The Macmillan Coffee Morning held on Friday 25th September was a great success raising over £700 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Thank you to everyone who attended, donated baking, entered ‘The Great Bake Off’ and helped to organise the day.
Pupil Council will be hosting this year’s Macmillan Coffee Morning on Friday 25th September.
The morning will start at 10am with an assembly led by Rev. MacLeod.
The Coffee Morning will then run between 10.30am and 11.30am.
Judging of The Great Back Bake Off will take place at approximately 11.30am.
Pupil dress down day – wear it green to support Macmillan (£1 donation)
All welcome
Malcolm Macleod Photography will be in Back School tomorrow to take individual, family and class photos. Children should wear school uniform. Photos will begin at 8.30am with the Nursery and families with older children.
It was confirmed today that our Head Teacher, Mr Donald Macleod is being seconded to the role of Senior Education Officer for a period of four months until the end of December 2015 with effect from Monday 7th September. During this period, Mr Macleod will not have management responsibility for Sgoil a’ Bhac or Sgoil Araich Loch a Tuath.
Miss Donna Macdonald has been appointed as Acting Head Teacher for both Sgoil a’ Bhac and Tolsta School as well as their associated nurseries. A replacement teacher will be assigned in due course to work with Mrs Matheson in taking teaching responsibility for G6-7.
In his role as Senior Education Officer, Donald Macleod will continue to support the school during his secondment period and will work with Miss Macdonald to ensure a smooth transition during this time.
Attached below is a letter to parents from the Director of Education and Children’s Services explaining this staffing change.
Director’s Letter – BCL36109 Back and Tolsta Parents 04.09.15
Letter to G6-7 Parents – DM085 04.09.15 (G6-7 Only)
Aimee from EP6 was recently awarded a prize for an art competition organised by NHS Western Isles. Our pupils attended a special drama about the risks and dangers of smoking and then designed anti-smoking posters, which were then entered into the competition. Aimee was commended for communicating a clear message and creating a quality design.
She is pictured above receiving her certificate and prize from Mr Macleod and Jeanne Mackay from NHS Western Isles. Also pictured is another prize-winner from Stornoway Primary.
The Care Inspectorate conducted an unannounced inspection of Sgoil Araich Loch a Tuath in June 2015. The final report has now been made available for publication and can be viewed using the link below. Paper copies are available in the Nursery and from the School Office.
Care Inspectorate Report Sgoil Araich Loch a Tuath – July 2015
The school’s Standards and Quality Report for 2014-15 and our Improvement Plan for 2015-16 were published in June and can be viewed using the links below.
The Standards & Quality Report outlines the progress the school has made in relation to key entitlements and the School Improvement plan both reviews our work on last year’s improvement projects and sets out the areas for improvement we wish to focus on in the 2015-16 session.
The committee that published the ‘Sgoil a’ Bhac – Memories Through the Ages’ book that charted the history of Sgoil a’ Bhac decided to use some of the proceeds from the sale of the book to establish a prize in their name.
The new prize is awarded for excellence in the study of local history, geography or culture and was judged through the submission of special projects produced by our P7 pupils.
The first winner of the Book Committee Trophy and monetary prize was the Dux of the School, Andrew Macdonald, who’s project on the Gress River was considered to be outstanding. Highly Commended runners-up certificates were awarded to James Maclennan (Whaling), Erin Macleod (History of Back Free Church) and Ellie Macdonald (Baile Ghriais).
The school would like to thank the Book Committee for the contribution of this prize that will continue to be awarded in years to come for excellence in local studies.
Pictured below are members of the Book Committee presenting the prizes. Neil Murray also presented our special guest, Mr Fred Wildridge, with a copy of the book.
Read Andrew’s winning Project: AMD Project – The Gress River
At the end of the summer term, pupils, staff, parents and guests gathered at Sgoil a’ Bhac for the annual prize-giving ceremony and celebration of achievement.
We had an excellent attendance of parents and our special guests included Mr Fred Wildridge who presented this year’s prizes; Calum Macdonald, Parent Council Chairperson; our local councillor, Donald Crichton; Rev. Calum Iain Macleod and student David Macdonald.
We were delighted to be joined by members of the Sgoil a’ Bhac Memories Book Committee, who were in attendance for the first presentation of a trophy in their name. The prize, was awarded for excellence in local studies of the Back district. (history, geography or culture) As well as a trophy, the winner received a financial prize.
Children were awarded prizes for sports, citizenship, leadership and academic achievement. In addition, this year saw the introduction of new Achievement Prizes for each Gaelic and English year-group sponsored by our Parent Council.
The audience were entertained by an amazing whole-school performance of ‘Caledonia’ and our folk group and psalm precenting group also performed excellently. The ceremony concluded with the awarding of Dux of the School for 2015.
Click to view: List of Prize-winners 2015
During the course of P7, our pupils participated in the Young Persons Leadership Programme. They learned many new skills in organisation, co-operation and leadership and enjoyed using their skills with they younger pupils in the school.
P7s were awarded their certificates during our prize-giving in June.
