Reading Schools Plan – Eigg Primary Book Recommendations

Bunny vs. Monkey: The Gigantic Joke Fight! I am reading Bunny vs. Monkey: The Gigantic Joke Fight. In the book, Bunny is just having his normal day in his house when he goes out and realises that none of his other friends in the woods are here. And then he finally finds Weenie and Pig,…

Dinosaur Fossil Hunt

written by Arlo and Jess Jenna froze little mini dinosaur figures in ice. We hunted for the fossils. We were scientists who were trying to dig up the dinosaurs and animals that existed when dinosaurs were alive. We had to get all the dinosaurs out of the ice. We smashed the ice and we go…

Clubs at Eigg Primary

Tennis Club – Colm I decided to do tennis club as part of my junior leader award. It started with rugby club, but we decided not to because all the other kids thought we would do proper rugby and not touch rugby. So we never got to the first session. So I decided to do…

Our New P1 Learner

After a great couple of years at nursery, our youngest learner has just started her journey in the primary classroom. Here is a wee report of how it is going for her: When I come in in the morning, I go to my seat next to my P2 friends. Every morning we do different things….

Eigg Primary Reading Challenge

written by our P4 learner This year reading is a big thing at Eigg Primary School. I have been bringing in lots and lots of Beano comics every day to share with the class. Violet didn’t know Beano until I brought them in and gave here a few issues, and she is now quite enjoying…

Sports Day with Nidderdale High School

written by Aila and Colm We had a visit by children from Nidderdale High School. I think it was 15 children. They sent us an email. It said we are coming over for a school trip, would you like to join? And we said yes! We did sports day with them. We had four teams:…

Small Isles Week on Rùm

Day 1 What better way to kick off Small Isles Week than with an afternoon of summer sports in the sunshine? After being greeted by their Rùm friends, the children launched straight into a high-energy round robin tournament. Each station offered a different challenge, from the Space Hopper Dash (navigating a tricky cone course) to…

Beach Clean

written by Ellis and Ross We went to Kildonan Beach. We got big bin bags and we split into groups and then we started tidying up the beach. We were getting all the plastic off the beach. We got to our third bag and then we ran out of bags. We found lots of fishing…

Silurian Visit

Aila We went on a speed boat. Then we went on a real boat. We were looking for whales but we didn’t see any, we just saw pretend ones. The people on the boat were pretending to be one. They went on the speed boat and had a shark pretend thing and they held it…

Day trip to the Isle of Muck

written by Ellis and Violet On Wednesday we went on the Shearwater to visit our friends at Muck Primary school. We saw a black duck on the boat. We got to see little lambs. They were the cutest things in the world. The smallest one was white and so friendly. We were allowed to hold…