Here are our JRSOs to tell you about our new ‘WOW’ walk to school scheme. For further details please do not hesitate to contact the school. Click on the link below:

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by Ellie P7

Some children from Birkhill Primary are performing in the Wizard of Oz at Whitehall Theatre on the 27th – 30th September. We hope you can get tickets to see them perform. Good luck with your performance guys!

Written by Anna and Poppy P.7

On Thursday 7th September we held an open afternoon for parents to tell them all about our Visible Learning journey so far. It was a great success and we enjoyed sharing our knowledge.

Written by Ellie and Hugh P7

These are the entries from Birkhill which were placed first, second and third at the Dundee Flower and Food Festival on Friday 1st September. We are very proud of the pupils who created these entries. We think they are amazing!

Written by Poppy and Anna P7

On Sunday Olivia, Ruby and Kaitlyn  took part in a gymnastics competition in Perth. Unfortunately they didn’t win but they still had a great time. Well done girls!

Written by Blair P7

The photo shows Ruby and Kaitlyn.

Yet again this year we had another fantastic Health Week with so many visitors! As well as all the visitors shown in the photos above we also had our Sports Day and the finals of our Birkie’s Got Talent competition.

Unfortunately the weather was against us on Wednesday and we had to cancel our whole school trip to Camperdown Park. This didn’t dampen our spirits and the classrooms were a hive of activity all day!

Thanks to our wonderful Parent Council, Birkhill pupils were given a lovely surprise today when they returned from their Easter break.  Since the beginning of the year, our Health and Wellbeing Committee have been working on ideas to make our playground a happier place to be.  They asked their fellow pupils and worked together to come up with 5 playground markings they thought would encourage imaginative play, team work, social skills and fitness.

Thanks to money donated by the Parent Council we were able to get a company in during the holidays to make their ideas a reality! We now have a large Snakes and Ladders, a standing long jump, a target throw,  hopscotch and a large road/cycle track.

There were lots of smiling faces in the playground today!

Our cross country runners did a great job last Friday at the Angus School Championships at Monikie Park. The pupils have been practising every Friday since the beginning of term and showed perseverance and determination. Well done!

The Primary Twos had a great morning at Seaview Primary School on Monday morning when they took part in a football festival run by Angus Active Schools. The fun event  involved 5-a-side matches with other primary schools in the Monifieth cluster.

Not only did the children have fun, they made new friends and improved their skills at the same time!

This morning we had Clare Chapman from Wateraid who spoke to the P.4-7 pupils about her most recent visit to Uganda. She told us how the children there have to walk up to 4km twice a day  just to get drinking water!

She showed us photographs of the work Wateraid had been doing to help build toilets and sewage drains. The £441 we raised through our Pupil Pipeline event last year will go towards funding future projects like this.

It made us realise how lucky we are to live where we do!