Dates for your Diary
Week beginning 16th and 23rd March - Big Walk and Wheel weeks. Tuesday 24th March - Community Curling event. Safe, Strong and Free sessions during Nursery on 23rd, 30th March and 2nd April. Wednesday 25th March - outing to Skye Alpacas followed by lunch at Skye Candle Centre Portree. Thursday 26th March - Parent Open Afternoon. Thursday 2nd April - Easter Egg painting and hunt at Raasay Walled Garden and school closes for the Easter holidays. Monday 20th April - School re-opens.Calendar
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Feisgoil
Feis nan Gaedheal’s Feisgoil delivers language, music, arts and cultural services to schools, local authorities, public bodies and community groups across Scotland. The objective of the ‘Learn Gaelic at School’ programme is the retainment and attainment of the Gaelic language … Continue reading
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Cross Country
On Tuesday 2nd May P4-7 pupils took part in the annual Skye Schools’ Cross Country event in Portree. As you can see – the sun was shining for us and it was a perfect day to be outdoors. The pupils, … Continue reading
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Go Noodle
In our first week back we have been using a website called Go Noodle. We signed up and now we can pick a video and dance along to it. There are dance videos, fitness videos and cool down videos. So … Continue reading
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Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust
On Thursday 27th April Nursery – P7 pupils had the opportunity to attend workshops on the ‘floating classroom’ the Silurian which berthed alongside the pier. The 90 minute workshop was led by expert marine biologists and educators and began with a … Continue reading
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Happy Easter
Before we broke up for the Easter Holidays pupils enjoyed a fun Easter egg hunt which involved finding eggs and fluffy chicks from the rhyming clues! What a surprise when ‘Polly’ the Easter lamb also turned up for a visit … Continue reading
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Poly Tunnel Open Day
Pupils in Raasay Primary school recently participated in the Highland Council’s Carbon Clever Challenge which was organised to celebrate 10 years of the WWF’s Earth Hour. The pupils’ entry was a short film, highlighting the importance of taking responsibility for … Continue reading
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The Big Pedal
Raasay Primary School signed up to the cycling challenge ‘The Big Pedal’ run by the charity Sustrans. This is the biggest two-wheels challenge in the UK and over 100 schools in Scotland have signed up. The aim is to get … Continue reading
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Red Nose Day
On Friday 24th March, pupils dressed in red and sold Red Noses to raise money for Red Nose Day 2017. Thank you to everyone who supported us – we raised the fantastic total of £122.00.
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STEM
On Wednesday 8th March, Nursery to P7 pupils at Raasay Primary School had the opportunity to take part in some STEM outreach sessions organised by the UHI and Portree High School Science Department. Senior pupils from Raasay, who are currently … Continue reading
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Our Carbon Clever Movie
On Monday 13th March, Seonaidh MacKenzie from BBC Alba, came to our school to help us with our submission to the Carbon Clever Earth Hour Challenge organised by Highland Council. The brief was to produce a short film (very short!) … Continue reading
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