The Eco Committee are thrilled to announce that we have just been awarded our 3rd Green Flag! A big well done to the whole school and all the parents involved.

The preschool have been using their imaginations to do some junk modelling.  Look at some of their fantastic creations!

Post written by Eve and Holly P.7B

This year our new blog team will be responsible for our school posts. Keep a look out for their exciting, upcoming posts!

Our parent helpers organised and prepared a fantastic spread for a tuck shop taster session. All classes were able to come along and encouraged to try some healthy snacks that they had never had before. Huge thanks to all the mums who helped!

It’s been an action packed Health Week so far and here are some of the activities that have kept us busy! We have also had reflexology, pilates and meditation.

Written by Primary 7

Yesterday Birkhill Primary School held their first Careers Fair for children in the Primary 6 and 7 classes. We had a variety of speakers who came in to visit us. Some of the jobs included; forensic examiner, beauty therapist, civil engineer, police inspector, business owner, sports coach and lots more interesting careers. We had great fun planning and organising the Careers Fair.

We learned some valuable skills for life and work such as writing letters to professionals and writing our own CVs to highlight our skills and strengths. We also enjoyed participating in the team building activities halfway through the Careers Fair.

We would like to thank Mrs Ford from Monifieth High School for planning these activities and supporting this event. We would also like to thank Mel from CITB for his inspiring speech at the beginning and end of the fair. We even had helpers from our Primary 4 community café, Dronley Delights, to serve our guests refreshments. Thank you to all involved.

We had a great time at the Careers Fair and would like to take this opportunity to thank all the speakers who took part and made this event such a successful one.

Helana Storrie, Iona Cavill and Cameron Bell

Internet Safety Evening

Tuesday 21st June 6 – 7pm

Outdoor learning at its best today! While the P4 and 5 classes do PE in the background, P6 are out measuring the playground in their maths lesson. We are so lucky to have the outdoor space at Birkhill and look at that view!

This is our new blog.  This will now take the place of our school website. It is still a work in progress and will be updated regularly.

We hope you like it!

Over the past few months our Health and Wellbeing Committee have been carrying out a whole school survey based on the wellbeing indicators developed from the GIRFEC (Getting It Right For Every Child) approach.

These wellbeing indicators devised by the Scottish government, represent the basic requirements for all children and young people to grow and develop and reach their full potential. The 8 indicators, often shortened to SHANARRI are: Safe, Healthy, Active, Nurtured, Achieving, Respected, Responsible and Included.

We wanted to see if we were getting it right for every child at Birkhill so we asked a set of questions and asked pupils to explain their answers. This has helped us see what we are doing well and what we need to work on.

We created a display to show our responses: