We had a brilliant day today at The Royal Games
S1-S3 pupils took part in games such as Tug of War, Beat the Goalie, Wellie Tossing, Target Games, Gladiators and biking along with much more! Thank you to all the P.E. staff for organising this House Competition and to the wider staff who came outside to support us and help out. Thank you most of all to our wonderful pupils for participating! 
Check out more photos in our Photo Gallery Section! đˇ
Update from Belgium 
Our history tour began today with a visit to Langemarck Cemetery, a German war graves site, a truly sombre experience. This was then followed by a study vist to the In Flanders Field Museum in Ypres. After a very long journey, think everyone will sleep tonight, ready for more tours tomorrow. Check out more photos in our Photo Gallery Section.
S1 Reports will be emailed out to pupils (and parents that we have up to date emails addresses for) later today. Please ask your child to share their report with you.
Tomorrow students from S1-3 will take part in ‘The Royal Games’. This is a whole-school event where students have the opportunity to take part in a variety of sports, games and challenges where they can win house group points!
The students will come at the below times:
S1 – P2&3
S2 – P4&5
S3 – P6&7
The weather looks set to be fantastic tomorrow 
so S1-3 students can come to school wearing PE-style clothes for the whole day. Also, as it looks likely to be a warm day it would be advisable to bring some water and sun cream too 
And they're off! Our Belgium Battlefields History Trip left early yesterday morning and after a long, overnight ferry crossing they have arrived safely in Rotterdam 
ready for the last leg of their journey.
They have lots planned for today, along with lunch in Ypres. Watch this space for photos throughout the week!
UHI Senior Phase Offer Holder Days—6 and 13 June.
This event is for students starting a face-to-face course on a Friday at the Inverness Campus. Pupils will get to meet their lecturer and classmates before the summer. This event was also held last year and it helped pupils to feel less anxious about starting with us after the summer holidays.
Open Day – Saturday 17 May. This event is for students who have applied for a post-school course, and also those who are undecided about what to do next year.
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Walking and Wheeling Festival 2025
The school will be hosting BMX sessions led by the professionals at Scottish BMX school and bike mechanic support over lunchtime on the Thursday 29th of May. This will be on a first come first served basis and will involve pupils taking part in small BMX coached sessions over lunchtime. There will also be other bike related opportunities on the day with 42 Cycling running puncture repair/mechanic drop ins and some other fun bike related aspects on the day!
So come along to the schools bike track and get involved!!! BMX bikes will be provided and if you are lucky you might get an ice-cream too đ
This year the Art Department entered 7 artworks for the Royal Academy Young Artists’ Summer Show in London and 1 of them has been selected! 
This is the first entry from our school to be accepted for this open submission exhibition, which celebrates the art of students aged 4-19 studying in the UK every year 
. The painting “Date with a Wizard Frog”, created by Heather Robinson in S1, will be part of the online exhibition from 15 July, as well as the display at the Royal Academy from 15 July to 10 August.
This is the full list of participants this year:
• Emily Russell – S4
• Adam Bodie – S3
• Anna MacLean – S3
• David Macleman – S2
• Alasdair Matheson – S2
• John Hector Kane – S1
• Heather Robinson – S1
You can see their artworks here. These were all done in pupils' own time; some used the lunchtime clubs in the department and some worked at home. The ideas, themes and inspirations all came from them.
Yesterday we hosted Fortrose Academy & Grantown Grammar School for an S3 football festival 
The blues were fantastic and won all their games with the yellows playing well and coming away with one win.
Thanks to Fortrose & Grantown for the games 
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S1 Virtual Evening – Wednesday 21st May – 5pm - Booking is now open!
Due to the size of the year group and the number of staff who have multiple S1 classes; you may not be able to book an appointment with every subject teacher. In a school of our size this has always been an issue. Therefore last year we trialled a hybrid model of a main ‘in person’ evening (taking place next week - booking now closed) and then another opportunity to book appointments as part of a virtual evening. The virtual parents’ evening should only be used as a ‘top up’ and not the main evening for your bookings – for example you were unable to get an appointment with History on the main evening. It should not be used for multiple appointments. Please refer to the criteria check list.
Some ground rules so that all participants are following the same protocol which should ensure everyone’s wellbeing.
• Conversations should take place in appropriate rooms / surroundings e.g. kitchen, lounge, study and not in a bedroom
• All participants should be appropriately attired as they would be for a real life face to face meeting
• No conversations should be recorded
• If you are using a device with e.g. FaceTime or WhatsApp to enable both parents from different households to attend simultaneously please flag this up to the teacher as a matter of courtesy at the start of the conversation
• As in real life, your child is welcome to attend
• Please be on time as the slot times are not flexible at all and will start/finish exactly on time
Ready to book your slots? Click here
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Last week we were lucky enough to have a visit from Canadian author Monica Mackinnon, who writes historical paranormal romance novels based in and around Inverness. Some of our budding writers came along to the library to meet her and hear about her writing process – she gave some great advice so watch this space for future novels written by IRA pupils! Monica very kindly donated a signed copy of her book ‘Seven’ – we were very excited to learn that Inverness Royal Academy features in this book, with one of her characters being a Maths teacher based here! This book is now available in the library for anyone who would like to borrow it. #readingschools #IRALibrary #futureauthors