Education : Primary Schools
Primary Schools Articles
12/1/2024
Time-travelling Heritage Adventure - Casting A Viking Spell; Ranger Paul Castle Takes Halkirk Primary School Back In Time
Heritage education comes in many forms, but our High Life Highland Ranger in Caithness, Paul Castle, has found an innovative way to teach young learners about their local history. At Halkirk Primary School, the P4-5 class recently had a unique and engaging experience as they delved into the Viking age through immersive role play.
13/10/2022
Countryside Rangers visit Wick school at Caithness Science festival 
High Life Highland Countryside Rangers took part in the recent Caithness International Science Festival 2022, with a visit to Newton Park Primary School in Wick where the theme was Scottish mammals. HLH Countryside Ranger Roz Summers said, "It was good to be back in person at this fantastic festival.
13/10/2022
Pupils working out how climate change will change our mammal species
High Life Highland Countryside Rangers took part in the recent Caithness International Science Festival 2022, with a visit to Newton Park Primary School in Wick where the theme was Scottish mammals. .
13/10/2022
Learning About Our Scottish Mammals Through Looking At Skulls With Ranger Donald Mitchell
High Life Highland Countryside Rangers took part in the recent Caithness International Science Festival 2022, with a visit to Newton Park Primary School in Wick where the theme was Scottish mammals. .
13/10/2022
Learning about how bats fly with Ranger Andy Summers
High Life Highland Countryside Rangers took part in the recent Caithness International Science Festival 2022, with a visit to Newton Park Primary School in Wick where the theme was Scottish mammals. .
6/2/2020
Interested in Learning More About Gaelic Medium Education?
Highland Council Gaelic Team organised a fun, open day session which was held in Mount Pleasant Primary School, Thurso, at the end of last week. The informal session was well attended and held to provide parents with information regarding Gaelic Medium Education and the benefits of bilingualism.
11/3/2019
World Book Day at Noss Primary School, Wick
The kids at Noss dressed up as characters from their favourite books on World Book Day. MORE PHOTOS.
29/9/2017
Noss Primary School Exhibition for Malawi Kids
Noss Primary school has been involved along with other schools in helping kids in Malawi and have an ongoing collection of pennies on a map of Africa. Recently the school in Wick donated the old sweat shirts from the old schools to a project sending items from lost property boxes in Highland schools to schools in Malawi where they could be put to use.
6/10/2016
Thurso litter busters
Thurso Beach in Caithness had virtually every little piece of litter removed yesterday (Wednesday 5 October 2016) thanks to the hard work of pupils from Mount Pleasant Primary School. The Keep Scotland Beautiful registered beach clean was undertaken by the Primary 4 and 5 classes and the P4 Gaelic medium class.
17/9/2016
Over 5000 Kids Seen By Highland Rangers So Far In 2016
Over 5000 North Highland pupils have undertaken a project with the Highland Council's Rangers so far this year. It has been a really busy year in the North Highlands for The Highland Council's Countryside Ranger team.
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