Rockfield Primary School National Writing Competition

Competitions, Events, Interdisciplinary, Literacy, Primary schools

Some of our Primary 6 and 7 pupils were delighted to hear that they had been awarded prizes after taking part in a national writing competition. The children entered a writing competition organised by Scottish Ballet that was based on the story of Hansel and Gretel.

Lots of fantastic pieces of work were produced by the classes involved and lots of hard work and effort that was put into the pieces of writing so everyone was delighted when a letter arrived to the school to inform us that one of our pupils was a winner!

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BBC visit Rockfield

Competitions, Events, Expressive arts, Gaelic, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools

The children in the Gaelic classes in Rockfield got a huge surprise last Monday when a crew from the BBC turned up at the school! The pupils had taken part in some filming for Gaelic television programme “Dè a nis?” earlier this year and were delighted to be told by the television presenters that out of 16 schools, the pupils from Rockfield were the fastest on space hoppers! Continue reading BBC visit Rockfield →

Tarbert Primary 7 Visit to Clydebank Museum and Art Gallery

History, Interdisciplinary, Learning Tech, Primary schools, School trips

Recently Primary 7 visited Clydebank Museum and Art Gallery as part of their WWII topic. It was a very enjoyable day when the class dressed up and had some hands-on experience with gas masks, gas rattles (very noisy), shells made in Clydebank (without the explosive content on this occasion), etc. The story of the Clydebank Blitz was very interesting and we visited the actual command centre at the time, a basement room in the library, where we made an electrical light circuit and passed morse messages to each other.

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Skipness News meets Campbeltown Courier

Events, Interdisciplinary, Learning Tech, Literacy, Primary schools, Social Enterprise

Skipness Pupils recently welcomed Campbeltown Courier’s reporter, Steven Flanagan, to help them prepare the latest edition of their newspaper. The Skipness News has been running since 1991 and has a large number of local and foreign readers. The pupils were given ‘top tips’ on how to improve their journalism skills. They were very grateful for Steven’s help and contributions.

Barrow Band perform at Dalintober PS

Events, Health and Wellbeing, Primary schools

Pupils at Dalintober PS were treated to a performance from ‘The Barrow Band’ today. The group promote healthy eating and were involved in an Open Day in the town’s Community Garden, but managed to find the time to fit in a visit to the school. Pupils loved their musical odes and we are sure plenty pupils went home singing about the positive effects of broccoli, kiwi fruit and carrots!
Pictured with the band are: Iona McKinlay (P7), Leanna Campbell (P4), Ruairidh Wallace (P6) and Maxwell Davidson (P1/2).

Parent Workshop Evening at Dalintober PS

Events, Interdisciplinary, Literacy, Primary schools,

A large number of parents of pupils at Dalintober Primary School attended Parent Workshops on two areas of the curriculum on Thursday 7th March. The workshops focussed on ‘Big Writing’ and ‘Active Maths’ and parents participated in activities and used resources that the pupils use in school. Miss Caroline Armour, Head Teacher, said, “We are delighted so many parents came along to participate in our Information Workshops.

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There’s Something Fishy going on at Toward.

Interdisciplinary, Learning Tech, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools

At the request of the pupils and as part of our Crofting Connections topic we invited an expert willow weaver, Mrs Clark, to come to the school to teach the pupils how to make Willow Fish. Now we have shoals of fish swimming all over the school. The pupils learnt that the willow needed to be soaked to make it pliable, that different types of willow were used for different parts of the fish and how they had to carefully bend the willow in a figure of eight before twisting it to make the tail.

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****SPORT YOUR TRAINERS FOR GLASGOW 2014****

Active Schools, Events, Health and Wellbeing, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools

Today at Kilmodan we are sporting our trainers on Commonwealth Day, as part of ‘Sport Your Trainers for Glasgow 2014’. This is part of a national campaign which asks people to wear their trainers as a symbolic gesture of support for Glasgow 2014. During our Commonwealth themed assembly we talked about the Commonwealth Games. There will be 71 nations and territories taking part in the games in July next year.

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Book Week at Dalmally Primary School

Events, Interdisciplinary, Literacy, Primary schools

Dalmally Primary celebrated world book day as part of a week-long series of activities relating to books. Children worked cooperatively to produce story books for younger children which they presented, designed new covers for traditional tales, and spent lots of time hearing different types of stories. We also had a book swap stall running for the week, giving us the chance to read new and different stories.
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Sport Your Trainers Day at Dalintober PS

Active Schools, Events, Health and Wellbeing, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools, Training

Sport Your Trainers 2013
Pupils and staff of Dalintober PS came to school ready for action in their trainers to support the Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014 campaign ‘Sport Your Trainers’. All classes participated in physical outdoor activities as part of their daily PE sessions.
Pictured are: Josh McKenzie (P7), Jessica Lang (P6), Tajrian Akhter Ali (P5), Lisa McKellar (P4), Kayleigh Dickson (P3), Claudia Graham (P2), Connor Wylie (P1/2), Lauren Docherty (P1) and Miss Semple.

Luing Big Brew

Events, Fundraising, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools, RME, Social Enterprise

The children of Luing transformed their classroom into a cafe for a Big Brew. This is in connection to the Human Rights work that the children are taking forward and to support Fairtrade Fortnight. Linda Leggett, an island resident and Fairtrade Tradecraft stall holder, set up a stall in the classroom to offer the visitors an opportunity to make their purchases.
As ever, the islanders turned out in force to support not only the children but to show support for Fairtrade and a growing understanding of the human rights agenda.

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World Book Day at St. Andrew’s Primary school

Events, Interdisciplinary, Literacy, Primary schools

Pupils of St. Andrew’s Primary school celebrated World Book Day 2013 by dressing up as characters from their favourite books. They also brought in books they have read to swap with their classmates. This week’s homework task was to draw a picture of their favourite characters from a story, which were displayed on the whole-school World Book Day wall. A fun day was had by all!

Fairlyand

Events, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools

The children of Primary 2 in St Joseph’s Primary, Helensburgh really enjoyed their interdisciplinary topic on ‘Fairyland’. They met many fairyland characters and participated in a wealth of active learning experiences. The final outcome of the topic was open day for parents which was very successful. Parents participated in activities with their own children and wrote their positive comments in the visitors book.

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Argyll and Bute Scottish Youth Parliament Elections: Make your vote count!

Messages, Secondary schools

The Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) represents Scotland’s young people. Our democratically elected members, aged 14-25, listen to and recognise the issues that are most important to young people, ensuring that their voices are heard by decision makers. Continue reading Argyll and Bute Scottish Youth Parliament Elections: Make your vote count! →

WORLD BOOK DAY CELEBRATIONS AT SKIPNESS PRIMARY

Events, Literacy, Primary schools

The pupils of Skipness Primary held a special event for World Book Day. Members of the community and pupils from Clachan Primary were invited to dress up as a character from their favourite book and read an extract aloud. All money raised is going towards Comic Relief.

A huge thank you to everyone who came along ro read – even Mrs Twit sat down to read to us!

World Book Day at St Joseph’s Primary

Events, Literacy, Primary schools

World Book Day at St. Joseph’s Primary School in Helensburgh on Thursday 7 March was a wonderful success. The children came dressed as a character from their favourite book which prompted lots of discussion in all classes about books and literacy. New literary interests were sparked as children were given various opportunities to share their knowledge on their favourite books and other children were able to question them on their choices.

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