We have a busy term ahead!  Please see the updated events calendar to see what’s on and when!

Our fundraiser this Christmas is to create 12 page calendars featuring the children in photograph.  Along with the children’s photos we are offering the opportunity for local business to advertise on a month of the calendar for a donation towards printing costs.   The more donations we have the greater the profit we can make for the school. This would also offer effective advertising for small local businesses.

We are looking for around £40 donation per entry.  If any parents, friends or relatives would like the opportunity to advertise please contact the numbers below to organise by Thursday 12th November.

Thank you very much for your continued support

Madeleine McLeod  01463 871841

Duncan Chisholm  01463 871147

As part of the reading challenge in P4, P5, P5/6, pupils contribute a short book review to the school blog.  This is Katie’s book review on The Worry Website by Jacqueline Wilson.
This book is by Jacqueline Wilson and is called The Worry Website.  The story is all about ‘the worry webiste’ where people type in their worries and the webiste gives them ideas of how to sort their problems.  Mr Speed sets up the website for his class and the story tells us about his pupils worries and what might help them.  I found this book quite good and I wwould give this book 8 out of 10.

Katie P5/6

We have fun learning maths in an active way!

Today was the first of 6 Feis rois sessions for p5/6 and the Primary 6 pupils from P6/7.  What do you think of our music making?

Our nursery boys and girls (and the staff!) enjoyed a fun filled session last Friday when they had a Halloween party. What do you think of the costumes?

Many thanks to all our readers and especially those who leave us comments.  We have now closed for the October break.  Pupils return to school on Thursday 29th October.  Have a happy holiday!

Remember, your challenge over the holidays is to find a really unusual/interesting place to do some reading.  Don’t forget to get someone to take a photo of you!

Many thanks to all those who managed to attend our Literacy Afternoon on Wednesday.  If you did attend, please leave us a comment about the afternoon.  If you are a pupil, please tell us what you were doing in your class on the Literacy Afternoon.

Many thanks also to the members of the Parent Council who helped to serve refreshments.

The House Captains have held a competition for the infants to draw a picture of their favourite animal and colour it in.  The winners were:

Innes P1

Katie P1

Fraser P1/2

Molly P1/2

Connie P3

James P3

Well done to everyone who took part!

Katie (Corrie Girl Captain)

A few weeks ago Margaret Rose and her husband came into the school to talk to P4-7 about a village in Pakistan. They had been helping to build a hospital and a school because the village didn’t have any proper classrooms or medication.  The Pupil Council thought about what everyone could do as a fundraiser and we came up with a pyjama party.

Thank you for taking part.  We had lots of fun wearing our pyjamas to school and we made a total of £121.12.

Congratulations to the following pupils who received a special certificate at today’s award ceremony.
Two pupils from each class are selected (class choice and teacher choice) and are chosen for being a successful learner, confident individual, responsible citizen or effective contributor.

P1 – Leah, Lara

P1/2 – Rachael, Ross

P2/3 – Isla, Matthew

P3 Eve, Duncan

P4 – Callum, Chloe

P5 – Adam, Emily

P5/6 – Cailin, Chris

P6/7 – Rachael, Jack

P7 – Sophie, Connor F

The last group from P5/6 working on ‘The Haunted Furniture Shop’.

Last Friday we visited P6/7 to find out what they have been doing in their topic. We also took pictures of their displays and we interviewed Danni.
“We have been making endangered animals for our rainforest topic. There are monkeys, frogs, birds and jaguars, butterflies, sloths and many more. We also made trees for them to hang on. For our Homecoming Scotland topic we completed a worksheet about Oor Wullie and Scots language. We painted a picture of him. We also made pop out hands in art.” Danni
Report by Emily, Robbie, James and Callum from the ICT Citizenship Group

Another group from P5/6 working on ‘The Haunted Furniture Shop”.

Congratulations to the first person from P4, P5 and P5/6 to achieve the Bronze reading challenge award!

Over the last term P5/6 have been working on a sketch in drama called ‘The Haunted Furniture Shop’.  What do you think of our performance?

On Wednesday 23rd it was my birthday.  We mad bracelets and we put coloured beads on them.  there are new benches at our base in Clash Wood.  Callum

I liked Forest School because we went bug hunting and we had hot chocolate.  After that we listened to a story.  We made bracelets after that.  It was Callum’s birthday and we sang a song to him, he had a cake.  And we rated how good forest school was from one to five.  I rated five because it is really fun.  Rowen