Roald Dahl day Celebrations at Kilcreggan Primary School

20160913_091448_resizedP4/5 successfully organised a super Roald Dahl Day Celebration for all the pupils. This year Roald Dahl day was very special as we are celebrating 100 years since the birth of this amazing author. P4/5 took on the task of organising the whole day. The class worked in teams- publicity team (proof read posters and put them up around school, photographed the day, will write up the day for publicity), finance team (collected money from classes, deposited it with Mrs Evans), administration team(made class lists, created tickets, named and delivered tickets) and the events team (co-ordinated the day). Continue reading Roald Dahl day Celebrations at Kilcreggan Primary School

St Joseph’s P4/3 and the BFG!

tower-1P4/3 of St Joseph’s were delighted to attend a private screening of the BFG last week at the local Tower in Helensburgh! A particular treat for any child, but for P4/3 it was a fantastic way of bringing to the big screen their IDL for this term – the BFG! Children were able to walk the distance to the Tower and were so excited to have the opportunity. It was an excellent way to witness excellent community planned partnership and the children are all now ready to further their studies of the book – thanks once again to the personnel of the Tower!

Minard Eco Team’s Harvest Gifts to Neighbours

minard-harvest-1On Friday 16th September 2016 Minard Eco Team delivered Harvest Gift Bags to the houses which are our nearest neighbours. We managed to fill nine Harvest Bags with produce grown by us from Spring 2016 in our school garden. Our neighbours were delighted to receive the Harvest Gift Bags of carrots, onions, potatoes, leeks and we even managed to make 2 jars of plum jam with the plums from our plum trees. One of our neighbours gave us a bowl of damsons with a note “Thank you so much for your gift and veggies. So now here are some damsons from our garden – I hope you enjoy then as much as we enjoyed your contributions. Keep gardening!” Continue reading Minard Eco Team’s Harvest Gifts to Neighbours

Antibiotic Awareness Poster Competition

indexEach year in NHS Highland, we promote European Antibiotic Awareness Day on 18th November. This year the focus is on families and children. To help get the message out, we’d like to ask the children to design a poster (or comic strip for secondary pupils) using the Antibiotic Guardian messages. We are aiming to incorporate the posters in a slide show to be screened in GP practices and hospital departments over the winter time. The closing date is 11th November and we are offering a small prize for the best submissions from both primary and secondary schools. Continue reading Antibiotic Awareness Poster Competition

Dalintober PTA Coffee Evening Fundraiser Success

coffee-evening-sal-2Members of the Dalintober PS & ELC community enjoyed a very successful and busy Coffee Evening, organised by the school’s PTA. The event included a baking stall, raffles, a nail bar, ‘Hit the Target’ and refreshments. A fantastic sum of £1150 was raised on the evening. Thank you to all involved. Continue reading Dalintober PTA Coffee Evening Fundraiser Success

Grandparents’ Day at Rothesay Primary Pre5

grandparents-day7The boys and girls at Rothesay Primary Pre5 were delighted to welcome lots of grannies, grandpas, papas, grans, pops, nans and nanas to our nursery recently. As you can see, all our visitors were keen to join in the fun from painting to play dough to singing and dancing! They thought our nursery was a great place to learn and make new friends. We even got a lovely letter from Georgia’s gran asking for another visit soon! Continue reading Grandparents’ Day at Rothesay Primary Pre5

DALINTOBER ELC, P1 AND P2 CHILDREN SPONSOR GAMBIA CHILDREN

120Dalintober ELC, P1 and P2 children are going to be busy over the coming year raising funds for 3 children they have sponsored from Gambia. To start us off we had a fundraising event of ‘Beat the Goalie’ and we will be participating in monthly ‘Fun Friday’ events to raise money for Falou, Alasanna and Fatoumata who attend Jarrol Nursery in Gambia. We will continue to work in partnership with CGS4 Gambia and look forward to hearing updates on the children’s progress throughout the year. Continue reading DALINTOBER ELC, P1 AND P2 CHILDREN SPONSOR GAMBIA CHILDREN

Eco brambling

salen-eco-1-sept-2016The Eco-committee, Gill and Caroline harvested some brambles which will be used to make jam. Later in the week the whole school will get to sample the jam. We can’t wait.

An unusual helper popped up in the shape of 11 year old tortoise, Humphrey. He lives near the school and loves company.

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Castlehill Primary 6 Beach Clean

castlehill-beach-clean-sept-2016Primary 6 from Castlehill Primary School took part in a beach clean with Wayne Dixon and his dog Koda.
Wayne is currently walking the coast of Britain picking litter as he goes. He hopes to complete his journey over the next 3 years.

Primary 6 worked extremely hard and in only one hour collected 16 large bin bags of rubbish, along with crates, welly boots, clothing and even a picnic bench and table!

Medieval Historians and Firemen at Furnace Primary School

furnace-and-minard-careers-4-sept-2016Medieval Historians and Firemen – what do they have in common? Furnace Primary children have had active learning sessions from both in the last week. Why? We have been learning about different types of careers as part of our “World of Work” topic and were visited by Dr Steve Marritt from the University of Glasgow Medieval History department (complete with armour) and we visited Lochgilphead Fire Station where we had a tour from David Gilmour the Community Safety Officer.

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Coding at Minard and Furnace Primaries

furance-and-minard-coding-1Pupils at Minard and Furnace Primaries were very fortunate last week to have developed their coding skills through two mini-technology days led by Steven Simpson of Argyll & Bute Council. The technology days came about as a result of pupil feedback saying they were really keen to learn more about coding. Steven came along to both primaries armed with Raspberry Pi, Lego We Do 2.0 (programmable lego) and ‘Flying Spiders’ (drones). Steven also showed us how to make mini-film trailers using Ipads.
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Show and Tell

Salen Show and Tell Sept 2016Show and Tell
Ruaridh Dalgleish of Salen Primary School captivated his classmates with a most enjoyable topic at Show and Tell. His puppy, Arlo, a Spaniel/Labrador cross, popped in to Mrs MacLean’s classroom patio accompanied by Ruaridh’s mum. The pupils enjoyed hearing all about how to care for a puppy and many speculated as to what size Arlo will be when fully grown. We can’t wait to see which guestimates are the closest.

Inverness 10k

Salen PS Inverness 10k June 30th 2016SPS Runners
Ellen and Gemma MacRae of Salen Primary School raised £570 for Cancer Research UK by running the Inverness 10k. Well done girls! You ran an amazing distance and collected a phenomenal amount of money.

They are so keen on running and sports. They also achieved a 1st and 2nd place at the Tiree Fitness Kids Event.