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In my last week at Kilchuimen Primary School I would like to take this opportunity to wish Ms Scollay all the very best on her return to Kilchuimen Primary School. This has been a fabulous year for mw and I have seen some tremendous work being carried out; in classrooms, in the hall, in the playground, in fact just about everywhere you can possibly think of! It has been a pleasure to work with such a wonderful group of staff and children. I look forward to getting in touch with the school before the summer holiday to hear about all the wonderful learning experiences between now and then. Kind Regards Mr M.

Dear Parent/Carer. Please take some time to respond to the Kilchuimen Primary School survey below by copying the address directly into your browser. This survey is a repeat of a survey used in May last year, which will allow for comparative analysis of the data collected. This will help us as a school and let us know how we are responding to your comments and the needs of your child/children: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KPS11_12 There is a seperate survey for parents with children in the Nursery: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KN11_12 Kenneth Morrison Acting Head Teacher

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.