Monthly Archives: May 2012

Coming up! Kodamba CPD: Creative Active Music Making

CPD, Expressive arts, Primary schools,

Kodamba is a music programme created for Argyll and Bute schools offering free CPD sessions.
LEVEL 1 CPD (P2-5)
15 May Lochgilphead Primary School
17 May Kirn primary school, Dunoon
22 May Park primary, Oban
24 May Dalintober primary, Campbeltown
30 May Rhu primary, Helensburgh
All sessions run from 4-5.45pm Continue reading Coming up! Kodamba CPD: Creative Active Music Making →

NEW! National Creativity NewsCAST.

Early Years, Expressive arts, Learning Tech, Literacy, Primary schools, Science, Secondary schools

Please have a look through these latest news items for interesting opportunities/announcements.

National Poetry Day 2012 theme is… STARS
Visit the Scottish Poetry Library website for information about National Poetry Day on Thursday 4 October 2012.
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learn/librarians/professional-news-resources Continue reading NEW! National Creativity NewsCAST. →

ROSNEATH RAMBLERS

Active Schools, Eco Schools, Forest Schools, Health and Wellbeing, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools

Hello, we are Primary 7  at Rosneath Primary School and we love learning in the great outdoors.  We call ourselves Rosneath Ramblers and every Wednesday we go out walking/hiking in different locations.
We would like to share our experiences with you.  We have already hiked from Rosneath to Kilcreggan and back.  We have been to the local woods – Clachan Glen and yesterday we hiked to The Trig Point in Kilcreggan.  When we are out and about we do various activities, enjoying in particular building shelters. Continue reading ROSNEATH RAMBLERS →

KILCREGGAN PRIMARY SCHOOL BEACH CLEAN CLUB

Eco Schools, Events, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools

Every Thursday after school volunteer pupils meet together and walk down to our local shore line.  Mr Campbell, our P5/4 class teacher and Miss Stevenson, our P1 class teacher take the pupils to the shore and spend about 45 minutes cleaning the beach.  So far we have been lucky with the weather and have collected quite a lot of flotsam and jetsam, some of which we have been able to send for recycling and the remainder has been disposed of.

Southend Mini Olympics Training

Active Schools, Health and Wellbeing, Primary schools

Active Schools Co-ordinator, Robbie Kupris has started a 4 week after school block with parents to help the P4-7 children with their techniques in a variety of sports which they haven’t tried before. Today in glorious weather they had a go at javelin throwing. With a few pointers from Mr Kupris, the overall improvement was impressive. The children will use their new found skills at a Mini Olympics event in June.

Port Ellen Animation…update

Expressive arts, Learning Tech, Primary schools

Primary 3&4 have been very busy this term learning all about polar lands for their topic.  They found out about the different creatures that live there, what the climate is like and how the weather affects the animals and people who live there.

As their end of topic assessment the children decided to make a stop motion animation of a child called Joe’s trip to the poles on the back of an eagle.  Please feel free to watch his adventures.  Well done P3&4 on all your hard work! Continue reading Port Ellen Animation…update →

Kilchrenan Cleans Up!

Events, Primary schools

Pupils from Kilchrenan Primary joined forces with an environmental team from The Blackwell Group, to give a Spring Clean to the village.

The building of a major windfarm on hills near the school has meant an increase of heavy traffic on the local single track roads. So when the headteacher, Mr Graham Dickie, approached the engineering company, Blackwells, to warn them about the children’s litter-pick, they offered to lend a hand. Continue reading Kilchrenan Cleans Up! →

Numeracy & maps with Rothesay P2

Interdisciplinary, Primary schools,

We were pleased to receive Task 2 – ‘where is my head?’ from Easter Island.
We had lots of ideas of what we could do to fulfil the task. We decided that we would like to create a 3D map of Easter Island.
We had great fun creating the island using paper and glue to make volcanoes, mountains and rocks. We made sure that there was enough room left so that we could stand some of our clay models on them and we all agree that it looks really effective.
Continue reading Numeracy & maps with Rothesay P2 →

Kintyre Schools Junior Band: National Champions

Expressive arts, Secondary schools

On Saturday 31 March, 25 young musicians from Kintyre represented Scotland in the finals of the National Concert Band Festival, held at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After a 13 hour bus journey on the Friday, and a good night’s sleep, the youngsters and their conductor Katy Welch, took to the stage on Saturday morning and wowed the judges with their controlled ensemble playing and fine soloists.

Continue reading Kintyre Schools Junior Band: National Champions →

Argyll National Galleries Competition Finalist

Literacy, Primary schools

Liam Campbell in Primary 6 Port Ellen Primary reached the final of the National Galleries ‘Inspired? Get Writing’ competition and was awarded a special merit in Category A. He chose an abstract painting by Jackson Pollock and wrote a poem which personified an abstract idea of chaos. He went to Edinburgh to hear his poem read aloud in the National Gallery of Scotland.

Well done Liam!
Continue reading Argyll National Galleries Competition Finalist →

Port Ellen Visit: WILDLIFE CENTRE AND MUSEUM

Events, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools, School trips

P1&2 have been finding out about dinosaurs and investigating different ways we can discover about the past, including books, the internet and museums. On Thursday Primary 1&2 went for a visit to Port Charlotte where we were met by Mr Reavey who took us to both the Islay Wildlife Centre and the Islay Museum so we could learn all about museums. We saw lots of exciting things like bones, pottery and very old stones and Mr Reavey told us lots of interesting facts. Continue reading Port Ellen Visit: WILDLIFE CENTRE AND MUSEUM →

Woodland Walks for Southend Pre-5 Unit

Early Years, Events, Forest Schools, Health and Wellbeing, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools

The first of our planned Woodland Walks took place this morning in a lovely wood near the school covered in bluebells. The 6 children from Southend Pre-5 Unit with their teachers enjoyed collecting things, playing games, singing songs and using their imaginations in the lovely surroundings. More visits are planned throughout the term. See below for photos……….. Continue reading Woodland Walks for Southend Pre-5 Unit →

Catherine McCaig’s Trust: Gaelic Writing Competition

Gaelic, Learning Tech, Literacy, Primary schools, Secondary schools

The Catherine McCaig Trust’s annual writing competition awards for endeavour in Gaelic writing combined with creativity in the use of ICT, Art and Music and aims to encourage our young people to develop their skills in Gaelic, relevant to 21st Century Gaelic education. The competition seeks entries from pupils in Gaelic Medium and Gaelic Learners Education. In its third year, entries continue to increase and improve in quality and the judges, from the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, continue to be impressed with the standard received from Argyll and Bute schools. Continue reading Catherine McCaig’s Trust: Gaelic Writing Competition →

Rothesay P2 starts Easter Island challenges

Expressive arts, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools

Our head is looking good out in the garden.
He has settled into the Pre-5 garden area which has an Island theme, so he is standing tall keeping guard on the coastline!
He is being admired by all the pupils and we are able to keep an eye on him from the classroom.
For our first task we received a letter from Easter Island asking us to create faces showing different emotions. Task 1 letter Continue reading Rothesay P2 starts Easter Island challenges →