Thanks to our wonderful Parent Council, Birkhill pupils were given a lovely surprise today when they returned from their Easter break.  Since the beginning of the year, our Health and Wellbeing Committee have been working on ideas to make our playground a happier place to be.  They asked their fellow pupils and worked together to come up with 5 playground markings they thought would encourage imaginative play, team work, social skills and fitness.

Thanks to money donated by the Parent Council we were able to get a company in during the holidays to make their ideas a reality! We now have a large Snakes and Ladders, a standing long jump, a target throw,  hopscotch and a large road/cycle track.

There were lots of smiling faces in the playground today!

Our cross country runners did a great job last Friday at the Angus School Championships at Monikie Park. The pupils have been practising every Friday since the beginning of term and showed perseverance and determination. Well done!

The Primary Twos had a great morning at Seaview Primary School on Monday morning when they took part in a football festival run by Angus Active Schools. The fun event  involved 5-a-side matches with other primary schools in the Monifieth cluster.

Not only did the children have fun, they made new friends and improved their skills at the same time!

Mrs Jenkins, our P6 teacher, applied to introduce a ‘classroom of the future’ at Birkhill Primary School. She was successful in her application bid and got not only new technology for the school but also new furniture to help pupils with focus and concentration. P6 may have the chance to sit on yoga balls and wobbly stools in the near future!

Last term, the P6 class did a topic on technology and had the opportunity to visit Sky Academy Skills Studios in Livingston. The pupils took on a variety of roles to create their own news broadcast about technology within the classroom.

Following their visit, P6 also had the chance to learn about coding. They are looking forward to seeing how the classroom may change as new things are introduced.

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This morning we had Clare Chapman from Wateraid who spoke to the P.4-7 pupils about her most recent visit to Uganda. She told us how the children there have to walk up to 4km twice a day  just to get drinking water!

She showed us photographs of the work Wateraid had been doing to help build toilets and sewage drains. The £441 we raised through our Pupil Pipeline event last year will go towards funding future projects like this.

It made us realise how lucky we are to live where we do!

A team of P7s from Birkhill Primary had so much fun participating in the annual Monifieth Fun In Athletics competition. Our team performed really well in the track and field events and came in second place overall. We would like to thank Jo Whaite (our Active Schools Co-ordinator) for helping to organise the event. We’d also like to thank the team of Dundee & Angus College students for overseeing the events and demonstrating the different skills for us each time.

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This term P7B & P7J have been studying democracy as our topic. We have been learning about voting systems, voting behaviour, leadership systems and much more.

To practise what we have been learning, we held an election for our house captains. We decided to use the First Past The Post voting system and we prepared by writing persuasive speeches and posters/rosettes. We invited all of the pupils from each of the different houses to the upper area and we divided across four classrooms. We had lots of great candidates but our winners were…

Today we ended our topic with a visit from our local MSP, Graeme Dey. We prepared around 40 higher order questions to ask him and learned a huge amount about his work and what’s going on in the Scottish Parliament right now.

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The Eco Committee are thrilled to announce that we have just been awarded our 3rd Green Flag! A big well done to the whole school and all the parents involved.

The preschool have been using their imaginations to do some junk modelling.  Look at some of their fantastic creations!

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On Friday 2nd September, P7B and P7J went to the Dundee Flower and Food Festival and it was an amazing day! We got to try lots of tasters and gathered lots of freebies. We even saw a miniature Oor Wullie. Have you taken part in the Oor Wullie Bucket Trail?

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