Mrs Ross. Retiring from Niddrie Mill after almost 26 years of service to our community and 30 years to the council. Thank you doesn’t come close to all the lives you have changed and impacted on over the years. Thank you for your dedication and commitment. We will miss you. 💕
In loving memory of our Dear Shirley McCann, 26 years in service to her community. We gathered together in song and light to remember her. Our condolences to her husband, children and grandchildren whom she was so proud of and spoke of every day. Thank you for joining us tonight.
🏫✏️📚🧮♥️ Niddrie Mill families, we are working hard to get our school ready for your arrival tomorrow☀️. We cannot wait to see you 🤩🤩. We have missed you! 🏫✏️📚🧮♥️
Lighting a virtual candle for the families in Niddrie who are saying goodbye to someone very, very special. We are thinking of you and are here for you. 1/2
We will be lighting our candles tomorrow evening in memory of Mrs McCann, our dear beloved friend and colleague, who was taken too soon from us all. You are all welcome to join us in rememberence of the memories and light she brought to us all🕯.
🎄 Merry Christmas Boys and Girls, Mums, Dads and Carers!! Love from all of the staff at Niddrie Mill. STAFF ‘Mime Along’!! 🎄 A big thank you to Director
@MarkNmps
and IT Co-ordinator extraordinaire
@MrLyallNMPS
for piecing us all together ❤️
Delighted to announce the safe arrival of baby Lucie 💗 weighing 7lb 1.5oz on 10th April 😍. Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays, she can’t wait to pop in meet
#NiddrieMillFanily
in a couple of weeks
@NiddrieMillPS
@NiddrieMillPC
Christmas lunch at Niddrie Mill today🎅🏻🎄🎅🏻🎄🎅🏻. A big thank you to our kitchen staff for providing such a delicious lunch and giving us a big help with set up, for our children to have a brilliant time. ⭐️
We would like to share the FANTASTIC news that yesterday we were awarded our Silver Rights Respecting Schools Award! We are so proud of the dedication all of our pupils have shown to learning about their rights. On the road to gold now! 🥇🎉🥳
📕 📚 Spider man is waiting for you boys and girls to celebrate the end of our Book Week!
@MrLyallNMPS
We can’t wait to see some more Book Week costumes!! 📕 📚
It was not only our children who learned how to save a life today: Our parents/carers learned CPR too, including how to use the Community Defibrillator - which we all have access to, kept at the Thistle if you ever need it in an emergency🚨 !
@thistlecharity
@SaveALifeScot
Good Luck to our 13 years serving Class Teacher Mrs Myers who has dedicated a lot of love and care to our children and families over the year. You will be sorely missed ❤️
@MrsMyersnmps
P7 being piped out to their gate one last time ❤️. (P7a you virtual pipe is in your LJs and
@MissEdmonds1
and
@LouiseCookNMPS
look forward to saying your final goodbye on Sunday at the gate). Good luck P7 ❤️🎉
Bit breezy down at the
#Niddrierainbow
today when I went to sign it. It was so lovely to see all the other messages and names on there from our Niddrie Family 🧡
Thank you to all of our families who have made an extra special effort to stay safe together. So many more of our families are wearing masks than ever before at pick up and drop off. We will keep supporting with offering mask hand outs at drop off. Thank you.
We are very proud of our Head Teacher
@LouiseCookNMPS
for sharing our amazing Niddrie Mill school journey today at the
@GCWellbeing
conference. What an absolute honour to have spoken about our
@pauldixtweets
successes right in front of him!!
🤩 Our first ever Senior Show was an absolute success! ‘The Button Box’. Well done and thank you to all of our children and staff who made it so special and successful. And thank you to the huge turnout tonight from all our families. We can’t wait for next year’s! 🤩
P7 You have been a dream team. True, strong leaders of our school. You will always be part of the family. Don’t forget to let us know how you get on and visit us at morning gates if ever you are passing by. We love you all. Now on to your next chapter! You are ready for it 💪🎉❤️
Happy Niddrie Mill Sports Day. We hope you had an amazing time today! What a beautiful day for it! Thank you to
@MrLyallNMPS
@MrsM_NMPS
@MissHGowans
for such a great Health Week!
Today we said a temporary goodbye to Ryan our FANTASTIC janitor who has been given the role of Facilities Supervisor at
@CastlebraeCHS
he will still be popping in as part of his new role but we will miss his friendly face everyday. Congratulations and good luck Ryan 🥰
To our compassionate & hard working Niddrie Mill teaching team. Every single one of you. A fine example of society stepping up, going over and above, during times of challenge - doing anything you can think of, to get it right for our children in school and at home. Thank you 🙌
We would like to give Miss MacQuarrie, our new Primary 1a Class Teacher, a BIG warm welcome to our school family! 🤗 Miss MacQuarrie is going to create her own Niddrie Mill Twitter account so that our families can give her a follow! Watch this space 🙌
Merry Christmas everyone 🎄 look after one another and see you in the New Year 2021! Happy holidays, you all have worked so hard and deserve it. Love from all the staff at Niddrie Mill. X
We would like to send our good wishes to
@MissMackayNMPS
who had her last day
@NiddrieMillPS
today. We wish you all the luck in your new adventures teaching Yoga, you will be missed. Thank you for all your hard work on Primary 1. Love all
@NiddrieMillPS
We were privileged and honoured to welcome Mr John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretery of Education to our school today. Our children and staff made us all very proud.
@JohnSwinney
@BBCNews
@itvnews
Health week kicked off this morning with Wake and Shake with
@MissHGowans
we had a great start to our days 💃🏼 🕺🏼. Hope to see our families join in on Wednesday morning 😃
It is Mrs Cook’s last day tomorrow before she goes off on maternity leave to have her little baby 👶!
@LouiseCookNMPS
We will miss you, but we look forward to your Niddrie Mill visits with your new baby in a few weeks!
Overall Winning School of 2018!! Well done to our Robert Burn’s Poets! So proud of these little cherubs for learning all of their poems and performing to a degree of excellence to a gallery of adults and children. 🏆
A HUGE shout out to Shirley Banks and Iain Twaddle for working with our bairns the last half year teaching them bikability! Especially to Shirley, you not only brought your tool kit of Active skills but your positive energy and bubbly nature was truly contagious!
@ActiveSchoolsED
Parents and Carers. Please keep our school safe and open and wear your masks at drop off and pick up - as per government guidance. We are doing all we can to keep us all safe. Please do the same.
Lovely to see some of our families today looking for IT support and visiting our family support stall this morning. We are planning another IT support day and family support stall on Tuesday 16th February, 1pm.
🦓 🦒 Our Senior Show is about to begin and we are celebrating at our assembly! 🤩 We weren’t going to let anything stop us, following all mitigations of course. We can’t wait to share our video link with you P5-P7 families! 🦓 🦒
Group 2 abseiling and climbing 🧗♀️.P7 running up behind and winding up
@MrsSafiNmps
with their chains and ropes on route 😂 ⛓️. We learned today that Benmore mansion was made of this very rock which we have been climbing😲
@miss_robertson3
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! We are all so proud of our children, parents and carers for all you have managed during this challenging time. Time to relax and put the learning platforms away for February’s break. Thank you for everything.
#teamniddriemill
Thank you to our lovely janitors and
@nurtnmps
who organised a clear up of litter, with helpers, to make our streets clean again outside of our school entrances. Please look after our community to make it look lovely. 🌲
#nomorelitter
We have also now ordered ‘No Litter’ signage
We are prepping everything in time for Monday to lead our “Support for Families Stall”. We look forward to seeing some of you at 9am on Monday, outside school reception. We are also there to support with any IT issues. Please remember to wear a mask & social distance. Thank you
OBE
@LN51WAT
Lindsey Watt awarded OBE for services to Education in Edinburgh. A very special lady close to many hearts, particularly in the Craigmillar and Niddrie community. A huge congratulations and thanks on behalf of everyone, more than deserved.
All the staff at Niddrie Mill want to say a massive thank you to
@MissJClark
’s mum for buying a Christmas tree for our hall! So unbelievable kind! She also provided (and wrapped!) the pass the parcel gifts! Going above and beyond! 🥰👏❤️ Thank you very much 😍
Remember it’s a soft start between 8:50 and 9:10 and P2-7 are coming in the rainbow gate. Tape has been put up to help with social distancing. The ground was a bit wet to put it there so it is on the wall! 2 hours to go! 🥳😝
Looking forward to welcoming back our minis tomorrow ❤️💙💛🧡💚💜!! P1-P3, can’t wait to see you all! Parents and carers, please wear a mask, social distance, 1 adult per family and ‘drop and go’ to keep everyone safe. Thank you x
@stfrancisps
So proud of our children today at ‘The Craigmillar Great Get Together’💞.
#hopenothate
#YOYP2018
Big shout out to Miss Alana for all of her help and for making sure we gave it our best performance today. What a great turn out today was and so much fun!
The Niddrie Mill staff have been working extremely hard to get school ready for the new session! We have missed you all so much! And we CAN’T wait to meet some of our new P1 children tomorrow too! Looking forward to tomorrow, hope you all are too! 🤩⭐️📚
✨🥳P1-4 and P7b!!! The day has come! You are all off to Edinburgh Zoo tomorrow! Remember to wrap up warm as best you can, it’s meant to rain, but a bit of water will not stop our fun! Bring a spare set of clothes just in case. See you all tomorrow 🥳✨
A message from Pupil Council today ✨: ‘Hi I am the P6 pupil council Twitter updater today. 2021 pupil council photo! Glad we got to meet up again it felt good being back together again”.
Merry Christmas Everyone & Happy NY when it comes! Stay safe & as warm as you can, we will 👀 you in 2023!! We would like to take this opportunity to 🙏 all of our hard working Staff, Children, Parent Council, Partners & Families, for all of their Support, Love & Dedication. ❤️
Ask your child about their ‘Meet the Teacher’ session today! Most children met their new teacher in time for next session! Lots of excited faces and voices in the playground from it all today! 🤩
Thank you to the pupils and their families who have been an inspiration during this time. A huge thank you to our staff who have continually gone over and above for our families enjoy your well deserved summer holidays which start...now! 🥳 One last wee treat...1/2
Here is a link to another amazing Niddrie staff video ❤️ Lots of brilliant advice on how to stay healthy to close our Virtual Heath Week. Thank you to
@MrLyallNMPS
for putting all these fantastic clips together.
💫 We are majorly excited to announce 💫 : We are now officially recognised as a Bronze Awarded, Rights Committed, Rights Respecting School!! 🎉🎉 And a first school to be awarded on a flight ✈️ by our Senior Professional RRSA Adviser
@gerrymcmurtrie
#goingforsilver
Christmas light switch on with boxer Jason Easton. Niddrie Mill, St Francis and Castleview all community Christmas Carol singing together. A wonderful special moment. Proud of our kids.
@NiddrieMillPS
@stfrancisps
@Castleview_PS