Nettie was very eager to share high-fives and hugs with P4/5C, who were more than happy (and excited!) to oblige.

Primary 4 having fun trying out some new badminton skills with the lovely team from Badminton Scotland.

P5 getting to try out a variety of badminton skills and tricks all under the watchful eye and expert tuition of Badminton Scotland.

P4/5C had the opportunity to put their numeracy and money skills to the test by organising and running a very successful enterprise event on Wednesday, 1st February 2017. The pupils worked well together to arrange the donated books into different price groups and then count up the takings at the end of a busy morning. Thank you to all who donated books and to those who purchased books. We raised a grand total of £200.53 and discovered some potential expert sales people of the future!

P4/5C visited Forres Town Hall on Friday, 27th January to enjoy activities organised by the SHEN Foundation to celebrate Chinese New Year. The children were able to try activities such as plate spinning, Chinese calligraphy writing, learning Chinese numbers 1-10 and some had fun trying on costumes. We were also treated to an action packed show with acrobatic performances.

In Numeracy recently P6/7M have been investigating number patterns. We have been investigating the rules for square, triangular and cubed numbers and using this to then continue the sequence.

We also looked at Pascals Triangle and worked out the rule for continuing it. In the pattern we were also able to spot triangular numbers, odds and it was interesting to see the patterns made when we identified multiples of 3, 5 and 7.

The pictures below show us working together to investigate cubed numbers.

We built 3D shapes and counted how many faces, edges and vertices (corners) they had.

On Friday, P7 pupil Bruce Evans travelled to the Dollan Aqua Centre in East Kilbride to participate in the Scottish Schools Swimming Finals.

Bruce competed in the 50m Fly final and achieved a PB with a time of 37.76seconds. He was placed 11th overall and was pleased with his result.

Congratulations Bruce 🙂

His swim can be viewed by following this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K844M8B-4_w (his swim is about 28minutes in)

On Friday, P1M, P1/2KH, P2/3E, P4FL, P4/5C, P6/7M and P7H visited the Town Hall to participate in some Chinese New Year Activities.

On arrival the pupils were all given Red Lucky Money envelopes containing a Chinese coin, during Chinese New Year it is tradition to give children these. There were displays of Lion Dances, Tang Soo Do, Fan Dancers, a Trapeze Artist and Parkour. There was also the opportunity to try out some Chinese letter writing, learning to say chinese numbers, plate spinning and colouring actitivites based on Chinese symbols and pictures of Chinese New Year. Many also mastered the skill of using chopsticks and got to take a piar home!

Many thanks to The Shen Foundation for putting on this wonderful experience.

P6 and P7 celebrated the life of the Bard, Robert Burns with their very own Burns Supper this evening.
They have spent the last two and a half weeks planning and preparing the evening for themselves and a guest – a total of 150 people!

After learning all about a Burns Supper and the life and works of the great man himself, a programme of traditional entertainment was devised. Letters were written to local business for the provision of the food and drinks. Many thanks to Frasers Butchers for the Haggis, Mr Ker for his kind donation of the Neeps, Mr Rhind for the Tatties, Walkers for their kind donation of the Shortbread and Oatcakes and Tesco for their kind donation of the drinks. Mrs Maclennan, Mrs Stables and Mrs Stalker also kindly offered their time to prepare and cook the meal.

In the afternoon, the hall was organised and the tatties prepared. Tables were set with placemats, Bill o’ Fayres and displays of work the pupils had produced were around the room. Everything was set for the evening ahead.

Once everyone had arrived the evening began. Cerys, the Master of Ceremonies, welcomed everyone and called for the Haggis. This was piped in by former pupil, Lily Carmichael. Lewis and Annmarie then gave the ‘Address tae the Haggis’ followed by the Selkirk Grace. The teachers became the waitresses and everyone was served their Haggis, Neeps and Tatties which went down very well. Connor then gave a humorous ‘Reply fae the Haggis’.

This was then followed by the ‘Immortal Memory’, a tribute to Robbie, given by Chloe, Leigh and Josh. The choir then beautifully sang ‘The Deil’s Awa’ wi’ the Exciseman’ which was written by Robert Burns. Next came the ‘Toast to Lassies’ given by Zack, swiflty follwed by Caitlyn’s ‘Reply fae the lassies’. P7H then took to the stage to give a recital of Tam O’Shanter.

Erin, Lauren and Olivia then gave a Highland Fling display which was followed by Harris, Ben, Samuel, Mckenzie, Dylan, Diarmuid and Finlay reciting their own poems in the style of Burns. Aidan then recited a poem in Gaelic called Alba. Next was time for some more dancing as Morgan, Claire, Elle, Katie, Talia, Leah, Roslyn, Abbie, Bruce, Aidan, Cameron, Maryann, Caitlyn, Rebecca, Anya and Alisha performed an Eightsome Reel.

Everyone then joined in with Auld Lang Syne to round of a ‘richt guid nicht’!