Dunoon Grammar School – “Hair-up” Hairdressing Competition

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Dunoon Grammar School Hairdressing Skills for Work pupils have recently participated in a “hair-up” competition where every student from 3rd to 6th year took part in creating their very own design of their interpretation of this season’s trends and styles. The students have chosen hairdressing as a school option over a one year or two year course and thought the competition would be a fun way to show off their new skills of plaits, back-combing, curling and much more of what they have been learning from working with their tutor, Honor McCutcheon.

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Dunoon Primary At Clyde Cottage Nursery

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Dunoon Primary School Choir visited Clyde Cottage Nursery today. The pupils entertained the pre 5 children with a medley of songs from this years Christmas Musical ‘Baboushka’. After a terrific night at St Johns Church to a packed audience yesterday our pupils were very excited to be going there. We had a few angels, Baboushka herself and Tiddles her pet cat with us! The choir began with ‘We’re going shopping’ and progressed onto sing various songs from Baboushka and ending with Jingle Bell Medley.
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St Joseph’s sing for the Community!

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The first public performance of St. Joseph’s Primary School’s new singing ensemble ‘St Joseph’s Dynamic Diamonds’ took place on Friday 13 December at Clyde View care home in Cardross. The recently formed ensemble practises each Tuesday under the excellent guidance and leadership of Mrs Helen Innes, one of our mums. Helen is a qualified Music Teacher and gives of her own time each Tuesday to practise with the children……..and on Friday it all paid off!

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Oban Hoopsters Take the Win!

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Oban High School Senior Boys A Team and Junior Girls took the top title in the Argyll & Bute Basketball Tournament held at Atlantic Leisure Centre on Thursday 12 December. Mrs Sharp, the Junior Girls’ and Boys’ team coach, was delighted with the teams’ win. “They have worked really hard to get to the top of their game and this win represents their high level of dedication and skill at basketball.” She added that she is confident the teams will continue to excel at the sport.

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Kilcreggan Pupil Wins Jackie Baillie Christmas Card Competition

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Primary 7/6 pupils in Jackie Baillie’s constituency were invited to design a Christmas card again this year and we at Kilcreggan Primary are very proud to announce that one of our pupil’s, Rachel Harper (P6), drew the winning design.

Congratulations Rachel!

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Sandbank Primary’s Eco-Committee

Communities and Culture, Eco Schools, Interdisciplinary, Outdoor Learning, Primary schools, Projects, Topics

Sandbank Primary’s Eco-Committee requested a visit to their local waste handling facilities and were kindly given a tour of both facilities by Shanks Waste Disposal Company. They began by looking at the recycling facilities at Bogleha, where they saw the containers for electrical goods, metal, wood, paint, batteries, plastic bottles, soil and many more items. They heard that many items, such as electrical goods, go to Perth where they are broken down and precious metals from circuit boards are taken out.

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Rockfield Primary School Gets Talking!

Communities, Literacy, Primary schools

An exciting new initiative for P1 pupils and their families in Rockfield Primary School, Oban has got everyone talking!
Talk Bags – a series of themed bags full of fun resources – are now going home weekly to be played with by P1 pupils and family members. Talk Bags are designed to encourage children to develop their verbal literacy skills in order to support them as they learn to read and write. The need for children to be able to ‘say it before they read it or write it’ is a fundamental element of language development. Continue reading Rockfield Primary School Gets Talking! →

Dragons’ Den at Rothesay Primary

Enterprise, Events, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools

Primary 7 had an exciting week working on their Dragons’ Den interdisciplinary project. Local business representatives from the community were our ‘Dragons’ on the Friday and grilled each pupil on their idea. Each entrepreneur had two minutes 30 seconds to pitch and take questions. Our Dragons were: Alec Bennett, Lorna Campbell, Billy Miller, David Anderson, Denise McMillan and Stuart Shaw. Rothesay Primary wish to thank each of them for giving up their time for our event. Continue reading Dragons’ Den at Rothesay Primary →

Kilmartin P.S. Christmas Gifts for the Local Community

Communities, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools

It was more like the ‘Great British Bake-Off’ in school the other day when everybody rolled their sleeves up to bake the most delicious cinnamon and raisin shortbread to give as a Christmas gift to senior citizens in our local community. The aroma wafted through the whole school. Altogether the children baked 168 pieces of shortbread before parceling them up in beautiful Christmas gift bags with handmade tags. Today, the shortbread will be delivered to the hotel where senior citizens will be gathering to have a Christmas lunch. Continue reading Kilmartin P.S. Christmas Gifts for the Local Community →

Scottish Children’s Book Awards at Kirn Primary

Early Years, Events, Interdisciplinary, Literacy, Primary schools

As part of Book Week Scotland, all the children took part in reading or listening to the three ‘Bookbug’ shortlisted titles.

The three stories, ‘Jumblebum’ by Chae Strathie, ‘Paper Dolls’ by Julia Donaldson and ‘What’s the Time Mr Wolf?’ by Debi Gliori were read by P4, P5, P6 and P7 children, who visited the classrooms of Pre-5, P1, P2 and P3 to do the readings.

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Chae Strathie Comes to Kirn Primary for Book Week Scotland

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We were so excited when Chae Strathie, the children’s author who is currently shortlisted for the Scottish Children’s Book Award with his book ‘Jumblebum’ visited Kirn Primary School for Book Week Scotland!

Pre-5, P1 and P2 classes all listened as Chae read his new book (one of the three books in the running to win the Scottish Children’s Book Award), joined him in creating a monster and joining in with Chae’s songs.

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“We Are Writers!” at Kirn Primary School

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Book Week Scotland ran from 25th November until 1st of December. At Kirn, we thought what better way to get involved in Book Week than for every child at Kirn Primary to be part of publishing our very own book, full of stories written by our very own pupils?
In conjunction with Scholastic’s ‘We Are Writers’ service, an amazing story by every child from Kirn Primary School has been included in a real paperback book, available for parents to buy.

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Lochdonhead Primary Community Café

Communities, Events, Fundraising, Interdisciplinary, Primary schools, Social Enterprise

On Monday the 9th of December, we held a very festive community café in our school. We invited several guests along to do some Christmas craft demonstrations. We had Mike Swift doing wreath making using natural materials, Tricia Evans making gift boxes and prior to the event, Sue Dewar came in to do Christmas cake decorating with us, and we sold what we made with her at our café.
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Port Ellen Panto

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CHRISTMAS CRAFT EXTRAVAGANZA
Port Ellen Primary hosted their annual Christmas fair on Saturday, a chance to have fun, meet friends, buy home made goods and meet Santa. Despite being in the middle of panto fever the school produced a great showing of goods and prizes for visiting friends and family.

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Star Winners at Dunoon Primary!

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Dunoon Primary pupils did exceedingly well at this year’s final between various local schools at the Annual Speech Contest in St Johns Church Hall.
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Taynuilt Primary School Craft Fayre

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Children, teachers and parents worked very hard to create many beautiful and practical crafts, gifts, baking and confectionery which were sold at our Craft Fayre on Thursday. The staff and children organised the afternoon, working together to set up the hall, welcome the parents and sell their items. It was almost a total sell out, raising over £600 for school funds and charity.”

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Keills Primary Celebrates Book Week Scotland

Communities, Early Years, Events, Interdisciplinary, Literacy

The week started with a very engaging Book Bug session presented by Lynda Cooper. Our Pre 5 children and parents thoroughly enjoyed participating in story telling, singing and sharing their favourite books.

On Tuesday Ann Pilley organised and supplied us with a great selection of books kindly loaned for the day by C&E Roys. This gave the children the opportunity to enjoy the experience of browsing and reading a range of genre.

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