Collace Primary School

On Monday 25^th May pupils raised a fantastic £329.25 for school funds by running a Plant Sale in our local village hall.

In the months running up to the big day pupils enjoyed growing and caring for the bedding plants to get them ready for sale. Pupils worked hard to set up the tabletop sale which also included a tombola, cake & candy stall plus teas/coffees.

We invited the local community to come and enjoy an afternoon of fun with us and we were delighted by the amount of support we received. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of the day and to our Collace School Association (CSA) for helping us make it run so smoothly.

Collace Primary School are very lucky to have been given a baby bear to design for the ‘Bear’s Big Adventure Trail 2026’. Our little bear is part of the interactive sculpture trail coming to Perth and Kinross from 22^nd June to 2^nd September 2026.

The Bears will be strategically placed in streets, parks, and public spaces, transforming our community into an open-air gallery. Each Bear on the trail will be unique, designed and painted by talented artists and schools. The trail is in support of YMCA Tayside and the out vital work provisions we provide young people aged 8 to 25 across Perth and Kinross, many of whom come from a disadvantaged background.

First, we had to come up with a design for our bear. Pupils worked together to combine many different ideas into their chosen design which features the daffodils that surround our school in the month of April and May.

Next, we had to make our design come to live by adding it to our blank bear. Every single pupil worked on painting the bear with their own part of the design and the finished bear looks spectacular.

The only thing left to do was name our bear. After nominations and voting our bear was named – Bear Hop Snippleton.

We look forward to visiting Bear Hop Snippleton on the trail during the schools summer holidays and hope plenty of other people enjoy seeing him too.

On Saturday 29^th November we opened our doors to the community and invited them to take a tour of our school. Our pupils were fantastic tour guides and led our visitors around the school to show them our newly decorated classrooms and learning spaces and huge outdoor play area and grounds.

Our Collace School Association ran the Open Doors Day where we welcomed a mix of ex pupils and staff, members of the community and families for their tours. After the tours our visitors enjoyed teas, coffees and biscuits and chatting to school staff, pupils, neighbours and other members of the community.

We displayed our large archive of pupil registers and Head Teacher diaries dating back to the 1800s and lots of photos from over the years which were very popular with all our visitors.

It was a fantastic morning that continued to strengthen the link between our school and the community around us.

Just before the October holidays our pupils visited Perth Academy to experience the mobile planetarium provided by AERO SPACE Kinross. This was perfect timing as our P1-7 pupils had all been learning about space and our solar system as their topic in term 1.

The large 360^o 3D Dome gave us a tour of the night sky and we learned about the different constellations and their links to ancient Greek and Roman mythology. We joined Apollo 11 and its crew as they blasted off from Earth and landed on the moon then learnt about the experiments Neil Armstong and Buzz Aldren conducted on the surface.

We also visited and explored the surface of mars and Jupiter’s moon Europa. Finally, we joined Tim Peak on his journey from Earth to the International Space Station in real time seeing what he would have seen on the day.

The pupils really enjoyed their immersive travels in space and left the dome knowing even more about our solar system and space flight.

The pupils of Collace Primary School were thrilled to raise £538.35 at their Macmillan Coffee Morning on Thursday 26^th September. They attentively served their families, friends and members of our community with wonderful cakes and biscuits made by the pupils themselves. Those who were not serving worked hard in the kitchen doing the dishes, washing and drying hundreds of cups and plates. Fundraising was given an extra boost by the pupil running a very successful raffle on the day. Thank you to everyone who came along and helped us raise such an excellent amount for Macmillan.

On Monday 28^th October 2024 our entire school took part in a fancy-dress fun run at Kinrossie Village Park. Cheered on by families and staff, the P1-3 class were first off to start running in some wonderful costumes featuring superheroes to witches.

Then the P4-7 class left the start line and completed so many circuits around the park we lost count. Everyone put in their maximum effort and then after the race the pupils still had enough energy to enjoy a scavenger hunt around the park. The pupils did an excellent job of gathering in sponsorship with the final total reaching £546.50 for our school funds. It was a fun afternoon for everyone, and we are very proud of our pupils showing how dedicated and determined they are.