Our new cook Stacey started this week. she will now be making our lunches in the school rather than having to send them over from Happyhansel. We want to say a big thank you to Dawna for helping out when we didn’t have a cook.

We all returned refreshed after our Christmas break.

Monday 16th December was our Christmas performance all pupils from Nursery to P6 pulled out all the stops to give the audience two great shows.

Firstly Nursery gave everyone a tremendous rendition of The Wonky Donkey.

Primary 2 to 6 then gave us Little Red Riding hood.

The whole school came together to help fundraise for the Nursery outdoor area.

We held  Sunday teas on 24th November.

The primary bairns made crafts to sell and donated some of their profits to support the nursery.

We were very pleased to find that we had made £120 profit.

We used the opportunity to work with real money. Everyone helped work out the total for our stall and for the nursery.

In total the teas made over £600

We decided to help nursery by doing some crafts to support them get money for their outdoor area.

We produced lots of different things.

we all made beeswax candles, unique pieces of art, gift tags and Christmas decorations.

The hand-rolled candles were made from sheets of beeswax. We had to leave them in a warm place to help them roll without cracking. Our biggest problem was that we ran out of wick. it looked like the five metres that we ordered was only four metres. Luckily we were saved by someone else who makes candles.

Here are some examples of our work.

We have been lucky to have some expert training in carpet bowls.

John and Jean Jarmson come in once a week to help us improve

We like trying out other sports in Skeld as each person might enjoy something different. Our school has two mats and two sets of bowls so we can always carry on when our sessions are over.

We have all been learning about what remembrance means. we listened to a rare sound recording of the time when the guns fell silent. We also wrote a class Acrostic poem on Poppies. as well as did some artwork around the thought of remembrance.

We then wrote our own poems using either an Acrostic or an idea of our own.

The bairns listened carefully to a talk about the Shoebox appeal and came back with a lot of Wrapped shoeboxes.

They are being picked up later today

Pupils in the school sold bulbs to help raise funds for the MRI Scanner.

We sold all fifty of them to school staff and to our family and friends.