Raasay Primary School

Pupils at Raasay Primary School will shortly be undertaking a project to make a short film about Raasay. They will be looking at all aspects of life on the island; tourism, jobs, the environment, community life etc. In order to make a quality production, they have recently purchased a film/video camera using some of the funds raised from the Coffee Day. They will be learning how to use the camera and then to edit the film to produce the finished article. We look forward to sharing our film with you when it is complete.

On Friday 24th January Raasay pupils celebrated Chinese New Year. As part of the celebrations, pupils helped to prepare a Chinese themed lunch with Annabelle. Based on their menu choices, previously discussed in class, the menu consisted of: chicken in black bean sauce, vegetable stir fry, vegetable noodles and vegetable spring rolls. For pudding it was bite-sized banana fritters. As you can see it was extremely yummy and pupils had the opportunity to practise using chopsticks – as we discovered they take a lot of practice! Pupils also made their own Chinese lanterns and traditional dragon masks and also learnt about the history of the Chinese zodiac. Pupils also researched how Chinese New Year was celebrated in China and were surprised to discover that the celebrations go on for 15 days!

Pupils at Raasay Primary School had their Christmas Party on Tuesday 17th December and were delighted to welcome a very special visitor! Thank you to Santa for taking time out of his very busy schedule to join our party and deliver some presents. Merry Christmas!

On Friday 13th December, Raasay Primary School pupils performed their annual school Christmas Show – which, this year, was Cinderella. With this classic fairytale as inspiration, we came up with our own ‘Raasay’ version and follow the story of the beautiful Ella as she contends with the trials and tribulations of life with her new stepfamily.

Pupils performed to a packed audience who thoroughly enjoyed the performance. You will find a link to the video of the show on the right hand side of our webpage – video credit Calum Gillies.

Well done to our amazing pupils!

Photos credit David Carslaw

Rehearsals are now well under way for the Raasay Primary School Christmas Show which, this year, is going to be a production of ‘Cinderella’. We hope you will all come along and enjoy the show!

Cinderella poster

Pupils in Raasay Primary took part in the Joe Wicks’ Fitness Challenge for the recent Children in Need. They raised the fantastic total of £56.00.

Pupils at Raasay Primary School undertook a door to door collection in aid of Poppy Day Scotland. This Charity is always very generously supported by the community and the fantastic sum of £249.40 was raised. Thank you to all who donated.

Pupils also attended the Armistice Day Memorial Service held at the War Memorial on 11th November.

On Monday 4th November P.C. Nina visited the school to talk to the children about safety around fireworks and bonfires. Pupils learned how to handle sparklers in a safe way – by using a carrot as handle! And also how to extinguish them safely afterwards. As always – thank you to P.C. Nina for a really fun and informative visit (we promise, she did release the ‘prisoners’ from the van before she left for Skye!)

A huge thank you to everyone who supported our annual Coffee Day on Saturday 2nd November.

The total raised so far is £5097.35!

Thank you also to all the businesses near and far who support us year on year and help to make the day such a success!

It’s that time of year again! Our annual Coffee Day will be taking place on Saturday 2nd November. This is the one day of the year when we raise money for our school funds, the rest of the year we focus on raising money for charities, both local and national. This year the Pupil Council have identified that they would like to develop the outdoor play space at the back of the school with a view to creating a trim trail and adventure space. Our fundraising efforts will support this. This year, the pupils developed an Enterprise logo – ACORNS (All Children Of Raasay Nursery and School) to be used on the products they are creating for the sale. They researched ideas for developing a design, sent it to a stamp company and are now busy on the production line stamping their products before the big day. They have created some beautiful Egyptian themed Christmas cards, hand-made scented candles and beeswax wraps to sell on the day. We hope you will come along on the day to enjoy the delicious food at the Parent Council Cafe and all the usual stalls and prizes. There will also be some outdoor challenges including

archery, dumper challenge, golf and football challenge  – see you there, 11am to 3pm!