We're just a little different!

I don't know if all of you realise that there are some holiday dates that are decided on a local, Community School Network basis, and last Friday, 15th February, was one of them!
Many months ago member schools of the Meldrum CSN sat down to decide where these occasional holidays should be taken. It was agreed that we should take Friday, 2nd May along with Monday 5th May as our longer weekend.
What we were not aware of, was that practically all other schools had decided to take off the 15th February!!
Hopefully this did not affect you adversely and we hope you will enjoy having the proposed dates in May.
Friday brought for us, here at Tarves, a pleasant visit from our Director of Education, Bruce Robertson, who took time from his busy schedule to make himself familiar with our school, its children, and some of the issues and challenges facing the school in the future.
Mr Robertson toured the school with me and chatted to, and questioned the children. I was pleased to note that they responded well to his questions and comments and showed that they could apply what they had been or were learning to wider situations.

In-service Day, Tuesday, 19th February, was taken up with examining 'Active Learning' in delivering the Curriculum for Excellence to your children. Our staff attended two different venues, Kintore and Methlick, to have the work further explained to them and advice offered regarding its delivery in the school.