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Charity Presentations

February 23, 2015 Hamish Budge Leave a comment

Bethesda Hospice

Last week, we had a visit from Mr DR Macdonald from Bethesda Hospice to collect a cheque for £428.38.

This was a presentation of the funds raised at Christmas time through the raffle of the cake made by our former cook, Mary Stewart and from the silver collection on the concert night.

We’d like to thank everyone who gave so generously to this cause.

God is Good Nursery School, Uganda

With the help of Mrs Macrae, pupils organised a non-uniform day and bake sale in aid of the ‘God is Good’ nursery school in Uganda.

Ishbal Mackenzie came to the school to collect a cheque for £245.40 for their appeal to support the Ugandan school.

Once again, we’d like to thank the children and parents who contributed to this very worthy cause.

School Office

Children in Need 2014

November 18, 2014 Hamish Budge Leave a comment

We had a very successful Children in Need day at Sgoil a’ Bhac this year, with an amazing total of £436.69 being raised through a fancy dress day, a bake sale, tombola, face painting and competitions. We would like to express our thanks to all the parents who supported us by donating baking to the sale. It was a huge hit with pupils and added a great deal to our final total. We would also like to thank parents and families for helping children to create brilliant costumes for the day.

School Office

Shoebox Appeal 2014

November 10, 2014 Hamish Budge Leave a comment

shoebox2014 — 88 shoeboxes with some of the children who donated them.

There were an impressive 88 shoeboxes collected at the school this year for the annual Blythswood Shoebox Appeal. We would like to thank all the children, families and staff who donated to the appeal this year.

The shoeboxes have now left the school and have begun their journey to eastern Europe to bring some seasonal cheer to those in need.

G6-7, School Office

Charity Bake Sale

September 26, 2014 Hamish Budge Leave a comment

Ellie Macdonald and Erin Macleod from GP7 organised a special bake sale to raise funds to support a Cerebral Palsy charity. They worked very hard to prepare their baking and it was very well received by the pupils when they held their sale at break-time today. They raised an hugely impressive £180.00 for their charity.

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Sport Relief 2014

March 24, 2014 Hamish Budge 1 Comment

Our Pupil Council organised a range of different activities to mark this year’s Sport Relief and raise money for this good cause.

They began with a sports activity morning for pupils in P1-3. They had different activity stations set up around the hall and our younger pupils raced round the stations.

This was followed by an afternoon tea for parents and a football tournament for pupils. The winners of the pupil tournament went head-to-head with an elite staff team. After a close contest , the pupils pipped the staff 1-0. All their events combined raised a total of £145.00. Thank you to the Pupil Council, especially Hannah Macleod, who led the organisation of these events.

School Office

Sport Relief

March 19, 2014 Hamish Budge Leave a comment

Sport Relief – Friday 21st March 2014

Our Pupil Council have been organising events to mark Sport Relief on Friday. They have written a letter to parents which will be circulated tomorrow. Their planned events are as follows:

– Sports Circuits in the morning for P1-3 for £1 a go

– A football tournament for P4-7 pupils and staff in the afternoon for which it will be £1 to participate or to watch.

– An afternoon tea and snacks for parents and pupils during the football competition.

The Pupil Council would like to invite parents to join us for the afternoon tea and football games.

E3-4, E6-7, G3-5, G6-7, School Office

Mission Aviation Fellowship

March 13, 2014 Hamish Budge Leave a comment

Today, the pupils of G5-7 and E5-7 visited a special exhibition in Back Free Church Hall from Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF). During a very interesting presentation they found out about the work of MAF in supporting people all over the World, flying food, water, medicines and other aid to the needy.

The school made a donation to MAF at the end of the presentations to help continue to support their work.

As part of their visit to Lewis, MAF will be offering the opportunity to have a go in a flight simulator. The simulator will be available at the MA Memorial Hall, Stornoway on Saturday and at Back Free Church on Sunday evening during the Youth Fellowship.

School Office

Donations to Bethesda

February 7, 2014 Hamish Budge Leave a comment

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.

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