Welcome to the Pilrig Park School website. On this page you will find the latest News and information.
Thursday the 25th of April 2024
DYW Skills Week
Next week is DYW (Developing the Young Workforce) Skills Week. Here is the plan for the week.
Wednesday the 24th of April 2024
Breaking news! Gold School Sport Award!
We have just been informed that we have been awarded a sportscotland Gold School Sport Award for 2024-2026.
The Gold School Sport Award is recognition of our achievements in putting sport at the heart of the school’s planning, practice and ethos.
A massive Thank You! to Mr T for all his hard work in putting this application together. We are so proud of what we have achieved!
#SchoolSportAward
@sportscotland
Thursday the 28th of March 2024
Check out the latest Newsletter
We hope everyone has a great holiday, and finally………
Wednesday the 20th of March 2024
Wednesday the 13th of March 2024
Coming soon……………..
Pilrig Park School Productions presents…
The Wizard of Oz!!!!
Dates for your diary:
S1 – S3 Wednesday 22nd May, doors open 1pm
S4 – S6 Wednesday 29th May, doors open 1pm
Requests for tickets will be coming out after the Easter holidays!
Wednesday the 13th of February 2024
Edinburgh’s Vision for Inclusive Education- Have Your Say!
On behalf of Lynne Binnie, Head of Education – Inclusion
We are now into a period of public and colleague engagement to help inform how we take forward the recommendations of the Collaborative Improvement, an expert review into inclusive education in Edinburgh. The flier attached has information on how colleagues working in schools, CEC support services, partner services and parents and carers can get involved and share their views on these improvements. Opportunities include:
- Vision for Inclusion Locality Events
- Edinburgh’s Vision for Inclusion Survey: the survey is now live and can be completed on the council’s consultation Hub at https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/cf/inclusive-education
We want as many voices as possible to be represented in these engagement opportunities.
Wednesday the 28th of February 2024
Invitation to help shape Edinburgh’s Vision for Inclusion
Sent on behalf of Lynne Binnie
We are moving into an exciting period of engagement to help inform how we take forward the recommendations of the collaborative improvement and the next steps of the inclusion review.
To kick start the engagement stage we are holding Vision for Inclusion engagement events. You can find further information about these in the attached flier.
There will also be opportunities to share views via a questionnaire and further communication will be shared on this in due course. There will be a questionnaire designed for pupils and opportunities for them to engage with this process.
If you have any questions, please email them to inclusion@edinburgh.gov.uk
Dr Lynne Binnie – Head of Education – Inclusion
Wednesday the 7th of February 2024
Wednesday the 10th of January 2024
Resources from this evening’s Relationships, Sexual Health, and Parenthood information session can be found here.
Friday the 22nd of December 2023
Merry Christmas from all the staff at Pilrig Park School. We hope you have a lovely holiday.
Friday the 22nd of December 2023
FESTIVISION results are in.
This year’s winners were the Yellow Class with their brilliant video – Dominik the Donkey. Well done Mr Cuddy and the Yellow Class.
Friday the 22nd of December 2023
The latest Newsletter can be found here.
Thursday the 23rd of November 2023
Here is the video from the amazing assembly Red Class did this week promoting one of our school values “Be Safe”.
Get ready for the event of the year – The Spirit of Pilrig Park – A Valuable Snowman
This will be a live event on the 20th of December at 1:15pm.
Make sure you let the school know if you are coming along and how many free tickets you would like.
Monday the 30th of October 2023
Check out the new page of Signifier songs created by the amazing Ms Vogiatzaki, as part of our Inclusive Communication. Enjoy practicing them at home!!
Friday the 13th of October 2023
Check out the October Newsletter
Tuesday the 10th of October 2023
Rights Aware!
Fabulous news! Pilrig Park School has now achieved Rights Respecting Schools Silver Level!
Thanks to all the hard work of Ms Kirkwood, Ms Karefylakis and the Pupil Voice Steering Groups it is with immense pride that we are delighted to let everyone know that Pilrig Park School has met the standard for UNICEF UK’s Rights Respecting Schools Award at Silver: Rights Aware! The report we received detailed a high commitment and passion by staff for advocating for the rights of all the young people in their care. The School Values tree that greets visitors to the school gives pupils a voice to say which articles they have learned about and are important to them. Furthermore, there was clear evidence that our young people have been actively involved in affecting change through sharing their views, needs and wants. We are really looking forward to receiving our banner and certificate and will be sharing some photos of our proud pupils with these as soon as they arrive.
Now the work begins to achieve GOLD!!!
Monday the 9th of October 2023
A new Boardmaker poster with our school values can be found displayed in all our classes.
You can see it on our Visions, Values and Aims page.
Monday the 25th of September
Due to industrial action, the school is closed to pupils on Tuesday the 26th, Wednesday the 27th and Thursday the 28th of September.
Please see below for Learning Grids for each of these days.
Friday the 22nd of September
Check out our new page on Inclusive Communication.
Tuesday the 29th of August 2023
Here is a social story about getting the flu vaccine.
Wednesday the 28th of June 2023
Check out the Summer Newsletter here
Friday the 2nd of June 2023
Throughout session 2022 / 23 the pupils and staff of Pilrig Park School have revisited our vision, values and aims. We would like to hear what our families and wider community think of our all our hard work. Please share your thoughts through the following email address: Admin@pilrigpark.edin.sch.uk
Check out the updated Visions, Values and Aims
Friday the 2nd of June 2023
Article 15 The Right to be part of a Group. We had great fun designing our flags and hats to represent the Burning Blues. Burn baby Burn Disco Inferno is our tune.
Wednesday the 31st of May 2023
Parents and carers of current S5 pupils should check out the following article.
Wednesday the 31st of May 2023
It was lovely to have Margon from The Green Team back in school today. We had great play based learning with the parachute. We made a den and sat under it. We played games. We also used the magnifying glasses and went on a big hunt with our minibeast classification key.
Monday the 15th of May 2023
Our young people have been working hard on decorating our whole school RRSA and Values Tree. They have been writing hearts and leaves with Articles important to them and what they enjoy. Goals of Education Article 29. The Right to Play Article 31. The Right to participate and be part of a group Article 15 and so much more. Celebrating International Children’s Day UK and Mental Health Awareness Week Article 24.
It’s here.
The trailer for Pilrig Park on a Summer Holiday. Enjoy.
COMING SOON…
Wednesday the 19th of April 2023
Check out pages 8 and 20 of the latest ELATE Newsletter here
Friday the 31st of March 2023
Enjoy the Easter holidays everyone. Here is the Easter Newsletter .
Wednesday the 8th of March 2023
Today is International Women’s Day.
For this Women’s Day, Miss Morrison, Miss Kirkwood, Miss Vennelle and Mrs Tupper are being interviewed by our Senior learners, and are sharing their thoughts on women in Education.
Some wall displays created as part of Fair Trade Fortnight.
Thursday the 2nd of March 2023
Today we are celebrating World Book Day 2023 by decorating doors as book covers.
Everyone worked hard on these. Well done.
They all look great.
Monday the 27th of February 2023
Pilrig Park School had their name in lights at Tyncastle Stadium yesterday as many pupils, families and staff enjoyed free tickets to the ladies Capital Cup between Hearts Women and Hibs Women!
Friday the 24th of February 2023
Please select the link below for activities which can be attempted at home during the days of industrial action.
Tuesday the 31st of January 2023
Pupils and staff gave a very warm welcome to Mr Jamie Hepburn MSP who visited us today to find out more about the positive destinations of the leavers of our school. We shared with him what our pupils would like to do when they leave Pilrig Park.
Monday the 30th of January 2023
Today we launched our 10 key signs for communication.
Tuesday the 24th of January 2023
Thursday the 12th of January 2023
Oh yes we are!
On Thursday the 19th of January we are all going to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Festival Theatre.
Check out the Visual Story below.
Tuesday the 10th of January 2023
Friday the 6th of January 2023
Friday the 16th of December 2022
Today saw Pilrig Park School hold our first ever Silent Disco! It was brilliant to see the return of whole-school events for all pupils and staff. A fantastic time was had by all, especially a certain Mr Cuddy who was absolutely loving being the DJ!
Monday the 12th of December 2022
Check out the latest update-from-the-parent-council
Wednesday the 7th of December 2022
We are delighted to announce that Pilrig Park School has successfully achieved the first stage of our Rights Respecting School Award journey – Bronze: Rights Committed. Our steering Group Blue Class and Clyde Class led by Miss Kirkwood and Ms Karefylakis are delighted that our whole school has been recognised in this way. We have all been working hard on this during our Pupil Voice sessions throughout the school and linking it meaningfully to all we do such as Pupil Council, Eco Committee, Health Group etc. We are about to commence our training for Silver. We have submitted our RAG for Silver and we hope to achieve the next stage of our RRSA Journey Silver as soon as we can! We will keep you updated of our progress via our school website and Twitter.
Well done everybody!
Wednesday the 30th of November 2022
Today we had the honour of inviting Tam, our dear Alice’s husband, and Alex from St Columba’s Hospice, to receive a donation from Mrs Tupper and Lauren of behalf of the Pilrig Park School community in memory of Alice, who we miss every day. 💙
Wednesday the 30th of November 2022
Our friends at the Botanics have once again asked Pilrig Park School to be involved in something VERY special!
Queen’s Green Canopy Project at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
We have been asked to contribute to the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative by helping the experts plant an avenue of cherry trees at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh commemorating the late Queen Elizabeth’s 70 years as sovereign and underscoring the importance of school gardening projects. The planting is presided over by the research institute’s Regius Keeper Simon Milne MBE, a member of Her Majesty’s bodyguard, the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms.
Check out our Proud Moments page to find out how they got on.
Click on this link for our new Pupil blog page.
Our display on Anti bullying, Kindness, Protection from Harm and Non discrimination for our Rights Respecting Schools Award journey. Pupils from Blue helped Chloe and Miss Kirkwood with the Kindness display.
Check out the new page celebrating our Proud Moments.
Thank you to the Parent Council for the Leavers hoodies
School Contact details
Pilrig Park School
12 Balfour Place
Edinburgh
EH6 5DW
Tel: 0131 467 7960
E-mail: admin@pilrigpark.edin.sch.uk
Twitter@pilrigpark
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