A newly amended canteen menu was introduced on Monday 10th March. The menu can be viewed and downloaded on the ‘Canteen’ page within the school Information section of the website. In addition to the main meal choices, the canteen offers baked potatoes, toasties and filled rolls daily.
The new menu began on Monday with Week Two.
Our special achievers for February received their certificates at a celebration assembly today. These certificates have been awarded for good work, behaviour, effort and attitude throughout the month of February. Our swimming team who took part in this week’s Inter-Schools Swimming Gala also received certificates for the excellent behaviour and attitude in representing the school at this event.
Congratulations and well done to all our certificate winners.
G6/7 pupils planned, promoted and ran the Book Fair as an enterprise with Business School, a curriculum-linked project. The pupils loved having the opportunity to take ownership. Running it as a Business School allowed the pupils to apply for jobs, make CVs and attend interviews. They practised creative and entrepreneurial skills and learned about the world of work.
The sales total was £758.15 and from this the school has received £379.08 to buy new books. G6/7 pupils would like to thank everyone who helped make the bookfair a very successful event.
EP7 are holding a movie afternoon on Friday 7th March. We will be showing Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. The entry will be £1 per ticket and there will also be a tuck shop before the movie starts. In addition to this we will be selling raffle tickets for a chocolate hamper. These will be priced at 50p per strip. All money raised will go towards the P7 trip in June.
The special guest visitor we were hosting today was Clyde, the 2014 Commonweath Games mascot. The children had a presentation from the organisers about the Commonwealth Games and then Clyde entertained everyone with some fun and games!
Clyde with the pupils of Sgoil a’ Bhac
Clyde with all the children from Back and Tolsta.
The members of our football team and their parents organised a non-uniform day and bake sale today to raise money for their football trip to the mainland next month. They are still busy selling baking at lunch-time today so we’ll be able to announce a grand total of funds raised on Monday.
The team are photographed here just before opening their stall this morning. Thank you very much to all the parents who donated baking and to all the families across the school who sent in money for the non-uniform day and the baking.
There were some pupils today who chose to dress up rather than down for our non-uniform day!
We will be holding a non-uniform day on Friday 28th February to help raise funds for our football team to travel to Dundee to compete in the North Finals of the Scottish Soccer Sevens Championship. We would like to ask that any pupils coming in to school without uniform on that day make a donation to the trip fund. In addition to the non-uniform day, we hope to have a bake stall operating.
Sgoil a’ Bhac will be representing the Western Isles in this competition and will be playing against teams from Inverness, Aberdeen, Perth, Dundee and Skye. The finals will be held at Dundee University on Thursday 20th March. It’s a major achievement for our team to have qualified for this stage of the competition and we want to support them by helping with fundraising for some of the costs.
Active Schools are currently offering support and training to parents who may be interested in running after-school sports-based clubs at Sgoil a’ Bhac. Any parents who wish to declare an interest in this initiative will need to complete the form below and submit it to the school office by Friday 28th February.
G1-3 have been having lots of fun in class P.E this term. We know how important it is to be healthy and to keep fit. We have been learning lots of new team games, doing circuit training and developing our climbing and balancing skills
on the Jungle Gym.
We are starting to get very excited about our school trip in June. This week we got to vote to decide what six activities we will do while we are there. There were lots of different options so now we just have to wait to see if we managed to get our top choices!
EP7 are organising a film afternoon to raise funds for the trip. We are currently doing some market research to help us finalise the details. GP7 will also be helping us out on the day to organise everything. They hope to organise another fundraising activity in April.
