On Thursday, 23rd May, P4 ventured out again taking a different route to Inverness city centre. This week we visited the Town House and Inverness Museum and Art Gallery. Our guide at the Town House was Gary who was very helpful and knowledgeable about the place and what goes on there. We visited the Chamber, the Main Hall and a Committee room. There are lots of huge paintings, flags, stained glass windows, busts of former provosts and gifts from other countries displayed around the Town House. We also got to try on councillor robes!

At the Museum and Art Gallery each group had a different section of a workbook to complete. We enjoyed seeing the Egyptian Exhibition where a real mummy was on display!

On Thursday, 16th May, P4 briskly walked to Bellfield Park and checked out the facilities there. We discovered you can play on the playground equipment, hire bikes, pose for wedding photographs, play tennis, listen to bands playing in the bandstand, have a barbeque, work out on the outdoor gymnasium, have a picnic, play mini-golf , paddle in the paddling pool, admire the plants, walk your dog, relax on a bench and read your book and buy ice-cream! What a great place!

Then we walked across the bridge and met John outside Eden Court Theatre. John gave us an hour long tour of the buildings and explained all about when they were built and what all the different rooms are used for. We loved walking on the stage and seeing the backstage quipment, the pit and pretending to be in a show! Then John took us to one of the dance / drama studios and we had an ‘Inverness Drama Workshop.’ We had great fun!

On the way back to school we stopped off in Bellfield Park again to have our packed lunch on the picnic benches. We just checked out the playground again to make sure it was safe for visitors!

We are really looking forward to our next two city walks!

On Wednesday, 15th May Kieran and Robbie took part in a Football Festival at Caley Stadium. They had a great day there even although it rained quite a bit and met some of the Caley players like Andrew Shinnie, Billy Mackay, and Owain Tudor-Jones. The teams played 9 games each. Lochardil won 7 games, drew one game and lost one game. After the festival all the participants got the Caley players’ autographs and a 10% discount voucher for the Caley Thistle shop!  

Thank you for being such positive ambassadors for our school boys. We are very proud of you all.

On Saturday, 18th May, P4/5 footballers took part in a Football Tournament at Duncan Forbes Primary School. The Lochardil boys were split into a P4 team, a P5 team and a P4/5 team. The P4 team got to the final but were beaten 4-2 by Duncan Forbes, the P5 team got to the semi-finals and the P4/5 team got knocked out in the group stages. However, everyone enjoyed the day and had great fun.

Mrs M-H

Our project this term is the City of Inverness and we have been studying maps and websites to help us become more familiar with facilities, places of interest and the layout of the city. We have had Mr MacLeod, a city planner, talking to us about what city planners do, how Inverness has changed over the last 150 years and what is happening in the future. He has asked us to write down our ideas for the future of Inverness and he will present them to the councillors! Our plans may become real facilities in the future so we must think carefully about our suggestions. 

On Friday, 10th May, we went on our first ‘City Walk.‘ We walked to The Islands, then visited Floral Hall (what an interesting place that is!) and finished off in Whin Park checking out the facilities available to families and visitors to Inverness. All the playing on the equipment was hard work but it was very important for our project work! The weather was great until we started to walk back to school when some people really got caught out because they did not have a hood! We will be more prepared next week when we walk to Eden Court Theatre for a tour and workshop. If the weather is very good we may go to Bellfield Park for a picnic lunch!