On the 11th day of the 11th month at 11am pupils from the P6 and P7 year group bowed their heads at the war memorial in Forres while Rev Prentice said words and prayers to remember the fallen.

One child from the Wee Room took special thoughts to the War Memorial on behalf of all his friends.

P4/5N enjoyed learning about Guy Fawkes and making our very own builder themed Guy for the bonfire at Grant Park.

We think he looks great! What do you think?

Monday 2nd November saw the first of the seasons dedicated running sessions for pupils of Primary 4 – 7. All 42 children turned out at 12:30 in running kit and were put through their paces by Douglas Cowie. The club will meet on the 9th, 23rd and 30th November and 7th December. Dates for the new year will be made known at the start of next term.

Primary 3 have been busy learning about the body.  They enjoyed collecting natural materials and creating skeletons.

A huge well done to the Applegrove Orienteering team who took part in the Moray  Orienteering School’s Championship at Gordonstoun on Thursday 8th October.  It was a beautiful day in a beautiful setting for the competition. In the boys competition David Spencer came first overall, just in front of Scott Perry who came a close second.  The boys team of David and Scott along with Max Carty and Lewis McIntosh came first in the boys category and  Ashley Donald, Isla Brain, Hope McIntosh and Kirsty Hartshorne came third in the girls section . This success meant that as a whole team Applegrove were the overall winners in the Primary School section. Considering the standard of Orienteering in Moray, this is a real achievement. Once again, all eight pupils managed the course with no missed punches which helped the team to achieve the overall success. The whole team’s respectful behaviour, resourcefulness and resilience made Applegrove very proud!

Sixteen pupils from Applegrove took part in the Forres ASG Orienteering competition at Grant Park on 1st October. We entered two teams who had to negotiate the course round the park and up into the woods on Cluny Hill. The teams were delighted to discover that they won the competition with some very impressive times. For most of the pupils it was their first experience of a competition like this and they did very well. Mrs Sircus was delighted to see that all 16 of the pupils found all the markers and had no ‘missed punches’ which is a great achievement.  The A team will take part in the Moray Schools event next week.

As each week goes by we are never failed to be amazed by the ingenious ideas that children have with such simple materials! We have the Flintstones car and cat walks to name two.

Matthew Hepburn and Cerys Farquhar Watt made a pan of porridge for their class on Wednesday. While they were doing this, a team of children prepared eight different fruits and made a fruit salad. Amazingly all the children in 6W loved porridge an d fresh fruit salad. Aiden Phimister even came back with his porridge bowl asking “Please can I have some more?” After all their food preparation I think the class now know what a healthy balanced diet looks like!

We went outside and used lots of different things to show that it was 10.30 and time for playtime!