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Eddleson Rural Community

Eddleston Primary School  

The crescent-shaped school provides a great education for the children of the village and surrounding areas. It is a lively school and the children get involved in a lot of community projects. They also provide the talented choir for the family services at the local church.

Eddleston has had a school in the village for more than 200 years. From a school roll in the 1880s of 85, this reduced in the early 1980s to fewer than 40 and the school was threatened with closure.

Fortunately since then, two new housing developments have reversed the trend and provided us with a new school. We now have a lively village school with 3 teachers and more than 60 children ranging in age from 4 to 11. The bell from the old school is still used to herald the start of the day

 

School Holiday Dates - all Inclusive

 

  • In Service Day - Monday 18th August 2008
  • 2008/09 session starts on Tuesday 19th August 2008
  • Autumn Holiday: Monday 13th October to Friday 17th October 2008. New term starts on Monday 20th October
  • Christmas holidays: Monday 22nd December 2008 to Friday 2nd January 2009. New term starts on Monday 5th January 2009
  • Half Term: Friday 6th and Monday 9th February 2008
  • Easter holidays: Monday 6th April to Friday 17th April 2009. New term starts Monday 20th April
  • May holiday - Monday 4th May 2009
  • Summer holidays: Friday 26th June to Friday 14th August 2009
  • In-Service Day - Monday 17th August 2009
  • 2009/10 session starts on Tuesday 18th August 2009

Local holidays and In-service days to be confirmed

For details of term dates until 2010, click here and go to the Schools page. Or you can download this from our online library

 

School Term Dates - possible changes

How would this affect you?  Are you a parent of a school age child, a teacher or maybe a local employer? SBC have published a consultation paper and would like to hear from you.  You can download this from our online library.  Consultation period now closed and responses will be collated over the summer

Well Done Eddleston Primary


Our village school has received a very good report from HM Inspector of Education following a 5 day review in February last year. The inspectors met with staff, pupils and parents and we are delighted to report their views that the school serves the community well and that the staff provide a caring and supportive learning environment for our children who, they say, are happy, well motivated and well behaved! Click on the link below to see the full report

Last year, our village school received 100% in Reading, writing and maths! Figures recently released by the Education Department show Eddleston topping the list of Borders Schools - an honour they share with Channelkirk which has been saved from closure following a high profile campaign. While we always have to look at statistics with caution, pupils, teachers and parents have much to be proud of - WELL DONE!

Peebles High School

 

Our local secondary school is Peebles High School in Bonnington Road Peebles. The building dates back to 1858 and has been extended and modernised since then The school roll is around 1,200 and expanding, and has a teaching staff of 80

For more information, have a look at their web site - http://www.peebleshighschool.co.uk

 

Halyrude Catholic Primary - Peebles

The nearest Catholic Primary School is Halyrude Primary, Old Church Road, Peebles. The school has a roll of around 95 children ranging from 4.5 to 11 years old. Children then normally transfer to Peebles High School Contact Mr Steve Gihooley - Headteacher on 01721 720238 for more information or have a look at their web site http://www.halyrudeschool.org.uk

 

 

  

  

Some of the Children's Work

Every term, the primary school children produce a magazine - EDDLESTON SCHOOL TIMES. Articles - all written by pupils - cover sporting events, trips out, projects on other countries and samples of their work. In the latest edition you can read about:

  • The fortunes of the netball team
  • Advice on fireworks safety
  • Stories from children in primaries 1 2 and 3
  • Gie it Laldie!
  • Learning to play rugby
  • Road safety
  • Walk to school week
  • Recycled instruments
  • Primary 4 and 5 trip tp Peebles Museum 

For all the stories. have a look in our online library

Here you can also read the children's reports on a school trip to Dalguise in September

Good cause, good for you and good fun


In June 07, Eddleston Primary School raised £500 for the British Heart Foundation by skipping non–stop for over an hour. Everyone in the school was involved and all the children took turns to make sure there were no gaps. Well done!