Talk Porty ~ Portobello

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Scoop It took you a few days to come back with that reply. take a positive and use it as a negative, a commonly used trick in this subject. If you have additional support needs then a school facility and the teachers should be able to support you in your journey. Sports, arts, social and technical s...

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Got 2nd year tracking report home tonight, youngest Tufty has achieved straight Excellents. Now he may be a bit of a clever clogs, but he needed the teachers to do it.
Yet again the staff at Porty have delivered exactly "what it said on the tin", even though it's badly bashed from over use.

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Thanks for posting little miss moffat. I've stopped reading posts that I know are just bile or nonsense. You'd think that folk would want to progress a new school for the future of portobello not securing turf for turds as PPAG have done.

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All the biscuits, bread and eggs were used up by the time I got home today, 3 teenagers home from a damaged school yet again. The building is just past it's sell by date and I'm sick at the thought of the council tax money that is going to go on repairs when it should be closed already. I do want to...

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Re change of catchment. Have you asked the shopkeepers on the High Street how they feel about that as an idea? I've just driven through Craigmillar with my daughter and we discussed going for lunch, she commented on the lack of shops compared to Portobello and it made us do a quick calculation. 1200...

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usage, or lack of

Thank you for your honesty, better late than never.

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usage, or lack of

Thank you for your honesty, better late than never.

tufty

I don't have to, there is already a brilliant plan, model and design, passed for build, and I'm sorry but there was no perspective, an omission I cannot miss after having it drummed in. Idea and design totally different parts of the process. Really I wish CEC had the money to build such a wonderful ...

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Sorry, I know I shouldn't but having spent a very long time in drawing offices, I can't help myself. Drawings really really poor, a reflection perhaps of the idea, not the design as such, a wonderful thought given that brief, but in this case where finance is a factor, it's like asking Easy Jet to g...

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Having been on holiday to Amsterdam my husband has come up with a plan. No land, reclaim some, build out at sea. But then I think he may have been enjoying some of the available refreshments in Amsterdam, he's not thinking straight. There is a slight issue of cost. Of course we would all want CEC to...

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Scotland is about to change the exam system, the new curriculum for excellence has brought many good things and many unknowns. As yet the full details have not been released so there remains a large unknown. If any decant were to overlap the introduction of this new exam system, or even happen in th...

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Thanks Marya, I had read the text above, and just wondered when the golf course changed the origional park, and it seems without full backing of locals, at that time did it's status change. Having had a house full of disappointed teenagers this week I would see the school built on stilts in the sea ...

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Reading comments and suggestions for a new location, split, decant etc etc etc.

Is the golf course common good land? Can the council build it there?

I await the interesting come backs.

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Franck : The road that concerns me, as someone who has worked in road safety, is the path from Holyrood to Craigmillar. It enjoys mostly one way taffic as children do not walk towards Craigmillar in the morning. I have walked to work in Craigmillar, along it into the Holyrood kids, there is only pav...

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The route from the parsons green catchment to castlebrae would take the children along Duddingston rd West, a busy road already congested with High school kids walking towards Holyrood, it's a narrow path and franck is suggesting two way taffic of teenage pedestrians in rush hour. I gave up on my ch...

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Craigmillar is a none starter. If you were really going to consider it then you would have to consider any other site within a five mile radius. There's a space behind the station, not any further out of the catchment, but is that not obviously daft. It's a reaction to suggest it, there are so many ...

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I'm with you Marya. I feel let down by a system that is supposed to protect the public. There is saving green space and saving a view/ house prices. I'll never believe it was about green park land after suggestions of using other parks. I hope there is an alternative plan, not Big W or decant, but I...

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How soon is now?

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B.W.

My suspicion (founded or not)

That's how thousands of women were burnt as witches in the past.

Facts not fiction please.

tufty

And I want to add retirement happens at set times in our lives and I believe the teacher who retired after 35 years worked on past retirement to support the school.That's real royalty, sorry loyalty.

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In the spirit of Ms Windsor I would like to blame Portobello High School and their staff for the 3 As and 2 Bs young tufty got. All their support and encouragement has managed to ensure the future looks bright. I would also like to blame them for making my younger 2 happy and confident, introducing ...

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Betty Windsor wrote: Is that the best you can do? criticise her spelling. The bullies are at it again. What do you think Mrs McArthur would think of such behaviour. Then again discipline is on the decline at PHS. She regularly trawls these pages apparently, must have nothing better to do. I have lef...

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http://www.portygreenkeepers.org.uk/gallery/album/slides/pp%20(9).html Had a look at the portypark page and thought their picture of an empty field was a mistake until I realised it was the park! My S5 has just sat highers in the hall, lucky this year the new curtains helped control the temperature....

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My family are from southern Italy and I have always told them that we just don't have problems with councils being influenced or led by any kind of corruption, but from reading these posts and learning about their (PCC) attempts to block planning for a modern home to accomodate a disabled child with...

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Well said sceptic. I agree we all have the right to fight for what we believe in but there comes a time when most good citizens realise their desires have to be put aside for the greater good. I hope people from all of Edinburgh are aware of what PPAG are costing us, not just in money but in lost op...

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Our oldest is about to start highers. The hall where the exams will be held is draughty, cold and dim. If it's windy or wet the background distractions will be too much for some of the pupils. This is a concern from a pupil. It is not a level playing field, it is not equality. The government have gu...

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epykat How can you ignore the truth? It is not patronising to express my view based on what my children tell me. You don't seem to think that failing technology and warmth are an issue to education. There have been two incidents involving my children that only happened due to the state of repair, on...

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Actually it would be true to say every child over the age of nine in the Portobello catchment area is disadvantaged by PPAG.
Unless they plan to attend an out of catchment school.

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Epykat. Not every day. My three children go there and have each told me of disrupted lessons due to failures in technology. It's well known they can't have up to date computer technology in every class, they bus to Jack Kane, the hall has no facilities for concerts and the building is cold and cramp...

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You may well be right Bob, however I think it is fair to say that people who have been brought up here, generally have a different attitude to the park than people who haven't. There were parks where I grew up. I love the smell of cut grass, jumpers for goal posts and picnics. It's a shame that the...

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I am almost speechless reading these emails. Surely any representative in a community council shown to be spreading such rumours without knowing names to collaborate the truth is not fit to remain in a position of trust. It is the sort of behaviour I see amongst bitching school girls who are not mat...

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Looking at the big picture. Beautifully done, true and complete. Thankyou.

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seashell has made a valid point, there is a possibility that the school will fail it's pupils dramatically and suddenly. I was teaching maths in an old building when the sash and case window suddenly blew in, narrowly missing the back of my head, the old heavy window was held to the wall by only the...

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Does this mean they have revealed their grounds for appeal already and it merits a hearing, or will they reveal their grounds on the 23rd May? sorry for not understanding this issue.

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desperation? I think that would be producing a poster of a child knocked over on the road, without due care and consideration to the design and message.

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