House of Fun!
Skene’s House of Fun 2023-24!
For session 2023-24, our House and Vice Captains are:
Carnie Captain – Erin Cruickshank, Vice Captain – Mohammed Houhou
Easterskene Captain – Euan McGrath, Vice Captain – Poppy Graham
Garlogie Captain – Amy Reid, Vice-captain – Rory Buck
The current leader board is as follows:
Carnie | Easterskene | Garlogie |
761 | 780 | 726 |
March House Challenges:
Who wants to be a millionaire?
On the afternoon of Tuesday 26th March, we held our Skene School version of the popular quiz show, Who wants to be a millionaire? Our House and Vice Captains took to the spot light answering a range of questions about events and happenings within the last year. Each house had 3 lifelines, 50/50 (two wrong a answers removed), phone a friend (any house member in the audience, pupil or adult) and ask the audience (their won house members) as well as having 2 safety nets at 10 points and 25 points. 
The results…
Garlogie took a gamble on a question they were not 100% sure about and left with 10 points. Carnie and Easterskene both made it to the next safety net of 25 points before bowing out with an incorrect guess. We allowed everyone to try the last few questions and offered some bonus points for them. Easterskene were our overall winners – well done!
Spring Flower Power
Now that we are officially in Spring, we wish to brighten up the school, our community and our homes. Here is our Spring Flower Power challenge:
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Spring Flower Power competition and congratulations to our winners:
Category: Physical bouquet
1st – Poppy
Category: Paint/draw/image of flowers
1st – Nell
2nd – Helaina
3rd – Amy
Bring a Book into the 21st Century
With World Book Day on Thursday 7th March, our next challenge is ‘Bring a Book into the 21st Century.’ Details below.
Thank you to everyone who took part. The results are as follows:
Category 1: P1/2/3
1st: Evie
2nd – Angus
3rd (joint) – Milo and Finn
Category 2: P4/5
1st: Nicole
2nd: Grace
Category 3: P6/7
1st – Erin
2nd – Poppy
February’s House Challenges:
Wow! What a fantastic array of creativity and delicious goodies! The judges had a very tricky time deciding the winners but here we go…
Category 1: Cakes and Cupcakes
1st – Amy
2nd – Morgan
3rd – Eli
Category 2: Brownies and Marshmallows
1st – Daniel B
2nd – Helaina, Ember, and Ramsey
3rd – Jamie
Category 3: Other sweet treats
1st – Erin
2nd – Murray
3rd – Finn
Deal or No Deal
This month we saw Carnie and Garlogie take on the banker in their own episodes of Deal of No Deal. We cannot fault the sportsmanship and perseverance of both houses – well done!
- Carnie fought hard to the end, going with ‘no deal’ all the way. They were left with 20 or 25 points in the final two boxes. Refusing the option to swap, they came away with a very respectable 20 points for their house. It takes a lot of courage to play on knowing there is a risk of leaving with less – well done team Carnie!
- Garlogie accepted the bankers ‘deal’ of 48 points in the penultimate round, removing the pressure of a lesser total in the end. We played on and although they would have got more points by sticking with what was in their own box, they had great fun and a super team spirit!
January’s House Challenges and results
Easterskene were first to take on ‘Deal or No Deal.’ Matilda and Daniel B played a fantastic game, keeping the Banker on her toes every step of the way. With a nail-biting ending and the team deciding ‘No Deal’ for the final offer, they were faced with winning either ‘4’ or ‘100’ House Points. Perhaps they should have taken the swap as they came away with 4 house points which the Banker kindly rounded up to 10. The whole house demonstrated excellent sportsmanship and resilience – well done everyone!
Session 2019-20
This session our Charity Champions are:
P1 Grace
P2 Amy
P3 Ruby
P4 Lochlan
P5 Shayne
P6 James S
P7 Mack
Previous Sessions
Success!
After a year of hard work by our whole school community, UNICEF awarded us our Record of Commitment, the first stage in the UNICEF Rights Respecting School programme. We are now entitled to use the award logo alongside our own:
Christmas Community Cafe
We had a great turnout for our Christmas Community Cafe run by the Rights Respecting School Group and the Fairtrade Group. Here we are giving our presentation to all our visitors on what we’ve been doing so far and how they could get involved.
Rights Respecting School Group
We are working towards our Record of Commitment.
We are giving a presentation at our Christmas Community Cafe on Wednesday 11th December (9.30 – 10.40) and our first community meeting is on Tuesday 17th December at 2pm. Please get in touch with Mrs Bisset if you would like to get involved.