Taynuilt Primary School and ELC
The life and learning of a village school in the west of Scotland
Primary 1-3 have been making their visitors centre as part of their topic this term. They have had great fun designing and building the centre over the past few weeks. They have been writing about the staff the centre would need, including writing job adverts for them and have designed a staff uniform. They are currently busy planing the grand opening ceremony!
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P4-7 worked together yesterday afternoon with a den building competition – teams had limited resources which they had to trade each other for, learning how to utilise resources, negotiate and communicate as a team to build a successful den which every member of the team had to be able to fit inside!
P1-3 had a fantastic visit to Bonawe Iron Furnace last week as part of their Taynuilt visitor centre topic. They learned all about bellows and water wheels and how iron was extracted and how long people have been using iron.
P5/4 have been working with Kilchrenan primary school over this last term, and today spent the day at Kilchrenan working with them to learn sampling techniques in the Kilchrenan grounds looking at biodiversity.
In the afternoon they had an absolutely fantastic American football taster session with coach William Humphries, learning how to throw an American football and how to run ‘routes’. A huge thank you to William, and to Allan Wright and Gillian Walker for making this happen.
The ELC had an empty classroom day on Thursday 24th May, when they walked over to Inverawe to look for dragons, let their butterflies go free, followed the fairy tale woodland walk and, or course, had a play in the play park.
A great time was had by all.
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P5/4 have been working hard on their topic on biodiversity, looking at bees. We had a fabulous visit from Donald Harrison who taught us how bees are kept, how they behave and how honey is actually made! We have also been researching ‘bee friendly’ flowers and made our own wildlife haven for pollinators outside our classroom using recycled bottles to create hanging baskets. We are carrying out weekly bee surveys to look at the impact of our work 🐝
A big thank you to Gary Goldie for taking P7/6 out and about the village foraging for wild food! They learned lots about the various species and grew muscles digging up pig nuts!
P5/4 will be visiting the floating classroom at Dunstaffnage Marina today.
