These are our new Citizenship Groups for 2018/19.

Every second Friday we go into these groups to help the school and community to be a better place.

Our groups are;

The Digital Leaders run by  Mr Johnston

Family and Community Champions run by Mrs Hutchison and Mrs Athey

Health and Wellbeing Gurus run by Mrs Giles

The Library Superstars run by Mrs Todd

Fantastic Fundraisers run by Mrs Bell

School Activity Coordinators run by Mrs Strachan

The Eco Warriors run by Mr Garden

Outdoor Rangers run by Miss McGowan

By Ava Divers, Leah Roper and Lucy Britton

The new members of our after school netball team kicked off with an amazing start by learning new skills and cooperating with their team. Our experienced P.7 pupils are helping the new members with their footwork and rules. They are making great progress and are sure to become great players!

By Trudy Smith and Sophie Duncan P.7

P6 and P7 made Anderson Shelters. They are learning about World War Two and the shelters that kept them safe. These are models of Anderson Shelters which they have brilliantly replicated. They are making great progress with their new topic.

By Trudy Smith P7

On Tuesday 15th May, Digital Scotland came to Birkhill to celebrate the upgrade to faster fibre broadband through the £428 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband rollout. Each week the programme, one of the largest broadband infrastructure projects in Europe, reaches more remote and rural areas.

Local people need to sign up for the new, faster services with an internet service provider, as upgrades are not automatic. To help promote the fact that fibre is widely available across Angus the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband team were out in Birkhill and Muirhead this week. They were joined by pupils from Birkhill Primary School and Kirsty Macari (Angus Council’s economic development officer) to celebrate.

On Friday 26th January, Primary 1 dressed up as 100 year olds to celebrate the fact that they had been at school for 100 days!

They played games, made cakes, sang songs and did lots of maths activities relating to the number 100. The Primary 7 pupils came down to help too. What a wonderful way to spend a day!

Written by Jamail P.7

Here are the finalists and winners of the Burns Poem Competition. Everybody tried as hard as they could but only 6 people from each class were allowed to be finalists. It was a very difficult decision for our Head Teacher, Mrs Hutchinson and one of our Deputy Heads, Mrs MacDiarmid, but they came to the conclusion that the finalists would be Eve Parish, Finley Liddle, Ben Britton, Ava Curr and  Rebecca Anderson. The younger classes performed Scottish songs and poems together and were amazing too!

by Ellie P.7

At school we have enhanced the experience of the National Children’s Mental Health Week by doing lots of activities which make us happy. Some of these include; telling jokes, wearing bright clothing, having a compliments jar, doing random acts of kindness, mindfulness and yoga.

Our teachers also took part by having ‘Secret Buddies’ who they had to do random acts of kindness for throughout the week. We also raised £240 for CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) in Dundee.

We thought the the week was really fun! Everyone was much happier and we enjoyed how nice everyone was to each other. Let’s do it again next year!

Written by Anna P.7

Birkhill Primary School Litter Policy

This is our new Litter Policy to help keep our playground nice and litter free.

by Anna and Ellie

Here are our new Peer Mentors and Mediators for 2017/18.

These P6 and P7 pupils will be helping others around the school. They have received training in problem solving, listening, showing compassion and strategies for resolving conflict.

On Wednesday 15th November we took a team of 30 pupils to the Fun in Athletics competition at Carnoustie Sports Centre. We won by 1 point against 3 other schools; Seaview, Grange and Liff.

Well done Birkhill! We are now through to the semi-finals next Wednesday!

By Anna and Ellie P7