A Winters Night - Friday 17th December

Just to let you know about a festive event taking place in Portobello, an opportunity to raise funds for Towerbank and have a lovely night out with friends and family!
A Winter's Night is a celebration of seasonal music, song and word featuring Sangstream (Edinburgh's Folk Choir), Towerbank Children's Choir, Lucy Pringle, storytellers David Campbell and Russell McLarty and other guest performers. Produced by Mairi Campbell and David Francis, it promises to be a great night for all ages! There's even Christmas Punch and Mincepies!

It's on Friday 17th December at 7.30pm in Portobello Town Hall. Tickets are £8 (£5 concession) and £3 for under 12's. Proceeds will go to Towerbank.

Tickets are now on sale at The Beach House Cafe and at Woodwares.

A lovely night out for all the family and an ideal Christmas gift to lift the spirits of a neighbour or friend. Last year's concert was a great success - don't miss this year's!

On Sunday 5th December, Barbara Middleton is running a Lantern Workshop, 2 - 5pm in Portobello Community Centre. Again suitable for all ages, tickets (Including materials) are £3, available at the door. Some of the lanterns will be adding atmosphere to our Winter's Night!

Please do what you can to publicise and support this event.



Many thanks.



PSA Committee

Bye Bye Becky

Sadly we are having to say goodbye to Becky Pope who is stepping down as Chair of the PSA due to other commitments. We are very grateful to Becky for her contribution to PSA activities over the past year and we will greatly miss the energy and enthusiasm she brought to the PSA. We wish her all the best for the future.

If anyone out there is interested in taking on the position of PSA Chair, please contact us on towerbankpsa@googlemail.com to discuss further.

Wine Tasting Evening

A BIG Thank You to Sarah Mauritzen and Katie Weaver for organising the fantastic Wine Tasting Evening last night and to all of those who helped with the setting up, clearing away and serving the delicious curry.  

Towerbank Christmas Fair - Saturday 4th December, 2.30-4.30pm

We are planning lots of festive fun for the Christmas Fair on Saturday 4th December: Santa’s Grotto, Tombola, performance corner, home baking, all your favourite games, crafts and much, much more…

Profits from the Fair will go towards buying fantastic new Golden Time games for all the classes!

How can you help?

We will be depending on your donations of:-

• Good quality used toys and games

• Tempting tombola prizes

• Second-hand CDs, computer games, DVDs for the Camp Fundraising Group stall

to be delivered any time from Thursday 2nd December

and delicious home baking – please deliver to the school office on Friday 3rd December or on the morning of the Fair.

and we need volunteers to help for an hour with stalls, games, face painting and serving food and refreshments, as well as helping to set up beforehand and clear up after 4.30pm. Please return the slip from the letter through your child’s school bag, hand into the school office, e-mail us at towerbankpsa@googlemail.com or leave a message on our blog twbpsa.blogspot.com.

Fruity Friday Fairtrade Snack Shop - Help Needed!

Yvonne Longwill is looking for parent volunteers to help run the very successful Fruity Friday Fairtrade Snack Shop on Friday mornings, working with P5 to P7 children to shop for fair trade fruit, assemble a tuck shop stall, serve the children at break time and clear up afterwards.

It is very rewarding working with the school children and also there is a great response from the children at break time buying the smoothies and fruit snacks.

If you are able to offer about an hour of your time on the odd Friday morning, please contact Yvonne by leaving a comment below, on the PSA e-mail towerbankpsa@googlemail.com or by popping a note into the school office marked for Yvonne Longwill's attention.

Thank you.