This week we brought you a pupil report on the excavation of Bronze Age remains at Victoria Primary, details of how we are doing on school attendance and the findings that our school satisfaction levels keep soaring.
In other news…
Pupils enjoy a wet February break!
Primary pupils across Edinburgh enjoyed free swimming sessions over the February break. The sessions were offered at five pools across the city as part of a healthy living initiative. We reported on our initiative to encouraging swimming in October, now you can read more about this recent development on our media blog.
New primary school classrooms in the pipeline
The ever rising primary school roll is being addressed by building a number of new classrooms in schools across the city.
At the start of the current school year we opened 23 new classrooms and have received positive feedback on these from parents, pupils and staff. For the start of the next school year another 18 classrooms will be built at four primary schools - Broughton, Victoria, St David’s and Craigour Park – and a further six classrooms will be created at Fox Covert, Stockbridge, Flora Stevenson, Bruntsfield and Gylemuir by adapting the existing buildings.
Read the full story on new classrooms in our news centre.
And finally… Staff in fine song at Fairtrade Awards 2014!
On Monday the winners of the Lord Provost’s Fairtrade Awards were announced at a special ceremony at the city chambers.
The ceremony was all the more special for the musical accompaniment by the Children and Families staff choir, Waverley Voices!
Hear them in action in the video below.
