Starting School Arrangements for Session 2025.26

School starts for all children at 8.50am, and the gates open at 8.45am. P1 & p2 line up in front playground, p4-7 line up in their houses in the back playground, and p3 line up outside the cabins. If you are late bringing your child to school, please notify the school office, to support our records. We are required by the council to track and monitor all lates and absences. Please see our absence policy and procedures.

P1-p3 enter & exit front school office entrance	P4-5 enter & exit front Head Teacher office, from back playground
	P6-7 enter & exit side gate /back playground

EDINBURGH LEARNS GUIDANCE FOR PARENTS AND CARERS

Edinburgh Learns is the City of Edinburgh Council’s framework for education. Below you will find information on various different aspects of learning in our city.

Edinburgh Learns Frameworks

Class Organisation Information

Class Organisation in Primary Schools

The City of Edinburgh Council reviewed the composite class procedure via a short life working group with Head Teacher and Parent representation along with central staff.

This review included online consultation with pupils, parents/carers, school staff and other education staff, in January 2020. There were 3378 responses to the survey in January (parental responses – 3149). The outcome of this consultation is that City of Edinburgh Council  have updated and combined the class organisation documents into one document (previously separate team teacher and composite class procedures). The outcome of the consultation has been used to inform the new document.

The new document will be used for planning classes for August 2020 and will be reviewed in two years time.

The main changes/outcomes are:

• Staff and parents still wanted a city wide procedure in place
• The procedure will no longer use different criteria for selecting children into composite classes compared to any other class
• The procedure gives more flexibility to Head Teachers to consider a range of criteria as opposed to having a main criterion of age which must be adhered to.
• It brings our practice more in line with those used by our neighbouring LAs

We hope that you will find this new procedure and guidance helpful.

Class Welcome Letter Session 2022.23

Financial Support

A Guide to information on what financial support is available for parents and carers , and where to find it.

Resources for Parents and Carers : Anxiety & Worry