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What’s happening at Pinkie this week……

September 19, 2016 Jackie Harper

Monday

Holiday

Tuesday

Staff & Pupils return
P4a – Swimming Lessons (at Musselburgh Sports Centre)
Cello Lessons
Music Sessions (various classes)

Wednesday

Assembly
P4a – Swimming Lessons (at Musselburgh Sports Centre)
Drop-in – “Tea & Toast” (Nurture Room)
Violin Lessons
P5/6, P6 & P6/7 Hockey (Pinkie Playing Fields)

Thursday

PE Sessions (various classes)
Kids Knit Class (after school)

Friday

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General School News

News4U is back

Audio September 8, 2016 chrisgsmith Leave a comment

It’s the first interview of the year for the all new News4U team. Here we have Zoe and Chloe interviewing a new teacher, Mr Drysdale. We also have an interview with another new teacher, Miss Yates. If you want to know anything about Pokémon GO; we have the smartest people in Pinkie about Pokémon GO here.

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General School News

Pinkie St Peter’s and Levenhall Nursery Development Plan 2016-2017

September 8, 2016 Jackie Harper Leave a comment

Priority	Actions
Promoting Positive Partnerships	To extend Tea and Toast
	To implement play on pedals
	To develop family learning programmes
	To increase communication through school website
	To embed the school vision values and aims
	To increase community engagement
Increasing resilience and emotional health of all equitably	To implement CAHMS in Pinkie St Peter’s Primary
	To raise attendance
	To embed the Pinkie 15 (mile)
	To deliver Nature Nurture in the nursery
	To train support staff and implement Lego Therapy
	To promote responsible citizenship by caring about things
	To embed strategies for supporting emotional health and wellbeing talks e.g. emotion talks, Growth Mindset, restorative, cluster health and wellbeing working.
	To meet children’s needs through the personalised support provided in Social Groups
	To work with partners to provide out of school opportunities for wider achievement
	To meet children’s needs through the personalised support provided in the Nurture Room
	To embed the policy on promoting positive relationships
	To develop mindfulness approaches in a class pilot
To ensure a consistent approach to learning teaching and assessment	To increase consistent approaches to learning and teaching across the school in · Literacy and English · Maths and Numeracy · Languages (1 + 2)
	To increase staff confidence in delivering science
	To implement Learning Teaching and Assessment Policy
	To align quality Assurance processes with How Good Is Our School 4
Raising attainment and wider achievement across learning through the whole school and nursery	To provide rich purposeful play experiences through early level and beyond
	To implement Making Thinking Visible across the school
	To consistently use floor books in nursery to allow children to plan for and lead their learning
	To further develop reading for enjoyment as a community project
	To promote pupil voice and raise self-confidence through use of digital technologies
	To increase the use of the outdoor environment to provide rich learning experiences
	To promote children’s voice and raise self-confidence through the use of puppets at Early Level
	To implement wider achievement tracking and enable skills to be applied in school and beyond
	To maintain a robust and rigorous system of personalised daily support to raise attainment in literacy and numeracy