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On Thursday the P5 to 7 children were extremely lucky to have a visit from Stuart MacDonald at MacLeods. MacLeods are celebrating their 50th anniversary this and are undertaking 50 special things throughout the year for themselves and the communities they serve. As part of this, Stuart came in and

The P5 to 7s represented us on Wednesday at this fantastic event which was part of Scottish Learning For Sustainability Week. They took part in an exciting range of indoor and outdoor STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) activities and discovered the learning and employment opportunities rooted in the lands

We were incredibly lucky to have not one but two family members come in this week to talk about their work, following on from Lorna MacArthur’s brilliant information session last week about being a teacher. Lorna showed us the items that are essential for a teacher to have in their

P5-7 have been continuing to work hard on their understanding of STEM. Over the past few weeks we have been learning how to make a water wheel, a hydro scheme, batteries (from pennies, cardboard and vinegar) as well creating the beginnings of our sustainable school for the STEMOVATORS competition. We

As part of our challenges for Comic Relief, the children have each been taking care of an egg for the day, without putting it down (unless it is left in the care of another trusted person for a short time) or cracking it. As of lunchtime, the children have been

This week has seen a lot of outdoor activity with soft start taking place in the sunshine and lunchtime Farm Club seeing the children washing the tractor wheels, establishing the farm to keep animals and planting cress, micro-greens, parsley and chives. Art club was equally busy with some extremely impressive

For World Book Day on Thursday, P1-7 shared their favourite book characters with one another. They then partnered up to create a new, unusual story, for example: The adventures of Wednesday and Miss Honey, Captain Ahab and Dog Man and even Bart Simpson and Matilda.The pupils searched the playground for

This was the most fantastic learning experience, for pupils and staff alike. Arthur Ker gave an utterly captivating reading of stories from his book “Close Encounters in the Forest” and explained about the making of the book. He also answered questions from the P5 to 7 pupils about his varied

This week we are  particularly grateful to Miss Logan, who organised a visit from Mia Leng (an ex-Tayvallich pupil) from SAMS on Monday 24th February. P1-4 were so lucky to have Mia talk to us about all things life below water, which links closely to our Life Below Water (Global

On Thursday 30th January, we had an excellent afternoon out learning all about the work that our parents Sandy and Eilidh Campbell do with Venture West and the hydro schemes they run. The children experienced and learned so much and we are hugely grateful to Sandy, Eilidh, their staff and

Our new  lunchtime clubs are really taking off. Today the children and Miss Fraser had lots of fun and learned new skills in Technology and Art club.

Our Open Afternoon in the ELC today was well-attended and we were so proud of the older pupils, who helped with preparations for the afternoon and to the younger class, who went across and played beautifully with our visitors. Many thanks also to Eileen and Isla for coming back for