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Hello there,

well, we said, "Cheerio" this afternoon, to ten tired wee primary ones. They had really enjoyed their time at school this week, but we could see that they were needing the weekend this afternoon. We hope they have a lovely weekend to get their breath back!

Mrs Walker's topic is, Pirates, and I was really impressed at assembly this morning at the amount of information the children could tell me about Blackbeard the pirate. I have learned some really interesting facts, did you know that he drank gunpowder in his rum?! He also wore lit fuses on his hair! The children were impressed! (Sorry but we can't start that as a new school uniform addition before you ask!) P 1/2/3 also wrote lovely shipwrecked stories it's amazing what the children come up with. In maths they have been working with numbers and place value. The Pr 1's also started their reading programme with gusto this week. After hearing about all that no wonder the wee souls were tired.

P 3/4/5 went on a trip to the beach on Thursday, well, not exactly the beach... we all headed to the sand pit with our chairs, there we talked about the seaside sounds, the sights, and what sand feels like. We reluctantly headed indoors and the children all wrote brilliant seaside sense poems. P 3/4/5 also went a trip around the village on Tuesday afternoon, but once more the power of technology transported us there as we travelled the village using Google earth. The children loved it, and this is connecting with work which we are doing in maths in regards to plans and maps. I can also let you into an exciting, not yet told to the children secret, that Mrs MacDonald is going to take the children to Channory point, Rosemarkie beach and North Kessock dophin centre on 15th September, letters will be going out next week. That will be fun.

P 5/6/7 have been busy learning more about different structures, and they are full of the trip to the Housing Expo in Inverness, it is great to see how that trip seems to have inspired them. P 7 were taking part in fitness tests the other day, I think they found them quite demanding! P 5 /6/7 children have all been practising for the cross country race which is being held shortly.

In the playground we purchased £100 of new toys for the children to play with, Tesco has at present a half price sale which we have benefited from the lower prices. The children are enjoying the toys.

Please note that the Harvest Thanksgiving day will be on 13th September 9.30 in the church all are welcome to join us for this. The church is having it's harvest weekend on the weekend before so we are making us of the decorated church.

Have a super weekend.

Kindest regards

W S Scollay