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We are delighted to be open, and it is good to see so many of the children able to come in today. I know that some of the higher up houses have much snow and it's like a different world to here in Fort Augustus.

Chris Watt from Out of the Box led our assembly today and the children really enjoyed his fun. He is doing an activity day on Saturday in the Church hall, leaflets have been sent out, but children can still go if they have not completed their forms.

On Tuesday we held a parents information evening to let folk know more about the Curriculum for Excellence and what that will mean for their child. I am going to re-run the event on the 16th March at 2.00pm for any parents who were unable to attend the evening event. I hope that some of you may be able to come along, I think those who attended the evening found it useful.

Nursery will be closed on Friday to move over to the small half room in the portacabin to let the builders complete the work in the nursery. We will open on Monday again. I am sorry for any inconvience which this may cause you but I am sure that this will be worth it in the end.

Kindest Regards

W S Scollay

Its Thursday 25th Feb!

This seems to have been a long winter, we are closed once more today due to snow. Enjoy the snowballs and snowmen once more, or keep warm and watch the olympics! You could even do your homework guys! ;-)

W S Scollay

I hope that you are all refreshed after the LONG weekend. We have had a busy time as a staff over the last few days and are getting to grips with what the Curriculum for Excellence will mean to us. We hope that you can join us on Tuesday evening at 7pm in the primary school for a meeting regarding this. We hope to give you a little information and perhaps answer some of your questions. If you have any questions that you would like answered, please contact me before Tuesday and I can perhaps add this into my presentation.

Nursery enrolement begins next week, so if you have a child who will be wanting to start nursery next year, please come along and complete the forms.

We are delighted to welcome two new families to the school this week and I hope that they enjoy life here at Kilchuimen. A warm welcome to you.

The children in Pr 3/4/5 have been building on their timetables knowledge this week and they have made some super board games, wow some of the rules are complicated though! Not to say the sums are tricky! Pr 5/6/7 have being learning about the life of Anne Frank and Pr 1/2/3 have been learning about food groups, I think that they would appreciate any pictures of food!

So I look forward to seeing many of you next week.

Kindest Regards

W S Scollay

The school newsletter for February went out yesterday so check in children's schools bags for that.
The school enrolment for Pr 1 is happening this week, we need to have all the children registered for this so if you have not done so, please, enrol your child.

Pr 7 had a wee visit to the new rooms and they are very excited about them, they showed slides of the pictures to the other children at assembly tomorrow and everyone is keen to move in! We should be moving in on the 14th April, which is brilliant!

Pr 3/4/5 have been using times tables this week building on the good work of last week. Keep it up! They have been looking at home leaflets are laid out and them they made their own leaflets about saving water. They have now finished their desk tidies and they are very useful. they also did some drama which they loved.

Pr 1/2/4 finished their last lesson about Hinduism and they will be taking part in a "who wants to be a millionaire?" quiz. In writers craft they wrote Nursery Crimes. I have to say that some of the children's poems were hilarious. I think you will get a chance to read them soon.

Pr 5/6/7 have been working hard to finish off their Eco stories for the school book. We've been having a look at the Rainforest habitats, animals and the food found in our kitchen.

As we have worked so hard this week I have decided that you can all have Friday 12th February and Monday 15th February as a holiday with the teachers coming in to do training on Tuesday and Wednesday 15th and 16th!

Many kindest Regards

W S Scollay

This week I was lucky enough to go and visit the new classrooms, they are just super and so impressive! They have lovely high ceilings are light and bright! Ooh it is going to be lovely. I am hoping to be able to take some older pupils and the staff of a tour of the classrooms some time next week.

Next week sees the start of the enrolment for Pr 1 so, please come along to the school office. The school brochure is nearly complete and will end up on the school website.

Mrs Walkers class have been having a times tables bonanza, I noticed that they were becoming very slick with their tables, well done! The children have also been learning about Hydro Electric and about how much water they use in their own homes.

Mrs MacDonald's class were using the Smart board this week to learn about Scots Language, Moses, and how to use apostrophe's.

Mrs Gilchrist's class now know how fossil fuels are made and drew fabulous pictures, they were also learning about Scot's Language.

The nursery have been shooting off into space! There have created a huge rocket ship which I am sure will take them to the moon and they have also made their own junk model ships! Beam me up Scottie!

Pr 7 got their trip letters out today so that has sparked much excitement.

Another week is just flying past!

Have a great weekend!

We were delighted to have Barry Hutchison with us on Monday. The children were really inspired to write and we have posted the first drafts of these stories to Barry for him to edit. These stories will eventually be illustrated and published. We aim to have a book launch on Wednesday 24th March. Every child in the school will have a story in the book.

Barry will return on the 2nd Feb to talk to the children about their story, make changes and move onto the final draft.

The stories all have a , "Eco" theme to them as the children are have been learning about this in class and will do more work on the Eco - school next term when the weather is better.

We are finalising the cost of the Pr 7 trip and it looks like it will be an exciting few days, the letters will be out next week with all the information, we have tried to keep the cost to an absolute minimum, and I think the children will get very good value for money.

The snow now has all gone for the moment any way which is good, but this means we are left with the muddy field. Access is restricted to Pr 4 -P r 7 only but please can children bring a change of shoes for indoors and to perhaps wear wellies! It is rather squelchy out there!

Building works is moving on and we ordered the new classroom furniture this week so that is another step in the right direction.

The school brochure is also in the process of being updated for the enrolment which will happen for Pr 1 during the first week of Feb and for the nursery during the week beginning 22nd Feb.

Enjoy your haggis, neeps and tatties!

Happy New Year to you all. I hope that you had a great holiday and managed to get out and about in the snow.

The children have been well wrapped up and out on the field this week enjoying the snow, some of the boys made an igloo, it has kept them very busy.

The music man, who teaches songs to Pr 3/4/5 came in this week and recieved a very warm and excited reception from the children. What lovely singing I could hear from that class.

Pr 1/2/3 have create excellent pictures about climate change, they are very clued up and know all about it, just ask them! We also had a revelation from one of the children that he is a carnivore. Good for him!

Pr 5/6/7 battled with making life size and half size cereal boxes. Sellotape and paper are very difficult and get stuck everywhere. Some of the measuring was very creative, I don't think I will call on them to help with house renovations!

We are trying to organise a trip for Pr 7 to Edinburgh in April more information to follow so we will keep you posted. The cost will be more than last year but I think you will find that it will still be reasonable. ( I hope so anyway!)

Keep warm and take care on the slippy pavements, I wait for the thaw with huge anticipation!

Warmest Wishes for 2010

From W S Scollay