On Wednesday, 20 August 2025, John Swinney visited our school to meet with our nursery department and speak with community members about the impact of participating in the Early Adopter Community.
The project, which has been running for around five years, has provided access to childcare within our nursery department for two-year-olds. Its aim is to support families by providing childcare places within our nursery, that enable parents to access employment—something that had been limited due to the lack of childcare options across our island.
We had much to celebrate at our whole school assembly this week.
We are delighted to share we are now a Reading School. This accreditation highlights our schools commitment to developing a love for reading across our whole school community.
We are also proud to share that we have achieved our Silver Rights Respecting School Award, recognising the importance we place on children’s rights in our school.
Both the Upper Primary and Lower Primary classes have been awarded Brilliant Brushers certificates from our school dental check ups.
Our S2 pupils were awarded “Young Stem Leader” certificates for their participation in STEM workshops this term.
Daisy, in S3, received a special promotional copy of the Generation Archives from Rachel Boxall as she was the secondary pupil who took out the most books from our library this year.
Our S3 French pupils have prepared presentations about celebrities. The presentations included slides with clues about each celebrity for guest judges to play “Guess Who?”
It was a fun and engaging way to demonstrate their learning, including their use of different tenses.
On Wednesday 4 June 2025 we went to visit the NHS bus which is used for training actual NHS staff!
We hadtocompletean escape room and finish the tasksbefore the time wasup.We learneda lot of things, including how to dress a baby after itsbirth, practicedCPR, how to give air to a person who’s not breathing, and stuff about EpiPens.
We learned that you loose lots of heat out of your head so that’s why lots of babies wear hats.
We were doing CPR on dummies andlearning about why they might be shocked and how to give them to someone if the person is unresponsive.
We learned about EpiPens, why, how and when to use them.