My apologies that I didn’t manage to send a parent update last week as I was caught up in the excitement of our Community Cafe!
Please see this week’s update below.
Community Cafe
Thank you so much to everyone who made it to last Friday’s Community Cafe. There was a strong turnout and over £300 raised through donations, with a further sum of £240 raised by the Parent Council through their raffle. We had earmarked any donations for our school fund and will take suggestions from our pupils and staff on how they would like to see this spent.
Well done to pupils in Primary 6, I was so impressed with their maturity and determination to make the event a success.
Unfortunately our Community Cafe’s are becoming more difficult for us to deliver – this is due to the staffing capacity in the school being squeezed. We will endeavour to continue these events where possible as they are great learning experiences, however they may not always be possible. Parent volunteer support with future events will be much appreciated.
P6 and P7 Basketball
The Primary 7 class enjoyed a basketball training session at Portree High School yesterday and will be back next week for another one. Primary 6 will have a session next Monday (10th February) and again on Monday 3rd March. Pupils in P6 should come to school on Monday with (or wearing) their PE kit – including suitable footwear for indoor basketball.
The basketball Festival will take place later on in March for our pupils in P6 and P7.
Balfour Beatty ‘Big School Visit’
Pupils in P5-P7 will have the chance to participate in sessions on engineering over the next few weeks. These sessions are run by Balfour Beatty as part of their ‘Big School Visit’ project and will take place in the school.
Pupil Success – P6 Creative Writing
Our P6 class took part in a creative writing competition in December. The task was write a mini saga (less than 100 words) using the prompt of a magical map as inspiration. This week I have received notice that many of our pupils have had their work selected to be published in a book, The Magical Map – Worlds of Wonder. Well done to everyone who had their work selected – it is a great achievement that so many of our pupils will be able to call themselves published authors!
A letter has gone home to selected pupils as parents must give permission for children’s work to be published by 16/02/25. Please follow instructions in the letter to give your permission as soon as possible.
Indoor Shinty Qualifiers
Good luck to our pupils who will be representing the school in tomorrow’s indoor shinty qualifiers at Portree High School.
School Clubs and Activities
Computer Club –This is a weekly club from 3.30-4.30pm. This session will be run by some P6 pupils and supervised by a member of staff. All welcome.
Shinty training for P1-3 – Last session will be next Thursday 13th February.
Young Leaders in P6 and P7 are also running a variety of clubs at lunchtimes/breaktimes including sport/dance/games/chess/art/crochet.
Breakfast Boogie – A short weekly dance session before the start of school (8.50am) every Monday. Again this, will be run by young leaders. This will run as a trial until at least until the February break.
Toy donations
If you are having a clear-out of old toys and games, would you consider donating them to the school for the P3/4 class to sell in their toy stall during Red Nose Day? Although this will not take place until March, we will start collecting donations now – these can be left at school reception. Thank you!
School Uniform Offer
One of our school uniform providers Andrew Hyde, currently have 10% off across their website: https://ahyde.co.uk/collections/portree-primary.
Use code: AHUNIFORM10 at checkout.
Mountain Warehouse Discount Code
20% off for our school community at Mountain Warehouse until June 2025.
If you would like to take advantage of this, the promo code is: CC202473. This can be used at: https://www.mountainwarehouse.com
Key Dates for Term 3
| Date | Event |
| Monday 10th February | P6 Basketball Training at PHS – 11.40am. |
| Wednesday 12th February | Balfour Beatty ‘Big School Visit’ – Engineering sessions for P7 |
| Thursday 13th February | P7 Basketball Training at PHS – 1.45pm. |
| Monday 17th – Wednesday 19th February | School Closed (February Break on 17th/18th, the staff in-service on 19th) |
| Wednesday 26th February | Balfour Beatty ‘Big School Visit’ – Engineering sessions for P6 |
| Monday 3rd March | P6 Basketball Training at PHS – 11.40am. |
| Tuesday 11th March | Basketball Festival P7 – 10.30am-2.30pm |
| Wednesday 19th March | Balfour Beatty ‘Big School Visit’ – Engineering sessions for P5 |
| Tuesday 25th March | Basketball Festival P6 – 10.30am-2.30pm |
| Friday 21st March | Open Morning 11.30am |
| w/c 24th March | Parents’ Evenings |
| Friday 4th April | Last day of Term 3 (school re-opens Tuesday 22nd April) |
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