After the Christmas holidays, Sandbank Primary Pupils got back to work and planted their fruit trees which arrived in January. The eco-committee had applied for the trees through the fruitshare scheme which was advertised on a cookery programme on TV. We were very fortunate in being one of the first schools to apply and we were successful in receiving 4 well-grown fruit trees for free.
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Holocaust Memorial Day
Monday 27th January marked Holocaust Memorial Day where communities across the world are asked to come together to remember those affected by genocide. The theme for 2014 is ‘Journeys’ and S3 students at Lochgilphead High School decided to use the Kindertransport, where Jewish children were removed from their families and sent to safety in Britain, as the focus for their presentation to P7 and S2 students in the campus.
Time To Clean Up Dunoon
A campaign to clean up the area around Dunoon Primary School – and beyond – is well underway.
Dunoon Primary’s Eco Schools Committee was delighted to receive its second green flag.
Burns celebrations at Minard Primary
Minard Primary School celebrated Burns Day in style by inviting guests to their Burns Supper(Lunch!) on Friday 24th of January.
After much peeling, boiling and mashing they served up a delicious feast of haggis, neeps and tatties followed by scotch trifle and clootie dumpling.
In-reach/Out-reach at Parklands
This week has seen the start of the new in-reach/out-reach programme at Parklands School. The programme sees pupils from mainstream schools in the Helensburgh and Lomond cluster attending Parklands for sessions through the week. Pupils may attend The Sunshine Room or The Evergreen Room where they will work on social and emotional well-being, social skills, play and independent skills for life. Pupils may also access our sensory room or hydrotherapy pool. Everyone at Parklands is looking forward to working with the pupils attending.
Luing’s Burns Lunch
The children of Luing Primary School held a Burns Lunch and invited parents and friends to join them.
Mr Robertson played the haggis in and the older children gave the Address to the Haggis. After the Selkirk Grace, everyone was served a wonderful lunch cooked by Liz and Linda.
Janis Mackay, Scottish Children’s Book Awards author, visits Kirn Primary
Kirn Primary School were so lucky to welcome Janis Mackay, one of the authors whose book “The Accidental Time Traveller” is currently shortlisted for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards.
Janis came in to speak to our P6 and P7 pupils, who are reading the book as part of their ‘Milestones in Scottish History’ topic.
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Scrooge – Achahoish style!
We managed to write our own script based ‘loosely’ around ‘A Christmas Story’ by Charles Dickens. It was tricky to take what we watched in our DVD study of the film to create our own up-to-date version of it. We based our setting in the local estate of Ormsary where we performed our Pantomime to the community. Scrooge was a local ‘Dell Boy’ working on the Estate. He had had a string of unfortunate Christmas Eves and hated them.
Our St Kilda Museum at Achahoish Primary
We transformed one of our classrooms into a Black house and opened a museum up for 3 days to our local community all about St Kilda. We found out just how hard life was for the St Kildans and how extreme the conditions were to survive on the Island which was evacuated in 1930. We had to take what we learned and present it in a way that would make our visitors to feel like they were actually on the Island and for it to be interactive.
Oban Gaelic Medium Pupils Scoop Television Quiz Prize
Two pupils from Rockfield Primary School’s Gaelic medium classes in Oban are to appear on BBC Alba’s Gleusta children’s quiz programme next week.
Calum Garvin and Calum McLuckie were P6 pupils when the programme was recorded in June 2013 at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye. They competed successfully in a series of challenges against contestants from Tollcross Primary School in Edinburgh and returned with a trophy to present to their school. Continue reading Oban Gaelic Medium Pupils Scoop Television Quiz Prize
“Souper” Clan Challenge at Strath of Appin Primary School
Happy New Year
All three clans in the school certainly rose to the challenge of creating their own pots of soup for the Soup Clan Challenge. There was a hive of activity as Clan Linnhe prepared Winter minestrone soup, Clan Creran prepared tomato and carrot soup and Clan Laich, creamy carrot and coriander. The children really got a lot out of this challenge and it was pleasing to see them use the practical skills that Alex Needham from the Waterfront Restaurant had demonstrated a few weeks earlier.
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DALINTOBER OXFAM SALE
Dalintober held its annual Oxfam Sale recently. Instead of ordering from the Oxfam catalogue we asked for the money to go directly to the people of the Philippenes. The whole school took part by bringing in their toys, games and books. Primary 5 organised the sale and some acted as stall keepers while others helped the customers by being personal shoppers.
School students “Experience Christmas” at Dunoon Grammar School.
Just before the end of last term the first year pupils at DGS had the opportunity to encounter the Christmas story from the bible through a series of interactive stations. The stations were presented by volunteers from local Dunoon churches, and covered stories such as the shepherds near Bethlehem being greeted by an angel, the journey of Mary and Joseph for a Roman census and the wisdom and gifts of the wise men.
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Lochgilphead Primary – The Cardboard Classroom
Lochgilphead Primary 1 pupils arrived back from the Christmas Holidays to find their classroom covered in cardboard boxes. Through imagination, exploration, thinking creatively and working together they came up with some wonderful ideas, models and play spaces. Watch our video below……
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Young Learning Centre Designers Take a Trip to The Printers
Five pupils from Dunoon Grammar’s learning centre designed an eye-catching range of Christmas cards as part of their contribution to the Learning Support Department’s annual Christmas Fayre. The designs were so colourful and original that learning centre teacher Liz Miller approached local printer, E&R Inglis, to see if they would print the cards to give them the professional finish they deserved.
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Nativity Hoe Down at St. Mun’s
Wednesday and Thursday of last week saw the children of St. Mun’s Primary School perform their annual Christmas whole school show to two full houses and their new Acting Head Teacher Mrs. L. Fisher.
The School’s choir took to the stage first with a carol concert, which included festive readings and monologues as well as soloists and festive favourites, which had the audiences joining in.
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St. Mun’s Choir Entertain Residents At Ardenlee
It’s always good to give back to the community and when the children of St. Mun’s Choir were asked to entertain the residents at Ardenlee Care Home in Dunoon, they jumped at the chance to do just that.
Resplendent in their uniform and festive Santa hats the children sang a selection of their favourite carols for residents, staff and visitors who clapped along and joined in with their own personal favourites.
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‘Icons’ and ‘Idols’ at Dalintober PS
Parents and family members flocked in their hundreds for three sell-out performances of this year’s school show at Dalintober PS. As well as traditional Christmas items, from our instrumentalists and choir, the crowds were entertained by each class paying tribute to some icons and idols – a wide range from Elvis Presley to Katy Perry! The PTA held very successful raffles and between these and the show a massive £2400 was raised for school funds. Thank you to all – and a Happy Christmas and New Year from all at Dalintober PS!
Dalintober Primary Entertain the Elderly
Primary 7 pupils from Dalintober Primary spent two days on a Christmas Roadshow. Their objective was to entertain elderly men and women from the local hospital, care homes and sheltered accommodation.
They were appreciated by their audiences who thoroughly enjoyed their performances. Following each performance the pupils talked to all in attendance and wished them a Merry Christmas.
Well done Primary 7!
HIGHER FRENCH TRIP TO GENEVA
After having sat their exam in May, the Higher French class of 2012-13 benefited from the ability to keep up their speaking and language skills, through travelling to Geneva in Switzerland the following term. Although none of the pupils carried the subject on to Advanced Higher level, they were all keen to not lose the attribute of knowing a foreign language.
