Please note the school trip date on the News letter put out should read
2nd July 2013 Not the 25th.
Sorry for the any inconvience
All posts by Mrs Duncan
May 2013
May 2013
Dear Parents and Children,
Thankfully the weather is beginning to at least pretend that it is spring and when the sun shines it is lovely. I do hope this continues.
Having enjoyed a brief period when Colin was able to get the children to school for the start of day “they” start digging up the road again at Marypark and we are back to delays and traffic lights. I am sure though it won’t last long this time and since Fulcrum and Carrillion employees came in to school to explain what they are doing to the children it all makes much more sense to them. In fact the children were fascinated by some of the information they received regarding the costs and timescales involved in carrying out such a task. The children also gained some very useful insight into career pathways and opportunities provided by these companies.
We also received a donation to help us develop our garden area so it turned out to be a very worthwhile afternoon for everyone.
Transition
Time is marching on and the diary is filling up quite quickly now. Our P1 induction days will start soon and James Grant will join us on Friday mornings to get a taste of what it will be like in P1. Knowing James I am sure he will have a great time and he will be made very welcome by his future classmates.
Our P7 boys have just embarked on a series of visits to and from Speyside High which started last week when Mr Picksley (Depute Head) showed them how to set up their e profile. Mrs Duncan will support them over the next few weeks as they add to it. Tomorrow (Tuesday) they will be joined by their P7 peers from Knockando to take part in an English lesson delivered by Rebecca Cowie from the English department. This will give them an opportunity to experience a wee glimpse of high school life. This will be followed up on June 7th when they go to Knockando to take part in a mock election led by Ms Juliet Presly (Depute Head) and some senior pupils from SHS and then on June 17th and 20th they will spend two days in the school which will be very exciting for them.
Fund Raising
We are all looking forward to the walk on Thursday morning and hope that the sun will shine. Please feel free to join us if you would like to. We are leaving Cragganmore as near to nine as possible as Colin will just take the children straight there (depending on the roadworks of course). I hope you have all been busy getting sponsors as the money we raise will go towards our end of term trip. The more we raise the more exciting the trip will be!
That same morning we are having the Bag2School collection so please make sure you bring any bags in to school on Wednesday afternoon. Much to my husbands consternation I am going to be having a right good clear out this weekend!
Visits
As part of our Health Promoting Topic we have enlisted the services of the Hopscotch Theatre Company again to put on a performance of “Hamish’s Healthy Nutrition Mission” on Thursday May 30th at 10am. We will be joined by the pupils from Glenlivet and Knockando for this and if the last performance was anything to go by they are all in for a real treat.
Staffing
As you know Mrs Ducrocq decided to accept a Principal Teacher Post in an Elgin school which she is due to start as of Monday June 17th when her maternity leave from Inveravon officially ends. Just last week I was informed about what would be happening to the post.
It will be offered to existing Principal Teachers in Moray who will lose their PT status following the budget cuts in March and as such Mrs Mailer would not be eligible to apply. Should no existing PT wish to transfer to Inveravon then the post will be opened out to the wider teaching community in Moray as a long term temporary appointment. I realise that this is far from satisfactory but all we can do at the moment is to wait and see what happens although I am confident that the situation will be resolved by the end of term. In the meantime I ask you to bear with me during this time of uncertainty and let us just all enjoy the remaining weeks of the term together.
I have attached a dates for the diary section for you to keep and I look forward to seeing you all soon.
Kind Regards
Head Teacher
May 2013
Dates for the Diary May 2013
May
Tuesday 21st SHS English Teacher visit to P7
Thursday 23rd Sponsored Walk 9am – all welcome
Bags2School
Friday 24th P6/P7 School Nurse Living and Growing Talk
Parent Council Quiz 6.30pm
Thursday 30th Hopscotch Theatre Company performance
Friday 31st P1 Induction 9.30 – 12noon
P6/P7 School Nurse Living and Growing Talk
June
Monday 3rd Local Holiday
Friday 7th P7 Boys Mock Election at Knockando
P1 Induction 9.30 -12 noon
Friday 14th P1 Induction 9.30 –12 noon
Monday17th P7 visit SHS
Tuesday 18th Sports Day at Glenlivet Hall 1.30pm
Thursday 20th P7 visit SHS
Friday 21st P1 Induction 9.30 – lunchtime.
Parent council Midsummer BBQ
July
Tuesday 2nd School Trip
Thursday 4th Leaver’s Assembly 11am
Friday 5th Last Day of Term School Closes at 2pm
E- portfolio
On Friday 10th May the p7s from Inveravon went to Knockando to do there E- portfolios. Mr Picksley from Speyside High School showed us a step by step guide to create them. Then we went back to school and added information to them. They are for our achievements and anything we want to share. This is an ongoing project.
Changing Places
On the 7th May 2013 the eco group made a path in the garden to show people our garden. The garden has been marked out with cones, the plan is to get the military to cut the grass and put in raised paths round the two wet areas.
We are changing our marsh area into a rockery with big boulders to sit on and different coloured stones. The marsh area is being moved to another corner of the garden.
While clearing the marsh area John one of the p7 pupils found a frog and named him Steven he was as big as a £2 coin and was like the skin of an Asian pear.
13th April 2013 – received from Australia
Hi Marion,
I had a look at their blog:) I couldn’t comment as it seems you can only comment if you have a “Glow account” registered.
But its all very interesting. I love the weekly facts. I learnt so much just by reading through that section alone!
I also adore the fact that the kids are getting involved in helping to save our wonderful planet. I read through all the activities they are doing under the Eco school section and they put a lot of adults to shame! Give them all a high five from me in Oz- they are very cool to be taking such good care of the planet.
I enjoyed reading about the “Wake Up Wednesdays” activity. I was actually a bit envious! I wish I had had those types of activities when I was at school. Queen was an awesome band and “We will Rock you” is an excellent song. maybe you guys can start your own “School of Rock” classes?
Anyway, good job and keep the rest of us posted on Invervon’s activities:)
xKali
Did You Know
1. Your brain thinks more at night than through the day!
2.Einstein once thought that if he was travelling at the speed of light , his image in a mirror would disappear!
Art
last week with Mrs Smith we made sheep pictures for art. We had to use different types of materials.
For the sky we used blue paint and added water to make it runny .
For the grass we had a piece of card and wrapped wool around it and then dipped it in green paint and dabbed it on to the paper to give a grass effect.
We then drew clouds on a seperate piece of paper then cut them out and put in water till wet it was then laid on to the picture for a while and then removed it. Then put the final details on.
Written by
Neil McWilliam
Wake up Wednesday
Last Wednesday we where having wake up Wednesday with Mrs Ferguson.
We had to take a skipping rope and a hula hoop each. Mrs Ferguson taste in music is excellent we danced to Queen “We will rock you”
lots of people were playing the air guitar, we were making the beat with our feet. We all had great fun and look forward to doing it again.
Written by Zander Durno
Edinburgh trip 23th April – 26th April
On Tuesday the 23th April the P6 & P7 from Craigellachie, Rothes, Knockando and Inveravon Primary’s departed for Edinburgh there was 53 of us.
Once we reached Edinburgh for our fun filled few day we were all issued a diary to write.
Day 1
We went to Deep Sea World. We saw lots of fish and sharks. First we went to the shark class and learned about lots of differant sharks. We learned how fast they swim and how different they look.
Then we went to Butterfly world, we got a chance to hold a tarantula, Python, Millipeed and a Butterfly. The Python felt dry and smooth, the Tranatula felt hairy and the Milipeed felt tickly.
When we got to the hotel we got changed and had supper. We had burgers and peas and chips. After supper we went bowling when we finished bowling we got a drink and went back to the hotel.
Day 2
We first went to the Castle, we saw the Crown Jewelsand there were also canons .
When we left the castle we went to Dynamic Earth we saw alot of cool things .After we went back to the hotel and we had supper. We had the choice of pizza or fish fingers.
In the evening we went for a ghost walk, it was not scary but was fun.
Day 3
On day 3 we went to the Museum we had a drama session about items from Egyptian time. We had a look around the Museum.
Next we went to the shopping centre we had to go around in groups of 3-5 this was our free time to look around the shopping centre and buy things if we wanted.
In the evening we went to an indoor climbing centre. We got split into groups to go on different walls.
Day 4
We visited the Zoo, we were able to see the GiantPanda’s, Black Jaguar’s, Lepoards, Tiger’s and Monkey’s.
In the Education Centre we were put in to2 groups for a compition on ewas the Monkey’s the other th e Lion’s. The task was to match the materials under certain chairs to the correct animal. The Monkey’s won.
Written by P6’s
Alyce Farquharson, Sinead Calder and Sam Maguire
