This week we sent home our pupil profiles to parents. This showed a selection of our work in maths and language over the last three months. It gave us a chance to talk to our parents about what things we enjoy and what things we need to work on in both areas. We hope that all the parents enjoyed seeing them and reading the comments! We will be adding more to them and sending them home again at the start of June. This time we will be selecting our own favourite pieces of work, in all areas of the curriculum, for inclusion in our profiles.
Cross Country Success
Pupils from Sgoil a’ Bhac have been competing throughout this winter in the Lewis and Harris Cross Country Winter Series. The third and final race in this competition was held on Saturday 7th February and our school was well represented in the field of runners. We’d like to give special mention to Steven Mutch from P6 who was the winner on Saturday and overall series winner in the Under 11 boys.
Thank you to Mandy Gillies for providing the photo and for organising the school team for this race. Thanks also to the staff who helped the runners prepare for the Winter Series with training runs during the school day.
Thanks to all our Bag-Packers!!
Our Parent Council raised an amazing £845.76 on Saturday with an all-day bag-packing stint in Tesco. The Parent Council and the school would like to thank everyone who volunteered to help on the day. All your efforts are much appreciated and the funds raised made all that work worthwhile.
Donations to Bethesda
Today we invited Mr Macdonald from Bethesda Nursing Home to the school to receive two donations totalling £200. The first donation was from the Parent Council and the second was from the school. They are in addition to the money raised directly by Bethesda by their attendance at our Christmas Concert.
We would like to thank Mary, our cook, who made a Christmas cake that was raffled at the concert in aid of Bethesda.
Pictured: Mr Macdonald Receives cheques from Calum Macdonald (Parent Council) and Mary Stewart (School Cook). Four members of our Pupil Council also attended the presentation.
Well Done to our Rowing Teams
Six teams from Sgoil a’ Bhac took part in the Sports Festival rowing competition last week. All the children who participated did a great job and that they really enjoyed the competition. We need to give a special mention to ‘Back Boys (with a Girl)’ This team won every single race they took part in. The teams are pictured below with their participation certificates.
January Achievers
Congratulations to all our January achievers. They have been awarded certificates by staff for good work, effort, behaviour and attitude during the month of January.
School Handbook
Each year, Western Isles schools update their handbook for parents. The latest issue of the Sgoil a’ Bhac Handbook was released in January 2014. It can be downloaded in PDF format below or from the ‘Documents’ section of our website.
Healthy Working Lives Silver Award
For a number of years, Sgoil a’ Bhac has been participating in the NHS Healthy Working Lives scheme. The purpose of this initiative is to encourage staff to regularly consider health issues and factors that affect healthy lifestyles such as exercise, diet, stress, illness etc.
Sgoil a’ Bhac were recently re-accredited for the Healthy Working Lives Silver Award. We hope to soon begin working towards achieving a Gold Award. Mrs C Macleod attended an awards presentation recently where she accepted the Silver Award on behalf of the school staff. We’d like to thank Mrs Macleod for her work in co-ordinating and promoting Sgoil a’ Bhac’s Healthy Working Lives programme.
P1 and Nursery Enrolment for August 2014
P1 Enrolment
Children who will be four years of age by 28 February 2014 are eligible for infant enrolment. Parents who wish to enrol their children are requested to do so at the school any day at 3.00pm during the week commencing Monday 3rd February 2014. If you would like to meet with the Headteacher to discuss enrolment, he will be available during the enrolment sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday that week.
Parents are requested to bring their child’s birth certificate along to enrolment.
Sgoil Araich
Places are also available in Sgoil Araich for session 2014/2015 for children who will be 3 years of age by 31 August 2014. Places are also available for children who are 4 and are not currently registered with a pre-school provider. Parents are invited to enrol their children at a pre-school provider on the week commencing Monday 3rd February 2014 and are requested to bring their child’s birth certificate.
More information about Enrolment is available in the attached document:
Successful Open Day
Sgoil a’ Bhac held a special Open Day today for parents of children planning to start P1 in August 2014. We had a lot of parents visit the school to find out about Gaelic and English Medium Education. They were able to visit classrooms, speak to other parents and to current and former pupils.
Thank you to everyone who helped to organise and run the event and to all the parents who took the time to come and visit us today.
If you would like any more information about enrolment to Sgoil a’ Bhac or have any questions about Gaelic or English Medium, please contact the school office (01851) 820230 or back school@gnes.net.
