After learning all about growing plants and running a Garden Centre, the children from the Wee Room went on a school trip today. First we had some fun at the Play Zone in Inverness. Then we went for a tour of Dobbie’s Garden Centre. Take a look at the video below to see what we got up to today.
Monthly Archives: June 2015
June Newsletter
The latest newsletter is now available. It contains information on Staffing and the organisation of classes for next session.
Sports Day
Sports Day Update
Thank you to all who helped organise the two Sports days over the last couple of days. We managed to just dodge the rain so that both Sports could go ahead as planned. Special thanks to the PTA for supplying juice and crisps and for selling teas and coffees on the days. Thank you to the SFF helpers and the volunteers from Forres Academy Sports leadership course who helped the races run smoothly.
The final scores for the P4-7 Sports were
Stuart – 76
Douglas 60
Wallace – 93
Bruce – 99
…but you were all winners!
Duck Race Results
Thank you to so many of you who sold and bought ducks again this year. We sold almost 1281 ducks raising a huge amout for PTA funds. The ducks made their way (slowly!) down the Mosset to the finish line. Mrs Maclennan and Mrs MacIntosh got a bit wet but managed to catch them all before they disappeared under the bridge and headed to Findorn Bay!
The first duck home, winning £150 was bought by Amanda Fraser (sold by Sean Fraser 2F). Second place, winning £100 was bought by Marlena Wrobel (sold by Victor Stockzowski 2E) and 3rd place winning £50 was bought by Cenedra Robb 6W. The very last duck in wins £25 and was bought by Ellie McLeod. Ben Ross won the PINZ voucher by selling an amazing 216 ducks.
Summer Fete
A huge well done to all who organised, helped to set up and run the Applegrove Summer Fete on Saturday. Despite a terrible forecast we were lucky that the rain held off during the two hours of the fete and we were able to get some of the games outside. The fete was a huge success and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. The PTA are grateful to all families who came along to support the event. As well as raising money for the school the Summer Fete is an opportunity for pupils and their families to get together as a school community and have some fun so this year we decided to offer some free activities for the kids. Lots of fun was had welly wanging, archery, throwing beanbags at teachers faces and pillow fighting! Thank you for your contributions to the bottle stall on the dress up day and for buying so many ducks to make the duck race a huge success, once again.
The Sumner fete could not have been such a success without the hard work of the PTA, parent helpers, teachers and pupils who organised and ran the stalls. Many thanks again and see you next year!
P4/5 Tennis Tournament
Well done to the P4 and 5 tennis team who took part in the competition at Forres Tennis Club on Wednesday. They were excellent sports and their respectful behaviour was commented on by members of the public.
Applegrove Hockey Team Power to Victory
Kinloss Quasar Hockey Festival Sunday 7TH June 2015 – Applegrove’s hockey team, Dana McFarlane, Logan Stalker, Ben Cameron, Shay Ewing, Alice Reynolds, Ashley Donald and Isla Brain braved a very cold and wet Sunday morning to compete with 4 other teams at the Hockey Fesitval. With convincing wins over Quasar and Bishopmill 2, a hard fought contest against Bishopmill 1 ending in a 3-2 win and a 0-0 draw with Dyke they secured their place in the final against Dyke. Applegrove were triumphant scoring the only goal of the match and were delighted to pick up their gold medals and the trophy. A huge well done to you all . We are very proud of your resilience, motivation and achievement .
If I Were Prime Minister I would…..
Our Global Citizen ship group was called “If I Were Prime Minister…”
We learned how parliament works, and just what a hard job a Prime Minister has.
We watched this video…
We thought that we needed a Prime Minister because they would lead the country and make it a better place.
We thought that a Prime Minister would look after the country and make choices for everybody.
We thought that it would be hard to get people to agree with your argument especially when you were trying to get voted in.
If we did not have a Prime Minister we worried that there would be no prices for food, no school, no army, energy would run low, the country would get poor, it would be worse for global warming and there could be riots or huge fights in the street.
A Prime Minister would have to deal with Inequality, Injustice, Political Unrest, Global Poverty, Climate Change, and Sustainability!
We had a go at being Prime Minister and decided what we would do…
Below is a video showing just a few of our ideas.
