Primary 5 children from St. Columba's Primary School in Fort William featured in a TV documentary on BBC Scotland this week called "My First Communion".

Before lockdown, the children were filmed over several days as they prepared for the sacrament of First Communion. Along with three other schools in Scotland they were specially chosen for to take part in the documentary. The children, staff and parents were delighted to see how confidently the children came across in the programme, and it reminded everyone of how much we are missing school at the moment.

The programme is currently being streamed on iplayer.

Here is Acharacle Primary's first edit of Oran a’ Lockdown – The Lockdown Song

The children all wrote things they have been doing during lockdown and what they were looking forward to and one of our teachers, Fiona Cameron, turned their thoughts into the lyrics and composed the tune. Pupils and staff recorded themselves singing and she has edited this together with photos of everyone.

As part of our Rhyme for the week Jack be Nimble, the children were given daily physical activities to complete and to help them celebrate their own learning and achievements during their Lockdown learning their assignment for that week was to create their own gold medal. Using cardboard with holes they found yellow flowers and pushed them through the holes as you can see they are all super proud of themselves.

Primary 7 pupils enjoyed participating in ‘Lockdown Insh’ last week and engaged in a range of different practical, creative and problem solving activities. The children had a fantastic week and made the most of learning outdoors in the beautiful sunshine.

As part of their topic "Down Our Street" Primary 1 have been investigating people who help us and took time to dress up as Key Workers and say Thank You for all that they are doing in our local community and beyond

Primary 6/7 at Ardersier wrote these poems about their experience of life throughout lock-down. We were really proud of the poems that were written and think they give a brilliant and varied insight into what this experience is like for some people. :)

Our P7 year group have continued their learning activities with Iain from Sustrans Scotland. Each week they have tasks to focus on ranging from creative writing tasks, arts and crafts and problem solving while continuing to think about the sustainable message and aims. Even in lockdown we can continue the fantastic work started in school with Iain and our Bike Crew.

Daviot and Strathdearn P7s were due to be on their 'residential trip' this week....so instead of cancelling it, they turned their homes into a residential centre and had their own Lagganlia at Home!

We are so proud of our children and their families during this very challenging time. It has been lovely to see photos and videos of what children have been doing at home. Please click on the video to see a message from the staff at Rosebank.

Drakies P7s are competing in an international fixture against Year 6s in Arcadia school, UAE. The fixture puts pupils through their paces as they compete through a series of agility drills using the Home Court app. Keep your eyes peeled to see the fixture details released every Thursday!

Teanassie Primary and ELCC had a 'Rainbow Week' last week. All the children took part in thinking of creative ways to make Rainbows in honour of NHS Highland. They then compiled their work into a short video clip to send to them.

Children at Aviemore Primary School and ELC have been taking part in Virtual Sports Day! Over two weeks children have been challenged to take part in a sack race, egg and spoon race, tennis and football challenges, skittles, relay and long jump as well as doing their daily exercise in fancy dress! As well as having lots of fun children are earning points for their House group and are waiting to find out which House will win at assembly next week!

P2/3 pupils spent a week learning all about money. At the end of the week they showcased their learning by creating their own shops at home! They were able to practise using coins and giving change as family members came to buy things from their shops. Everyone enjoyed playing in their shop.

16 P6s and 7s took part in an experimental virtual co-operative activity last week. Using Google Meet, they were briefed about the task in a 'central meeting room'. When ready, they broke off into 4 different Google Meet rooms and assigned each other co-operative roles to efficiently complete the task. After 15 minutes, they rejoined the central meeting room to feedback to each other.

The aim of this meeting was to see if virtual co-operative learning could work with Google Meet, as well as seeing whether it could be used to improve pupil emotional wellbeing.

Tha Clas 4 air a bhith ag ionnsachadh BSL fad na bliadhna agus airson Deaf Awareness Week agus Latha VE a chomharrachadh, dh' ionnsaich iad na gnìomhan airson 'We'll Meet Again'.

Primary 4 have been learning BSL all year and to mark Deaf Awareness Week and VE Day they learnt how to sign 'We'll Meet Again'.

These are unusual times and, as such, call for a different approach to learning. Nevertheless, it's important to remember that "difference" does not necessarily mean "deficit". This is NOT second-class learning! In many ways it is richer as it sits in "real life" contexts which are often more meaningful and deeper than many class-based activities can ever be.

The range and variety of activities demonstrate the richness of the children's lives in Gledfield and emphasises how close many of the children live to the natural world. It is their engagement and interaction with their world that makes the impact of these photographs so striking and which belies the claim that children no longer have a "childhood" in the traditional sense of the word. They demonstrate the ways in which your children are growing up and making sense of the world in the 21st Century, despite the trying times we are living through.

At MOL, pupils, families and staff have been on a virtual world tour together, learning lots along the way...what an adventure, together!

Our Parent Council purchased the licence for Fischy Music online so that we can all feel connected at our weekly assembly and sing our favourite songs together :)

Three representatives from Kingussie Primary school have helped to develop a website with The Children’s Parliament for safer internet use and screen time awareness. As a school, all children took part in an Internet safety day and workshops which was led and delivered by our pupils. And here is the link:

https://mindyertime.scot/