Category Archives: Health & Wellbeing

Taster Tennis

Health & Wellbeing

Alan from AliMacs Tennis came along and gave us a small taster session for tennis. When we arrived his assistant Felix told us how to do each course.
1: One person throws a ball and the other one hits it and the last person tries to catch it in a cone.
2: Two people get a racket and there’s one ball and you need to hit it to each other just like your playing golf.
3: You get one massive ball and you have to throw it to each other.
4: You get two small cones each and a small tennis ball and you need to throw it and catch it using the cones.
All of us had a shot of each workstation, it was a fantastic time and all of us enjoyed it.

Thanks Alan and Felix.
By Etienne

Christmas Ceilidh

Class News, Expressive Arts, Health & Wellbeing, School News

On Monday 14th both p7 classes and p6 all got dressed up for a fun filled ceilidh. The ceilidh started at 7:00 and ended at 9:00. We all enjoyed dancing things like the Dashing White Sergeant and the Canadian Barn Dance. As well as that we also had a live band to play the music. Then we stopped for food and played some pop tunes while we ate. We were all allowed to take 5 things each and then if there were extras you were allowed to get seconds. If you didn’t want seconds you could dance with your pals while you waited for the band to finish their well-earned break. While the band were getting ready to play the second half of the evening, everyone got up and did dances like 5,6,7,8 and the Macarena. At the second half of the night we did Strip the Willow, The Flying Scotsman and some other group dances, even the teachers got involved with the dances. This was sadly the last Christmas ceilidh for the p7 pupils and I think I can speak for all of us… We wish it wasn’t our last and we would like to say thank you to everyone who organised the wonderful event!

By Christina

Ardroy Models

Expressive Arts, Health & Wellbeing, Technologies

During October, we went to Ardroy so when we got back to school, we decided to create some models to send up to the instructors. I was in a group with Etienne and Lewis. We decided to make Jacob’s Ladder because it was our favourite activity. We made our model with all sorts of materials, at first it wasn’t stable so we had to use stuff to keep it up. Eventually we finished our model and we had to create a drawing and type something to explain to them why we made the model. I found the Ardroy models quite challenging but fun.

We later used an augmented reality app called Aurasma. Miss Travers filmed each group talking about the trip and we superimposed the videos over our models. The models have now been sent to Ardroy and anyone who uses the app will be able to watch our videos.

By Matthew M