11
March
2007
On Thursday 8th March the children enjoyed a highly entertaining and informative visit by Jon Hodkin, aka ‘Inner Tuba.’ Jon shared the trials and tribulations of his journey through Scotland on his recumbent tricycle and trailer with the children before introducing them to his favourite instrument, the tuba. Jon explained how sound is created and demonstrated that sound is created through vibration by playing the garden hose and letting the children feel the sound in the hose as he played.
The next half of the morning was spent outside as Jon explained how his bike and trailer worked and answered the many questions that the children had for him. Jon is now in the process of island hopping as he makes his way to the Western Isles where he is touring around all the primary schools.
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11
March
2007
Have a look at some of the Boxariums the children created. They now make a fabulous display in Mrs. McAdam’s and Mrs. Kidd’s classes.
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6
March
2007
A reading workshop was held in the school on Monday 5th March. At this workshop, parents had the opportunity to find out how they could help their child/children with reading at home, how to become ‘a reading family’ and get a flavour of the type of reading activities and resources used in school.
If you could not manage along to the workshop but would like to find out more, please click on the link for the National Literacy Trust. You should then follow the link to the family reading campaign and then ‘advice for families’.
If you did attend the worshop, please leave any comments or questions on the Kilmartin P.S. blog using the button below this post.
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24
February
2007
Have a look at the finished results at the gallery.
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24
February
2007
The new Dochas Gallery is a great space to display paintings and the children’s work certainly looked very professional displayed in the gallery. Our thanks go to Catherine Paterson for hosting this event in the gallery and Susan Berry for all of her expertise and help with displaying the paintings and charcoal drawings.
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24
February
2007
If you can see this wonderful photo of Kilmartin, it worked!
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23
February
2007
Today the children in P.5-7 visited Ardrishaig Hall to have a look round the Mid Argyll Primary Schools’ Enterprise Exhibition. The children were very impressed by the range of enterprise activities carried out in our schools and came away with lots of ideas for us to try out at Kilmartin in the future. Many schools showed a great deal of interest in our link school in Normandy, France and want to find out how we managed to achieve this. The favourite ideas for Kilmartin to take forward seem to be an Easter Extravaganza with a picnic, egg decoration and Easter egg hunt; designing a solar powered car and having a race; and making items for a craft fair to raise funds for school projects. That lot will keep us busy for quite a while!
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22
February
2007
After spending weeks collecting boxes and magazines, today Hannah Tofts came to school to work with the children in P.1 & 2 to start making their boxariums. What is a boxarium? We wondered this too!! Hannah’s idea is to use the box structure as the ‘aquarium’. The children chose the box they wanted to work with and started to paint the inside to match the underwater theme that they were working on. They could also add interesting tones of blue found in magazines to add interest and texture. When Hannah comes back to their class next week, the children will start to make the fish which will hang down inside the ‘aqarium’. The children had a really exciting time and worked very hard all afternoon as did all the helpers who joined us for the afternoon. Tomorrow Hannah will be working with the children in P.3 & 4 on an animal theme for their boxariums.
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26
January
2007
The children listened to the story of the tortoise and the hare. They were asked to think which animal they were most like; the tortoise who keeps working steadily or the hare who works in fast bursts but who has to watch time doesn’t run out when trying to complete a task. The children learned that there is more than one way to approach a task and that we are all different but can all ‘win the race’ in our own way.
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26
January
2007
I hope you find lots of information on this blog that will help you to know more about all the interesting teaching, learning, activities and events that go on at Kilmartin Primary School.
Please leave a comment if you would like to find out about any particular issue.
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