Out of School...
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WORK is going ahead this autumn on the school garden at Merkinch Primary. The help of parents and anyone else interested in assisting is needed to prepare the ground for planting bushes and flowering plants. Before the holidays bulbs, donated by Winchester Growers, were planted. The school has been awarded a grant from Scottish Natural Heritage to help pay for the cost of planting the garden.
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ELECTED house captains and vice-captains for the 2001/2 school year are the following: Fleming - Rachel Jones, Stacey Johnstone; Kelvin - Michael Finnis, Cora-Leigh Cooper; Telford - Hannah Duncan, Cheryl Thomson; and Watt - Robbie Williamson, Carol Ann Crossan.
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GAINING gold certificates at the end-of-term service for a year of perfect attendance were Rebecca Paterson, Alastair Young, Thomas and Beth Fraser.
Sports champions were Jamie-Lee Robinson and Allan Pollock and Fleming was the overall house winner.
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PRIMARY 3 pupils have been able to get extra help with their reading at a Paired Reading Workshop on Monday mornings.
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PUPILS are warned to be very careful at the Lochalsh Road/Dunabban Road crossing as there is no crossing patrol there just now, due to Willie being off. And mind you look both ways: one day last month two cars were spotted going the wrong way in the supposedly one-way Lochalsh Road!
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INDOOR shinty training sessions have resumed for P6 pupils during school hours, and the P7 after-school shinty club has started on Thursdays from 3-4pm in the school hall. After-school football training is being held, weather allowing, on Tuesdays. Swimming for P6 is on again after all, and that’s on Mondays. That’s not to mention the Step Dancing Club… Merkinch kids are surely the fittest in Inverness!
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BOTH Merkinch Primary and Inverness High break up for the October holidays on the 12th and resume on the 30th. Monday 29th October is an in-service training day for teachers.
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A PILOT project to run a Breakfast Club has started at Inverness High School. Running from 8.10 to 8.40am, youngsters can have breakfast with their friends and complete homework, read, play board games or listen to music. Any parents pupils or staff willing to be part of a rota to help the smooth running of the club can contact Sheila at the New Community School Base on 235554.
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A SURVEY of pupils at Inverness High showed some interesting facts:
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Average travel time to school is 14 minutes
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80% pupils walk to school
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60% plan to stay and sit their Highers
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81% of girls want to go to university or college, but only 56% of boys.