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
It's all go as ever here!
Hello there, we have been thinking ahead this week, and P 345 got their letters home about the trip to Glasgow, they seem very excited about this.
P 345 have been busy working on their Italian information leaflets about different Italian cities, they turned out really well. We were also learning about crochets and quavers in music time.
Mrs Campbell trained the cross country runners this week and a team has been picked. We hope to get the mini bus to take us to the Bucht park on the 11th March. Keep practising the rest of you as we will be competing in the inter school sports in Inverness next term and will need fit people then. So if you were not picked this time perhaps you will be next!
All the children were given out sponsor sheets this week and they are all getting "revved" up for their sponsored mental maths challenge which is part of Kilchuimen Primary's maths week and world maths day (1st March). We hope that World Maths day will be lots of fun and plan to make maths real for the children, the children may be taking part in maths walk, while other classes will be going down to do some shopping maths at Londis.
Pr 567 have started their Salmon topic, children are making tartan designs for their salmon to immitate the look of returning spawning salmon when fishermen refer to them as wearing their "tartan
breeks".
Watch out for news of "the big pedal" from 7th to 25th March, a national
staged cycle ride around Britain. You can follow the event at http/thebigpedal.org.uk/ The final week of the event includes "Bike to school week" which we hope as many children as possible will take part in. More information will follow.
We were delighted that Mrs Collins raised £135 with her raffle, the hampers were super. All money raised from this and the sponsored maths challenge will go towards our new play park. Work should be starting on this in the next few weeks.
I hope to have a newsletter out next week with all the dates, but World Day of Prayer is next Friday and I would hope that some of you may be able to attend the church service at 9.30. On the 8th March we have our parents evening, but this time we hope that the children will come too, more information to follow. Appointments will be made for this event.
I wish you have good weekend
Kindest regards
W S Scollay
P 345 have been busy working on their Italian information leaflets about different Italian cities, they turned out really well. We were also learning about crochets and quavers in music time.
Mrs Campbell trained the cross country runners this week and a team has been picked. We hope to get the mini bus to take us to the Bucht park on the 11th March. Keep practising the rest of you as we will be competing in the inter school sports in Inverness next term and will need fit people then. So if you were not picked this time perhaps you will be next!
All the children were given out sponsor sheets this week and they are all getting "revved" up for their sponsored mental maths challenge which is part of Kilchuimen Primary's maths week and world maths day (1st March). We hope that World Maths day will be lots of fun and plan to make maths real for the children, the children may be taking part in maths walk, while other classes will be going down to do some shopping maths at Londis.
Pr 567 have started their Salmon topic, children are making tartan designs for their salmon to immitate the look of returning spawning salmon when fishermen refer to them as wearing their "tartan
breeks".
Watch out for news of "the big pedal" from 7th to 25th March, a national
staged cycle ride around Britain. You can follow the event at http/thebigpedal.org.uk/ The final week of the event includes "Bike to school week" which we hope as many children as possible will take part in. More information will follow.
We were delighted that Mrs Collins raised £135 with her raffle, the hampers were super. All money raised from this and the sponsored maths challenge will go towards our new play park. Work should be starting on this in the next few weeks.
I hope to have a newsletter out next week with all the dates, but World Day of Prayer is next Friday and I would hope that some of you may be able to attend the church service at 9.30. On the 8th March we have our parents evening, but this time we hope that the children will come too, more information to follow. Appointments will be made for this event.
I wish you have good weekend
Kindest regards
W S Scollay
Burns and a' that!
Another busy week at Kilchuimen.
P 567 have enjoyed listening to Burn's poetry and songs performed by major stars like Brian Cox and Paolo Nutini. Then we made up our own poems about subjects we thought Burns would have liked, especially nature and life in the countryside.
Reece wrote a poem it's Playtime
Ding dong out you go everybody row by row
Get your coats on but don't run, hurry up playtime is nearly here
but just be careful it's slippy out there
Put up your hoods, you don't want wet hair
Now 5 minutes has already past
So the teacher shouts out to the class
"Come on you lot coats off and in you go"
So they sat in their seats again
Row by row.
P 567 made irregular mathematical shapes and measured their angles carefully using protractors.
The whole school assembly was led by the JRSO officers. They told us about the dangers of crossing the road and not using cycle helmets. We also have to make a JRSO logo. There will be a competition judged by Mr Blakey for the best logo. More fun activities will be announced soon.
P 123 have been in the rainforest. The created a jungle fact sheet. There was some very interesting facts on it. Some of the strange frogs and animals I had never heard of. The were singing Jungle songs. One of the favourites was, I have been eaten by a boa constrictor!
P 1 have been estimating number this week and P 2 and P3 have been rounding numbers.
P 123 also learned about wise King Solomon and they did some alliteration Jim ja jaguar.
P 345 have been speaking Italian, Lucy Findlay has been helping us. We also made Pizza's. We made clay food in art with Ms Scollay. We have also been working hard on our rainy day stories and we wrote the middle of the story this week.
P 345 have also been learning how to subtract using exchange, we have also been learning how to check our subtractions by doing addition sums.
Have a super weekend
Kindest regards
W S Scollay
P 567 have enjoyed listening to Burn's poetry and songs performed by major stars like Brian Cox and Paolo Nutini. Then we made up our own poems about subjects we thought Burns would have liked, especially nature and life in the countryside.
Reece wrote a poem it's Playtime
Ding dong out you go everybody row by row
Get your coats on but don't run, hurry up playtime is nearly here
but just be careful it's slippy out there
Put up your hoods, you don't want wet hair
Now 5 minutes has already past
So the teacher shouts out to the class
"Come on you lot coats off and in you go"
So they sat in their seats again
Row by row.
P 567 made irregular mathematical shapes and measured their angles carefully using protractors.
The whole school assembly was led by the JRSO officers. They told us about the dangers of crossing the road and not using cycle helmets. We also have to make a JRSO logo. There will be a competition judged by Mr Blakey for the best logo. More fun activities will be announced soon.
P 123 have been in the rainforest. The created a jungle fact sheet. There was some very interesting facts on it. Some of the strange frogs and animals I had never heard of. The were singing Jungle songs. One of the favourites was, I have been eaten by a boa constrictor!
P 1 have been estimating number this week and P 2 and P3 have been rounding numbers.
P 123 also learned about wise King Solomon and they did some alliteration Jim ja jaguar.
P 345 have been speaking Italian, Lucy Findlay has been helping us. We also made Pizza's. We made clay food in art with Ms Scollay. We have also been working hard on our rainy day stories and we wrote the middle of the story this week.
P 345 have also been learning how to subtract using exchange, we have also been learning how to check our subtractions by doing addition sums.
Have a super weekend
Kindest regards
W S Scollay
Filming fun
Pr 567 have been enjoying filming their news reports this week. They have used the flip video camera to record their work. The children enjoyed taking part in this activity. P 345 have also been having a go at filming, and they were recording TV adverts for new sweets they had designed. This is a great way of making literacy learning realistic and fun. It really engages the children.
Miss Starr attended a Co-operative Learning Academy over 3 days last week and she has been putting into practise some of the techniques which she learned. This is a great way of ensuring that all children take part, and I know that the children think learning in this way is lots of fun. One of the social skills which she has been working on is, "No Put Downs". The rest of the staff are to be trained in some of the techniques during the In Service Days in February.
At assembly today we all were delighted to receive our prizes from BAM Nuttal and Scottish and Southern Electric. Each child received a googly bug, 2 pencils made from recycled CD cases, and a slap on reflective bracelet.
The children also were presented with their certificates for taking part in the sponsored skip for the British Heart Foundation. Pupils who had raised over £50 received a back pack.
Next week Colin Bailey is coming down to Fort Augustus to coach P 567 in rugby skills, this is part of the PE programme. Lessons will be held on Tuesday afternoon in school time and will run until Easter. Lessons will take place on the MUGGA, please wear track suits and sweatshirts. You make wish to bring along a change of clothes with you.
Have a lovely weekend
Kindest regards
W S Scollay
Miss Starr attended a Co-operative Learning Academy over 3 days last week and she has been putting into practise some of the techniques which she learned. This is a great way of ensuring that all children take part, and I know that the children think learning in this way is lots of fun. One of the social skills which she has been working on is, "No Put Downs". The rest of the staff are to be trained in some of the techniques during the In Service Days in February.
At assembly today we all were delighted to receive our prizes from BAM Nuttal and Scottish and Southern Electric. Each child received a googly bug, 2 pencils made from recycled CD cases, and a slap on reflective bracelet.
The children also were presented with their certificates for taking part in the sponsored skip for the British Heart Foundation. Pupils who had raised over £50 received a back pack.
Next week Colin Bailey is coming down to Fort Augustus to coach P 567 in rugby skills, this is part of the PE programme. Lessons will be held on Tuesday afternoon in school time and will run until Easter. Lessons will take place on the MUGGA, please wear track suits and sweatshirts. You make wish to bring along a change of clothes with you.
Have a lovely weekend
Kindest regards
W S Scollay
Happy New Year
We have been delighted to welcome all the children back to school. They all seem to have had a super holiday.
What an icy start to the term we have had and the school field looks more like a swimming pool. The children were all very wet yesterday and I would appeal for parents to send children to school with a change of clothes. (especially socks!) The children are all getting very wet but having lots of fun! Today with the combined conditions under foot and the rain we have had to stay in during break and lunch time, but we prefer to get the children to go out and enjoy all kinds of weather.
The classes have got straight back into work, P 345 have begun to learn about Italy, P 567 will be growing fish in class this term to release into the Tarff which will be a very interesting project and P 123 will be learning about the Rainforest.
We hope that some helpers will come forward to build out raised beds when the weather improves so that we can think about planting and growing later in the term.
Here's to lots of fun and learning.
Kindest regards
W S Scollay
What an icy start to the term we have had and the school field looks more like a swimming pool. The children were all very wet yesterday and I would appeal for parents to send children to school with a change of clothes. (especially socks!) The children are all getting very wet but having lots of fun! Today with the combined conditions under foot and the rain we have had to stay in during break and lunch time, but we prefer to get the children to go out and enjoy all kinds of weather.
The classes have got straight back into work, P 345 have begun to learn about Italy, P 567 will be growing fish in class this term to release into the Tarff which will be a very interesting project and P 123 will be learning about the Rainforest.
We hope that some helpers will come forward to build out raised beds when the weather improves so that we can think about planting and growing later in the term.
Here's to lots of fun and learning.
Kindest regards
W S Scollay
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