StoryTelling Tree at St Conan’s Kirk
Accessing support from Argyll Young Carers
New High Viz Jackets
Celebrating our success at the mod with a meal together
ELC make the Guy for the community Bonfire
Hallowe’en fun
Our gaelic choir were second in the mod
Our choir sang to the large audience at the Corran Halls and came away with a very impressive second place with a score of 90 for Gaelic and 90 for music.
A huge well done to all children and to ‘Old MacDonald’ our conductor.
We have been awarded the Gold award. We are a Reading School
We have been awarded the Gold level and are the first school in Argyll and Bute to gain all 3 levels of the Reading Schools Award.
Well done to everyone who helped us to complete all the work that was needed to show that reading is an important aspect of our school. A special mention needs to go to Mrs MacPherson who led this work.
Bookends prize Taynuilt Highland Games 2024
The Bookends prize will be awarded for the first time at the 2024 Games.
This commemorative medal was designed by the P7 pupils of the school and will be awarded to past pupils of Taynuilt Primary for significant contributions to the village or The Games.
The ‘Bookends’ are two teachers – one in the here and now, and one who came to Taynuilt more than 100 years ago.
Berni McMillan, Head Teacher of Taynuilt School is ‘now’, and Angus Murray, also Head Teacher of Taynuilt School, is ‘then’ – from 1921 to 1939.
They are joining together (through Angus’s granddaughter who is jointly sponsoring the prize with Berni) to support the music and sporting traditions shared by the school and the village.
Mr Murray was born on the Island of Lewis and was one of the very first from the remoter parts of the island to go to University and to become a teacher. He was a native Gaelic speaker, committed to the language and to the countryside, its names and traditions, as well a teacher who relished and sustained as wide a curriculum as possible in his school. He fished the Awe (recording the names, in English and Gaelic, of all its fishing pools), chaired the Hall Committee, walked the hills and was Gaelic tutor to the Taynuilt Gaelic Choir as well as an indefatigable organiser of the annual school sports.
To find out much more about him, and about the school a hundred years ago, go to:
