Towerbank Primary School Newsletter Friday 28 April 2017 @TowerbankPS www.towerbankprimary.wordpress.com

P7 Week at Benmore The P7 group have had amazing weather at Benmore. There are lots of photos on the school twitter account. @TowerbankPS

Many congratulations to Mrs Collard (nee Wilson) who got married during the Easter Holidays. Towerbank School is open as normal on 8th June. Next Parent Council Meeting 15th June 7.30 – 9 pm Reminder that next week Monday 1st May is a holiday and Thursday 4th May is an in service day for school staff only. Additional bike racks will be installed on 4th May. The whole school photo will now be taken on 25th May not 15th May.

Guide Dogs On Friday Molly attended a tea party for Guide Dogs where she signed up to sponsor a class of puppies. She raised £510 for Guide Dogs by asking for donations instead of birthday presents when she turned 10. She had a party and invited everyone in P5A and a few from others classes. "Thank you to everyone who came to my party and donated" Molly. Molly is pictured here with 17 week old Solo, a Guide Dog in training.

Many thanks to the students from Edinburgh College who took P5B this week onto the beach for sessions of rugby. We hope to use the beach a lot more! New Green Flag Towerbank are delighted that we have been awarded another Green Flag. The assessor said - I have just assessed your Green Flag Award application and I thought your application was outstanding! I am delighted to renew your Green Flag status. You will receive an official email and award pack (including flag) from Eco-Schools Scotland in 2-3 weeks but just wanted to say how impressed I was by your application.

Many thanks to all the staff, parents and children who worked so hard for this latest green flag for Towerbank.

On Saturday 15th April, I was made Gymnastic Achiever of the Month and I feel very proud! By Findlay P3B On Sunday 23rd April, I took part in another karate competition at Meadowbank. I won 3rd place for the Scottish Karate International Open and I won another medal for Kick Master. By Chloe P3B On Sunday 23rd April, I went to a rugby tournament in Musselburgh. I play for Portobello and we played matches against Haddington, Preston Lodge, Musselburgh and Heriots. We won 3 out of 4 games and at the end, we got a rugby medal. I was really excited! By Donald P3B

P1A, P1B, P1C and P2/1 were excited to use the climbing frame in the gym hall as part of our Gymnastics. “It felt like I was climbing up a rock cliff.” Dylan “I was very nervous. I don’t think it’s dangerous at all, but I was nervous at the beginning.” Sam We watched Olympic Gymnasts on the computer. We have decided that to be good at gymnastics you need strength, confidence, perseverance in your training, balance and coordination.

Comic relief bake sale

On the 24th of March, comic relief we (Stella, Ella, Molly and Miya P6) raised money for Comic Relief by doing a bake sale on the Prom. We baked muffins, biscuits, cakes and other sweet treats. By doing this, we smashed our target of £80 and raised £126.30! Afterwards, we made it onto the local news page of the Edinburgh Evening News - we were very pleased. We thank all are customers for their support.

Ella and Molly P6B

Eilish & Jennifer Wood in P6A both passed their Gymnastics Regional Grade 4 with commendation last weekend in Perth.

Both girls love gymnastics and their hard work has paid off!

Zumbathon We are delighted to let you know that this year’s Zumbathon raised an amazing £1406.59! Thanks to everyone who supported the event, bought raffle tickets and came along for a fun filled evening. A special thank you to Michael Annan of Annan Property for his generous support once again. Thanks also go to the Zumba instructors, the businesses who kindly donated raffle prizes and the school office for all their assistance with the organisation of the event. Once again thanks to everyone for making the event such a huge success. The Samba band team

Wildlife Garden P3D have been having lots of fun out and about in the wildlife garden. Next week we are hoping to do some planting (and perhaps some weeding!). We saw lots of trees, flowers and bushes. Thomas We saw loads of three leaf clovers. Tilly There’s lots of caterpillars, even babies! Harris and Izzy. There were lots of ladybirds. Luke

I got my green Blue Peter badge! I drew a picture of lots of birds from all over the world like puffins, blue tits and lots more! I had a great time my favourite bird was the puffin. I hope you enjoy looking at and watching birds? Evie P3C