upcoming events
Upcoming events include World Book day.
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past events
generation science
On the 30th April generation science came to skipness school. when clachan primary school came to do generation science as well. there were two workshops. the workshops were called fuel hunters the 2nd workshop was lego mindstorms.
In the fuel hunters workshop we learnt that there are different types of rock that make up a oil reservoir. These are cap, source and reservoir. We also found out that some oil is yellow and that water is more dense than oil. We thought it was interesting that oil would die out in 50-80 years. For the Lego Mindstorms we learnt all about programming robots. First of all we named our robots, examples of the names are BMax, CanineWalle and Harold. We thought that progamming was quite hard to begin with, but after practising we found it easy. Helena thought it was really good what we were taught, especially programming our own robots. "I am now excited to use the lego mindstorms that we have in school and programme our robots." Zac really enjoyed it and though it was outstanding. Joseph thought that it was really interesting. Article written by Joseph, Zac and Helena |
Beach schools
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Christmas Events
There are lots of fun events planned for the children during the last few weeks of term.
15th - December - Church Service - St Brendan's Church - 2:30pm
17th December - Christmas Concert - Clachan Primary School - 7:00pm
18th - December - Christmas Concert - Skipness Primary School - 1:30pm
19th December - Christmas Party - Skipness Primary School
There are lots of fun events planned for the children during the last few weeks of term.
15th - December - Church Service - St Brendan's Church - 2:30pm
17th December - Christmas Concert - Clachan Primary School - 7:00pm
18th - December - Christmas Concert - Skipness Primary School - 1:30pm
19th December - Christmas Party - Skipness Primary School
22nd october - school trip to tesco
The children of Clachan and Skipness Primary Schools have started their latest IDL of food and religion. They began with a WOW day which took them away from school. Tesco had invited them to spend the day in their Campbeltown shop. The children were very excited to discover that there was more to Tesco than they see when they go on their shopping trips with their parents. They were led through the back and up the stairs, where they started the day in the Tesco meeting room. There they introduced themselves and met Laura and Kate who were their “Tesco Teachers” for the day.
Laura and Kate had planned a day of fun and educational activities for the children, which were all very varied. Initially the children explored the fresh produce aisles, discovering that the food came from a variety of different countries. They were especially interested in the fact that foods could come from more than one country. Laura and Kate explained about how the chillers and freezers in the shop had to be kept at certain temperatures and drew the children’s attention to the thermometers at the top of each of these.
One of the children’s favourite activities was discovering the chillers and freezers that are used to store the food that is not for sale. They were able to go in these and see just how cold the food has to be kept – pretty cold!!
The children were transformed into Tesco Bakers, where they had decorated their own hats to wear for this. They loved meeting Kelly and watching her make them some delicious pancakes.
Finally, the children became trainees, where they chose some produce from the shop and were able to sit at the checkout counter and scan these through.
The children had a lot of fun at Tesco and each of them were able to say many things that they had learnt on the trip that they didn’t know previously. Trips like this are vital to the children’s education, as it is important for them to experience what they are taught in a real life context.
Thank you to everyone at Tesco who made both the schools feel so welcome and to everyone who praised how well behaved the children were.
Laura and Kate had planned a day of fun and educational activities for the children, which were all very varied. Initially the children explored the fresh produce aisles, discovering that the food came from a variety of different countries. They were especially interested in the fact that foods could come from more than one country. Laura and Kate explained about how the chillers and freezers in the shop had to be kept at certain temperatures and drew the children’s attention to the thermometers at the top of each of these.
One of the children’s favourite activities was discovering the chillers and freezers that are used to store the food that is not for sale. They were able to go in these and see just how cold the food has to be kept – pretty cold!!
The children were transformed into Tesco Bakers, where they had decorated their own hats to wear for this. They loved meeting Kelly and watching her make them some delicious pancakes.
Finally, the children became trainees, where they chose some produce from the shop and were able to sit at the checkout counter and scan these through.
The children had a lot of fun at Tesco and each of them were able to say many things that they had learnt on the trip that they didn’t know previously. Trips like this are vital to the children’s education, as it is important for them to experience what they are taught in a real life context.
Thank you to everyone at Tesco who made both the schools feel so welcome and to everyone who praised how well behaved the children were.
3RD OCTOBER - 'what a load of rubbish'
As a conclusion to their IDL (Inter disciplinary Learning) of Eco, the children put on a show stopping performance. This included a play entitled "The Litter Muncher", about a village where the people were not good at picking up their litter and a machine does it all for them. When the machine falls asleep they soon realise that it is hard work keeping somewhere clean and they start to help the Litter Muncher by putting all the rubbish in the bin.
As well as this there was a performance from the "Clachness Samba Band". The children had all made their own instruments from various pieces of litter or items which were going to be thrown out. They learnt rhythms in school which they then performed as a whole band.
The people of the local community, as well as the children were invited to take part in an Art exhibition as well. They had to make sure that they had used litter or things found on the beach to create their artwork. The entries were fantastic and quite tricky to judge!
As well as this there was a performance from the "Clachness Samba Band". The children had all made their own instruments from various pieces of litter or items which were going to be thrown out. They learnt rhythms in school which they then performed as a whole band.
The people of the local community, as well as the children were invited to take part in an Art exhibition as well. They had to make sure that they had used litter or things found on the beach to create their artwork. The entries were fantastic and quite tricky to judge!