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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 →

Pupils enjoyed their final school lunch of the term – which included a fantastic ‘Santa Pancake’ pudding! Tekela, our school cook, showed the pupils an example using pancakes, cream, strawberries, grapes and fondant icing and then they all had fun … Continue reading →

Pupils in Raasay Primary School wrote and produced their own Christmas Video – ‘Shine a Light’ instead of their usual live Christmas Show. The video was premiered on the Raasay Residents’ Facebook page at 7pm on Monday 21st December. This … Continue reading →

This year, given the current restrictions, the pupils enjoyed some online Christmas fun including an online Panto – Robin Hood and his Socially Distanced Men! They then joined lots of schools across the highlands for a live, interactive production from … Continue reading →

After a fabulous Christmas lunch produced by our wonderful cook, Tekela – the children all enjoyed the usual party fun. They had planned their own party and decided on the games and running order. The day was then rounded off … Continue reading →

Each year Raasay Primary School provides a fabulous hamper of goodies – all sourced from our local Community Shop – as a free prize draw to one lucky winner. The names of each household on the island were put into … Continue reading →

We all know that this year Christmas is going to be very different – however, Santa still found a way to pay the Raasay School Children a visit! He took time out of his very busy schedule to make a … Continue reading →