The SAL Team would just like to say a huge ‘THANK YOU’ to all the pupils and staff who have contributed comments and posts during SAL’s first year. The first post was made on the 8th March 2012 and since then you have contributed 586 posts and we have approved 615 comments! We are all absolutely thrilled at the way everyone has embraced the concept of sharing your activities and ideas. So far 96% of schools have contributed plus nurseries and other teams within Education. Matthew Boyle, Fiona Blakey, Mary Hughes, Gary Clark and Sarah Mills have enjoyed bringing you this platform and we are looking forward to looking after SAL in the future. Remember to get in touch if you have any development ideas and KEEP POSTING!
Come dine with us – Sandbank Primary
Monday 25th February saw GMU 1/2 of Sandbank Primary produce their own version of “Come dine with us”
During the previous five weeks the boys and girls had chosen a menu to serve to a group of adults. The starter was roast butternut squash and chicken salad. This was followed by individual meatloaves served with mashed potatoes, broccoli and a courgette bake. To finish off they chose an apple and blackberry tart, served with cream or custard.
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Sensational Samba at Lochnell
Lochnell’s P7,6, 5 enjoyed six weeks of Samba drumming tuition with Stephen McNally leading the band. This culminated in a colourful and skilled performance to an appreciative audience of their families and the rest of the school community. The pupils researched traditional Samba headwear and created their own designs for the performance.
P1 Toy Testing at Cardross with Grasshopper Toys
Primary 1 pupils at Cardross Primary enjoyed an afternoon of toy testing as part of their toys topic this term. Wendy Hamilton of Grasshopper Toys devised the afternoon, allowing the pupils to experiment and and test a range of scientific and traditional toys. Some of the P1 favourites were the space rocket, eco house and the spy pens.
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Luing Pupils challenge shoppers on Human Rights and Fairtrade
As part of our Human Rights work with Amnesty Ireland and BEMIS, the children of Luing produced the Fairtrade newsletter for Oban, Lorn and the Isles. They also volunteered to distribute information and promote Fairtrade products and Human Rights at a stall in TESCO Oban.
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Big Draw At Lochnell
Pupils from Lochnell Primary enjoyed a Big Draw experience with P7, 6,5 taking part in a drawing workshop with a visit from an artist. Later in the day the whole school took part in a massive Big Draw session with lots of fun drawing activities.
Lochnell Snow Leopard
Three conservation aware P7 pupils from Lochnell were delighted to receive their Snow Leopard adoption pack from WWF on behalf of Lochnell School. While reading a copy of the National Geographic kids magazine the trio were shocked to discover that Snow Leopards are listed as endangered and a threatened species. After sharing the facts about the Snow Leopard with their class the pupils decided to help the Conservation Programme by raising money to adopt a Snow Leopard.
Luing Primary School, Project on Castles
Continuing our project on castles, all of the pupils were asked to research a castle for homework. They could record their findings in any way they wished, written work, pictures, photos, models or a combination of any of these.
There was much excitement on Monday when the children brought their work to school; fantastically created models small and large appeared, with one small model being edible! Everybody was impressed by the thought and work put into these models. Continue reading Luing Primary School, Project on Castles
Lochgilphead High School: S2 Outward Bound Trip
Outward Bound 2013
Eighteen S2 pupils along with two S4 mentor pupils attended The Outward Bound Trust Loch Eil Centre which is just outside Fort William from Monday 25 February until Friday 1 March 2013. Their first task was to jog from the centre to the nearby Loch Eil and then take a dip in the dark cold water. Every student and one of the accompanying staff as well as their instructors all met the challenge. Continue reading Lochgilphead High School: S2 Outward Bound Trip
Fruity Friday at Dalintober Pre-5 Unit
As part of our Healthy Tots at Dalintober, we held a special Fruity Friday event on 1st March. Mrs Semple and Mrs Anderson came along and spoke to the children about healthy eating.The children enjoyed the special displays before tucking into the food with some of them trying new fruit or vegetables. The staff also tried out new fruits!!!
£71.00 raised at Strath of Appin Fairtrade coffee afternoon
Primary one, two and three with the help of Cameron from P7 helped organise and run a successful Fairtrade coffee afternoon in the school. The children baked in the morning using recipes from their Fairtrade recipe book. In the afternoon they helped set the tables and made sure that those who attended were well looked after.
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Egg-citment at Toward School
There has been great egg-citment at Toward Primary over the past few weeks. As part of our Crofting Connections project the school bought an incubator and were given some hen eggs. The pupils carefully watched over the eggs, turning them each day and ensuring they were kept at the correct temperature. After a week in the incubator the eggs were eggs-amined to see which ones were fertile. They had 4 fertile eggs and eggs-actly 3 weeks after placing the eggs in the incubator they began to hatch.
Tobermory RME – Creation Stories
In the latest of this year’s RME conferences S1/2 looked at how people have tried to answer a question that humans have been trying to answer for thousands of years, “how was Earth created?”. The day’s theme was Creation Stories and the day began by looking at the art of storytelling and the differences between fairy tales, myths and legends. In groups students tried to re-tell some familiar fairy stories and noticed that each group told the story in a slightly different way, after working out the morals of the stories, they went on to look at myths and legends using Richard 3rd to try and find the truth between fact and fiction. Continue reading Tobermory RME – Creation Stories
1st Green Flag raised at Minard
On Sunday the 3rd of March, Minard Primary organised a Soup and Sandwich lunch fundraiser. This was a community event prior to the raising of the schools first Green Flag. The flag was awarded before Christmas but we waited for a day when all could join in the celebration. The children thanked Mrs Beattie our SEN assistant and volunteer helper Sheila Campbell for all the hard work they had put in to helping them achieve the flag.
Unfortunately some of the children could not be there on the day and so are not included in the photograph.
Achaleven Primary Fanatical for Fairtrade!
Thanks to all those who came along to our Fairtrade Tea Party at the school on Friday. There was lovely tea and coffee and some great banana loaf, curtesy of Anne MacKenzie, along with a few other fairtrade nibbles. We are very proud to say that £45.53 was raised on the day which has been passed to the Oban and Lorn Fairtrade Steering Group.
‘Clyde’ the official Glasgow Commonwealth Games Mascot visits Furnace and Minard Primaries
On Friday the 1st of March we had a visit from Clyde to Furnace Primary. The children from Minard joined in the fun. We learned about how the mascot was ‘created’ and about the different sports which will be part of the Commonwealth games. Clyde then played a game of rounders with the children and there were lots of ‘high fives’ with him! He even raced the teachers, which was fun for all those watching!
KILCREGGAN PRIMARY GOLDEN LUNCH TABLE WINNERS
Our Golden Lunch Table Winners for this month were Nicole Stewart, Rachel Haper and Rhuairidh Hall. They were treated to a “Golden” Lunch for their good manners and good behaviour in the lunch hall.
Well Done.
‘Dinosaur Museum’
“P1/2 children at Taynuilt Primary have been learning all about dinosaurs. They decided to ask their parents and friends to come and see all their work so they opened up their classroom as a Dinosaur Museum. The children showed the visitors lots of models they had made, information and research gathered.
Fun in Fundraising at Barcaldine!
Barcaldine Primary School has been enjoying the opportunity to raise funds for two different charities as well as incorporating our cycling activities towards our Big Pedal competition.
Today we all dressed in yellow to raise money for Cancer Research. The money that we are donating will help the Marie Curie Nurses provide more free care to people with terminal illnesses in their own homes. Continue reading Fun in Fundraising at Barcaldine!
Barcaldine and Beavers!
Barcaldine Primary School was delighted to have Olwen Hemmings visit us from Knapdale this week.
We had a very interesting day, learning all about beavers. We got a chance to feel their fur, see a skull, have life-size images of beavers, learn about their diet and we even tried to be beavers and build our own dam!! We had an absolutely wonderful morning and thank Olly so much for coming to see us.
