A packed hall of family, friends and members of the community enjoyed a terrific evening of music, dance and entertainment at our recent ceilidh. The children enthusiastically performed their songs and ceilidh dances and it was a great opportunity for the highland dancers to showcase their talents along with our instrumental performers (on chanter, accordion and violin).
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Well done to the P1 class of Kirn Primary School for winning second place in the National French drama competition.
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The nursery children at Taynuilt have been learning some greetings and songs in French. The arrangement was organised by Mrs McIness and Mrs Mitchell. Here is the latest clip for you to enjoy. CLICK HERE
The Argyll and Bute Sumdog Competition begins on Friday 16th March and will run until Thursday 22nd March so make sure all of your pupils are signed up and ready to go. A trophy is up for grabs – and a lot of glory of course – so we cannot wait to see all of our schools taking part. Tweet about your progress using #A&BSumdog or email Maria.Mcarthur2@argyll-bute.gov.uk.
The Pencil Point blog (formerly known as the Cowal Schools Literacy Blog) has moved from its original site on Edublogs to a new Glow blog. The new blog still has all the great articles that have been posted so far, with more exciting posts to come! You can find our new blog at: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/pencilpoint
Drumlemble Primary School has successfully renewed their Eco-Schools Green Flag Award Status.
This is an outstanding achievement. The Flag is being held by the school’s Eco Committee
Drumlemble Primary have had a fun filled week in the lead up to Mrs. McIntosh’s last day prior to commencing her maternity leave.
The children have been partaking in lots of outdoor learning focusing on the subject of Wood, sometimes even catching the sunshine.
Continue reading Drumlemble Primary School – Farewell to Mrs. McIntosh!
On Monday February 19th Furnace Primary school began a brand new Family Story Club in parnership with the wider community. Volunteers came in to experience and share their story reading skills on a one to one basis with pupils from Minard and Furnace Primary schools.
As part of our topic, “The Circus is in Town”, pupils from Dunoon Primary School Learning Centre had the opportunity to visit Dunoon Grammar School today where one of their Drama teachers, Mr Pearson, organise a circus skills workshop.
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Easdale Primary School pupils picked as winners of Keep Scotland Beautiful competition.
Environmental charity, Keep Scotland Beautiful, has announced that pupils from Easdale Primary School have been selected as winners of the nationwide competition to Design a One Planet Picnic Pocket Garden – which will see them now bring their creations to life for display at the Gardening Scotland exhibition in Edinburgh this June.
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Southend Primary pupils are enjoying playing on their new climbing frame funded by the Parent Council.
This improvement to the school grounds is part of the children’s Eco Project.
Soon children will choosing plants for growing in their new poly tunnel.
The Southend Tufty Club came on their second visit to the school, this time to hear the children perform their work on Robert Burns.
After tea, coffee and shortbread, made by the children, the ladies worked alongside the children helping with their art lesson.
Southend Primary School held a Burns Lunch to celebrate the Baird.
The lunch was extended to the children’s family, friends and wider Southend Community.
The lunch was chaired by one of the 20 guests, Mr. Robert Millar.
The upper school classes at Sandbank Primary treated guests to an afternoon of Scottish celebrations last week. The Gaelic P 4-7, P5 and P6/7 classes joined forces to wow the audience with an array of performances, including bag pipes, fiddle, drums, piano, chanter, poetry recitals and highland dancing.
Continue reading Sandbank Primary celebrates all things Scottish
The children in Drumlemble Pre 5 unit are busy learning all about the Chinese New Year.
Continue reading Drumlemble Pre5s Chinese New Year Celebrations
The pupils were involved in planning and organising this trip to Glasgow where they had opportunities to experience an environment very different to their own.
The children had contextualised opportunities to develop skills for learning, life and work which were tailored to their particular needs. There were also opportunities to develop literacy, numeracy and health and well-being, in particular the use of money and telling the time.
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Glenbarr Primary School welcomed families and friends to a Burns lunch on Tuesday, 30th January. The children had made tartan-inspired place mats, non-alcoholic Cranachan, and shortbread for their guests. The pupils entertained their visitors with poems, songs and tunes using ocarinas, recorders and bells. A good time was had by all!
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Furnace Primary 4 boys came along to Minard Primary School to join in an outdoor Maths session. The subject was angles and the boys searched the grounds recording the different types of angles they found in the most unusual and unexpected places. They looked for right angles, acute angles, obtuse angles and straight angles writing them down on a tally sheet.
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The nursery parent group planned and hosted their first ever disco for the children who are at the Early level. It was extremely well attended by the children and their families and it was a wonderful success. Local DJ, George Noble, kept the dancing going with his wonderful selection of music. A huge number of P6 children volunteered to be buddies and led the dancing, helped serve juice and a biscuit and were fantastic at tidying up at the end. Overall there was great excitement and the children would now like a disco every week!
Continue reading Rockfield P1, ELCC and Sgoil-Araich Early Level Family Disco
The children of the Drumlemble Pre5 unit have had a fun filled week listening to Scottish music, learning a Robert Burn’s poem ‘The wee rid car’, designing their own tartan kilts and making thistles.
They also made traditional Scottish shortbread to have for snack
Continue reading Drumlemble Pre 5s Unit – Celebration of Robert Burns
