P4: Accelerated Reading (Jan 2018)

Date: 23rd Jan 2018, Categories: Class of 2014, News

P4s lead the way in Accelerated Reading at Hermitage Primary. “The more that you read, the more things you will know.  The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” –  Dr Seuss      

P4: Physical Education (Jan 2018)

Date: 23rd Jan 2018, Categories: Class of 2014

During Block 2 P4s have been learning the different skills necessary to play volleyball.  Pupils were engaged throughout the series of lessons and developed their understanding and application of skills and strategies taught.  They really enjoyed it!  

P4: Fairtrade (Jan 2018)

Date: 23rd Jan 2018, Categories: Class of 2014

As part of P4s charity IDL, Mrs Lambert came to the class to share her experiences as a Volunteer Worker for Fairtrade.  Children practiced their note taking skills by listening carefully to key information.  The children used these notes to create a new text in the form of a thank you letter.

P4: Scottish Afternoon (Jan 2018)

Date: 23rd Jan 2018, Categories: Class of 2014, Scottish Afternoon

As part of Scottish Afternoon Primary 4s were given the choice of 2 poems by JK Annand to recite.  The teachers were very impressed with high standards and effort the children gave to this task. https://youtu.be/2WFdWG9cRNk

P4/P5 Arts & Crafts Club (Dec 2017)

Date: 20th Dec 2017, Categories: Art & Crafts Club, Class of 2013, Class of 2014

  Arts and crafts club have had lots of fun creating a range of different crafts and wonderful pieces of art.  

Christmas Concert Photographs for Sale

Please see photographs of our Christmas Concert below.  These are available to purchase at a cost of £1 per print.  The prints will be 7 x 5 and will be printed on high quality photograph paper.  If you wish to purchase order forms are available from school.  Alternatively you can send payment in with your […]

P3 School Trip to Inveraray Castle (May 2017)

Date: 5th Jun 2017, Categories: Class of 2014

As part of our Argyll and Bute topic we have been learning about the differences between island, rural and urban life within our council area.  We have been looking at smaller schools and comparing them to our own and on 31st May, we had the opportunity to visit Inveraray Primary School to help us with […]

ECO Week – P5 Seasonality Charts (2017)

Date: 24th May 2017, Categories: Class of 2012, Class of 2014, Eco Committee, Eco Week

P5 have been learning about seasonality. They have been researching when certain foods are planted and when they are harvested during the year. They used what they have learned to make fantastic seasonality posters to help other children and classes decide what to plant and when to do it.  

P1-P3: Road Safety Magic Show (May 2017)

Date: 16th May 2017, Categories: Class of 2014, Class of 2015, Class of 2016

Pupils from Primary 1, 2 and 3 had the opportunity to enjoy the fantastic Road Safety Magic Show presented by Allan’s Magic.  They were informed of the 4 important safety words in relation to crossing roads… They participated in the very catchy Stop, Look, Listen, Think song… https://youtu.be/9kys1wR6lxo They also enjoyed watching some cool magic tricks […]

P3: Outdoors Learning (March 2017)

Date: 27th Mar 2017, Categories: Class of 2014

Primary 3 took their learning outdoors and challenged each other to solve maths problems, including addition and subtraction sums and times tables.