edinburgh South) as part of their “talent in diving” initiative. Out of that process a number of the school’s pupils were selected to train 3 times a week at the Royal Commonwealth Pool as part of a dedicated Talent Identification squad throughout 2017. After this year long training the Liberton pupils continued their training through the numerous dive squads Edinburgh Leisure run at the RCP.
This year the Liz Atkinson Talent Games took place on Saturday 3rd November at the RCP. This competition is an annual event that enables young divers selected through the Edinburgh Talent Identification process (2017 and 2018 squads) to compete against each other in a series of physical and technical tests in both the dry dive and pool. Medals were awarded to the top 3 in the 9 & under and 10 & over age groups for the pool and dryland combined scores from the two squad years.
It was a tough competition with Yu Kitamura only missing out on a medal by 2.6 points! Peter Corkhill put in a solid performance and gave his all throughout the competition and came 10th out of 34 competitors representing both 2017 and 2018 squads. Ruairi Hay unfortunately had to retire shortly into the pool section of the competition due to a bad fall. But he had put in an amazing performance in the dryland competition and did the school, and his dive squad, proud. Emily Vickers is also a member of the 2017 TID squad but unfortunately couldn’t take part at this competition. Emily and Eva are members of the same training squad and Emily has made huge progress since starting diving in 2017.
Congratulations and fantastic work from all the Liberton Primary School divers!
Photo permission granted.
S1 Allocations completed
P7 children have now been allocated a high school for August 2019 based on the address held on the pupil’s record held in school. Letters to parents advising of the allocated school have gone out this week.
As always, high schools are allocated depending on the denomination of the primary schools, i.e. a P7 pupil attending a Roman Catholic primary school will be allocated their Roman Catholic catchment high school. However, parents can request to ‘swap’ their allocated catchment school (from non-denominational to RC, or vice versa) by emailing School Placements before 24 December. Additionally, parents requesting their RC catchment school should complete the online RC admission form.
Staffing
Anne-Marie Weston has accepted the maternity post for P3. Anne-Marie will start on Monday 3rd December. I am sure she will be made very welcome by all parents, children and staff.
Polar Explorer Programme
We are delighted to have been given a fully funded place on the school ‘Polar Explorer’ programme. This will include P3-7 attending an assembly led by a Polar Explorer, teacher training sessions and will also involve some classes taking part in learning experiences and Polar Explorer activities.
This exciting programme links in with our STEM (Science, Engineering, Technologies and Maths) school improvement priority. More updates to follow!
Last week at Liberton Primary
- Children in Need – Friday 16th November. Staff and children had a fabulous time today celebrating Children in Need, we have witnessed a huge variety of amazing dress up ideas. We have raised an amazing amount of £220 for dress up. We still need to calculate the total of our bake sale. Well done everyone and thank you to all the family and friends who helped us make this event a success.
- Benmore meeting for parents on Tuesday 13th November was a huge success. The Powerpoint can be found on our website. Please make sure you have completed and returned all the relevant documents. Thank you.
- Parent Association meeting at 7.15pm on Tuesday. A few points that were raised at the meeting;
– Work is continuing regarding a crossing being put on Kirk Brae. The Parent Association are working in partnership with Sustrans.
– Christmas Fayre is beginning to be organised, any helpers would be appreciated. Fayre is on Saturday 8th December 2018, 10am-12pm. Volunteers are required for set up, during the fayre and tidy time.
– Parent calendar dates are now on the website, apologies for the confusion regarding Nativity dates. We appreciate a change in dates must have been stressful for parents/carers and families and we apologise for any upset caused.
Full set of minutes will be published on website.
Upcoming Events
| Date | Event |
| 21.11.18 | P4-7 Polar Explorer Initiative. |
| 7.11.18 | P1 Dress Rehearsal – photos to be taken. |
| 11.12.18 | Nativity – Tuesday afternoon. |
| 12.12.18 | Nativity – Wednesday afternoon. |
| 8.12.18 | School Fair |
| 12.12.18 | Singers to Kirk Guild. |
| 17.12.18 | P1-7 Pantomine |
Christmas Holidays
School breaks on Friday 21st December at 12.00pm. Staff return on Tuesday 8th January and children return on Wednesday 9th January 2019.
Valerie Henry
Acting Headteacher
Liberton Primary School
229 Gilmerton Road
Edinburgh
EH16 5UD
Tel: (0131) 664 2337
Fax: (0131) 666 0599
Follow us on Twitter: @LibertonPrimary
http://www.liberton-pri.edin.sch.uk
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