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Dornoch Firth Campus December 2019 Hello As we fast approach the Christmas break we would like to take a little time to reflect on the successes and achievements of our whole school community. Many of our children, young people and colleagues have received recognition for their creativity and hard work. A special congratulations should be made to Dr Allan for his international work. Well done also to Joan Murray at Bonar Bridge Primary who received Public Servant of the Year award, and also to Howard Tolliday for his recent recognition in the UK Salters' National Awards for Science Technicians. Finally, I would also like to extend a special thank you to our brilliant librarian, Fiona Macleod, who is always looking for new and creative ways of engaging children and young people in reading. The atmosphere in the library is wonderful and it is great to see so many young people interested in books. Fiona’s work has been complemented by our primary school teachers who have been presenting lively and engaging assemblies over the last few months. The children are developing their confidence in public speaking and this will support their studies and aspirations later in their school and career pathways. It was great to see so many of you at the recent family event and we welcome your feedback on how we can continue to develop events and activities which support our partnership and learning at home. If you are interested in presenting or running an event please do not hesitate to contact us. In S3, we hope to meet many of you on Tuesday 3 December during our Learner Journey Review Event which will run from 9.00 am until 7.00 pm. Appointment sheets have been sent home. We would welcome your feedback on our current curriculum and information will be sent out to you in the new term to enable us to gather your views. This is also a busy time for our seniors as they are about to begin their prelims and we wish them well with their studies. I will be interviewing the seniors in the new term, along with my Depute Head Teachers, and feedback will be sent home following the interviews. I hope you enjoy the range of achievements from our children and young people. Kind regards Dr T Stones Head Teacher 3-18 Head Teacher 3-18: Tina Stones, Dornoch Academy, Evelix Road, Dornoch, Sutherland IV25 3HR Tel: (01862) 810246 E-Mail: [email protected] www.dornochacademy.com Parents should telephone 0800 564 2272 for updated information using the school PIN: Bonar Bridge Primary/Nursery (041550); Dornoch Academy (041020); Dornoch Primary/Nursery (041890). Information will also be available at: http://www.highland.gov.uk/schoolclosures, https://www.facebook.com/highlandcouncil, and https://twitter.com/HighlandCouncil. I should like to invite you to join us at our Carol Service in Dornoch Cathedral on Friday 20 December at 12.00 pm (secondary pupils), and 1.00 pm (primary pupils). Each service will last approximately 30 minutes. - P5 visited the Academy library where pupils listened to the first chapter of a book read to them, followed by time to choose a library book to take home. P3 visited the library on three occasions, to be read Kitty and the Moonlight Rescue, undertake Kitty mask decorating, and choose a library book to take home. - Children visited for stories, songs and rhymes and to commence the Bookbug Challenge. This will become a regular visit, where pupils will visit the library for a Bookbug session and exchange their book and get their Bookbug card stamped each time. Once they have collected six stamps, they will receive a certificate for all their reading. - Neil Lancaster gave an interesting and informative presentation to S3 pupils and N4/N5/Higher English pupils about his book, Going Dark, and how his career in the police, investigating serious and organised crime, inspired his work. Neil talked about writing what you know and emphasised how important it is to read yourself. On Thursday 28 November, P4-P7 and S1-S3 were treated to a session each with author, Alex McCall. Alex read from his award winning book, Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens, and then talked about the requirements of plot, description, characters, etc. He encouraged pupils to use their imaginations and they put together hilarious stories. Pupils were engaged and found the sessions fun and were reminded that stories do not have to be serious. Alex wrote his first book aged 14 and was a published author by the time he was 19. We had a visit from the author Alex McCall. He talked to us about plot, characters and description. While talking about these things, we were allowed to put our hand up and suggest anything we wanted. He has a great personality and is fun to work with. Everybody enjoyed taking part in this talk, suggesting ideas for book plots, Head Teacher 3-18: Tina Stones, Dornoch Academy, Evelix Road, Dornoch, Sutherland IV25 3HR Tel: (01862) 810246 E-Mail: [email protected] www.dornochacademy.com characters, and more. For example, Lewis the 50 foot turkey-fish, who liked to eat turkey and Cameron, the wheelchair that Lewis sometimes sat on. We had a great day and everyone had fun. (Leah and Lucy, S2) Both author visits were different, but equally excellent and inspiring. One showed how real life stories and work can become the basis of a story, and the other showed that you can let your imagination run riot and write about anything. The Committee met on 13 November to discuss events and future activities. S1 English classes have been visiting the library for several weeks to work on information literacy and research skills. They are working to finish off their presentations on local topics which they will present to their classmates in their final session. - Both classes read books suitable for their age group, which the school library had sourced from publishers. Excellent reviews were returned to publishers from both classes along with photographs of a fantastic display created by the P1 class. This year, the pupils dressed up on Friday 1 November to take part in some fun Halloween activities throughout the school day. The Early Years class were invited to the Bradbury Centre to join in their Halloween party and had a great time playing games with the members and enjoying some of the fantastic party food on offer. The primary pupils took part in a House team STEM challenge to construct a haunted house out of marshmallows and cocktail sticks. The canteen was decorated by the catering staff, who also served up a spooky alternative to the school meals that day and each pupil received a special treat for taking part in the games, lunch and activities. Head Teacher 3-18: Tina Stones, Dornoch Academy, Evelix Road, Dornoch, Sutherland IV25 3HR Tel: (01862) 810246 E-Mail: [email protected] www.dornochacademy.com - Bonar Bridge Primary were delighted to hear that Joan Murray, the school’s Facilities Assistant had been shortlisted as a finalist in the Scottish Provincial Press, Highland Heroes Awards 2019. Joan was nominated in the category of Public Servant of the Year and was delighted and overwhelmed to have won the award on the night. The awards ceremony was held in the Kingsmills Hotel, Inverness at the beginning of November and showcased many deserving and incredible nominees in each of the categories. Joan had the full support of the school community and we feel she is extremely deserving of her award for the love and care she shows towards the whole school and everyone involved in it. Well done Joan! We recently took part in a workshop with RoKZkool and it was brilliant! The best thing was getting to play lots of different instruments. We pretended we were in an orchestra and the conductor had to tell us when to play and when to be quiet by using a special stick called a baton. We were very good at it. At the end, we sang a song about a sleeping lion and we played our instruments at the same time. It was like we were in a rock band! Head Teacher 3-18: Tina Stones, Dornoch Academy, Evelix Road, Dornoch, Sutherland IV25 3HR Tel: (01862) 810246 E-Mail: [email protected] www.dornochacademy.com – Pupils have been engaged in Interdisciplinary Learning on the topic of ‘Minibeasts’. They had begun by looking at pets and gardens, and this soon led into their interest in all the creeping creatures they discovered in the outside world! In keeping with their Learning for Sustainability, the pupils spent some time in the school gardens, looking for minibeasts. Pupils were very interested and engaged, and were able to relate their learning to several areas of the curriculum. Writing tasks focussed on their favourite minibeast, whilst several experiences in our science curriculum were covered. Even maths was visited – when the pupils were able to look at the idea of symmetry, seen in the wings of butterflies. In reading, the class was able to spend some quality time looking at Julia Donaldson’s fantastic book ‘Superworm’. We are delighted with how much our pupils enjoy learning about the world around them. Pupils have recently been learning all about the human body. This has been part of their learning in Health and Wellbeing, and in Science. As part of the topic, they have been finding out about the human skeleton, how it is put together, and they had to learn to identify all the main bones in the human skeleton.
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