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.
Dunoon Grammar School – Advanced Higher German Work Experience Trip
Early on Saturday 12th September, Ruby Brown, Caitlyn Meaney, Chloe Macdonald and Calum MacKinnon set off for Schwarzenbach an der Saale in Germany with their teacher Mrs Clark to undertake work experience. Ruby and Caitlyn worked for Sandler AG, a company which makes textiles, Chloe worked in a Nursery and Calum spent his three days working for an Architect.
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Strone Primary School Food for Thought
As part of our Food for Thought IDL, Strone pupils took to the streets of Dunoon on Friday to ask local businesses about how much of their produce is locally sourced. All businesses involved were very supportive and provided lots of information for the pupils to work on.
Transition Time at Dalintober ELCC
The move to the ‘Big School’ is already underway for the children of Dalintober ELCC.
Dalintober Primary School have been looking at ways to improve their quality of transition and now staff have developed a Transition Calendar with activities such as Story Telling Sessions beginning in September. Other activities will be running most months throughout the year helping the pre-school children to grow in confidence and build relationships with the class teachers.
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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.
DELIGHTED AND VERY PROUD………………ROSNEATH PRIMARY’S FIRST GREEN FLAG
Rosneath Primary School pupils were so happy to “get their hands on” their very first Green Flag after an outstanding assessment report from Paula Love, Lead Assessor. They gathered together on a beautiful, sunny day (of which we don’t have that many!) out in the School grounds to show it off. We hope to have it flying high soon. As Julie Wilson , Education and Learning Manager (Keep Scotland Beautiful) said, “This is an outstanding achievement, congratulations to all.”
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Luss – Grow to Sell
The children at Luss went along to Waitrose on Wednesday this week to sell the produce they have grown through the summer for the ”Grow to Sell” Project in conjunction with Waitrose. This was a feature of their work last year which resulted in a 6th Green Flag and a 4th Total Green 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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Twig and Tigtag free until July 2016
Twig and Tigtag have been procured by Education Scotland for a further 12 months until July 2016. As a result, these award-winning online resources will continue to be available to all local authority schools through Glow for use by educators and learners across Scotland.
Twig is an award-winning online teaching resource providing thousands of tailor-made, short films to help bring lessons to life. Content has been created by teachers and academics to support delivery of Curriculum for Excellence covering sciences, social studies and mathematics for learners aged 11-16. Twig Experiments offers over 300 short films covering 81 key experiments.
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
New Trim Trail for St. Joseph’s!
Monday 07 September was a day of great celebration at St. Joseph’s Primary School in Helensburgh. Thanks to the generosity of ‘Awards for All Scotland’, the school has just installed a brand new trim trail in the senior playground. The total cost of the work to date is slightly in excess of £11,500, £10,000 of which was given by the ‘Awards for All Scotland’ grant.
Dunoon Grammar School Learning Centre Pupils nominated and shortlisted for an AB Award 2015
Dunoon Grammar School Learning centre pupils have been nominated and shortlisted for an AB Award 2015. The AB Awards celebrate youth achievement in Argyll and Bute and are awarded by members of Argyll and Bute Youth Forum and Argyll and Bute Council’s Youth Services. Learning centre pupils have been nominated because of their contribution to the environment, both within school and within the local community. A delegation of pupils and staff will go to Oban on September 24th to join in the celebrations with all the other young people who have been nominated and shortlisted as well.
Bowmore’s Show-stopping Success!
We are so proud of our Bowmore pupils and their achievements. We know they work hard in school and we also know how hard working and dedicated they are outside school! During the holidays, these children attended our popular Islay, Jura and Colonsay Agricultural Show. Our pupils worked hard and were rewarded with prizes galore! Continue reading Bowmore’s Show-stopping Success!
‘Groundforce Day – Port Charlotte Pre 5’…
Parents, children, staff and members of the local community have been hard at work this weekend developing our Pre 5 outdoor area. There was a great turnout and we are looking forward to day 2! The children and parents have planned the different areas they would like to have, these include a ‘Dig pit’, ‘Magical den’, ‘Story stage’ and ‘Mud kitchen’. Here’s to a great start to outdoor learning!
Strone Primary School News
Here at Strone our whole school community is busy planning our new Interdisciplinary Topic for this term around the theme of Food.
With support from Education Scotland’s Food for Thought Funding, we aim to embed in our school community an understanding of food education which permeates all areas of school life, curriculum and home.
Congratulations Luss!
The Pupils at Luss Primary School were very excited to have gained their Sixth Green Flag this year along with their Fourth Total Green Award in recognition of all their outstanding Eco Work. They enjoyed a cake in celebration of their achievements after Sports Day.
£3000 charity windfall on offer thanks to DGS Young Philanthropists
A local Cowal Charity will soon be £3000 better off thanks to the pupils of Dunoon Grammar School.
An innovative school based project, designed to encourage young people to think about prominent social issues and build strong partnerships with local charities was launched in Dunoon Grammar School on Monday, 24 August 2015.
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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!
Opening Mass at St Joseph’s
Monday 24 August, 2015 saw the staff, pupils and parents of St Joseph’s Primary gather together in the school hall for the Opening Mass of the session. As ever, the children were responsible and reflective as we gathered not only as a learning but also a faith community in readiness for the school year ahead. Parents turned out in good numbers again to exemplify the excellent support St. Joseph’s has from the parental and parish community. It was a lovely start to the new term!
The Cottage Kindergarten
The Cottage Kindergarten wins three prizes in prestigious Art Competition!!
All of the pupils at The Cottage Kindergarten in Helensburgh entered a piece of artwork in the nursery category of the Tesco Bank/National Gallery of Scotland Art Competition during the summer term. The title of the entries for this age group was ‘Shoes.’
