There is still time to upload your fun Easter pictures to be in with the chance of winning some prizes.
The teachers have been busy uploading some very unusual and funny pictures of how we like to eat our Easter Eggs. Head on over to our Google Classroom to see them 🙂
We hope you all have a lovely holiday with your families. We all look forward to seeing you back on Monday 19th April.
Congratulations to Sophie S. Your fantastic picture was voted art of the month 🙂
We had some fun this week making our own Easter Bunnies from old cardboard tubes and paint. How cute do they look!
Have a wonderful Easter Holiday. We have had a fabulously full few weeks back in class . Here are just a few pictures of just some of what we’ve been up to. Congratulations to Max who is our Star Pupil this month for workforce so hard and being a great friend !
lots of our classes enjoyed taking part in a virtual Easter egg hunt this afternoon. Putting their problem solving skills to the test, pupils had fun in the sun this afternoon. Thank you Mrs Scotson for organising.
Happy Easter everyone! I am really looking forward to seeing you all back on the 19th of April. We re being joined by Katie MacLeod, a student teacher from the UHI, who will be joining us for 7 weeks. I hope you all have a wonderful break! Happy Easter!
We had great fun creating our Outdoor Art! We used the outdoors as our inspiration for our nature inspired pictures.
We have had such a busy exciting time in P5! Tristan was our Star of the Week for his fabulous Literacy work. He has put in so much hard work and effort into his reading, writing and spelling. Well done Tristan! Rudi was nominated for a special award at our Virtual Easter Assembly. Rudi was nominated for being really hard working, being great at maths and for being a fabulous kind and caring friend. Well done Rudi!
We have been learning about our emotions with regards to Lockdown. We have made a display using words to describe our emotions, the effect our emotions had on our behaviour and the strategies that helped us to feel better.
We created Egyptian Good Luck charms out of clay too!
We had great fun transforming ourselves into Egyptian Pharaohs!
Well done Elsie, for being our Star Pupil this term. It was a hard choice as ever. A big thank you to Cole and Calum for volunteering to be our Pr 7A readers at the Easter service today.
Have a great holiday everyone. Let’s hope we can all have a great Term 4.
I am delighted that Ryan is our Star Pupil this month for always trying his very best with all his tasks. Well done Ryan.
We had a lovely assembly together today and Indi is our Star Pupil this term for being so kind and helpful and making super progress with her reading.
We have provisionally booked the Tempest photographer for class photographs on Tuesday 27th April for P1-P6 and on Wednesday 28th April for ELC and P7. This will all be subject to Highland Council guidance and in line with Scottish Government guidance.
Tomorrow (Thursday 1st) will be Mr Edwards last day with us at Lochardil ELC. He is moving on to pastures new and the big city of Glasgow. We wish him all the best and know that all children and staff will miss him greatly.
Good luck Mr Edwards x
On Thursday 1st April 2021 we close for the holidays. We look forward to welcoming the children back on Monday 19th April 2021 for term 4. Wishing you all a wonderful break.
Since returning to school we have been working really hard on creating our very own Anderson shelters. We used a range of different materials, from cardboard to moss, to construct our models and make them look as life like as possible.
We demonstrated excellent team work, communication and planning skills while building our models and our efforts certainly paid off as they look great! Well done to Layla and Olivia, who the class voted for as the winners of the Anderson shelter challenge.
Have a look at our impressive creations below.
Please take time to review this menu with your child so they know what they would like for lunch the days they are having a school lunch.
Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) online survey
Parents and carers of young children in Highland can provide feedback on the Council’s ELC childcare settings via an online survey.
The purpose of the survey is to collect views on services provided in Highland. The responses gathered from the survey will help to support delivery of 1140 hours in the most appropriate way to meet the needs of parents, to plan for the future delivery of the service and highlight any changes required.
The deadline for collecting responses is 18 April 2021.
https://www.highland.gov.uk/news/article/13497/early_learning_and_childcare_elc_online_survey
Thank you.
Dear All
Our next Virtual Pines Session with Karen Kelbie from Thriving Families and Alison Footitt from the National Autistic Society is on Thursday 29th April 2021.
Does your child struggle with change, organising themselves, following rules and solving problems? This is probably due to issues around something called “Executive Functioning”.
Rachael Geddes our Autism Practitioner has produced a short film all about this with loads of handy tips to help you support your child. You can watch this film before the session, then you can submit your questions and join us on the 29th for a Q&A. You must book on to the session by emailing the.pines@highland.gov.uk Please let us know if you are booking as a parent/carer or professional. All questions should be emailed through to the same email by 23rd April 2021.
Kind Regards
The Pines Team
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The Pines
Drummond Road, Inverness IV2 4NZ
P6/5 have had a busy couple of weeks back in the classroom. We have been spending time catching up with our friends and continuing our learning about Ancient Egypt and properties of 3D shapes. We have enjoyed taking our learning outside to make the most of the fresh air and space. We have started looking at a text called ‘The Egyptian Cinderella’ and are in the process of creating a story map before we have a go at writing our own stories.
Hi everyone!
This week, we have been using the beads to make some jewellery, playing on the football table, building with the magnets and drawing, as well as spending time outside enjoying the Spring weather, when we can!
We are on the look out for anyone that might be having a clear out and has some storage draws/boxes that are no longer required. We are looking for storage boxes like the ones pictured below (although anything similar would also be apprecaited) for extra clothes/changing equipment. If you can help at all, please speak to a member of staff.
Thank you in advance.
A lovely neighbour has called today to say they found an Apple Watch close to the back entrance of the school and would like to return it to it’s owner. If it could be yours call the school office and we will see if you can be reunited.
We are transforming our colour tinted hearts into rabbits this afternoon
We discussed the emotions and experiences felt over the past year due to the pandemic and lockdowns. We linked colours with emotions and got some inspiration from an artist called Marc Allente.
We were tinting different colours this afternoon.
The Parent Council are providing us with some great Easter activities. If you would like to get involved with either the Easter Scavenger Hunt, Egg decorating or maybe both then please speak to a member of ELC staff who will be able to provide you with the details and entry forms. Activities are £1 each.
Thank you.
Thank you everyone who took part in ‘Superhero/Wear Red’ in aid of Red Nose day. You all alooked amazing. A big thank you also for the wonderful doantions, we had raised in excess of £300 for Comic Relief.
If your child has come home with any nursery clothing recently, please could it be returned as soon as possible. Our small stock is now running low.
Thank you.
In Resilient Kids today we were discussing calm and angry. We made our own calm butterfies this afternoon.
Thank you to all those who took part in our ‘Superhero/Wear Something Red’ for Red Nose Day. Lots of smiles below…
Since being back in school, we have been reading lots of stories about feelings and we have discussed how we feel when certain things happen to us. One of our favourite stories has been ‘The Colour Monster’ and we enjoyed making our ‘feelings jar’ wall display after reading this story.
We have also been learning about rhyme this week and have had great fun reading some Dr Seuss books including ‘The Cat in the Hat’ and ‘The Cat in the Hat Comes Back’.
We also had our own ‘Cat in the Hat’ to help us make sure we placed our rhyming word on the correct hat during our rhyming activity !
Finally we made our own cats with rhyming hats!
Hello everyone!
We wish to welcome back everyone to a more “normal” OOSC! While we have been open to provide key worker childcare, it is nice to have a larger group of children back with us. More friends for everyone to play with!
We have been enjoying the nice weather outside this week. The children have been using chalks to draw on the slabs outside, and others have been doing some ‘gardening’ up at the hedge.
There are a number of outstanding documents still to be received by the office to complete the enrolment process for the next session at Lochardil ELC. Please provide any council tax statements or hours preference forms as previously requested to Lochardil.primary@highland.gov.uk by Monday 22.03.21. Allocation of hours will begin next week. Thank you in advance.
Please find attached our weekly newsletter.
We have enjoyed our group task today making our WW2 Anderson shelters. Thankyou to everyone who came so well prepared with resources to make it all come together.
We used lots of skills – cooperation, listening, compromising, problem solving and creativity.
The children were super excited to see the new resources we bought with funds provided by the Parent Association. There was a cheer when they saw the marble run and the new garage.
We have just received confirmation that the school is to be used as a polling station on Thursday 6th May 2021.
Lochardil Primary and ELC will be closed to all pupils on this day.
ADHD – Virtual Q&A Session – Microsoft Teams – Friday 23rd April 2021 – 1330-1430
We would like to invite you to watch the Pines YouTube film, ‘What is ADHD?’ and then attend a virtual Q&A session with Lesley Soffe, Advanced ADHD Nurse Practitioner on the Friday 23rd April 2021 via Microsoft Teams at 1.30pm-2.30pm. This will be open to all Parents/Carers and professionals and numbers are very limited.
Lesley has been working as an ADHD specialist for 10 years and will be happy to answer any questions you may have after watching the film or any questions about ADHD in general.
To book a space please email the.pines@highland.gov.uk or go through our website https://www.thepineshighland.com/workshops-and-sessions Education staff should book through the CPD Calendar.
We look forward to seeing you then.
Kind Regards
The Pines Team
The Pines
Drummond Road, Inverness IV2 4NZ
We designed our own superheroes and then voted for our class winners.
Today we made a really great start on constructing our model Anderson Shelters. While we were at home we learnt about how Anderson Shelters helped protect the people of Britain during the air raids.
We have been working hard in our pairs and threes to design and create our own scale versions of the shelters. Have a look at what we have done so far. And look out next week for pictures of the finished products!
19/03/21 P3B Red Nose Day Fun
We have settled in well and enjoyed some partner and group tasks. We celebrated the arrival of spring with some daffodil art. Our hoodies came yesterday! We are working on our Yearbook ideas already.
We helped with a litter pick as part of a survey for our data handling for maths. We drew pictures of Scottish Wildlife for a mural which is being commissioned by Mr Dowling on Green Drive.
We look forward to welcoming Miss Munro on Monday to take us when Mrs Murray has her management time. Congratulations to Mrs Paterson who has given birth to a boy last week.
