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Welcome back to school after the holidays!

What a ghostly night we had last night. The children all seemed to have lots of fun at the Halloween Disco. The costumes which the children wore were all brilliant. I did not recognise quite a few of the children.

The Pupils did a great job organising the event, but our secret weapon of Mrs Collins certainly helped the council a lot! We have to send a very big and special, "Thank you!" to Mrs Collins who baked vast amounts of spider cakes, skeleton biscuits and other goodies, she made gloopy gunk for the children that dared put their hand in the bowl, and created a Gruesome feely box. Dee also helped the council think of exciting Halloween games. Everyone loved the wrap the mummy. A hall full of mummified children was a sight to see! Dee also went all the way to Tesco and bought all the prizes and some decorations on behalf of the pupil council. (Getting hopelessly caught up in the road closure!) We really have much to thank her for.

Alison Bowcott bought the apples for the very popular dooking for apples. The children really enjoyed that. Thank you Alison!

Tina Cameron kindly came in and helped to decorate the hall with the children. The secondary pupils had let us use some of their Halloween decorations and we all added many of our own. The hall looked really great.

Thank you also to all the staff and other mums who helped at the disco and made sure that the evening went off without a hitch.

Wonderful fun!

Today we had a right motley bunch of children come to school, many were dressed up again. Mrs Walkers class and Ms Scollay's class went to the Telford Centre, there the children sang some Halloween songs and spoke the residents and visitors.

£50 was won for the P 567 class by four children. They are delighted and I am not sure what they intend to buy for their class yet.

The Oban Times on Thursday had a super picture of the playground leaders, with the Pr 1 children. The children were proudly showing their new playground equipment which had been fund raised for by the last pupil council.

So a very busy start to the term, without mentioning that the P 567 and P 345 classes have begun work on the Panto! Jack and the Beanstalk. P 567 are learning about Africa, P 345 are learning about Victorians and P 123 are learning about the seasonal festivals.

Happy Halloween! :-)

W S Scollay