We were delighted to welcome Rev Iain Osborne to our school on Wednesday 30th September. Rev Osborne will be joining us on several occasions throughout the year for our Religious Observance Assemblies. The focus of this assembly was the story of Jonah and the Whale and he linked this to our school values. He then presented Values certificates to pupils who demostrated school values over the course of the term.
This year, once again, we had a fantastic crop of grapes from our polytunnel vine as well as some potatoes and apples from the garden. At their Pupil Council meeting the boys decided to set up a produce stall as an ACORNS Enterprise for this year. They harvested the grapes with the help from Donnie, our Janitor, gathered potatoes and collected apples from our apple tree. The boys then had to price up the items, divide them into bags and set up their stall. They then had to work out their profit after the event. Thank you to all who came along to support their venture – we hope you enjoyed our local produce.
On Wednesday 2nd September pupils in P5-7 took part in an English Medium Football Tournament with pupils from other EM schools in the Skye area. This was a 7 aside tournament open to all EM P5-7 pupils. The organisers made up teams with pupils from various schools.
The event received sponsorship from a local business and, as a result, there was a trophy as well as a reward for ‘Player of the Tournament’. This was a fun tournament and an opportunity for the boys to make new friendships and reconnect with others.
This year proved to be a bumper year for our polytunnel grape vine with a fantastic amount of grapes produced. The boys decided to hold a stall to sell some of their produce as an ACORNS Enterprise as they also had a good crop of potatoes which they had planted earlier in the year and a tub of apples from our garden apple tree. Thanks to Donnie for helping them with their harvesting – they are looking forward to selling their goods at their stall on Friday 11th September.
We are delighted to welcome back our P5-7 pupils who will be joined in the main school this year by our three new P1 pupils! This means that our school roll has doubled over the holidays – very exciting! We hope that our new pupils will enjoy settling in and learning their new routines over the next few weeks. In order to support them, the school operates a ‘Buddy’ system where each new pupil will be allocated an older pupil as a ‘Buddy’ – their Buddy can provide support and friendship and help them to learn the classroom routines as they settle in.
We are also delighted that we will have one new Nursery pupil who will be joining us at the end of the week.
Also pictured below are ou P1 pupils enjoying their first day at school – here they are pictured after their first core reading lesson. Links to UNCRC Articles 28, 29, 2
On Wednesday 1st July, we held our annual Prizegiving to celebrate the successes and achievements of our pupils throughout the session 2025/2026. We were delighted to be joined by our special guest, Mhairi MacDonald who will be retiring this year from her position as Area Quality Improvement Manager and we really appreciated that she took time out of her busy last few days to be with us and present our pupils with their prizes. The pupils received trophies and certificates for various areas of the curriculum including: Writing, Spelling, Numeracy & Maths, Reading, Gaelic, Wider Achievements, Kayaking and Junior Dukes. The nursery pupils were ‘graduating’ this year from nursery and will be moving up to P1 and they received certificates for successfully completing their nursery education. Pupils also receive a book which is chosen for them according to their interests and age and stage. Each Primary pupil also did a presentation about different aspects of learning covered throughout the year – our P6 pupil talked about our Reading Schools Journey, P5 pupil talked about our work on Rights Respecting Schools and our P4 pupil about our Wider Achievements this year. The boys played the Gaelic songs and tunes for which they won the silver medal for folk group at the Mod, the poems which they won silver medals for and the piano solo for which our P4 pupil won gold. Well done to all and thank you to all who came to celebrate with us. This links to UNCRC Articles 28, 29, 31, 2
Pupils in Raasay Primary and Nursery held their annual Sports Day on Monday 29th June. The boys had decided on a Football theme for the event – to tie in with the current World Cup which is taking place in the USA. They came up with some interesting challenges for the day including: football dribble race, keepie-uppies, kicking the ball the furthest and beat the goalie. The final event of the day was to be the grand finale – a Raasay World Cup. Scotland might be out of the running for the World Cup but we had our own version! With only having three boys in Primary School and four in Nursery, we relied on putting a call out for some willing volunteers to make up the teams. Many thanks to everyone who came along to spectate, encourage and take part. The boys were delighted to be able to be part of a team and managed to have a very competitive football match which ended in a close 7-6 result!
A huge thank you also to our amazing Parent Council who put on a fantastic spread of home baking and cordials to keep everyone refreshed! We finished off with our 100 square winners – thank you to all who contributed and congratulations to the winners. Links to UNCRC Articles 2, 31,
On Thursday 11th June pupils in Raasay Primary and Nursery visited the Museum of Island Life at Kilmuir. Pupils enjoyed learning about how people lived on Skye in the past and the various aspects of village life such as the shop, blacksmith, school and weaver. They also had an opportunity to feed the Highland Cows and enjoy a snack from the Deli. Links to UNCRC Articles 29, 31, 30
We are delighted that our art collaboration work on the project ‘Rain’ with the National Library of Scotland earlier this year is now on display in Edinburgh. Links to UNCRC Articles 30, 31, 29
Pupils in Raasay Primary once again took part in the local Skye Mod. This year they were competing in Poetry recital, Piano recital and Folk Group. They all did fantastically well and came away with individual medals in their categories and a share of the Oban Rose Bowl. Our P4 pupil won the gold medal for piano despite having taken up learning it very recently, our two older boys won silver in their poetry categories – and the three of them won Silver in the Folk Group section. The Folk Group medal was a particularly amazing achievement as they only put their group – the ‘Raasay Bluebells’ together a few weeks ago and started practising their medley with some input from our YMI tutor and lots of hard work. Despite having a few wobbles, they stuck at it and presented themselves so well that they achieved silver despite being up against more experienced groups. Well done to all. Links to UNCRC Articles 30, 31, 8
