Winners of the Highland Council Quality Award for Supporting People to Thrive and Learn.

Last night I was delighted to attend the Highland Council Awards 2018 at the Town House, Inverness. Myself, Mrs Cormack, Rector of Dingwall Academy and Mr Green, PT of English were nominated for the award ‘Supporting People to Learn and Thrive’.

This was directly related to the Literacy Ambassadors project that runs between Dingwall Academy and Ben Wyvis Primary School.

In recognition of the hard work that was required to submit an application and  achievement in winning, we have also been presented with a Gold Award.

We couldn’t have achieved this without the Senior Students from Dingwall Academy, the hard work of colleagues and the pupils involved at Ben Wyvis Primary.

A huge thank you to all.

Mrs Mackie

Literacy Ambassadors

Dates for your dairy

Please find the November newsletter with dates for your diary.

 

November Newsletter

Christmas card greetings

The Christmas cards that are being sent home will be blank, so that everyone can write their own greeting.

Please do look in school bags, as the template cards have been beautifully drawn by children.

Some children did decide for various reasons not to complete a card, but most did.

🙂 We hope that we might also raise some funds for the school too by selling the cards 🙂.

A message from the Amenities Association:

A message from the Amenities Association:

 

The next meeting of Conon Bridge Amenities Association will take place in the Leanaig Centre (school) at 7.30 on Monday 19th November.

It would be good to see as many people as possible at any of our meetings.

 

‘The Association exists to foster, promote and develop the welfare of the community in Conon Bridge and the surrounding district: to take an interest in the amenities of the village and to take such steps as are necessary to develop and maintain the amenities, including the maintenance and management of the Conon Bridge playing fields.’

 

Membership is open to everyone resident in Conon Bridge and the surrounding district on the East side of the River Conon.

There is at present no membership fee.

The members of the management committee are :

President: Roderick Urquhart, Vice President : Ali Matheson, Secretary: Morag Foster, Treasurer: Rod Morrison.

Other members: Gordon Lyall, Chloe Chalmers.

Digital Skills for Beginners – Highlife Highland

Highlife Highland are offering:

Digital Skills for Beginners

 

Find your way round the internet

Brush up on your computer/word processing skills

Understand social media, email and stay safe online

6 week course: Fridays from 5.45pm-7pm

2^nd November – 7 December

Community Room,

Leanaig Community Centre @

Ben Wyvis Primary School, Conon Bridge

To book a place on this free course contact:

Kirsty at HLH Adult Learning: Kirsty.dambrosio@highlifehighland.com

01349 854414/07557 197689

Bring your own device or laptops can be provided

Digital Skills for Beginners – RC Conon

Poppy cascade at Ben Wyvis

Just a note to remind parents and carers that there is an Open Afternoon at Ben Wyvis Primary on Friday 5^th October from 1.45 – 2.30pm.

Please arrive at the school via reception. All visitors should sign in before entering the school.

During the afternoon session, the whole school will be making poppies for a cascade which will be put up in the front foyer of the school.

Nursery will not have an open afternoon, but will be organising ‘stay and play’ sessions for after the holidays and will also make poppies to add to the cascade.

We invite any community group too to add to the poppy display. Poppies need to be no bigger than A5 and can have writing on them with names.

We look forward to seeing you all!

Mrs Mackie

September Newsletter

Please find the link to the newsletter below. The dates for the diary for term 1 and 2 so far are included. September 2018

Please also note:

The pagoda and fit trail in the playground are currently closed for maintenance, so if you are waiting in the playground between 2.45 and 3.00, we would appreciate if your child is supervised away from these areas.