1/06/22 Queen's Platinum Jubilee - 'Plant A Tree For The Jubilee'

Today we planted an oak tree sapling in our school grounds to mark the occasion of the Queen's Platinum Jubliee. We asked our youngest pupil, Annick, and our eldest pupil, Aodhan, to help plant it.

We also enjoyed some tasty treats underneath our beautiful summer bunting!

On Saturday 28th May, we entered our school team into the South Highland Schools Athletic Association Inter-school Sports competition. This is a huge sporting event which takes place at Bught Park in Inverness.

We entered the Small Schools’ section and competed against:

Teanassie Primary School, with a roll of 53 pupils, Farr Primary School, with a roll of 75 pupils, Croy Primary School, with a roll of 77 pupil, Tomnacross Primary, with a roll of 97 pupils… and there was us, Balnain Primary School, with 22 pupils.

Well, our pupils did us proud!!!

We may be small, but we are mighty! And we know that good things come in small packages!

There were a number of events throughout the day and here’s how they got on:

 Long Jump:          Glenn received a Silver medal

                      Gemma received a Silver medal

Shot Putt:       Emily gained Silver

                      Glenn gained Gold

Running 600m:     Gemma received a Bronze medal

Running 150m:     Maribel received a Bronze medal

Running 200m:     Hudson received a Bronze medal

Running 80m:       Glenn got Gold

                      Emily got Gold

Relay Team:        Hudson, Emily, Maribel and Glenn got Gold!

Not only did our wee team get 12 medals between them, but they also went on to win the overall Small School section with 44 points and were presented with The Murray Challenge Shield! The last time our school won this shield was in 2010.

29/3/22 - Everyone thoroughly enjoyed our bake sale treats and we were absolutely delighted to raise £125.50 for DEC. What an amazing amount! Thank you to our staff and to the pupils and families who donated baking for the event and to everyone for the generous donations of money to this appeal. Well done Team Balnain! 

22/12/21 - Party Time!

It was great to see everyone enjoy themselves at our Christmas Party. We had an indoor snowball fight to warm us up before the party games.

School Pond

Our school pond is looking healthy...we recently found a newt and a frog in it! Thanks to our team of parent helpers who have created stations to make it more accessible and safe for us to do some pond-dipping. We are looking forward to using it more in the spring time. 

1/10/21 - As part of National Recycle Week, we had a Ready, Steady, Recycle Challenge in school. We asked pupils to reuse items that would normally be recycled to make something new. We were amazed with all the creativity involved and the variety of ideas! A huge well done to everyone for their wonderful designs and a special well done to the winners chosen from each class.

16/08/21 Goals Repaired

Many thanks to Iain and Lucas for kindly repairing our goals so that they are ready for all the action in the new football season! You've done a great job, thank you!

15/07/21 Bird Box Update

When we checked our bird box today, we could see that there were just two chicks left in the nest. They had grown a lot since last week and they looked as if they were almost ready to leave and make their way into the world outside! Soon there will be an empty nest. It is highly likely that the other chicks have already fledged the nest. One of the chicks was perched at the entrance hole of the bird box and was looking outside...possibly plucking up the courage to take flight for the first time! Good luck little fledglings! 

Summer Fun Day

Our P7 pupils helped to plan and organise an end of term summer fun day for the whole school. 

And what fun it was! We enjoyed a water slide, water games, a bouncy slide, bubbles and more...

Thanks to our Parent Council for providing fruit for our tasty fruit kebabs! 

What a great way to end the school year! Happy holidays everyone!

Special Little Visitor...

As part of our health and well-being programme, the children have all been learning about the stages of the human life-cycle. Today, we welcomed a very special little visitor to school...baby Gregor and his mum, Chloe. Gregor is 11 months old and he enjoyed meeting everybody at school today! We learned more about what babies can do at this stage and how to care for them. Chloe was very impressed with how kind, gentle and caring our pupils were with Gregor today. Well done everyone!

Easter Egg Hunt

We all enjoyed our traditional easter egg hunt in the school grounds today!