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Over this session Primary 3 have been trialling a mental maths program called Sumdog.  This has led to increased motivation and accuracy in mental maths. As class teacher it has been fantastic to see how excited the children get about maths. The class have evaluated this program with positive responses – they love it! The school received excellent feedback from parents too.

P3 entered a Highland wide schools contest through the facility of Sumdog. 36 schools took part which included 379 pupils.  Daily winner’s – P3 achieved 1^st place on Tuesday 9^th and 3^rd place overall.

Artur Milczarek achieved  6^th place overall.

Portree Primary School were awarded their Gold Sports Scotland flag at a ceremony in the school recently. Gary Reid from Sports Scotland, presented the flag to a group of pupils, a group of coaches and the H.T. Also involved were Steven Holmes, the Development Officer for P.E. in Highland Council and Mags Young, from Highlife Highland.

Bikeability Scotland is a cycle training scheme designed to give children the skills and confidence they need both to cycle safely on the roads, and to encourage them to carry on cycling into adulthood.  Bikeability Scotland is managed by Cycling Scotland. Our P7 children were supported this year by Donnie G MacDonald, Debbie MacDonald, Sandra Dickson, Father Williams, Andrew Shaw, Linda Allen, Vicki MacLean, Robert MacAskill, Maureen MacLean and Sandy Gray.

Please follow the link to see the latest letter from the Parent Council and a letter from Norma Young regarding Gaelic School and existing school Developments.

Skye Provincial Mod – Results

Here is a copy of our recent newsletter.

Gold School Sport Award

We are delighted that Portree Primary school has been awarded a sportscotland Gold School Sport Award for 2015-2017.
The Gold School Sport Award is recognition of our school’s achievements in putting quality physical education and school sport at the heart of a school’s planning, practice and ethos.
The Gold Award also highlights that our school has shown excellent practice across the core areas of the Award and demonstrated an on-going commitment to increase young people’s opportunities and engagement in quality physical education, school sport and leadership and provide clear pathways to life-long participation in sport.

See the press release here.

Mr Finlayson said:

“We are absolutely delighted to be awarded The Sports Scotland Gold School Sport Award and to be the first Highland School to receive this award. This award recognises the hard work of staff members, parents and the wider community, who all help the school to deliver regular activities which support Health and Wellbeing and the involvement of pupils of all ages in different sports. Every pupil at Portree Primary School gets opportunities to develop their sporting skills and fitness through varied curricular and extra-curricular activities and we are indebted to the number of parents and community members who give freely of their time, to enable us to offer so many sporting opportunities to so many pupils. The ongoing dedication of all stakeholders also allows our children to compete successfully in many sporting events on Skye, Highland wide and also at national level and this in turn motivates them to follow pathways into sport with a number of local clubs. Receiving this award will hopefully encourage everyone to continue with the great work that currently takes place and I am sure that the pupils, staff, parent body and the wider community, will be proud of the school’s achievement.”

PORTREE PRIMARY SCHOOL SPORTS DAY – 11th June (weather permitting!)

Here is a clip of Ceol on the Croft Young people’s Group featuring pupils from Portree High School and Portree Primary School.