Tuesday saw four teams of six pupils taking part in the annual Moray Primary Schools Cross Country Races.  This year it was held at Buckie High School and about forty primary schools took part, with upwards of 160 runners in each race.

All four Applegrove teams were very successful.  The P4/5 boys and P6/7 girls teams placed third and the P4/5 girls and P6/7 boys were outstanding achieving first team places.

There were many Applegrove runners who placed in the top 25 of each race.  Individual race medals were awarded to David Spencer 2nd, Bruce Evans 3rd, Scott Perry 4th, Alistair Clark 5th, Erin McIntosh 6th and Lauren Anderson 7th.

Thank you runners for all your hard work, your excellent competition and upholding the school values of Resourcefulness, Respect and Resilience.

             Team Applegrove delighted with their performance at Moray Primary Schools Cross Country

On Saturday the 19th March a team of 16 pupils represented Applegrove at the North District Primary Schools Cross Country in Alness.

The boys team were second overall, with girls just missing out on third place.

Well done to you all for your fine performances.  Many thanks must go to your parents and teachers who supported you and got you to Alness.

Applegrove Cross Country Team for North District

Click here to read the March Newsletter .

It has been a very busy week for lots of people at Applegrove. 83 pupils in total took part in 15 different classes at the Moray Festival. Applegrove were heavily involved in the Speech and Drama classes and gained 17 Distinction and 29 Commended certificates. The children proved they are upholding the School values by challenging themselves and achieving high standards. They performed in an unfamiliar situation to the public with confidence. the Concert at the town hall on Thursday night was a great showcase of the talent we have. Well done to all who took part. Special thanks go to the teachers who gave up their own time to coach the children and to the PTA for funding all the entries and helping at the Concert.

A number of P3 pupils have taken part in a Story Club on Thursday afternoons. The children have enjoyed exploring lots of different books, chatting to new people about what they like to read and sharing their reading with the group.

Here are some comments made about the story club.

“I think its really good and it has wonderful books”

“It’s amazing” 

“It is amazing because it is fun to read and our brains are working hard”

“Story Club is fun”

Today Primary 4/5N went to Elgin Town Hall to perform in the Choric Verse category of the Moray Music Festival. The children have worked incredibly hard to learn the poem, “One Dark Night” and their hard work certainly paid off as they were awarded a Certificate of Distinction and 1st place! Well done 4/5N! Miss Noble and Mrs Lyall are so proud of you all and you should be too!

Huge congratulations to everyone at Applegrove who has taken part in the Festival over the past two days! An extra well done to Emily Thomas and Lewis Mackenzie for their Solo Poetry recitals and to all the budding actors and actresses involved in the Story-Telling performance, who were also awarded 1st place with Distinction! Good luck also to Lauren Anderson who will be playing piano at the festival later in the week.

If you would like to see some of these fantastic performances, please come and join us at our Moray Music Festival Concert on Thursday evening in Forres Town Hall.

A team of Primary 6 pupils represented Applegrove today at the Rotary Club Euro Quiz, held in Elgin.  Matthew Hepburn, Katie Standring, Bruce Evans, Roslyn McRitchie, Ben Shallicker and Talia Pearson have given up many lunchtimes and worked well as a team to become knowledgeable about all things Europe.  They know lots about flags, capitals, currency, car identifiers, iconic buildings, geography, European brands, sport and culture.  In addition they have built up an understanding of the European Union, which is very topical at the moment.  A big well done for all they have done.  The questions in the four rounds covered a very wide range of topics and Applegrove team scored 31 points.  Overall winners were Greenwards with 36 points.

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On Thursday afternoon, in beautiful sunshine, 181 boys and girls from P3 -7 ran in Applegrove’s House Cross Country

This is the first year that Primary 3 had a XC course set especially for them.  Mrs Meehan thought that the boys and girls were finished after 1 lap and was amazed that they all managed to run 2 laps! The children really enjoyed the experience and it looks like they will be up for further sporting challenges as they move through the school.  Very well done to P3.

The P4/5 course was about 1200m long. The girls race was exciting to watch, with a sprint finish from Erin McIntosh in the final few metres to take 1st place. Lauren Anderson 2, Kelsey Martin 3, Olivia Dawson 4, Faye Nichol 5 and Leigh Morris 6.   In the P4/5 boys race there was a close finish from Owen Royan, Lewis Mackenzie and Ben Ross for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.  Dylan Pinder 4, Ethan Lynch 5 and Decylan Dey 6.

The P6/7 year group covered a course of about 2400m. Ashley Donald had a very good run and came 1st, followed by Rosyln McRitchie 2, Isla Brain 3, Abby McKail 4, Jessica Nicol 5 and Alana Smith 6.  David Spencer pulled off another great run today and won the race, with Bruce Evans 2, Aidan Matthews 3, Scott Perry 4, Alistair Clark 5 and Lewis McIntosh 6.

Today some children ran in their first ever competitive cross country race.  Core PE, the Daily Mile, Monday Lunchtime Running Club, active playtimes and all the other activities you do showed in your endurance today.  Applegrove children showed a ‘can do’ mind-set today.  Cross country running is tough but you showed your determination and resilience and crossed that finish line!  Well done to all runners.

P3/4 H have made some adverts to help persuade you to buy their recipe book.