St Joseph’s Very Important Bear meets some Very Important People!
In P6 & P7 this year at St Joseph’s the children’s very important bear, Buddy, has been visiting some wonderful places and the resulting creative and expressive language from the children’s accounts of these were a dream to hear. However, the other week Buddy was already ‘booked’ for an adventure when another P7 child asked to take him to the STV Appeal.
Category Archives: Expressive arts
Look and Learn Art Competition success at Parklands School!
Congratulations Mia Ward of Parklands School, for winning 1st place in the September 2013 Look and Learn Art Competition, on the theme of ‘Alien Life Form’! Look and Learn is a London-based picture library, specialising in educational images. It is a member of BAPLA (the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies) and run monthly online children’s art competitions, with the explicit objective of creating the world’s best gallery of children’s art. Please check out this wonderful Art piece HERE
First Nation People Visit Rothesay Primary
We were lucky to have a visit from Robert Gladue and Jason Chamakese on 22nd October. They are First Nation People from Saskatchewan in Canada. They shared some of their traditional stories , sang some wonderful Cree songs and played their instruments. They taught us lots about how they live on their Reserve in Canada. They are touring the country sharing their heritage and culture.
Islay’s Success at the Royal National Mod
On Sunday 13th October the Islay school’s choirs and solo competitors travelled to the National Mod in Paisley with high hopes for another successful year at the Mod. Monday 14th was the day for the children’s competition for Gaelic learners, and Islay was extremely well represented in all the medals, with Port Ellen Primary children achieving lots of success. The Gaelic Choir won all their competitions; the Badenoch & Strathspey Area Trophy for the Rural Primary Choral Unison, the Olive Campbell Trophy for the Choral Puirt-a-beul and the Caledonian MacBrayne Trophy for the 2 part harmony. Continue reading Islay’s Success at the Royal National Mod
Dunoon Primary School Choir 2013/14
Dunoon Primary School Choir’s first performance was on Wednesday 2nd October 2013. They sang a variety of Autumnal Songs which was appreciated by all. They are looking forward to future performances.
ROSNEATH’S ELECTION FEVER!
P6/7 at Rosneath held their Team Captain Election on MONDAY 7TH OCTOBER. The children had worked very hard on their individual campaigns and Jackie Baillie, MSP kindly came to school to watch the Election process from START to FINISH. Jackie commented very positively throughout the morning. The whole school was involved in the process. Some Candidates made a grand entrance to music, one had a trumpet fanfare, one had a drum roll! Then the ALL IMPORTANT campaign speeches.
Senior art & design pupils are CAST ACES!
ACES is a major widening participation project at The Glasgow School of Art, funded by the Scottish Funding Council. It encourages S4 – S6 pupils from 90 target schools in the West of Scotland to make informed choices about degree level study in Art & Design and Architecture. Pupils from Campbeltown, Tarbert, Oban and Helensburgh attended two ACES sessions held in Argyll & Bute last week. The ACES team (Dawn and Leanne) delivered an informative day Continue reading Senior art & design pupils are CAST ACES!
Global Citizenship and IDL at St. Joseph’s, Helensburgh
Assembly at St. Joseph’s Primary School in Helensburgh this morning was a well attended affair. The children of P2a demonstrated beautifully their learning from their Interdisciplinary Learning Study ‘Handa’s Surprise’ to the whole school (including Pre-5) and to a vast array of proud parents. A plethora of educational experience was in evidence from the creativity of Curriculum for Excellence to the evidenced planned partnership with the local links to the Nora Docherty school in Malawi.
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Sunshine Nurture Group High Tea
The Sunshine Room Nurture Group at Parklands School, Helensburgh, have been learning all about Katie Morag and her adventures on the Isle of Struay. They have been taking part in lots of activities including creating drama freeze frames of parts of the story, baking yummy shortbread, inventing musical sounds of the sea with a variety of musical instruments and learning a traditional Scottish dance. To celebrate the pupils’ achievements, Grannies and Granddads were invited to The Sunshine Room for a special Scottish High Tea, everyone said they enjoyed their lovely morning at Parklands.
“I learned that art is really meaningful and emotional”
This term P7 at Kirn have been finding out about local artists and were fortunate to be invited by Louise Brennan-Stewart to have an afternoon looking around her gallery in Gourock. The Seagull Gallery is the largest private gallery in Inverclyde and houses original art and prints from both local and well known artists. Mrs Brennan-Stewart took P7 around the gallery pointing out some local and internationally known artists, such as Peter Howson. Continue reading “I learned that art is really meaningful and emotional”
FASTEST SAX IN THE WEST!
Nave Epps who is a Primary 5 Pupil at Keills Primary, is the newest member of the Islay & Jura Primary Schools Wind Band, I’m sure that readers may wondering why this should be news worthy. Well, the reason is that it normally takes children 3 months or so before they reach the required standard which is to be able to play page 10 in their instrumental book which they study at school but Nave did it in only 3 weeks; which is a record on Islay! Nave is pictured with instrumental music teacher Mr Scott McDermott receiving her invitation to join the Primary Band.
Bowmore Primary School at the Lochgilphead Mod.
Members of Bowmore Primary School Gaelic Choir following their success at the Lochgilphead Mod where they were 1st in the Unison Competition, Joint 1st with Port Charlotte Primary in the Puirt a Beul and Joint Winners of the cup for Highest Aggregate Mark for Music with Coisir Og Ghaidhlig Ile.
GET YOUR DANCING SHOES ON………..AT ROSNEATH PRIMARY SCHOOL
There was “a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on!” at Rosneath Primary School on WEDNESDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER. P6/7 took all classes for a 30 minute Dance/Exercise session using all sorts of music from the past and the present. They had prepared routines, games, experimented with choreography and devised all important warm-ups and cool downs. Teamwork, cooperation were vital and they had the extra job of making sure everyone in the whole school was included and, most importantly, HAVING FUN. The whole school dressed in bright colours to emphasise this.
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P6/7 AT ROSNEATH PRIMARY – VISIT TO YOUR RADIO STUDIOS
On Friday of last week some very excited children from our school arrived at the Your Radio Studios in Dumbarton. The visit was part of our Interdisciplinary topic on Entertainment.
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DGS PUPILS STAR FOR SCOTLAND
DGS STARS SHINE FOR SCOTLAND
Pupils enthral International Audience
Pupils from Dunoon Grammar School again played a key role at a significant International Reception hosted by Education Scotland at the City Chambers, Glasgow last week. The Dunoon Grammar School Pipe Band and Highland Dancers entertained a distinguished audience consisting of educationalists from across the globe, including Scotland’s own Minisiter for Learning and Skills, Alasdair Allan MSP.
DGS Pupils Capture the Biggest Highland Games in the world?
DGS PUPILS CAPTURE COWAL HIGHLAND GATHERING
School TV crew film at games for future broadcast
A team from Dunoon Grammar School’s DGSTV initiative are working hard in school during lunchtimes to edit and produce a range of videos from footage recorded at last month’s marvellous Cowal Highland Gathering.
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Hermitage Primary Raises the Roof with Pop UK.
The five day POP UK project was taught from Monday to Thursday with Primary 3-7pupils learning seven exciting pop songs all with positive messages about self and others. On Thursday the sound engineers arrived with their professional mobile studio and the children were recorded and a unique CD was made.The culmination of all this hard work and fun saw the children perform at a high profile concert in St Andrews Kirk on 12th September. Continue reading Hermitage Primary Raises the Roof with Pop UK.
Tobermory Primary School
Primary 2/3 at the Mull Mod
Primary 2/3 had great fun performing at the Mod. They sang ‘The Farmer’s in His Den,’ and were lucky enough to gain 2nd place!
The judges’ comments were great, and very positive- ‘faultless Gaelic;’ ‘excellent musical performance;’ ‘each word clear;’ ‘lovely confident singing;’ ‘beautifully in tune.’ Continue reading Tobermory Primary School
Port Charlotte at Mod Dhalriada
Mòd Dhailriada 2013
On the 21st of September we went to the Lochgilphead Mòd for a day trip. The choir went to sing in the unison competition and the puirt a beul. We came third in the unison competition and in the puirt a beul we came joint first along with Bowmore Primary School.
Dunoon Primary Pre-5 get new uniforms!
Dunoon Primary pre-5 children are delighted with their new uniforms! Parents and children chose the colour and Emma Murray, who is now in Primary one, designed the “Rainbow Mountain” logo, which was used to decorate the nursery corridor. Well done Emma!
