Skipness Pupils recently welcomed Campbeltown Courier’s reporter, Steven Flanagan, to help them prepare the latest edition of their newspaper. The Skipness News has been running since 1991 and has a large number of local and foreign readers. The pupils were given ‘top tips’ on how to improve their journalism skills. They were very grateful for Steven’s help and contributions.
Category Archives: Literacy
Parent Workshop Evening at Dalintober PS
A large number of parents of pupils at Dalintober Primary School attended Parent Workshops on two areas of the curriculum on Thursday 7th March. The workshops focussed on ‘Big Writing’ and ‘Active Maths’ and parents participated in activities and used resources that the pupils use in school. Miss Caroline Armour, Head Teacher, said, “We are delighted so many parents came along to participate in our Information Workshops.
Ardchattan and Achaleven – working together
Ardchattan and Achaleven had a magical World Book Day
What happens when you get together Gandalf, Goldilocks, Dorothy, a knight, Dora the Explorer, Snow White, Princess Jasmine and an alien rabbit? World Book Day at Ardchattan Primary of course! Continue reading Ardchattan and Achaleven – working together
Book Week at Dalmally Primary School
Dalmally Primary celebrated world book day as part of a week-long series of activities relating to books. Children worked cooperatively to produce story books for younger children which they presented, designed new covers for traditional tales, and spent lots of time hearing different types of stories. We also had a book swap stall running for the week, giving us the chance to read new and different stories.
Continue reading Book Week at Dalmally Primary School
World Book Day at St. Andrew’s Primary school
Pupils of St. Andrew’s Primary school celebrated World Book Day 2013 by dressing up as characters from their favourite books. They also brought in books they have read to swap with their classmates. This week’s homework task was to draw a picture of their favourite characters from a story, which were displayed on the whole-school World Book Day wall. A fun day was had by all!
Celebrating World Book Day at Kilmodan
Children and staff at Kilmodan Primary enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day 2013.
Can you recognise your favourite character from a children’s book?
WORLD BOOK DAY CELEBRATIONS AT SKIPNESS PRIMARY
The pupils of Skipness Primary held a special event for World Book Day. Members of the community and pupils from Clachan Primary were invited to dress up as a character from their favourite book and read an extract aloud. All money raised is going towards Comic Relief.
A huge thank you to everyone who came along ro read – even Mrs Twit sat down to read to us!
World Book Day at St Joseph’s Primary
World Book Day at St. Joseph’s Primary School in Helensburgh on Thursday 7 March was a wonderful success. The children came dressed as a character from their favourite book which prompted lots of discussion in all classes about books and literacy. New literary interests were sparked as children were given various opportunities to share their knowledge on their favourite books and other children were able to question them on their choices.
Speech Contest
On the evening of Friday 7th of December four pupils from Dunoon Primary took part in the final of the Speaker’s Club Competition in St John’s Church Hall, Dunoon. There were ten finalists in total representing local schools including Dunoon Primary, Kirn Primary, St Mun’s Primary and Strone Primary. Blair McColm of P7 in Dunoon Primary was first to deliver his speech on “The Truth about Rottweilers”. Katie Cameron P6 of Dunoon Primary was next with her speech on “Dunoon Primary School Choir”. Reece McIntyre P6 of Dunoon Primary was the 5th speaker of the evening with his speech on “Tigger”. Continue reading Speech Contest
Trains and boats and ….. libraries!
The Primary 1 class at Lochnell had a fantastic day out to celebrate the end of their topic on Travelling.
On Thursday 6th December we all boarded a bus at school – we’d used the bus for last week’s visit to the bookshop but this time we had a coach so we were up much higher than before. The coach took us to the train station at Connel and then we got on the train to travel to Oban. We loved being on the train because it sounded really cool and we could see the countryside rushing past us. Continue reading Trains and boats and ….. libraries!
Dalmally catches the Book Bug!
The Early Years Class celebrated book week by reading the three books gifted to children in P1 as part of the book bug scheme. After reading ‘Jack and the Flumflum tree,’ they discussed what they would put in the patchwork sack. Some great ideas included stilts to get the fruit down from the tree, a rubber ring to rescue Stu and a big plaster to plug the hole in the boat. The children then made their own patchwork sack using collage materials. Continue reading Dalmally catches the Book Bug!
Book Week Scotland on Bute
Rothesay Primary celebrated Book Week Scotland in lots of different ways. P6 pupils read the nominated books for the Scottish Book Awards to Pre-5, while P1, 2 and 3 also voted on their favourite which was ‘The Day Louis Got Eaten’ in every class! We had a ceilidh on St Andrews Day with each class ‘doing a turn’. Primary 3 sang ‘Ye canny shove yer granny aff a bus!’ which made us all laugh, Primary 2 sang a rousing rendition of ‘O Flower of Scotland’, Primary 1-2 danced the St Bernard’s Waltz beautifully and P1 led the ceilidh dancing. Continue reading Book Week Scotland on Bute
Garelochhead P5/4 to the Rescue!!
Pupils in P5/4 welcomed Bill Jennison of SARD to their class. He is a training officer with the Search and Rescue Dog Association. His talk was so interesting, he was almost overwhelmed with ‘searching’ questions from the class. Olivia played the part of the casualty and Jamie proudly wore the coat of the search and rescue dog. Pupils now have a really good understanding of the intensive training and testing a dog must undertake to play such a vital role in helping those in danger on the mountains. Continue reading Garelochhead P5/4 to the Rescue!!
Book Week Scotland at Dunoon Primary
To celebrate the first ever Book Week Scotland, Dunoon Primary School have been busy reading and writing. To launch Book Week Mrs Clark and Mrs Fisher held a whole school assembly where they read aloud their own piece of writing entitled ‘My Favourite Place’. This inspired the whole school to get writing about our own favourite places.
Our infants made Reading Medals and have brought a selection of their favourite books to school. Continue reading Book Week Scotland at Dunoon Primary
Reading Playdate!!
As part of Book Week celebrations the Early Level children at Lochnell Primary and Nursery invited parents into school for a reading playdate.
Grown ups could bring in their favourite book to read or choose to listen to another person read and we had some brilliant stories read to us.
Matthew’s Dad read Lost and Found, Adam’s Mum read Mr Magnolia and Olivia’s Mum read Stick Man. Rachael’s Dad read The Giant Jam Sandwich,Lewis’ Mum read The Selfish Crocodile and Megan and Alexander’s grannys read A Squash and a Squeeze and Alfie Gets in First. What a treat it was. Continue reading Reading Playdate!!
Reading Routes at Lochnell
Primary 1 children from Lochnell went to visit Waterstones Book Shop in Oban as part of their Reading Routes programme.
We are trying to find out as much as we can about books and reading. We decided a bookshop would be a good start and since we are also investigating different ways of travelling we went on a bus from Benderloch to Oban and back again.
During our bookshop visit we discovered that there are 25 thousand books in the shop
(they counted them last week) and that they have a special computer programme to order books they don’t have if someone can’t find the book they are looking for. Continue reading Reading Routes at Lochnell
Fairytale Fun
Ardchattan came to visit Achaleven on Tuesday to share their fairy stories they had written. Our Primary 1 loved using their listening skills to hear these great stories from their P6 buddies and they all enjoyed working together to create some lovely drawings based on what they had heard. Continue reading Fairytale Fun
‘Argyll Collection’ primary writing competition winning stories
CAST has pleasure in sharing the wonderful stories which came first, second and third in the recent TAC writing competition for primaries. Please see below for winners and stories. Continue reading ‘Argyll Collection’ primary writing competition winning stories
Flat Stanley
The Flat Stanley story has been read and used as a stimulus for Big Writing activities for the Infant pupils at Ashfield Primary School this term. There was great excitement as the P2,3,4 pupils took their Flat Stanleys to the Lochgilphead Sorting Office on Tuesday 23rd October. The pupils were keen to find out how their Flat Stanley letters had travelled from the post-box in Achnamara village to their homes. Each Flat Stanley had many adventures at the homes of the children and they kept a diary of the various activities. Continue reading Flat Stanley
ARGYLL COLLECTION WRITING COMP Winners!
CAST is glad to announce the winners of this year’s Argyll Collection Primary Writing Competition. There has been a large number of entries of a very high standard and the judges had a difficult time in selecting winning entries. We will be posting the winning stories on SAL shortly. Thanks to all who embraced the competition and entered your wonderful stories.
The winners for 2012 are:
first: Sylvie Lawson, Ardrishaig Primary
second: Elinor Baker, Port Ellen Primary
third: Jamie Thompson, Rhu Primary
