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The children are getting ready for the Eddy the Penguin performance. The children in Mrs Gilchrist's and Mrs Walkers's class will be the main actors. The singing for the play seems to be going well too.

The new Pr 1's came for their visit on Monday and I had a parents meeting for the new mums, I enjoyed meeting everyone and I hope that this helped with any concerns of queries that people had. The children made beautiful name badges for their new class.

The nursery joined us all for assembly this morning, it was lovely to have them share in this. They sat beautifully. Pr 1 / 2 /3 was telling us about the Jewish festival of Sukkoth, and the Sukka booths which Jewish people make in their gardens to remind them of the festival.

Mrs Walker's class have been learning about advertising this week, they had also made Eco posters. Mrs Middleton has been creating Knexx cars with them, and they are loving this. The music man was in on Wednesday and once more spread his magic, the children just love him!

Pr 6/7 were on the gallivant once more on Wednesday. They travelled to Abriachan, spending the morning in the forest and then went to Moniack Mhor to write poems inspired by the environment. They wrote amazing poems and were obviously inspired by nature.

Pr 5/6/7 have been trying to organise events for our Official opening on the 22nd June. They wrote to their favourite celebrity, Lady Gaga, Matt Smith, Will Smith, Danny Alexander and the Stig amongst others! We wait with baited breath for the post!!!!

The more emm... normal invites will soon be out!

So as we head off to the weekend, we hope that the good weather continues!

Enjoy!

W S Scollay

Hello there, I cannot believe that another week has simply slipped by, if fact it is rather scary! Many thanks to those of you who have completed the survey either online or on paper. Your views are very important to the school. I will publish the findings on the blog in early June.

This week Pr 3/4/5 have had lots of fun with the French assistant Pierre, they love having him into school. He is full of energy and teaches Pr 5/6/7 also. The children in Pr 3/4/5 have also been working on Fairy tale stories, they have been working hard, writing lots and lots! This has certainly given Mrs Walker A LOT of marking! :-)

Pr 7 went up to the Cameron Barracks in Inverness this week and took part in the Safe Highlander event. This is really a super event run by a number of the emergency services and spells out - in colour what exactly can happen! It always makes the children think. Let's hope the safety message gets through!

The winners of last week's election, The wild party animals had an appointment with me early this week and have been planning how to move their manifesto forward, as with all parties a few of their election promises have had to be dropped, but there is lots of exciting other things going to happen. I will keep you posted!

Pr 1 /2/3 with the rest of the school have been enjoying the teacher swap afternoons. The teacher's all go to a different class and work with the stage that they will be with after the summer holidays, this has helped both the teacher and the children get to know each other. We hope that this will help with the changes next year. The new P1 children came for their first afternoon visit last week, and although some of them were not quite sure they did very well. There is a parents meeting on Monday for new P1 parents to attend. We look forward to seeing you.

Unfortunately we do not know at this time who will take the P5/6/7 class and we cannot tell you the break down in the split within the composite classes, we will keep you posted on this. (All the P3 children had the chance to work with P3/4/5 last week and this will happen next week as well.)

The report cards will be sent out at the end of next week and we have the parents open evening on Tuesday 1st June. Just drop in, between 3.30 and 5.00 and 6.00 and 8.00.

So a week of reading for me and writing for all the staff.

Kindest regards

W S Scollay

It seems that the school has been gripped by election fever this week. Pr 5/6/7 held a mock election today, and the Wild Party Animal Party came out the clear winners. They have pledged to have fun parties and DVD's on a Friday afternoon. The P 5's and P6's visited the Polling Station in the village on Thursday, which sparked lots of questions. Pr 3/4/5 joined in the voting today when our own Polling station was set up.

Pr 5/6/7 also went tree planting to Dundreggan, they had a super day and learnt much about the diverse environment.

Pr 1/2/3 went for a walk around the village as part of their Eco topic. They discovered that there is far too few bins and also were shocked to see so many bags of dog poo hanging from the trees! They have a plan and are writing letters to see if they can change this.

Pr 3/4/5 have been working hard now on division and wrote a report about recycling. They have been trying to get the classes to recycle more! They also enjoyed PE with Mrs Campbell.

Monday is the final day for Mary's Meals Bag collection, we already have a few bags, but there is still time for you to fill a ruck sack for the project.

A parental survey was sent out last week, can you please return the survey to school as soon as possible as your opinion is valid. Please see my last blog for the direct link.

Kindest Regards

W S Scollay

You will receive a letter today with an attached survey, we are trying to find out how welcome you feel coming in to the school, how good is our communication systems and how can we involve parents more in the life of the school.

You can click on this link, which will take you directly to the survey.

Many thanks for your help!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LJCKMRP