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Date	Title
Oct 10 2009	Car Boot Sale Saturday 10^th October 2 – 4pm Towerbank School

Sep 7 2009	'Shake n Wake' In the playground this morning the whole school took part in a 'Shake n Wake' dance event. It certainly got the heart pumping and set us up for the day ahead.

Sep 4 2009	Fairtrade Stall The Fairtrade Healthy Tuck Stall will start again on Friday 4th September 2009.

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Mar 30 2009	Towerbank P7 Football Team News Towerbank’s P7 football team have made it to the Scottish Cup final.

Mar 16 2009	Portobello Music School Choirs Free taster session at Portobello Music School Choirs on Saturday 14th and 21st March.

Mar 16 2009	New Children's Orchestra Edinburgh and Lothian Children's Orchestra (ELCO)

Mar 7 2009	Old School Song Can anyone help remember the old school song from the 1950s. All we have so far is "Towerbank we praise thee our school by the sea, Raising our voices triumphantly"

Jan 27 2009	Have you got a flair for fairs? We are looking for a new Summer Fair co-ordinator.

Dec 11 2008	The Winter Newsletter is here! Catch up on all the news from our winter term.

Dec 5 2008	Olympic Judo Superstar vists Towerbank Euan Burton from Team GB's Olympic Judo team at the Beijing Olympics dropped in to visit Towerbank pupils today.

Nov 17 2008	Towerbank Pupils Star at Church Hill Theatre Two of our talented pupils, Reuben and Cameron, will be staring in the Church Hill theatre production of Oliver.

Nov 5 2008	FACe is Live! FACe is Edinburgh's brand new electronic newsletter especially for parents. It has been developed in response to requests from parents for more direct communications about Children and Families issues. Please visit www.edinburgh.gov.uk/face to see our first edition.

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Jun 5 2008	Riderz Rock Towerbank

Feb 14 2008	School Travel Plan As part of our School Travel Plan we aim to promote healthy ways of getting to and from school. We annually train P6 in cycling proficiency with the support of Colin McMillan (Active Schools Coordinator) and volunteer staff and parents.

Feb 14 2008	Mini Marathon After our first attempt was rained off we are still waiting for the rescheduled date to be confirmed. Watch this space. When the starting gun does finally go off, the whole school hopes collectively to run the distance from Edinburgh to France.

Feb 10 2008	Swimming Classes Swimming lessons are being offered to both Primary 4 and Primary 5 this year.

Feb 6 2008	Wildlife Garden News Towerbank's wonderful wildlife garden is open to all as an educational resource. A special area of the garden can also be used by P7 pupils at break and lunch where they can simply relax and enjoy. Many pupils are involved in composting, bird watching, planting and maintaining the garden.

Jan 29 2008	P5 at Craigmillar Castle Primary 5 visited Craigmillar Castle to find out more about the life and times of Mary Queen of Scots. They worked with a drama specialist to bring to life the plot hatched at the castle to kill Mary’s second husband Lord Darnley. They also investigated the bedroom where Mary was said to have stayed with her son James VI. Although it was a wet and cold day everyone said they thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Jan 15 2008	A big thanks to Standard Life Standard Life supported the school at the start of this session with a team of volunteers painting playground games and creating planters and seating areas as well as preparing a wall in our conservatory for a wall frieze to be added later this session. THANK YOU!

Jan 7 2008	January is Scottish Focus Month Every January the school enjoys a Scottish Focus Month where we absorb ourselves in Scottish heritage and history. We welcome visitors to our school and enjoy trips to local places of interest as well as hosting our own ceilidhs in P1-6 with live music provided by PHS pupils, local residents and parents. Our P7 pupils also put on their own Burns Supper. We share what we have learnt at our Scottish assemblies. Visit the gallery to view some of our work.

Dec 17 2007	Spots and Stripes for Children in Need On Friday 16th November the whole of Towerbank joined in for 'Children in Need' by dressing up in spots and stripes! Some pupils also took part in a sponsored silence. Well done to everyone who took part and helped us raise a grand total of £635.

Dec 8 2007	Christmas Fayre The Christmas Fayre this year was an enormous success, raising a fantastic total of £3,000. Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make it such a great event.

May 24 2007	Health/Enterprise Towerbank recently hosted an Open Day in Portobello Town Hall. Each class was able to show what they had been learning in relation to our whole school 'Respect' Enterprise project. Various after school clubs performed for our visitors. It was a great day and we all thoroughly enjoyed it,

Apr 2 2007	Health Promotion Towerbank are near to reaching stage 2 of becoming a Health Promoting School. Keep up the good work everyone!

Dec 14 2006	Health/Enterprise Towerbank Primary are delighted to have been awarded their stage 1 accreditation and are now proud to be called a Health Promoting School. Excellent work is continuing this session at the school. Snack Attack have been working with all the children from nursery to p7, along with our active schools co -ordinator, to promote healthy eating and the drinking of WATER!! Keep up the fantastic work everyone. Watch this space. Much more on the way!

Dec 14 2006	Basketball. P7 Basketball News - Way to go! Congratulations to all primary 7 basketball players who have been successful in winning all their games so far. Most important of all we are very impressed with their good sportsmanship. Keep it up!

May 15 2006	Edinburgh Cow Parade We are very lucky to be taking part in the world's largest public arts event where 100 cows will be on parade in the centre of Edinburgh. Towerbank was given one of only five minature cows to decorate that will be taking part in the parade. Primary 5 have used an Eco awareness theme to produce some fabulous ideas. Mrs Alcorn's class and the school have Peigidh's mum, Barbara, to thank as she has used lots of our ideas to produce an eye catching work of art with a environmental friendly message. Look out for our cow near Princes Street soon! The 'Ecow' now has pride of place in our entrance hall.

Apr 24 2006	Health Enterprise Every Scottish school has been given the target of becoming a Health promoting school by 2007. Every school should also be involved in Enterprise Education. Our aim at Towerbank is to develop the learning and teaching of health and enteprise in education through a whole school approach. Our focus this year is on Healthy Eating. All our children from nursery to primary 7 are currently involved in Health/Enterprise topics. Our aim is to complete a Healthly Eating book, which will include examples of their work, which will then go forward to a ' Celebration of Enterprise' in June.

Mar 23 2006	After School Activities We have lots of activities on after school and have more planned.... On Mondays we have a Drama group and a Recorder group On Tuesdays we have a Drama group and Football de Salao Club On Wednesdays we have an Art class, a Badminton class and a Running club On Thursdays we have Singing, Guitar lessons, Football and French drama On Friday afternnons we have Multicultural Music Workshops At lunchtimes there are classes for BodyJam Dance and Brazilian Dance

Mar 16 2006	Les Recontres Theatre Towerbank French Drama group went to St George's School to enter a cometition that the French Institute for Scotland had organised. There were only 4 primary schools in Edinburgh competing. Having been judged on language, costume, acting and general excellence the 11 P6 and P7 pupils were delighted when they got the prize for overall excellence. Their achievement couldn't have possible without the help of the French teachers, Mme MacPhail and M Rausch.

Feb 10 2006	One site school The City of Edinburgh have granted funding to allow our school to operate on one site. Our main building at Figgate Bank will be extended to accommodate our nursery class and infant department. Meetings are being arranged to establish a 'programme' for this major project - hopefully for an early start. Thankyou to all who worked tirelessly to make this happen, in particular, to David Simpson and the School Board.

Nov 1 2005	Cylcle Training Around 50 pupils from primary 6 and 7 took part and gained their training awards. it was great to see the bike racks full to overflowing. We have now got extra bike racks being installed.

Oct 10 2005	Playground Friends Colin McMillan, active school coordinator, came and trained some 41 volunteers from p6 and 7. We now have many more games and tactics for keeping the younger children happy, sharing and active in the playground.

May 6 2005	Fun Run To raise money for our planned playground improvements all pupils from primary 1 to primary 7 took part in a fancy dress fun run on our ash pitch. We raised....... A huge thank you to everyone who took part and sponsored us.

May 3 2005	Walking Bus

Apr 21 2005	Eco Flag

Apr 5 2005	Road Safety

Jan 7 2005	STP

Oct 6 2004	Walk to School Day As part of a national initiative 'Walk to School Week', pupils were encouraged to dress up and ditch the car for a day. Loc