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…

Visitors at Eigg Primary

We are very lucky to welcome many visitors to our school sharing interesting and fun activities with us! Here is a post written by our P1 superstars Ness, Jess and Ross: Yoga with Laura We did Yoga with Laura. We learned some new Yoga moves. We learnt the plank, the boat, the lion, the snake,…

Gaelic Week

Gaelic Cafe – thanks to many members of the community for joining our Gaelic activities. We also enjoyed delicious soups cooked by Mr MacInnes, bread baked by Colm and Violet and scrumptious treats brought along by friends πŸ™‚ The children prepared a song and some games for everyone to join in with. Violet and Jess…

Monday meals

This week our P7 girls did an amazing job helping out at the weekly community meals. Well done! On Monday we went to the hall for the community meal, which is an event for all the islanders. Anyone can come and enjoy food which someone has made. People take turns to make the food and…

We are learning about space

Written by two of our P1 and P3 learners We have been learning lots of different things. Yesterday Mr Merrick had written down lots of visits to space on the screen and then we picked some. And then we wrote the year on the top and sorted them all out in order. Peggy Whitson was…

Ice Experiment with Mr. Haycock

Ellis and Arlo On the first day we got balloons and filled them up with water and weighed them. Then we put them in the freezer. Then we waited for a whole day and then we weighed them again. They got smaller and lighter. And then we made cooler boxes. We made them out of…

The Big School Bird Watch

Aila We were in the playground and noticed that all the bird food in the bird feeders was gone. There were no seeds left. The birds ate all the seeds. So we filled up the bird feeders. We also used fat balls. We filled up 4 bird feeders. This afternoon we didn’t see many birds….

Lights, Camel, Action – The Sequin!

written by Agnes and Freya – P7 This is the annual Eigg Christmas play. We do this every year. And this sadly is our last performance. We really can’t wait to see everyone else next year and how good they are doing without us. This year’s show was about the nativity in Strictly Come Dancing…

Pupil Council

As part of our plan to increase opportunities for Eigg primary and Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust (IEHT) to work together, the children held a pupil council at the trust office. We invited Maggie, Becca and Jen of IEHT to join us. Violet When we got to the pier, we went up the stairs to…