Our apples are ripening beautifully and looking magnificent – some young pickers got to work on those that are already ripe this week and managed a fantastic harvest, they’ll be stored for a few weeks ready for our Apple Day.

And many thanks to Ian, a farmer from Tranent who came to the rescue when we lost some of the wheat that the P7s had been growing to disease. The Royal Highland Education Trust, who provided the original seeds, put out a call to local farmers and Ian offered us some wheat which was too near a hedge for his combine harvester. It was delivered to school this week and is now drying out with the rest of the pupils’ wheat in school.