We’d like to thank Charlie Colville of P6, Dalintober Primary School, and his mum, Emily, for sharing Charlie’s homework project about Campbeltown Shipyard. It’s great to see how the Campbeltown children are discovering so much about their local heritage, finding relatives who worked at the yard and learning from those…
It’s great to see that the children from P6, Dalintober Primary School, Campbeltown Shipyard, have been carrying out research into the boats built at Campbeltown and have been interviewing the people who worked at the Yard – here are a few examples of their work sent in to us by…
Following on from SKDT’s project about Campbeltown Shipyard, Top Skippers’ Choice’s visit to Dalintober Primary School, P7 pupils carried out some creative artwork with their class teacher, Lesley Ronald. The children looked at a variety of artists’ work and recreated their own stylised boat pictures using mixed media – paint…
Here are some more “Shipyard” artworks from the P6 pupils of Dalintober Primary School in Campbeltown. The children worked with their class teacher, Elspeth Campbell, to produce some excellent artworks based on photos of the Campbeltown-built Boy Andrew WK 170 (Yard No. 74), which was built for Andrew Bremner of…
Following on from their site visit, earlier this month, to Trench Point, Campbeltown, where the Campbeltown Shipyard was once situated, Dalintober Primary School P6 pupils carried out some creative artwork with their class teacher, Elspeth Campbell. Having looked at photos of artefacts they discovered around the site, they made collages…
Following on from SKDT’s Top Skippers’ Choice school visits at the beginning of September, 2019, former plater and welder at Campbeltown Shipyard, Arthur Crossan, gave Dalintober Primary School P6 pupils and their class teacher Mrs E. Campbell a guided tour of the site where the shipyard was once situated, at…
Leslie Howarth, former managing director at Campbeltown Shipyard Ltd talking to the children at Dalintober Primary School, Campbeltown. Photo courtesy of Jan Nimmo. One of the aims of SKDT’s Top Skippers’ Choice project was to reach out to local primary schools and to engage in some intergenerational work, so we…
