St Margaret's RC Primary School - Galashiels

05/09/2026

Rights Respecting School Assembly ✔️

Our School, Our Rights, Our Voice

The children discussed-
‼️How our interactions make people feel
‼️Who makes us felt safe in school?
‼️ Who makes us felt safe out of school?
‼️what is a good friend?
‼️What is a good teacher?

Fantastic collaboration and discussions took place.
What can your child tell you about the assembly?

05/09/2026

🏆WIDER ACHIEVEMENTS 🏆

It is wonderful to see so many children sharing their achievements outwith school at assembly.

🏏 SPORTS 🏉

🥋 Gaining a white and orange belt I Judo
🩰 Participating in an Irish Dancing Competition and getting 4th and 5th.
🏉 Rugby training first session.
🤸 Back walk in gymnastics

🎨BUILDING SKILLS & CREATIVITY👨‍🍳

🧑‍🍳 Cooking dinner for the family ( even better than dad)
🐾Showing her dog at a Pawforamnce event- jumps and trucks
🐌 creating clay snails
🎨 improving art and drawing skills
🧜 Made a mermaid key chain
- Being creative with Hama Beads
🚗 Creating a Lego car
✍️ Digital Drawing

👭GROUPS 👫

🏕️ Gaining medals for guide camp and her 4 year guiding badge
👏 Brownie of the week, and making badges

05/09/2026

⭐️⭐️ STARS OF THE WEEK ⭐️⭐️

⭐️Growing in confidence and following routines
⭐️following routines and listening well
⭐️Fantastic listening and great focus
⭐️Great role model and upholding all values- exemplary behaviour
⭐️Excellent use of vocabulary in writing his worry spaghetti story
⭐️Great teamwork in football

01/09/2026

01/09/2026

‼️PLEASE HELP US KEEP OUR PLAYGROUND SAFE FOR OUR CHILDREN ‼️

We are asking the local community to please keep dogs out of our school playground and off the grass area.

This is our pupil’s play space, where they have the right to be able to play, run and explore safely. Unfortunately, recently there have been occasions when we have had to stop our pupils from playing on the grass because dog poo has been left behind.

This is upsetting and unfair for our children, and it means they cannot enjoy an important part of their outdoor play.

Please respect our children’s right to play and be safe.

Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states
Every child has the right to relax, play and
take part in a wide range of cultural and
artistic activities

We are fortunate to have the Gala policies right beside our school, which provide a suitable space for dog walking. We kindly ask dog owners to use these areas instead of our children’s playground and grass.

Thank you for helping us keep our play spaces clean, safe and enjoyable for every child.

Our children’s right to play matters.

01/09/2026

Bang Goes the Borders Science and Learning Festival.

On Saturday, September 19th
At St. Mary’s School , Melrose.

The event is entirely free for all to attend and promises to offer lots of engaging experiences for young people to take part in.

29/08/2026

On Thursday with Mrs Callaghan, P2/3 were learning about God as Creator and explored the wonder and diversity of creation. They listened to and discussed the Genesis creation story, exploring how God created the world over six days and reflected on the importance of caring for all that God has made.

The children enjoyed discussing some of the unusual and fascinating creations found in our world. Their responses demonstrated curiosity, imagination and a growing appreciation of the incredible diversity within God’s creation.

It was wonderful to hear some of their very thoughtful and interesting ideas! 🌎✨

29/08/2026

🏆WIDER ACHIEVEMENTS 🏆

👬CLUBS👭
-Starting Brownies
- participating in first Highland Dancing Competition and gaining medals
- 2 x1st place medals in a Highland Dancing Conpetition.

🏊SPORTING 🏏
-Achieving All Star Status at Cricket Event
- Attending Tennis Camp, upskilling
- Teaching someone to ride a bike
-Successfully Riding a bike
-Climbing The 3 Brethrens
- Swim Skill 3 status
- Cycling 100 miles in August for Charity- donating money to Oxfam.

🖼️ CREATIVITY 🧶
- Learning how to crochet
- Making her own squishy
- Designing his own person

💃 Participation in a graceful Semi-Classical Dance as part of traditional Onam celebration. Dancing with elegance and dedication.
🐕 Showing her dog at Border Vet Show- he achieved 2nd place
🇮🇹Achieving Level 1 in Italian Lessons

29/08/2026

🌈ABOVE AND BEYOND 🌈

😘🤗Displaying kindness and compassion to a member of staff who had fallen.
The two young people remained calm and ensured the member of staff was okay.

Living our vision and values.🤗😘

29/08/2026

⭐️⭐️STARS OF THE WEEK ⭐️⭐️

⭐️Showing great resilience and settling in well.
⭐️Following class expectations and being a great role model.
⭐️Being a responsible member of the class and helping look after the environment.
⭐️A positive to start to the School year displaying excellent listening skills and everything that is taught.
⭐️Using her positive growth mindset and working hard in all aspects of the curriculum.
⭐️ An extremely focused start to morning to Pr 6.
⭐️Independent working on maths tasks

A fabulous start to this School year.