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Mara and Craigroyston kids share stories in the garden

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Storyteller Mara Menzies joined Craigroyston Primary P2 children for a storytelling session in North Edinburgh Arts’ beautiful community gardens yesterday. Continue reading Mara and Craigroyston kids share stories in the garden

Schools latest: Solution for Craigroyston

CRAIGIE goes to CRAIGIE: Craigroyston Primary pupils will temporarily relocate to Craigroyston Community High School Continue reading Schools latest: Solution for Craigroyston

Closed schools update: Scottish government offers ‘full support’

“Public confidence needs rebuilt as well as school walls: and fast” – Green Candidate Andy Wightman

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The Scottish Government’s resiliency committee has met to discuss the emergency closure of seventeen PPP schools across Edinburgh – but The Scottish Greens say the ‘fiasco’ highlights the need to expose private finance failures. Continue reading Closed schools update: Scottish government offers ‘full support’

FAST work: Craigroyston families graduate from pioneering programme

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Sixteen families from Craigroyston Primary ‘graduated’ from a pioneering education programme this week, proven to help children achieve more in schools and strengthen their relationships with their families.

Parents and carers and their children aged three to eight, who attend Craigroyston Primary School, have successfully completed an eight week Families and School Together (FAST) programme. This is the second time the local primary School has run the programme.

The FAST programme, backed by Save the Children, supports families by working with parents and children in schools and has been endorsed by the United Nations.

Originally developed in the US by Professor Lynn McDonald, FAST now runs throughout the UK. It is entirely voluntary, open to all and is designed to give all children the chance to succeed at school.

Typical activities include singing, family games such as emotional charades and special play, sitting down together to eat a family meal and supporting parents in setting boundaries.

FAST aims to provide a fun and relaxed space for families to experience a mixture of play and learning activities, hands on coaching and support for parents and carers. Each week families can win a resource hamper to help support children’s learning in the home. The programme has high success rates in improving family relationships and links between home, school and the local community.

Save the Children say: “FAST has been so successful and the feedback we get from schools and parents is always so positive. The programme has been a great success in schools. Parents have the biggest influence on their children’s learning and development and FAST gives families the opportunity to build on this.

“We believe that every child should have a fair chance to do the best they can at school and that every family should have access to proper support in their local area.”

Total Craigroyston CLD worker Sarah Neal added: “The FAST programme was a great success. Our families got a lot out of the programme and there was a real buzz about the sessions. I’ve no doubt that they will go on to build on what they have achieved and learned together over the last few weeks.”

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Can we have a Christmas tree? Yes we CAN!

Community celebrates despite deluge

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It lashed down with rain all afternoon and into the evening – a real Muirhouse monsoon! – but local people came out in their droves to see the Christmas tree lights being switched on in Muirhouse Shopping Centre last night.

Craigroyston High School’s Josh Hardwick did the honours and kicked off an evening of music, food and fun that seemed to get everyone in the festive mood!

So many people to thank:

  • Craigroyston Community High School for sharing their wonderful musical talents – the band and the choir were superb.
  • Local schools Oaklands, Rowanfield, Pirniehall, St David’s, Forthview and Craigroyston for creating the beautiful snowflakes that now adorn the centre
  • Fleurtations for delivering, erecting and decoration the tree
  • Urban Union for supplying the Christmas tree
  • The City of Edinburgh Council for their support and advice throughout
  • Weber Shandwick for getting things done
  • North Edinburgh Arts staff for their wonderful support: particularly John for his technical wizardry, Michelle and her team for the fabulous food (and wonderful winter punch!) and for sharing her artistic skills to make the shopping centre look great
  • Local police for supervising the event
  • The Tomorrow’s People team for all their hard work in decorating the Centre and making the event such a success.
  • Santa for … well, just being Santa!
  • And finally, the children and families of North Edinburgh who came out on such a horrible night to support the event. Comments have been overwhelmingly positive – maybe we’ll try another event in the New Year?

Thanks, everyone!

Andy & Dave, Community Action North (CAN)

Our day in pictures (below)

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