Communications
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P1 Balgreen Primary Curriculum Evening - 19th September
P1 Curriculum evening This is a reminder that there will be a Curriculum Information Evening for all parents and carers of Primary 1 children on Tuesday 19th September in the school hall from 6pm to 7pm. This is an opportunity to find out more about the children’s learning. There will be a creche available and we ask that you email the school admin account if you wish to reserve a place for your child. We will be unable to accommodate...
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Monday Outdoor Learning Workshops
Classes in Primary 1 to Primary 4 will be taking part in Outdoor Learning workshops on Monday 7th November. Please ensure your child is dressed appropriately for being outdoors i.e. waterproof and warm clothes.
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Primary 1 - change to timetable
There has been a change to our timetable this term so here are our new dates for PE; P1A will now have PE every Friday. P1B will now have two shorter PE lessons on Monday and Thursday We will still have outdoor learning on alternate Fridays so children will need to bring wellies to change into on these days. P1A Outdoor learning sessions – 4th Nov, 18th Nov, 2nd Dec, 16th Dec P1B Outdoor learning sessions – 11th Nov, 25th...
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Primary 1 BookBug Bags
Primary 1 Bookbug Bag During Book Week Scotland, your child will receive a free bag of books and activities from the Scottish Government’s Read, Write, Count Campaign. The bag is designed to help you and your child to have fun with reading, writing and counting at home. You and your family can take part in many events happening in libraries and other venues all over the country during Book Week Scotland. Find out more at www.bookweekscotland.com We would like to...
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Primary 1 information (1)
We welcome you back to school and hope you all enjoyed a nice break. There is no outdoor learning / PE this Friday as we have Tricky Ricky so no need to provide suitable clothing. Instead the children can wear Hallowe’en costumes if they want, but we ask that they do not wear masks. Here is a list of the Friday sessions for Term 2. P1A Outdoor learning sessions – 4th Nov, 18th Nov, 2nd Dec, 16th Dec PE sessions...
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Tricky Ricky
We are delighted to announce that Tricky Ricky will be performing his Hallowe’en Magic Show to Primary 1-3 in school on Friday 28th October. On this day, the children can come dressed in Hallowe’en costumes, but we ask that they do not wear masks. The cost of this is £2.30 per child and should be paid on Parent Pay by Friday 14th October.
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Primary 1 Information
Please see attached document with information for Primary 1 parent and carers.
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Fort Douglas at Dalkeith Country Park
Please look out for a letter in your child's bag. Please sign and return the tear off slip.
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P1 Information Evening
We would normally invite P1 parents and carers in to school for an information evening. However, due to Covid-19 restrictions we are unable to go ahead with this. Instead, please click on the following link which will take you a presentation about the Primary 1 curriculum. https://sway.office.com/UNmy61uHIkIr93yj?ref=Link If you have any difficulties opening up the presentation or have any questions about the presentation, please contact Mrs Edgar via the school admin email account.
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Outdoor Learning Timetable term 1
Attached are the timetables for Outdoor Learning that starts on Monday 23rd August. On days when classes have outdoor learning pupils should not wear school uniform but clothes that can get muddy. The woods look amazing at the moment and we are looking forward to getting back outdoors with classes.
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Return to School & Week 1 PE timetable
We are very excited to be welcoming back everyone tomorrow. Staff have been working hard to get classes ready with the school being closed for most of the holidays. Some trees were removed from Pansy Walk by the gate over the holidays and we have had parts of the playground repaired in the P3-7 area. Attached is a PE timetable for this week with classes getting a shorter block, there will be a new timetable posted starting from next week....
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Start Times for Balgreen Primary
Below is a table with the starting times and end times for P2-7 classes from Wednesday 18th August. Primary 1 classes have separate times Wednesday/Thursday this week that were issued before the holidays. With COVID guidance seeing a gradual relaxing of the need for bubbles we are moving classes to stage bubbles that will see both classes at each stage entering the school at the same time eg. P3a and P3b will now start at the same time of 8.50am....
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