Kilchattan Area Report Final
Argyll and Bute Council · 8 June 2022
Back to Mid Argyll, Kintyre & the Islands Area Committee — 8 June 2022 and its agenda
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Kilchattan Primary School Primary School Roll (as at census) * Cluster Primary Schools 17/18 18/19 19/20 20/21 21/22 % change in Roll over 5 years1 Kilchattan Primary School 5 4 6 8 2 -60% As a whole school, including both Nursery and Primary children, we have been working hard to promote Health and Wellbeing through outdoor learning and local visits. We have been learning about plants and the importance of bees this term. This included sampling our local Colonsay honey and comparing it to other brands. I am pleased to say that Colonsay honey won every time! We have also focused on trees and the importance of trees in our environment. In order to motivate our children and create enthusiasm for the topic, we started with ‘Mystery Boxes’ containing a variety of items to spark curiosity and investigative questions. We also visited the local woodland to learn more about the plants and trees on Colonsay. Our P2 pupil was our official photographer and, using a Nikon D60, took some amazing photos and was genuinely in awe of the beauty around him. We have been gardening, planting our poly tunnel and our barrels with vegetables and flower seeds, including seed bombs, which we made ourselves as an integral part of our learning. We also recovered some old crates, which we found washed up on the beach, and planted flowers in them to attract bees. The whole learning experience provided a meaningful and relevant context for children and staff to learn and work together; to connect us to our local environment; to understand and appreciate our natural world through sensory experiences; to promote a healthy lifestyle and healthy eating and to promote learning for sustainability. The project also provided a context for a huge variety of Literacy and Numeracy
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learning. As an example our P2 pupil surveyed pupils, staff and parents to help us choose which flowers to plant and he read and followed instructions to make seed bombs. Our Nursery children have been counting and sorting the variety of leaves, cones, petals, etc., which we had collected from the forest floor and our P5 pupil participated in an online event on Earth Day engaging in discussion with a traditional legend about trees and learning about deforestation. Making seed bombs Helping our local deliveryman to unload our peat-free compost Exploring the mystery box about trees. One of our nursery mums and sister joined us for a stay and play Nursery and primary pupils planting the barrels Emptying the barrels so we can relocate them Some of the ELC learning about bees Woodland walk