The whole school was invited to provide entertainment at the Blairmore Community Christmas Lunch. The children sang a selection of carols and our musicians played various Christmas tunes on the fiddle, clarinet and bagpipes.
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Bowmore’s Snowflake Sensation!
Bowmore Primary School put on its annual glitzy pantomime last Thursday – it was superb! The children performed a new pantomime – The Snowflake Factory! It was the usual mixture of goodies and baddies, fighting over control of the fairy snowdust. We had the cutest P1/2 snowflakes and snowmen, we had P3 wicked witches, wizards and animals, we had P4/5 sparkly fairies and busy bakers. The P6/7 class took over the rest of the supporting cast and the main roles.
Celtic Connections at Castlehill
Primary 4 had a fantastic time at Campbeltown Museum recently. In order to conclude their topic on The Celts they visited the museum to look at the exhibition on Celts. They were shown round the museum by the curator and Primary 4 were also lucky enough to meet an archaeologist who told them about archaeology in Kintyre. Thank you to the staff at Campbeltown Museum.
Strachur Pre-5 and P1 Christmas Baking
Our Pre-5 pupils have been baking Christmas cake! We are very excited for Christmas and can’t wait to get our cakes out the oven and have a taste! Yummy!
Rockfield Early Level Department Nativity
The pupils in the ELCC and Primary 1 have been working very hard over the last couple of weeks and put on a fantastic performance of ‘A Little Nativity’ to a massive audience last week! All 110 children had their chance to shine on the stage and the audience were treated to fantastic singing, acting and percussion playing. The boys and girls or Sgoil Araich and P1 Gaelic joined together to sing a beautiful Gaelic lullaby. Tea and Shortbread were served afterwards and everyone left feeling very festive!
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ROSNEATH PRIMARY WENT TO THE PANTO…….OH NO YOU DID NOT!!!!!!! OH YES WE DID!!!!!!!!
This morning the WHOLE School headed off together to see Snow White at the King’s Theatre in Glasgow. What a performance! We sang, we shouted, we danced, we laughed, we clapped! Beautiful costumes and scenery.
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Cooking up a Storm!
On December 8th the P4-7 class at Strone Primary School went to West College in Greenock to practise their cooking skills in preparation for their Community Restaurant Evening at The Pier Hotel in Kilmun.
Dunoon Primary Win Inter School Speech Contest!
Dunoon Primary have been very busy preparing speeches for this years contest. The annual school competition at Dunoon was well attended by parents and members of the Association of Speakers Club Dunoon, who worked diligently coaching the young speakers.
The ten finalists displayed excellent speaking skills and delivered the most interesting topics – to name a few Piper Alpha, The European Refugee Crisis and My Asthma.
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Cross country success for Cardross!
On a cold and wet Saturday morning , 16 keen and enthusiastic Primary 6 and 7 children from Cardross Primary took part in the annual Garscue Harriers Cross Country Race in Maryhill Park.
Despite the rain and mud there was a great turnout from parents and siblings to cheer the children on.
Dunoon Primary Pop-up Shop Success
On Thursday, 3rd December, P6/5 and P7/6 opened their 60s themed pop-up shop in the Function Suite at “The Braes”. The shop was very busy all day and by lunchtime the children had to start taking orders for vinyl clocks as they had run out of stock! One pupil had a great idea to have a raffle with the prize being a hamper filled with 60s goodies, including a Beatles album. The children made a fantastic profit of over £700 which will be put towards resources for the classes and hopefully a trip to “Scotland Street Museum” in the New Year for a lesson in a 60s classroom.
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The Button Box
Pupils at Kilcreggan Primary recently entertained Parents and friends with a production of “The Button Box”. This fun musical is based around a story about two children staying with their grandparents who become bored on a rainy day. They knock Grandma’s button box over spilling an array of buttons onto the floor. They ask Grandma to tell them where all the buttons came from and the story behind each button is revealed in a song.
Interdisciplinary Learning at Rockfield Primary School
Over the last term the children of Rockfield Primary have been learning a great deal through their interdisciplinary topics based on our overarching theme of “Adventure, Exploration and Innovation” Children in the early level have been learning about Pirates,
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Scottish Book Week at Dalintober PS and ELCC
Pupils in Dalintober PS and ELCC recognised and celebrated Scottish Book Week through a whole-school project which culminated in a ‘Sharing Our Learning’ assembly. Activities included reading and voting on the finalised books for the book awards, ‘Dress as your favourite book character’, reading and creating Scots’ texts and researching the history of Scots’ language and the meanings of key words and phrases.
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NORTH BUTE PRIMARY PHOTOGRAPH COMPETITION SUCCESS
Ralph Anderson and Gordon Garmin from the Rotary Club of Rothesay visited North Bute Primary School on Tuesday afternoon to present awards for the Rotary Club’s Young Photographer of the Year competition.
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St. Andrew’s Ceilidh
On Monday 30th November Easdale Primary School celebrated St Andrew’s Day with a Community Ceilidh in Seil Community Hall. Our Strings Orchestra led by Miss Hazel Clark played a selection of tunes. All the children sang some Scottish songs and led the Scottish dancing.
Oban High School Support Department : Lupus Fundraiser
Pupils form Oban High School support department have been raising money and awareness for Lupus charities as a part of their COPE ASDAN award.
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Big Draw
Luss Primary recently entered the Big Draw competition run by Loch Lomond Sea Life Aquarium where the theme was “A Drop in the Ocean”. P7 Savannah’s prize for her winning entry was a tour and workshop for the whole school.
Our Visit to Winston Churchill’s by P5 pupil Brooklyn
On Thursday the 26th November, Strone Primary School went to Winston Churchill’s to talk to them about venison and all the things that you can make from venison. We wanted to visit because we wanted to find local produce that we could use for our evening meal that we are cooking in The Pier Hotel in Kilmun in the New Year.
We had decided upon venison sausages and wanted to see how they are made and where they come from.
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Titanic Open Day at Gigha Primary
Pupils at Gigha Primary spent last term learning about RMS Titanic. The culmination of this busy term was the re-creation of a First Class Afternoon Tea Party for parents, family and members of the community. Pupils showed visitors around the displays of their work, recounted the story of the Titanic and performed pieces of music to the audience. An entertaining and rewarding afternoon was had by all!
Disgusting Digestion at Strachur Primary
The Glasgow Science Centre visited our school this morning with lots of fun equipment to teach us about the journey food makes through our body! We watched clips, played games, did experiments and learned lots of facts about our bodies its function. We recommend you book a visit from them today, it was fantastic and made learning about digestion, fun! Thank you Gemma and Mike!
Primary 7
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