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This year, we will have 5 Raasay Primary School pupils representing the school at the annual local Gaelic Mod. Pupils will be competing in various competitions including traditional song, poetry recitation and violin. This is the first time in recent … Continue reading →

This week pupils are planting beans to learn what conditions they need to sprout and grow. They planted one bean without soil, one without water, one without light and so on – to see what conditions are required for growth. … Continue reading →

On Wednesday 25th April, we had a visit from Ann Larkham who comes each year to do K’Nex workshops with the pupils. For pupils in P4-6 the workshop was ‘Programmable Robots’ – see the report below by Nelly Blair P5. … Continue reading →

As part of Global Citizenship and RME, the pupils have been studying Fair Trade and how we can help Farmers in other countries by purchasing Fair Trade goods – which tasted lovely as we had a taste of them! Please … Continue reading →

Biodiversity in our Art This term our focus in Art is mixed media where children have the opportunity to extend their skills using various materials to make collage, using texture in man-made and natural materials. Develop the skills in overlapping … Continue reading →

On the last day of term pupils enjoyed lots of fun Easter activities. These included Egg decorating, cake decorating, Easter lino printing with Fiona Stone and the Easter story. We also had an Easter Egg Hunt round the playground, following … Continue reading →

On Friday 23rd March, Raasay Primary School took part in Sport Relief and raised a whopping total of £142.75! Pupils came to school dressed in their sporty outfits or dressed as their favourite sports star. They then went out and … Continue reading →

By Tabby Carslaw P6 On Tuesday 20th of March pupils and parents visited the mobile dome Planetarium which was set up at the hall. When we arrived they were still blowing up the dome but while the dome was blowing … Continue reading →

We are continuing to work on our Gaelic Placenames map with Caroline Deer, the Community Arts worker for the project. These workshops are provided by Aros’ year-long community arts programme for Skye and Raasay: Tha Seo Math Dhuibh – Good … Continue reading →

We are grateful to Iona MacKinnon who is very kindly providing an excellent weekly After School Sports Club. At present they are focusing on Basketball skills as the P5/6 pupils will be attending the annual Basketball Festival at Portree High … Continue reading →