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These cute felt covered ‘Pebble Pets’ are the ideal pet – no mess, no fuss and always there when you need them! Pupils designed and made their own felt covered pebble creatures, can you spot them hiding in the woods?

Pupils continuing with their Cross Country Training – and enjoying some lovely weather for it!

Today, in Forest School, pupils were learning to do some ‘God’s Eye’ weaving. This involved measuring lengths of stick and sawing them – they had to make sure both pieces were the same length. They then used colourful wools to … Continue reading →

Due to COVID restrictions, schools will not be gathering this year for the annual Skye Schools’ Cross Country Championship. However, High Life Highland have set up a virtual Cross Country which Raasay pupils will be taking part in. First of … Continue reading →

In our Forest School sessions the children have been working on their shelter-building skills.  They learnt how to tie a rope between two trees to make a taught ridge-line, using a hitch which could easily be undone, and made small … Continue reading →

Pupils at Raasay Primary School celebrated World Book Day by dressing as a character or theme from their favourite book. Pupils shared their favourite books with the class and enjoyed hearing from our cook, Tekela and cleaner, Ann about how … Continue reading →

The Forest School model originated in Scandinavia and involves learning outdoors in a regular, sustained basis. This helps to promote and support the social, emotional and physical development of children in an outdoor, preferably woodland,environment. This sits very well within … Continue reading →

Pupils are now well underway with their project ‘The Vikings’. Last week they took part in an online, live workshop where they learnt about Viking Gods and pupils enjoyed taking on the role of certain Gods for a Viking Saga. … Continue reading →

Every Tuesday and Thursday morning we join in ‘Wake up Shake up!’ with Amy Gallagher from High Life Highland. This is a fantastic online, live exercise session which really helps to set us up for the day!

At present, Raasay Primary School pupils are all learning online from home with their own Chromebook devices. They have their own online classroom and are meeting the challenges very successfully. The topic for this term is ‘The Vikings’ and pupils … Continue reading →