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.
Category Archives: History
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
Barcaldine Nativity
A huge thank you to everyne who supported the pupils in Barcaldine during their Nativity performance of ‘A Christmas Code’ in St. Modan’s Church last week. Parents, Grandparents and friends really enjoyed watching the children’s peformance and we raised £50 for Breast Cancer UK.
The Drovers
Mrs. Watson’s P5/4 and Mrs.Kersel’s P5/6/7Gaelic classes have been learning about the Drovers in the 1700s. Using a new storyline being piloted for Storyline Scotland and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society the classes have followed the journey of two young teenage boys, Rob and Angus, on their first Drove. Engagement with the characters has brought the story to life for the pupils as they learned about sheiling life, hardships on the drove and the joys of the Tryst.
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Wonderful Baboushka
Dunoon Primary School Choir performed ‘Baboushka’ at St Johns Church on Sunday 15th December. The busy church were treated to a stupendous performance as the children sang so sweetly and confidently under the direction of our superb Choirmaster Heather Hamlet. The solos were simply marvellous and all the pupils are a credit to their parents and to our school.
Philosophy News from Oban High School
Pupils from Oban High School’s Philosophy Club appeared at the town’s sheriff court yesterday. But thankfully the bright young things were only staging a mock trial, as they looked deeper into their studies on right and wrong.
The trial was fictitious, but was based on real Scottish law.
The case was of a woman accused of driving dangerously by knocking down a high school pupil and breaking both her legs.
Bannocks and Butter
Rockfield P5/4 celebrated St.Andrew’s day by making traditional Scottish bannocks and butter as part of their Drovers project. A simple meal made from oats and cream and easy to carry on long days droving cattle. Continue reading Bannocks and Butter
Barnacle, Fish or Fowl?
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.
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Sandbank Primary School – Act of Remembrance
On Monday the 11th of November 2013 Sandbank Primary School’s senior pupils in mainstream and Gaelic held an Armistice Service attended by the junior pupils, pre-five unit and staff. The older children had all walked down to the War Memorial at Lazaretto Point the previous week and researched the history behind it. They discovered plaques from both the 1st and 2nd World Wars detailing the names and roles of local men who lost their lives in conflict.
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Terrific Totem poles
The pupils at Strath of Appin Primary have been putting the finishes touches to their Clan Totem Poles – which now look fantastic! The Clans have demonstrated great examples of team-work and co-operation in our Clan Challenge afternoons. So far the clans have designed a clan banner, clan shield and now a clan totem pole. It’s been messy but fun as the children have pulled together their ideas to create a totem pole representing their clan, incorporating the interests of the pupils and the area/environment they live in.
Strone Primary’s Kilmun Pageant
On Thursday the 31st of October, Halloween, Strone Primary’s p5 to 7s took part in a pageant in partnership with Argyll Mausoleum. We were taking part in this Pageant so that people buried in Kilmun graveyard would be remembered.
Leading up to the Pageant, Ann Galliard and Fiona Lochhead came and talked to us about interesting people who are buried in the graveyard. We all had to think of well known people from the past and research their life stories. It was interesting to find out about the famous people in the graveyard.
Peace Assembly at Colgrain Primary School
The Primary 6 and 7 pupils at Colgrain Primary School presented a beautiful assembly to coincide with Remembrance Day. The pupils talked about the Scottish Poppy Appeal with great knowledge and told the stories of service men and women who have been an inspiration to them. Many pupils at Colgrain are children of Service men and women and know first-hand what it is like to have family members in areas of the world where there is conflict. The pupils spoke very confidently about the history of the Scottish Poppy Appeal and encouraged the children in the school to donate and wear a Poppy with pride.
The Green Man at North Bute
Primary 4/5 have been busy working on a science topic of plants. As part of that topic, we went on Thinking Walks, copying the idea from Charles Darwin. He went on these walks regularly to think about his discoveries. We did this too and collected specimens and pressed them to study them more. On one of our walks, we collected leaves that had fallen from the trees and that were beautiful autumn colours.
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Dalintober PS Make ‘Guy’ for Community Bonfire.
Primary 6 pupils were very busy in the lead up to Guy Fawkes night when they were asked to make the Guy Fawkes effigy for the annual community bonfire and fireworks display which is organised by the Dalintober and Milknowe Tenants Association. The children took ‘Guy’ on a tour of the school before he was collected by members of the fire brigade and taken to be placed on top of the bonfire before the event on Tuesday 5th November.
First Nation People Visit Rothesay Primary
We were lucky to have a visit from Robert Gladue and Jason Chamakese on 22nd October. They are First Nation People from Saskatchewan in Canada. They shared some of their traditional stories , sang some wonderful Cree songs and played their instruments. They taught us lots about how they live on their Reserve in Canada. They are touring the country sharing their heritage and culture.
