PICTURES: Awards presented at Noss Primary’s final assembly
Awards were given out as pupils, staff, family members and special guests gathered at Noss Primary School (NPS) yesterday morning (June 26) for the final assembly of the year.
Headteacher, Fraser Thomson welcomed everyone and commended the efforts of pupils at Noss for making improvements across the school and ELC.
In his speech, Mr Thomson alluded to the number of clubs and activities that the school continues to offer; the number of trips that pupils enjoy; opportunities to represent Noss in the community; taking part in pupil groups; house challenges and the creation of leadership positions in Noss’ new house system such as junior vice-captain, vice-captain and house captain.
During the session, NPS was recognised as a silver status ‘Rights Respecting School’ and received the silver medal in Sportscotland’s school sports award initiative. The awards reflect the hard work of staff and pupil leadership groups.
Suzanne Mackenzie and Hilda Sutherland led the Rights Respecting School committee across the session and met with assessors earlier in the month who recognised approaches to ensuring that the school reflects a rights-based approach to education.
Lauren Mackay, Avril Farquhar and Active Schools coordinator, Tina Gibson led the pupils across the session which ended with a whole school Olympic event at the end of term.
During the assembly, the audience had the chance to say farewell to Primary 7 pupils who spoke about their favourite memories from their time at Noss.
P7 pupils from Wick ASG primary schools had gathered at Noss the night before for a dance where they got a chance to mix with each other, dance, take group photos in a photo booth and enjoy a meal together. Pupils then received awards for endeavours across the year.
Former headteacher, Alistair Budge and Lisa Ross attended and were on hand to present the Mr Budge School Values Award and the Wendy Alexander Memorial Trophy respectively.