Newmore Primary School

Yesterday, our P7s did Bag Packing in Morrisons with support from the Tain Rotary Club.

The fundraising was to cover the transport cost for their P7s ASG Transition Trip where P7 pupils from Park, Milton, Newmore and South Lodge will go to Loch Eil together in April.

Thanks to the efforts yesterday, £747 was raised and alongside a  super donation from the Port of £750 the costs are now covered.

We received this email from Mark from the Rotary club…

“Evening everyone,

Firstly on behalf of the Rotary club I would like to thank you all for the amazing amount of work you did in getting everyone there today.

Secondly, I have now counted all the money twice and as far as I can see we raised the amazing sum of £747.00 exactly.

It was a fantastic day, all your pupils were excellent and did a great job. Please extend my thanks to all of them and their parents too.”

As part of our School Improvement Plan this year, we have been working hard to improve numeracy in our school. This is being targeted in a number of ways.

The main improvement so far is that we have created a new working space in our spare classroom. This is used daily where our PSAs take the whole school out at some point, in groups to develop and consolidate maths strategies which will contribute to their understanding. This is to enable the children to range of strategies to employ when tackling numeracy and mathematical problems of various types.

The children are really enjoying the small group work and are disappointed when it is not their groups turn to go out.

The teachers have also been adapting how they teach maths in class, there is a picture here of one group using concrete materials to aid their understanding of fractions.

We are all very excited about the changes which is inspiring to observe.

Community Sports Programme – Term 3

Please see below details of the free cluster sports on offer up to the Easter holidays.

Coaching will start on Monday 20^th January and run for 8 weeks (no coaching 17^th – 21^st February).

Monday:              Basketball                                      15:45 – 16:30                    Last session:       16 / 03 / 20         Free                      Invergordon Leisure Centre

Tuesday:              Activ8 Dance                                 16:00 – 17:00                    Last session:       17 / 03 / 20         Free                      Invergordon Leisure Centre

Wednesday:        Badminton                                     16:00 – 17:00                    Last session:       18 / 03 / 20         Free                      Invergordon Academy

Thursday:            Dodgeball / Tchoukball         15:30 – 16:30                    Last session:       19 / 03 / 20         Free                      Invergordon Leisure Centre

Friday:                  Friday Futsal                                  16:30 – 17:30                    Last session        20 / 03 / 20         Free*                    Invergordon Leisure Centre

*Free to HLH card holders / P1 – 4 only

Please spread the word and come and join us for a night of fun….

We are delighted to share that after 42 pupils, parents and staff voted for our new school values.

The winning values with 41.5% of the vote was;

‘N.E.W.M.O.R.E’

• Never giving up
• Empathy
• Working Hard
• Motivated
• Opportunities
• Ready to Learn
• Encouraging

This week the whole school have been thinking about what each value means and what we could do to demonstrate each of these values.

Some residents of Kintyre House came to visit today and we sung them the couple of songs we did at the Church of Scotland a few weeks ago 🎶 they were very impressed by our fabulous singing! After the singing we made giant snowflakes for the residents to take back to brighten up their dayroom for the winter season ❄️

On Monday and Tuesday this week we had 3 performances of our Winter Shows. P1-4 performed ‘A Snowman at Sunset’ and P4-7 performed ‘Cinderella Rockafella.’ We hope those who attended enjoyed them– we certainly did! Operation “Clean Up” has taken place this morning!  We raised the fabulous amount of £1084 for our school fund so thank you all so much for your support.

Crafts were on sale in the canteen which was part of the P7 Residential Trip fundraising efforts and the sales during the shows, as well as the sales at the recent Invergordon Street Fayre, now total £303. Well done to all involved! Thank you for your ongoing support. Everyone at Newmore wishes you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Here is a selection of photos from our shows!

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On Friday, some of us wore our Christmas jumpers to school and donated money to MFR Cash for Kids. We also sold cakes. We made the fantastic amount of £90! Thank you to everyone who donated.

Yesterday, Primary 1-4 were invited to the Capstone to learn about the Christmas Story.

They were split into groups and worked their way around various stations to learn about the key messages and story of Christmas.

Thank you so much to the Minister, Calum from Rosskeen Free Church for inviting us, the story tellers, the snack team and everyone else who made it possible. The Children has a great afternoon.