Each Friday we have “Golden Time” at Dalmally School.
Golden time is a weekly reward for positive behaviour, hard work and good citizenship. Each teacher organises an activity or “club” We have an “active club” and a “cooking club” and soon we hope to have a “craft and design” club.
Mar A Tha Daoine
Eile Gar Faicinn
(To see ourselves as others see us)
The aim of this project was for each of the 6 Gaelic medium units in Argyll & Bute to produce a short film. The films had to capture scenes from contemporary everyday living and involved a musical score and/or song in Gaelic. Continue reading CAST Gaelic Film Project 2012
On Monday 18 June 2012 pupils at Innellan Primary School, as part of their Health & Wellbeing “National Smile Month” project activities, were delighted to welcome again our two dental nurses Fiona and Rhona from Dunoon Community Hospital. All P1 – P5 pupils were encouraged to participate in a mini drama session where they were allowed to dress up as a dentist or a dental nurse and carry out a mouth inspection using real dental tools. The excellent “Curriculum for Excellence” workshop concluded with all pupils receiving super “goody bags” which were very gratefully received. Continue reading Recent Enterprise visits at Innellan Primary School
Strachur Primary is celebrating its centenary this year.
We’ve been learning about the history of the village and enjoyed a walk in the past, suitably dressed in our 1912 outfits, which the Strachur History Society made for us. We also visited Scotland Street Museum. We’re glad we go to school in 2012!
We invited former pupils to share their memories, good and bad, of their days at school and we enjoyed showing them how we learn now. Continue reading Strachur Primary Centenary Celebrations
The sun split the sky on the morning of the 18th June and the sports pitch burst into life! All classes were piped in by Nigel Morris. Class banners were held high, flags were waved wildly – the Olympic parade had begun! The opening ceremony was a blaze of colour and diversity! After a whole school song (instigated by Rachael Morrison), P4/5 started with an emotional relay race with their Olympic torches to ‘Chariots of Fire’. The crowd were then treated to a P.1/2 swirling ribbon dance and the P3/4 Olympic Rings dance. Continue reading Bowmore Primary Mini-Olympics 2012!
On Friday 8th June the children of P4 in Dunoon Primary gave a wonderful presentation on their Curriculum for Excellence topic ‘The Unsinkable Ship’ to a very enthusiastic and appreciative audience of family and friends. After the presentation the children who were dressed as passengers and crew from the Titanic joined their guests to take them on a guided tour of the Titanic Exhibition they had helped to create in their corridor and classroom. The children were very keen to share their learning and proved themselves to be very informative tour guides. Continue reading ‘The Unsinkable Ship’ in Dunoon Primary
A spectacle of dance, music and colour, inspired by the Olympic Games was showcased at the opening ceremony of the Argyll and Bute Youth Games in Oban on Thursday 14th June.
A record 598 of our first and second year pupils from Argyll and Bute’s secondary schools staged their own version of the Olympics to welcome in Bank of Scotland National School Sport Week.
A specially composed mass fusion Olympic themed dance was performed at Mossfield Stadium by all of the pupils participating in the games. Continue reading Olympic Themed Youth Games in Oban
A new resource for teachers and outdoor educators produced by the John Muir Trust shows how its educational initiative, the John Muir Award, can be used to help deliver the Curriculum for Excellence. Groups undertaking the Award can complete a range of activities across curriculum areas, such as building bat boxes in technology, measuring trees in mathematics, or surveying wildlife in the school grounds for science.
The resource, an eight-page guide (pdf) complete with visual mind map that’s been endorsed by the Chief Executive of Education Scotland, was launched on Friday 9 March at Lochgilphead High School by Michael Russell, the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning. Continue reading John Muir Trust launches CfE resource at Lochgilphead High!
22nd May was an exciting day for the pupils and staff of Lochnell and Dunbeg Primary Schools, or ‘Lochbeg’ as they were renamed for this momentous occasion. The two schools engaged in the ultimate in interdisciplinary learning for the whole term from Easter onwards as they competed for their country for prestigous online medals. The pupils across the schools were split into six teams and could earn medals in every aspect of school and out-of-school life if their efforts correlated with one of the six Olympic and Paralympic values, such as friendship, fairness, determination etc. Continue reading ‘Lochbeg’s’ momentous occasion!
Here is a photograph of our P5’s who unveiled our biggest garden sculpture, “Dumdum”.
This is an Easter Island head planter with a body of stones and gravel that is based on the combined bodies of all the children. Continue reading Easter Island head grows a whole body at Ardchattan
Rosneath Primary held a special celebratory lunch for the Jubilee on Thursday 7th June. Staff and pupils were served a delicious lunch of sandwiches, sausages, cup cakes and ice-cream prepared by Mrs Johnston and her kitchen staff.
As the weather was dull, lunch was served indoors in the school hall which was decorated with flags.Everyone enjoyed the celebration for the Jubilee.
Parklands School Secondary Class organised their own street party to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee! They invited people from the community who they wanted to thank such as ex-teaching staff and volunteers, representatives from RDA and invited guests from local shops and businesses.
The pupils planned the party and prepared all the food themselves – they even designed and sent out their own invitations. Luckily they had won £100 worth of vouchers and a Jubilee party pack from the Co-op so we were able to decorate our playground and celebrate in style! Continue reading JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS AT PARKLANDS SCHOOL
An Eco Fashion Show was held in Strath of Appin Primary organised by the school’s Eco Committee. 44 outfits were shown off by 15 models. All the models wore recycled clothes, donated by families and friends of the school. The school has had a focus on re-cycling as part of its Eco Schools programme this session.
Please have a look at our slideshow!… Continue reading Eco fashion at Appin Primary
What a beautiful day for a “Special Lunch”. Kilcreggan Primary School held it’s Jubilee Lunch outside today. The sun shone and everybody enjoyed a lovely buffet. Our thanks go to Mrs Reid and Mrs Stewart our Catering staff for preparing such a superb feast and decorating the the tables to make the day so special.
Here are a few photos to share…………………….. Continue reading JUBILEE LUNCH AT KILCREGGAN PRIMARY SCHOOL
P4 and p5 pupils at Bunessan Primary, on Mull have been writing Fibonacci Poems exploring their thoughts and feelings about The Easter Island Head that arrived in their school recently.
Here is Rachel’s from P4………………. Continue reading Bunessan Primary Fibonacci-based Easter Island head poem!
One of our wee p2s took this picture of a p1 beside our marvelous marble head planter. Barcaldine Primary
As part of our 3rd task, we wrote a story of how our Moai Head was feeling when he came to our school.
To help us write the story we thought about how we would feel if we were in the same position.
Primary 2
Rothesay Primary Continue reading Easter Island – Task 3 part 2 – Rothesay Primary
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Authors Live: Oliver Jeffers
Join us in Celebrating Summer of Song and the Olympic Torch Relay in Scotland with award winning author/illustrator Oliver Jeffers. Oliver’s interactive illustration workshop will guide your pupils through drawing characters from his new series The Hueys as well as an exclusive reading of The Hueys!
14th June 2012 @11am Nursery – P3 Ages 3-7
Register here: http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/learning/authors-live/oliver-jeffers Continue reading Latest national creativity NewsCAST
Primary 7 pupils at St. Columba’s Primary School in Oban have been announced as one of four winners of Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall’s competition inviting schools to create a special Diamond Jubilee menu for The Queen. The prize winning team of Samantha Parkinson, Jessica Swan, Rebecca Campbell, Nathan Allan, Jack Forgrieve, Lucy Anderson, Niamh MacKenzie and Robert Krolikowski will travel to Buckingham Palace on 15 June to see their recipes prepared by the Royal Chef and will help serve the Queen and the Duchess of Cornwall at a special reception. Continue reading St Columba’s get cooking for the Queen
Primary 6, Dalintober Primary School, entertained P1 and P2 pupils with a performance starring the Mac Scarecrow puppets.
All the children in the class had written scripts based on the Mac Scarecrows. They peer assessed the scripts and decided which play should be performed. “The Mac Scarecrow Clan is Rich” was chosen and performed to great acclaim from their audiences.
The whole class were involved in some way and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
