Lochnell pupils from Primary 5 and 4 took part in the Island and Coastal Explorers Project with Stramash.
The children had an active day exploring Kerrera and a great outdoor learning experience, finding out about the history of the Island as well as the wildlife and geology.
Oban has been represented at the annual Aviemore National Shinty Festival every season since its modest beginning over 11 years ago.
In that time it has grown into a countrywide event attracting schools as far apart as South Ayrshire and Inverness. Oban has always entered teams who compete well, and this year was no exception. Continue reading National Shinty Festival – Aviemore, April 2013
We are pleased to announce that the first Argyll and Bute Celebrating Youth Achievement event the AB Awards will take place on Thursday 19th September 2013. Based in Oban’s refurbished Phoenix Cinema, the authority wide event will celebrate young people aged 11 to 25 through eight categories as well as those who have achieved Silver and Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards and Youth Achievement Awards. The AB Awards, is a partnership project between Argyll and Bute Youth Forum and Argyll and Bute Council’s Youth Services and has been made possible by the generous support of sponsors. Full information and a nomination form is available HERE
Lismore Primary School held a very enjoyable “Busy Bee Week” from 22nd – 28th April.
The week began with a visit from Generation Science (Edinburgh International Science Festival’s Outreach programme) who performed their show – “Little Giants”. This was an interactive workshop where Buzzy, the giant honey bee and a bee keeper introduced the children to the amazing world of bees.
Southend School and Pre-5 recently hosted their Open Days as well as being involved in the Authorities Moderation of Inter-Disciplinary Learning. The Pre-5 Open Day was used to bring parents of children under 5 into the building to meet staff and get to know other parents. We are starting a Playgroup in May as a result of asking what the new parents felt was lacking in the community.
Continue reading Southend Moderation and Open Days
On Friday 26th April Lochdonhead Primary held a very successful daffodil tea morning. All the members of the public were invited to come along and participate in the various activities and sales. There was a baking stall, a plant sale where you could buy a variety of herbs and flowers, arts and crafts, a lucky dip, catch the duck competition and a raffle. All of this was held in the top classroom, while in the bottom classroom fresh cakes, teas and coffees were served. Continue reading Lochdonhead Primary Daffodil Tea
Primary 4 in Dalintober PS have been studying ‘Baptisms’ across several faiths. The class celebrated their end of interdisciplinary topic by holding a christening in school – the twins, Angus and Alice, were very well-behaved throughout the ceremony!
Children from Barcaldine Primary School all drew Easter themed pictures for the recent RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) Easter Drawing Competition.
Well done to Eilidh Munro, a P7 pupil, who won a prize. She has received a £10 Amazon voucher.
With the proposal in our local area, P6/5 decided to investigate wind farms further.
Most people have an opinion of some sort on the topic and even in P6/5 everyone had their own personal thoughts and feelings. We decided to visit Whitelee Windfarm in East Renfrewshire to learn more.
Lochdonhead Primary schools upper class have just completed a rainforest challenge. There were 3 challenges to choose from. We chose Food We Eat. It was very, very fun and exciting. We had to do a survey of before and after the challenge and had fantastic results: Continue reading Sky Rainforest Rescue School Challenge
Kilcreggan Primary School P6 and P7 pupils took part in the Toyota Cross Country Relay Championships at the Duchess Woods, Helensburgh today. Our teams competed against a large field and all crossed the finish line in grand style. Congratulations to them all and a big Thank You to Denise Walker, Margery Taylor and Toyota Helensburgh for organising the event.
Continue reading Toyota Cross Country Relay Championships at the Duchess Woods
Rosneath Primary entered this event for the first time. We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves – very hard work but all our runners were determined to cross that Finish Line. Our Team of 3 x P7 Girls earned themselves a Second place medal – well done! Such determination was shown by ALL the runners from ALL the Primary Schools.
Lochgilphead High School pupils receive a ‘Pupil Planner’ each year. The planners are issued to all four Clans and each Clan has it’s very own ‘Cover Design’. This coming August is no exception and S1 pupils were challenged to come up with a ‘Cover design’ during their art classes. The winning designs have been chosen and will be seen on each planner soon. Pictured are the four winners…
Lochgilphead High School’s Fusion Dance Club competed in a dance competition at Oban High School on 25 March. They entered three groups; S1, S2 and Seniors. The S1 group danced to ‘Written in the Stars’ and won an award for ‘Best Presentation’ and were delighted at receiving the award for their very first competition. The S2 group who danced to ‘You Bring Joy’ and the Seniors who danced to ‘Radioactive’ thoroughly enjoyed the experience even though they weren’t as successful as the S1 group. Continue reading Oban Dance Competition
“Four p7 pupils from Taynuilt Primary won the Rotary Club’s annual p7 quiz which was held earlier this week in the Royal Hotel. The six teams who took part from local schools had to answer ten rounds of questions on subjects such as geography, famous people, logos and James Bond. There were many relatives, friends and teachers there to cheer on the teams in what was a fun evening for all. The Taynuilt team goes on to the final in Glasgow on May 20th.”
On possibly the wettest day of the month Brian and Laura from SNH and the Forestry Commission visited Ardrishaig Primary to tell the eco-committee all about bats!
Brian and Laura hold special bat handling licenses and they explained that you need a licence to legally look into bat boxes or to relocate bats. They told the committee about the work they do in Argyll to protect bats and also about the work he and Laura do to help people who find bats in their houses.
Continue reading Bat Boxes at Ardrishaig Primary
S1 pupils recently held their own mock elections in school as part of their learning in the “Living in a Democracy” unit in Social Subjects. Pupils were divided up into 6 groups, each representing a political party and had to elect their own candidate. The groups organised their own campaign, canvassed support around the school and made their own campaign posters. A husting was held, where each candidate was able to deliver their parties manifesto of policies and promises. This was followed by questions from those in attendance.
Continue reading Election Fever
Thanks to a beautiful Spring day Bunessan’s Grand March took place on Friday 19th April. The P5/6/7 class organised this sponsored walk to raise money for school funds and led all who were walking in a very energetic Zumba warm up before we set off. Two walks took place. A 2.2 mile walk for younger children and a 4.6 mile walk for older children. Everyone completeed the walks in record time and should be very proud of this achievement.
Tobermory High School had a fantastic response to their Bag2school collection. A total of 110 bags of textiles were donated on the day to raise funds for the school, This is a great effort from our small school. Pupils have really embraced the challenge to beat last year’s collection total. In doing so they have helped to reduce items going to landfill and helped to contribute to the “sustainability” topic of the eco schools programme.
Children at Barcaldine Primary School are excited and eager to get started planting in their new polytunnel which was funded by Scottish Sea Farms.
