From September until November, XMA have offered Midlothian primary schools FREE coding workshops. During each workshop, a member of staff will work with pupils and staff in order to develop confidence in teaching coding. They also are offering free staff CPD with each...

It’s been a very busy time for Hawthornden Primary School! Following their successful school show ‘Hairspray’, Hawthornden pupils have excelled themselves again by performing at the launch of the Confucius Primary Hub.

Over the past weeks pupils in Primary 5/6 at Rosewell Primary School and have been developing their computational thinking skills and have applied what they have learned to code Sphero bots, programmable robotic balls.

13th June 2017 what a day!  250 pupils from 10 Midlothian Primary schools took part in the Midlothian Bike Festival 2017 at Beeslack High School.  Well done to all pupils at the event you really impressed with your skills.  Congratulation’s to Mauricewood Primary...

Primary 5 at St Mary's has been traveling around Europe during their topic of Journeys this summer term. No they've not gone off on a huge trip, but instead have been taking advantage of the Skype in the classroom opportunities provided through Glow and the Microsoft...

Hawthornden P6's and P7's have been performing Hairspray the musical for Parents on the school stage. They have worked very hard along with members of staff. A Huge Well Done To You All  !!...

The Scottish Schools Orienteering Festival on the June 2nd 2017 was a great success for the Midlothian Primary School squad. This is the first time a Midlothian squad has participated in this event which was very exciting. It was made up of 20 athletes from P5, 6 & 7 from 5 different schools. They were selected through the Midlothian Outdoor Learning Develop and Achieve Orienteering squad who have been taking part in training sessions over the last few months.

Today Staff and children at Hawthornden primary school took part in a Bad Hair day to raise funds for The Dystonia society and awareness for Dystonia. Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder caused by faulty signals from the brain. It causes painful twisting,...