Category Archives: Communities and Culture

Fifth Eco-Schools Green Flag for Luing Pupils

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The children of Luing Primary were very pleased to receive their fifth green flag, which involved studying Sustainability, Transport and Litter.

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Citizenship at Dunoon Primary

Citizenship, Communities, Communities and Culture, Creative Writing, Creativity, Digital Learning, Drama, environment, Expressive arts, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools,

The P7’s at Dunoon Primary School have been working on their IDL on Citizenship. Working in groups they have been researching and interviewing people in different sectors of the local community. Groups have been focusing on Care in the Community, Caring for the Environment, Other Cultures, The Law in Scotland, The Scottish Government and The History of Dunoon.

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Keep Calm and Ceilidh On – Strath of Appin Primary

Communities and Culture, Enterprise, Events, Expressive arts, Grandparents, Hospitality, Interdisciplinary, Music, Personal Development, Primary schools, Scottish Dancing, Singing,

A packed hall of family, friends and members of the community enjoyed a terrific evening of music, dance and entertainment at our recent ceilidh. The children enthusiastically performed their songs and ceilidh dances and it was a great opportunity for the highland dancers to showcase their talents along with our instrumental performers (on chanter, accordion and violin).

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Argyll school submits winning garden design

Awards, Communities and Culture, Competitions, Creative Learning, Eco Schools, environment, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools

Easdale Primary School pupils picked as winners of Keep Scotland Beautiful competition.
Environmental charity, Keep Scotland Beautiful, has announced that pupils from Easdale Primary School have been selected as winners of the nationwide competition to Design a One Planet Picnic Pocket Garden – which will see them now bring their creations to life for display at the Gardening Scotland exhibition in Edinburgh this June.

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Southend Primary School – Burns Bash

Communities and Culture, Creativity, Events, Expressive arts, Friends and Family, History, Hospitality, Interdisciplinary, Music, Performance, Poetry, Primary schools

Southend Primary School held a Burns Lunch to celebrate the Baird.

The lunch was extended to the children’s family, friends and wider Southend Community.

The lunch was chaired by one of the 20 guests, Mr. Robert Millar.

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Christmas Fair

Christmas, Co-operative Learning, Communities and Culture, Creativity, Events, Fundraising, Hospitality, Primary schools

A Wonderful festive Joint partnership with the communities and schools of Minard and Furnace on Saturday at the Christmas Fair. The weather outside was cold, cold, cold but the locals and pupils turned out amid the festive snow and ice to support the school. The Children and Staff put on an amazing range of Christmas Gifts along with local stall holders who regularly support the school and its enterprises. The pupils were enthusiastic fund raisers especially on the tombola and even Elsa turned up for the raffle!

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Hope Kitchen visit to Taynuilt Primary

Communities, Communities and Culture, Donations, Primary schools, Volunteering

The P7/6 children at Taynuilt Primary have been learning about poverty and homelessness around the world. To round off the topic we invited Hope Kitchen to our class to learn about local poverty and find out what we could do to help.  Agnes and Beth gave us an extremely informative talk and a very useful question and answer session with group discussions followed.
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Maths Week Challenge at Lochgoilhead

Co-operative Learning, Communities and Culture, environment, Events, Interdisciplinary, Maths, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools, Science,

Lochgoilhead Primary School participated in Scotland’s Maths Week Challenge with some exciting enquiry based learning. As soon as the pupils arrived on Monday morning, they attended a specially arranged assembly where they were all invited to help solve a problem. The large grass area surrounding the school was too long and needed to be ready by Friday for a sports event. With the usual gardening maintenance team not able to visit the school until the following week, the children were put into mixed age groups to try and come up with possible solutions.
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Lochdonhead Primary School Nature Trail

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Lochdonhead Primary School was selected as the Regional Winner 2017 in the Better Energy School Awards. The school have won a cheque for £500.00 “Congratulations to the pupils and staff of Lochdonhead Primary School – what an ambitious project you have embarked upon and you have adopted an extremely professional approach. We were very impressed by the way you have sought detailed information and knowledge from experts and the way that you have involved your community in the development of your nature trail.

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Isle of Gigha School wins My Favourite Pocket Garden Award at Gardening Scotland 2017!

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Isle of Gigha School and Community are very proud to announce that Bailey Bannatyne’s Gigha Garden, inspired by our beautiful island has won the My Favourite Pocket Garden Award at Gardening Scotland 2017!

Visitors who voted convincingly for Bailey’s design were entertained and inspired by her creativity and attention to detail. They especially enjoyed how the garden encapsulated the children’s love for their island and its beautiful natural heritage.
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Skills Week at Achaleven.

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Achaleven’s Got Skills!
12th – 16th June was a very busy time at Achaleven Primary!

We packed in a lot in a short space of time starting with tag rugby with Allan and Ellie who put us through our paces, kept us active and we worked together well to achieve great results. We planned a trip to Glen Nant for the Wednesday so this involved creating a risk assessment.

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Healthy & Active at Kirn Primary

Active Learning, Co-operative Learning, Communities and Culture, Events, Fundraising, Health and Wellbeing, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, PE, Personal Development, Primary schools, PSE, Road Safety, Science, Sport, Training, Workshops

Kirn Primary has had an amazingly active Health Week, with a huge range of fun activities to take part in. Instructors have visited to run workshops for children to learn about Basketball, Swimming, Karate, Tai Chi, Keep Fit, Highland Games events, Baton Twirling, Indoor Bowls, Golf and Rugby. P7 children held a sponsored walk and the iCycle Programme has continued during this week.

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Dunoon Primary Learning Centre Sponsored Walk – Wednesday 7th June

Co-operative Learning, Communities and Culture, Events, Fundraising, Geography, Health and Wellbeing, Hospitality, Interdisciplinary, Learning Centres, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools,

A few weeks ago, one of our older pupil’s had the fantastic idea of doing a sponsored walk to raise money for Learning Centre funds, particuarly to buy new outdoor equipment and toys. The LC2 class planned and organised the walk in consultation with the head teacher. We used Google maps to plan our route – it was 2.5 miles from the school to the Sandbank swing park which we thought was perfect. We wrote to parents, made posters which the younger children in LC1 helped to decorate, and carried out a risk assessment.

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The Great Outdoors

Active Learning, Communities and Culture, Events, Geography, History, Interdisciplinary, Literacy, Outdoor Learning, Personal Development, Primary schools, Science, Writing

Primary 6 pupils have been finding out what life was like in the Stone Age during a programme of outdoor learning in their local woodlands.
The class have been reading Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver, which is a novel set in the Mesolithic Period. To bring the story to life, they have been visiting Ardenconnel Woods to experience a Stone Age existence.

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St Mun’s Primary Celebrate First Holy Communion

Communities and Culture, Events, Personal Development, Primary schools, RME

Primary Four pupils from St Mun’s Primary, were joined by their friend Danielle Ashworth from Sandbank Primary, when they made their First Holy Communion on Sunday 14th May. The children attended Mass at Our Lady And St Mun’s Church, which was led by Fr Joe Calleja. They took full part in the service by doing the readings and offertory procession, in addition to receiving the Eucharist for the first time.

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Minard and Kirn Primary Pupils learning outdoor together

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Argyll & Bute may be geographically vast but that doesn’t prevent us from making the most of connections between schools to allow pupils the opportunity to learn co-operatively. On Friday 21st April five P4 pupils from Kirn Primary School in Cowal travelled with their teacher Mr Mair to join the Minard Primary School pupils in some outdoor learning activities in Minard Primary, near Inveraray. The Minard pupils were delighted to welcome pupils from far flung Cowal to share in the outdoor learning opportunities which are on their doorstep.

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