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Our school has a particular interest in computing and technology. Ms Murray, in the photo is  sending e-mail to Whittier Middle School, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in the U.S.A. with whom we are pleased to have links. 

We have had a Comenius project with schools in Holland, Belgium, and Germany.

 

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The partners also spent time in the school in classrooms, at an assembly where they spoke to the children about their own schools (our brass group played Ode to Joy) and discussed Enterprise which is to be our project  with George Mackie the Education Industry adviser in Glasgow.  New Lanark was also in our programme and we saw  the Falls of Clyde in full spate.

 

Last October our Comenius partners visited us for a planning meeting.Click the photos to see some of the places we visited. Glasgow City Chambers and Mount Stuart on the Island of Bute. 

The Assistant Head visited Nuenen  for a Study Week in November 2000 about methodology in teaching the early stages   to read.Studyvisit.rtf

 At the end of April 2001 we had a visiting student, Erin Boylan, from Elmira College, New York State for a month. We enjoyed her     visit and the insights she gave staff and children of  life and education in the U.S.A..P6b now also have some skills in cheer leading! Erin  and Matthew, who was another  student  at Eastbank Academy, visited Culross with the P4s. Mark Twain, who had family connections in the area, wrote his most famous books in what is now  the university grounds.

Deep Sea World has been popular with P2 and P7 for visits. P4 visited to Culross in Fife. They visited Vikingar at Largs in early March. There are yearly visits toarranbeach.jpg (93016 bytes) Bannockburn and Stirling Castle, Kelburn Estate, New Lanark amongst others. A group of Primary 6 and 7 children stayed at the Glencoe Outdoor Centre last April.

 

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Mountstuart

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The Isle of Bute

Many miles by road down to Wemyss Bay

Over the Firth of Clyde on a Cal Mac Ferry

Under avenues of towering trees we drive

Now we encounter the red sandstone house

The gothic splendour takes our breath away

Standing in the Marble Hall looking up at the starry ceiling

The signs of the Zodiac light up with the sun

Up the grand staircase we saw the unique bedrooms

And secret passages cleverly hidden from view

Rooms full of priceless treasures and paintings

The hardest thing about Mount Stuart is leaving it.

Tammy Rhymer P7

 

 

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