Burravoe Primary School

We had a Nativity Show on Monday 11th December.

Thank you to everyone who came along, and a special thank you to Any for taking the wonderful photographs.

We raised £67 in donations, and will share this between school fund and P7s chosen charity this year, Paige’s Musical Butterflies 

Thank you to everyone who came to our coffee morning.

We raised £105 in donations to MacMillan, and £41 for our raffle. This is a grand total of £146 for MacMillan.

We also had £17.76 in donations for our home grown onions from the school garden! We will use this money for school fund. Thank you everyone!

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Today the 14/2/23 we had a coffee morning. On Monday had to decorate, make posters, hand out invites, find some recipes to make, bake fancies, some of our school baked at home and that’s what we did to prepare. Today we did what we planned we set up table cloths on the tables, put out the decorations, made Valentines  day cards, welcomed our guests, gave out raffle tickets, got donations, after the coffee morning we had to clean every thing up. The reason we got a donation box was for the P7 and P6s is for there Loch Insh trip. We counted the donations and the money from the raffle we counted up the money and we got 1051.99£!

On Saturday last weekend the Guy Fawkes bonfire night happened, I personally think that it went well the firework display went well and nobody got hurt. The bonfire also was great and warmed everybody up and it burned for a good long time.



Also, an important thing to mention was that this year Burravoe school donated £50 of their yell show money to give, to buy more fireworks for the display.



If you would like to know more about the upcoming events in Burravoe please visit the burravoe school website. Here is the link https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sh/burravoeprimaryschool/

Also here is our twitter as @burravoeps

Gloup and Cullivoe visit 

Today I cycled to school and went inside. Everybody was getting ready for a visit to the Gloup memorial, this was because we have been doing some local history topic. Soon me and everybody else were ready to go with our snack. Although we also needed to drive to Gloup so we all sorted each other into all the cars, I went in Mrs Hays with Thorfinn. The drive to Gloup is about a 35 min drive, we also passed Mid yell and Cullivoe on the way. Eventually we got close to the Memorial then walked about 200 meters and soon we were all reading the names on the statue. The Gloup Memorial Is a statue of a woman holding a baby looking out to sea, and this is because on June 20th, 1881, the Gloup disaster happened. What the Gloup disaster is, is every year (they stopped doing this after the Gloup disaster) there was something called the Half fishing, basically one week they choose a bunch of good sailors and fisherman and the next they might already be taking there Sixareens (boats for six people) down to the beach and rowing away into the deep sea they also went about 40 – 60 miles out. The year that this happened they decided to do the Half fishing at Gloup so on that morning of the 20th of June they set out they also believed that it would be a nice day but far out there was a big, big storm. Only some men survived but most didn’t, and all the boats were severely damaged. That day a lot of families and children were left without dads and maybe even older brothers. After a Quick recap of Mrs Hay telling us what happened, we ran down the hill to the beach where once the men had laid their boats ready for the Half fishing. Later we also had a small visit to Cullivoe school for snack and a play, we stayed there for about an hour we also talked a bit more about the Gloup memorial. Then we left and got back to School.