Here’s a list of the people that got a certificate:

P1: Tailor + Eve   

p1 J: Isabella +Emily

By Emma & Fraser P5

P2/3: Sam + Scott.C 

P3: Rhianan +Innes

P4: Glen +Molly

P5V: Zoe+Enzo

P5 M  Matthew & Molly

P6 Kerr & Katie

P7 Katie & Robbie 

Sprinkle on the lawn at night the moon will make it sparkle bright,

As Santa’s reindeer fly and roam,

This will guide them to your home.

Ellie M P5

On a very snowy night a tree in Tarradale Primary fell over.  Also was a big puddle becuase of the rain.  It was very windy and rainy last night.  Nobody was travelling.  Waves caused lots of flooding in other places. 

Emma, Ben P5

Well done to Brandon (P5 ) who made this wonderful bird box with his Dad – what a wonderful job you made of it, Brandon!  Mr Ferguson is going to put the bird box in the school garden.

On Saturday the 12^th of November we went to a prize giving and won stuff at it. It was at Muir of Ord! Alan won 2 golf balls and a medal and Hamish won the club golf champion. I won 4 golf balls and the best improved golfer.

I got a keyring and a golfing pitch marker! After that we had a family quiz it was fun. we played lots of fun games!

 by Emma, Hamish, Alan

Fairyland

The dragon sent us a letter asking us to help him rebuild Fairyland.

 We made leaves to create a beanstalk.

 Planting our very own giant beanstalks!

 Tasting The Three Bears’ porridge!

 Building The Three Bears’ chairs!

 A trail of breadcrumbs from Hansel and Gretel!

 Making houses out of sweets, we tried not to eat them but it was very difficult!

 Painting the castle for the dragon to protect!

 Reading fairytales in our castle!

Electrifying P5’s

 Our class has been working on electricity as a topic. We have learned how the electricity flows in a circuit – we even made our own switches using our knowledge of insulators and conductors. We had to show how a circuit works through drama – we had loads of fun. Some of the groups even rap to explain how it works.

Just to name a few things we’ve done – electricity safety posters, we read for information about Michael Faraday, we learned about renewable energy, static energy, fossil fuels, global warming and loads more.

Now our teacher wants us to design and create a miniature house with working lights!!! It will be challenging, but we are not afraid of a challenge – we got Viking Blood in our veins!

 P5 class

The Primary four class have been busy this term learning about their local environment in the Muir of Ord as well as working in the school garden as part of their topic.  So far the class have had the opportunity to hear stories about Muir of Ord in both the past and present day. They have visited the distillery and learned about the wildlife surrounding Lily Loch.   

My favourite learning experience was the class’ visit to Lily Loch.  I really like insects and Martin, the ranger, showed us how to shake them out of the trees.  I also enjoyed getting to go pond dipping in Lily Loch.  Daniel Porter

 I enjoyed the classes visit from two of Muir of Ord’s residence Betty and Jess.  I enjoyed being told about Muir of Ord.  I learned that there used to be more shops and being shown photographs of the Muir of Ord that were taken a long time ago. Ross Campbell

  I enjoyed the class’ trip to the distillery we got told about the whiskey and I learned things that I never knew before.  I really liked watching the video about how the whiskey is tested and how long to keep the whiskey in the barrel. Isla Beaton.

  The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about their community and are grateful for the help been given by Lizbeth Taylor who has joined them throughout their learning journey.

JRSO News

From

Tarradale P. School

Hi everyone,

We have been very busy meeting with our parent helpers Lizbeth and Jenny working on some actions to make our village safer and better.

We have been busy making phone calls to the Coop to talk about road safety at the entrance and exit as we think a lot of people have now forgotten to look and check for traffic.

We have contacted Scot rail to chat about tidying up the underpass and making sure it is safe, cleaner and more pleasant.

We have also been in contact with the police asking if they could help us with accident information so that we can do a traffic survey and use clear evidence to then make a report.

Our wish list has been sent off to highland Council for grant aid to make some improvements eg. to paint footprints on the pavement to warn pedestrians, to make a walking bus to encourage more people to walk to school.

By

 Leah Jessica James Cameron Kyle P6

Hip, hip hooray

The army has gone.

Poppies have grown

So big and strong.

Hip, hip hooray

The battle is over. 

Hip, hip hooray

Poppies grown all over.

Poppies bright and red

All over your bed.

Spread all over

Right under the cover.

Poppies so red

and so pretty.

Army’s all done

What a pitty.

Molly P5

Dear Highland Council

Wea re the new JRSOs (Junior Road Safety Officer) for Tarradale Primary School, Muir of Ord.  We are writing to tell you about our wish list for funding that we have been working on for the past week.  We are new to the job so we hop we have done everything in the correct way.

We have a school travel plan just now but we jnow we need to update it and this will be an action.

Dids for funding:

On West Road people would like a lollypop lady, a flashing 20 sign further down West Road and a flashing 20 sign on Corrie Road.  The West Road problems camu up a lot in our survey.

Where Forbes shop is (soon to be CO-OP), it should be a one way system by going in between the two buildings and out at the front of Forbes.  We are getting in contact with planning and the CO-OP to learn more about this.

Renew all of the road markings in the heart of the village especially outside the Service Point.

Replace the zebra crossing lights outside the doctors as they are broken.

Clean up underpass regularly (we are contacting Scotrail too).

Fluorescent vests for younger pupils

‘No Parking’ sign by the main entrance gate.

Park and stride sign at the train station.

These are the ideas pupils in the school have come up with in a recent survey.  We asked some adults too.  It is okay if you can’t do all of them.

Thank you

Yours sincerely

James, Kyle, Cameron, Leah and Jessica (P6) JRSOs

Congratulations to Carrie and her winning hens who won lots of awards at the Moray and Nairn Fur and Feather Association competition last Saturday.  Scott ( Carrie’s Scots Grey Cockerel) also won Best of Breed.  Well done, Carrie!

Last Carol from the Scottish SPCA visit all our classes to teach us about different things.  This is what we wrote about Carol’s visit to Primary 5.

Yesterday Carol came from the SSPCA.  I learned that farm animals are animals we get things from.  I know that the chicken yolk inside the egg is healthy when the chickens are not caged.  At the end of the day we did a quiz with top trumps cards and it was lots of fun.  The SSPCA helps animals.  Jennifer.

On Tuesday the SSPCA came in.  There was a lady and her name was Carol.  She told us that she had to rescue 120 dogs.  Ben

Carol works for the SSPCA and their number is 03000 999 999.  Carol was telling us about farm animals and the things we can get from them, what they eat and of course, how to take care of them.  Kuba

Yesterday I learned not to be cruel to animals when the SSPCA came to our school.  The lady was called Carol and she told us a story about a woman who loved animals and every time a dog got hurt she went and collected it and she ended up with 108 dogs so she moved out of the house and lived in a caravan in the garden but she had to give them back to the SSPCA becuase she could not look after them.  The lady did not get fined because she only wanted to look after them.  The red deer can be a wild animal or it can live on a farm.  Did you know that a chicken is sometimes kept in a type of cage and its egg yolk comes out very pale?  Megan

Carol talked to the class about farm animals.  She came from the SSPC.  She was good at it.  Brandon

We all learnt a lot yesterday when Carol visited from the Scottish SPCA.  She came to visit to talk about farm animals.  We learnt all about the punishment to people that don’t treat animals the way they should.  We were looking at things on the computer then we answered questions with Top Trump cards.  Alex P.

As part of Children’s Book Week, Primary 5 visited the library in Muir of Ord.  We learned about the Dewey system and practised finding  information books.  We also learned how to read decimal numbers and counted the books in the library.   We made posters of our favourite fiction book and we shared a book with the Primary 3s. 

P4 & P5 are learning how to write instructions.  What super pieces of writing Jade and Duncan. 

(Click on the instructions to enlarge).

We have been learning about what makes a good learning partner.  We created posters to show what we have learnt.

Rhona and Chloe from P6 chose the best posters.  We also visited P3 to show them our work.

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Last Friday we held our own Royal Wedding – everyone had a great day!

Well done to the photographers from P5 who took these great photos.

Visit again to read more posts about our Royal Wedding!

In maths im doing taking away/decomposition. In writing we are writing stories about the Romans. In spelling i’m in a group called Emeralds and im reading a book called The Radio Mystery. My faverot part of  Radio Mystery is about a burglary.My topic is about the Romans.

Rhona P5 

Well done, Rhona – you are the first person to add a post to the blog all by yourself!