Celebrating World Book Day
We celebrated world book day by dressing up as our favourite character from a book. Mrs MIddleton was swashbuckling as Peter Pan, Mrs Walker was looking for treasure as a pirate and Miss Starr tried to sit quietly in her web, just as Charlotte would have. Mrs Campbell came as the girl who will wear purple when she grows old, and we all thought we'd entered the set of "Casualty" when we saw Ms Scollay who was remarkably believable as Nurse Nancy!
We were delighted that Jimmy was able to deliver our top soil kindly donated by the Findlays. It looks great! We're all looking forward to getting some planting done now that Spring is here!
Our latest 2 stars and a wish reports will come out this week. We hope that they will be an opportunity to discuss our learning with our parents or guardians. We have had an interesting time this week looking back at what we have done, noting where we have improved and where we still need to work hard. The reports will come home in our new profile folders, so we would ask that once they have been viewed and discussed at home, they are returned promptly to school.
Kind regards
Miss Starr
Playleaders recieve playground awards
This week, the P6s and 7s have completed their Playground Leader training with
Jake. They are now even better prepared to deliver enjoyable and purposeful
games during break times. These children will now be running games on the MUGGA at lunchtimes. I am sure that all the children will have lots of fun.
They are however, looking for some help...they need someone to look after the box of toys while the games are going on. If any of the other children in school are interested in applying, please check the job adverts posted throughout the school.
The P5s are continuing their Feis music lessons, and loving it, at the moment they are doing Gaelic song and today are waulking the cloth.
P 123 have been exploring the rain forest. This week they were learning about some of the animals. Mrs Middleton showed the chidlren her pet tarantula. The children loved that!
P345 have been writing bedtime stories for the Silent Night competition. I was delighted with the effort that some of the children had put into this. I wish them well with their entry to the competition.
We have begun to get going in the garden. P 567 planted our orchard of trees this morning, Mr McArthur is going to help errect the green house with Mr Hepburn, and the shed is on it's way. Miss Starr located scaffolding planks for our raised beds and Mrs MacDonald kindly delivered the planks to school. P 567 will be busy next week, building the beds for the rest of the school. P 4 have written to Simpsons Garden Centre and Abriachan Nurseries asking for their help with choosing plants.
The nursery have been learning about food from other countries and this week the children enjoyed an African experience. They loved tasting the food. Mrs Collins was once more in to help them out, brining a taste of Africa to Fort Augustus. We have also purchased some new toys for the nursery and the children have been enjoying exploring these.
Next week we are going to celebrate Japan Day on Tuesday. The children were all very upset to hear of the terrible reports and wanted to do something. We have decided that we will try to raise some money for Save the Children as they have been hard at work in the striken country. We were glad to hear that Hario's family did not suffer in the terrible events, and Hario is coming in to school on Tuesday to show us how to do some origami and to speak a few words of Japanese. We also think that the end of term service collection will be for Save the Children.
Next Friday Edwardo will be coming to school, he is mime artist and will be doing a show for the whole school and workshops with the two older classes. We would ask for £1 towards this cost. I am sure that the children will have great fun with him.
Looking ahead, we are planning a World Book Day disco on 31st March at 6.30 - 8.00. Children will be invited to dress up as a book character.
The end of term service will be on the 8th April in the Church. This will be our last assembly with Mr Varwell.
Can I remind all parents to please return pupil profiles, pupils will need these to write thier two stars and a wish reports. Thank you.
So lots of exciting things to look forward too.
Have a lovely weekend
W S Scollay
Jake. They are now even better prepared to deliver enjoyable and purposeful
games during break times. These children will now be running games on the MUGGA at lunchtimes. I am sure that all the children will have lots of fun.
They are however, looking for some help...they need someone to look after the box of toys while the games are going on. If any of the other children in school are interested in applying, please check the job adverts posted throughout the school.
The P5s are continuing their Feis music lessons, and loving it, at the moment they are doing Gaelic song and today are waulking the cloth.
P 123 have been exploring the rain forest. This week they were learning about some of the animals. Mrs Middleton showed the chidlren her pet tarantula. The children loved that!
P345 have been writing bedtime stories for the Silent Night competition. I was delighted with the effort that some of the children had put into this. I wish them well with their entry to the competition.
We have begun to get going in the garden. P 567 planted our orchard of trees this morning, Mr McArthur is going to help errect the green house with Mr Hepburn, and the shed is on it's way. Miss Starr located scaffolding planks for our raised beds and Mrs MacDonald kindly delivered the planks to school. P 567 will be busy next week, building the beds for the rest of the school. P 4 have written to Simpsons Garden Centre and Abriachan Nurseries asking for their help with choosing plants.
The nursery have been learning about food from other countries and this week the children enjoyed an African experience. They loved tasting the food. Mrs Collins was once more in to help them out, brining a taste of Africa to Fort Augustus. We have also purchased some new toys for the nursery and the children have been enjoying exploring these.
Next week we are going to celebrate Japan Day on Tuesday. The children were all very upset to hear of the terrible reports and wanted to do something. We have decided that we will try to raise some money for Save the Children as they have been hard at work in the striken country. We were glad to hear that Hario's family did not suffer in the terrible events, and Hario is coming in to school on Tuesday to show us how to do some origami and to speak a few words of Japanese. We also think that the end of term service collection will be for Save the Children.
Next Friday Edwardo will be coming to school, he is mime artist and will be doing a show for the whole school and workshops with the two older classes. We would ask for £1 towards this cost. I am sure that the children will have great fun with him.
Looking ahead, we are planning a World Book Day disco on 31st March at 6.30 - 8.00. Children will be invited to dress up as a book character.
The end of term service will be on the 8th April in the Church. This will be our last assembly with Mr Varwell.
Can I remind all parents to please return pupil profiles, pupils will need these to write thier two stars and a wish reports. Thank you.
So lots of exciting things to look forward too.
Have a lovely weekend
W S Scollay
SALMON EGGS AT LAST!!!
P5/6/7 were very excited to see the salmon eggs being delivered by Mr Nick Barker this week. Mr Barker told us there are 160 eggs and we hope they will hatch in a couple of weeks time. Right now they are about the size of a small pea, with two black dots for eyes and are light orange in colour.
PLAYGROUND LEADERS
The playground leader course is nearly over now. We have been asked to prepare a presentation explaining that we have finished our training to the rest of the school at next weeks assembly. We will be organising games for the little ones - we hope they like them!!!
World Maths Day
We had a super day on Tuesday as we celebrated World Maths day. Each class made their maths lessons are real as possible. Mrs Walkers class were working with different kinds of shape and drew them on the tarmac. They visited Mrs Curly to find out about how she uses maths in the canteen. Mrs Brady did some baking with the children which they really enjoyed and in the afternoon they went on a shape walk around the village to see if they could spot any shapes. The children had a great time!
P 345 were given a recipe and they had to work out what they needed to buy from the shop. Some of the ingredients were supplied. Groups were given a budget of £5. They bought thier goods and many found that they needed a little help to pay! We then came back to school and baked our recipes helped by Sheree and Dee. In the afternoon they did a transport survey of the traffic passing through Fort Augustus and are they are going to create graphs of their findings.
On Wednesday we headed back down to Londis so that we could find out more about the running of a shop as we needed tips for how to price and sell our baking. We also did lots of sums on the way, the Chip Shop price list had lots of maths, as did the Bothy's menu. We sold our cakes on our return to school, some groups made a loss others made a profit but that did not matter as we all had had such a brilliant time.
P 567 were not left out. World Maths Day on Tuesday found the P567 children taking part in a KPS active maths session around and about Fort Augustus, estimating and measuring height and angles, measuring and pricing raised beds, and finding out how stocks and finances are managed in a local business. The children also found time to squeeze in a session on the computer world maths challenge. The children really loved this.
Today all the classes took part in the maths sponsored challenge, we are hoping to raise lots of money for the new school playground. We have £1000 to raise. Some of the children found the sums very challenging but they all rose to the occassion and did a really really good job. Sponsored money should be in by next Friday.
We all took part in the World Day of Prayer service this morning, prepared this year by Christian women from Chile on the theme of what gifts we can bring to the benefit of society. P567 made art works depicting the tasks they carry out at home to help out and benefit their families. They have also been thinking about the different parts of the world affected by both natural disasters and civil unrest, and prepared a number of short prayers to add to the service. P345 painted scenes of the fantastic Chilean mountains, and P 123 created the national flag. The church looked lovely and the children all did very well with their readings and singing.
The school news letter went out this week and I hope that you all recieved it, an online version will be posted soon.
The school photos came back today and were sent home with the children this afternoon. Please return orders as soon as possible, Al has done us proud with super pictures of all.
On Tuesday it is Parents evening I would like to stress that we would really like the children to attend as well. Appointments went out this afternoon, contact the school if you are unable to make your appointment. We have tried to accommodate all but sometimes this is just not possible.
I look forward to meeting many of you at parents night.
Kindest regards
W S Scollay
P 345 were given a recipe and they had to work out what they needed to buy from the shop. Some of the ingredients were supplied. Groups were given a budget of £5. They bought thier goods and many found that they needed a little help to pay! We then came back to school and baked our recipes helped by Sheree and Dee. In the afternoon they did a transport survey of the traffic passing through Fort Augustus and are they are going to create graphs of their findings.
On Wednesday we headed back down to Londis so that we could find out more about the running of a shop as we needed tips for how to price and sell our baking. We also did lots of sums on the way, the Chip Shop price list had lots of maths, as did the Bothy's menu. We sold our cakes on our return to school, some groups made a loss others made a profit but that did not matter as we all had had such a brilliant time.
P 567 were not left out. World Maths Day on Tuesday found the P567 children taking part in a KPS active maths session around and about Fort Augustus, estimating and measuring height and angles, measuring and pricing raised beds, and finding out how stocks and finances are managed in a local business. The children also found time to squeeze in a session on the computer world maths challenge. The children really loved this.
Today all the classes took part in the maths sponsored challenge, we are hoping to raise lots of money for the new school playground. We have £1000 to raise. Some of the children found the sums very challenging but they all rose to the occassion and did a really really good job. Sponsored money should be in by next Friday.
We all took part in the World Day of Prayer service this morning, prepared this year by Christian women from Chile on the theme of what gifts we can bring to the benefit of society. P567 made art works depicting the tasks they carry out at home to help out and benefit their families. They have also been thinking about the different parts of the world affected by both natural disasters and civil unrest, and prepared a number of short prayers to add to the service. P345 painted scenes of the fantastic Chilean mountains, and P 123 created the national flag. The church looked lovely and the children all did very well with their readings and singing.
The school news letter went out this week and I hope that you all recieved it, an online version will be posted soon.
The school photos came back today and were sent home with the children this afternoon. Please return orders as soon as possible, Al has done us proud with super pictures of all.
On Tuesday it is Parents evening I would like to stress that we would really like the children to attend as well. Appointments went out this afternoon, contact the school if you are unable to make your appointment. We have tried to accommodate all but sometimes this is just not possible.
I look forward to meeting many of you at parents night.
Kindest regards
W S Scollay
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