May 6, 2016
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We are looking at Building our Learning Power here at Harrysmuir. Today we learned that we have different learning muscles that can be stretched and about how we can be more Resilient (this means not giving up!). We are focusing on Resilience this term across the whole Inveralmond Cluster and our teachers are going to […] Continue reading
March 24, 2016
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Pupils from the whole school chose a country and a festival that they would like to study and were split into groups. The groups met beforehand so that the pupils were involved in planning their learning and staff organised activities that were challenging, enjoyable and motivating The aim for our Personalisation & choice day was: […] Continue reading
February 4, 2016
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As a school we have once again enjoyed celebrating Scottish literature during our book week. Each class selected a book by a Scottish author or worked on stories that originated in Scotland. The children showed great enthusiasm for their learning and were provided with exciting opportunities to explore links between reading and many other curricular […] Continue reading
December 17, 2015
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P7R have been designing Christmas cards in the style of the Brazilian Artist ‘Romero Britto’. Here are some of our fantastic results We hope you all have a fabulous Christmas and a Happy New Year. Continue reading
December 17, 2015
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We are delighted to share that Harrysmuir have been recognised with a prestigious national award for innovation and achievement in delivering physical education and extra-curricular sport. The sportscotland Gold School Sport Award was presented to staff and pupils at the school on December 4th 2015 by Stewart Harris, Chief Executive of sportscotland. Donna McMaster, Head […] Continue reading
December 16, 2015
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The choir have worked incredibly hard this term and have thoroughly enjoyed entertaining the local community. They sang at all of our infant Nativities, performed at Forestbank Community Centre as part of their Christmas celebrations and entertained visitors and staff at St. Johns Hospital. On Tuesday 15th December they performed at the Cluster Carol Concert […] Continue reading
December 16, 2015
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The choir have worked incredibly hard this term and have thoroughly enjoyed entertaining the local community. They sang at all of our infant Nativities, performed at Forestbank Community Centre as part of their Christmas celebrations and entertained visitors and staff at St. Johns Hospital. On Tuesday 15th December they performed at the Cluster Carol Concert at Inveralmond High School. They sang […] Continue reading
December 14, 2015
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Primary 7 have been learning about the Wider world during their topic lessons this term. The world regions they were exploring were: urban cities, grasslands, jungles and rainforests, deserts, oceans and rivers, arctic/polar and mountains. They had a choice of 9 tasks to complete for homework and some of the products were very creative! Well […] Continue reading
November 26, 2015
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In the Rainbow Room we have been reading a fantastic story called ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson. We enjoyed discussing all the different characters and made stick puppets of them. We discussed all the different feelings these characters had throughout the story and we decided that mouse was very clever! We took our stick puppets […] Continue reading
November 9, 2015
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Primary 5 have returned from a fantastic week at the Lowport Centre in Linlithgow. P5H were there from Monday morning until Wednesday lunchtime and P5B stayed from Wednesday afternoon until Friday lunchtime. We participated in a lot of fun activities including: a handling session with artefacts at Annet House museum, a walk round the loch, orienteering, […] Continue reading
