Park Primary School held a two day Fairtrade Cakebake last week. Many of the pupils and staff baked cakes and biscuits using at least one Fairtrade ingredient to show their support towards Fairtrade products during Fairtrade Fortnight. This was a huge success and raised £340.01. Well done to all the bakers and thank you to all who came along and spent some money!
P4 Weather Report
As part of P4’s Weather topic , the children had the opportunity to present their own forecast, which was filmed by one of our children’s dads, Mr Mark Heathcote, a Video Journalist. The children were full of encouragement for each other and those who couldn’t be persuaded to present, became sound technicians instead. After filming, the children asked numerous questions of their guest, who was very impressed with the range of enquiries being aimed at him. One child wanted to know how old a person has to be to get started in this line of work, so maybe we have a budding Video Journalist in our midst! Continue reading P4 Weather Report
Kilcreggan Golden Lunch Table Winners
Our Golden Lunch Table Winners for this week were, Eilidh Morton, Tarra Rowan, Patrick Dolan and Keir McKie. Congratulations to them all for their good table manners and good behaviour in the lunch hall.
Third Green Flag for Luing
Luing’s third green flag proudly hoisted.
Over the past two years all the pupils of Luing Primary have been working very hard towards their third green flag. They investigated the subjects: – waste minimisation, litter and water.
Red Nose Day at Oban High School
Oban High School students and staff report Rudolph has nothing on them!
More than 600 of the three varieties of the 2013 Red Nose Day noses were sold for £1 each at Oban High School for Comic Relief. Students and staff raised £1,063.68 to contribute to the international global assistance agency through a variety of activities including open mic performances in costume; face painting stalls and cake bakes. Continue reading Red Nose Day at Oban High School
Teddies at Beddies at Rothesay Primary
Rothesay Primary recently presented Primary 2 with their special teddies. The teds are special because there is nothing they like better that a good book! The children and their parents and carers have all promised to look after their bears by reading them at least one book per week and remembering to change the books every week at the library.
Lochdonhead playgound development
The pupils of Lochdonhead Primary School have planned, resourced, gained funding, and overseen the development of their school playground, creating a story glen, based on an old Gaelic tale, Iolaire Loch Treig. The pupils have worked with various artists and they are even working with pupils in a secondary school in Harrogate, who are designing wooden story boards based on our children’s designs.
We now have a fantastic imaginative play area, including a willow dome with tunnels, a willow cave and a log ringed area.
Toyota dream Car competition
Here at Bowmore Primary, we are so proud of Natasha Thomson, P.5. Natasha’s class entered the Toyota dream Car competition and this is what happened…
‘I had to draw a picture of my dream car and I found out I had got into the World Competition!
I was so excited when I entered the Toyota Headquarters because it was soooooo big. We had lunch in a private room and it was delicious.
Red Nose Day at Rothesay Primary and Pre-5
Comic Relief 2013
Rothesay Primary had a Red Nose Day on Friday the 15th March. All the Primary 7s gathered up to organise a day full of fun for the rest of the pupils. We had a sponge throw; nail bar; designer dreams stall; a raffle; beat the goalie; car wash; float the lemon game and face painting. Everyone had a brilliant day! Along with the money raised in Pre-5, Primary 2 and the red noses sold by our pupil council, we raised a staggering £1028.78! It was such a successful day for all the Rothesay Primary pupils and staff.
Clachan Primary Vocal Ensemble
Success at Mid Argyll Music Festival
Clachan Primary Vocal Ensemble were delighted to be awarded first place in the vocal ensemble competition at the Mid Argyll Music Festival yesterday.
The pupils had a wonderful day participating in a variety of solo competitions too.
Many thanks to all the organisers and to the parents for all their support.
Red Nose Day at Bowmore Primary School
Bowmore Primary School all rocked up in red on Friday 15th March for Red Nose Day! We all put some money in the collection and raised a fantastic amount of £211.02! In the afternoon everyone from the nursery right up to Primary 7 went through to the hall and showed our fabulous Zumba skills on the Wii for a while. It was amazing and some of the teachers joined in too! It was a fantastic day and we are all so proud of how much we raised!
Zoolab visit to Strone Primary School
On Monday 18th March, Alannah from Zoolab visited us as part of our Eco Schools programme. She brought lots of interesting mini beasts including Hissing Cockroaches, Rats, Snakes, Millipedes, Tarantulas and a Tree Frog.
She talked to us about Paper and Deforestation, Mining in the Rainforest, Energy Saving, Acid Rain and Climate Change. We loved learning this way and Alannah and the animals were great.
Scottish Food Workshop
A huge thank you to Keren Cafferty from the Puffer Bar and Restaurant, Easdale Island for coming into Easdale Primary School to show us how to make stovies and cranachan. The children and parent helpers enjoyed making and tasting these traditional dishes and are now looking forward to preparing and serving these at our end of term ceilidh next week.
Red Nose Day
On Friday 15th March, Strone Primary held their Red Nose Day event. We all wore something red, some of our pupils dyed their hair red, others had red shoes or items of clothing.
For our lunch we had our favourite lunch with red biscuits and we attempted red custard although it turned out more a muddy brown than red!
We had great fun and enjoyed raising money for charity.
Early Years Igloo at Tighnabruaich
“At Tighnabruaich Early Years Class we have been building an igloo by using 2 litre used plastic milk bottles. Parents and the community alike donated their empty bottles for a few months and the result (thanks to George our Janitor mostly)! was a brilliant play house for the Early Years Class to enjoy.
All built with recycled materials!”
Monsteriffic’ Red Nose Day at Dalintober PS
Mrs Kean and Primary 3 organised a ‘Monsteriffic’ Red Nose Day at Dalintober PS. Pupils were invited to dress up and/or come to school with monster feet! Other activities during the day included baking, a colouring competition, an obstacle course and Head Teacher, Miss Armour, was kidnapped! A fantastic total of £454.76 was raised for Comic Relief.
Continue reading Monsteriffic’ Red Nose Day at Dalintober PS
Dervaig Red Nose Day Sponsored Walk
On Saturday 16 March Dervaig children organised their third sponsored walk for Red Nose Day. They walked from Tobermory to Dervaig raising £230, from passing vehicles, in their buckets. They still have to add sponsor money to this fabulous amount! The children appreciated the help from parents and grandparents and would like to say an enormous Thank You to the Bellachroy Hotel for providing soup and sandwiches at the end of this long walk.
Tobermory parents make Bramble Wood
Recently, the parents of P1/2 came to class to view The Land of Me DVD. They made suggestions and gave good ideas on activities the children could do as part of the topic. The following week parents joined us to help create Bramble Wood, which is one of the lands in The Land of Me.
Chinese New Year at Strone Primary School
On Thursday the 21st February, Xin a lady from Shanghai in China came to Strone Primary school to talk to us about how they celebrated Chinese New Year in China.
We had an assembly in the morning and Xin talked to us about Chinese culture. She showed us pictures of people celebrating Chinese New Year and talked to us about the Chinese zodiac, the Great Wall of China and told us how to say ‘Happy New Year’. She also told us what languages were from what area of China. She spoke Mandarin and her second language was English. Continue reading Chinese New Year at Strone Primary School
STRICTLY comes to Lochgilphead
Lochgilphead Joint Campus glitzed and glammed its way to raising in excess of £1000 for Comic Relief on Friday 15th March as S6 students took part in a Strictly dancing competition. The students had been training for months with dance tutor, Laura Sweeney, and their efforts were finally unveiled to an audience of friends, family and staff. This was one of the most glamorous nights the Campus has seen and the students should be commended on their efforts – and their bravery. Well done!!
