Good Luck to all of our former pupils starting their Secondary Schools today. You’ve got this!
Have a brilliant day and just be your best self.
All the staff here at Galston Primary.
Welcome Back to School
The entire staff are looking forward to welcoming all of the children back to school on Wednesday. We hope that you are all ready to go further on your learning journey, ready to learn new skills and to have fun.
See you soon!
Everyone at Galston Primary
P1 Starting School
Dear Parents and Carers,
It’s getting close to the first day of school for your children and we are all looking forward to welcoming you. 🙂
Here is what to expect on your child’s first days of school:
First day of term- Wednesday 20th August.
*Day 1 will be a staggered start from 9.15am when parents can come into Base 1 with their child if they wish and have a quick photo opportunity.
Maximum of two adults per child.
All P1s will finish at 2.30pm and can be collected at the Main Entrance.
*Day 2 and 3: All P1s start at 9.15am and finish at 2.30pm
*Full days from Monday 25th August onwards (9am- 3pm).
At the end of each day the children will be collected by parents/ carers at the Main Entrance to the school.
We are very excited about Wednesday as we are all looking forward to you joining us at Galston Primary.
P7 Residential
Dear Parent/Carer
The deposit of £50 for the P7 residential trip in March 2026 is due to be paid in full by 29/8/25. Payment can be made in full or by instalments through ParentPay. This payment item is live and you are able to make payments throughout the summer holidays.
Can You Help?
If anyone is having a clear out, Mrs Willsden is looking for the following resources for the Learning Hub and Courtyard:
*baby dolls, a doll pram and accessories
*Early learning games and jigsaws
*toy dinosaurs, toy cars, superheroes, small dolls and small toy characters
*car garage, fire station, castle
*small lamps
*fairy lights
*wicker baskets
*home corner resources such as wooden play food, play brush and shovel
Any help would be very much appreciated
Galston Gala Day
Great fun was had at Galston Gala Day on the 14th June.
Our very own Niamh was crowned queen and Franky was the prince. Prizes were won by Kyle P1/2, Millie P2M, Andrew P3H, Lucy P4S, Ruby and Ava in P5/6 for their excellent poster designs.
Children were dressed up and all of the floats were fabulous. Even the weather did not put us off!
Congratulations Eco Committee
We did it!
The Eco committee are delighted to announce that they have achieved the Green Flag Award.
Led by Reece, Faith and Logan in P7 the group of children working with Mr. McAughtrie, Ms. Field and Mrs. Thomson have been successful in gaining an Eco School Green Flag. With help and support for their activities, from the whole school, they have worked to make Galston Primary a Green Flag School. The activities which included litter picks, switching off lights to save electricity, planning for learning in the outdoors, checking on insect and wildlife, taking learning outdoors and recycling have kept the committee busy this session.
A huge well done to everyone!
Polwarth House Treat – Yellow House
At prizegiving, the Yellow House were announced as the overall winners for this year. Their points were earned throughout the year for consistently demonstrating the school values.
As a reward, the Yellow House pupils are invited to take part in a Colour Run Obstacle course this Friday 20th at 2pm.
Yellow House pupils should bring an old set of clothes to change into after lunch time as they will get wet and very dirty! If they have sunglasses it would also be useful. Any Yellow House child may bring a water soaker with them if they have one.
We are also hoping to provide children with an ice cream.
If you do not want your child to have an ice cream or participate in the colour run, please contact the school office.
Summer Holiday Activities
Prizegiving 17th June 2025
Thank you very much to all our pupils, parents, invited guests and staff for joining together to celebrate our pupil successes at yesterday’s prizegiving. It has been a busy year and the children have worked very hard across the entire school year to be the very best that they can be.
Primary 1s received their books and certificates on completion of their first year in Primary school.
Pupils were recognised for demonstrating school values and effort across all stages of the school
Primary 7s brought tears to the eyes with their performance and accepted their leavers certificates
Special Awards were awarded to the following pupils for:
- Literacy Clara Dickie
- Mathematics Sonny Turnbull
- Writing Lukacs Clarke
- Art Hibba Munir
- PE Karli Haswell
- Character & Citizenship Lily Bryson
Presented by Mr J Hendrie for Contribution to the Community the Hendrie Award was, this year, awarded to Thomas Smith & Brodie Gibbons who raised over £1000 for their community group.
Sports House of the Year & House of the Year— Behaviour and Attitude was presented to the Captain and Vice-Captain of Polwarth (Yellow) House
Well done to everyone. We are proud of you all.
