St. Clement’s Practical Autism Video Guides

These guides have been made by St. Clement’s Special School in Dingwall working with Autism expert Yo Dunn. They are an excellent guide to various aspects of Autism. You can find them by following the link below:

St Clements Practical Autism Video Guides

Glen Affric Campout

Our Bushcraft / John Muir Award group finished off their course with an amazing 3 day campout at the Trees for Life bothy in Glen Affric. We planted trees, explored the local area, swam in the river and learned natural cordage. We were lucky enough to have some great weather and not too many midges. Well done to all who took part.

                                                           Beautiful Glen Affric

 

 

                                                     The Bushcraft Group

                                                  Owen is ready for action …

                                                      We didn’t forget Hedgie!

                                                We all enjoyed the warm weather

 

                                                    Natural cordage with Rafia

 

                                                              Chandler is ready for bed

                                                                 Out planting trees

                                                                            Girl Power!

 

 

Crafts Gallery

Our pupils have been working hard with Mrs Maclean on a range of amazing craft projects. Have a look below at what they have been doing.

Sponsored Walk

Well done to all staff and pupils who took part in the Sponsored Walk – particularly to Innes Neill and Miss Galleitch who ran the whole way!

 

Bushcraft Day

The Support Department took a group of S4/S5 pupils for a day of outdoor activities. We had a visit to the Lifeboat Station at North Kessock followed by some dolphin watching at Chanonry Point.

We then went to Rosemarkie Beach for bushcraft activities. Everyone managed to light a fire using a firesteel.

We had a bit of time to relax by the sea.

Our Departmental mascot managed to toast a marshmallow!

 

James snapped some photos of our bamboo stick challenge.

Well done to all the participants for making it a great day out.

HD Sports Day

Well done to all those who participated in the HD Sports day. As always we had lots of great performances and plenty medals.

Results:

400m

Charlotte Allan – Gold

Ross Halkett – Gold

Isabelle Huxtable Smith – Silver

Shannon Macpherson – Silver

200m

Charlotte Allan – Silver

Seraphina Poulton – Bronze

Owen Taylor – Bronze

800m – Isabelle Huxtable Smith – Silver

Shot Putt

Eve Grant – Gold

Ross Halkett – Silver

 

Relays

Both boys and girls teams won medals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bushcraft

The current NCFE Bushcraft group have been working hard on a range of bushcraft activities. They are all looking forward to the campout in Glen Affric at the end of May.

Christmas Fayre

The Support Department will have a stall at the Tanzania Work Party Christmas Fayre which will be held in the school on Saturday 14th November from 10 am to 3 pm. Pupils have been busy making a range of Christmas crafts such as Christmas cards, candle holders and gift tags.

Come along and buy some of our crafts – it is a great way to support both the Support Department and the Tanzania trip.

Highland Disability Sport Swimming Gala

Congratulations to all the pupils who took part in the Highland Disability Sport Swimming Gala in Inverness on Tuesday 22nd September.

Staff  were very pleased not only with the behaviour of all the team, but also the amount of courage and determination that was displayed.

Results:

Ross Halkett – Bronze – Free Style Front

Isabelle Huxtable Smith – Gold – Free Style Front

Phillip Smith – Gold – Adapted Breast Stroke

Eve Grant – Gold – Free Style Front and Silver – Adapted Breast Stroke

Christopher Friend – Silver – Free Style Front

Claire Wilson – Silver – Free Style Front
Chandler and Kuba gained a bronze medal taking part in the mixed school relay event.

Ross, Phillip, Isabelle and Chris were unfortunate to lose their silver medal position in the Relay due to an administration error.

Hairspray!

Also well done to Ross Halkett for a brilliant performance in the school’s production of Hairspray.