P1 have a special message for Miss Burke on her retirement!

Yesterday, as part of the celebrations we are having for Miss Burke’s retirement, the whole school contributed to a farewell assembly. The classes sang songs, said prayers, recited Scottish poetry and performed Scottish Country dancing. The children tried to think of things that had been special to Miss Burke throughout her time as Headteacher of Loretto. Miss Burke had pride of place in the centre of the P7s and was joined by her sister and her niece.

Here are some pictures of the performers!

It was a lovely way to end the school day after having had Miss Burke’s mass in the morning.

You are a star Miss Burke! 🙂

We had fabulous weather for ‘Team Loretto’ at our Nursery Sports Day. The children did brilliantly in the various relay and the individual running races. We couldn’t believe how many times both classes wanted to run to the wall and back!

Many thanks to all who came to watch, and the Primary 6s who provided us with brilliant help and were great sports, taking part in various team events including the ‘invisible sack’ race!

Some photos from the Morning Group Sports Day:

Some photos from the Afternoon Group Sports Day:

Today, to celebrate the success of the Mandarin project, P1 threw a farewell party for our Chinese volunteers. Fiona, Valentina and Vivien enjoyed our party games and loved the Thank You cards that the children had made for them. The children enjoyed trying some Chinese foods – noodles, spring rolls, wantons, prawn toast and prawn crackers. Here they are tucking in!

Well done to the boys who played against Stoneyhill in the semi-final of the League Cup. The boys were outstanding and well up for the challenge! Gabriel Fadul-Macrae was playing in goals for the first time and did brilliantly. Aidan Garland-McGlynn scored 2 goals and Sean Roberts got a hat-trick making sure we had the win. The boys have won two trophies, with the big one still to play for.

The boys will play Windygoul in the final on the 3rd of July at 1:30pm. All parents are welcome to come along and watch. It will be a very hard game for the boys but if they play as well as they did against Stoneyhill then they will do us all proud.

Good luck boys! Let’s do the treble!

The Jannie

On Wednesday P1 went to Edinburgh Zoo as part of their topic about Animals. We saw meerkats, flamingos, penguins, chimpanzees, a leopard, a tiger and koalas. We were lucky enough to get tickets to see the pandas too. We had a very interesting talk from Kirsty who taught us about Endangered Animals.

We had a fantastic day in the sun and enjoyed a picnic outside for lunch. Here are some photos of our day!

A big thank you to the lovely mummies who helped us out!
P1K and P1H 🙂

Please note that as a result of the extra in-service day on Wednesday 20th August 2014, the school will re-open to pupils on Thursday 21st August.

P2 have been learning all about the animals of the rainforest this term.  Here are some examples of our chalk pastel pictures of animals.