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We are delighted to be open, and it is good to see so many of the children able to come in today. I know that some of the higher up houses have much snow and it's like a different world to here in Fort Augustus.

Chris Watt from Out of the Box led our assembly today and the children really enjoyed his fun. He is doing an activity day on Saturday in the Church hall, leaflets have been sent out, but children can still go if they have not completed their forms.

On Tuesday we held a parents information evening to let folk know more about the Curriculum for Excellence and what that will mean for their child. I am going to re-run the event on the 16th March at 2.00pm for any parents who were unable to attend the evening event. I hope that some of you may be able to come along, I think those who attended the evening found it useful.

Nursery will be closed on Friday to move over to the small half room in the portacabin to let the builders complete the work in the nursery. We will open on Monday again. I am sorry for any inconvience which this may cause you but I am sure that this will be worth it in the end.

Kindest Regards

W S Scollay

Its Thursday 25th Feb!

This seems to have been a long winter, we are closed once more today due to snow. Enjoy the snowballs and snowmen once more, or keep warm and watch the olympics! You could even do your homework guys! ;-)

W S Scollay

I hope that you are all refreshed after the LONG weekend. We have had a busy time as a staff over the last few days and are getting to grips with what the Curriculum for Excellence will mean to us. We hope that you can join us on Tuesday evening at 7pm in the primary school for a meeting regarding this. We hope to give you a little information and perhaps answer some of your questions. If you have any questions that you would like answered, please contact me before Tuesday and I can perhaps add this into my presentation.

Nursery enrolement begins next week, so if you have a child who will be wanting to start nursery next year, please come along and complete the forms.

We are delighted to welcome two new families to the school this week and I hope that they enjoy life here at Kilchuimen. A warm welcome to you.

The children in Pr 3/4/5 have been building on their timetables knowledge this week and they have made some super board games, wow some of the rules are complicated though! Not to say the sums are tricky! Pr 5/6/7 have being learning about the life of Anne Frank and Pr 1/2/3 have been learning about food groups, I think that they would appreciate any pictures of food!

So I look forward to seeing many of you next week.

Kindest Regards

W S Scollay

The school newsletter for February went out yesterday so check in children's schools bags for that.
The school enrolment for Pr 1 is happening this week, we need to have all the children registered for this so if you have not done so, please, enrol your child.

Pr 7 had a wee visit to the new rooms and they are very excited about them, they showed slides of the pictures to the other children at assembly tomorrow and everyone is keen to move in! We should be moving in on the 14th April, which is brilliant!

Pr 3/4/5 have been using times tables this week building on the good work of last week. Keep it up! They have been looking at home leaflets are laid out and them they made their own leaflets about saving water. They have now finished their desk tidies and they are very useful. they also did some drama which they loved.

Pr 1/2/4 finished their last lesson about Hinduism and they will be taking part in a "who wants to be a millionaire?" quiz. In writers craft they wrote Nursery Crimes. I have to say that some of the children's poems were hilarious. I think you will get a chance to read them soon.

Pr 5/6/7 have been working hard to finish off their Eco stories for the school book. We've been having a look at the Rainforest habitats, animals and the food found in our kitchen.

As we have worked so hard this week I have decided that you can all have Friday 12th February and Monday 15th February as a holiday with the teachers coming in to do training on Tuesday and Wednesday 15th and 16th!

Many kindest Regards

W S Scollay