Since it opened its doors in 1975 the school has been host to many interesting and welcome visitors, some of whom have been valued and familiar regulars and others making unique but memorable appearances.

All rural schools require support from central services and several familiar faces have returned over the years to Dalmally. These have included annual health inspections by the long-serving Nurse Dunlop and Doctors Maddox, Mathieson and Cameron, as well as District Nurse Henderson in the early years. Regular annual visits were also paid by the school dentist in his travelling caravan, originally Mr Leroux and from 1984 Mr Graham. A speech therapist called regularly from 1976 too.

The school log shows that one of the most consistent series of visitors to the school was the community's spiritual representatives, for fortnightly assemblies and end-of-term services. From the opening of the new school building, Father MacMaster and Rev. McVean attended regularly and from 1980 Rev. Galbraith of Taynuilt started to attend, followed, from 1985, by Father McKay. One of the most valued friends of the school in this capacity has been Rev. William Hogg. Additional support also came from the German pastor, Rev. Gunneberg of Tyndrum. With services, nativity plays and various ceremonies in the local schools and churches including St Conan's Kirk, the school has maintained a strong link with the traditional Christian faith, and benefited from the friendship of these popular clergymen.

Various educational support was provided by temporary or occasional visitors in a range of capacities. Music has always featured strongly in the school's curriculum and extra-curricular activities, for example, and from 1976 Mr Mason visited local pupils for instruction in various instruments, while the piano tuner was an annual visitor and the health of the school piano is carefully logged on each visit. A series of P.E. teachers and dance and drama instructors have also supported pupils over the years as have remedial and learning support specialists. In 1986 provision was made for a Gaelic teacher to attend one afternoon a week. Originally the post was filled by Miss Campbell and later Mr Finlay Cunninghame replaced her. This would have pleased the old compilers of the original Statistical Accounts who bemoaned the loss of the native tongue in the area. Unfortunately it did not last long.

As well as visiting teachers the school attracted the occasional foreign pupil visitor, following a tradition established from the time of the first statistical accounts, when scholars came from as far afield as the East Indies apparently. In 1978 it is recorded that four Australian children spent five months in Loch Awe and, though of differing ages, all attended Dalmally school. In 1981 three Dutch children, with no word of English at all, were enrolled. Unfortunately, their progress at the school is not recorded . In August 1986 there was also a brief visit by a German girl then staying with the local Keay family, who were themselves later to officially visit the school to donate a copy of their "Encyclopaedia of Scotland". This occasion was photographed by the Oban Times.

These were not the only memorable "foreign" visitors however. In 1984 Dr Sen Gupta and his wife made a notable visit to Dalmally. The chairman of Strathclyde's education committee had been impressed by project work done on India by Miss Walker's pupils at Bridge of Orchy and suggested this follow-up visit. Dalmally was felt to be a more suitable venue for the affair The doctor was based in Glasgow but was also a busy ambassador for inter-racial understanding in his capacity as president of the Bengali Association, and was very happy to attend Dalmally. The log records the special lunch prepared by catering staff (an alternative menu was specially bussed up from Argyll House in Dunoon) : "Dr and Mrs Sen Gupta arrived for lunch. This must surely be the only time that I shall have lunch at a school table set with a cloth, napkins etc. and have a choice of main course!" The Doctor gave an entertaining talk and film show, and he spent a lot of time with the pupils while his wife brought several beautiful saris to try on. Two younger pupils from Bridge of Orchy apparently performed a snake-charming act! In March 1987 Miss Ritchie, a missionary teacher in India, visited and in her honour Miss Olbrich dressed in the national costume of the country.

Other "foreign" visitors included a Mrs Johnson of the Commonwealth Institute back in 1976 who presented a slide show on rural Canada to pupils from Dalmally and Letterwood. In May 1988 two Welsh education inspectors visited on a fact-finding tour of rural schools. Then in May 1989 a Miss Larson and Miss Wilson-Millar, exchange teachers from the USA and Canada respectively, visited Dalmally. Hence, one can say, the influence and reputation of this small primary school has truly spread internationally. It is worth noting here too that, as a consequence of a long tradition of charity collection in the school, two Croatian guests spoke at an Open assembly in February 1996 on the situation in their homeland.

Other regular visitors have included the local police officers, among them P.C. Fulton, P.C. Gillespie and P.C. McIntyre, and local staff of the St. John's Ambulance service, as well as members of the S.P.C.A. and local vets such as Mr Bonniwell in 1990. These visits were both educational and very welcome by excited pupils who particularly loved the opportunity to examine the professional equipment on display.

Some of the most popular visitors have proved to be the professional or semi-professional performance companies that have helped foster a strong interest in the expressive arts in the school. Over the years links have been established with Scottish Opera, who performed "Nessie" in February 1986 and "A Day at the Races" in December 1988. In addition the Black Box Puppet Theatre Company have been regular visitors from the 1980s with various well-received shows. The Scottish Children's Theatre performed "Trudi and the Diamond" in 1989 and more recently Visible Fiction Theatre Company performed a dramatisation of "Bill's New Frock" to P.4-7 pupils in 1990. In march 1991 Ballet West held a dance workshop which was also attended by Ardchonnel pupils and in January 1996 another puppet company called Okay Dokay also performed in the school.

However not all visitors were quite so welcome, and two disturbing incidents are recorded in the Head Teacher's log in 1977 and 1978. "A Mr Darroch purporting to be from Glasgow appeared in the school kitchen about 11.30 am under the influence of drink. His manner was objectionable and I got rid of him quickly" Apparently this man had visited several schools in the area alleging that he was trying to enrol head teachers in the Association of Head Teachers of Scotland. No further details of this singular visitation are recorded. An even odder visitation occurred in 1978 when a Health Education show was scheduled for one evening in May. Since the janitor was unavailable on this occasion, Mrs Stevenson, then Head Teacher, was supervising and found herself faced with aggressive performers who "wanted to use every inch of the school" and who had "obviously been drinking before they arrived". The Oban police were summoned but not before cans of lager had done damage to school carpets, a general mess had been created, and the school had witnessed some unpleasantness.