Primary Four pupils at John Logie Baird Primary School recently enjoyed learning about many aspects of the “50’s and 60’s”. They were very keen to share their learning with the rest of the school and their parents so they decided to hold an assembly which would take their audience on an alphabetical journey through the 50’s and 60’s. The children worked very hard to create a script and many exciting props for their assembly which featured many special “guests” such as Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Neil Armstrong, President JFK and Mary Quant to name a few. Continue reading John Logie Baird Primary 50’s and 60’s assembly
Category Archives: Primary schools
Crazy Hair Day
Advent is a time for giving to charities and the children of St. Joseph’s very much rose to the occasion on ‘Crazy Hair Day’ on Friday 7 December. The children themselves had instigated this fund raising event for the Guide Dogs for the Blind charity, hot on the heels of a visit by one of its benefactors, Mrs Carr and her adorable golden retriever, Michelle. In total the children raised £144.30 by paying for the privilege of coming to school with as crazy a hair ‘do’ as possible. Much laughter was had by all as the staff joined in the fun sporting some questionable hair styles for the day! Continue reading Crazy Hair Day
Ukulele Luing launches their Christmas CD
After lots of anticipation Ukulele Luing launched their Christmas CD on Thursday 29th November. Last years P7s came along to help with the launch. The sales table was extremely busy and everyone enjoyed listening to the CD for the first time.
Ukulele Luing have now now been played on Oban FM, Radio Scotland and Radio 2.
The CD is available for purchase from Oban Music, Whitmore and Hamilton (Oban), Balvicar Stores and the school for £5. Continue reading Ukulele Luing launches their Christmas CD
Barcaldine Entertaining!!
Barcaldine Primary School Children went along to St Modans Church on Wednesday afternoon to entertain the Benderloch Senior Citizens Club. The children sang a range of songs as well as a child doing a solo song from Les Miserables. Singing was not the only order of the day as some of our children played their instruments – a fiddlist as well as a trumpeter with only a few months instruction. WOW!! Continue reading Barcaldine Entertaining!!
Barcaldine at the Farmer’s Market
Primary 7 pupils of Barcaldine Primary school went along to the Local Farmers’ Market on Thursday 5th December to sell our enterprise makes. We have been busy making lots of things to sell as part of our enterprise project. We took everything along yesterday and were very busy manning our stall. We raised over £65 towards our School Fund.
Zofia, Eilidh, Rianna, Shona and Connor
Primary 7 pupils
Trains and boats and ….. libraries!
The Primary 1 class at Lochnell had a fantastic day out to celebrate the end of their topic on Travelling.
On Thursday 6th December we all boarded a bus at school – we’d used the bus for last week’s visit to the bookshop but this time we had a coach so we were up much higher than before. The coach took us to the train station at Connel and then we got on the train to travel to Oban. We loved being on the train because it sounded really cool and we could see the countryside rushing past us. Continue reading Trains and boats and ….. libraries!
Holly Tea on Luing
All of the children were involved in creating lots of wonderful things to sell at their Holly Tea.
They then worked out the cost price and decided on a selling price.
The parents and members of the local community contributed lots of tasty cakes and biscuits for the baking stall, which was very popular.
People flocked into the school, enjoyed a cup of tea or coffee with a mince pie.
Due to the amazing generosity of the local community we raised over £930. Continue reading Holly Tea on Luing
Dalmally catches the Book Bug!
The Early Years Class celebrated book week by reading the three books gifted to children in P1 as part of the book bug scheme. After reading ‘Jack and the Flumflum tree,’ they discussed what they would put in the patchwork sack. Some great ideas included stilts to get the fruit down from the tree, a rubber ring to rescue Stu and a big plaster to plug the hole in the boat. The children then made their own patchwork sack using collage materials. Continue reading Dalmally catches the Book Bug!
St. Andrew’s Ceilidh Celebration at Port Ellen.
This term the children from P3/4 and P5 have both been learning about aspects of Scotland.
We have all enjoyed finding out amazing and exciting historical facts and events. Both classes researched significant Scottish people from leaders and rebels to authors and inventors.
P5 used Digi Maps to help them develop their knowledge of the geography of Scotland and researched places of interest from all over the country. Continue reading St. Andrew’s Ceilidh Celebration at Port Ellen.
Book Week Scotland on Bute
Rothesay Primary celebrated Book Week Scotland in lots of different ways. P6 pupils read the nominated books for the Scottish Book Awards to Pre-5, while P1, 2 and 3 also voted on their favourite which was ‘The Day Louis Got Eaten’ in every class! We had a ceilidh on St Andrews Day with each class ‘doing a turn’. Primary 3 sang ‘Ye canny shove yer granny aff a bus!’ which made us all laugh, Primary 2 sang a rousing rendition of ‘O Flower of Scotland’, Primary 1-2 danced the St Bernard’s Waltz beautifully and P1 led the ceilidh dancing. Continue reading Book Week Scotland on Bute
St Andrew’s Day at St Joseph’s Primary
What a wonderful start to St Andrew’s Day at St Joseph’s Primary, Helens burgh as Colin Smith, a local pipe teacher, ‘piped in’ to school the boys and girls …….and that was just the beginning! Colin then went on to give a presentation on ‘the bagpipes’ and was met with some deep and meaningful questions at questions time like, ‘What was your inspiration to learn the bagpipes?’ (CIA ran P5). EVERY class then went on to perform to each other, everything from poetry to drama of Scottish history, to song……………and even a wonderful rendition of the Canadian Barn Dance by P7. All the staff and pupils joined in the celebration by sporting tartan to school and the celebration of Scottish culture and heritage was alive and kicking……an excellent whole school example of Scottish culture at its best!
Garelochhead P5/4 to the Rescue!!
Pupils in P5/4 welcomed Bill Jennison of SARD to their class. He is a training officer with the Search and Rescue Dog Association. His talk was so interesting, he was almost overwhelmed with ‘searching’ questions from the class. Olivia played the part of the casualty and Jamie proudly wore the coat of the search and rescue dog. Pupils now have a really good understanding of the intensive training and testing a dog must undertake to play such a vital role in helping those in danger on the mountains. Continue reading Garelochhead P5/4 to the Rescue!!
P7 Dragons’ Den event in Rothesay Primary
Primary seven pupils at Rothesay Primary School stood up in front of seven fierce dragons on Friday in the school’s own version of the Dragon’s Den TV series.
Pitches for a series of fantastic inventions were put before the seven Dragons, who had the unenviable task of choosing between the spider-catching Zapatron, a heated sofa and a jacket that charges your mobile phone as you walk, to name just a few. The Dragons comprised a combination of current and retired Bute businessmen, plus the minister of Ardbeg Baptist Church. Continue reading P7 Dragons’ Den event in Rothesay Primary
Book Week Scotland at Dunoon Primary
To celebrate the first ever Book Week Scotland, Dunoon Primary School have been busy reading and writing. To launch Book Week Mrs Clark and Mrs Fisher held a whole school assembly where they read aloud their own piece of writing entitled ‘My Favourite Place’. This inspired the whole school to get writing about our own favourite places.
Our infants made Reading Medals and have brought a selection of their favourite books to school. Continue reading Book Week Scotland at Dunoon Primary
Oban Auction Market visit.
Bunessan Primary 5,6 & 7 classes recently enjoyed an excellent day at Oban Market. This was the culmination of their recent crofting topic. The auctioneer, Raymond, took the children on a tour of the market and the children learned about the different breeds of sheep and Raymond explained how he decided what price to start the auction at. The children then had an opportunity to be the auctioneer and the buyers. The most exciting part was watching the auction and trying to spot who was bidding. Continue reading Oban Auction Market visit.
Countdown to launch
Children of P.5 in St Joseph’s showcased their excellent creativity and design skills as part of the solar system topic. Children were challenged to design and create a space shuttle, rocket or satellite. As you can see, the finished products are out of this world! Continue reading Countdown to launch
Roman Master Class at Port Charlotte
Today our teacher took a back seat and let us teach our parents and guests in the community all about the Romans. We worked in our cooperative groups to plan and organise this event which meant doing lots of research about Roman Food, Roman Numerals, Roman Games and Roman Mosiacs. We had 10 minutes at each station to teach our guests about each topic. Some of the things that we did were playing the games of Rota and Knuckles, eating a six course feast and recording our thoughts in a taste book, creating a joint mosaic and trying to work out roman numerals through playing dice games. By P3/4 Continue reading Roman Master Class at Port Charlotte
Spook the Dervaig Owl
Primary 1/2/3 in Dervaig Primary school had a very special visitor on Tuesday 27th of November, Spook, the Barn Owl. The children are currently reading The Owl Who Was Afraid of The Dark as a class novel. They are researching the different kinds of owls we have on Mull as well as exploring all of the exciting topics discussed in the book. Sue Dewar kindly brought the Barn Owl in to the class that morning for the children to see. We found out that Spook is 7 years old which is the same age as some of the pupils in the class!
Spook was brought to Sue when he was just 3 weeks old which means that he thinks he is human and that Sue is his Mum! In the wild Spook might only have lived to 3 or 4 years, however in captivity owls can live much longer. Continue reading Spook the Dervaig Owl
Mud Kitchen installed at Tighnabruaich Primary!
The Early Level class has been enjoying its newly installed Mud Kitchen. It is fitted with all mod cons (sink, microwave, pots & pans etc.) and using only the very finest ingredients the children have been busy making spicy soup and apple & mud cake. Best fun is going to the local supermarket (the nearby unfinished path) to collect the basic ingredient.
P1 parents visited last week and are off to look out more fixtures and fittings.
Today’s great excitement was the frozen mud and investigating the beautiful patterns it made.
You can find out more about Mud Kitchens at www.muddyfaces.co.uk where the book can be downloaded. Or request it by email; info@muddyfaces.co.uk. It’s FREE! Continue reading Mud Kitchen installed at Tighnabruaich Primary!
North Bute Primary Winter Warmer
P3/4/5 have been very busy this term taking part in an enterprise project to plan and organise our annual Winter Warmer in our local hall. They have been working in their Finance, Advertising, Finding Resources and Production teams to organise this event and have had great fun too! Our enterprise managers kept us all on the right track and made sure we all communicated weekly at our team meetings and the whole school were involved in creating Christmas crafts to sell on the day. The enterprise team worked closely with the Parent Council who were in charge of organising the catering side. Continue reading North Bute Primary Winter Warmer
