Coming Soon....

In the next few weeks we will be raising awareness of Fairtrade Fortnight, celebrating World Book Day on 6th March and also participating in Sport Relief towards the end of March.

 

We will let you know in more detail what we are planning to do for all of these very soon.

Evie are the Peedie Schools Champions again!

Saturday brought an exciting conclusion to the Primary Indoor League as Evie were playing to maintain the Shore Shield. It really was down to the last night with an exciting game against Hope and Burray Hotspurs who were also in contention!
Fortunately, the Evie team beat the Hotspurs and went on to win the tournament based on the other games played by the teams that night.
It was a very exciting finish to the season! Well done to the team and a special thank you to Paul Barber the team coach for all his time, enthusiasm and commitment.

Getting going again!

It has been a while since I wrote on here and will get back into a pattern again very soon. It has been an exceptionally busy start to the year with one thing and another and I have been doing quite a lot of class teaching between the schools.
Anyhow, we have lots of exciting things coming up from Fairtrade Fortnight to World Book Day this term.
We also have the on-going development of the new build to be involved with.
Our library is also ready for a revamp with many old titles being removed from circulation. We may need to call on parent helpers with that initiative in hte not too distant future.
Miss Rendall finished with us last week and Mrs McCairn is ready to take the P6/7 class full-time until Mrs Omand returns later in the session. We wish her all the best in her new post.

Save The Children Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas Dinner

What a super turnout of festive jumpers we had on Friday! I was really impressed with the effort that so many of the children had went to and there were many wonderful creations. I will let you know what our donations amounted to and post some photos in due course.
We also had our school Christmas dinner this week. Well done to Jackie and Sally for creating such a good dinner for everyone, although I was most vexed at having to miss it myself this year.
Well into the last week now -  The Christmas party is on Thursday with a special visitor coming on Friday hopefully!

The Christmas Fair

Just to let you all know that the Christmas Fair raised £874.30. I would like to thank everybody for coming along and making it such a success.

Reading

We are continually looking at ways to promote reading in school. Mr Flett's class are about to cast their vote for a favourite text in the Scottish Book Trust Awards. I hope the P1 children have all enjoyed their book packs at home. My personal favourite is the 'Paper Dolls' book by Julia Donaldson.
A good place to find free ebooks is Oxford Owl. There you will find a variety of books to suit many children. They also have comprehension activities too and a maths area.
The web address is www.oxfordowl.co.uk

Endangered Species

The whole school has been voting on which endangered species to sponsor. We have now got all the votes counted and the snow leopard was the most popular choice followed by panda and then the adelie penguin.
So we will look forward to our adoption pack and to se if there are other ways we can help our environment and the wider world.
For further information on endangered species visit https://support.wwf.org.uk

How we're helping the snow leopards

• Helping to train and equip anti-poaching patrols
• Promoting sustainable use of natural resources
• Working with local communities to monitor snow leopard movement and reduce human/snow leopard conflict
• Supporting compensation schemes for local farmers who have lost livestock to snow leopards
• Establishing programmes to increase wild prey numbers
• Funding other essential conservation work around the world

Here is a peedie video with more information.