Hermitage Primary School P7 Technology Challenge

Co-operative Learning, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Maths, Modern Studies, Personal Development, Presentations, Primary schools, PSE, Science, Topics, Writing,

hermitage-ps-dec-2016-tech-challenge-1On Tuesday 6th December the Hermitage Primary School P7 Technology Challenge came to a close with the group presentations to an audience of invited judges and guests. Using skills in Technology, Maths, Language, Science and PSD, the pupils had to work in cooperative groups to plan and design a working electrical vehicle which was supported by a good business plan. They kept track of their progress in a booklet using the Book Creator Ipad app and delivered their presentations supported by a Keynote presentation

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Achaleven celebrates school’s birthday in Victorian Style

Communities and Culture, Creativity, Events, History, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools, Topics

achaleven-dec-2016-1-victorian-day-logoWe had the ultimate #ThrowbackThursday on 17th November as Achaleven Primary held a Victorian day. Our school celebrates its 150th birthday this year so we turned back time, and discovered what a typical day would be like around the time the school opened.

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Children in Need at Dunoon Primary!

Communities and Culture, Competitions, Conferences, Events, Fundraising, Hospitality, Primary schools, Social Enterprise, Topics

dps-children-in-need-nov-2016On Friday 11th of November Mrs Macdonald and P7 launched their Children in Need fundraising activities for 2016. During the following week they sold raffle tickets for a Build A Bear Labrador, encouraged pupils to enter the draw a “Sporty Pudsey” Competition and sold Pudsey and Blush badges and bookmarks.

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Rookie Lifeguard Awards for St Columba’s Swimmers!

Awards, Communities, Fundraising, Health and Wellbeing, Parent Council, Personal Development, Primary schools, Sport

st-columbas-lifegaurd-award-nov-2016Some of the P7 and P6 pupils in St Columba’s Primary School, Oban, have managed to achieve the Rookie Lifeguard Bronze Award during their swimming lessons in school. With the help of fundraising by the Parent Council, all pupils from P3-P7 have an eight week swimming block every year to ensure that as many pupils as possible are competent swimmers by the time they leave primary school. Of course, none of this would be possible without the help and support of Atlantis Leisure.

Digital Leaders at St Columba’s

Awards, Co-operative Learning, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Interdisciplinary, Personal Development, Primary schools, Science, Topics,

st-columbas-digital-award-2016Some of the pupils in St Columba’s, have been awarded the title of Digital Leaders. The school works in partnership with iTeach, an education company who supports staff and pupils to embed the use of technology into their curriculum, who have helped to train some of the pupils to ensure that they can, amongst a wide range of things, troubleshoot and create video tutorials to support other pupils and staff. Every child in the school has their own iPad that is used to support them in all areas of the curriculum and to ensure that the children in St Columba’s have the very highest standard of digital skills possible.

Strachur Chess Lunch Club

Clubs, Personal Development, Primary schools, PSE

strachur-chess-club-1-nov-2016We were very excited to welcome Elspeth and Tony from the Rotary in Dunoon into Strachur Primary for our very first Chess Lunch Club. It was open to Primary 6 and 7 pupils, although some younger children did choose to watch! We had some children who had played before and some beginners, so thank goodness we had Elspeth and Tony to teach them the game. Chess Lunch Club will continue every Wednesday.

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Strachur Primary 6 Young Leaders

Active Schools, Events, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership, Outdoor Learning, Personal Development, Primary schools, PSE, Sport, Topics, Training

strachur-young-leaders-2016Primary 6 pupils were trained as ‘Young Leaders’ on Wednesday 23rd November. They will be able to organise games for the younger children at playtimes and run a lunchtime activities club too. Well done Primary 6 and thank you Ruairidh at Active Schools for running the training.

Strachur Fundraises for Children in Need

Appeals, Communities and Culture, Creativity, Early Years, Events, Fundraising, Hospitality, Interdisciplinary, offers, Primary schools, Social Enterprise, Topics

strachur-children-in-need-fundraiser-1-2016Strachur fundraises for Children in Need
Strachur Primary and pre-5 have raised £173.42 for Children in Need this year. On Friday 18th November pupils and staff came to school dressed ‘back to front’ and Primary 5 and 6 ran a ‘Bring and Buy’ sale.

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Kirn Primary School

Co-operative Learning, Communities and Culture, Creativity, Early Years, Events, Expressive arts, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, Personal Development, Primary schools

kirn-new-primary-school-planting-1The Contractor building the new Kirn Primary School, Morrisons, invited pupil to design posters which would be enlarged and placed on the hoardings outside the building site. Last Thursday the winners, accompanied by the nursery pupils, visited the site to see their pictures being displayed. While there, the pupils helped plant bulbs at the front of the Site Office.

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Furnace and Minard Pupils Go Gruffalo Hunting

Active Learning, Active Schools, Co-operative Learning, Communities and Culture, Curriculum for Excellence, environment, Events, Forest Schools, Interdisciplinary, Literacy, Modern Studies, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools, School trips, Topics,

furnace-and-minard-gruffalo-2Last Friday, while the ‘bigger’ pupils were off learning how to become Digital Leaders, Furnace and Minard ‘littler’ pupils decided to go off on a Gruffalo Hunt to Ardkinglas Gardens to have some outdoor fun and learn some more Scots words. The crispy cold day added to the sense of adventure, especially as we had recently read The Gurffalo’s Child. We followed the little mouse’s directions past Tod’s ‘deep-dooon hoose’, Hoolet’s “tree-tap hoose” and Snake’s “log-hoose”.

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Pupil Digital Leader Event – Tell us what you think

Co-operative Learning, CPD, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Learning Tech, Primary schools, , ,

week7-2The pupil Digital Leaders event took place in Inveraray on Friday 18th November.   This event was attended by 244 pupils from 40 schools.

It is important that our pupil’s opinions are heard and we would like feedback from our digital leaders via the survey emailed to staff.

The survey will close on Monday 28th November at 5pm and will take around 10 minutes to complete.

Easdale Primary Remembrance

Communities, Events, History, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools, PSE, Remembrance, RME

easdale-remembrance-3-nov-2016Helen Glennie, Ron Hetherington and Colonel Tim Sinclair came into give us a talk on Remembrance and showed us a display. Helen told us about some of the people who were from Seil, Easdale and Luing who died in World War 1. Tim told us about why we do remembrance and what it is for as well as why we wear poppies. Tim came in his uniform and told us about his medals and rank.

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