Dunoon Grammar School – Apps for Good final

Achievement, Competitions, Digital Leaders, Digital Learning, Digital Schools, Learning Tech

Dunoon Grammar School have two teams shortlisted for the people’s choice award at this year’s Apps for Good UK finals.

Dunoon Grammar School

The Apps for Good Awards are an annual competition to showcase some of the best apps created by student teams. Over 25,000 young people from 1250 establishments have participated this year – so it is a real honour to have two teams at this year’s awards.

This people’s choice award is a public vote. DGS is up against schools from geographically denser areas – so we are looking for as much help as possible with the vote.

Please could you take a wee minute to vote for one of the DGS ideas viewed at these direct links: (Both open in a new window)

NightLight or SafeSocket

All of the entries can be viewed here:

https://www.appsforgood.org/public/awards/2018/peoples-choice

Kirn Eco Committee visit Sky Academy

Communities and Culture, Creative Learning, Eco committe, environment, Events, Expressive arts, Global Citizenship, Presentations, Primary schools, Topics,

The Eco Committee from Kirn Primary School, along with some pupils from P4-P7 visited the Sky Academy in Livingston. The pupils were there to film a short news report about the environmental problem of plastics in our oceans and waters.

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DEVELOPING OUR OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AT DUNBEG PRIMARY SCHOOL.

Active Learning, Activities, Communities and Culture, Eco Schools, environment, Events, Global Citizenship, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools

Whilst Dunbeg Primary School is treasured by its local community; its grounds are a treasure in their own right. Over the past seven months pupils, staff and parents have begun to develop them as an accessible, fun and exciting place to learn.
August 2017: The wetland/woodland area hinted at past projects but was thoroughly overgrown and boggy. An inspiring place however with clear educational and well-being potential!

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Fundraising Fun At St Mun’s

Communities and Culture, Competitions, Creativity, Events, Fundraising, Global Citizenship, Grandparents, Hospitality, Interdisciplinary, Personal Development, Primary schools, RME

During the Lenten period, the pupils of St Mun’s Primary were challenged to organise and run events to help raise money for two important charities: SCIAF and The Cowal Hospice Trust. Throughout March, a variety of activities took place: a Bring ‘n’ Buy Sale, Easter Egg Hunt, Guess the Name of the Easter Bunny Competition and a Chocolate Tombola. P.6/5 researched Scottish recipes and produced their own Cookery Book and P.7/6 ran a Coffee Morning to which parents and parishioners of Our Lady and St Mun were invited.
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Bravo Taynuilt Primary School!

Achievement, Communities and Culture, Competitions, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools,

Bien joué! ¡Bien hecho! Gut gemacht! Molto bene! (Well done!)
On Monday 15th May five Primary 6 pupils from Taynuilt Primary travelled to Edinburgh to the Euroquiz National Final 2108. The competition involved 470 schools from all over Scotland taking part in Euroquiz heats to represent their own areas. Taynuilt Primary won our area quiz to represent Argyll and Bute. There were 31 schools at the Final, from the Borders to Shetland to the Western Isles, and was it held in the Debating Chamber of the Scottish Parliament. Continue reading Bravo Taynuilt Primary School! →

Sumdog competition time again!

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The next Argyll and Bute Sumdog competition begins on Friday 20th April and will run until Thursday 26th April. Last time over 2000 students across Argyll and Bute took part in the competition and answered an amazing 553, 351 questions correctly – can we beat this score? Clachan Primary took 1st place, P5-7 at Craignish Primary came 2nd with the P6 class at Dunoon Primary coming in 3rd. Who is up for the challenge of overtaking these worthy winners? Sign your class up today and make sure all of those log-ins are ready! Looking forward to seeing how well you are all doing and remember to tweet your successes using the hashtag #Sumdog and to share it here on SAL.  Good luck!

Argyll and Bute contest

 

Congratulations to Clachan – winners of the Argyll and Bute Sumdog competition!

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Clachan Primary are excited to be winners of the Sumdog Contest which ran in Argyll and Bute from 16th to 22nd March.  Over 2000 students in Argyll and Bute took part in the contest, answering 553, 351 questions correctly!

All the pupils at Clachan Primary worked hard as a team to answer questions accurately over a week.

“We do Sumdog because it increases our flexible thinking in maths and to improve our learning,” said P6.

 “It makes us more confident when we do maths and makes it more fun,” said P4.

“Sumdog helps us improve our mental maths and we can answer questions accurately,” said P5.

Well done to everyone who took part.

Digital Learning Strategy and Action Plan

Digital Leaders, Digital Learning, Digital Schools, Learning Tech

The Digital Learning Team seeks to provide digital learning to children, young people and staff in schools throughout Argyll and Bute.  We have a clear vision on what we want to deliver as well as a strategy in place to achieve this vision; you can find the latest versions of our Digital Learning Strategy and Action Plan below:

Our Strategy: Digital Learning Strategy v20

Our Action Plan: Digital Learning Action Plan v20

FREE CLPL OPPORTUNITY FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY LANGUAGE TEACHERS WITH SALT

CLPL, CPD, Events, Modern languages, Personal Development, Primary schools, Secondary schools

SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS (SALT)
FREE CLPL OPPORTUNITY FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY LANGUAGE TEACHERS WITH SALT
Please come along to this free event as part of your Career Long Professional Learning (CLPL). The training is open to all primary and secondary teaching staff with an interest in language learning and teaching.

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“GET CREATIVE” MUSIC RESOURCE LAUNCH AND MUSIC CPD

Active Learning, CPD, Creativity, Events, Expressive arts, Music, Personal Development, Primary schools

Are you interested in developing your skills in delivering music in the classroom?
CAST are launching Get Creative, a music resource aimed at all primary teachers, packed full of
creative ideas, activities and learning outcomes to enable you to deliver musical activities with your
class, regardless of your musical experience.

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Clachan Primary School – 6th Green Flag

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We are delighted to announce that Clachan Primary School have been awarded their 6th Green Flag. This shows we have been an Eco School with Green Flag Status for 10 years! Well done to all involved.
Here is the report we received;

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Kilchattan School’s young poets are getting published.

Competitions, Creative Writing, Personal Development, Poetry, Primary schools, PSE, Topics, Writing

The pupils of Kilchattan School have been working very hard on their creative writing skills and have produced lots of interesting work. The topic this term was poetry so they thought they would have a go at entering the Young Writers “Little Riddlers” and “Rhymecraft” Poetry competitions. They were all very excited to learn that all 5 of their poems are going to get published. Well done all!

Castlehill Primary School – Fun Run for Sport Relief

Active Schools, Communities, Donations, Events, Health and Wellbeing, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, PE, Physical Education, Primary schools, Sport

Pupils from Castlehill Primary School took part in their daily mile on Friday 23rd March. All the classes from Primary 1 to Primary 7 ran, walked or jogged together around the school in aid of Sport Relief. It was great fun and at the end the children enjoyed fruit donated by Tesco. A big thank you to them for providing this fruit for the whole school.

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Colgrain Primary Sports Relief Danceathon

Communities, Creative Learning, Drama, Events, Expressive arts, Friends and Family, Fundraising, Interdisciplinary, Music, Performance, Primary schools, Singing, Sport

On Wednesday 21st March all the pupils of Colgrain Primary came together to perform a dance to the song ‘This is Me’ from the hit film The Greatest Showman. The performance raised money for this year’s Sports Relief campaign. The performance was filmed and shared with the parents. Have a look at our Twitter page to see our moves! @ColgrainPS

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World Book Day

Co-operative Learning, Communities and Culture, Global Citizenship, Interdisciplinary, Literacy, Modern Studies, Primary schools, RME

Dunoon Primary School had a tremendously fantastic day! The pupils took up the challenge of dressing up as their favourite book characters! This was to celebrate World Book Day. It’s a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind,designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world.

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Achahoish report from Auchindrain museum

Baking, Communities and Culture, environment, History, Primary schools

We went to Auchindrain Museum to see the houses and how people lived in the olden days because our school topic is Our Heritage.
We saw the new house which is already about 75years old! The owner of Auchindrain is called Catty Cat and he looks after Auchindrain. (He is a cat)
We had a look at the Wise woman’s house – she made people better by using herbs and some poisonous plants, but by using a little bit of them it made people better.
The word for Wise woman and old lady is the same in Gaelic and it means witch.
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