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October 2007 Newsletter
On Wednesday 31st October Paible School will support “Wear it Pink Day” by having a PIP day for Halloween. (Paible in Pink) Various activities will occur during the 31st—Pupils are encouraged to wear something PINK—there will be a tuck shop—a sale of PINK pencils etc. A donation of £2 is requested from the charity. This and all other proceeds will be sent to the Breast Cancer Charity. Please support PIP DAY !
The pupil roll for the current session
is Primary 47 Secondary 40.
We welcome the following new
Pupils.P1—Trinity, Violet, Abigail, Leanne, Marion, Anna, Zoe, Bethan & Ben. P3—Morgan. P7—Macauley.
S2—Heather.
We’ve been very busy in Room 5 this term making our new café play area. It’s called the 5 o’clock café and we are looking forward to having our first guests in the last week of term.
Everybody in Room 1 is coming to visit and we’re going to have a tea-party at the end of the school day.Drop in and see us anytime! We have also finished our ‘This is me’ writing project and the picture shows us all holding our books.
On Tuesday R7 pupils enjoyed a no uniform recreation day to bring their holiday topic to a close. Art & craft activities started the day after Check In and other activities included a Gaelic Sing a long, football, skipping and cinema time. Tapas, fruit kebabs and a tasty toast lunch were keenly eaten by all. Primary 5-6-7 English have certainly experienced a one day holiday in Paible School.
Isobell MacInnes (School Nurse) has joined P5-6-7 English for workshops on Keeping Safe while on holiday. Thank you Isobell.
Tha clas 5-7 air a bhith trang ag ionnsachadh mu na h-Èipheitich. We have used a cross-curricular approach that links in with A Curriculum For Excellence. The majority of our class work has been based on the Egyptians, in Language, Health and Environmental Studies. This has been very successful!
Some of the work completed to date includes post- cards from Egypt, instructions on how to build a pyramid and reports on the life of King Tutankhamun, who was an Egyptian Pharaoh. Bha na Pharaohan a’ riaghladh air fad – coltach ris na tidsearan!
(sin a tha a chlas ag radh co-dhiù!)
Eight Paible pupils travelled to Drumnadrochit in September as part of the Under 14 squad for Uist Camanachd. They took part in the Marine Harvest Development Trophy and, although
unsuccessful, had a really good trip. Many valuable lessons were learned and the team is now working hard to improve their skills for the same competition next year.
UC is always on the lookout for new members - training sessions are on Friday from 4 – 5.15pm and are open to all pupils from p4 upwards. It is an excellent game and a great way of keeping fit!
Paible team members: David Macdonald and Oisin Buckley S2, Graham Black, Ewen Campbell and Colin Macleod S1, Fazel Froughi, Seumas Boyle, and Calum McRitchie, P6/7
As in previous years we will be supporting the Blythswood Shoebox Appeal. Your help is needed to make Christmas a happy time for children and families in Eastern Europe. Filled boxes, individual items, donations towards carriage costs & any empty shoe boxes will be appreciated. Pupils have been issued with information leaflet and labels. Please help Paible School support this worthy cause.
2X are hosting a disco in the school on Friday 2nd November from 7.30 –10.30 pm. Daliburgh S1/S2 have been invited along with P7 pupils from feeder primaries.
The new Textease password is lollipop
Term 1 has been busy with new activities. The whole school took part in ‘Y Dance’ activities for
4 days and put on four performances on Friday 11th September. Dance is an excellent way to keep fit and term 2 will see the dance theme continued through Country Dance (thanks to funding from Awards for All) P4-7 have had 4 busy weeks of skipping challenges. Every lunch time they have met with Mrs Matheson and practised, practised, practised. Massive improvements have been made in a short time. Winners of two minute skip count were Sarah Campbell, Sarah Macdonald, Mairi MacIntosh & Millie Baines and the boys winners were Iain Ferguson P7, Seumas Boyle, Fazel Froughi & Andrew MacSween.
“Skip off” champions were Kayreen MacLeod P4 & Andrew MacSween P6.
Mrs Matheson hopes to organise a regular skipping session during term 2, when a selection of indoor lunchtime activities commence.
During November we hope to have the Climbing Wall back in Paible for 2 days. Further details will be issued next term.
For the past 2 weeks Pupils and Staff at Paible School have been busy with their new re-cycling programme.
According to Archie only one bin of residual left Paible last week (instead of 4/5) All the rest—paper, organic, plastic, metal and glass have been recycled.
WELL DONE EVERYONE!!!!!
Pupils are reminded of the following Council regulations regarding the use of mobile phones in schools.
Must be switched off at all times
Kept in a safe place.
The wind turbine won by P7 in session 2005/06 in a Western Isles Energy Competition is to be installed during the October break.
We all look forward to this.
Next Term S2 are setting up an Enterprise Group through ICT. They will transfer your home videos onto DVD.
Futher details next session.
School closes on Thursday 11th October for the October break and reopens for pupils on
Thursday 25th October.
Have a relaxing holiday.
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