Cargilfield FP Update

We hope that this finds you all well and that as we head out of Lockdown over the coming weeks, that you are full of renewed hope and optimism for the future, and looking forward to life returning to something more normal over the coming months.

Once again, Cargilfield has had to adapt to another term of remote learning with the school site closed for all but our key worker children since Christmas, although it has been marvellous to welcome the whole school community back on site for this final week of term before we break up for the Easter holidays. We have also changed our term dates meaning children will return earlier to start the Summer Term to maximise face to face teaching in the classroom, and are running a free multi sport camp for all our children in the middle of the holidays to encourage them to get back to playing sport and enjoying being in each others' company after so long being apart.

Our aim throughout the Lockdown has been to deliver the very best education possible, whatever the circumstances, and we very much look forward to welcoming our children back on site in April for what we hope will be an uninterrupted term back at school. Please do have a look at what we have been able to offer by watching our Remote Learning film which is on our YouTube channel here.

The resourcefulness, resilience and positivity of the whole Cargilfield community has been wonderful to see, and although nothing can replicate face to face teaching in the classroom, children and their teachers have adapted wonderfully well to our remote learning offering through Microsoft Teams, and the new skills that everybody has had to learn and master has undoubtedly given the children new opportunities and experiences that will help them going forwards. Not that it is something that we would like to happen again!

In the meantime, please do encourage your friends and former class-mates to be in touch. We are very keen to hear more from the whole Cargilfield community and to share your news with others. 2023 sees the 150th anniversary of the School and we hope to celebrate that in grander surroundings with a performance that marks the history of the oldest Prep School in Scotland. It would be lovely to have as many of you join us as possible.

As we begin planning a series of special events to mark this important milestone in Cargilfield's history, we have created a Former Pupil Facebook page which we hope will provide opportunities for our former pupils, former parents and members of staff and friends of the school to reconnect with each other and where news, memories and photographs can be posted. We would encourage you to follow and like this page, and to forward it on to anyone whom you think might be interested.

There is also a Former Pupil Instagram page, and again we hope that you will follow this so that we can share our exciting plans for #cargilfield150 to all those with a connection to Cargilfield.

In addition, there is a Former Pupil page on the school website where you can register and update your details with us and a number of FP news items can be found there too. Please click here to give us your contact details.

We shall in touch again as our plans for #cargilfield150 continue to develop. In the meantime, we hope you keep safe and well, and look forward to reconnecting with our wider Cargilfield community over the coming months.

We have updated our virtual film which will give you a glimpse of current life at Cargilfield since we are unable to welcome visitors in person at the moment. Of course, things are not back to normal yet, but has been lovely to walk around the school during this final week of the Spring Term to see children busily engaged in their learning and reconnecting with the friends and teachers after so long apart. Fingers crossed that the start of the Summer Term goes ahead as planned.

Watch the film here.

We are delighted that Cargilfield once again appears in The Cricketer Magazine’s Schools’ Guide for 2021 listing the top 100 Senior Schools and top 50 Prep Schools in the UK. We are the only stand alone Prep School in Scotland to be listed in the prestigious guide, and it is fantastic that our strong cricket culture and commitment to cricket 12 months a year, in addition to a growing girls’ cricket programme, has been recognised.

Read more here.

School Website and Social Media

Our school website is regularly updated and the news page is updated daily and contains lots of interesting articles about what is going on here at Cargilfield, whilst there are also features from members of staff in a new Teaching and Learning blog. The updated Former Pupils' page has a section for FP news, so we would love to hear what you have been up to since leaving Cargilfield!

We are delighted to once again feature in the prestigious annual Tatler Magazine Schools' Guide which features the best Public and Prep Schools throughout the UK.

The report highlights a number of the things that makes Cargilfield special and the magazine is available now!

‘....nurtures a family feel environment....
....scholarships abound.....
....a lovely stimulating atmosphere’.

You can read our entry here.

We would love for this newsletter to be passed on to your Cargilfield contemporaries so hopefully they will subscribe to the newsletter by adding their details to the FP page on the school website here. This way, our database of FPs will continue to grow and we can keep in touch with you about our exciting #cargilfield150 plans.

Please do forward it on to anyone you think might be interested! Thank you.

Telephone : 0131 336 2207
Email : admin@cargilfield.com

Cargilfield Prep School, 45 Gamekeeper's Road,
Edinburgh, EH4 6HU