Every Thursday after school volunteer pupils meet together and walk down to our local shore line. Mr Campbell, our P5/4 class teacher and Miss Stevenson, our P1 class teacher take the pupils to the shore and spend about 45 minutes cleaning the beach. So far we have been lucky with the weather and have collected quite a lot of flotsam and jetsam, some of which we have been able to send for recycling and the remainder has been disposed of.
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Southend Mini Olympics Training
Active Schools Co-ordinator, Robbie Kupris has started a 4 week after school block with parents to help the P4-7 children with their techniques in a variety of sports which they haven’t tried before. Today in glorious weather they had a go at javelin throwing. With a few pointers from Mr Kupris, the overall improvement was impressive. The children will use their new found skills at a Mini Olympics event in June.
Port Ellen Animation…update
Primary 3&4 have been very busy this term learning all about polar lands for their topic. They found out about the different creatures that live there, what the climate is like and how the weather affects the animals and people who live there.
As their end of topic assessment the children decided to make a stop motion animation of a child called Joe’s trip to the poles on the back of an eagle. Please feel free to watch his adventures. Well done P3&4 on all your hard work! Continue reading Port Ellen Animation…update
Pirates in the Park – Garelochead Primary
Pirates came to Bendarroch Park in Garelochhead recently. Pupils took their learning outdoors when P3/2 class teacher Jane Allan worked in partnership with parent Katherine Price to bring learning to life! Pupils had worked in co-operative groups in class to use a variety of skills including map reading, problem solving and literacy. To round off their term’s work, they completed their Pirate topic with a Treasure Hunt. This was organised by Dr. Price, our school Parent Council Chair who has a very keen interest in the local environment. Continue reading Pirates in the Park – Garelochead Primary
Rothesay Joint Campus students to open the Bute Jazz festival
“Academy Swing”, the swing band of Rothesay Joint Campus have been performing at the Bute Jazz Festival since 2004 and this year will be opening the festival on 4th May 8 -9pm in the Pavilion. The band has made quite a reputation for itself in the past few years and performs regularly in the local community and further a field at venues such as the Loch Fyne food fair. It has also toured regularly throughout Argyll, giving community concerts and schools demonstration performances on Islay, Mull, Oban and Mid Kintyre. Continue reading Rothesay Joint Campus students to open the Bute Jazz festival
Careers Fair at Port Charlotte
This term in P5/6/7 we have been using our investigation time to research different careers. We grouped up and chose a career to investigate; these included actress, dancer, helicopter pilot, firefighter, paleontologist, nurse and vet to name a few. We found information from the internet, from various books in our school library and some of us even interviewed people who have that job. All this was to hold a Careers Fair for the whole school; this was when we set up stalls around the hall and presented our information in the form of posters and leaflets, and handed out a few stickers and badges as well. Continue reading Careers Fair at Port Charlotte
The Unsinkable Ship – Interdisciplinary Project
Captain’s Ball – Celebration of Learning
Over the last 8 weeks Carradale Primary School has received secret missions to do with the Unsinkable Ship, The Titanic. As a celebration of their learning, the pupils held a Captain’s Ball on Thursday 29th March for
parents and community members. The pupils performed ‘My favourite Things’ from the Sound of Music, ‘Breaking Free’ from High School Musical, ‘Castle on a Cloud’ from Les Mesirable with solos from P2 girls and our Pr4 sang ‘Where is Love?’ from Oliver. P4-7 played ‘Pavane’ on the recorders and finally P3-7 played ‘My Heart will Go on’ on the bells. Parents and community members then had the opportunity to look round all the work the pupils had completed to do with the Unsinkable ship, before enjoying the buffet. Continue reading The Unsinkable Ship – Interdisciplinary Project
Growing season underway at Southend
The growing season is underway at Southend Primary and when the weather was a bit warmer last week we took the opportunity to prepare the soil and get planting. Our wormery was emptied and the lovely worms added to our veg patches. We had collected peas from last year’s crop so they were picked over and the best ones kept for sowing in a few weeks. Potatoes were planted in our deep troughs, carrots and lettuce were sown and we divided strawberry plants from last year and repotted them to produce lots of new healthy plants.
Tarbert Academy French / H.E. interdisciplinary project
For several years now, renowned Tarbert Chef, Pascal, has supported Tarbert Academy’s pupils in a unique way. Teachers Christine Inglis and Heather Dixon from the French and Home Economics Departments work together to prepare pupils to receive a special cookery lesson delivered in the French language. During this lesson, pupils have an opportunity to work with Pascal as he demonstrates the dish and then assists pupils to prepare it themselves. Continue reading Tarbert Academy French / H.E. interdisciplinary project
Tarbert Academy S1/2 Work Experience/Enterprise Project
On Tuesday 20th March, all S1 and S2 pupils were given the opportunity to experience the world of work for a day. Where possible, pupils went to work with parents, family members or family friends. Where this was not suitable, pupils took on work experience in school. In S1, pupils’ placements varied from the Fire and Rescue Service to Scottish Water, and included hotel work, fish farming, agriculture, office work and Mundells. In S2, pupils worked with cars, Cal Mac, shops, primary schools, catering and hair-dressing – to name but a few. Continue reading Tarbert Academy S1/2 Work Experience/Enterprise Project
Southend’s successful Open Day
The sun was shining for our recent Open Day and lots of parents came to see what their children had been up to in school recently. Pupils presented their learning to the parents through presentations, demonstrations and by inviting parents to have a go at some activities. Primary 2 and 3 got into role play and became Vikings for the day. Continue reading Southend’s successful Open Day
Kilcreggan Sports Relief fundraising update
We said we would keep you posted re our Sports Relief Fundraising activities. As well as our Sports Relief Mile our whole School took part in a production of The Selfish Giant (a musical). We gave two performances and donations have been given to Sports Relief.
In total over the two events our small School of 84 pupils has raised £882.60 and we still have some money to collect!
Continue reading Kilcreggan Sports Relief fundraising update
Kilcreggan Primary School – Sports Relief mile
What a beautiful day to go for a run! Today pupils, staff and parents from Kilcreggan Primary School took part in a 1 mile run in aid of Sports Relief. The sun shone, the children were smiling and everybody had a great time. Our event was sponsored so we hope to raise a good sum for the cause. We will keep you posted.
Forest Schools at Rhunahaorine Primary
Forest Schools is a great activity where we learn about interesting things to do in the forest .We get to do things like learn new knots,make shelters and make fires in addition we also help to look after the environment by doing things like making shelter for the various kinds of creatures that live in the forest. – by Kirk p7
P1-7 go to forest schools in Largie and will be going for the next 7 weeks. We do games,dens,climbing trees, showing us knots and finally we make hot chocolate in the storm kettle. – by Finlay p6 Continue reading Forest Schools at Rhunahaorine Primary
Khan Academy
Every so often a new website pops up that seems like a game-changer. I am completely bowled over by the online teaching resources and the underpinning approach of the Khan Academy. Their mission is to make quality teaching available to anyone, anywhere in the world and they have received 1.5 million dollars from the Gates Foundation to help them achieve it. Aimed at older learners, Secondary school and beyond, they are rapidly adding to a bank of virtual whiteboard lessons mainly on maths, sciences and the humanities, but the list of lessons is already huge and growing rapidly. If you are a Secondary teacher in any of these areas, you cannot miss this site, it shows how teaching can be shared worldwide.
What is Learning Technology?
Learning Technology is a range of communication, information and related technologies that can be used to support learning, teaching, and assessment.
ICT or “learning technologies” as they are increasingly being termed are at a turning point in Argyll and across Scotland.
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