Dear Parents and Carers

Welcome back to the final term of the school year.  How quickly time flies.   It is lovely to have everyone back in school and ready to learn.  Over the holidays Ken Campbell, our former janitor, has done an amazing job revamping playground equipment and  areas of the secret garden.   Our outdoor learning spaces are a real asset but they do require a lot of effort to maintain.   Thank you to all of those who volunteer with this.  If you are interested in getting involved please contact Katie Lamb (katie.lamb@trinity-pri.edin.sch.uk) or the school office.

Many thanks to our TPSA who have purchased some outdoor seating for the back playground.  We are looking forward to this arriving next week.

Learning Estates review – please see below and attached from City of Edinburgh

To fully deliver the Edinburgh’s ‘Vision for Inclusive Education’, a review of the learning estate is required to ensure it is fit for purpose and meets the needs of our children, young people, staff and wider service users.  In order to take this forward, we are consulting with stakeholders to share and gather information to inform the development of an inclusive learning estates strategy. This strategy will include principles for inclusion to inform mainstream school builds and also consider the special school estate now and into the future.

The attached flyer provides information as to how to respond to this.

Term ahead

Please do take time to look at what’s going on this term.    Our school focus will be learning about South Amerca.   

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Date and Times	Event	Extra info	Parents and Carers action
Fri 24th April	Closing date for Trinity’s Got Talent applications	Auditions will take place week of Mon 11th May
Mon 27th April	Individual / Family photos
	Grp to Cross Country at Inverleith Park
	P2B to Leith Library		Helpers welcome
Tues 28th April	Individual / Family photos
	7.00pm TPSA mtg – online
Wed 29th April	P7 to The Pitt for show rehearsal	Bus pass and packed lunch
	P2J to Leith Library		Helpers welcome
Thurs 30th April	P2M to Leith Library		Helpers welcome
	P6 and P7 to The Pitt for show rehearsals	Bus pass and packed lunch
	7.00 P7 (P6) show ‘Must See TV’ at The Pitt		Tickets available on ParentPay
MAY
Fri 1st May	Jam Jar Day		Fill a jam jar for selling at the TPSA Fair
	P6 Mini Marathon in Victoria Park
Mon 4th May	HOLIDAY
Tues 5th May	INSET – school closed for learners
Fri 8th May	P5 and P6 Faith Roadshows
Sat 9th May	11.00am – 1.00pm TPSA May Fair		Please come along and support
Mon 11th May	Bikeability begins for P6
	2.15pm P5 Scottish Opera		Parents and carers very welcome
Tues 12th May	P6 HWB event at Bangholm	Sportswear
	Grp to Stemovators
	7.00pm Parent Council mtg – in school
Wed 13th May	P4 to Jupiter Artland	More infomation to follow	Helpers welcome
	P7 Evening News photographer
Thurs 14th May	P4 to Jupiter Artland	More information to follow	Helpers welcome
	P7 grp to TA for maths challenge
Fri 15th May	Trinity Sports Day – South American Fiesta!	Wear house colours	Join us in Victoria Park from 9.15am
Mon 18th May	HOLIDAY
Wed 20th May	1.30pm PEF Afternoon Tea		Individual invites will be issued
	P2 to Edinburgh Zoo tbc	More information to follow	Helpers welcome
Fri 22nd May	Connecting through Cultures – coffee morning and Star Time	See separate information – emailed 23.4.26	Parents and Carers very welcome
Thurs 28th May	New P1 transition event
JUNE
Tues 2nd June	Grp to STEAM event at Leonardo’s
Wed 3rd June	P7 BATS rugby
Thurs 4th June	5.45pm – 6.45pm Open Evening		Parents and Carers very welcome
Fri 5th June	Sponsored Walk lead by P7 HWB grp	More information to follow
Thurs 11th June	P5 – P7 Athletics Festival	Sportswear
Tues 16th June	P7 to secondary schools
	New P1 visits
	Meet your Teacher for Aug
Wed 17th June	P1 – P6 picnic to Aberdour	Beachwear!  More information to follow	Parents amd Carers very welcome and much needed!
	P7 to secondary schools
Thurs 18th June	P7 to secondary schools
	6.30pm – 8.00pm P7 Leavers’ Party – secret garden	Wear what you like but be prepared for an optional water fight!	P7 parents and carers welcome to join from 7.45pm
Tues 23rd June	P7 picnic to North Berwick	More information to follow
Wed 24th June	Trinity Together – end of school year and P7 yearbook presentations		Parents and Carers very welcome
Thurs 25th June	Trinity’s Got Talent final!
Fri 26th June	School closes at 12.00	Non uniform	11.50am Clapping out of P7 learners

Here’s to a very positive, successful and happy term for everyone at Trinity.

Thank you for your support

Jacqueline Scott

Dear Parents and Carers

What a fabulous Red Nose Day we had on Friday.   Our empty playground at 8.45am was filled with stalls and activities, entirely run by Trinity Learners, within 20 minutes.  By 10.30am we had raised £2124.   An incredible amount.  Along with P3 selling 420 red noses the total contribution from Trinity was a whopping £2964 – a record year for us!    Thank you so much to everyone for all their support in making this happen.  

Park Run

Our first school venture into Park Run at Pilrig Park saw 48 Trinity Learners take part.   With a target of 100 runs by the end of June we are well on our way to not only reaching that but to exceeding it.   Hopefully this Sunday March 29^th at 9.30am will see Trinity Learners taking part again. 

August 2026

We are starting the process of planning staffing and class organisation for August 2026.  Please do let us know, as a priority, if your child will not be returning to Trinity Primary after the summer holidays.   This year will see all our classes being rearranged to form new classes.  Experience shows us that providing opportunities for our learners to extend friendships and to learn with and from different groups is beneficial as they move through primary school.  Please be assured that staff take considerable time to get this right for all our learners taking into consideration a range of criteria – established positive friendships, learning styles, additional support needs, gender balance etc.   It’s no easy task but one that is worth spending time on.   

If you wish to discuss this further please do get in touch with myself using the admin email box – admin@trinity-pri.edin.sch.uk. 

We are still awaiting updated numbers for P1 which will inform us of the number of classes to expect.    

Pupil Equity Funding

Pupil Equity Funding is provided to all schools to help support closing the poverty related attainment gap.  Schools are able to use the money to target interventions that may otherwise not be able to happen. At Trinity our PEF is used in the following ways : 

Family Support Worker – Sandra Brown (Citadel) works at Trinity on a Wednesday and meets with parents and carers to support parenting, financial assistance etc 

Pupil Support Officer – Kelly Tawake works full time and supports several of our learners enabling them to attend and achieve in school 

Nurture teacher – Laura Nisbet provides two days of additional support for learning with a particular focus on improving attainment for those affected by poverty.

Opportunity funding – financial support to allow learners to participate in a range of learning opportunities eg skiing, Benmore, Forest schools.

As we consider how to best use funding in the year ahead please take a minute to complete the following

PEF – comments – Fill in form

The form will be live until Friday April 24^th 2026

Packed Lunches

We are currently experiencing significant waste of packed lunches particularly if a class is going out of school.   Last week 17 packed lunches were ordered for P5 learners with 15 not needed as parents / carers had provided their child with their packed lunch.  Please only order a packed lunch if required.  Thank you.

Swimming gala and Euroquiz

Good luck to our P7 group  taking part in the swimming gala and to our P6 group taking part in Euroquiz on Thursday.  A busy day!

P1 and P2 Easter Egg Hunt – Thursday March 26^th at 6.00pm

Tickets are now on sale and we look forward to a fun evening.

Thank you for your support

Jacqueline Scott

Please see revised dates and information below for the coming weeks and months.   

Date and Times	Event	Extra info	Parents and Carers action
Thurs 26thMarch	P7 to Kangaroo at Vue OT	Further info to follow	Help appreciated
	P7 grp to Swimming gala
	6.00pm – 7.00pm TPSA P1 and P2 Easter Egg hunt	Further info to follow
Fri 27th March	Trinity Together -Wild by Nature	Wear animal print / camouflage / nature colours
Thurs 2nd April	Trinity Together – House Event	Wear house colours
	School closes for holidays		Normal closing time
Fri 3rdApril – Mon 20th April	School closed for holidays
Main summer term dates
Tues 21stApril	School returns
Mon 27thApril	School Photos
Tues 28thApril	School Photos
Thurs 30th April	7.00pm P7 (with P6 choir) ‘Must See TV’ show at The Pitt Further info to follow
Mon 4thMay	School closed for holiday
Tues 5thMay	School closed for INSET
Sat 9thMay	11.00am – 1.00pm TPSA May Fair
Fri 15thMay	9.15am Sports Day in Victoria Park
Mon 18thMay	School closed for holiday
Thurs 28thMay	New P1 Aug transition event
Thurs 4thJune	5.45pm – 7.00pm Open Evening
Thurs 11thJune	P5 – P7 Athletics Festival
Tues 16thJune	New P1 group to visit P7 to secondary schools Meet the Teacher for Aug 2026
Wed 17thJune	P1 – P6 picnic to Aberdour : ALL parents and carers very welcome and much needed! P7 to secondary school
Thurs 18thJune	New P1 group to visit P7 to secondary schools 6.30pm – 8.00pm P7 Leavers’ Party in the secret garden
Tues 23rdJune	P7 picnic
Wed 24thJune	End of year Trinity Together and P7 yearbook presentations.All very welcome
Thurs 25thJune	Trinity’s Got Talent final
Fri 26thJune	11.50am P7 clap out School closes at 12.00

Dear Parents and Carers

I hope you had an enjoyable weekend.  We had a great turnout at parents’ / carers’ evening and afternoon last week and I hope you found the opportunity to meet with your child’s class teacher  helpful.  Our house captains were very professional in their running  of the book fair – thank you to them and to those of you who purchased a book.

Campfire Story with Hot Chocolate

Our World Book day mug decoration, followed by hot chocolate round the camp fire was a great success.   Despite the weather 20 classes were able to enjoy being outdoors with a time for P1S rescheduled for this week.

If you are able to make a donation of £1.50 to cover the cost of the mug please do so through ParentPay.   Thank you.

P7 World of Work event 

Many thanks to those parents and carers who gave of their time and provided our P7 learners with the opportunity to chat about different jobs and the skills needed.   There was a great atmosphere in the hall with several comments made about how articulate, confident and polite our P7 learners were.    All very necessary skills! 

Red Nose Day : Friday 20^th March

In true Trinity fashion Red Nose Day will be ‘handed over’ to learners to organise and run.   P3 have already sold out the first batch of red noses with more available this week.  We have asked that learners keep their nose in the box and take it home to avoid loss, damage and upset.

On the day learners are welcome to dress up, dress funny or dress down!

Here is some information to help those planning on running their own event:

• You need to bring all your own resources (you can get a table from school)
• Have a sign showing cost / what to do
• Charge 20p, 50p or £1
• Bring a float (this is some money to start you off with which has to be paid back.)
• Bring prizes if you need them
• If you need help with any of the above, including the float, you must speak with your teacher or Mrs Scott by the end of Tuesday  March 17th.   Don’t leave it to the last minute!

Park Run

Mrs Berthinussen has signed Trinity up for Park Run.  The first one will take place at 9.30am in Pilrig Park.   We have set a target of 100  park runners by the end of June so we’re hoping lots of Trinity learners will turn up and get us off to a good start

Staffing

A warm welcome to Becci Milan who has joined our PSA team and who is currently supporting in P7.

Happy Eid

At Trinity Together on Friday we shared learning about Ramadan and Eid.  Very well done to Rakan, Adam and Amira who took the microphone and spoke about what Eid means to their families.   A very Happy Eid to all our Trinity families who will be celebrating this week.

Thank you for your continued support

Jacqueline Scott

Please see revised dates and information below for the coming weeks and months.   

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Date and Times	Event	Extra info	Parents and Carers action
Mon 16th March	P3M and P3L to Botanics
Tues 17th March	P6 to ‘Flow’ at Filmhouse	Further info to follow	Help appreciated
	P3S to Botanics
Fri 20th March	Red Nose Day	Let the fun begin!	Red Noses to buy at £2
Thurs 26thMarch	P7 to Kangaroo at Vue OT	Further info to follow	Help appreciated
	P7 grp to Swimming gala
	6.00pm – 7.00pm TPSA P1 and P2 Easter Egg hunt	Further info to follow
Fri 27th March	Trinity Together -Wild by Nature	Wear animal print / camouflage / nature colours
Thurs 2nd April	Trinity Together – House Event	Wear house colours
	School closes for holidays		Normal closing time
Fri 3rdApril – Mon 20th April	School closed for holidays
Main summer term dates
Tues 21stApril	School returns
Mon 27thApril	School Photos
Tues 28thApril	School Photos
Thurs 30th April	7.00pm P7 (with P6 choir) show at The Pitt Further info to follow
Mon 4thMay	School closed for holiday
Tues 5thMay	School closed for INSET
Sat 9thMay	11.00am – 1.00pm TPSA May Fair
Fri 15thMay	9.15am Sports Day in Victoria Park
Mon 18thMay	School closed for holiday
Thurs 28thMay	New P1 Aug transition event
Thurs 4thJune	5.45pm – 7.00pm Open Evening
Thurs 11thJune	P5 – P7 Athletics Festival
Tues 16thJune	New P1 group to visit P7 to secondary schools Meet the Teacher for Aug 2026
Wed 17thJune	P1 – P6 picnic to Aberdour : ALL parents and carers very welcome and much needed! P7 to secondary school
Thurs 18thJune	New P1 group to visit P7 to secondary schools 6.30pm – 8.00pm P7 Leavers’ Party in the secret garden
Tues 23rdJune	P7 picnic
Wed 24thJune	End of year Trinity Together and P7 yearbook presentations.All very welcome
Thurs 25thJune	Trinity’s Got Talent final
Fri 26thJune	11.50am P7 clap out School closes at 12.00

Jacqueline Scott MBE | Head Teacher | Trinity Primary School

Tel 0131 554 2062 (direct dial 85631) | Email :  jacqueline.scott@trinity-pri.edin.sch.uk 

Website : www.trinity-pri.com

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