Thank you from all of us to all our P6 families for working with us to provide
the children with such a memorable, beneficial residential trip
together to
Benmore Outdoor Education Centre. It
was a genuine pleasure to
escort 91 tremendously positive, caring and well behaved pupils and
we all thoroughly enjoyed their company and conversation. We hope you
notice at home how well they can do household chores and keep
their rooms tidy, because all scored very highly in daily dorm
inspections! It was wonderful to witness P6s extend friendships and make
lasting bonds with each other, as well as with the staff. Everyone
managed to take on many new challenges throughout the week and supported
one another with patience and kindness.
The
Sciennes staff also gave it their all and sustained the 24/5 duty by
working very closely as a team. We took lots of photographs but always
struggle with trying to get a signal and with very slow upload speeds.
However, we hope you enjoyed the
updates
and we will continue to publish more photos on our
Benmore blog in due course.
Thank you to P6 teachers
Mrs Maguire, Ms Gaffney, Ms Sellar and Mr McKenna for
devoting their time, energy and above all care to their children. Mrs
Cave
has enjoyed keeping up to date with all the
adventures back at home. Mrs Maguire knows the year group extremely well
and all five P6 teachers have been highly effective in preparing the
children for the trip and making
sure all the pupils had the best possible experience.
It was wonderful to have seasoned camper, Ms Anstruther, on the team and she was superbly supportive of all the children
day and night. Grateful thanks to the
entire team and also to the extended team back at Sciennes,
particularly Mrs Noble, Ms Christie and Mrs Ellis who have
an even busier week than usual without us. Mr Scott and Mr Reid also
deserve a thank you for helping us get safely on and off the coaches.
We
are indebted to all the magnificent staff at Benmore who go out of
their way to make our stay with them as comfortable as it can possibly
be, always going the extra mile to accommodate our needs, and for the
great skill, expertise and dedication of the Instructors. We consider
them not only trusted, respected colleagues, but also our dear friends.
All pupils who took part this week
will receive the 'Adventure' certificate; one quarter of the way
towards full JASS Bronze award accreditation, and a Benmore Certificate.
Thank
you to Mrs Nowell and all the staff back at school who
ensured
that the six pupils who remained also had an enjoyable and
interesting week.
Thank you most sincerely to all the families who support us, not least
of all financially, in providing what we believe to be an invaluable
educational opportunity for our children.
We hope you have a wonderful holiday and we look forward to building on
the success of the trip. Well done, Primary Six!
Ms Gallagher
