1st- Orrin B for his biography on the inspirational Albert Einstein. Orrin’s biography had catchy sub-headings, an interactive display of information, and eye catching images.
2nd- Finlay M for his biography on Bill Gates. Finlay’s biography had an array of personal touches which made it stand out from the crowd.
3rd- Aimee F for her biography on Zara Phillips. Aimee used chapters within her biography to enhance her layout. The balance between images and information is just right.
1st- Cody C for her biography on Jessica Ennis. Cody’s biography was well presented meeting all the criteria which the judges marked against. Her front cover uses sparkle, which instantly catches the reader’s eye.
2nd- Catherine H for her biography on Mary King. Catherine’s passion for horseriding shone through in the amount of effort she put into her biography.
3rd- James H for his biography on Mohammed (Mo) Farah. The layout of James’ biography using sub-headings, images and information, which was both interesting and eye-catching secured him a place in the top 3.
Over the last fortnight, we had the job of applying to become one of Santa’s elves. Unfortunately his poor elf Dobby lost his Christmas spirit, and took early retirement from the North Pole.
Tuesday 18th December – P7 Party!
Thursday 20th December- Last day!
There are many un-named items in lost property. Most of them have been there for at least the past term. These items will be available in the school reception area from 2:30-3pm Mon 17th Dec – Thu 20th Dec. Following this all unclaimed items will be put to the Blysthwood box.
Have a fantastic weekend- sledge safely!
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Mr Cook was a bit of a scrooge yesterday, but Mrs MacLeod and Mrs Prentice have both twisted his arm into liking coloured Christmas lights, and tinsel! You never know, he might even put one of these up in his house this year!!
The P7 choir had their first rehearsal with the Drummond children today. They will have their dress rehearsal tomorrow, and then the concert on Friday. Thank you to Mrs McRobert for volunteering to help!
Today our busy little elves frantically filled out their application form for a chance to work with Santa Claus this Christmas. Fingers crossed he chooses someone from Lochardil!
There are some strong contendors, just remember never to make the mistake that Mr Cook made.
The Christmas post-box is here!! 
James and Morven– James and Morven took on the leadership role this month of organising the book fair, with minimal guidance. Everyone agreed that they did an excellent job, the event being a fantastic success.
Danni– Danni has been described as a ‘fantastic friend who is always there for you’. A great friend to his peers, as well as polite and helpful to his teachers.
Clic Sargent phoned to let us know that a massive £89.01 was collected while the choir were singing at Tesco. They are extremely grateful of the support which the P6/7 choir members gave them on Tuesday. A certificate will follow from Clic Sargent which will be displayed in reception.
This afternoon we had a visitor, Robert from Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE). He came to talk to us about climate change and global warming within the energy industry.
Robert was very impressed with all the prior knowledge that the pupils had, he awarded some FANTASTIC prizes to those who answered his questions well.
Our challenge now is to show our Rock Challenge audience what we mean by global warming. The technologic scene at the beginning will take into consideration some of the things that Robert mentioned.
Yesterday we sent out our letters, telling you about our Christmas parties. Copies of these can be found below if they’ve managed to come loose on the way home.
P6 Party Letter
Missing JacketSee you in the morning!
Mr.Cook, Mrs MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
Today we had M&M Monday in Lochardil. We kicked off the day with M&Ms production of Pinocchio! Their use of popular songs in their show was fantastic, including songs from some of our favourites- Katy Perry and One Direction!
The underlying message from the production was:It was great to see all of the effort people went into when creating their biographies. Today we got to look over the biographies that others had made. When Mrs MacLeod is back, we will be choosing our 3rd, 2nd and 1st place winners for P6 and P7.
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Monday- M&M Productions are coming to put on Pinocchio for the school. £2 to be given to register teacher.Tuesday- Choir are going to Tesco Inshes to sing Christmas Carols. They will be performing around 11am if you’re able to go and give them some moral support!
Wednesday- Open Afternoon 2pm – 3.15pm. Come in an join the fun! We’ll be playing our Climate Change Games. You can also check out our wonderful art work.
Thursday- Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) are coming to talk to us about Climate Change within the energy industry.Have a lovely weekend!
Mr.Cook, Miss Grant, and Mrs.Prentice
After two days of gruesome auditions with Louis, Tulisa and Nicole (Gary felt Inverness was too far to travel!) our auditionees for the two main parts in Rock Challenge were put to their tests.
In the first round of auditions we had 22 auditionees. We managed to narrow this down, where we took 8 auditionees onto the ‘Lunchtime Camp’. We then narrowed our 8 auditionees down further to 4 which we brought to the ‘Judges Classrooms’
Well Done to EVERYONE who auditioned. It was a very dificult decision for us to make our decision!
REMEMBER: Home baking for the Christmas Fayre tomorrow!!This week, we’ve been developing the skill of UP-LEVELLING. With our 4 friends in writing- Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation- we’ve been having a go at turning simple sentences into fantastic pieces of work.
We’ve learned how to us:See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Miss Grant and Mrs.Prentice
Mr Cook’s register class watched part of ‘Horrible Histories’ this morning whilst the other two register classes finished evaluating the Weather Reports. In preparation for our writing on Wednesday, we continued to UP LEVEL sentences. We did this by using adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases and clauses. We’ll continue to work on this tomorrow.
Well done to Betsy who switched on the CHRISTMAS LIGHTS in Inverness last weekend. See the article by clicking the link below:
See you all tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Miss Grant and Mrs.Prentice
Specialist group A have been very busy with Mrs Prentice on a Friday afternoon. So far they have completed some fantastic Autumnal leaf paintings which glimmer in the sunshine, as well as pencil sketching.
We finally begun reviewing our weather reports that we filmed at the end of the term. Our task was to peer assess each of the clips and write positive feedback, as well as decide on next steps. Some of us have still to finish this tomorrow. The weather reports are truly fantastic, and can be watched by clicking the link below. You will need the password which you were told today.
We also were fortunate enough to have players from Inverness Caley Thistle visit us, and talk to us about bullying. They shared some personal stories, and told us we should say NO to bullies, and walk away. We asked some sensible questions, but maybe would have benefitted from creating these before.
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Our Climate Change board games are now complete. We will be showcasing our games at the Open Afternoon on the 5th of December, where we invite parents/carers into see how much hard work we put in with our teams.
We were extremely busy today beginning with our Rock Challenge planning. Our choreographers have begun creating the routines, the design team have been planning out scenery and outfits, and the technical team have begun thinking about lights, sound and video.
Last week, the school was set the competition by James.H and Morven.R to design a book which could be used with Nursery children.
The amount of effort that people went to across the school to create their books was MAMMOTH! It was a difficult to decision, but the winners have now been informed. The prize was £25 of tokens to spend at the book fair!
We now hope to share some of the stories with the Nursery!
NO HOCKEY AFTER SCHOOL CLUB TOMORROW- MRS CAMPBELL WILL NOT BE IN SCHOOL TOMORROW
This afternoon we got to grips with our Rock Challenge song list working together as the P6/7 TEAM. We still have to plan our introduction in more depth, to make sure we HOOK our audience in from the opening. We enjoyed having Mr Slack in for assembly today. He did an assembly on TEAMWORK.
See you all tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
Thank you to everyone who ‘Wore it Spotty’ for Pudsey today. All of our efforts will help the national total which will be announced tonight on Children in Need.
WELL DONE to all of the P7s who COMPLETED their Assessment for Excellence INKY assessments this week! A mammoth task. We hope you enjoyed doing them.
Excellent organisation of the book fair from James and Morven. Thank you to all the P7s helpers who assisted at their allocated slot!
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