Glasgow Science Centre Visit – Wednesday 4th December.
The Glasgow Science Centre On Tour Team came and visited us on Wednesday and Andy and Murray delivered a range of fantastic workshops about the amazing workings of the human body.
Fabulous Family Friday/Visit to the Tayvallich Estate – 6th December 2024
We had a fantastic start to our Fabulous Family Fridays with a visit to see Rowan and Ewan in action at work on the Tayvallich Estate. We also got to meet Calum, the Chief Scientist for the estate, who helped us learn about some of the plant and animal life.
Our World From Space Workshop.
The Children in the P4 to 7 class had an excellent experience when they also travelled to the Oban Rockfield Centre on 20th November to take part in workshops with staff from SAMS (The Scottish Association for Marine Science). They explored how we can learn more about the ocean through
Woodland Detectives with Kilmartin Museum and NatureScot
As you will be aware, over the last month the pupils in P1 to 5 have been working with staff from Kilmartin Museum and NatureScot on the Woodland Detective Project which has enabled them to build on their prior learning about the Celtic Rainforest at Taynish through practical activities that
Children in Need 2024
We had another fantastic day of fundraising for Children in Need this year, with spots and pyjamas, Pudsey-related challenges, poster-making, a duck derby and some really important learning and reflection about what Children in Need Day is all about. Colin the Caterpillar also made an appearance and we were delighted
FOREST Exhibition
Mrs Carter, Miss Fraser and Miss Logan were very privileged to go to a preview of the exhibition of FOREST this Tuesday, where the oak tree portraits produced by our pupils earlier this term are now on display. Lizzie Rose has done the most fantastic job- of creating a powerful
Remembrance
Monday of this week made us very proud of the children as they respectfully marked Remembrance Day and reflected on the themes of service, sacrifice, selflessness and peace.
Halloween Party
Many thanks indeed to our fantastic Parent Council who helped organise the fantastic Village Halloween party on Sunday. The costumes were amazing and the games were brilliant. We also loved seeing all the creative, environmentally-friendly decorations that the children had made ahead of the party. Thanks to Mr Carter for
FOREST Workshop
The highlight of this week was definitely our FOREST workshop with Lizzie Rose and Susannah Rose. The children had the most fantastic experience and we are hugely grateful to Lizzie and Susannah for letting us be part of this important work. More information from Lizzie’s website is here: FOREST workshops
Smoke Free Nation
The Primary 7 pupils from Glassary and Tayvallich did you and us proud when they represented us at the Join Campus for the Smoke Free Nation performance this week. They were respectful, engaged and as well as learning a lot about why it is their right to live smoke free
Tayvallich P 1 to 4 deliver the mail
Over the last couple of weeks and inspired by their literacy work with Miss Logan around Mairi Hedderwick’ s book “Katie Morag delivers the Mail”, the P1 to 4 pupils have done some amazing learning. Amongst many other things, they have developed their literacy (reading and writing letters), numeracy and
Matias Ceballos Music Workshop
On Monday 2nd September, we were lucky enough to be visited by multi-talented Chilean musician Matias Ceballos who ran a workshop for us and got everyone moving, singing, playing and learning about a fascinating range of instruments and musical styles. Many thanks to Matias and the Nef-Lowrie family for making