OHS S3 Personal Development Group held a Cake Bake on Friday 7th March to raise funds towards a project they are about to embark upon. They plan to run a ‘Clan Challenge’ within the school over the next month, (more details to follow). The sum of £80.60 was raised on the day. A huge thank to everyone involved!
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning visits our Conference
Tuesday 11th March saw Michael Russell attend our ‘Raising Attainment’ conference in Oban. The Corran Halls was the venue for this two day celebration of learning and teaching in Argyll and Bute, featuring many exhibition stands bursting with information on a huge variety of topics. Everything from Skills Scotland to Forest Schools was represented and Michael Russell made a point of visiting as many stands as he could before he delivered an inspiring keynote speech. Afterwards he visited our Continue reading Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning visits our Conference
The Scottish Book Awards
Primary 1 – 3 pupils from Strone Primary School had a very exciting day out in Glasgow on Wednesday 5th March, attending the Scottish Children’s Book Awards at the Mitchell Library. All the pupils at Strone have been reading the shortlisted titles and voted online for their favourites. At the awards, pupils were able to get their own books signed by the authors and watched the ceremony as the winners were announced.
More literacy themed activities were enjoyed on Thursday 6th March when pupils took part in World Book Day and dressed up as their favourite book characters.
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World Book Day Celebrations!
Primary 1 / 2 went Over the Steamy Swamp and had lots of fun. We worked with our shoulder partners and made swamp stories then we made our animal masks. We invited the nursery children for a giant story telling session. They were a very good audience and we all had great fun!
Models In The Making at DPS!!
Pupils, parents and staff of Dunoon Primary School walked the catwalk at the local M & Co store on Thursday evening. The school’s PTA had organised the event to raise money for school trips. The models chose their outfits beforehand and delighted the audience as they wore a range of trendy smart and casual clothes. The sell out event was a huge success and raised over £500 which will no doubt be put to good use next term! Well done everyone – cant wait until next time!
Batman Strikes at Dunoon Primary!
The pupils of Dunoon Primary School were delighted to welcome world acclaimed comic writer Mr Grant Morrison, MBE to their school on World Book Day. Mr Morrison who among other things writes for DC Comics and Marvel Comics enthralled Primary 5,6, and 7 pupils with his talk on his Batman story lines and other Superheroes he has created such as Captain Clyde! He answered many questions the children had about his career and was truly inspirational as he encouraged the children to keep working at whatever they have a passion for and never give up.
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Oban High Supports Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday for Six Nations
Oban High School students journeyed to Murrayfield on Saturday 8 March for the Six Nations rugby match with Scotland v France. Although all were disappointed by the outcome, it was nonetheless an incredibly exciting match right up to the remaining two minutes of play.
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‘Tasty Tuck Team’ Hit Dalintober PS
On Friday, the ‘Tasty Tuck Team’, aka Dalintober Primary’s Pupil Council members, launched a new initiative to encourage pupils to bring in healthy snacks for playtimes. They sold some tasty morsels – fruit, pitta breads and crackers – as suggestions and these ‘tasters’ went down a treat with their fellow pupils. Following the current project’s run, they hope that parents and pupils will continue to promote the healthy eating message.
Vikingar Fun for P5
What a magnificent fun day out Dunoon Primary P5 class had at Vikingar on Friday 7th March. The pupils were treated to a visit to a real life Viking Home and as they entered ‘strange aromas’ were evident of the Viking age. The informative guide quickly began to introduce us to a world of information on our topic, with lots of clever pupils answering questions testing their knowledge of the Vikings.
Budding Engineers at St Joseph’s!
Last session P5 (now current P6), under the excellent guidance and tuition of class teacher Catherine McLean, entered the Scottish Engineer’s Leaders Award organised by STEM in conjunction with Strathclyde University’s Faculty of Engineering. The project was to create an engineering design for the future and with such a wide remit, the creativity of the children exploded onto the page! The children had to submit a drawing of their design along with a written piece to describe it.
Kilchrenan Wins Rolls Royce Award
Kilchrenan Primary has been selected as a Special Merit Award Winner in the Rolls Royce Science Prize. This award, and a prize of £1000 for science teaching and learning, comes as the result of the school’s focus on science in it’s improvement plan and follows the submission of an action plan after a summer school in the National Science Learning Centre in York. Continue reading Kilchrenan Wins Rolls Royce Award
Hola! World Book Day with an International flavour at Ardchattan!
Ardchattan Primary School have celebrated World Book Day and International School Meals day with fun, food and fantastic fundraising for Mary’s Meals!
It all began six weeks ago at our Community Burns Supper when we announced the start of our Change for Mary’s Meals campaign. We have four of the blue Mary’s Meals mugs, one for each child in our school. Our target was to fill the mugs with enough small change to feed four children in Malawi for a year, a total of about £40.
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Park Primary Fairtrade Fortnight!
Park Primary School has been a Fairtrade School now for over four years. This year the focus for Fairtrade Fortnight was bananas so Primary 3 wrote to local supermarkets Lidl and Tesco who kindly donated Fairtrade bananas to the school! Over the fortnight all classes had a focus on Fairtrade and found creative ways to use the bananas!
Catholic Education Week
Catholic Education Week took place from 23 Feb until 01 March 2014 all over Scotland and the children of St. Joseph’s, Helensburgh eagerly took part.
The week started off on Education Sunday (23 February) with the parishioners receiving a report from the school giving a detailed account on developments in Catholic Education from the previous year; this was presented alongside detail of all the plans to develop Catholic Education in the forthcoming week at school. Continue reading Catholic Education Week
Tarbert Primary School – Banner for Commonwealth Games
P4/5 were showing their creativity on Friday, 21st February and having a good time into the bargain, when they had the chance to work with Alison McAlpine on designing and making a banner which may end up in the athletes’ village for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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Shake up your Wake up!
Primary 5/4 at St Mun’s Primary School helped the whole school to ‘Shake Up Their Wake Up’ by taking part in The Big Farmhouse Breakfast week from 27th to 31st of January.
Pupils developed their organisational and communication skills by creating menus for each class; cooking different healthy breakfast options; carrying out surveys and devising a breakfast race to help everyone stay fit and healthy!
Volleyball Tournament at Dunoon Grammar School
Dunoon Grammar School hosted the annual Volleyball Tournament organised by Mrs Fiona McLean on Monday 3 March. The contestants arrived from the various local Primary Schools and the rules were explained to everyone. As normal it was a very well organised event with every child thoroughly enjoying the day! Dunoon Teams A & C made their way to the final with Dunoon Team H losing out to Strachur for third place.
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Barcaldine Primary School Chinese Day
At Barcaldine Primary School recently the P6/7 children very kindly (with the help of the staff) cooked several Chinese recipes one lovely Friday afternoon. On the day we got to sample prawn crackers and egg fried rice with chicken chow mein, sweet & sour chicken and chicken curry. Everybody got to try it all and there was definitely a difference of opinion as there was no clear winner! Thank you too to Annie who brought in birthday cake so we were all rolled out the school that day!!!
Dunoon Grammar School – Gymnastics Trip
On Monday 24th February, twenty seven school gymnasts received specialist training at the Inverclyde National Sports Centre, in Largs. The pupils participated in a three hour coaching session led by two professional British Gymnastics Club coaches. The pupils performed to an excellent standard and were commended for the standard of their work by the guest tutors at this Olympic standard facility.
S3 Personal Development – Oban high School
Oban High School’s S3 Personal Development Group have been out and about in the community recently, visiting the Police Station, Fire Station and Oban Airport as part of a Community Awareness Project.
