By Rory

“This week we’ve been working on our Pirates of the Curry Bean Enterprise and everyone is involved in different teams.

The marketing team has been working on an advertising poster.  This will be ready to go on display on Monday (9th.)

The ticketing team has been busy designing the tickets for each performance, with a Google Sheet (spreadsheet) to keep track of the number of tickets sold for each one.  Some people were very busy delivering receipts today. The lottery for third tickets will take place next week!

The fundraising team has been working on the raffle and competitions (Guess the name of the teddy and the number of sweets in the jar) and deciding on what the prizes will be.

The costumes and props team are busy making, painting and sewing as many costumes and props as possible, as well as trying to source some from our families and the community.  The Highland Council cleaning department is lending us lots of mops!”

Miss Mullin says: “And none of this could happen without all the hard work and support from every single grown up in the school too!

Merci beaucoup!”

Last Thursday, 6 P7s from our VEX IQ Robotic Team represented Glenurquhart Primary School at the above event.  Pupils presented a showcase of Science, Technology and Digital work completed this session including the VEX IQ Robot.  They also took part in a range of STEM challenges set up by the sponsors, BRISTOW.

Huge thanks to Miss MacDonald for all the behind the scenes preparations, and to Mrs Russell for accompanying the P7s on the day.

Well done to 3 P7s who completed a Lego challenge over the last few weeks, practising their communication skills by taking a specific role within a Lego build. It was a great activity for developing patience and detailed explanation skills!

Last Monday, P7 viewed a short film about forest friendly cocoa farming called “Guardians of the Rainforest” https://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/resource/guardians-of-the-rainforest/

The P7s made notes and used them to create an advertising poster for forest friendly Fairtrade chocolate.

This formed part of our work for #FairtradeFortnight 2020, which has a special focus on cocoa farming this year.

On Tuesday 25th February, we welcomed Ms MacKay back, to do some work on asking clarification questions. We role played situations where the teacher mumbled part of the instruction, or used words which we did not understand. We practised asking the teacher to clarify, by explaining the word or phrase, or repeating the instructions.

Hooray! Our Loch Insh Vimeo has been posted. Huge thanks to Jonny Freshwater and all the team at Loch Insh for an unforgettable experience and their ongoing hard work.

Our P7 Digital Leaders delivered a useful presentation and led a really interesting and lively discussion about how to stay safe online. They got everyone to think about online identities and how they can be misleading.