Barcaldine Primary School came 1st in Scotland in this year’s Big Pedal 2013.
Big Pedal is a virtual cycle that follows a different Sustrans route across the 15 days of the competition. The giant inter-school cycling competition ran from the 28th February until 20th March this year and Barcaldine Primary School came 1st in Scotland and 2nd overall in Britain in the Small Schools category.
Members of the Quality Improvement Team recently made presentations to Councillors at the four Local Area Committees. They spoke about 3-12 teaching and learning in our schools, backed up by a report featuring news from each primary in their area. You can download the reports below and enjoy the examples of CfE, community involvement, eco-learning, partnership working etc. Continue reading Argyll and Bute 3-12 Learning and Teaching Features
To celebrate the centenary of the Picture House in Campbeltown, Home Economics pupils in S1 and S2, studied the history of the Picture House in Campbeltown, using the internet and “The Wee Pictures” website.
Pupils found it fascinating to see the huge changes which have been made over the years, taking into account the changes in society and the impact of technology.
Following their investigations, everyone got their “designer hats” on to come up with ideas for a celebration cake for the event.
Continue reading Campbeltown Grammar School helps celebrate the Picture House Centenary
All the children in Easdale Primary took part in a walking bus to the village of Ellenabeich and back to school to practise their road safety and support Brake road safety charity. Our safe walking and road safety posters made cars more aware and slow down to a safe speed.
The Cardross Primary Green Day took place last week. The event was planned by our Eco teacher Mrs Girling to incorporate the whole school focus this term on the Rainforest. The pupils were taking part in rainforest and eco themed activities all day. Some of the highlights were; Amazon Micro-Parks, Rainforest Story Sticks and Smelly Cocktails.
June 11th 2013 saw the School raise its second Green Flag for Eco Schools. Although the weather was not very uplifting our spirits were raised together with the flag. Congratulations to all pupils and especially to Mrs McGuire and the Eco Committee.
The Nikon Digital Camera was won by Ruby-Jo Philips from Glassary Primary 2 with her photo of a snail. The judge, Matthew Boyle was most impressed with every aspect of the photo and had no hesitation in deciding it was the winner. Many thanks to all who took part in the competition..
Holly Smith, first year student of Lochgilphead High School, was selected out of 74,000 entries to take part in the next stage of the Chris Evans’ 500 Word Short Story competition.
The nationwide competition held by the Radio 2 breakfast show was open to any pupil under the age of 14 that could invent an imaginative storyline. Holly came up with the concept of her story whilst doing a class exercise in English, and her piece was specially chosen to be included in the shortlist of the top 50 entrants.
Continue reading Wordsmith Holly ‘seas’ off the competition
Last week we held Our Celebration of Art exhibition in school. Since late November we have been working closely with our Local Art Group to provide quality learning experiences for our children through the medium of art.
Teachers planned a series of lessons that built in problem solving, creativity, discovery, challenge and in some cases maths!
Continue reading Celebration of Art Exhibition at John Logie Baird
Primary six shared their recent learning about the Titanic with the school and their parents during their Titanic assembly.
They enjoyed sharing the information that they had gathered through personal and class research as well as dressing up as the different passengers who had boarded the Titanic on that fateful journey.
Cardross Primary hosted their annual Gala Day on Saturday. The day was huge success with lots of activities and plenty of sunshine. The school would like to thank the CPSA for their wonderful organisation and the community groups and businesses that continue to support our village school.
Our chicks are keeping Mum and Dad busy feeding. They have started to grow feathers on their heads and they look like aliens. We are not sure whether one has died as we can only see six open beaks. They’re very interesting to watch. Mum doesn’t sit on them any more because she doesn’t have time to – they are taking lots of feeding.
From Molly Fletcher (P6) and Finlay MacDonald (P4)
On Friday 7th June, Primary 6 of Rothesay Primary School were in for a treat when we were served a delicious lunch made by the wonderful school kitchen at the joint campus. We had won a menu competition as part of the eatBute festival last month/ the competition was judged by Jeremy Lee, presented of the Great British Menu. Jeremy, who loved going around the country, was at Mount Stuart for the prize giving and to teach people about foraging. Continue reading Rothesay Primary winners dine with style.
On Friday 3rd June all the children at Dalmally School came to school wearing green in order to take part in some Eco-schools activities.
Each class took part in three different activities. Some helped design and make an Eco-House, some made outdoor ladybird dominoes, and some made an Eco-mascot outdoors from materials they found.
Take a look at our photos!
It was no ordinary Sports Day at Sandbank Primary as this year the children took part in a Highland Games competing in their Clans. The opening ceremony got the Games off to a great start. Led by pipers, the Clans waved their banners as they sang and marched to Highland Cathedral.
Then it was off to the competitions which included various running and jumping events, hammer throwing, shot put and of course tossing the caber!
We spent two afternoons cleaning rubbish off the beaches along our coast with the help of our mums and dads. We were joined by Lochgilphead P6&7 on Thursday afternoon. We had our packed lunches on the beach and it was so hot we got to paddle. We gathered 19 bags of rubbish together and we all got along fantastically. We would love you to come back again soon. It was a great day thanks to the sunshine and good company.
Arasi – P4
The sun shone, the sea breeze kept the midges away and we had the perfect day for inter-sports to take place. Ashfield, Glassary and Tayvallich came to our school to take part in a round-robin set of events and three flat races. Parents enjoyed tea and coffee and hot off the girdle pancakes served by our Parent Council. We all had great fun and thank you to Mrs Floyd and all the children, parents and family who came from other schools to our event.
Connor – P7
Continue reading Achahoish Host Mid-Argyll Inter-School Sports Day
The children in Easdale Primary kindly donated a range of stationary including pencils, rubbers, rulers and jotters to Emma Ainsley a former pupil at school. Emma, currently a third year student at Glasgow University, is a member of the charity Student Volunteers Abroad and is taking part in a ten week project in the township of Nancholi in southern Malawi. Emma will be teaching in schools throughout the township. Emma has promised to come back into Easdale School in the new school year to give us feedback on the project and show us some photos.
This term, Primary 5-7 pupils took part on Geocaching activities in and around our local countryside. Geocaching is an outdoor activity in which pupils who took part had to use GPS navigational devices to hide and seek containers called ‘geocaches’. Each cache contained a log book which was signed and dated on discovery using our official code name ‘Hermi-trailers’; some of the larger caches we found also had trade-able items inside and we placed a track-able item inside one of our caches -its mission: ‘to travel as far as possible’.
S1/2 in Tobermory completed their RME conferences for this year with a day on the theme of Death and the Afterlife. This could have been a particularly difficult theme to work on but S1/2 participated in the day in a sensitive and thoughtful manner. The group started the morning together discussing why we have funeral services and went to the church where Mr Paton talked through some of the ways in which people deal with loss and how a funeral might look in the Church of Scotland and how funerals have changed over the years. Continue reading Death and the Afterlife
