September 19th, 2006 by Angus MacRury
Euans Sunflower Photo by Euan Aged 3
Last May Euan came home from Nursery and demanded that I get out to the garden and plant his sapling of a sunflower. We planted the sapling and watched, watered and waited all summer. Euan talked about the flower all summer, even concerned that it would die when we were on holiday. Every week we watched it get bigger and bigger. In July we gave it new soil and waited. Euan was enthusiastic about the flower all through the summer and we paid daily visits to it to see whether a flower was emerging. Eventually it got so tall I had to lift Euan up to see. In August it bloomed at over 2 metres tall and Euan felt that a summer of hard work was complete. We took photos of the flower which he took to Nursery, which were then displayed for all to see. His face beamed for about a week.This is what A Curriculunm for Excellence is all about. Many thanks to the Nursery Staff at West Barns
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September 19th, 2006 by Angus MacRury
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Cliat Beach, Barra, Summer 2006 AMR
I have put this up on the school
website today. The idea is that it will be updated via an RSS feed by LTS each month directly to the school website. The information is designed to engage parents in a simplistic way to the four capacities. I like the idea of this. What do you think? Is this something that has legs?
I am finding that the school website is crammed with information for parents and that can only be a good thing.
Parent Tips for September
All schools and nurseries in Scotland are working towards developing children’s learning through learning, teaching acitivities, every day experiences, events and celebrations. Scotland’s aspiration is that every young person becomes a :
- successful learner who is enthusiastic and keen to learn new things
- confident individual who believes in themselves
- responsible citizen who respects others
- effective contributor who is resilient and enterprising.
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| Confident individuals |
| Try to be positive and focus on what they are doing right (rather than what they are doing wrong!) and praise them.
Sit down with your child/teenager to eat more often - its a great opportunity for talking. |
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| Responsible citizens |
| If possible walk to school! Point out how cars and bad parking cause the traffic jams at school, affect the environment and how much healthier it is to walk occasionally.
Re-cycle some of your ‘rubbish’ at home and talk about why. |
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| Effective contributors |
| Get your child to teach you what they are learning.
Talk about team sports, who does what and why they are all important. |
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September 5th, 2006 by Angus MacRury
Our Hmie Report is out today.
The Report highlighted the following Key Strengths:
· The Quality of the relationships between pupils and all members of staff
· A high regard for Care and Welfare
· Well-behaved pupils who had a very positive attitude towards their work.
· Leadership which was giving the school a clear agenda for improvemen
The Main points for Action are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »
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September 4th, 2006 by Angus MacRury
Today has been a day of visits.
At 9:00am I had a visit from Ross Morrison who is helping to oversee the refurbishment of the toilets and cloakroom areas, we spend 30 minutes looking at the works still to be completed.
I had Alan Blackie here on a visit where we discussed the recent HMIe Inspection and the action points arising from it. The report is published tommorow and I will update the blog on the detail. We also discussed and viewed the refurbishment work. We also discussed my contributions to exc-el and how I could move forward with this. After a tour of the school which is currently being reorganised we agreed that the school looks very good despite some displays up yet up in the classrooms.
After lunch I had a visit from A representitive of the construction company overseeing the works in the school. After a 50 minute tour and meeting with him I met with a pest controller who was takling a nest of wasps in the Nursery.
In between visitors I drafted a letter and parental response sheet to go along with the HMIe report.
School website
I have spent a bit of time recently updating the school website which of today has a new address. The new sections are on Health Promoting Schools. A Curriculum for Excellence and Assessment is for Learning. The information is designed to be readily available to parents. We have also put all our updated Nursery Policies online to be down loaded by parents or potential parents. The new school menu is also available. Tommorow a PDF and text report of our HMIe will be uploaded.
The website address is migrating to
www.innerwickschool.org.uk shortly.
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