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…
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 🙂 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…
Our new primary 1 children
We had a great first term with our new P1 children in class 🙂 Jess I have been colouring in pictures. I have been learning about dogs and pandas. Pandas’ noses are small. I like being in class with the older children. I like sumdog. We do maths and if we get white in the…
Taekwondo on Muck
Agnes When we got to Muck, we had lunch with the school kids in their classroom. Then we played for a bit in the classroom, because it was raining. Then we went to the hall. Jess We practiced Taekwondo. What does Taekwondo mean? Agnes Taekwondo is martial arts. It means learning to defend yourself and…
Day trip to the Isle of Rum
Written by P 2 and Early Years learners On Monday, we went on the ferry to go to the Isle of Rum. When we got to Rum, we had a walk through the woods and looked at the old ruins and a grave. There was an old fisherman washed up on the beach, so they…
The geology of Eigg
Written by our two P 6 Learners Angus Miller visited us to help us learn a bit more about rocks. He is a very good geologist and he studies fossils and rocks. He gave us a big rock and some magnifying glasses to look at the rock. In the rock we saw lots of fossilised…
Pheasantry visit with Eigg Guiding Co
All the children from Eigg primary and nursery had a great bushcraft session with Kat and Jon of Eigg Guiding Co this week. About 20 children from Arisaig primary came to join them. This gave the Eigg children a great opportunity to develop friendships and links with children on the mainland. Early Years Learner That’s…
Run Club
This Monday we started our weekly after school run club with Katrin and Mr. MacInnes. It was a great success and enjoyed by all. Violet We did a few exercises in the playground to warm up. We did silly walks, for example we put legs backwards and legs forwards. We also did running around to…
Summer term Muck visits
During summer term, the children of Eigg primary travel to Muck every Wednesday to spend some time with their friends at Muck primary. Freya We went on the Sheerwater. We saw lots of seals when we got to Muck. When they saw us, they popped into the water. You could hear splash, splash, splash. When…
Visit to the tree nursery
Ness: We planted tiny tiny tiny trees. Colm: They are called saplings. Ness: We needed to get a little tree from the pot. You make a little hole with your dabber and then you put a little tree in it and then you get some muck and then you fill the hole. Colm: Then you…
The Manse wood tree trip
Agnes We went to the Manse Wood. We met up with Tasha, Ms Hollands, Kitty, Babette, Ms McGilp, and Coby the dog. He is so cute. We went into the woods and were looking for poles with red ribbons on. When we found one we got a spade, a hammer, a guard, a plant and…
Our new classroom
P4 learner The new classroom is really fun and as soon as we got there we were exploring it for ages. There is this really big new lovely tent. It’s for calming time. The desks have changed and everybody can see the screen much better. I really like how everything is sorted, like the teacher’s…
Guide dog visit
Colm (P4) We had just had break and when we came in there was someone that had a dog with a harness on that was red and yellow. The dog had a harness because it means it was a guide dog. If there is a blind person the dog helps them know where stuff is.…
International Women’s Day
Arlo (P3) On International Women’s Day we drank hot chocolate in the assembly. The suffragettes did a petition for women’s rights. Women couldn’t do jobs and couldn’t vote in elections. The suffragettes started a long time ago, in 1903. My great-grandpa was born in 1930. We also talked about the women we appreciated the most.…
Pruning our fruit trees in March
Freya (P6) We went to the orchard at the start of the day. We got into pairs and walked down to the trees. We had a look at the damage the rabbits did. They took the bark off the apple trees. It was really cool because Laura told us that the plum trees have some…
Swimming trip
Ellis: When we arrived in Mallaig, we first went to see the place where we were staying. All the school children were staying at the Mission hostel. Jess: I was staying with my granny. Ellis: First we went in the living room and then Mr Merrick showed us the rooms. Then we went to the…
Police officer visiting Eigg primary
Police Constable Martin visited us at Eigg primary school. At first we talked about lots of stuff in the classroom. We told him about things on the Isle of Eigg, like the Sgurr. Then Mr. Merrick got arrested and he got put in the time out corner. At first Mr. Martin didn’t know where the…
The Big Garden Bird Watch
Norah from the Scottish Wildlife Trust came to Eigg primary school to do the Big Garden Bird Watch. Because it is harder to hunt when it is so wet, birds need lots of food. This is why we made bird food from peanut butter and seeds. We made bird feeders out of pine cones. We…
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