| Diluain
Monday |
Dimairt
Tuesday |
Diciadain
Wednesday |
Diardaoin
Thursday |
Dihaoine
Friday |
| Sausages,
Roast or Mashed Potatoes Salad
or
Macaroni Cheese Salad |
Wraps with
Cheese Chicken Tuna or Ham Plain or Spicy Potato Wedges Salad
or
Lentil Soup Bread Cheese Tuna or Ham sandwich Salad |
Pizza
Spaghetti Hoops Salad
or
Baked Potato With Cheese Beans or Tuna Salad
|
Steak Pie
Roast or Mashed Potatoes Carrots Salad
or
Tomato Pasta Salad
|
Breaded Haddock
Chips Peas Salad
or
Chicken Noodle Soup Bread Cheese Tuna or Ham sandwich Salad
|
| Rice Pudding
or Fresh Fruit |
Chocolate Muffins
or Fresh Fruit |
Gingerbread Biscuit
or Fresh Fruit |
Ice Cream
or Fresh Fruit |
Fruity Friday
or Fresh Fruit |
Menu Week Beginning: 29 An Lùnastal – 29 August 2016
| Diluain
Monday |
Dimairt
Tuesday |
Diciadain
Wednesday |
Diardaoin
Thursday |
Dihaoine
Friday |
| Pizza
Plain or Spicy Potato Wedges Salad
or
Tomato Soup Bread Cheese Tuna or Ham sandwich Salad
|
Shepherds Pie
Salad
or
Macaroni Cheese Salad
|
Toad in the Hole
Carrots Mashed or Roast Potatoes Salad
or
Baked Potato With Cheese, Beans, Or Tuna Salad |
Chicken & Tomato Pasta
Salad
or
Lentil Soup Bread Cheese, Tuna, or Ham sandwich Salad
|
Fish Fingers
Chips Beans Salad
or
Tomato Pasta Salad |
| Choc ‘n’ Toffee Swirl or
Fresh Fruit |
Chocolate Krispie Cakes
or Fresh Fruit |
Chocolate Sponge
Custard or Fresh Fruit |
Jelly
or Fresh Fruit |
Butterscotch Sponge
or Fresh Fruit |
menu Week Beginning: 18 An Lùnastal – 18 August 2016
| Diardaoin
Thursday |
Dihaoine
Friday |
| Pizza
Spaghetti Hoops Salad
or
Tomato Pasta Salad
|
Fish Fingers
Chips Beans Salad
or
Baked Potato With Cheese, Beans, Or Tuna Salad |
| Chocolate or Strawberry Swirl
or Fresh Fruit |
Jelly or
Fresh Fruit |
Getting Along Swimmingly!
Here we are again in a new term! Last term, we had the Lewis Mod, which went well and the children performed in various competitions, including the playlet, which went well and was exceedingly funny! Sarah won her Literary competition, so well done to her!
We are back after to Easter holidays, starting the “summer” term; although right now we have “Sneachd na h-uain bheaga” which is typical for us here. The April showers in Lewis seem to be more often or not, “the snow of the wee lambs”!
Firstly, as it is term 4, we have started swimming again on Thursday afternoons. This means travelling to Stornoway by mini bus and then back again, just in time to go home on the school buses. Because of this, we have both an early break time in the morning and an early lunch to enable us to leave the school at 1 o’ clock. Despite these minor disruptions to the school day, the children seem to be enjoying their lessons, and there are one or two sleepy children on the way home!
Secondly, even though we are just back to school, we have the May holiday weekend coming up, so we will be off on Friday 29th April AND Monday 2nd May. We hope you enjoy the long weekend, and that the weather warms up for May, which has been until recently, always thought of as one of the loveliest months in the Western Isles, but remember the old Scotttish saying “ne’er cast a clout, ’til May is oot”. In other words, don’t take your coat off until after May! Incidentally, as a bit of long forgotten folklore, it is thought the “May” in the said saying isn’t the actual month, but refers to the shrub hawthorn, which is also known as “May Thorn” and when it flowers!
FEBRUARY 2016
Here we are in February and carrying on with daily school life! In the past few months we have had some school closures due to the dreadful weather but otherwise school goes on as ever, bustling and busy. Christmas was as usual, hectic, but we managed to put on yet another show with dancing elves and even the odd rock ‘n roll polar bear.
Various sports activities for the older ones have taken place, including Sportshall athletics and more recently Tchoukeball festival and visits from Jenna Stewart to us are always welcomed by the pupils!
A daily event is the “Daily Mile” where all the children walk, jog or run a mile every day. One the occasion of extremely bad weather, the Wii is used and instead of 15 minutes of fame, we have 15 minutes of Just Dance, which I can personally vouch make the “older” element of the school have “jelly” legs and arms by the end of it! We continue to have healthy snacks, fruit and toast, and every lunchtime the children are exceptional in their consumption of the salad provided.
After lunch, the toothbrushing regime continues with visits from the Childsmile people who are very impressed at how diligent the children are.
All in all, I think that we must be a very healthy school.
Next up is the forthcoming Mod, this year in March, but more on that next time. 
LOOK OUT FOR PIRATES!
Lately, there has been a sighting of pirates in Bernera School!
It was Pirates Day in Bernera School recently, all the children (as well as Vicky and Meg!) dressed as pirates and had a special “Pirates Lunch” and wrote poems or drew pictures.
Start of Session 2015 -16
Well, Bernera School has started its new year, and indeed are heading towards the end of the first term of 2015 – 16!
As always, it has been very busy, with a new Sgoil Araich pupil, new P1’s, classes moving up to the next levels, staff changes and all the different activities such as a storytelling session and a Sgoil Araich trip to the Iron Age house at Bosta as well as the school projects and lessons!
We are rapidly approaching the October holidays and thereafter, the inevitable lead up to ….Christmas preparations!
Time to get all this terms work finished off in the next week and a bit, and then we can look forward to our autumn break!
Primary 7 Transition Event at Breasclete School
In order to aid transition from Primary to Secondary school Primary 7 pupils from Bernera, Breasclete and Uig schools are coming together with teaching, Support for Learning and Active Schools staff at planned special events over the next three months. It is hoped that pupils from the three schools will benefit from the opportunity to meet with the other Primary 7 pupils before transition to secondary.
On Monday 23rd February the P7s from the three schools met up at Breasclete School with Jenna Stewart from Active Schools for some Tchoukball practice and play ahead of the Tchoukball Festival at the Sports Centre the following day. It was a very enjoyable session for all and our P7s expressed the wish that they had more time and that they could do it again.
Primary 6 – 7 Tchoukball Festival
Bernera Primary 6 and 7 pupils joined forces with Uig P6s and 7s to make up team Bernuig, playing together in a Tchoukball Festival at the Sports Centre on Tuesady 24th February.
Tchoukball? For anyone who hasn’t heard of it, Tchoukball is a fast, indoor, non-contact team game using a soft ball and a mixture of handball and volleyball skills. Our P6s and 7s have really enjoyed the Tchoukball ‘taster’ sessions they’ve had with Active Schools Co-ordinator Jenna Stewart and Uig and Breasclete pupils in recent months and this was their first opportunity to take part in an organised event with teams from other schools.
Around 24 teams from various Lewis schools took part, and so great was the interest that the organisers had to schedule a second morning of play on Tuesday 3rd March. Our pupils all agreed that it was really good fun and they would love to do it again with MORE games! As ever, their behaviour both on and off the floor, was impeccable and they were complimented by the organisers as displaying the best teamwork skills out of all the teams taking part. Well done Bernuig!
Polytunnel Visits
The children have been visiting to local polytunnels this session, learning about growing vetetables and planting various things of their own. There was a slight hiatus in proceedings, however, when the first polytunnel was destroyed in the January gale. Undeterred, they have been back for a visit to the greenhouse and will be planting up some seeds in the school.
As a project it is valuable on many levels. Scientifically, the biological aspects of growth, chemical compositions and so forth; and of course from the health and wellbeing aspect it ties in to see food being produced. As a part of learning in the community, working with members of the community and getting out and about fits in perfectly with the concepts of oudoor learning that is seen to be so valuable. All in all, this is a very good example of true cross curricular learning.
