Category Archives: Events

Sandbank Primary School – Act of Remembrance

Communities and Culture, Early Years, Events, Expressive arts, Gaelic, Geography, History, Interdisciplinary, Literacy, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools, RME, Topics

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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Technology Exhibition at Cardross

Communities, Events, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools, Science,

Last week Cardross Primary hosted a ‘Technology Through The Ages’ Exhibition in association with Glasgow Museums. The exhibition was part of a launch day of our very own Space Adventure 2 game. The game was designed and created by the pupils themselves on the school ipads! Many of the pupils acted as Apple expert, in the evening, presenting and showcasing their work to parents and the local community.

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Southend Children In Need

Communities, Early Years, Events, Expressive arts, Fundraising, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools

On Friday, pupils and staff from Southend Primary and Pre-5 Unit raised £100.38 for Children in Need by dressing up in their onesies and pyjamas, organising a talent show and setting up a variety of stalls. Headteacher, Mrs Ronald, particularly enjoyed throwing wet sponges at the big boys in her class! The school cook, Mrs Campbell, made us some lovely Pudsey biscuits too. Great fun was had by all. Later on Friday night, Mrs Bannatyne took the school choir to perform at a local charity concert. Well done everyone for such a good effort. Continue reading Southend Children In Need →

Terrific Totem poles

Eco Schools, Events, History, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools, Projects

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.

Children in Need – £972.04 raised by Rothesay Primary

Communities, Early Years, Events, Fundraising, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools

Rothesay Primary School and pre-5 Centre dressed in their pyjamas yesterday and sold Pudsey wrist bands and keyrings. The Primary 7 class organised a Bring & Buy Sale, Pudsey Raffle and did Pudsey Face Painting all day and the total we raised for Children in Need was an impressive £972.04! (Some people donated today as we had a few wristbands left!)

We are all very proud and look forward to tuning in tonight 🙂
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LOCHGILPHEAD JOINT CAMPUS….Latest News!!!

Events, Newsletter, Secondary schools

S4 pupil Lorna Unkles achieved the amazing feat of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro over the October break. The ascent of just under 6000m took 8 days, with the climb to the summit being completed in a gruelling 15 hours. Accompanied by her dad, Lorna took on the challenge to raise funds for Breast Cancer Care and has so far accumulated the magnificent total of £4,500.00 with contributions still being accepted through her JustGiving page.
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Rockfield Primary visit Oban Lifeboat Station

Communities, Events, Health and Wellbeing, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools, School trips

P2s from Rockfield had a fantastic trip to Oban Lifeboat Station on Friday 8th November. Working in 3 groups, the children got to find out more about the work of the lifeboat, what the crew wear when they are on a rescue and, most importantly, they got to climb aboard the lifeboat for a tour. The children have been learning about People Who Help Us and they were very keen to learn about the work of the RNLI as part of their topic work.

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Norwegian Study Visit to Colgrain

Communities and Culture, Early Years, Events, Expressive arts, Interdisciplinary, Literacy, Primary schools

On 28th October 2013 Colgrain Primary School was selected by Nick Morgan from Education Scotland to host nineteen Norwegian teachers on a study visit to Scotland. The Norwegian visitors had a particular interest in Assessment is for Learning and in the Early level concept of Curriculum for Excellence. Colgrain Primary has a very successful approach to formative assessment and the Norwegian visitors were particularly interested in our communication with home and our celebration of pupil’s wider achievement.

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Strone Primary’s Kilmun Pageant

Communities and Culture, Events, Expressive arts, History, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools

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.

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OHS S4 Pupil wins national design competition

Awards, Competitions, Events, Expressive arts, Interdisciplinary, Secondary schools

GIRFEC National Competition Winner is Oban High School S4 Student Niamh Macauley
Oban High School S5 pupil Niamh Macauley’s beautifully drawn poster was the winning entry from among hundreds of submissions in the national GIRFEC student competition. Sponsored by the Scottish government’s programme known as Getting It Right For Every Child, the topic for the design competition was “What does well being mean to you?”
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Dalintober PS Make ‘Guy’ for Community Bonfire.

Communities, Events, History, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools

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.

world of work day at port ellen

Communities, Events, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools, Topics

Wonderful World Of Work

As part of their topic ‘Going For Gold’, P4/5 in Port Ellen Primary School organised a ‘wonderful world of work’ event to help them to develop their knowledge of different jobs. The children brainstormed people in the community who they thought had interesting jobs and sent out invitations. They were delighted when eighteen people from a wide variety of working backgrounds agreed to come along. Continue reading world of work day at port ellen →

Oban High Trad School of Music Winners!

Communities and Culture, Competitions, Events, Expressive arts, Interdisciplinary, Secondary schools

Oban High School Traditional School of Music and Amy Boyce (S5) were successful at the Opportunity Knocks Oban Live Auditions on Saturday to win a place on the big stage at the Oban Hogmanay Street Party.  There were 10 acts which were then whittled down to four and those four acts performed once more for the judges who chose our two Oban High School acts.  Amy is a singing pupil of Jean Gillies, local singing teacher and the Musical Director of the Traditional School of Music is Sileas Sinclair. This marks another great accomplishment for this talented group of young people at Oban High.

Oban High School S3 Pupils Create Book Trailers for Scottish Book Trust

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A talented group of S3 pupils from Miss Breuer’s class made some great trailers for the Scottish Book Trust to be used for the Scottish Book Awards. They are well worth a watch! Check out the links to see them on the Scottish Book Trust website HERE

Feedback has been brilliant. Caroline Clough (author of the nominated Black Tide) said “Loved the trailer – so atmospheric! Well done to Oban High School – a tremendous effort!” Continue reading Oban High School S3 Pupils Create Book Trailers for Scottish Book Trust →

Zumba Dancing at DPS!!

Active Schools, Events, Fundraising, Health and Wellbeing, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools, Sport

Dunoon Primary held a sponsored Zumbathon in the lunch hall of their school. All pupils thoroughly enjoyed it! The music and the atmosphere in the hall was very energetic and Dunoon Primary cant wait for another shot at this super experience. The staff of the Queens Hall led the way and pupils from P1-P7 were smiling all the way back to their classes. The staff are raring to go with their own Zumba Class! The pupils even had a wee class of their own in the playground after it at lunch time.

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Smoke Free Me

Communities and Culture, Events, Expressive arts, Health and Wellbeing, Interdisciplinary, Literacy, Primary schools, Science, Topics

On Friday 24th October we went to the Queens Hall to see Smoke Free Me! The actors were fantastic. In the show the characters were called Ziggy with the Ciggy, Willie Tryit and Claire Air. The show was about a time machine and Willie Tryit and Claire Air tried to stop Ziggy from smoking. Ziggy went back in time to meet a tobacco lord and a scientist who talked about the link between lung cancer and cigarettes. We sang songs and a rap! They were called Smoke Free Me, Make Smoking History and Keep it to yourself.

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Halloween Disco fever at Dunoon Primary!

Events, Expressive arts, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools

Dunoon Primary School’s Parent Teacher Association treated the pupils from P4-P7 to a fun filled evening on Wednesday 30th October. The pupils took part with the help of our teachers in dooking for apples, stringy doughnuts and whats in the feely box? The hall was beautifully decorated with lots of spooky characters! A very busy hall filled with squeals of excitement and laughter and there was no shortage of unusual outfits!

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Halloween fun at Glassary

Communities, Events, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools

The parent council at Glassary helped to transform the classroom into a top to toe spooky cavern after school on Friday, complete with bats on the walls and cobwebs and pumpkins around the room.
The children returned at 6.30 for a great disco, looking fantastic in their halloween costumes. Fun was had by all with traditional Halloween games and a surprise appearance of two life size mummies to scare and then dance with the children!

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Year of Faith Mass

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Friday 1 November 2013 will go down in the history of St Joseph’s Primary School as a monumental day as The Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, Archbishop of Glasgow visited the school to say a special Mass. Archbishop Tartaglia was there not only to celebrate All Saints Day but also as a culmination of the school’s Year of Faith activities.

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