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S c h o o l W e b s i t e : R o s l i n . m g f l . n e t

F o l l o w u s o n T w i t t e r : @ R o s l i n P S

Dear Parents/Carers We come to the end of a very successful year in our wonderful new school! We anticipated that the new school building would enhance our learning and teaching but it has even s u r p a s s e d o u r expectations. The school is calm, invi t ing and a wonderful place to learn and work. There are so many highlights but some of them are: our P7 School Tour Guides, our P7 Junior Tour Guides at Rosslyn Chapel, our P6/7 Rotary Quiz champions, our School Ambassadors, Health Week, P7 Benmore Transition Camp, our class showcases of learning alongside parents/carers, the launch of our Healthy Tuck Shop, our successful Peer Mediators and Prefects. Our Learning Council and Eco-Committee continue to meet regularly. I

hope you enjoy reading some of the highlights in this newsletter. Mr Stark, our wonderful Janitor, retires at the end of term. We will all miss him so much. He is such a valued and loved member of staff who the children all adore. He has such a

l o v e l y , f r i e n d l y approach with every-one he works with especially the children. I have asked him to come back and see us often next session! I know that you will all s a y y o u r own farewells to Mr Stark

and we plan to have a special assembly for him at the end of term. Finally, I would like to thank you for your continued partnership with the school and I hope you all have a wonderful time during the school holidays.

Mrs Jo Wilson Head Teacher

As part of Health Week

classes enjoyed a KIC Dance taster sessions in

the hall. Cheryl taught pupils really fun dances

and had everyone dancing brilliantly together by

the end of the sessions.

Relax Kids

Rugby Healthy Lunch Box

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In the karate sessions, pupils started off in partners

and learned how to do basic moves. After which there

was a competition for the highest kick!!

Canadian Drumming was a hit with all the classes.

The noise was incredible!!

We had beautiful weather on our Annual Walk

In The Glen. Thank you to Parent Council for

providing fruit for the children and The Rotary

for their

invaluable

stewarding

throughout the

walk.

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Mental Health Posters

Karate Races

Positive Plates

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Primary 4 enjoyed doing cosmic yoga.

They said it helped them relax. You

follow a story with Betsy Banana and

do yoga poses to match.

Our P7’s have had a fantastic year and have been a credit to our school.

We wish them all the very best for the future.

Goodbye Moving On

Best Wishes

Good Luck

Au Revoir

Rotary Quiz

A team of P6 and P7 pupils took us all the way to the South of Scotland Rotary Quiz

Final in Carluke. After a nail biting 8 rounds we finished second by only half a point.

Huge congratulations have to go to the team and reserves who won both the Area and

District rounds on their way to the final.

Parent Council

It has been a great first year in our new school build-ing and we congratulate staff and pupils for all their successes. We have been keeping busy in various ways recently including developing links with the Learning Council and ECO Committee. Members attended their meetings to see what they are working on and we will hopefully continue to do this and be able to offer support or assistance with some of their projects. We consulted over the new school Travel Plan and were involved in the school inspection earlier in the year which went extremely well. Parent Council have also supported various events this term including fruit after the walk in the glen, bookshop, refreshments at sports day and created and gifted the P7 yearbook to our leavers. Everyone is now ready for their holiday and we wish you all a fantastic summer!

Celebration To celebrate our fist year in our new school all

parents/carers were invited to a coffee morning on Friday 22nd June.

Parents/Carers who also help us all year round in school with trips/craft/walks/activities etc, were also

invited to visit their classes and the children presented them with Thank You Cards.

Huge excitement then “rippled” through the school when we arranged for an Ice Cream Van to visit with treats for all the pupils!!

Dates for the Diary: 29 June—School closes at 12 noon (11.30 Nurs)

for Summer Break

20 August—School Resumes

22 August—P7 to Craigmillar Castle

30 August—P1 Parents/Carers Welcome Lunch 25 September—Individual/Family Photographs 12 October—School closes at 12.25pm for

October Break

SportsSportsSports

DayDayDay St Clair triumphed for the second year running

at the Roslin Sports Day. Led by House Captain,

Rhiannon Steele, the children were delighted at

their win following a very competitive set of

events across the school. The relay races

caused the most drama with dropped batons

and slips leading to the lead changing at least

four times in every race.

Learning Council

Eco Committee

Health Team JTG

House Captains

JRSO

Buddies & Prefects

Peer Mediators Youth Ambassadors

Roslin Tour Guides

Visit From Lady Rosslyn On Wednesday, 20th June, we had a

visit from Lady Rosslyn and some of

the team from Rosslyn Chapel. To

help us buy books for our new library,

the Chapel very kindly raised money

and gave us a generous donation of

£500. Mrs Berry worked with some

of the P6 pupils (future Junior Tour

Guides) to select history books that

children of Roslin Primary could learn from. We were able to purchase a huge amount of

quality books that will help us with our learning of history. Lady Rosslyn also kindly

donated a book on the history of Rosslyn Chapel. What a lovely connection to one

of our local contexts for learning and we thank them very much!

Mr Stark is retiring

after 8 years at Roslin.

His good nature, cheery

smile and willingness to help with anything asked of him will be sorely

missed. We wish him a long, healthy and happy retirement.

MIDLOTHIAN COUNCIL

EDUCATION, COMMUNITIES AND ECONOMY

SCHOOL SESSION DATES 2018 / 19

* Staff In Service Days: Thursday 16th & Friday 17th August 2018,

Monday 22nd October 2018, Monday 7th January 2019 & Monday 20th May 2019

TERM 1 Staff Resume Thursday ** 16 August 2018

Pupils Resume Monday 20 August 2018

Mid Term

All Break

Friday

12

October

2018

Staff Resume Monday* 22 October 2018

Pupils Resume

Term Ends

Tuesday

Friday

23

21

October

December

2018

2018

TERM 2

Staff Resume

Pupils Resume

Monday*

Tuesday

7

8

January

January

2019

2019

Mid Term

All Break

Friday

8

February

2019

All Resume

Term Ends

Good Friday

Easter Monday

Monday

Friday

19th April

22nd April

18

5

February

April

2019

2019

All Resume Tuesday 23 April 2019

TERM 3

May Day

Monday

6

May

2019

All Resume

Victoria Day

Tuesday

Monday*

7

20

May

May

2019

2019

Term Ends Friday 28 June 2019