Welcome back to a new school term. We hope that you all had a
lovely Christmas break. What is your favourite Christmas memory?

This week our pupils have selected new golden time activities for
our four week block, and new to the selection of activities is
the Web Club. We will be learning how to make comments on our
blog and some of our older pupils will be learning to upload photos
to make online slideshows and embed the links into our blog.
Feel free to get involved in our online comments and posts – the
more the merrier!

Thought I would share this lovely photo with you all. I took this as I arrived at school one morning and was taken back by the beautiful sky. Can anyone come up with any amazing vocabulary to describe this scene?

What a fantastic week our P7’s had at Dounans – a brilliant start to their transition to secondary school.

As promised, here are the final photos from our P7 camp in Dounans.

P7 Dounans Camp – Day 4 (Part 1) on PhotoPeach

P7 Dounans Camp – Day 4 (Part 2) on PhotoPeach

P7 Dounans Camp – Day 4 (Part 3 – Disco!) on PhotoPeach

Hello West Barns,

Sorry for the lack of blog post last night, we were just too excited about the disco!
Everyone had a brilliant final day and thoroughly enjoyed the discos – I’ve never seen
our P7’s ‘bust moves’ like that before! Hiking with Zak and Struan was great fun – just wait
until you see the natural face masks we made in the photos! Sean, Daniel, Mya & Lee were tracked
around camp by Mrs MacLeod as they took part in their final activities.

I will post final day photos at some point over the weekend. We are all packed up and
ready to come home. We are hoping to be back in West Barns around 1pm but we will keep
you informed should there be any changes.

Dounans – Over and Out!

Hello West Barns!

Another glorious day at Dounans, we’ve all been busy and have taken part of tonnes more
activities. Plus, we’ve been joined by Mrs MacLeod who is looking forward to exploring
camp more in what is left of our week.

I will be chatting with our P7s this evening in our class time but for now here is an update.
Daniel and Sean have been out all day on a hike – they will be sleeping well tonight! Zak,
Struan, Mya, Lee have enjoyed another day full of different activities. Tomorrow I will be
joining Struan and Zak for their day excursion whilst Mrs MacLeod follows our other P7’s
around their activities. Disco tomorrow night so we’ll be in glad rags in the evening.

P7 Dounans Camp – Day 3 on PhotoPeach

Hello West Barns!

What a day we’ve all had. We’ve been so busy today, in our different groups
we’ve been involved in lots of activities – a half day hike, nightlife, archery,
raft-building pole climb, tree climb and orienteering.

No time for a group blogging session tonight as our pupils have their class time with
Richard Taylor, a youth worker from our cluster.

I have been sharing all of your messages with our pupils so keep them coming. When we
aren’t in our activities we are basically eating one of our four meals a day or
hanging out with new friends.

Another busy day to come tomorrow . . . . let’s hope for another good night’s sleep.

P7 Camp – Day 2 on PhotoPeach