Everybody loves the Bookbug and the children in the early level class at Kilmartin P.S. had the opportunity to meet the fellow himself at a special event organised by Argyll & Bute Early Years Team. The children travelled to Lochgilphead Joint Campus in the yellow school minibus, an exciting event in itself, to take part in the singing and storytelling session.
Continue reading Kilmartin Early Level Class Meet the Bookbug!
Dunoon Primary School PTA held a magnificent Christmas Fayre on Thursday 28th November 2013. The hall was packed with parents, pupils and shoppers as the crowd awaited the choir coming on to do a selection of Christmas songs. Santa was busy in his grotto and the teachers and staff were busy in the tearoom serving up a selection of home baked goodies.
Dear Readers,
Dunoon Primary’s Eco School’s Commitee 2012/2013 were delighted to receive their second Green Flag Award in the summer of 2013. Our Eco School’s assessor, Paul Love was delighted with all the Eco School improvements our school had made for e.g. further improvements to our Fairy Garden and was delighted to witness a real life mum and dad Coal Tit fly out of the newly designed bird house made by one of our P6 pupils and their grandfather last year. Continue reading Dunoon Primary Eco Schools Anti dog mess and cigarettesstub Campaign
The Scottish Hydro shop, Campbeltown recently held a Christmas Card design competition for Primary 1 pupils and Gregor’s design was chosen as the winning entry, judged by Miss Mary McMillan. As well as receiving his own prize, Gregor also won a new CD system for his class, and all entrants also received a small treat for their efforts. Thank you to Anne and the team at Scottish Hydro from Dalintober!
33 senior pupils from across Argyll came together in Inveraray on Monday 2nd December to attend a CAST sketchbook masterclass led by Joanie Jack who runs the portfolio course at Glasgow School of Art within the dept. of Continuing Education. The young artists began by looking at sketchbooks from successful GSA applicants then started working with pencil line and quickly moved on to pen and double line, collage, ink drawing with sticks, mono printing, wet on wet drawing, graphite, charcoal and erasers, ruler and chalk drawing and repeat pattern making. Continue reading Drawing Masterclass in Inveraray.
On 19th November, Higher Drama pupils from Oban High School were given a fantastic opportunity to take part in a full-day workshop with world-renowned physical theatre company, Frantic Assembly. Led by Krista Vuori, a Frantic Assembly director, the pupils learned how to use physical devising techniques to create scenes that were emotionally deep and aesthetically beautiful. The pupils had an amazing time learning new and exciting techniques. Continue reading ‘Frantic Assembly’ at Oban High
Primary 1/2/3 pupils waited eagerly for the arrival of their very special guests. The children were looking forward to sharing what they had found out about family structures then and now. Lots of activities were planned and delivered by the children. Through interviewing grandparents they found out lots of information about the past. The day began with a ‘Grandma Rap’ which was so well received it had to be sung twice. They presented a portrait, painted by themselves, of a grandparent and delivered a first class talk about their grandparents’ memories of the past. Continue reading Grandparents Day at Port Charlotte
On Thursday the 28th of November we had our Holly Tea. We sold lots of crafts like slate dominoes from slate collected on Luing. We also sold bunting, button garlands, glass tea lights, Christmas cards and much more. All the things were hand made by the pupils (with help from staff.) Parents and members of the community donated cakes for the baking stall which raised a lot of money. We had games like nail in the bale and guess how many sweets are in the jar. Continue reading Luing Primary School’s Holly Tea
Getting up early on a Sunday to brave freezing temperatures paid off for pupils of Hermitage Primary when they competed at the Garscube Harriers Cross Country. The challenging course didn’t deter the pupils who secured both individual and team prizes. Hermitage Primary is very proud of all the runners, not just due to the awards they received but also because they displayed excellent sportsmanship. A special mention goes to the team prize winners. Rachael McKillop, Sophie Muchie and Sophie McAuley won bronze for the Primary 7s while Calum McGilrvrary, Cameron Cromar and Ruaridh Fletcher scooped silver for the Primary 6s.
Dunoon School Hostel hosted a 2013 ‘Battle of the Bands’ Talent Show Night on Wednesday 27th November. Presenters Struan & Ross who proved an Ant & Dec style type of presenting with confident very funny humour all the way through the show. The night began with a Staff band ‘Abba’ who sang a medley of Abba favourites! Continue reading Hostel’s Got Talent 2013
Rothesay Primary celebrated Book Week Scotland by learning more about the Scots language. Richt guid tales have been written, sangs sung and poems learned by heart. Pupils shared facts aboot famous Scots they admire and have voted for their favourite Scottish authors as part of the Scottish Book Awards. The finale to the week for Primary 1, 2 and 3 was a Scots Ceilidh. Primary 2 and 3 wowed us with their ‘St Bernard’s Waltz’ and ‘Canadian Barn Dance’ and we were fair dumfoonart with their rendition of ‘Is a dove a doo, dad?’ which has 5 verses! Continue reading Rothesay Primary Scots Day
Whitelees Wind Farm in Ayrshire was the ideal windswept moorland setting to learn about renewable energy for Rhu Primary 6 pupils. The youngsters traveled to the wind farm to take part in a workshop and tour of the wind farm. They were able to find out about how the towering turbines actually work as well as getting to see the 215 turbines in action. Continue reading Windy Work for Pupils
Easdale Primary Pre 5 have been out and about investigating different modes of transport. Over the past few weeks they travelled to Oban on the bus and visited the Fire Station and Lifeboat Station, popping into the CalMac and Scot Rail offices to collect time tables. PC Moore came into school grounds with his police car. The children were very enthusiastic and asked lots of questions about the vehicle and rescue equipment. Their topic will hopefully end with santa and his sleigh.
Cardross Primary recently competed in the Mugdock Park Cross Country Championships. The pupils from P6 and P7 were accompanied and trained by Mrs Girling. All of the runners were impressive on the day but a notable mention must be given to the P7 boys team who came in first place with some excellent individual performances. This was a fantastic achievement for the boys who were up against some stiff competition from some very large Glasgow schools.
Continue reading Cardross Primary Mugdock Park Cross Country Success
The children at Kilmartin Primary School took part in a Chanukah celebration to learn a little about the beliefs and customs of Jewish people. Rachel, Nettah and Lorenz’ mum, explained the significance of the candles on the menorah and then helped the children to each make their own menorah to take home. Rachel also baked delicious sufganiyot (sweet doughnuts) for the children to eat in the afternoon. The children decided to invite Rachel back to school for the Jewish festival of Passover as they enjoyed this experience so much.
This year we have a number of children achieving accolades outside of school and Charlie in P5 is just one such example. After having taken the lead role in the school’s Peter Pan production in June, Charlie’s mum helped source an agent for him and his career has gone from strength to strength. This year you will see Charlie be a part of the ‘Visit Scotland’ campaign and we are delighted for him. Recently he travelled to Gleneagles to film the ad which will soon be on our screens.
Continue reading St Joseph’s Charlie Part of The ‘Visit Scotland’ Campaign
Argyll and Bute Council’s Policy Lead on Education and Lifelong learning, Councillor Aileen Morton, has added her congratulations to Rothesay Academy pupil Daniel McDermott who has been offered a much sought-after place at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, in Glasgow.
Daniel, who is a member of the National Youth Band of Scotland and plays with the Inveraray District Pipe Band, will study for a BA degree in Scottish Music and Bagpiping. Continue reading Rothesay Academy pupil off to Conservatoire
Thursday 14th November 2013
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Nervously, on Friday 1st November 2013, we waited for Sergeant Rae to come in to teach us about the dangers of the internet.
First we learned about file sharing then cautiously we talked openly about e-mail. Crazily, most of us use e-mail often and it is very popular, although Facebook and Twitter are very well known and used as well.
Primary 1 pupils at Cardross were excited to receive a special delivery from Buckingham Palace. The pupils were given individual letters of thanks for the beautiful christening cards they sent for Prince George.
On Friday Primary 6&7 pupils at Port Ellen were visited by artist and teacher Phillipa Mitchell for an afternoon of geese and art. Islay is famous for its winter visitors, the barnacle geese, and Phillipa wanted to find out how the children felt about the geese. In the morning children debated in class the pros and cons of the geese visiting Islay: they are beautiful and attract birdwatchers and tourists, but they also destroy the grass and make life very difficult for farmers. Opinion was divided about what should be done about the 50,000 visitors the Island receives each year.
Continue reading Barnacle, Fish or Fowl?
