On Thursday 5th November Active Schools in partnership with Strachur Primary School ran a football festival for P4 and P5 pupils from the smaller primary schools within Cowal, at Strachur Park. The event was well attended with teams from Strachur, Strone, Tighnabruaich, Lochgoilhead and Kilmodan Primary Schools. The competition was based on a round robin with all the teams playing each other. The pupils were all very excited as for many this would be their first competitive football playing against other schools.
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Category Archives: Health and Wellbeing
The High Points of Strone’s Health Week.
Last Week Strone Primary School held it’s annual Health Week. Amongst the activities on Monday was a “Ready, Steady Soup Challenge” where children had a morning to come up with a recipe, as well as prepare, cook and advertise their soup in time for a full school lunch to which family and friends were invited. A big thank-you to Morrisons and CO-OP in Dunoon, and the Walled Garden at Ardentinny for generous donations of fresh ingredients.
Salen Primary School Sponsored walk
Singing in the rain!
One very rainy day in September, Salen Primary School and Pre-school children cheerfully set off on their sponsored walk led by mascot Labrador, Sonny Bill, who was celebrating his 3rd birthday.
Ground Force Day at John Logie Baird Pre-5
The children have been busy with the help of some parents tidying the nursery garden. They investigated and solved environmental issues that included making a more efficient wormery in the garden, transferring fresh rain water into the ponds and weeding our raised beds.
Dunoon Primary School Nepal Appeal
When last year’s p4 in Dunoon Primary heard of the shocking devastation following the earthquakes in Nepal, they were determined to do something to help the people, who had suffered such losses in the tragedy. They searched online for information about the country and its people and then looked for ways to help. Their initial concern was the lack of clean water, so they organised a raffle and sent £81.15 to UNICEF, who were providing water in the region. However, the help did not stop there.
Resources to support the World Gymnastics Championships 2015 in Glasgow
Please click on the link below to access teaching resources to support the World Gymnastics Championships to be held from the 23rd October in Glasgow.
Resources
Southend Primary School – MacMillan Cancer Support coffee afternoon.
P5-7 at Southend Primary School organised and held a MacMillan Cancer Support coffee afternoon on Friday 25th of September. Seasonal healthy vegetables, grown and harvested by the children, Christmas cards, and delicious home baking were on sale. A fantastic amount of £513 was raised. A huge thank you to all parents, the local community, and to those who were involved in supporting this worthwhile event.
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Dalintober PS Elects Pupil Council 2015-16
This year’s elected Pupil Council members held their first meeting of the new school year on Friday. Pupils discussed ideas for promoting healthy eating and decided this would be the first venture they would like to undertake and promote – watch this space…!
Thank you to our new Pupil Council members for committing themselves to their roles with such enthusiasm.
HEALTHY BODIES AND HEALTHY MINDS AT ROSNEATH!
What a busy and exciting week for learning!
Eileen Kay delivered more “Respect Me” workshops.
SSPCA reminded us to look after other animals as well as our pets.
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Dalmally does Ready, Steady Cook!
In celebration of ‘School’s Food Day’ and as part of our Health and Wellbeing project, pupils at Dalmally Primary took part in a special clan challenge to design and create their very own healthy pizzas. Led by Miss MacKechnie, the whole school, including the nursery, joined in and enjoyed the opportunity to learn lots of new skills in the process. We even had a special guest judge, Sally Macleod from Glenorchy Lodge Hotel, who showed us how to toss a pizza base and helped our school cook Julie to judge our finished pizzas.
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Community Spirit at St. Joseph’s
The staff and parents of St. Joseph’s in Helensburgh were delighted with the community support given to them last week at their ‘Sponsored Zumba’ event. In a bid to raise the remaining funds for the school’s newly built Trim Trail, the parents and staff ran a fund-raising event with a ‘Health’ theme. However, the event was also open to the community and everyone was delighted with the fantastic support from the ladies of ‘Angela’s Zumba Class’.
Dalintober PS Marks ‘School Food Day’
Pupils, staff and Catering Staff decided to mark ‘School Food Day’, celebrating ‘Scotland’s Year of Food’ by holding an ‘Eat What You Grow’ lunch. Fruit and vegetables, grown on the school allotment, was harvested by members of the school’s Eco-Group and brought fresh from the site to the kitchen. The Catering Staff used the produce to make potato soup, potato salad, broad bean frittata and apple crumble – a sumptuous feast that was enjoyed by all!
On the Road to Rio!
Pupils in Primary 7/6 at Tarbert Academy have taken up the Team GB challenge of running the distance to Rio de Janeiro (9450 km from Tarbert) before the Olympic Games there next summer. Running three mornings a week, counting distances run in PE lessons and they are nearly 5% of the way there! After four weeks of running pupils have noticed a definite improvement in their fitness and are enjoying running as a great start to their day.
DGS Learning Centre Sponsored Walk
On Thursday 3rd of September all the learning centre pupils from Dunoon Grammar went on a sponsored walk. Pupils and staff set of from School down Kirn Brae, along the front all the way to Bullwood Nature Trail, near Innellan. Some senior pupils supported the younger pupils, keeping them safe and happy as part of their youth Achievement Award.
Cowal Rugby Festival
The 2015 Rugby Festival for the Cowal primary schools was held on Thursday 3rd September at Dunoon Grammar School in glorious sunshine. The festival was extremely well attended with over 100 pupils taking part. All the schools had received a block of rugby coaching in the previous year through the partnership between Active Schools, the Rugby Development Officer Brendan McGroarty and Cowal Rugby Club. On the day a number of S6 students did an excellent job by helping to referee the games and coach the young players.
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Kirn P6 go wild at Ardentinny
Back to school was even more exciting for Kirn Primary’s P6 pupils this year as they set off for four days of challenges at Ardentinny Outdoor Education Centre.
Children were treated to a programme of gorge walking, which was very challenging and involved walking up waterfalls, canoeing, and lots of team challenges. Strategies had to be invented to move children through a rope course, and teamwork skills were needed to create a crate stack. Continue reading Kirn P6 go wild at Ardentinny
P1 Parents Lunch at St. Joseph’s
St. Joseph’s got off to a flying start last week with the first event of the session, the P1 Parents’ Lunch. Parents had been informed of the date during Induction Day in May last session in order to secure as many parents as possible could manage along to join their child for lunch…..and it paid off! What a turn out of parents!
Health Week @ John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird Primary School children and staff took part in a variety of fun activities, to celebrate Health Week. The children’s activities included a presentation from SSPCA, Tae Kwon Do, Fruit demonstration and tasting by Waitrose, Big Pedal Cycling and Scooter event, the school sports day and nursery sports day, cardio tennis, rugby, mini kickers. Julie Smith of Funky Fitness put both children and staff through their paces with an energetic and fun filled day of fitness on the Friday to end the week in style.
Come and Try Sports Event for P2
Lochgilphead High School 4 PDA organised and held a sports event for Lochgilphead Primary P2 classes. All pupils had a great afternoon. Cameron McCallum started the event off with a warm up for 38 pupils and then the pupils were split into small groups to take part in the different sports on offer.
Send My Friend To School.
On Wednesday 17th of June, Tam Baillie – the Scottish Commissioner for Children and Young People – came to visit Strachur Primary School. Primary 4/5 asked him to come to our school because they have been doing a very interesting topic on the ‘Rights of The Child’ and learning about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child (UNCRC).
