Stockbridge Primary School - General information for parents and children about the school and nursery. Gives pupils' views of the school and details about art work, games to play, term dates, teachers, uniform and enrolment.
Silverknowes Primary School - Primary School with Nursery situated to the north west of Edinburgh. Designed by a pupil, gives background information.
Cargilfield School - Independent prep school for pupils aged between three and thirteen.
Mannafields Christian School - Independent school for children aged 5 to 13. Places emphasis on Christian Education and a needs-blind admissions policy.
Balgreen Primary School - West central primary near Saughton Park. Gives curriculum overview and reports on special class activities.
Blackhall Primary School - Founded in 1903. Includes PTA newsletter and description of after school activities.
Bonnington Primary School - North Leith primary school and nursery. Outlines school policies and displays pupils' work.
Buckstone Primary School - South city primary with nursery. Includes school handbook and anti-bullying leaflet.
Colinton Primary School - Small school beneath the Pentland Hills. Describes enriching the curriculum and standards of behavior.
Clovenstone Primary School - Integrated Catholic and non-Catholic primary in Wester Hailes. Describes class projects with links to resource web sites.
Dalmeny Primary School - Small primary near Forth bridges. With Standards and Quality report and pupils' drawings of their teachers.
Gylemuir Primary School - Large primary and nursery that includes Corstorphine in its catchment. With HMI report and gallery of pupils' art.
Hermitage Park Primary School - Large primary in Leith with morning and afternoon nurseries. Has information page for parents and art gallery.
James Gillespies Primary School - Primary near Bruntsfield Links, near high school of same the name. Includes virtual tour and application information.
Liberton Primary School - Large south city primary located in parkland. Shows class work and enrollment policy.
Longstone Primary School - West city primary near Wester Hailes. Features computer facilities and junior road safety.
Lorne Primary School - Small primary off Leith Walk. Lists events and art gallery.
Murrayburn Primary School - Small primary in Sighthill. Lists teaching staff and describes school building.
Oxgangs Primary School - South city primary overlooking the Pentland Hills. Includes school tour and detail on activities.
Rowanfield School Edinburgh - Special needs school following the 5-14 curriculum. Shows pictures of staff and new school construction.
Prospect Bank - Primary School for children with learning disabilities. Includes virtual classroom tour and gallery.
The Royal Mile Primary School - Small primary in the city's Old Town. Includes Royal Mile navigator and club information.
The Royal High Primary School - City primary that used to be boys prep school for the Royal High School. List school aims and values.
Roseburn Primary School - City primary near Murrayfield. Details pupils work and fundraising activities.
Queensferry Primary School - City school on north west outskirts. With school newsletter and calendar of events.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Primary Schools "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Primary Schools
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Primary Schools Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Primary Schools
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Primary Schools Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Primary Schools
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Primary Schools "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Primary Schools
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Primary Schools "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Primary Schools
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with May you never leave your marriage alive. Primary Schools We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Primary Schools
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Primary Schools It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Primary Schools
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Primary Schools To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Primary Schools
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Primary Schools You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Primary Schools
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Primary Schools Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Primary Schools
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Primary Schools Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Primary Schools
