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.
If you can see this wonderful photo of Kilmartin, it worked!
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!
Hannah Tofts was back in school today to continue her project on Boxariums. The children in P.3 & 4 had an extremely busy afternoon creating jungle or landscape themed Boxariums. Hannah will be back in school next Friday to finish off with both class groups. Primary 3 & 4 will add their favourite animal with wobbly heads, tails or bodies and P.1 & 2 will add their fish. Thanks to everyone who helped by supplying boxes or magazines. Thanks also to all the parents who have helped out during the two afternoons.
On Thursday morning the nursery had their first ‘drop in’ unannounced inspection by the Care Commission. The report will be published in the near future but the inspector did comment on the very well behaved children who were enjoying lots of high quality play experiences.
Great news! The security gate leading into nursery has been fixed and is once again in full working order! The nursery has also got a new sink unit that is a much better height for the children to use and has hot and cold running water. Fantastic!
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.
Today our security gate broke off at the hinges, which were totally rusted. The gate has now been removed and we are waiting for new hinges so that it can be fixed as soon as possible.
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.
On Thursday the children in the nursery had a Burns’ Supper and tucked into haggis, neaps and tatties! This meal was quite difficult to cook as there were several power cuts during the morning.
