Pupils from Dalintober PS have been working closely on enterprising projects with local organisation Explore Campbeltown. The organisation is a website which promotes local businesses and their products. Pupils have made posters which will go on display around the town and on the new ferry which links Campbeltown to Arran and Ardrossan. The next enterprise activity for Dalintober PS pupils is to decorate ‘Penny Jars’ to be placed in local shops to raise funds for Campbeltown Christmas Lights Group and CGS4Gambia. The school is delighted to be linked to this very worthwhile venture.
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Kilmartin’s amazing coloured potatoes!!
It’s great to start the new school year with exciting news! Kilmartin Primary’s Early level class grew some amazing coloured potatoes in our garden and this summer the potatoes won 1st prize in their category at the Mid Argyll Agricultural Show.The potatoes are a dark purple all the way through. Later in September, the school will be holding a vegetable sale with all of our garden produce and, of course, we will be making some very tasty soup! Continue reading Kilmartin’s amazing coloured potatoes!!
Lochdonhead Winners
Lochdonhead Primary School has been very successful recently in two national competitions.
In June we were told that we were the winners of the Total Green School Award run by the Young People’s Trust. In our entry we recorded and reported all the work we have done over the year to improve our school grounds. The results were reported as ‘excellent and the judges were all extremely impressed’. Almost 44,500 children took part in the Award for 2013 which emphasises the scale of our achievement. We were given a certificate and a cheque for £500. Continue reading Lochdonhead Winners
GROWING OUR OWN AT OHS SUPPORT DEPARTMENT!
In October 2012 we took charge of a supersized poly tunnel which was erected in the grounds of Glencruitten Hostel. This was the first step in our plan to grow and sell produce to parents, staff and the hostel kitchen! In our Tech classes we have made six raised beds for the tunnel and plan to make more for outside. We have planted potatoes, onions, herbs and blackcurrants so far and have also been improving the hostel grounds by planting hedges and trees!
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High Tea for Grannies
P1/2 of Sandbank Primary concluded their Katie Morag topic by hosting a High Tea for their Grannies. The guests all dressed for the occasion wearing some wonderful fancy hats.
As Grannies, and some Grandpas, tucked into a variety of cakes baked and decorated by the pupils, they listened to the children singing some traditional Scottish songs including ‘You Cannae Shove Your Grannie off a Bus’.
Macmillan Dress up and Dance Day
On Friday the 21st of June everyone at Port Charlotte Primary arrived at school dressed up in their favourite dance outfits. P3/4 went to all the classes, collected the £2 donation to Macmillan Cancer Care then totalled the amount. We raised an amazing £122.56. Thank you Macmillan your dance DVD was fun. The assembly on Friday began with a whole school warm up dance session following the movements that we had learnt during the week. Each class also performed a class dance to their own choice of music.
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Craignish Primary launches new Enterprise Project!
Craignish Primary launches new Enterprise Project: Craignish Primary Plants.
After the successful building of our new poly tunnel (thanks to the help of parents and community members) we have now launched our new Business Craignish Primary Plants. The whole school have been involved in planting our crop for after the holidays.
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Bee Day at Dunoon Primary School
Primary 5 arranged a School “Bee Day” to raise awareness of the need to support the bee population and to raise funds to plant bee friendly flowers and provide some seeds for each pupil in the school to plant in their garden. It was a great day with everyone dressing in yellow and black, a bee outfit or bright flower colours. Pupils sold homemade baking, badges, bookmarks and enjoyed singing bee songs and presenting powerpoints to the classes throughout the day. Continue reading Bee Day at Dunoon Primary School
Achaleven’s Pop-Up Plant Stall
We have been busy growing plants from seed in the school garden and they have done so well we thought we would sell our extra ones! Thanks to Rosie at Connel Village Store, we had a pop-up plant stall on Friday outside the shop, where plants were available for sale (payment by donation to a box in the shop).
They are mostly tomato plants but there are a few pepper and cucumber plants as well.
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Macbeth at Kilmodan Primary School
Last week Kilmodan Primary School had another successful tearoom. We have been running a tearoom for the last three years. This year we are raising money for our school to go to Edinburgh for two days. While we are there we will be going to the zoo, Edinburgh Castle and we hope to go to the cinema. The children do home baking for every tearoom and serve the tea and coffee. It is a great time for the whole community to get together.
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Car Boot Sale at Dalmally Mart
“Dalmally, Taynuilt and Kilchrenan Primary Schools held a wonderful Car Boot Sale on Saturday at Dalmally Mart, raising over £1118 for their annual p6/7 trip to Lcohgoilhead. The sun shone on the ‘car boots’ and the stalls (causing some of the icing to slip off the cakes on the baking stall!) and a great time was had by all. The local fire brigade came along to help with the Car Wash, there was a Bottle Stall, Raffle and Baking stall as well as activities such as ‘Throw the Wet Sponge’ and a Duck Race.”
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Lochgilphead Young Enterprise Team
Over the last year, Lochgilphead High School’s Young Enterprise team has created T-shirts designed by themselves, and have excelled in selling the product to fellow school pupils and peers. The team was automatically entered in the area finals which took place on the 23 of April at Inveraray, directly competing against other schools.
They triumphed at the event and won the trophy assigned to the team with the best display board, Continue reading Lochgilphead Young Enterprise Team
Busy Bee Week – Lismore Primary School
Lismore Primary School held a very enjoyable “Busy Bee Week” from 22nd – 28th April.
The week began with a visit from Generation Science (Edinburgh International Science Festival’s Outreach programme) who performed their show – “Little Giants”. This was an interactive workshop where Buzzy, the giant honey bee and a bee keeper introduced the children to the amazing world of bees.
Lochdonhead Primary Daffodil Tea
On Friday 26th April Lochdonhead Primary held a very successful daffodil tea morning. All the members of the public were invited to come along and participate in the various activities and sales. There was a baking stall, a plant sale where you could buy a variety of herbs and flowers, arts and crafts, a lucky dip, catch the duck competition and a raffle. All of this was held in the top classroom, while in the bottom classroom fresh cakes, teas and coffees were served. Continue reading Lochdonhead Primary Daffodil Tea
Minard’s Duck Derby
The children at Minard Primary organised and ran a Duck Derby on the last day of term. They sold ‘ducks’ at a £1 each and raised £295 for school funds!
They had written to local businesses around Inveraray asking for donations for the prizes and received some wonderful ones for which we are very grateful.
The children at Furnace Primary joined in the fun. This was after we had celebrated a joint Easter service at Minard church and a buffet lunch at the school.
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St Columba’s Primary Fairtrade Fortnight
Congratulations to Primary 7 and Mrs Wotherspoon for providing us with an interesting and exciting Fairtade fortnight. Among other things they set up a ‘Fairtrade Cafe ‘during breaktimes, serving homemade fairtrade banana loaf, coffee, tea and biscuits, all guaranteed fairtrade produce.
Daffodil Tea at Dunoon Primary
“Outstanding! Superb! Moving!” These were some of the comments made to describe the Daffodil Tea performance by Dunoon Primary School Choir on Tuesday 26th March. The choir performed their programme in the afternoon for invited guests within the community and also in the evening for parents, relatives and friends. The hall was decorated with artwork produced by all the classes and refreshments were provided by the PTA.
Tobermory High – Comic Relief
From the youngest primary children to the oldest S6 and most of the staff everyone joined in the fun of Red Nose Day. Crazy hair and pyjamas were the themes and most people rose to the challenge so there were some interesting sights in Assembly. In primary they baked cakes and had an impromptu dance contest whilst in secondary most junior pupils had bought senior genies for the day who carried bags, helped with work and in some classes lead a bit of karaoke.
Kilninver Primary School Spring Fayre
The parents of Kilninver Primary organised a Spring Fayre on the 24th of March. The coffee afternoon and table top sale was well attended by the local community.
The children sold the Easter crafts they had made. The bookmarks turned out to be the best seller.
Park Primary Fairtrade Cake Bake
Park Primary School held a two day Fairtrade Cakebake last week. Many of the pupils and staff baked cakes and biscuits using at least one Fairtrade ingredient to show their support towards Fairtrade products during Fairtrade Fortnight. This was a huge success and raised £340.01. Well done to all the bakers and thank you to all who came along and spent some money!
