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Welcome back everyone!

Pr 1 have settled so well into school, Mrs Walker is really pleased with all the children. Today is the first full day for them so I am sure that they will need a break at the weekend.

We were delighted to get new tables and chairs in the Mrs Walker's classroom and we have also bought lots of new toys and games for this classroom.

Unfortunately we have discovered that the time allocated to head teacher management time has been reduced due to falling numbers of the school role. This means that P 3/4/5 class will be seeing me for an extra day, so I will be teaching two days and Mrs MacDonald will teach 3 days. We will not see Mrs Gilchrist now in school at all, which is a shame.

The children in P 3/4/5 are doing a book study about , "The boy from Sula". They are enjoying learning all about the seaside and rural life on an island. We have also had lots of interesting objects brought into the classroom.

P 5/6/7 are learning about Structures. This is covering lots of engineering and design aspects. Today they are attending the housing expo with their class teacher Miss Starr. Miss Starr our new probationer teacher has really settled into life here at Kilchuimen, planning lots of exciting activities for the children.

We have been delighted to once more have an active school coordinator here, Jake Williams is doing golf lessons with P 5, fitness tests with P 7 and Rugby training with P 3-7. As Jake is a sport coordinator he should not be solely delivering these activities and we REALLY need some volunteers to work along side him for these events. These volunteers would help perhaps run other golf or ruby sessions when Jake has to move on.

We are planning to have a parent council meeting on Wednesday 15th September at 2.00. I hope as many of you will be able to join us. I shall be explaining what we intending to do in school over the next academic year, and would like to use this as a consultation meeting with parents. More information will follow. I also think that we need to have an evening meeting so mums and dads who cannot attend in the afternoon are able to come too.

I look forward to seeing you all over the course of the next session, and wish each children all the very best in their learning journey.

W S Scollay
Head teacher