Transforming Children's Services

Non teaching Heads, Joint Heads, Principal Teachers, Effect on small local schools ..... Have a look in our online library for EDCC's response to thie important issue

Here you can see our Head Teacher Miss Shirley Bean helping out at the Halloween Coffee Morning. She is always very supportive of village events and keeping this connection between the school and the community is vital to village life

Eddleston Primary

The crescent-shaped school provides a great education for the children of the village and surrounding areas. It is a lively school and the children get involved in a lot of community projects. They also provide the talented choir for the family services at the local church.

Eddleston has had a school in the village for more than 200 years. From a school roll in the 1880s of 85, this reduced in the early 1980s to fewer than 40 and the school was threatened with closure.

Fortunately since then, two new housing developments have reversed the trend and provided us with a new school. We now have a lively village school with 3 teachers and more than 60 children ranging in age from 4 to 11. The bell from the old school is still used to herald the start of the day

School Holiday Dates - all Inclusive

In Service Day - Monday 18th August 2008
2008/09 session starts on Tuesday 19th August 2008
Autumn Holiday: Monday 13th October to Friday 17th October 2008. New term starts on Monday 20th October
Christmas holidays: Monday 22nd December 2008 to Friday 2nd January 2009. New term starts on Monday 5th January 2009
Half Term: Friday 6th and Monday 9th February 2008
Easter holidays: Monday 6th April to Friday 17th April 2009. New term starts Monday 20th April
May holiday - Monday 4th May 2009
Summer holidays: Friday 26th June to Friday 14th August 2009
In-Service Day - Monday 17th August 2009
2009/10 session starts on Tuesday 18th August 2009

Local holidays and In-service days to be confirmed. For details of term dates until 2011, click term dates. Or you can download this from our online library

MacMillan Cancer World's Coffee Afternoon

On Friday 26th September 2008, the children organised a Coffee Afternoon for family and friends. Lots of Mum's and Grannies came along and a Grandad too! £323 was raised for the charity - well done everyone!

We all enjoyed lovely tea and home baking as well as being able to buy videos, dvds and books for both adults and children. Well done to all those who helped.

Peebles High School

Our local secondary school is Peebles High School in Bonnington Road Peebles. The building dates back to 1858 and has been extended and modernised since then The school roll is around 1,200 and expanding, and has a teaching staff of 80

For more information, have a look at their web site - http://www.peebleshighschool.co.uk

Some of the Children's Work

Every term, the primary school children produce a magazine - EDDLESTON SCHOOL TIMES. Articles - all written by pupils - cover sporting events, trips out, projects on other countries and samples of their work. Some of the things you can read about:

The fortunes of the netball team
Advice on fireworks safety
Stories from children in primaries 1 2 and 3
Learning to play rugby
Road safety
Walk to school week
Recycled instruments
Museum trips

For all the stories. have a look in our online library

School Term Dates - possible changes

How would this affect you? Are you a parent of a school age child, a teacher or maybe a local employer? SBC have published a consultation paper and would like to hear from you. You can download this from our online library. Consultation period now closed and responses will be collated over the summer

Halyrude Catholic Primary - Peebles

The nearest Catholic Primary School is Halyrude Primary, Old Church Road, Peebles. The school has a roll of around 95 children ranging from 4.5 to 11 years old. Children then normally transfer to Peebles High School. Contact Mr Jim Fitxgerald our new Headteacher on 01721 720238 for more information or have a look at their web site http://www.halyrudeschool.org.uk