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The last couple of weeks have been incredibly busy for everyone. It has been great to meet so many parents busy around the school and of course it has been fantastic to see the successful learning happening around our school. The P1/2/3 class have been decorating enormous cubes that they made with nets and you will love the individual Coat of Arms designs that have been created. The P4-7’s have enjoyed learning Gaelic this week, gle mhath! Also, the P5 and P6/7 children that have been swimming have been excellent ambassadors for the school on their trips to Inverness. I was also delighted to receive a personal invite to attend a Bears Breakfast in the Nursery with my friend Dave the Bear, it was excellent and the breakfast was delicious! Well done for all the hard work recently by the Pupil Council, well done Joshua, Caitlyn, Julina, Katie, Cameron, John, Ross and Ben. I believe there are some ambitious ideas to continue improving the school so I look forward to seeing some improvements in the coming months. Keep up the great work everyone!

Hello there everyone! I hope that you are having a super time during the summer.

I am writing to let you all know that Mr Kenneth Morrison will be your new Head Teacher after the summer holidays. He begins work on the 15th August.

Mr Morrison has worked as part of the English as an Additional Language team, and is an experienced class teacher.

I have very much enjoyed working at Kilchuimen Primary and I am very sad to be leaving you. I very much appreciate the support which you have given me and I am sure you will support Mr Morrison well too.

A huge "Thank you" must also go to all who gave me beautiful and generous gifts, I will treasure them all.

I will be keeping in touch with the school over the next two years and I am sure I will bump into many of you in Fort Augustus!

All the very best wishes to you all.

Good Luck to Mr Morrison.

Wendy Scollay :-)

Thankfully it stayed dry for sports day this week...Parents and children enjoyed a packed line up of races organised by Mrs Campbell. Many thanks to all those who contributed to the raffle. We shall draw the raffle on the day of the fete - don't worry, all your ticket stubs have been safely stored away :-) Thanks too to Mr Bowcott and Tesco for donating the juice, oranges and Freddy Frogs chocolates.
Here are some pictures...

Joe, Libby and Melanie all went to an event in Millburn Academy called The Global Citizenship Conference with Joe’s mum, Mrs Kennard.
There were lots of different workshops and we did five of them but our favourite one was the one about The Red Cross.
What we did was we had lots of tape tied from chair to chair across a small patch of grass and there were fake land mines on the ground in between the tape. At one end there was someone sitting at a table with a water pistol pretending to be a guard. Behind the guard was a chair with a picture of a city on it.
The teacher decided to split us into three teams, the cross, the crescent and the crystals. We went to different groups Melanie and Joe where in crystal. Libby was in crescent.
What we were meant to do was walk across to the other side without walking on top of the land mines but it was quite hard because when someone was going across they had to wear a blindfold.
Luckily though, our team mates were allowed to guide us through by talking to us. If we managed to get as far as the guard then we were allowed to take the blindfold off and let the guard inspect the box we were meant to carry and ask us questions. When we all got past and we answered all the questions right, we gave the box to the people who needed it.
We had a really great day and we’d like to thank everyone who helped organise it. We’d also like to thank Mrs Kennard for taking us.


Photos to follow ASAP...:-) Here they are...

We went to visit the Inchmore marine harvest salmon hatchery…

How we got there -
Some of us went on the bus and some of us went in Reece's dad’s car. On the bus some of us were playing their Nintendo DS, some of us were listening to music and 1 of us was drawing. Other people were just talking.

What happened when we arrived -
When we arrived we were introduced to Owen and Matt. We saw Ben’s cat, then we went into a bit where they put the salmon eggs in trays until they hatch into alevins (after salmon hatch, they still have the yolk attached to them - they are called alevins at this stage). After that we had to step on a disinfectant soapy pad and then we went in a big green tent thingy where there were 32 big tanks of fry (baby salmon). Each tank had about 90,000 salmon in it. We got to feed them with tiny tiny tiny pellets of fish food it felt weird and we scattered it around the tanks full of baby salmon.
Later we went in the visitor centre, it was cozy. The man who showed us around was called Owen, Owen told us about where they get the eggs and about the fishes’ oxygen level. People where asking different questions and we were sitting on the floor listening.
We all went outside and got a few pictures taken.

How we got back to school -
Most of us went back on the bus and the rest went back in the car.
When we were going back to school on the bus, Paige and Jessie were drawing, some people were back on their Nintendo DS's and some people were just sitting.
When we got back we got off the bus and we had our snack. Some people had skittles!
We had fun finding out about the fish. We’d like to thank Owen and Matt at the hatchery and Mr. McDonald for helping us get there!

By Alanna & Jessie.

At 9:00 we went to school as usual had gym a little early and waited for the bus to come at 10:00. When it did we got on and had about an hour and a half’s journey from fort Augustus to Fairburn.
When we arrived we got our keys to our room and then had a little muck about with each other and went to have lunch. After lunch (which was hot dogs and burgers) we went to a huge rope course it was amazing we all stayed there for at least an hour! (Not enough I would say!)
Then we went straight back to the hostel and got changed into an old pair of clothes. Then we met up with Dave and went to built rafts it was really hard because we only got 6 pieces or wood, 4 barrels and 10 pieces of rope. We had to build rafts then see if they would float. Dave would send everyone into two teams and one team sank and the other teams first try sunk and the other try floated! (It was really cold!) Jamie, Joe and Reece threw buckets of water at team one.
Later on, we went to have a shower, and then we went and had dinner. For dinner there was soup and BBQ and finally we went to have a treasure hunt! The treasure hunt was very hard, the number 5 was tricky but Jamie, Chloe, Reece and Cameron team won!! We went to watch a movie there was as a choice of: Coralline, Stardust, despicable me, happy feet, the incredibles, but it didn’t work so we went to play charades or murderer’s wink, some people decided to go to the games room or watch football, While Dave went to buy a new DVD player.
After a good night’s rest we went to have breakfast, for breakfast there was toast and cereals, then we went to archery. There were 2 teams Hobbits vs. elves but hobbits won! Then we went to do the zip wire, everyone one got two goes the man that was controlling the rope, was very mean because he would stop the rope above all of that water! It hurt our hands too; he also hung Kenny over the nettles! After that we came back to fort Augustus and returned to school at 3:00. We weren’t greeted by shouts of happiness!
(Well except from our parents!)

By Jamie & Paige.

Edinburgh – Day 2

On the second day of the primary 7 Edinburgh trip, first of all, we had a shower then went down for breakfast. We had toast, cereal, tea, milk and juices. Then we checked out of the hostel and walked up to the Scottish Parliament.
On the way there, Libby and Jack forgot their jackets at the hostel. So they walked back to the hostel while we walked up to Parliament. There was a nice lady who gave us a tour of the Parliament.
Afterwards we had lunch at a park near the Parliament. Jack was being chased by Milosz and Reece because Jack whacked Milosz and Reece in the head with Jamie’s plastic hammer.
We walked up to Dynamic Earth and there was a lady called Nina who took our bags and coats and put them in a box. She then started our tour.
The first part of the tour was in a room which had a big sphere that showed different plants when you pressed a button on a touch screen computer. Then came the “time machine” (which was an elevator) which showed us in space at the start of the Big Bang where Libby screamed.
We came out of the elevator and we were in a “space ship”. It showed the beginning of the Earth and life.
We went into another room which had fake lava which lighted up when there was a picture of a volcano exploding where Libby screamed again.
Then we went into the next room and it showed the first ice age. The ice melted down and it formed canyons and seas.
The next room had models of cave men and dinosaurs and dodo birds. In that room there were heads and when you touched them it showed different things on a screen in front of the heads. In the next room there was a big block of ice which never melted because the room was like a fridge.
Then there was a room with a submarine’s periscope which showed animals and water.
There was a 4D movie and it felt like you could touch the animals and Libby screamed when the shark swam up. Then we landed in the rainforest.
There were model animals such as a komodo dragon, panther, spiders, lizards, snakes, monkeys and apes.
Then we went to the gift shop and bought some things.
After that we walked up the Royal Mile where Ms Scollay bought some musical tights.
Then we went in the Museum Of Childhood which had dolls and lots of old toys but we didn’t see all of it because we were all very tired.
Then we went up to McDonalds and had dinner there. We had chips, burgers, milkshakes and ice cream.
Then we went to the train station and went home.
By Joe and Milosz