Pilrig Park Special Secondary School is situated in north Edinburgh. The campus is located within superb grounds and bounded on two sides by the Park itself.
A massive big thank you to our friends at Lothian buses for their generous donation which George delivered today. We are so grateful as it will go towards our new playground equipment and benefit the pupils enormously.
@on_lothianbuses
A bit of fun disco dancing 💃🕺going on at break time today! Check out those moves by our very own HT! Grooovy! Shame the bell went too early but there will be more dancing tomorrow!!🎶💃🕺
#bestschoolfordancing
@ActiveSchoolsED
Pupils and staff gave a very warm welcome to Mr Jamie Hepburn MSP who visited us today to find out more about the positive destinations of the leavers of our school. We shared with him what our pupils would like to do when they leave Pilrig Park.
@DYWEdinMidEast
@skillsdevscot
Our fabulous new underwater sea 🌊 themed mural is finished! Each pupil in the school has painted a fish🐠 or a shell 🐚 or a crab 🦀 plus lots more! Watch this space for the next exciting project, coming soon!
#ourfabulousschool
We’re very proud of one of our pupils who represented the school today, playing the Samba drum alongside 100 pupils from across the city in
@MakeMusicDayUK
! Thank you to
@PulseofthePlace
for including us in this amazing musical feat! Well done to you all!
@CreativeScots
Bun-sgoil Taobh na Pàirce and ourselves were given a real treat today, thanks to the Scottish pop/folk quartet, Tide Lines! Wow! Fantastic performance and we got to sing along and join in! Thank you for an amazing morning!
@wearetidelines
@CnPEdinburgh
Leavers lunch Part 2! Our leavers enjoying a beautiful buffet of cake, pizza and wraps! And there is still lots of dancing to Harry Styles!
#leaverslunch2023
A huge thank you to everyone at Cash For Kids and the Kings Theatre for a fantastic morning at ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’! You looked after us all so well!
@captheatres
@Forth1CFK
Breaking news! We’ve just been informed that we’ve been awarded
@sportscotland
Gold School Sport Award for 2024-2026! The Gold School Sport Award is recognition of our achievements in putting sport at the heart of the school’s planning, practice and ethos.
#SchoolSportAward
🏏⚽️🚴
Red class have been looking at the artist Kandinsky and making colourful circles for their tree backgrounds. I think you’ll agree, their artwork is very bright and cheery!
#shapes
#colour
@NatGalleriesSco
Orange class had a fantastic morning at the National Museum of Scotland yesterday! They enjoyed an interactive workshop on space and exploring the museum. Big thank you to the National Museum of Scotland!
@NtlMuseumsScot
A wonderful afternoon celebrating Robbie Burns and all things Scottish! Poems, songs and a dancer too. Enormous thanks to George Watson’s College
@gwc_pipeband
and the pipe band for their splendid performance!
#lovebagpipes
#lovehaggis
#loverobbieburns
The Pilrig Planters are SO looking forward to a very special day with our great friends at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh. See you soon!
@TheBotanics
#howdoesyourgardengrow
What a lovely morning we had today! Thank you to Kerrie and everyone at the Lyceum Theatre for looking after us so well at ‘A Christmas Carol’. We loved the performance and would like to adopt Greyfrier’s ‘Bobby’!
@lyceumtheatre
#cutedog
There was a buzz in school this morning at our Valentines ❤️ Cafe! Families enjoyed heart themed cakes and biscuits with a cup of coffee, and meeting up with other families.
#familyengagement
There was a lovely surprise to greet everyone this morning - our ‘under the sea’ mural was up on the wall in the foyer! Every single pupil in the BGE classes contributed to create this fabulous artwork, using a mosaic technique.
#teamwork
#mosaicskills
@NatGalleriesSco
Dave from
@ScranAcademy
was back this week with the SCRAN Van! Our pupils were making pizza dough before they made pepperoni 🍕 pizzas and a new invention - chocolate🍫 pizzas!🍕They smelt delicious! 😋
#learningnewskills
Our young people were fantastic this morning at their very special Leavers Assembly. It was lovely to have so many parents and carers in school to celebrate the occasion with them. We are so proud of you all and wish you all the very best in your next steps!
#leavers2023
Red class were supported by members of Ness class this afternoon to build some 'sailboats' as part of their Transport topic this term. The pupils selected suitable materials, designed their sails, and had some races to test out their designs.
#STEM
#collaboration
What a wonderful burns lunch with our guests from
@GWC_News
pipes and drums. Joyful gathering with readings and music accompaniment from within and beyond our school. Well done and thank you to all
#IDL
#edinburgh
#Bagpipes
A delicious smell has been coming out of the Home Economics room this morning! The ASDAN Foodwise group ran a cafe and offered a range of refreshments and treats including hot chocolate, cinnamon swirls and chocolate crispies! Absolutely delicious! 😋 🍰☕️
@ASDANeducation
Look who was back with us today! Thank you Dave
@ScranAcademy
for another fabulous day of learning, cooking and eating! Those cookies were delicious! Yum! 😋
Thanks to everyone for making this afternoon’s S1 - S3 Winter Festival Event a huge success. Parents & carers had the chance to meet each other, do some craft activities with their child’s class, see a musical performance by the pupils & enjoy some festive refreshments!
#family
Had our very first Silent Disco this morning - it was a fantastic success! Everyone had fun on the dance floor, showing off their groovy moves!🕺💃🎶🎧📀
#everyonecandance
#inclusivedisco
The whole school enjoyed our Burns Lunch today! Lots of haggis, neeps & tatties, excellent reading by pupils for the Address to the Haggis & the Selkirk Grace, and musical entertainment from pupils of
@gwc_pipeband
@GWC_News
Thank you all for making it a very special occasion!
Breaking news!We’ve been informed today that we’ve achieved RRSA Silver:Rights Aware!Fabulous news! A huge thanks to all the pupils & staff who’ve worked SO hard for us to achieve this award.Well done everyone! We’re looking forward to our banner arriving.
@UNICEF
@gerrymcmurtrie
The whole school had lots of engineering fun in the hall today! Our pupils learned to build, programme and drive mini-robots! The workshops were delivered by
@Army_Engagement
- a huge thank you to the Army STEM Youth Engagement Team!
@DYWEdinMidEast
@STEM_Edin
Wow, what a Show! 'Mamma Mia', Pilrig Park style was fantastic this morning! Well done to a superb cast of dancers, singers and actors - you had the audience up dancing and singing along! Thanks to all the staff for their hard work and producing yet another amazing performance!
Wow! What a lovely surprise this morning! Santa came to visit us on his sleigh! He said thank you to the pupils for the fantastic art work they produced for the Tram works fencing! A huge THANK YOU to Santa and the elves for such a special morning!
@TramstoNewhaven
SCRAN van is back at Pilrig Park School! Delighted to see David back today and for him meet some more budding chefs! Chocolate chip pancakes were on the menu and they smelt (and tasted 😋!) delicious!
@ScranAcademy
#seniors
#postschoolplanning
The Pilrig Planters had a brilliant visit to
@PentlandPlants
this morning. They had a good look around the garden centre and took photos for their photo map. We were also very lucky to be given lots of seeds for our rooftop allotment. A big thank you to
@PentlandPlants
On Sunday morning, some staff met up to do a walk in memory of our friend & colleague who passed away last April. We walked along the Water of Leith, from the Visitor Centre in Slateford, to Stockbridge for some lunch. A donation will be made to
@StColumbas
Day 1 of our
@DYWEdinMidEast
Skills Week has got off to a fantastic start! We’ve all enjoyed learning about money with💰💵
@museumonmound
& pupils even made their own money! This afternoon we had a visit from
@scotfire_Edin
& a real fire engine was in the car park! 🚒 No🔥though!
Well done to all the dancers who took part in the Edinburgh Special Schools Dance Event today, held in Oaklands School! Fantastic experience for them all! 💃🕺
@ActiveSchoolsED
@Edinburgh_CC
Wow! Just taken delivery of Panto Packs for every pupil in the school! A huge thanks to everyone
@captheatres
for this amazing gift - we will have so much fun making our own mini Kings Theatres! Oh yes we will! 😀
#artsandcrafts
#pantos
Today the sun ☀️ was shining as some members of staff did our annual walk🚶♀️to remember our dear friend and colleague Alice. A donation will be given to
@StColumbas
who looked after our lovely and much missed friend. 🩵
Spring has definitely sprung! Spotted in our school garden today were some signs of Spring - lots of snowdrops. There was also a friendly frog who was enjoying the compost heap until he was rudely disturbed by the hard working gardening group!
#outdoorlearning
#pilrigplanters
Congratulations to one of our S4 pupils for completing his LEAP (Learning, Employability and Progression) programme with
@PrincesTrust
and
@HibsinCommunity
. He undertook a 4 week programme & enjoyed learning new skills & meeting other young people.
#employability
@skillsdevscot
What a great morning yesterday
@AsdaLeith
, thanks to the Asda Foundation! The school gratefully received a huge donation of clothes, stationery and games. Our pupils will benefit enormously from this - we can’t thank you enough! Huge thanks to Sharon & the girls!
@AsdaFoundation
As part of their National 2 Community Activity, Barra class presented their Puppet Show to a small pupil audience today! The class made the puppets, chose the songs and stories and their performance was fantastic! Well done to you all!
#puppetshow
The RRSA steering group have been painting & decorating plant pots with a Sea of Life theme, then planting sunflowers in honour of a very special lady, Alice Drummond.
@UNICEF
@UNICEF_uk
We were so proud to have a pupil from Purple class sharing her original song during assembly, written with our music therapist Jenny from
@nordoffrobbins
. Music can be a great way to express ourselves and help us feel happy, just as the song says! Well done 🎶🎵
Ms O’Hagan and Mrs Ferguson getting in some early disco dancing practice with their groovy moves for the Leavers Disco 💃🕺this morning🎶.
#yessiricanboogie
Look where our 2023 School calendar has ended up! Thanks to a former pupil who has very special contacts with
@STVNews
! If John and Sean would like to visit us at Pilrig Park School, we would love to meet you!
#schoolcalendar2023
#wearefamous
A huge thank you to our families who were able to attend our Festival of Kindness event today! Everyone thoroughly enjoyed seeing what the pupils have been doing in the last 2 weeks & then watch ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox & the Horse’. Who needs to go to a real cinema?!
#kindness
Great excitement this morning! The Leavers Hoodies have arrived and were presented by Ms O’Hagan this morning! The ‘photo session’ was great fun, although I think the Head Teacher had the most fun photo bombing the whole thing! 😂
#leavers2024
As part of their Personal & Social Education programme, Red Class have been learning about hair washing in our salon. The programme also includes nail care, and an introduction to facial shaving is next on the agenda. Looking good everyone!
#personalskills
#healthandwellbeing
We had a fabulous afternoon at the Senior pupils Winter Festival Event! Thank you to all the parents & carers who came along to join in the fun! We enjoyed the excellent musical entertainment & delicious baking as well as meeting new people & making friends!
#parentalengagement
Friday 28th June: Our last celebration assembly for this session! We celebrated Reece who was Pupil of the Week and Karen who was Artist of the Week! Pupils (and staff!) are all ready for a final fling at our disco this morning, before we say goodbye to our Leavers!
Last week, Mrs Tupper went to a FAIRTRADE event and got chatting to the Bala Sport representative. She is hoping to get some FAIRTRADE footballs for our school, from Bala!
@FairTradeSco
@BalaSportUK
Well done Lesley and Carole for their amazing work with the Botanic Gardens. Check out the website to see some of our pupils in action, working in our plot.
@TheBotanics
We were delighted to have a visit from Dave
@ScranAcademy
today! He very kindly delivered a SCRAN Van gifts & certificates to the pupils who had sessions this term! Everyone has had an amazing time in the SCRAN Van - we’ll miss those delicious smells wafting in from the car park!
Wishing everyone a very restful October holiday 🍁 and we look forward to seeing our pupils back in school on Tuesday 24th October! 😊🍂
Check out our latest Newsletter which is on our fabulous website - here’s the link! Happy reading!
#ourfabulousschool
A few of our pupils experienced something a bit different today - the Scran Van came to the school car park and our pupils practiced lots of skills including team work, communication and how to make tortilla pizzas! Yum! Thank you Dave!
@ScranAcademy
Friday 30th August: Lots to celebrate today at assembly! Kuba and Jack collected certificates for the Botanics Schools Gardening Project and Mark and Frankie were our joint Pupils of the Week for their very successful first day with Drake Music!
@TheBotanics
@DrakeMusicScot
Ms O’Hagan is delighted to annouce that Pilrig Park School has today won the Spartans Inter Schools Cup! Congratulations to Grant, Mr T and of course all our wonderful players!
#veryproudHT
We are all getting very excited as a rather special vehicle is arriving at the school tomorrow to help us in the filming for the trailer for our school show……..Pilrig Park on a Summer Holiday! 🎥😊
@on_lothianbuses
Well, that was quite a night! The Leaver’s Ball 2024 was a tremendous success and our pupils have truly had a fantastic night! They danced, they ate, they sang and they danced some more! 🕺💃🎉⭐️🎊 We are so very proud of you all! 😃⭐️
We said a sad goodbye to one of our PSAs today. Thank you Kayleigh for everything you have done for us at Pilrig Park School - we will miss you very much. Come back and visit anytime!
#wishingyouallthebest
#goodluck
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Our leavers have only got one more (half!) day at school! 👩🎓👨🎓 Congratulations to each and every one of you - we will miss you all so much. You are all superstars! ⭐️ 🌟 ⭐️🌟⭐️🌟
#proud
#aimhigh
Pilrig Park School had their name in lights at Tyncastle Stadium yesterday as many pupils, families and staff enjoyed free tickets to the ladies Capital Cup between Hearts Women and Hibs Women!
@HibernianWomen
@heartswomenfc
Isn’t this a wonderful picture that our learner in Orange class did today?! He found everything he needed in the school garden to create this fabulous bird!🐦
#outdoorlearning
Stop press!! Next Wednesday at 8pm on BBC2 Pilrig Park School makes their debut with Dame Mary Berry!!!
BBC Two - Mary Berry - Cook and Share, Series 1, Crowd Pleasers
Fame at last for some of pupils (oh, and perhaps a few staff?! 😆)
#cookandshare
#cookingisfun
@RBGE_Education
Lewis Class completed their outdoor learning sessions with Holyrood Park Rangers a few weeks ago, having had an amazing time! Yesterday they received their Heritage Heroes at Assembly! Congratulations to you all!
@HistEnvScot
#outdoorlearningisfun
Preparations for our School Show, ‘We Will Rock You’ started in full swing today! We have editors, a film crew, actors, dancers, costume designers, prop makers, a media group and photographers! Wow! Watch this space for the progress each week!
#wewillrockyou
#FreddieMercury