Monthly Archives: June 2013

So long, farewell!

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So, the day has come for us to say goodbye to our wonderful Primary 7s. It has been the most fantastic two years with you – we will all miss you dearly!

We’ll always remember you coming into the Learning Cabins in Primary 6, and making P6/7 the most fantastic experience for the three of us!

We want you all to do the very best you’re capable of – best of luck for the future!

Remember to come and visit!

We hope everyone has a fantastic holiday – P6, we will see you back on the 20th of August as P7s!
A very teary eyed,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

The end is near . . .

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Mr Cook is aware that some of the Loch Insh DVDs have been copied incorrectly. There were 4 PCs copying at once, so one PC has made the wrong disks. Please bring in your DVD tomorrow if it has been made incorrectly, and we’ll make a new one!

Tomorrow is the last day of Primary School for many of our pupils. Even writing this blog post, the tears are welling up! It was a fantastic Leavers’ Service today – you were all fantastic! A few special mentions go to:

Citizenship Awards
Laura Stewart & Lewis Mitchell

Citizenship Cup
Mackenzie Brown

JRSO
Cameron McCheyne, Ewan Neil and Fergus Wilson

Perfect Attendance
Duncan Ball, Danni Bruce, Nadya Bruce, Leon Cameron, Rosie Flegg, Erin Fraser, Catherine Hamilton, Finlay MacLeod, Ryan McArthur, Rachel McRobert and Lewis Mitchell 

Maths Challenge – BRONZE
Ellie Sinclair

Maths Challenge – GOLD
Morven Rothwell

Junior Leaders
Mackenzie Brown, Honor Brown, Georgia Ireland, James Haston, Ellie Sinclair and Ewan Murray

P6 Project  WINNERS
Finlay MacLeod & Georgia Ireland

P7 Rosebowl Project RUNNERS-UP
Fergus Wilson, Jenna MacNeill and Mackenzie Brown

P7 Rosebowl WINNER
Anna Nairn

Please see our photogallery below:

 

We’re looking forward to the P7 party tonight!
School finishes at 12pm tomorrow!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

 

Staff Vs. Pupils – Netball Game

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End of Term Leavers’ Service – 10am, TOMORROW at the CCC

Today all of the Netball Team’s hard work culminated in a tournament between the P7 pupils against staff from Lochardil. The staff made a massive effort in terms of their outfits. Superman saved the day, and with a bit of cheating, the staff JUST pipped the pupils to the post.

Mrs Prentice, our referree, discounted the points of the staff due to what she called ‘excessive cheating’, therefore declaring the pupils the winners . . .

We’ll see you in the morning for another busy day!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Eco Board Game

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P7 Vs Teachers Netball Tournament tomorrow – if you’re playing, please ensure you have your PE kit. The pictures will follow tomorrow!

Last year, some P6/7 pupils were involved in creating an ECO board game with Miss Grant and Mrs Fleming. The game was sent away as a competition, and we found out at the beginning of the month that our game was being produced. On Friday, the game was launched at Lochardil where we found out that all Highland Primary Schools will all receive a copy. We’ve got two copies in P6/7 which we’ll have out to play at the end of the week.

Only 3 more sleeps!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

ECO GARDEN EXTRAVAGANZA!!

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P7 End of Term Leavers’ Service – Thursday27th June @ 10am – Culduthel Christian Centre

What a marvellous event we hosted today. It was great to see the school buzzing with parents and carers who had come to our garden party.

The wonderful art work displays, beautiful Gaelic voices, eloquently presented Sonnets, humorous puppet performances and exploding science experiments – were perfectly complemented by our champagne and cucumber sandwiches.

We’re glad to see that the majority of our paintings were sold to their successful bidders. Art work will be brought home tomorrow . . .

Check out our fantastic photographs below:

See you tomorrow morning,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

ECO Garden Party Extravaganza!

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It was great to see the Primary 7s back today – only one week until we break for Summer.

The garden party organisation was in full swing, we only have a few finishing touches to make on Monday morning.

ECO EXTRAVAGANZA – GARDEN PARTY
Monday 24th June 2013
1.30pm – 3pm
ALL WELCOME

The dress code is POSH!

You’ll be treated to the wonderful work of Shakespeare, Georgia O’ Keeffe amongst many other musical and artistic talents. We’ll be showcasing the science work we’ve taken part in, as well as the maintenance of our garden.

Have a fanastic weekend!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Moving on up . . .

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The next two days are transition days within Lochardil.

The Primary 7s will be going up to the IRA for two days. Mrs MacLeod will meet you at the gate to the IRA at 8.45am. The school day will finish at 3.30pm. We hope you have a fantastic two days, and look forward to hearing how you get on when you come back on Friday.

The P6s will be moving up to their new P6/7 classes, alongside the P5s, with Mrs MacLeod, Mrs Prentice and Miss Shaw.

Mr Cook’s already looking forward to Friday when we’re all back together as he’s been out of school the past two days for his new job.

Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Well done P6/7!

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Mrs Taylor, one of the Quality Improvement Officers for Highland Council, visited P6/7 today to watch and learn how they do reading.

The teachers met with her after school and she was extremely impressed with the way that you asked questions, answered questions and discussed your books thoroughly within your groups.

You’ve all done yourself proud – Well Done!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

GOLF SUCCESS!

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After a successful Sports Day yesterday, P6/7 pupils have again seen success today at the Inverness Primary Schools Golf Competition.

A team consisting of Charlie, Fraser and Ewan competed and they arrived home with medals for getting the best score overall. An excellent success boys. Jamie also played within the competition.

Ewan also received the trophy for second best player overall – an excellent achievement!

We hope you all have a great weekend. It’s an extremely busy week next week, with the Quality Improvement Visit on Monday and Tuesday, and the P7s at the IRA on Wednesday and Thursday.

Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Sports Day Success!

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CHECK OUT THE LOCH INSH VIDEO ON THE POST BELOW!

What a brilliant day we have had for Sports Day. The sun was beaming down on us, and we all had great fun!

Our HOUSE champions were: DUNTELCHAIG

Finlay and Jenna, our Duntelchaig House Captains, collected the trophy.

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Our P7 champions were as follows:

WINNERS

Boys: Charlie McGoldrick
Girls: Rosie Flegg

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RUNNERS-UP

Boys: Mackenzie Brown
Girls: Angel Hillhouse

 

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Well done to you all for your effort and participation! It was a great afternoon, enjoyed by all.
P7s – Remember to bring your bike tomorrow for Bikeability!

Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Let’s get fit . . .

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SPORTS DAY: The P4-P7 sports are at 1pm TOMORROW

To represent your house group tomorrow, please wear your house group colour. Here is a reminder below:

ASHIE – Yellow

BROOM – Blue

DUNTELCHAIG – Green

RUTHVEN – Red

In the run up to Sports Day tomorrow, we had two players from Caley Thistle come in to do fitness training with us. Laura took so many photos, that we decided to make a video. Check it out below:

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ICT Fitness – CLICK HERE!

See you all tomorrow!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

What is an effective presentation?

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P7 – Remember your bikes and helmets for bikeability tomorrow!

What is an effective presentation?

It is most definitely NOT this cartoon . . .

Today we looked at what the success criteria of an effective presentation would be in preparation for our class talks. We will be talking for 1 – 4 minutes on the subject which we’ve done our personal project on. We watched a video clip (which the P7s saw last year, but we feel it is a great way of showing what we mean) which gave us some handy tips.

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Effective Presentation Video – CLICK HERE!

The video told us about the three Ps:
Planning, Preparing, Presenting

Planning – We’re lucky, we’ve done the hard work which was our personal projects – nothing to worry about.

Preparing – Over the next week, we’ll be preparing our class presentations, learning how to select the main points and write these in note form. We’ll then have time at school and at home to practise for our presentation. At this stage, we’ll want to make sure we’ve got any props which we’re using for our presentation.

Presenting – We’re looking for the following things in our presentations:

1. A clear, loud voice which is varied to keep our audience interested
2. Eye contact with the audience
3. Clear layout – a beginning, middle and an end

Tonight, you may want to have a think about what your main points are going to be, these may be a few of the chapter headings within your project . . .

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Eco Extravaganza Garden Party

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With now only two weeks to go until our Eco Extravaganza Garden Party, we’re extremely busy making the final preparations for the event. As you can see from the invitation above, the attire is POSH – bow ties and hair-fasteners will be warmly welcomed! Paper invites will come home tomorrow, however some letters have failed to reach home as of recent . . .

P6/7 Eco Extravaganza Garden Party

Monday 24th June 2013 – 1.30pm – 3pm
Mint Imperial Gardens – Lochardil Primary School

On the afternoon, we will be collecting donations of silver and bronze coins; the collected money will be used for materials for the sustained development of our garden.

All that’s left is to keep our fingers crossed for delightful weather!

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

What – a – week!

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Blink, and it’s gone. By ‘it’s’ we mean the week. This was an extremely busy and action packed one. Between Scottish Opera, Findhorn and Sports Practice, it’s reached Friday extremely quickly.

On Monday, we have some pupils helping at the P3 Tennis Tournament, and the Drummond Sports. We’re hoping that Mr O’Parka is going to be in on Monday also – so it will be a busy ‘un. 

What a glorious week of weather we’ve had – remember to check out the weather blog – Fergus and Cameron recorded it as 18 degrees this morning:

Weather Blog – CLICK HERE!

 

Our friends at Melville International School tried Irn-Bru this week after our recommendation. Check out the video in which you can see their reaction, drinking it for the first time. $3 (New Zealand Dollars) for a can – quite pricey indeed:

Melville Intermediate – Irn Bru VIDEO!

Have a fantastic weekend!!!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

The Pirates of Penzance

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P6s – Remember to bring  a packed lunch for your trip to Findhorn, along with a jacket and sensible shoes.

P7s – Come prepared with possible song lyrics tomorrow for our leavers’ song. The Loch Insh DVD is finished, and we’ll showcase it tomorrow morning!!

We enjoyed our trip to Eden Court for ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ – Unwrapped by The Scottish Opera company. We got to hear the performers sing, watch and hear the orchestra, and see how the fantastic scenery, lights and costumes add to the success of the show.

We even got to sing along during one of the songs …

If you’d like to hear a few extracts from the opera – please visit the link below:

Scottish Opera – CLICK HERE!

Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Fame – Fortune!

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Just a quick reminder that we’re at Eden Court tomorrow for Scottish Opera. We’re leaving school around 11.45am. Please make sure you’ve got a packed lunch with you.

We’re famous – after our FANTASTIC video that we made last week for our friends in New Zealand – as you can see from the post on Friday, many people from their school have commented on our video. The link that we’ve established with Melville Intermediate School is excellent – a brilliant way to learn about different cultures. They’ve written about us on their blog; some other schools have commented saying what excellent ambassadors you are for Scotland. Check out their blog:

http://melvilleroom8.blogspot.co.uk/

As part of our writing this week, we’re learning how to write an artist’s résumé – using humour. These are going to be ‘showcased’ at our garden party, along with our artwork. For homework for tomorrow, you have three tasks:

1. Choose a “posh” name
2. Select an “interesting experience” you’ve had as an artist – the more exaggerated the better
3. Give an “interesting fact” about yourself – this can be a white lie

Many of you have posted this on the blog already (we’re loving the suggestions so far) – it should be posted on the blog by tomorrow, ready for writing!

See you in the morning,
Count Cook, Madame MacLeod and Princess Prentice

Money Money Money . . .

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Money and Financial Education are an important part of Curriculum for Excellence. This week is Financial Education week within Maths. It is extremely important for pupils to have a concept of money, especially in today’s culture when many transactions take electronic form.

This week we are learning to:

  • Use money to pay for items
  • Know how to budget money effectively
  • Understand the term ‘overspending’

We are delivering this through stories which explore Financial Education themes, as well as using games and numerical activities.

Here are two games that you can play to explore Money further:
Chore Chart – CLICK HERE!
Money Wiz – CLICK HERE!

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice