Science workshops
Our classes were busy with two different science workshops this week. On Tuesday, Steven from Celeld Rocks (http://www.celeldrocks.co.uk/) visited to work with P4 and P7 on the subject of rocks, minerals and volcanoes. Pupils really enjoyed this – particularly the practical volcanic eruption out in the playground. Many thanks to Steven for visiting.
On Thursday, all pupils in P5-7 were involved in a ‘Creative Coding’ workshop where they learned how to use Scratch to program a robot. A thoroughly enjoyable session – thank you to the team from Generation Science for putting this on.
Portree School Bus Drop-off
There have been some concerns raised this week about where the Portree School Bus is dropping off pupils. Stagecoach have confirmed that due to the traffic lights at Struan Road junction, they plan to drop pupils off at the bus stop near the co-op.
Cross Country
Well done to our cross country teams who represented the school in the Skye Active Schools Cross Country Championship. It was a very competitive event, with some very strong runners from across Skye. Both our girls and boys teams finished third overall – very well done!
School Trips
Over the last several weeks we have been planning our school trips scheduled for June. Unfortunately, we have been unable to secure any coach transport, having tried several different providers both locally and further afield. As a result, it appears unlikely that our traditional school trips will go ahead as planned. We are looking at contingency arrangements which would allow pupils to access activities within walking distance of the school. More details on this will follow.
Going forward we will have to look at how school trips are organised in future years. Given that transport providers are increasingly unable to offer their services during the busy month of June, we will give consideration to organising school trips at earlier times in the year.
End of Year Reports
End of year reports will be going home to parents near the end of May. Reports will be taken home by your child. If you require an additional copy of the report (for example in the case of parents who don’t live together), please let the school know so that we can get one to you.
Parent Council
Our school Parent Council is on the lookout for new members. Parent Council plays a key role in representing the views of parents, supporting the school, fundraising, and much more. However, as a voluntary body it is reliant on members of the parent community offering their support. To find out more about the Parent Council, please see the information on the school website: https://portreeprimary.wordpress.com/parents/parent-council/what-does-the-parent-council-do/ .
I would ask all parents to please consider supporting the vital work of the Parent Council.
Soccer 7’s
The next Soccer 7s event will take place on Saturday 18th May in Kyleakin. This will be a competitive tournament, with fixtures drawn on the day.
Permission slips have gone out. I will need these returned by Monday 13th May as I have a deadline for submitting teams of Tuesday 14th.
Future Soccer 7s events will take place on:
| Date | Time | Location |
| 18th May 2024 | 10.30am-1pm | Kyleakin |
Active Schools
Please see message from Sarah Ross at Active Schools, with poster at the end of this email:
ACTIVE SCHOOLS ACTIVITIES- ONLINE NOW!!
Our community activities starting from Monday 22nd are now online for booking! Please see poster attached for what’s taken place. Please make sure that you re- book your child onto activities for the new term.
All these activities will take place at the Fingal Centre. We will have more information going out to individual schools about activities happening in your local area soon.
It would be great to have some new faces along, so make sure to book your place online at https://booking.highlifehighland.com/ You do not need to be a member to come to activities, but you will need to set up a pay as you go account to register.
Information about an exciting new Shinty session will be coming soon!!
We rely entirely on volunteers to deliver and support our activities in the community and across all our schools, so if you would like to set up something new for your school/community or keen to support our current activities, then we would love to hear from you! Please get in touch with sarah.ross@highlifehighland.com
Key Dates for this term
| Date | Time | Event |
| Wednesday 15th – Thursday 16th May | / | Childsmile – fluoride varnishing. |
| Thursday 16th and Friday 17th May | / | Musician visit and session with all classes. Solo LMNS cellist, Katy Bell – click here to find out more. |
| Saturday 18th May | 10.30am | Soccer 7s – Kyleakin |
| Friday 24th May | / | Sports Day. With a ‘rain date’ of 31st May. |
| Wednesday 29th May | / | Pupil reports to be issued to parents. |
| Wednesday 5th June | / | Visit from Andy McKechnie of Jammin Fitness to do the session: Olympic Street Jam – Pathway to Paris. More information to follow. |
| Week beginning 10th June | / | School trips hoped to take place this week. Tbc. |
| Friday 14th June | Tbc | Open morning. |
| Wednesday – Friday 19th-21st June | / | P7 Transition visit to Portree High School. Other classes will be having transition time ‘moving up days’ on 20th/21st . |
| Wednesday 26th June | Tbc | Prizegiving ceremony. |
| Thursday 27th June | 12 noon | School closes for last day of session 2023-24. |
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