Everyone at Dalintober Primary School got in to the swing of things to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in style! Bunting was put up around the school and we all wore red, white and blue or royal costumes! Every class included Jubilee Lessons in their curriculum and lots of interesting facts were found out.
Continue reading Dalintober Primary School Celebrate Diamond Jubilee
Port Ellen is pleased to announce that we have managed to achieve our fourth green flag, awarded to us by Eco Schools Scotland. Our Eco Committee have worked very hard all year, making posters and videos, cleaning the beach and school, doing the gardening and checking the pond and it is great to hear all the work has paid off.
A new resource for teachers and outdoor educators produced by the John Muir Trust shows how its educational initiative, the John Muir Award, can be used to help deliver the Curriculum for Excellence. Groups undertaking the Award can complete a range of activities across curriculum areas, such as building bat boxes in technology, measuring trees in mathematics, or surveying wildlife in the school grounds for science.
The resource, an eight-page guide (pdf) complete with visual mind map that’s been endorsed by the Chief Executive of Education Scotland, was launched on Friday 9 March at Lochgilphead High School by Michael Russell, the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning. Continue reading John Muir Trust launches CfE resource at Lochgilphead High!
22nd May was an exciting day for the pupils and staff of Lochnell and Dunbeg Primary Schools, or ‘Lochbeg’ as they were renamed for this momentous occasion. The two schools engaged in the ultimate in interdisciplinary learning for the whole term from Easter onwards as they competed for their country for prestigous online medals. The pupils across the schools were split into six teams and could earn medals in every aspect of school and out-of-school life if their efforts correlated with one of the six Olympic and Paralympic values, such as friendship, fairness, determination etc. Continue reading ‘Lochbeg’s’ momentous occasion!
On Friday 8th June five children from P6/7 – Aileas, Dan, Elinor, Ewan and Jason – went to the Celebration of Science & Engineering at the Science Centre in Glasgow. They were there to showcase the science and technology we have done in school and science club over the year; the Forces in Motion topic for National Science & Engineering Week; the wave power generator that we designed for the Saltire Award; and Jason’s individual pyropyramid.
Continue reading Port Ellen Primary – Celebration of Science and Engineering
On Tuesday 12th June, the Oban Bookbug team took over Atlantis Leisure and invited all the local participants to a Bookbug ‘Get Fit’ Olympics Celebration. The session was crammed with active songs and dances featuring the specially penned Olympic Torch song. Everyone took part and there were 65 adults and children in attendance.
On Friday 8th June as part of our Curriculum for Excellence project on Ancient Greece and the Olympics 10 pupils, 3 members of staff and 2 Parent Council Members from Innellan Primary School travelled to Port Glasgow to see part of the Olympic Torch Relay. A very exciting time was had by all as we stood patiently waiting for the historic torch to pass us. Organisers in Port Glasgow did themselves proud by providing music, free flags and safe cordoned off clear viewing areas. Pupils and staff were delighted to also receive free Bank of Scotland Olympic ribbon flags. A great day was completed when our very kind Parent Council Members bought us all a 99 ice cream cone, delicious! have a look at our photo………. Continue reading Olympic Torch Relay Trip
At long last Scottish Government have announced the way forward for Glow in schools. As you probably know, the current Glow system was due to be turned off in September of this year, but no clear replacement had been identified. The current Glow contract with RM has been extended by 15 months to allow us all a breathing space while the new Glow 2 apps and services are made available. The contract to provide these free apps and tools has been awarded to Microsoft and will be based largely on the free tools that they have provided through their “Microsoft Live apps” service. The more surprising news is that they will only provide this service until 2014. Simultaneously, Scottish Government will be developing our own sign in and authentication service, which will let us include a more flexible set of tools possibly including those from Google, WordPress and others after 2014.
It has been announced that schools from Argyll & Bute have won in 2 categories in the Scottish Education Awards.
Here is a photograph of our P5’s who unveiled our biggest garden sculpture, “Dumdum”.
This is an Easter Island head planter with a body of stones and gravel that is based on the combined bodies of all the children. Continue reading Easter Island head grows a whole body at Ardchattan
Rosneath Primary held a special celebratory lunch for the Jubilee on Thursday 7th June. Staff and pupils were served a delicious lunch of sandwiches, sausages, cup cakes and ice-cream prepared by Mrs Johnston and her kitchen staff.
As the weather was dull, lunch was served indoors in the school hall which was decorated with flags.Everyone enjoyed the celebration for the Jubilee.
Primary 5/6 at Rosneath Primary are delighted that their hard work this session has been recognised. Their blog (http://rosneathprimary56.primaryblogger.co.uk/) has been nominated for Class Blog of the Year in the Education Blog Awards 2012!
The initial aim of the blog was to share our learning with parents and help strengthen home-school partnerships, but it quickly developed into much more than that. Outstanding examples of our work are showcased on the blog and we take great pride in this. We have connected with other schools around the world through Quadblogging (http://quadblogging.net/) and contributed to the World’s Biggest Blogging Project on 29th February 2012 (http://feb29th.net/). We enjoy taking part in the 100 Word Challenge and like to read other children’s work before giving them feedback on their writing (http://100wc.net/). Blogging has improved our ICT and literacy skills but most importantly, it is fun!
A group of keen learners at Port Charlotte Primary School have been trialling the ict tool ‘My Study Bar’ which is a great help with reading, writing and spelling. This is what they think of the tool so far…
“My Study Bar is really helping us with our writing.
Balabolka reads what we have written and we know if we spelled it wrong and if it makes sense.
On Wednesday 6th June Lochdonhead Primary School had a Street Party to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee which was absolutely amazing. We invited people from the local community to come along and have some fun, with some tea and home baking on the side. The pupils took on different responsibilities and worked co-operatively to make the day a huge success. We want to thank everyone who came along and give a special thanks to Sir Lachlan MacLean for planting a tree in commemoration of the event. We also want to thank the parents and staff for all their help.
Parklands School Secondary Class organised their own street party to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee! They invited people from the community who they wanted to thank such as ex-teaching staff and volunteers, representatives from RDA and invited guests from local shops and businesses.
The pupils planned the party and prepared all the food themselves – they even designed and sent out their own invitations. Luckily they had won £100 worth of vouchers and a Jubilee party pack from the Co-op so we were able to decorate our playground and celebrate in style! Continue reading JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS AT PARKLANDS SCHOOL
An Eco Fashion Show was held in Strath of Appin Primary organised by the school’s Eco Committee. 44 outfits were shown off by 15 models. All the models wore recycled clothes, donated by families and friends of the school. The school has had a focus on re-cycling as part of its Eco Schools programme this session.
Please have a look at our slideshow!… Continue reading Eco fashion at Appin Primary
What a beautiful day for a “Special Lunch”. Kilcreggan Primary School held it’s Jubilee Lunch outside today. The sun shone and everybody enjoyed a lovely buffet. Our thanks go to Mrs Reid and Mrs Stewart our Catering staff for preparing such a superb feast and decorating the the tables to make the day so special.
Here are a few photos to share…………………….. Continue reading JUBILEE LUNCH AT KILCREGGAN PRIMARY SCHOOL
P4 and p5 pupils at Bunessan Primary, on Mull have been writing Fibonacci Poems exploring their thoughts and feelings about The Easter Island Head that arrived in their school recently.
Here is Rachel’s from P4………………. Continue reading Bunessan Primary Fibonacci-based Easter Island head poem!
In July last year Amy from Campbeltown Grammar school, saw her Scottish design become a winner of the Get Set London 2012 design competition. Amy’s creation has become an official regional version of “Mandeville”, the London 2012 Mascot.
We now have some more brilliant news! Glasgow City Council is going to construct a 6ft sculpture of the Scottish Mandeville as part of its City Look Programme to decorate the city ready for the London 2012 Games!
The sculpture will be built near one of two central stations but the exact location is yet to be decided. A similar Wenlock sculpture will be built at one of the two stations and the pieces will welcome visitors to Glasgow and celebrate Scotland’s role in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Continue reading London 2012 – Olympic Games
One of our wee p2s took this picture of a p1 beside our marvelous marble head planter. Barcaldine Primary
