Parents came to Easdale School to find out about what pupils have been learning. We invited the adults to join us for breakfast. There were lots of healthy breakfast foods to choose from. Mrs MacKechnie and Mrs MacLarty helped us by setting up the kitchen and hall. Thank you to Tesco for the food donations for this.
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Strachur P1-4 ‘Trees’ Topic
Wow! Primary 1-4 have been learning everything there is to know about TREES! We went a big walk into the forest to collect conkers recently. We also made collages in the playground with various other interesting things we found, for example pine cones and strange shaped twigs!
We made crowns decorated with different shaped leave and petals from wild flowers. Our teacher, Mrs Leyland, told us what trees the leaves had come from.
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Clachan Primary Macmillan Coffee Afternoon and Non Uniform Day
It was great to welcome so many friends and families to Clachan Primary today for our Macmillan Coffee Afternoon and Non Uniform Day.
The children have been busy baking and creating a tricky quiz for our guests. A fantastic total of £100 was raised.
Well done Clachan!
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The Great Strachur Bake Off
Last week pupils took part in a homework project with a difference! They were asked to bake something at home with their parent or carer and bring it into school to be judged by our very own Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood (Mrs Speirs and Mr Moore!)
Pippa was our overall star baker, baking a chocolate cake complete with little pigs on top! Tiffany, Cameron, Lachlan, Kirsty and Jake all won ‘top baker’ their categories.
‘Dare to be Different’
At the end of August, 19 Park Primary School girls from Primary 6 and 7 attended Dare to be Different at Knockhill Racing Circuit. It was an event organised by Susie Wolf (an ex pupil of Park Primary) to encourage girls into motor racing and to promote the message that gender doesn’t limit your choices. We made a hover craft, experienced go-karting, learned how to do a pit stop, participated in a fitness routine and took part in an interview with Sky Sports and some of us even got on the STV news. It was an amazing day that we will never forget.
Tighnabruaich Primary School celebrate Roald Dahl Day
Tighnabruaich Primary School celebrated Roald Dahl Day in style on Tuesday 13th September. We have been learning about Roald Dahl and sharing some of his stories since the beginning of term and were able to take part in lots of fun activities with our parents on Tuesday afternoon. Almost everyone came to school either dressed up as a Roald Dahl character or wearing something yellow (Roald Dahl’s favourite colour). We even had a visit from Mr Twit in the afternoon! We hope you enjoy looking at some photographs that show what fun we had together.
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Castlehill Primary School – Macmillan Cancer Support Fundraiser
Primary 2/3 and 3/4 held a Macmillan Cancer Support Fundraiser on Friday 23rd September.
P2/3 set their classroom up as a Baker’s Shop and sold delicious home baking while P3/4’s classroom was the cafe where the whole school were served juice and biscuits.
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Salen PS Eco-committee Brave the Weather
Despite the wind and rain on Tuesday the Eco-committee managed to start a very important task. Many of the shrubs need pruned so the pupils took the opportunity to take soft wood cuttings and pot them up. If they root successfully the shrubs will eventually be planted out in the school grounds and at the school’s planned pond area. The photos show our blueberry and raspberry cuttings.
Dalintober P4 visits Beinn Ghuilean
As part of their forest topic, Dalintober Primary 4 visited Beinn Ghuillean. They spoke to Wildlife Ranger Kevin McKillop and beat Ranger Barry Bruce. Both men told the children about their jobs in the forest.
‘Tiree Primary Visits Coll’
Primary 4-7 pupils experienced a very rare and exciting outing to Coll on Wednesday. The Clansman was buzzing with eagerness from members of our whole Tiree community. Once on Coll we found ourselves in an unfamiliar landscape of rugged hills and twisting, turning roads. Mrs MacKechnie impressed us all by manoeuvring the new mini bus past the few not so passable ‘passing places’!
North Bute Roald Dahl Day
Roald Dahl Day.
100 years of Roald Dahl.
All of the staff and pupils at North Bute Primary had a scrumdiddilyumptious day enjoying the worlds that Roald Dahl has created. We played games, built reading dens, created dream jars, enjoyed story telling and read and listened to Roald Dahl books. What a Phizz-whizzing, wondercrump of a day!
Medieval Historians and Firemen at Furnace Primary School
Medieval Historians and Firemen – what do they have in common? Furnace Primary children have had active learning sessions from both in the last week. Why? We have been learning about different types of careers as part of our “World of Work” topic and were visited by Dr Steve Marritt from the University of Glasgow Medieval History department (complete with armour) and we visited Lochgilphead Fire Station where we had a tour from David Gilmour the Community Safety Officer.
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Harvest Time At St Andrew’s
Primary 3/4/5 at St Andrew’s Rothesay, have had a very busy start to Autumn. Last week, they worked on the school allotment and were amazed at the range of vegetables that had grown over the summer months: carrots, potatoes, beetroot, parsnips and the most enormous cabbages they had ever seen!
Dalintober Primary 7 Lunchtime Buddies
Primary 7s have quickly started to learn about their new roles of responsibility by assisting the new Primary 1 pupils at lunchtimes. Each P1 pupil has a P7 buddy who helps them throughout the lunch break. The Primary 7s have all enthusiastically risen to the challenge and are demonstrating a range of leaderships skills such as good communication, empathy and organisation. Later in the session the P7s will run sports and art lunchtime clubs for other pupils in the school. The Lunchtime Buddy scheme is giving them the skills they will need for these more challenging roles.
Dunoon Primary End Of Term Prizegiving!
Dunoon Primary held their prizegiving ceremony today at St John’s Church. The church was full of proud parents as the trophies were distributed to the pupils. The choir sang two songs to a delighted audience. Mrs Stewart gave her address speech to the crowd and spoke of the school year and all our fantastic achievements. The PTA gave out calculators and framed pictures of the P7 leavers dance and Mr Taylor of the Rotary Club gave out dictionaries to all the P7 pupils.
Dalintober Primary and ELC Race for Life
A fantastic sum of £1276.88 was raised for Cancer Research UK as a result of the Race for Life held last week. Children, staff, parents and grandparents all joined in for a memorable afternoon on Kinloch Green. We were very grateful to the Campbeltown branch of Tesco for donating all the bottles of water for the event. The Primary 7s helped by encouraging and running with younger classes.
Campbell McCrae and Glynn Harvey (P7)
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Tarbert Academy reaches Rio!
Inspired by the Team GB ‘Get Set for Rio’ challenge, Primary 7/6 started regular running in September to try to cover the distance of 9450 km from Tarbert to Rio de Janeiro before the Olympic Games start there this summer.
SAMBA at Strone
P5-7 pupils have been working hard over the last few weeks with tutor Roddy to perfect their SAMBA Drumming performance for the rest of the school, complete with colourful masks the pupils made themselves.
CARDROSS DEN DAY
Pupils at Cardross Primary had great fun on our recent Green Day whilst learning important survival skills, starting with an assembly for Save The Children Den Day. Mrs Adirangga shared with us her experience of an Earthquake and Tsunami when living in an area known as the Ring of Fire and how she helped a community build emergency shelters.
Kirn Primary Visit the Glasgow Gurdwara
Kirn’s Primary 7/6 class were so lucky to be able to visit the Glasgow Gurdwara which is the Glasgow Sikh Temple.
