On the 11th October  Inveravon Primary school held a school sleepover to raise money for school funds. Below is two recounts about it. 

School Sleepover        

It was the date of the school sleepover. For weeks I had been waiting for this to happen, and now, finally, the day had arrived. Quickly, I put my uniform on and scoffed my breakfast up like a hungry monkey. I couldn’t wait!!    

At school, the day flew by just as I hoped it would, and before I knew it the bell ran for home time. When I arrived at home, I jumped around impatiently, waiting for the hands on the clock to reach eight-o-clock. Finally, it reached eight-o-clock. I franticly packed my sleeping bag, pillow and my teddy, Barney, as I can’t sleep without him! It was going to be AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Excitedly, I leaped across the playground and burst into the doors. There, Mrs Smith welcomed Rowan and I into the school. We dumped our baggage and ran into the classroom. First on the agenda, Golden Time! We were supposed to have half an hour of Golden Time. That was at eight-o- clock. It was quarter-to-nine when Golden Time finished.                                                                                                                         

Next were games in the hall. My favourite game was musical statues. I like doing the funny dance moves and then stopping, like time had stopped. One of my other favourite games was musical bumps but the disadvantage in that game is that in the end your bottom is very  sore!      

Walking, torches and stars are what describe the next paragraph. Can you guess what it is? It was a midnight walk. If you guessed right, you must be able to read minds. If you didn’t, well never mind. We were walking to a field were we sometimes play Rounders. When we got there we turned our torches off and looked up. It was beautiful. The stars were twinkling above us and, boy, there was lots of “Ohhs” and “Ahhs”. I think I will treasure that moment for life.

 Back at school we read The Dinosaur Pooped Christmas. It was very funny! I didn’t notice that while we were reading, the teachers were preparing some food for us. I had some pizza, crisps and cocktail sausages. Yum, Yum! 

 Then we put our PJ’s on and put the crash-mats into the active-playroom to sleep on. We watched Rise of The Guardians for a few hours and when it finished we tried to get to sleep. I think I got to sleep at about one-o-clock in the morning, thanks to OLIVIA!!      

When we all woke up we put away our sleeping things and had breakfast. Then we got changed into our normal clothes and went home. I was very tired!! 

written by Fraser MacDonald

 The School Sleepover

“Mum, Mum” I shouted as I came home from school and ran into the house and gave my mum the note saying that we were going to have a sleepover, not just any sleepover one at school with all my friends and the teachers. I was so excited to go to school and have a sleepover with everyone that goes to school with me. Usually I only have a few friends over for a sleep over but this time with fourteen people and the teachers.

Finally the 11^th of October came round and that day of school seemed to go by very slowly because I was so excited. I was watching the clock hoping the bell would ring so I could go home and start packing for the night ahead of me. The bell rang eventually. Mrs Smith gave everyone a list for what to take to the school sleepover. I tidied up my mess and shot out of the room and got on my shoes and rushed to the door.

On the bus we all couldn’t stop talking about how fantastic the school sleepover was going to be. We all told everyone what onesies we were going to take and described what they looked like and how fluffy they were. When everyone was off the bus I was the only one left I was so excited I couldn’t keep still for one single minute. When Colin got to my house I said “bye” and ran into the door just like I did on the day when I told mum about the sleep over.

I started to pack, I got the list I was given at school and was ticking of the things I had in my bag, onesie, my teddy, torch, sleeping bag, book and pillow. I had everything to go to the sleep over. I had my supper and I grabbed everything I needed to go. And mum said “time to go Ali” I grabbed my bag and said bye to my dad and my sister and walked out the door and got into the jeep. I had never been so excited to go to school before in my whole entire life! Me and my Mum went to pick up Sinead and she was waiting at the road already so she must have been as excited as I was.

We got to school, the school seemed very different at night because I am usually there in the daylight. We only had the lampposts for light but not forgetting the bright moon and the twinkling stars.

I walked into the school and saw all my friends having fun and the teachers talking to the parents coming in. I put my bag down and went to the classroom and started to play with the knex that was all ready out and I made a family of different sizes with different connecters and rods. Mrs Smith came into the room and said “let’s go do some dancing in the hall.” We tidied up our mess and went into the hall to do some dancing.

First, we played musical statues and musical bumps it was funny with musical bumps because everyone landed really hard and they kept on saying “owwwww” and we all laughed and had fun. We did a dance called the Macarena and we managed to stay on time with the music as we never do.

Next, we went on a midnight walk it was quite cold and dark but we had torches with us so it wasn’t really dark. We had to be quite because we might disturb the wildlife and we had to listen to all the things around us. When we got down to the field we had to look up and see the stars. The sky was really clear so we could see millions and trillions of them witch was really cool.

Then, we walked back to the school and we got our jackets off and I got my cosy slippers on and we all went to the hall and had a midnight feast with, biscuits, sausages, crisps and juice. It was all very yummy and we finished our midnight feast.

After, we went to the active play room and I helped everyone get their sleeping bags out because they were all in very tight bags. A movie came on but I only got to see a little bit because my mum came to get me to go home. It was a very good sleepover and I had a good time with all my friends at night. Although that was my second school sleepover I think I enjoyed it the most.

Written by Alyce Farquharson P7

On the 7^th of October P4-7 went to Mortlach Primary School to have a taster session of rugby and orienteering. There were lots of people there from different schools. Aberlour, Craigellachie, Rothes, Inveravon and Dufftown Primary Schools all took part in the event.

First we did the rugby and I hit my toe on the rugby ball and it hurt a lot. Then we did the orienteering, when we were all in the woods I fell down a very steap hole and I thought it was very funny. I really enjoyed it and I was pleased that I had a go of the rugby.

By Alyce P7

Rugby and Orienteering

On Monday the 7^th of October Inveravon’s P4 to P7 went to Mortlath Primary to play Rugby and take part in Orienteering .My favourite part was Rugby because I got the tackle a dummy. I felt happy and dehydrated.      

Written by

Zander P5

On Tuesday 4th July we all embarked on our school trip to Landmark. We were lucky the weather stayed dry for us.

Great fun was had by all.

This week the Neil and John will embark on 2 Inductions Days at Speyside High School. This will be a massive change for them going from a school with 15 pupils to a High School with over 500 pupils. They will be joined by pupils from Rothes, Dufftown, Craigellachie, Glenlivet, Tomintoul, Aberlour and Knockando. We wish them well in this transaction.

Last week we were very lucky to have the Hop Scotch Theatre come and perform to us.

The show was all about how to keep our bodies healthy, they described how food is treated in our body.

We learned what happens to the food inside your body and how the bits of your body breaks up all the food. if you eat to much  bad food your heart pumps fast .  Because there not healthy foods. We learned that you have a spy called a auntie body. It gets rid of all the things that shouldn’t be in your body. The stomach breakes up all the food that has not been chewed properly so you don’t choke.

Glenlivet Primary and Knockando Primary also joined us to see the performance.

We used evaluating skills because we had to fill in a evaluation sheet and give it back to them.

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

On Thursday the 28th February the pupils of Inveravon Primary School held a Coffee Morning in aid of Micro – Tyco which is a charity that gives people less fortunate than us a chance to start a business.

We had a raffle stall, a bottle stall, guess the birthday, a jumble stall and a food stall. We were all responsible for the different stalls. There was a creche for any younger children that came along.

A lot of our community turned up for our event and we were very grateful for their support.

After we tidied up we counted the money. We learned to start with the notes first and then the coins with the largest amount . Including our Bring and Buy Sale and Obstacle- othon we raised £350.06.

As a class we have had great fun with this challenge and we have learned leadership skills,entrepreneural skills, team work, creative skills, discussion skills and ICT skills.

John and Neil p7