Caerlaverock Estate are shortly to submit a planning application and building warrant for the new look Caerlaverock Tea Room and Shop per the attached indicative pictures. Subject to the planning process, it is proposed that the external of [.....]
Our Lego WWT animal visit In May the whole school went to the Wildfowl Wetland Trust (WWT) to see the brand new Lego animals. The day we arrived was a media day so we got to go before [.....]
Video editing our camera project After Easter we collected all our pictures and videos off our camera trap and Mr Tennant’s brother Colin (the Italian Guy) came to help us edit the video. He brought his camera, apple [.....]
Health and Wellbeing: Emotions Over the last few weeks we have been learning about how to talk about our emotions and feelings in Health and Wellbeing. We had to pick a card and read the card which either [.....]
On the 8th and the 15th of May the p4-7 pupils went outside and carried out some gardening. We planted a lot of new plants like carrots, apple mint and pineapple mint, peas, little Heath plants, a pieris [.....]
Art and Design In art and design recently we were looking at visual elements, such as: line, shape, colour and texture. We were inspired by David Hockney and Moore, and produced a coloured picture of a chicken. We [.....]
Thanks to David Grieve for alerting us to the revised timetable for the mobile library coming to Caerlaverock, as of May 2017. He says that 'the document lists major changes to the local Mobile Library Van Service covering [.....]
Thank you Innes Crawford for sending us this fab footage of the Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter from the Nith Inshore Rescue Open Day yesterday! Enjoy! We are adding pictures to the gallery on our main NIR Open Day article [.....]
We have really appreciated the chance to cool down these past few hot summery days with a lovely Cream o' Galloway ice cream from the shop at Glencaple Quay! Whether you're popping in for your morning paper and [.....]
What a fantastic day! Thank you to everyone involved in organising the open day, making it such a resounding success - and one to remember! There were several highlights for us - not least the whole friendly, community [.....]
Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve are celebrating their 60th Anniversary this year! Here are a few details of their OPEN DAY with tons of FREE activities for everyone to enjoy, including: Wild food Tasting from Scotland's Natural Larder, Caravan [.....]
Photo credit: Mostly Ghostly Investigations A year ago today, we ventured forth on a mission. . . A brief history first; setting the scene: To the North of Bankend, and easily visible from the road, sits [.....]
Featured image - small magpie moth Moth Night - National Nature Reserve event Friday 26th May 2017 8.00pm to 10pm Meet at Castle Corner Car Park From the NNR: A series of events will be run on the [.....]
Celebrations for the Caerlaverock NNR 60th Anniversary this year are well under way! We will soon be publishing a list of events to be held throughout the year that the Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve (NNR) team will be [.....]
The next Caerlaverock Community Association meeting will be on Wednesday the 31st of May 2017 at 7.30pm in the Nith Hotel, Glencaple (upstairs function suite) All welcome - it is a friendly, informal occasion - a chance to [.....]
Here's a photo of Phyllis' cottage (remains of), for anyone else who has yet to find it! It's really just the fireplace and chimney breast that remain, but we'd still like to see it! Thanks to Nic Coombey [.....]
Adam Murphy from the Caerlaverock NNR has given us some rather interesting old pics. He's trying to identify people that are in some old Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve celebration photos. The 60th Anniversary Celebrations are going to be [.....]
A great big Thank You to everyone who came along to the first step of the Coastwise Place Name project events for Caerlaverock, at the Barbour Hall in Glencaple and at Wardlaw afterwards! What a super event! Debs [.....]
What are 39 Estonian fishermen doing in Glencaple, Caerlaverock? Karl Savege of the Nith Estuary Haaf Net Fishers Association got in touch to let us know about the Estonian fishermens' visit today (Friday 19th May). The fishermen have [.....]
