Upcoming events
Don’t forget to check the school calendar for upcoming events, in addition to those detailed below:
https://www.tayvallich.argyll-bute.sch.uk/events/
Our Children Their Future
You will know that the local authority recently refreshed our Vision for Education and our aims for what we want our education setting to do and be for all of our children.
We will be sharing more information about the new document over the coming months and you can access it here: http://www.glassary.argyll-bute.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AB_OurChildrenTheirFuture.pdf
See if you can spot a former pupil!
International Day of Happiness/Children’s Rights Assembly
As part of our work to understand and support Children’s Rights, we attended an online assembly on Wednesday to celebrate International Day of Happiness. This was hosted by the Children’s Commissioner Nicola Killean and joined by many other primary schools across Scotland. In the session, the children:
- learned more about rights, with a focus on good mental health
- enjoyed a laughter yoga session altogether
- share their thoughts and find out from other children what can make us feel good
STEM Learning
P5-7 have been continuing to work hard on their understanding of STEM. Over the past few weeks we have been learning how to make a water wheel, a hydro scheme, batteries (from pennies, cardboard and vinegar) as well creating the beginnings of our sustainable school for the STEMOVATORS competition. We have been using our understanding of Nets and 3D shape learned from Mrs Mes to create the outline of our school. We even looked at sustainable furniture, priced up the potential cost to renew our classroom and decided where it would go. Check out the pictures here: STEM LEARNING – Tayvallich Primary School and ELC
Fabulous Family Fridays
We were incredibly lucky to have not one but two family members come in this week to talk about their work, following on from Lorna MacArthur’s brilliant information session last week about being a teacher. Lorna showed us the items that are essential for a teacher to have in their schoolbag – from glue-sticks to a coffee-cups and from lanyards to laptops. She also explained that the number one quality that a teacher needs is patience, so that they can give every child in the class the time they need to learn and ask questions.
Today, we had a visit from Kieran McCulloch, fresh from calving and with an amazing video of today’s new-born calf which had been up on its feet within just 15 minutes of being born. Kieran inspired us by telling us about his love of farming, which saw him travel all across the world to develop his skills and took him as far as New Zealand before he settled in Argyll. He also helped the staff to understand who his friend Cammy from The Sheep Game is (the children already knew!!) and ended up reminding us all about how important it is that we understand where our food comes from and why farmers are so important.
And in assembly today, we were joined by Jason Rodwell who talked about the magic he works in the world of web design, video and motion graphics, Robotic Process Automation and AI. Jason explained that, since the COVID-19 pandemic hit 5 years ago, most of his work has been online, with his team now spread all across the UK but also that online working has opened up amazing possibilities. Jason is going to come back and work with the children on some design work involving robots and AI, which we are extremely excited about.
Thanks so much to our parent volunteers for coming in and sharing so generously with us.
Check out some pictures here: Fabulous Family Fridays – Tayvallich Primary School and ELC
Comic Relief
You will be very glad to know that, thanks to your generous support, the children DID NOT have to endure Mrs Carter’s terrible jokes in assembly as we amazingly reached our £100 target by 2.30!
Comic Relief – showing how we care – Tayvallich Primary School and ELC
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
The link for donations, however big or small, is here:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/tayvallich-primary-school-6?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL
Have a lovely weekend.
Lena
